Staff Directory

Sally Paulin

Position: Lecturer
Email: S.Paulin@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360
Room: SS.3.024

Qualifications:

BA Education Studies and Communications, BA (Hons) Soc Ecol Murd

Teaching

STP418/618 Honours and Masters Research Seminar
STP 303/503 Tools for Participatory Decision Making

Research Interests:

Social sustainability; community engagement and participation; volunteering and the experiences of community groups; sustainable waste management and resource recovery; sustainable agriculture and the importance of acknowledging lay and local knowledge when looking for solutions to complex problems; the philosophy of self and sustainability; social research methodologies.

PhD research :

Who is going to do the work? How community involvement in natural resource management is affected by government funding mechanisms.
Using a case study of an urban catchment group in the Swan Region in Western Australia, I discuss the structural and organizational changes resulting from regionalization and NHT2, in particular, as they have affected the group and the role they can play in NRM.

Publications:

Journals

Paulin S. (2007) The Impact of Government Funding Mechanisms on
Urban Community Participation in Natural Resource Management in Perth, Western Australia: A Case Study. The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 3, 2007 http://www.Sustainability-Journal.com, ISSN 1832-2077

Books

Paulin, S. (Editor) (2006) Community Voices: Creating sustainable spaces. UWA Press, Perth

Paulin, S. (2002) Why Salt? Harry Whittington and WISALTS: Community Science in Action, Indian Ocean Books, Perth. See www.wisalts.com

Reports

Paulin, S. (2007) Engaging the community in Resource Recovery decision making processes: A case study. Commissioned paper by the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council. Presented to Resource Recovery Committee, EMRC May 2007.

Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (2006) Review Report No. 2: Sustainability Indicators for the Maddington Kenwick Sustainable Communities Partnership.

Conference Papers

Paulin S. (2007) The Impact of Government Funding Mechanisms on
Urban Community Participation in Natural Resource Management in Perth, Western Australia: A Case Study. The 3rd International Conference of Environmental, Cultural, Economic And Social Sustainability, University of Madras, Chennai, India, January 4-7.

Paulin S. (2006) Who is going to do the work? Community involvement in environmental regeneration – hanging on by the fingertips. Diversity Dialogues: Early Career Researchers Forum with Professor Dorothy Smith, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, 4 May.

Paulin, S. (2006) Who is going to do the work? Community involvement in environmental regeneration – hanging on by the fingertips. Angles on the Swan River Seminar, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, 17 March.

Paulin, S. (2004) Who is going to do the work? The role of the community in natural resource management in Western Australia. Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference, NCVO. Sheffield Hallam University, England,
1-2 September.

Paulin, S. (2004) The struggle for recognition of lay and local knowledge in the battle against salinity in Western Australia. Technologies, Publics and Power: The Terrain of the 6th Framework in New Zealand and Beyond. Expert, Lay and Local Knowledges in Technoscientific Controversy. Akaroa, New Zealand, 1-5 February.
http://www.europe.canterbury.ac.nz/conferences/tech2004/tpp/Paulin_paper.pdf

Paulin, S. and Davis, J. (2004) Tutors Reflect: a discussion paper. Teaching and Learning Forum. Murdoch University, Perth. February

Community Affiliations

• Deputy Chairperson, Waste Management Community Reference Group, Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council 2002 – Present.
• Australian Facilitators Network-WA