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24.01.2022 Bush Prof is having a short blogging holiday and will be back on line soon! In the meantime, for those of you who are, or would like to be, in North West Tasmania and interested in doing a PhD in rural regional development, check out this fantastic opportunity for a funded PhD scholarship based in Burnie: https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au//phd-scholarship-centre-for

24.01.2022 Our Spring Series is about growth in rural regions. But what do we mean by growth? Growth is a word that can mean different things. Sometimes it can mean different things in the same conversation, and the result is the conceptual equivalent of spring mud. Our task in this post is to start to make sense of the mud. What kind of growth are we talking about, and how do we know if we have it? [ 545 more words ] http://bushprof.com/2020/10/08/nine-kinds-of-growth/

24.01.2022 In May 2020 I began this blog to share practical insights on rural regional development. I started from a desire to share some of the discoveries and lessons learned from a journey of over twenty years of working on economic and social development issues with communities across Australia and Latin America. The timing was not coincidental. It was May 2020; the world was sweeping into the noise of COVID-19 panic.... http://bushprof.com/2021/06/17/bush-prof-the-first-year/

24.01.2022 This post is part of the series Rural Development From the Ground Up. Read the full series here. This series is exploring the hands-on, down-to-earth aspects of rural development. Using the practical metaphor of unpacking a crate, we are unpacking the theory and practice of grassroots development layer by layer: from the shiny, hopeful idea of Development - and its dangers - to the compelling idea that rural communities themselves can create change. [ 796 more words ] http://bushprof.com//grassroots-development-digging-deeper/

23.01.2022 Winter has hit in Natone, and its time to start a new series of posts. In these early nights by the fire, there is a clear boundary between warmth and cold; a physicality in the air that is not present in centrally heated places. Ideas feel fragile, while logs have substance. Practical things matter. So this series explores the hands-on, down-to-earth aspects of rural development. [ 187 more words ] http://bushprof.com//25/rural-development-from-the-ground/

22.01.2022 We have arrived at the final post in the series Rural Economies, Secrets to Success. These posts are certainly not the whole story of rural economic development opportunities. They are barely the first chapter. But they are a starting point for us to engage with the important question, What can rural communities do to take charge of their economic futures? [ 779 more words ] http://bushprof.com//secrets-to-success-bring-knowledges-/

20.01.2022 This series on Starting Points has explored how our personal, professional, and social starting points influence how we see regional development problems and solutions. This final post distills the practical takeaways from this series. How can you use the insights from these posts to make a difference in your own region? Takeaway #1: Your knowledge matters Perhaps you're not an economist, or a policy expert, or a tech guru.... http://bushprof.com///starting-points-practical-takeaways/

16.01.2022 The same landscape can look quite different depending on who you are. That landscape may be an objective reality, but each person will see it differently. The hiker will observe the terrain, the planner will note the patterns of towns, the agronomist the crops, the artist the light, the forester the trees. Our training in our chosen field often "frames" how we see the reality that is in front of us.... http://bushprof.com/20//10/starting-points-2-brain-frames/

15.01.2022 Spring is nearly here, and the stand of slender wattles just beyond the orchard is bright yellow. Those trees stand tall in a space that, ten years ago, was a grassy paddock. Wattles come up from nothing; wattles are fast. They make a good starting point for our spring theme: Growth. Careful readers of the last two Bush Prof series may have noticed that I seldom use the word [ 283 more words ] http://bushprof.com//09/22/spring-series-growing-your-reg/

14.01.2022 Read the "Rural Economies, Secrets to Success" series here: https://bushprof.com///rural-economies-secrets-to-success/

10.01.2022 This series of posts is unpacking grassroots development: why its compelling in theory, and what it actually looks like on the ground, in practice. In the last post, Shiny hopeful things, I talked briefly about some of the promise and problems of Development, and I introduced the compelling idea that rural communities can create their own development from the ground up. [ 682 more words ] http://bushprof.com//grassroots-development-gears-levers-/

09.01.2022 Hi all, Ive created a dedicated Facebook page for the Bush Prof website and blog. https://bushprof.com/

06.01.2022 This series aims to unpack the theory and practice of grassroots development. Grassroots development is also called development from the ground up, bottom-up development, or community-led development. In Spanish its called desarrollo de base: Development from, or of, the base. Unpacking ideas is a bit like unpacking crates: the deeper you go, the more you find. The next few posts will dig through some common ideas about working with rural communities from the ground up and explore what these ideas from theory actually mean when we put them into practice. [ 212 more words ] http://bushprof.com//grassroots-development-theory-and-pr/

06.01.2022 This year I started a blog series on 'Starting Points' to understand how people look at regional development problems and solutions. The first post talked about our personal starting points: how the places and communities we are from shape the things we care about today. Our past experiences influence what we think positive regional development is, and what kinds of outcomes we look for.... http://bushprof.com//14/starting-points-3-a-matter-of-hats/

04.01.2022 Hi all! I set up the Bush Prof site to share knowledge and ideas from and for rural regions - in Australia, and around the world. Its a new venture, and Id love your feedback. One feature Ive included is a Regional Development Resources collection - you can view it here: https://bushprof.com/regional-development-resources/

04.01.2022 Thus far in this series, weve introduced four characteristics of rural regions that can create economic problems - but which can be flipped or viewed differently to generate solutions. To date, weve explored rural economies embeddedness in natural environments and their structural positioning as primary producers in global value chains. Today, we explore the tendency for rural regions to have [ 896 more words ] http://bushprof.com//20/secrets-to-success-reimagine-space/

02.01.2022 I fell in love with the idea of grassroots development in the 1990s, when I was young and tired of grand academic theories that ignored people. Having grown up in a poor region, I wasnt interested in the theoretical indulgences of famous men. I wanted to understand the practical side of economic and social change. I wanted to learn how to actually create change. [ 756 more words ] http://bushprof.com/2020/07/09/shiny-hopeful-things/

01.01.2022 We've reached the end of our winter series, Rural Development From the Ground Up. Thank you to all who have come along on the journey! If you'd like to review the past posts or share them on, the full series is here. Our exploration of grassroots development set out to be practical. That means it's time to gather up some practical takeaways you can use when working in and with rural communities. [ 366 more words ] http://bushprof.com//grassroots-development-practical-tak/