Previous research has covered the following topics:
- social impacts of rural restructuring
- dairy industry restructuring in Australia, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in 2001-03
- an ARC-Academy of Social Sciences Special Project on sustainability of rural towns (2002)
- governance of rural areas, natural resources and agriculture
- the regulation and management of groundwater in a dairying area
- environmental management systems in farming
- transnational communities in Victoria (Monash Small Grant, 2004) and
- environmental partnerships (Monash Faculty of Arts Research Initiative grant, 2004).
Student research:
I have supervised and advised honours, masters and doctoral students conducting research on the following topics:
- Groundwater management in rural Victoria
- Multifunctional agriculture in France
- Environmental non-government organisation (NGO) partnerships with business
- The discourse and practice of agricultural biotechnology development
- Landholders’ perspectives on revegetation and biodiversity on farmland
Selected publications:
Books
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J. (eds. 2005) Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
- Dibden, J., Fletcher, M. and Cocklin, C. (2001) All Change! Gippsland Perspectives on Regional Australia in Transition. Melbourne: Monash Regional Australia Project, Monash University.
Book chapters
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J. (2005). Conclusion. In C. Cocklin and J. Dibden (eds.), Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp.247-252.
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J. (2002b) Deregulating the Australian dairy industry. In P. Holland and F. Stephenson and A. Wearing (eds.), 2001, Geography – A Spatial Odyssey, pp. 356-362. Proceedings of the Joint Institute of Australian Geographers/New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2001. Hamilton NZ: New Zealand Geographical Society.
- Cocklin, C., Dibden, J. and Mautner, N. (2005). Land stewardship and the provision of eco-services. In A. Mather (ed.), Land Use and Rural Sustainability, Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, pp. 27-32.
- Dibden, J. and Cheshire, L. (2005). Community Development. In C. Cocklin and J. Dibden (eds.), Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 212-229.
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2007). Contesting competition: Governance and farmer resistance in Australia. In L. Cheshire, V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds.) Rural Governance: International Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 175-190.
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2005). Introduction. In C. Cocklin and J. Dibden (eds.), Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 1-18.
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2005). Sustainability and agri-environmental governance. In V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds.), Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation, London: Routledge, pp. 136-152.
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2003) ‘Tarra’, Victoria. In C. Cocklin and M. Alston (eds.), Community Sustainability in Rural Australia: A Question of Capital? pp. 170-201.Wagga Wagga, NSW: Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. & Cocklin, C. (2007). Market-oriented initiatives for agri-environmental governance: Environmental Management Systems in Australia.,In D. Maye, L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey (eds.), Alternative Food Geographies: Representation and Practice, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 223-238.
Journal articles
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J. (2002). Taking stock: farmers’ reflections on the deregulation of Australian dairying, Australian Geographer, 33(1): 29-42.
- Cocklin, C., Dibden, J. and Gibbs, D. (2008). Competitiveness versus ‘clean and green’? The regulation and governance of GMOs in Australia and the UK, Geoforum, 39(1): 161-173.
- Cocklin, C., Dibden, J. & Mautner, N. (2006). ‘From market to multifunctionality: New approaches to sustainable land management in Australia’, Geographical Journal, 172(3): 197-205.
- Cocklin, C., Mautner, N. and Dibden, J. (2007). Public policy, private landholders: Perspectives on policy mechanisms for sustainable land management, Journal of Environmental Management, 85(4): 986-998.
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2009). ‘Multifunctionality’: Trade protectionism or a new way forward? Environment and Planning A, 41(1): 163- 182.
- Dibden, J., Mautner, N. and Cocklin, C. (2005) Land stewardship: unearthing the perspectives of land managers, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 12(4): 190-201.
- Dibden, J., Potter, C. and Cocklin, C. (2009). Contesting the neoliberal project for agriculture: Productivist and multifunctional trajectories in the European Union and Australia, Journal of Rural Studies, 25(3): 299-308.
- Gibbs, D., Cocklin, C., Dibden, J. (2008). Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the future of rural spaces, Geoforum, 39(1): 145-147.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2008). Building alternative agri-food networks: Certification, embeddedness and agri-environmental governance, Journal of Rural Studies, 24(1): 15-27.
- Higgins, V., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2008). Neoliberalism and natural resource management: Agri-environmental standards and the governing of farming practices, Geoforum, 39(5): 1776–1785.
- Missingham, B., Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. (2006). A multicultural countryside? Ethnic minorities in rural Australia, Rural Society, 16 (2): 131-149.
Previous Employment
- Social Research Consultant, Adelaide
- Rural Project Officer, Carers’ Association of SA
- Community Development Officer, Adelaide and Atherton, Far North Queensland
- Principal Consultant, Social Sciences Research Training Centre, Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
- Teaching Fellow / Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University, Brisbane
- Tutor, Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide
- Editorial Assistant to Minerva, a journal of higher education and science policy, London.
Education
- Ph.D., University of London (United Kingdom)
- M.A., University of London (United Kingdom)
- B.A. Hons, University of Adelaide (Australia)
