speakers

melbourne docklands  

Find transcripts here (members only):

  • Prof Nicholas Low: here
  • Dr Leigh GLover: here
  • Mick Douglas: here
  • Prof Frank Fisher: here
  • Dr Janet Stanley: here
  • Ralph Green: here
  • Beatriz C. Maturana (introduction): here
  • Anthony McInneny (event coordination): here


    Key speakers:

    Prof Nicholas Low: Director of Gamut (Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport).
    Professor Nicholas Low received his Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, where he won the year prize of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He has published many international journal articles and books including Planning, Politics and the State (Unwin-Hyman, 1991). In 1997 he organised the University of Melbourne Conference on Environmental Justice. His book (with Dr Brendan Gleeson) Justice, Society and Nature (Routledge, 1998 ) won the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association of the USA for the year’s best book on ecological politics. His book (also with Gleeson) Australian Urban Planning (Allen and Unwin, 2000) was launched by the Victorian Minister for Planning in 2000

    Dr Leigh Glover: Research Fellow and Associate Director at the Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT), University of Melbourne, Australia.
    Leigh Glover is currently working on a sustainable transport initiative supported by the Volvo Foundation. Prior to this position he was a Policy Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, where he was engaged in research, research supervision, graduate teaching, and graduate student advising. His research interests include urban and transport sustainability, global environmental politics, environmental policy and planning, environmental and political theory, and issues of science, technology and society, in which he has researched, published, and lectured. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy & Environmental Policy. Before becoming an academic, he worked in state and federal government in Australia, undertaking policy formulation and research in the areas of climate change, water resources, and public land planning.

    Kenneth Davidson: The Age Newspaper’s Senior Economic Journalist.
    (unfortunately Kenneth Davidson will not be able to attend the event).

    Mick Douglas: Find Mick Douglas’ abstract here
    Mick is a public artist, senior lecturer at RMIT University School of Architecture & Design and founder of arts groups Tramtactic and Cultural Transports Collective.
    Tramtactic and Cultural Transports Unit undertake collaborative, cross-cultural and transportative art projects based on modes of transport. For the cultural festival of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Mick collaborated with Pakistani vehicle decorators to make ‘W-11 Tram: an art of journeys’ – a project that transformed the experience of a journey by tram which recently completed a second season over last summer.
    Recent experimental projects include ‘Ride-on-Dinner’ – a participatory performance project involving host artists serving up a 3-course slow-food meal to a swarm of cyclists over the duration of evening cycle rides. A book documenting his ten-year collaborative project ‘tramjatra: imagining Melbourne and Kolkata by tramways’ was recently published in South Asia and Australia.”

    Ralph Green: director Visionary Design Development. Find Ralph’s abstract here
    Ralph holds undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in Optometry and has worked in clinical practice, academia, hospital settings and in developing world aid projects. Throughout 1998 – 2002 he served as an advisor to transport ministers in the Kennett and Bracks governments, chaired the Victorian Motorcycle Council and was the motorcycle representative on the Road Safety Reference Group. In 2006 he was the first optometrist to be appointed to the ophthalmology department of the Alfred Hospital. He served as a director of the Australian Latin American Business Council in 2006/7 and this year accepted a position as Community Education Projects Manager with the Optometrists Association of Australia. Also this year he was awarded a Masters of Social Science (International Development) from RMIT University after completing a thesis in the field of disability studies. This research provided the first theoretical and methodological framework for measuring equity of access across all parts of the built environment.

    Senator Lyn Allison:

    Leader of the Australian Democrats.
    Find Senator Lyn Allison’s biography here

      Senator Lyn Allison is the party’s national spokesperson on:

    • Health and Ageing
    • Education (excluding Higher Education)
    • Resources, Energy and Infrastructure
    • Treasury and Commonwealth – State Relations

     
    Village Well: Kylie Legge and Jeanette Lambert
    Find Kylie Legge’s bio here and find Jeanette Lambert’s bio here

    Frank Fisher:

    Find Frank’s abstract here
    Retired (2006) Director of the Monash Uni. Graduate School of Environmental Science. Currently, Director, The Understandascope, Monash U. & Convenor, Graduate Sustainability Programs, Swinburne UT. 10 years as an electrical power engineer with European transnational engineering companies. Health consumer advocate on, at any time, over a dozen committees nationally.
    Primary interests:
    1) the social construction of reality and how recognising it can prompt more thoughtful and effective lives.
    2) applying such thinking to energy and health issues.
    Recent book (2006) “Response Ability: Environment, Health & Everyday Transcendence”, Vista.