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Dr Severine van Bommel

Senior Lecturer in Rural Dev. & Agr

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

Overview

Dr Severine van Bommel is a senior lecturer with the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability at the University of Queensland, Australia. She holds a PhD and MSc from Wageningen University (NL). Taking a qualitative, interpretive approach, she studies the construction of meaning in interaction in extension or interventions for sustainable resource management. She has contributed to insight into constraining and enabling narratives and policy conditionalities for deliberation and learning for sustainable agriculture at farm and higher agro-ecosystems levels.

Her current research is focused on developing a number of innovative research and co-design methodologies that enable different knowledge perspectives to emerge and that are effective in western contexts as well as in groups where there is low literacy or where English in a second language. Her reserach projects include: 1) co-design of a virtual platform for verification of environmental credentials for Australian Beef producers; 2) development of a 'storian' engagement method for co-design and co-implementation of climate smart agricultural practices with smallholder farmers in Vanuatu.

She is an editor of the book "Forest and Nature Governance: A practice-based approach" (Springer). She has published and presented papers on the above mentioned topics in journals and international congress proceedings, been a co-editor in scientific journals and publications. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Interpretive Policy Analysis conference (IPA) and she is a member of the editorial board of the Critical Policy Studies journal. She mentors early career researchers interested in interpretive methods within the framework of the APSA mentoring program and she runs a Virtual International Community of Practice for Interpretive Practitioners. She is also part of in the International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) and the Australasia-Pacific Extension Network (APEN).

Courses that she currently teaches:

- Leadership in rural industries (MSc)

- Effective stakeholder engagement (MSc)

- Human-wildlife interactions (MSc and BSC)

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

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Smallholder agriculture and food and nutrition security: strategies to empower farming families in Solomon Islands

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Economics of ameliorating soil constraints in the Northern Region: Project D: Program co-ordination; communication, extension and evaluation

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Human-nonhuman relationship in regenerative livestock family farms in Eastern Australia

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book

  • Forest and nature governance

    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

  • Forest-people interfaces: understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity

    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

  • Interpretive policy analysis in the Netherlands

    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.

  • Creating scientific narratives: Experiences in constructing and interweaving empirical and theoretical plots

    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

  • Prelude to practice: Introducing a practice based approach to forest and nature governance

    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

  • The promise of practice: The value of the practice based approach for forest and nature governance studies

    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

  • Forest-people interfaces: from local creativity to global concerns

    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

  • The (onto)politics of classifying biocultural diversity: a tale of chaos, order and control

    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

  • Governance and contested land use in the Netherlands

    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

  • Smallholder agriculture and food and nutrition security: strategies to empower farming families in Solomon Islands

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Economics of ameliorating soil constraints in the Northern Region: Project D: Program co-ordination; communication, extension and evaluation

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Human-nonhuman relationship in regenerative livestock family farms in Eastern Australia

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • The Gender of Agricultural Extension Agents: The Investigation in Java, Indonesia

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Exploring teaching practices as a pathways to promoting engagement with food security and climate action.

    Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Learning how to manage for resilience - strategically monitoring for adaptive governance of social ecological systems

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

  • Smallholder farmers utilizing information and knowledge for decision making in farming in Indonesia

    (2021) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

Rural Development, Environmental conflicts, Dialogue, Human-wildlife conflicts, Negotiation, Stakeholder engagement, Innovation in agriculture, Local perspectives, Extension, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Agri-food systems, International Development

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ORCID: 0000-0002-7782-9162

Scopus ID: 36006866900

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