Staff Directory

John Davis

Position: Lecturer
Email: j.k.davis@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 08 9360 6188
Room: SS 3.016

Qualifications:

BSc(Agric), MSc(NatResMgmt), West Aust; BD Melb.Coll.Div.

Teaching

STP 204/604 Overseas Aid and International Development
STP 325 Sustainable Development Project
STP 332(1)/632(1) Sustainability Internship
FDN 150 Reinventing Australia

Research Interests

• John's doctoral research examines the role of stewardship discourse in Australia's oceans and coastal policies
• The Eastern Cape Communal Arable Lands Project in South Africa is a collaborative research project between Murdoch University, the Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture and the Agriculture Research Council of South Africa from 2006 to 2010. It is exploring how pasture legumes might make contributions to agriculture on communal lands.
• Research into adoption of pasture legumes by WA farmers-with the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
• What is the "community" in community development and where is power in "empowerment"?

Publications

Bennett, J., A. Ainslie, John Davis (in press June2009) Fenced in: Common property struggles in the management of communal rangelands in central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Land Use Policy (2009), doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.04.006

J.K. Davis, A. Ainslie, A.Finca (2008) Coming to grips with ‘abandoned arable’ land in efforts to enhance communal grazing systems in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 25(2): 55–61

J.K. Davis (2006) NGOs and Development in Bangladesh: Making poverty history or making poverty business? Paper presented at the Anti Poverty Week Conference- Global Poverty- Sustainable Solutions. 19 October 2006, Murdoch University. http://www.sustainability.murdoch.edu.au/publications/antipoverty06/john_davis.pdf

J.K. Davis and L.J. Stocker (2006) ‘Adopt-a-Beach’: Educational praxis for sustainability in Wooltorton, S. and Marinova, D. (Eds). Sharing wisdom for our future. Environmental education in action: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education. Sydney: AAEE pp 239-249.

Gollagher, M., Davis, J., Pettitt, B. (2006) For richer and poorer: Sustaining the environments of South Asia. Commissioned paper presented to the AusAID-APFRN Conference South Asia: Integrating and Looking East? 25-26 September 2006, Canberra.

Davis, J., Devereux, P., Pettitt, B. and Marinova, D. (2006). Embracing the "swamp": A reflective pedagogical approach for interdisciplinary practitioners. In Experience of Learning. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Teaching Learning Forum, 1-2 February 2006. Perth: The University of Western Australia. http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2006/refereed/davis.html

Pettitt, B., and Davis, J. (2005) Getting our Priorities Right: Poverty reduction and sustainable development in Australian ODA programmes. Working Paper for the Australian Development Collaborative. Accessible from www.adc.org.au (Accessed 7 April 2006)

Carter, P., J. Davis & L. Stocker (2005) Stewardship, partnership and community: how do theory and practice relate in Coastcare? Landscapes 3 in press

Salequzzaman, M. & Davis, J.K. (2003) Environmental Education and Environmental Management in Bangladesh and their Sustainability, Environmental Informatics Archives, Vol. 1, pp. 70-82 and http://env.uregina.ca/iseis/EIA/pdfstart.asp?no=03007 (accessed on 27 November 2003)

Davis, J.K. (1997), Peternakan di NTT. Gita Abdi 22: 11-16

Davis, J.K. (1995), Economic and political issues in environmental management. Presented to the Third South-East Asian Tropical Ecology Seminar and Workshop, Salatiga 2-16 August, 1995

Hartley, R.E.R., Riches, J.R.H., Davis, J.K. (1992), A systems approach to landcare; 7th ISCO Conference Sydney: People protecting their land. Proceedings Volume 1. International Soil Conservation Organisation, Sydney. pp217-222.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Davis, J.K., A. Ainslie, A. Finca (2007) Finding innovative approaches to enhance communal grazing management systems in the Eastern Cape. Paper presented to the 42nd Annual Congress of the Grasslands Society of Southern Africa – 21st Century Challenges: Range Forage and Thicket. 16-20 July 2007, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Davis, J.K. (2007) Is Pastoralists’ Participation in Pasture Research (really) Possible? Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University interdisciplinary seminar presented 24 May, 2007

Davis, J.K. (2005) Reflections on post Tsunami rehabilitation experiences in Aceh Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University interdisciplinary seminar presented 12 May 2005

Paulin, S. and Davis, J. (2004) Tutors Reflect: a discussion paper. Seeking Educational Excellence. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Teaching Learning Forum, 9-10 February 2004. Perth: Murdoch University. http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2004/contents.html

Braddick, L., Buselich, K., Davis, J., McGrath, N. & Wong S. (2003) Dialogue for Sustainability. Panel presentation to Alchemies: Community Exchanges. Seventh Annual Humanities Graduate Research Conference. 6-7 November 2003. Curtin University of Technology

Davis, J. McGrath, N., Wong, S., Buselich,K. (2003) Government for Sustainability: Questions about Participation. Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University interdisciplinary seminar presented 13th November 2003

Other

In addition to teaching and research at Murdoch University, John is a consultant in community development, specialising in project evaluation and monitoring.