Completed research projects and activities

  • Australian Research Council Linkage Project: Interactions between Social, Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Residential Household Water Consumption
  • Australian Research Council Discover Project – Australia’s Rural Heartlands: Declining Economic Fortune or Dynamic Regional Adjustment?
  • VCCCAR Think Tank: Regional Business Development in a Variable and Changing Climate: Strategies for Central Victoria
  • Fulbright Specialists Program – Professor Sam Ham – October and November 2010
  • The Regional Rail Trails Observatory
  • The Bendigo Regional Business Observatory
  • National Centre for Farmer Health Inaugural Conference
  • ARC Linkage Project: Understanding water use in the home
  • ARC Discovery Project: Australia's Rural Heartlands
  • Tourism and Climate Change
  • Cycle Tourism Research Project: The Research Tool Kit for the Cycle Tourism Resource Kit for Regional Communities
  • Robinvale Community Study
  • Enhancing Competitive Advantage and the Customer Experience: An Investigation of Community Banking
  • Small Towns: Big Picture Project
  • Sustainable Farm Families - Future Directions Program
  • Post-doctoral Research: Farmer Decision Making Strategies

Previously supported Conferences

  • The Sustainability of Australia’s Country Towns: The Third National Country Towns Conference held in Bendigo in 2010
  • Energy Futures in Regional Australia: Sharing Innovations in Renewable Energy and Carbon Pollution Reduction Opportunities held in Bendigo on 8-10 November 2009
  • Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia: National Conference on Climate Change – Responding to Sea Level Rise: Engineering Practical Climate Change Solutions held in Coffs Harbour NSW on 3rd, 4th and 5th August 2008
  • Renewable Energy and Regional Australia: Creating Local Economic Development Opportunities held in Bendigo on 16-18 September 2007