Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101136

Funded Activity Summary

Sugar vs The Reef: Socially-engaged art and urgent environmental problems. Using the intersection between the sugar cane industry and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as a case study, this project aims to investigate the effectiveness of socially engaged art in intervening in the social dimensions of a complex environmental management problem. What are the barriers to behavioural change in agricultural land use within reef catchment areas? How can socially engaged art catalyse new dialogue between farmers, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers? And how might these discoveries be more widely applicable? Results of the project may inform transformations in farming practices, the establishment of a geographical provenance system for sugar, and a deeper public awareness of the human impact of agriculture on the reef.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-04-2016

End Date: 03-04-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $340,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Art Theory | Visual Arts and Crafts | Social and Cultural Geography | Performance and Installation Art

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |

Other Keywords

Art Theory | Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing | Performance and Installation Art | Social and Cultural Geography | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) | Visual Arts and Crafts

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