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

Dr Severine van Bommel is a senior lecturer with the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability at the University of Queensland, Australia and the Rural Development Group leader. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University (NL). Taking an qualitative, interpretive approach, she studies the construction of meaning in interaction in rural development and agricultural extension. Drawing on insights from social learning, communication and innovation studies, her research and teaching are focused on innovative, co-design research methods and methodologies for addressing resource dilemmas and competing claims.

Her current research projects include: 1) co-design of a virtual platform for verification of environmental credentials for Australian Beef producers (developing online co-design processes); 2) developing engagement methods that help Australian researchers communicate with Ni-Vanuatu livestock farmers (based on storian principles).

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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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • 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

Journal Article

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

  • (2021) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor