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Curriculum vitae: Richard Munro Baker Reader and Convenor of the Geography Program, School of Resources Environment and Society Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, Science Faculty World
Wide Web Home Page http://sres.anu.edu.au/people/richard_baker/index.html
Academic
Qualifications: 1981 BA Hons, 1st
Class, University Medal, ANU PhD
thesis title: Land is Life:
Continuity through change for the Yanyuwa from the Northern Territory of
Australia.
Main
Research Interests: Environmental education, community
participation in environmental planning and management, Indigenous land
management issues, university teaching methods.
Present Appointment with the ANU Level D promoted
2/1/2003 Previous appointment with ANU Level C promoted
23/7/1997 Initial
Appointment to ANU Level B appointed 6/9/1993 Previous
Appointments National Museum of Australia January 1990- to September 1993 Curator in charge of the People and the Environment Curatorial Section, National Museum of Australia. A major component of my work was developing a traveling exhibition about the connections between the human and environmental histories of the Murray-Darling Basin. For various short periods my duties in the Museum varied. The following list outlines these changes. January 1993 to June 1993 Acting Senior Curator Australian Society and History September 1991-May 1992 Acting Senior Professional Officer Grade B responsible for coordinating the environmental working party's input into the National Museum of Australia's Strategic Plan. June-December 1992
Consultant to the Northern Land Council
outlining benefit that would accrue to traditional owners if the Borroloola
Land Claim is successful
Academic
Awards and Distinctions: 1981
University Medal ANU 1989
awarded an Australian Research Council, 3 year Post Doctoral Fellow 1996
ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence 2002 ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching
Excellence 2002 Finalist in Australian Awards for University
Teaching - individual category 2003 Team leader of the winning course in Australian
Awards for University Teaching - institutional category “Large, first year
classes” category Recent consultancies Nov-Feb 2002 Indigenous interests in the
Glenrock Lagoon area, Newcastle, NSW – client NSW National Parks and Wildlife
Service Oct-Nov 2001 Facilitation of workshop reviewing
the joint management arrangements at Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park – client
Board of Management Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park May 2001 I was one of two invited facilitators to run an Invitational Forum for Leaders of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at UWA. This workshop involved devising workshops to expose Heads of Department and the Executive Deans to class room scenarios June 1998 Community participation in resource management, Mt Isarog National Park, Luzon, Philippines, client Haribon (Philippine’s leading environmental NGO). This work required extensive negotiations with local land owning groups and relevant government officials, use of translators and facilitation of community workshops. April-May 1998 Developing a national wetlands management program for Vietnam, client IUCN Vietnam - International Ramsar Bureau. This work required extensive travel around Vietnam, working with Vietnamese translators and local land owning groups and relevant government officials, and facilitation of community workshops. Research
Grants 2004 ARC Linkage Grant Monitoring the National Indigenous Forestry Strategy, $69,000 2004 Monitoring the National Indigenous Forestry Strategy, principal investigator in project that includes a PhD scholarship funded by AFFA 2003 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies grant to study tourist behaviour at Uluru $10,000 2002 part of ANU SRES Team a RIRDC-funded project to investigate "The extent, ecological condition, and values of privately-owned dry schlerophyll forest". The project involve a cohort of Honours and research students, and RIRDC has provided $160K over 5 years. . 2002 ANU Research Grant of $9,000 to look at
Indigenous perspectives on land use planning 1998
National Teaching Development Grant $41,579.00 for the collaborative (academic-Aboriginal community)
construction of a web page about the Yanyuwa people. Web Page can be viewed at http://arts.deakin.edu.au/yanyuwa/default.htm 1998 Grant from Ramsar International to IUCN Vietnam
of US $10,000 for Vietnam National Wetlands Program research - my report was
successful in attracting US $160,000 for an ongoing Wetlands Management Program
in Vietnam. 1995 Small ARC, Land use in the Borroloola region of
the NT. 1989 University of Adelaide grant to fund tourism impact study. 1989 Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies grant to fund tourism impact study. Grants
my student have received include: 2003-2004 2003 $7500 from the Arafura Timor Research
Facility (ATRF) for Teakle 2003 $12,000 from NSW National Parks
and Wildlife Service 2002 $2,000 from the Snowy River
Recovery Program for Adeland 2000-2002 Weary Dunlop award and
Land and Water Australia scholarship for PhD study 2000 $5,000 from CRC for Sustainable
Tourism for 2 honours student research projects 1997-1998 Industry funded PhD
scholarship for Jim Woodhill from Greening Australia 1997 $5,000 from Murray-Darling
Association for 2 honours student research projects
Publications Books
–commercial publishers 2001 Working on Country: Contemporary Indigenous Management of Australia’s Lands and
Coastal Regions Editors: Richard Baker, Jocelyn Davies and Elspeth Young,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne. ISBN 019 551217 0- 351 pages. Joint author with the other two editors of 5
chapters as well. Chapter 1 p3-23 An
overview of the prime issues, Chapter 3 p49-59 Approaches to managing
country, Chapter 9 p39-146 Sharing
Knowledge, Chapter 17 p247-256 Negotiating Management, Chapter 23
p337-345 Listening, Sharing, and Providing Practical Support. As lead Editor I played the major role in
coordinating this massive enterprise. I
was approached by Oxford to put the book together. 1999 Land is
Life: From Bush to Town - the story of
the Yanyuwa people, Allen and Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86448 832 8 – 260 pages Monographs
– Government published 1993 A changing people - a changing land R. Baker and R. Lane published by the
Murray-Darling Basin Commission Book
Chapters 2003
Yanyuwa classical burning regimes, Indigenous
science and cross-cultural communication, pages 198-204 in Australia burning:
fire ecology, policy and management issues CSIRO publishing, Collingwood
Victoria ISBN 0 643 0 06926 7 1999 Aboriginal
Cultural Landscapes, chapter in Elaine Stratford, Australian Cultural Geographies, Oxford University Press, Geography
Meridian series. 1996
Coming
In: The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history, 123-166,
in Chapman, V and Read, P. eds Terrible Hard Biscuits, Allen and Unwin, Sydney. 1996 Landcare groups
and university students working together, in V. Brown (ed.), Landcare
Languages: A Communication Manual for Landcare, Canberra, Commonwealth of
Australia, 128-134. 1993
Traditional
Aboriginal land use p126-143 in Traditional Ecological knowledge: wisdom for
sustainable knowledge edited by Nancy Williams and Graham Baines, Centre
for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University,
Canberra. Refereed
journal articles 2003
Journeys through an Australian Sacred landscape,
with Cathy Robinson and Lynette Liddle, Museum International, 218: 74-77 1997 Landcare:
Policy, Practice and Partnerships: Australian Geographical Studies Vol. 35 No
1 61-73. 1992 "Gough Whitlam time" Land rights in the Borroloola area of Australia's Northern Territory, Applied Geography. 12: 162-175. Also published in Indigenous Land Rights in Commonwealth Countries, Dispossession, negotiation and community action. Proceedings of a Commonwealth Geographic Bureau Workshop, Christchurch February 1992, Department of Geography, Christchurch. 1990 Coming In: Yanyuwa contact history, Aboriginal History 14: 25-60. 1989 Yanyuwa contact history: the value of oral sources. Oral History Association of Australia Journal 11: 30-41. 1988 Yanyuwa canoe making. Records of the South Australian Museum 22 173-188. Conference
Proceedings 2002
Managing wetlands in Vietnam: Development of
conceptual frameworks, Pages 21-46, Proceedings of the Ecotone X: Ecosystem Valuation for assessing functions goods and services of
coastal ecosystems in southeast Asia and SeaBRnet Meeting for Coastal Biosphere
Reserves Cooperation, 19-23 November 2001, Hanoi, Vietnam, Published by the
Vietnam Man and the Biosphere National Committee. 2000
Landcare: Australian response to land degradation,
page 111-126 in Reshaping of rule ecologies, economies and communities --
Conference proceedings, Commission of the Sustainability of rural systems,
International Geographic Union -- Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, ISBN 1-902954-06-8 1998 Teaching
research: “Applied Geography” a Unit to
develop undergraduate teaching skills, p378-381 Conference Proceedings, Second Joint Conference of the Institute
of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society, Hobart 1997,
Department of Geography, New Zealand Geographical Society Conference Series No
19, Massey University Printery, Palmerston North, New Zealand. 1996 Institutions and policy: Policy processes and institutional arrangements to enhance decision making in the face of uncertainty, Pages 141-143 in T.W. Norton, T. Beer, and S.R. Dovers (eds) Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Management: Fenner Conference on the Environment, Canberra, November 1995 1996
"Supertuts", "Yes Minister" and action research: methods to
assist geography teaching, p189-193 in Proceedings of the Commission on
Geographical Education, 28th Congress of the International Geographical Union,
Centrum voor Educatieve Geografie Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, Amsterdam. 1994 Muddy waters - crystal clear interpretation: Reading the cultural landscapes of the Murray River. Journal of Marine Archaeology. Opening address to the Conference on the archaeology of submerged and riparian cultural heritage sites on the River Murray. Echuca September 21-23 1992. 1993 A Truly Australian Landscape? Museums, people and the environment. Proceedings of the 1992 CAMA Conference Melbourne. 1991 The proposed National Museum of Australia Murray-Darling Basin Exhibition: Local museums as participants, p278-281 Proceedings of the Council of Australian Museum Associations Conference Canberra November 1990, edited by D.F. McMichael. 1990 The impact of tourism on the Aboriginal community of the Borroloola area of the Northern Territory. Proceedings of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Townsville July 1990. Web Pages http://arts.deakin.edu.au/yanyuwa/default.htm The result of 4
years collaboration between myself – two colleagues and the Yanyuwa. Project funded by a CUTSD grant. NOTE to access the following
sites you need ANU Horus number and password. http://sres-resources.anu.edu.au/new_resources/1/SRES1001/index.html developed in
2002 for the new SRES1001 course “Resources, Environment and Society” – about
100 hours work http://sres-resources.anu.edu.au/new_resources/1/GEOG1008/index.htm developed in 2001 for the GEOG1008 “Australia and its Neighbours”– about 100
hours work http://sres-resources.anu.edu.au/new_resources/3/GEOG3028/index.html developed in 1999-2002 for GEOG3010-3028 “Environmental, Policy and
Planning”– about 200 hours work. CDROM 2002 Supporting
Material For Yanyuwa Web Page – copy available on request Major Reports 1998
A National Wetland Programme for Vietnam – report to IUCN Viet Nam. Selected conference Papers
May 2004 Panelists at the Fenner conference
on Understanding the population–environment
debate: Bridging disciplinary divides April 2004 Visitor Management at Uluru,
Institute of Australian Geographers, Adelaide April 2004 SRES1001 integrating the sciences
and arts in a university course, Institute of Australian Geographers, Adelaide September 2003 Flexible first year teaching,
Uniserve Science Conference, Sydney April 2002, invited participant to represent Australia
and the Pacific at the IUCN – University of Oxford workshop on Mobile
Indigenous people and protected areas, Dana, Jordan November 2001, Ecotone X Hanoi, UNESCO funded
workshop on wetlands – invited speaker – workshop and field trip leader - paper
on role of community participation in managing wetlands in Vietnam. Participation supported by UNESCO. Copy of
paper available at http://sres.anu.edu.au/people/richard_baker/MAB.htm
July 2001, participant at the AUTC National Workshop on
Teaching Large Classes February 2001, Workshop on teaching first year geography classes, Joint New Zealand Geographic Society - Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand September 2000, Use of GIS by indigenous Australian organisations - 4th International Conference - Banff, Canada Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling: June 2000, Teaching Case Studies, New York State University at Buffalo. June 2000, Small group teaching innovations, Cornell University, New York State. February 1999, The Mekong Region: After the Crisis, ANU Conference, paper on “Towards a National Wetlands program for Vietnam”. February 1999, National
Postgraduate Scheme in Urban and Environmental Studies. Speaker on Landcare. December 1997, Reading the land paper to the Northern Landscapes in story and history, Darwin, Northern Australian Research Unit. July 1997 Indigenous Perspectives in Forestry Education workshop, Vancouver, University of British Columbia ,Canada, Aboriginal involvement in natural resource management, July 1997 Education Faculty University of British Columbia, Canada Innovations in teaching Geography in Australia. July 1997 University of Washington, USA, Center for Instructional Development and Research, Innovations in teaching Geography in Australia. July 1997 University of Victoria, Environmental Studies Faculty, Canada, Traditional Ecological Knowledge July 1997 Federated PhD Scheme - Methodology Course - speaker on innovations in PhD supervision May 1997 Lessons learnt from the Murray-Darling Basin Exhibition. Murray-Darling Basin Commission workshop January 1997 "Teaching research: a course to teach 3rd year geography students research methods". Hobart Institute of Australian Geographers August 1996 Aboriginal land management, Natural History Museum Japan, Tokyo. August 1996 "Supertuts", International Geography Conference, The Hague August 1996, Australian
Cultural Geography, Glasgow University, British Cultural Geography Study Group. February 1996 Aboriginal perspective in teaching Geography - workshop organised by the Geography Department of the University of Sydney on Aboriginal perspective in teaching Geography (invited speaker). November 1995 Fenner Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Management, Institutions and policy processes in environmental management (Invited workshop convener and speaker in plenary session) September 1995 Institute of Australian Geographers - two papers 1) The cultural geography of Landcare 2) "Supertuts" and other innovations for teaching Geography July 1995 James Cook University, Geography Dept (invited speaker): "Supertuts". November 1994 Mabo and the land (Workshop convener and report back to plenary session), Australian Culture after Mabo Conference, Wagga Wagga November 1993, Inventing the Murray-Darling Basin: paper to Inventing Place Workshop at the Australian Defence Force Academy. November 1992, A Truly Australian Landscape? Museums, people and the environment. CAMA Conference Melbourne. September 1992, Opening address at the archaeology of submerged and riparian cultural heritage sites on the River Murray conference, Echuca. Paper in press February 1992, Commonwealth Geographic Bureau Indigenous Land Rights Workshop, Christchurch: Yanyuwa land rights. January 1992, Institute of Australian and New Zealand Geographers, Auckland: Cultural politics of place: history in the landscape. June 1991 Paper to Museums Association of Australia NSW Branch workshop on traveling exhibitions, Murray-Darling Basin Exhibition as an example. June 1991 History and Memory Conference, Humanities Research Centre ANU, Country as text: reading the landscape. May 1991 paper given on Murray-Darling Basin Exhibition, Murray-Darling Basin Community Advisory Council Forum at Bourke. February 1991 "The
tourist industry and Aboriginal people, participation and representation"
National Summer School in Cultural Heritage Management, University of Canberra. November 1990, Council of Australian Museum Associations: The planned Murray-Darling Basin Exhibition: Local Museums as participants. September 1990, Association of Australian Geographers, Armidale: The Geography of tourism. April 1990, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Workshop, ICOMOS Adelaide: Visitor behaviour at Aboriginal rock art sites in the Flinders Ranges, SA. July 1990, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Conference, Townsville: The impact of tourism on the Aboriginal community of the Borroloola area of the Northern Territory. February 1989, Association of Australian Geographers, Adelaide: Aboriginal Cultural landscapes: gender in the landscape. August 1988, International Geographic Union Conference, Sydney: Mapping Aboriginal History. May 1988, Aborigines Making History Conference, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. "Coming In": Yanyuwa perspective's on contact history. April 1988, Traditional
Ecological Knowledge Workshop, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies,
ANU: Yanyuwa traditional environmental knowledge. Conference Organisation Cultural Geography sessions of Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) annual conferences at 1994 Magnetic Island and 1995 Newcastle and session on Teaching at IAG conferences at Newcastle 1995 and Hobart 1997. Selected
Radio and TV interviews 2004 - BBC Radio on Aboriginal Burning 2003 – various interviews about National Teaching
prize 2001-2 - various radio interviews
after release of my book "Working on Country" and during 2001-2002 bush
fires due to chapters in book on Aboriginal burning. 1999 - various radio interviews
after release of my book "Land is Life" 1991-93 Numerous radio and TV
interviews about the National Museum’s Murray-Darling Basin Exhibition that I
coordinated 1991 ABC Radio "Working through
history" special half hour program on my PhD research 1991 7.30 Report ABC TV interviewed
about National Museum of Australia 1990 ABC Radio "Talking
History" half hour program about Yanyuwa history and land use 1988 The Great South Land: The evolution of Australia: National Public Radio Series, interviewed about Aboriginal land management Courses completed include 2001 Dreamweaver software 2001 CEDAM Problem based learning workshop 2001 WebCT introduction 1999 PowerPoint course 1999 CEDAM Preparing a Teaching Portfolio workshop 1998 First Aid update 1998 Endnote course 1998 CEDAM graduate student supervision workshop 1997 Action Research Course offered by CEDAM 1995 University Teaching and Learning Course - Semester long course on teaching methods with advanced standing in the UNSW program on postgraduate study in Higher Education 1995 and 2002 Remote Area First Aid (3 day advanced first aid course), University Committee membership ANU Education Committee 2001- 2003 ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia 2002- ANU Teaching Forum – 1999-2002 Inaugural chair of the - a forum that I was a key player in getting established that aims to raise the profile of teaching at ANU. Arts Faculty Curriculum Development Committee 1995-8, 2002- Arts Faculty Education Committee 1994-8 Arts Faculty
Teaching and Learning Committee 2002- Board of the Faculty 2001-2002 Environment Audit Committee 1995-98 Information Literacy Program steering group member 2001 – National Institute for social sciences steering group member 2001 –2003 ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia committee member 2001- Science Faculty 1997 - Science faculty representative on the Arts Faculty 2001 – Science Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee 2002- SRMES Board of Study Committee 1997-2000 Undergraduate Programs Committee 2003 – 2004 Editorial Boards Journal of Aboriginal History 1993- Journal of Ethics, Place and Environment
(International journal published in the UK) 1998- Elected
Public Positions ACT Local Area Planning Advisory Group - North
Canberra representative 1995-99 Other
community positions Interim Board of Management of the Canberra
Culture Centre 1994-1997 ACT Heritage Council 1997 to 1999 Professional
Memberships · Member of the Institute of Australian Geographers · 1999 - Elected Council member of the Institute of
Australian Geographers · Member of the IUCN (World Conservation Union)
Commission on Environment, Economics and Social Policy and its Collaborative
Management Working Group Teaching presentations1.
Supertuts: a way to
improve small group teaching. ANU
November 1997 2.
What ANU can learn
from the University of Washington’s approach to promoting teaching and learning
– CEDAM seminar Sept 1999 3.
Science teaching at the ANU: 2000 and beyond”, a
seminar for teaching academics in the Faculty of Science, held Friday 19th
November 1999 – speaker and co-organiser 4.
Case study workshop
22 Nov 2000 run by Rosemary Martin and myself on what we had learnt at the
Buffalo, NY, workshop that June 5.
Advancing Teaching and Learning:
An Invitational Forum for Leaders of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
at UWA. May 18 2001 I was one of two invited key note speakers
and workshop facilitators at a day long workshop for Heads of Department and
the Executive Deans. 6.
iLearning in
Practice, 16 September 2002 CEDAM Seminar, ANU – one of 3 speakers 7.
Focus on Teaching Panel for ANU
Vice-Chancellor Award Winners on November 14th 2002 8.
Teaching Spaces at ANU – ANU
Teaching Forum, July 24th 2003 ANU Teaching Forum Events that I organised while
chair of the ANU Teaching Forum 1.
8 June 2000 Profiling Teaching and Learning at the ANU:
Where is Teaching Going at the ANU? Update + Discussion - Robinson Lecture
Theatre RSBS - attendance 120 2.
August 25th 2000 Round table on small group teaching –
attendance 45 3. August
10th 2001 Information
technology forum - attendance 75 4. August
17th 2001 How to benefit from a culturally diverse classroom–
attendance 30 5.
Sept 13th 2001 Role playing in the class room –
attendance 18 6.
April 22nd 2002
Malcolm Gillies 'Maximising the University's educational outcomes. International Teaching
Research Collaboration Part of a team of Geographers from 12
universities, three in each of Australia, NZ, UK and US examining Kolb's
learning styles. Project funded by the UK National Subject Centre for
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Graduate student supervision Honours
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