Staff Profile
Lynne McLoughlin
Visiting Fellow
| Room: | E8A 374 |
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| Phone: | +61 2 9850 6045 |
| Fax: | +61 2 9850 7972 |
| Email: | lmclough@gse.mq.edu.au |
Profile
I grew up on the edges of Sydney sandstone bushland in northern Sydney, majored in Geography and History in my undergraduate degree (Hons in Geography, thesis on environmental perception) and after teaching Geography, travelling and bringing up children came to Macquarie for a new direction with the Masters in Environmental Studies in the 1980s. With the thesis component of this degree I began to bring together my two academic disciplines of interest into environmental history with a detailed look at the history of the Lane Cove River. This continued later with a PhD in the GSE looking at the evidence for vegetation and landscape history of the Sydney region from 1770, while my bushland background also shows through in various publications, including works on the natural environment of Lane Cove and Bankstown.
However, I have diverse interests and as I had undertaken a range of environmental education and interpretation projects as a consultant, while doing my PhD in the GSE in the 1990s I assisted in setting up the GSE programs in environmental education. I have taught one of the units in this program, EPG918 Environmental Interpretation and Community Education, since the program started in 1994.
While I now work for the Department of Environment and Climate Change managing social research for the Community Education Section,I continue to maintain a strong interest in the environmental education program in the GSE and to teach EPG918.
Research Interest
These span two areas:
- Post 1770 Australian environmental history, particularly of the Sydney Region
- Environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, particularly through conduct of the DECC's triennial research into the environmental knowledge attitudes and behaviour of the people of NSW, Who Cares about the Environment?
Teaching
- I developed, convene and teach EPG918 Environmental Interpretation and Community Education
- In the past I have co-taught GSE 843 Environmental Decision-making and have run the social research component of GSE807 Environmental Measurement and Analysis at Jervis Bay for several years
Selected Publications
- McLoughlin, L. (2005)The role of community education in developing environmentally sustainable cities. Environmental City 11, State of Australian Cities Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane November. At http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/soac2005/environmental_city.html
- Mcloughlin, L. and Young G. (2005) The role of social research in effective social change programs. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 21: 57-70.
- McLoughlin, L.C. (2004) Is sustainability a breakfast cereal? Program based research into community perceptions of sustainability. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 20 (1):115-127.
- McLoughlin, L.C. (2004) Patterns of pre-European Aboriginal vegetation management by fire in South-eastern Australia: What do we know? The Victorian Naturalist 121(3): 99-106.
- McLoughlin, L.C. (2000) Changes in estuarine wetlands distribution along the Parramatta River, Sydney, 1788-1940: implications for conservation and planning. Cunninghamia 6 (3): 579-610.
- McLoughlin, L.C. (2000) Shaping Sydney Harbour: sedimentation, dredging and reclamation 1788-1990s, Australian Geographer 31 (2) 183-208.
- McLoughlin, L. C. (1999) Environmental history, environmental management and the public record: will the records be there when you need them? Australian Journal of Environmental Management 6: 34-45.
- McLoughlin, L. C. (1999) Vegetation in the early landscape art of the Sydney region, Australia: accurate record or artistic licence? Landscape Research 24 (1): 25-48.
- McLoughlin, L. C. (1998) Season of burning in the Sydney region: The historical records compared with recent prescribed burning. Australian Journal of Ecology 23 (4): 393-402.
- McLoughlin, L. (1997) The impact of planting for restoration of remnant bushland on its scientific and educational values: implications for conservation planning. Pacific Conservation Biology 3 (1): 27-38.
- McLoughlin, Lynette (1988) Landed peasantry or landed gentry: A geography of land grants in the County of Cumberland to 1821. In A Difficult Infant: Sydney before Macquarie, ed. by Graeme Aplin, UNSW Press.