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Fenner School of Environment and Society · ANU College of Systems and Society
Next offered in 2026. Students in the Grad Cert or Master of Forests can seek advice from fses.coursework.enquiries@anu.edu.au Achieving food and nutrition security, poverty reduction, improved wellbeing and greater equity, while conserving and enhancing natural capital, and delivering climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes, are amongst the greatest and most demanding challenges of this century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals articulate ambitions for each of these elements, and progressing towards those ambitions requires that we also address the synergies and tensions between the SDGs. Over the past 50 years, a global network of institutions and initiatives has emerged to catalyse and communicate research, enable and link researchers, in support of agriculture and natural resources-based development to address these global challenges. Australian researchers, policy makers and practitioners have contributed to this network and activities in a variety of ways; the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has played a central role in many of these. ACIAR’s partnership mode of research for development is acknowledged globally as an exemplar that other seek to emulate. This course capitalises on ANU researchers’ engagement in ACIAR and related work, the partnerships developed in those activities, and ACIAR’s presence in Canberra and its wider global role, to explore approaches to partnership research for agricultural and natural resource-based development, modes of working in these partnerships, and to develop knowledge and skills relevant to this work. The course draws on ANU and partner researchers, staff of ACIAR and research for development networks and institutions, and case study examples of partnership research for agricultural and natural resource-based development to provide students with both conceptual and contextual knowledge, and opportunities to develop skills and experience grounded in real cases and projects.
Learning Journal based on workshop program. It is a requirement students attend at least 5 workshops.
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 5
Short Review Paper
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 5
Concept Note
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 5
Presentation of your Concept Note
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
Elaborated Partnership Research Project Proposal
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The expected workload will consist of approximately 130 hours throughout the semester including: - Face-to face component which may consist of 1 x 2 hour Seminar weekly, 1 tutorial hour weekly, and 12 hours of topic and skills development workshops throughout the semester. - 12 hours of attendance of relevant seminars, conference presentations, workshops or similar events external to the course (e.g. at other areas of the ANU, ACIAR, CSIRO or international agencies) . - Approximately 70 hours of self-study which will include preparation for lectures, presentations and other assessment tasks. Students are expected to actively participate and contribute towards discussions. Students are required to attend a minimum of five workshops in order to pass the course. Work Integrated Learning Projects Students may engage with WIL partners (internal/external) as a component of the course. Other Information If you do not meet the requisites for this course, it may be possible to receive a permission code. If you are prompted for a permission code on ISIS, please request one online via the following form.
Reading list will be published onto Wattle. Preliminary Reading Students will be assigned published papers, reviews or directed to online resources as background to seminars, tutorials and workshops. - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). 2021. Our work . - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Browse the headlines at the CGIAR site . - Desai, V and Potter, R B. 2006. Doing development research. Sage. (ANU Library link ) - Dixon, J M and Coffey, S G. (Eds). 2019. ACIAR at Work: Interdisciplinary Research into Smallholder Farming Systems.Agricultural Science 30(2) and 31(1)