Dr Severine van Bommel

Senior Lecturer in Rural Dev. & Agr

School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Faculty of Science
s.vanbommel@uq.edu.au
+61 7 54601 105

Overview

Bio: Dr. Severine van Bommel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland's School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability. With a keen interest in rural development and agricultural extension, her research focuses on understanding the role of experts and expertise in orchestrating effective governance performances for systemic transformation of natural resource dilemmas and competing claims. Through an interpretive lens, her research aims to support experts in communicating and collaborating with farmers and communities in situations of social learning, multi-stakeholder partnerships, farmer field schools, community-based NRM or co-inquiry and co-design.

Research Interests:

  • Rural development
  • Agricultural extension
  • Sustainable development
  • Indigenous engagement
  • Environmental credentials verification

Current Projects:

- the co-design of a virtual platform for verifying environmental credentials for Australian beef producers - developing indigenous engagement methods (storian) for Australian researchers working with Ni-Vanuatu livestock farmers - making visible and challenging gender norms in transdisciplinary research and development practice - facilitating more-than-human participatory research and practice

Publications: Dr. van Bommel has contributed to significant works in her field, including:

  • "Rural Development for Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems: Putting Communities First" (Palgrave)
  • "Forest and Nature Governance: A Practice-Based Approach" (Springer)
  • "Forest-People Interfaces" (Wageningen Academic Publishers)

Her research contributions have been published in prestigious journals and presented at international conferences such as IPA, MOPAN, IFSA, and APEN.

Teaching: In addition to her research, Dr. van Bommel teaches courses on:

  • Leadership in rural industries (MSc)
  • Effective stakeholder engagement (MSc)
  • Human-wildlife interactions (MSc and BSc)

Mentorship and Community Engagement: Dr. van Bommel is dedicated to mentoring early career researchers interested in interpretive methods within the APSA mentoring program. She also runs an International Virtual Community of Practice for Interpretive Practitioners, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange in the field.

Research Interests

  • Agricultural stakeholder engagement, agricultural extension, adoption of technology, practice change
  • Co-design and social learning
  • Land use conflicts, human-wildlife conflicts, multi stakeholder negotiation and deliberation
  • Discursive analysis, narratives and framing
  • Interpretive methods and methodologies, multi species ethnography

Qualifications

  • Board Member, International Interpretive Policy Analysis, International Interpretive Policy Analysis
  • Journal Editorial Board Member, Critical Policy Studies, Critical Policy Studies
  • Associate Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  • Member, Australia Pacific Extension Network, Australia Pacific Extension Network
  • Member, American Political Science Association, American Political Science Association

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • (2024) Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book

  • Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Severine van Bommel, Jessica de Koning and Esther Turnhout eds. (2013). Forest and nature governance. World Forests , Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5113-2

  • Bas Arts, Severine van Bommel, Mirjam Ros-Tonen and Gerard Verschoor eds. (2012). Forest-people interfaces: understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-749-3

Book Chapter

  • Boonman-Berson, Susan and van Bommel, Séverine (2023). How to do multispecies-ethnographies when exploring human-(wild) animal interactions. Methods in Human-Animal Studies. (pp. 133-153) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351018623-9

  • van Bommel, Séverine, Baldwin, Claudia, Brown, Katrina, Cavaye, Jim and Ross, Helen (2023). Realising Just and Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems. Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems. (pp. 487-502) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7_23

  • van Bommel, Séverine and Baldwin, Claudia (2023). State of the Art, Trends and Progress in Work on the Social Aspects of Social-Ecological Systems in Research and Practice. Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems. (pp. 1-16) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7_1

  • van Bommel, Séverine, Coutts, Jeff, James, John and Nettle, Ruth (2023). Trends in Extension in Australia. Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems. (pp. 45-75) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7_4

  • Van Bommel, Severine, Van Hulst, Merlijn and Yanow, Dvora (2014). Interpretive policy analysis in the Netherlands. Policy analysis in the Netherlands. (pp. 69-86) edited by Frans van Nispen and Peter Scholten. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.

  • van Bommel, Severine and van der Zouwen, Marielle (2013). Creating scientific narratives: Experiences in constructing and interweaving empirical and theoretical plots. Forest and Nature Governance: A Practice based Approach. (pp. 217-239) edited by Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Séverine van Bommel, Jessica de Koning and Esther Turnhout. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5113-2_11

  • Arts, Bas, Behagel, Jelle, van Bommel, Severine, de Koning, Jessica and Turnhout, Esther (2013). Prelude to practice: Introducing a practice based approach to forest and nature governance. Forest and Nature Governance: A Practice based Approach. (pp. 3-21) edited by Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Séverine van Bommel, Jessica de Koning and Esther Turnhout. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5113-2_1

  • Behagel, Jelle, Arts, Bas, van Bommel, Severine, de Koning, Jessica and Turnhout, Esther (2013). The promise of practice: The value of the practice based approach for forest and nature governance studies. Forest and Nature Governance: A Practice based Approach. (pp. 243-255) edited by Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Séverine van Bommel, Jessica de Koning and Esther Turnhout. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5113-2_12

  • Arts, Bas, Van Bommel, Severine, Ros-Tonen, Mirjam and Verschoor, Gerard (2012). Forest-people interfaces: from local creativity to global concerns. Forest-people interfaces: understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity. (pp. 15-26) edited by Bas Arts, Séverine van Bommel, Mirjam Ros-Tonen and Gerard Verschoor. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-749-3_1

  • Van Bommel, Severine and Turnhout, Esther (2012). The (onto)politics of classifying biocultural diversity: a tale of chaos, order and control. Forest-people interfaces: understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity. (pp. 223-238) edited by Bas Arts, Séverine van Bommel, Mirjam Ros-Tonen and Gerard Verschoor. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-749-3_14

  • van Bommel, Severine, Aarts, Noelle, Turnhout, Esther and Roling, Niels (2011). Governance and contested land use in the Netherlands. Territorial Governance. (pp. 123-139) edited by André Torre and Jean-Baptiste Traversac. Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag HD. doi: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2422-3_7

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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