Jim Falk

Posted February 18, 2011 - 03:34 by Jim Falk

Nationality: UK and Australian

Place of Residence: Australia

Specialist Area of Expertise: The nature, impact, dynamics and management of technological innovation, and, in particular environmental innovation, in their social context.

Current Position:

  • Climate Change Research Director, Association of Pacific Rim Universities World Institute
  • Visiting Professor, United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies
  • Emeritus Professor, University of Wollongong
  • Professorial Fellow, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne

Recent Positions:

  • Director, Australian Centre for Science Innovation and Society (ACSIS), University of Melbourne.
  • Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University, Melbourne.
  • Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Australia

Interests/Expertise: 

Key themes:

I am interested in the relationship between local community, and then the reciprocal passage of information across community, organisational and governance scale boundaries from local to global needed to facilitate adaptative responses to environmental and other contemporary challenges.

Preferred methodologies:

My intellectual and organisational role tends to be as an integrator of ideas and people. In particular having had a PhD in theoretical physics followed by some 40 years of working across the boundaries between science and society I can play a positive role in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects around themes of interest.

Recent research/consultancy: 

  • With others, The Science of Emissions Stabilisation, report, Garnaut Review,  http://www.garnautreview.org.au/CA25734E0016A131/pages/all-reports--resources-commissioned-reports, published 1 October 2008.
  • With others, The Science of Climate Change, , report, Garnaut Review,  http://www.garnautreview.org.au/CA25734E0016A131/pages/all-reports--resources-commissioned-reports, published 1 October 2008.
  • J. Falk and Roger Bodman, Expression of Interest in relation to the development of the Australian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation, Report to the Department of Sustainability and Environment, 24 July 2007.
  • J. Falk, G Pearman, J Barnett Roger Bodman P Jensen,B Webster and L Gangadharan, Evaluation of the ‘Stern Review’ and its Implications for Victoria and Australia, Report to the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria, February 2007.
  • J. Falk, Report to the CEO of ARPANSA on the Application to a Grant a Facility Licence to Operate the OPAL Nuclear Research Reactor, 17 January 2006.
  •  J. Falk (Chair), Report of the Review of the Registered Schools Board, Report to the Minister of Education, Victorian Government, the Hon Lyn Kosky,  Feb 2004.
  • J. Falk (on behalf of Victoria University), Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Reference Committee, Public Universities Inquiry, and oral testimony, Melbourne Town Hall, 14 May 2001.

Recognitions, positions, memberships: 

  • Chair, Review of the Registered Schools Board, appointed by The Hon. Lynne Kosky, Minister for Education and Training, Victorian Government, 2003–4.
  • Chair, AVCC Committee of Deputy Vice Chancellors and Pro Vice Chancellors (Academic), 1998-2000.
  • Executive Committee, AVCC Committee of Deputy Vice Chancellors and Pro Vice Chancellors (Academic), 2002-
  • Chair, Hume Sustainability Taskforce, City of Hume, 2002-
  • Member, AVCC Working Party to advise on the Teaching and Learning components of Higher Education Reform Legislation introduced by Minister Brendan Nelson, 2003.
  • Member, AVCC Standing Committee on Education and Students, 1998-2000.
  • Ministerial Appointee (Federal Minister for the Environment), Alligator Rivers Region Technical Advisory Committee, 1995-2001.
  • Member, Board of Directors, Playbox Theatre Pty. Ltd, 2000-2004.
  • Member, Board of Drectors, Malthouse, Pty. Ltd, 2000-2004.

Relevant Qualifications and Recognitions:

  • Bsc (Hons), Ph D (Monash 1974)
  • Emeritus Professor (Wollongong University 1997)
  • Honourary Professorial Fellow (University of Melbourne 2011)
  • Professorial Visiting Fellow, United Nations University 2009-12
  • Member of Editorial Boards of Sustainability Science, Nano Ethics, Technologies (US), Ecopolitics.

Selected publications: 

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