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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">SOCIAL MEDIA PhD PROJECT - EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST SOUGHT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Based @ Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">PhD project:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The role of social media in remote/rural plant biosecurity surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Aim:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">This project aims to test the hypothesis that e-mapping technologies (such as cloud sourcing and other e-participatory mapping tools) can provide a tangible way
for rural and remote landholders (including Indigenous landholders and Ranger groups) to provide relevant knowledge and improve their engagement in biosecurity surveillance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The project aims to use qualitative and quantitative e-mapping methodologies (including participatory GIS through case-study analysis) to examine if new technologies
to spatially map local knowledge and sightings of biosecurity threats enhance local landholder engagement and contribution to plant biosecurity surveillance in remote regions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The questions that drive this research are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">What spatial mapping that rely on social media tools would be appropriate to support landholders (including Indigenous landholders and ranger groups) in
biosecurity surveillance and decision making in remote/rural Australia? (What tools do they already use, how do they use these tools, what kind of information would be useful for their PBS surveillance activities, and what would be the appropriate way to evaluate
use and success of such tools?) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Drawing on existing biosecurity surveillance technologies developed in Australia and other parts of the world what are the key best-practice decision-support
protocols that should underpin biosecurity surveillance e-mapping efforts to ensure landholder motivations, values and capacities are reflected in existing and new e-mapping technologies, support and applications?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Supervising institution:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Charles Darwin University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">More information:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Professor Ruth Wallace at
<a href="mailto:r.wallace@pbcrc.com.au">r.wallace@pbcrc.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">About CRC Plant biosecurity:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.cdu.edu.au/the-northern-institute/plant-biodiversity"> LINK</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Gemma Blackwood</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
Lecturer and Coordinator of Communication Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of Creative Arts and Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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T. +61 8 0889466617 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Note:
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">If you leave a voice message, the sound file is emailed to me even if I am out of office.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
<a href="mailto:gemma.blackwood@cdu.edu.au"><span style="color:blue">gemma.blackwood@cdu.edu.au</span></a>
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My research blog on the Outback in Cinema: <a href="http://www.jumpcutoutback.com/">
<span style="color:blue">jumpcutoutback.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://cdu.academia.edu/GemmaBlackwood"><span style="color:blue">My Academia Profile</span></a>
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CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY<br>
Darwin, Northern Territory 0909 AUSTRALIA<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">CHANGE YOUR WORLD</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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