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Dr Penny Wurm is an applied plant ecologist with a research practice that includes ecological, agricultural and livelihood applications in northern Australia, eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste. I hold a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and PhD (Ecology). Research on the values and ecology of native Australian rices has led to investigations into the development of enterprises based on native rice - in collaboration with Dr Sean Bellairs at CDU, two CRCs, an Aboriginal enterprise and Territory agencies. Knowledge of the ecology and values of native rices, has also led to investigation of threats posed by invasive species, including invasive grasses to native rices. My student supervision includes projects on invasive species on disturbed sites and monsoonal wetlands, cashew horticulture in Timor Leste, irrigated rice systems in eastern Indonesian and soon in Timor Leste, and commercialisation of native species for Aboriginal enterprises, currently Kakadu Plum and native rices.
I have teaching collaborations with Indonesian colleagues, focussed on rural livelihoods, in eastern Indonesia. Collaboratively, I have developed and taught two Indonesian field intensives, in partnership with Indonesian university colleagues. I am passionate about teaching and have won three national and one institutional team teaching awards, and have served an Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at the College level.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The population ecology of Oryza meridionalis Ng on the South Alligator River floodplain, Kakadu National Park, monsoonal Australia
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Projects
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Commercialisation of native rice for Indigenous enterprise development: Agronomy and value-adding
Bellairs, S., Wurm, P., Hoang, T. M. L. & Klaric, S.
1/04/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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Evaluation of livelihood zones, rural household trajectories, research and development partners and initiatives in Timor Leste
Stacey, N., Vial, L., Wurm, P. & McWilliam, A.
13/05/22 → 31/01/24
Project: Research
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Evaluation of livelihood zones, rural household trajectories, research and development partners and initiatives in Timor Leste
Stacey, N., Vial, L., Wurm, P. & McWilliam, A.
13/05/22 → 31/10/23
Project: Research
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Transferring Australian Savanna Fire Management Technologies to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
Wurm, P., Jacklyn, P. & Edwards, A.
13/01/23 → 22/12/23
Project: Research
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Research output
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Aboriginal Community Views about a Native Plant-Based Enterprise Development in Northern Australia
Gorman, J., Ennis, G., Wurm, P., Bentivoglio, M. & Brady, C., May 2023, In: Land. 12, 5, p. 1-16 1096.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conservation benefit-sharing mechanisms and their effectiveness in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem: Local communities’ perspectives
Kegamba, J. J., Sangha, K. K., Wurm, P. A. S. & Garnett, S. T., May 2023, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 32, 6, p. 1901-1930 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eastern Australian Farmers Managing and Thinking Differently: Innovative Adaptation Cycles
McKenzie, D. K., Joyce, J., Zander, K. K., Wurm, P. A. S. & Caudwell, K. M., 2023, In: Environmental Management. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A review of conservation-related benefit-sharing mechanisms in Tanzania
Kegamba, J. J., Sangha, K., Wurm, P. & Garnett, S. T., Jan 2022, In: Global Ecology and Conservation. 33, p. 1-16 16 p., e01955.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Commercial cultivation of Australian wild Oryza spp. A review and conceptual framework for future research needs
Abdelghany, G., Wurm, P., Hoang, L. T. M. & Bellairs, S. M., Jan 2022, In: Agronomy. 12, 1, p. 1-21 21 p., 42.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Thesis
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The population ecology of Oryza meridionalis Ng on the South Alligator River floodplain, Kakadu National Park, monsoonal Australia
Author: Wurm, P., Dec 1998Supervisor: Rea, N. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - CDU
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