Griffith University

BSc (Hons 1); PhD; Certificate in Research Higher Degree Supervision, Griffith Institute for Higher Education

Griffith School of Environment and, Centre for Governance and Public Policy

Contact details for Dr Richard Hindmarsh

Research Expertise

• Environmental politics and policy studies
• Science, technology and society studies
• Environmental social sciences
• Sustainability studies
• Biotechnology and genetic engineering policy
• Climate change and energy futures (renewables, windpower etc)
• Participatory and deliberative governance, community engagement, citizenship movements, risk and trust
• Forensics and DNA profiling issues and governance

Current Teaching Areas

 Supervision

• 6 PhD and 3 Honours students
  

Courses

Environmental Politics and Policy (second year undergraduate course)
Environmental Politics and Policy looks at the interconnections between science and policy, and at key environmental political institutions, actors, issues, and policy processes and policies in the political terrain. It focuses on those workings and outcomes of the Australian political system which are both central to and which challenge effective environmental policymaking, in order to contribute to enhanced ecological sustainable development. The course is essential for the fields of environmental politics, policy, science and technology, management or planning.

Biopolitics & Nature (third year undergraduate course)
This course explores the social, political and environmental context of mega-technologies that affect, or will potentially affect, the environment with high consequence hazards and risks. Topics include technological change; globalisation; contesting technological and environmental discourses; risk, trust, science and sustainability discourses; social constructivism; the social context of S&T; genetic engineering (especially, the environmental release of genetically modified organisms); nanotechnology; global warming; and diminishing biodiversity.

Selected Publications

• Hindmarsh, R. 2008. Edging Towards BioUtopia: A New Politics of Reordering Life & The Democratic Challenge. UWA Press, Crawley.
• Prainsack, B., Reardon, J., Hindmarsh, R., Gottweis, H., Naue, U., Lunshof, J-E. 2008. Personal genomes:misdirected precaution, Nature 456 (6 Nov), 34-35.
• Hindmarsh, R., Matthews, C. 2008, Deliberative speak at the turbine face: community engagement, wind farms, and renewable energy transitions, in Australia, Environmental Policy and Planning 10(3): 217-32.
• Hindmarsh, R., Du Plessis, R. 2008. GMO regulation and civic participation at the 'edge of the world': the case of Australia and New Zealand. In Hindmarsh, R., Du Plessis, R. (eds) 2008. Special Issue: Life Sciences Governance: Civic Transitions and Trajectories. New Genetics and Society 27(3): 181-99.
• Hindmarsh, R. 2008. Investigating Australian biocivic concerns and governance of forensic DNA technologies: confronting technocracy. In Hindmarsh, R., Du Plessis, R. (eds) 2008. Special Issue: Life Sciences Governance: Civic Transitions and Trajectories, New Genetics and Society 27 (3): 267-84
  
• Hindmarsh, R., 2008. Food and Environmental Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Questioning the GM Doubly Green Revolution. In T. Doyle, M. Risely (eds.) Crucible for Survival: Environmental Security in the Indian Ocean Region. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey.
• Hindmarsh, R. 2008. Environment, Energy, and Water in the 21st Century: The Role of Deliberative Governance for the Knowledge Society. In Hern, G., Rooney, D., Wright, D. (eds.) Knowledge Policy: Challenge for the 21st Century. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK.
  
• Hindmarsh, R. 2008. Green Biopolitics: A New Conceptual Space. In K. Braun and H. Gottweis (eds.) Mapping Biopolitics and Beyond, Routledge ECPR Series, in press.
• Lawson, C., Hindmarsh, R. 2007. Regulating Genetically Modified Organisms: A Case Study Assessing Regulatory Quality and Performance, Australian Business Law Review 35: 181-203.
• Daniels, F., Dale, P., Hindmarsh, R., Fellows, C., Buckridge, M., P. Cysowki  2007. Interdisciplinary Foundations: Reflecting on Three Decades of Teaching and Research at Griffith University, Australia, Studies in Higher Education 32(2):167-85.
• Lawson, C., Hindmarsh, R. 2006. Releasing GM Canola into the Environment - Deconstructing a Decision of the Gene Technology Regulator under the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth), Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 23(1): 22-59.
• Hil, R., Hindmarsh, R. 2006. Body Talk: Genetic Screening as a Device of Crime Regulation. In M. Betta (ed.) The Moral, Social and Commercial Imperatives of Genetic Screening and Testing: The Australian Case. Springer, Dordrecht.
• Hindmarsh, R. 2005. Genetic Engineering Regulation in Australia: An 'Archaeology' of Expertise and Power, in Hindmarsh, R., Gottweis, H. (eds.) Special Issue, Recombinant Regulation, Science as Culture, 14(4): 373-92.
• Hindmarsh, R., Gottweis, H. (eds.) 2005. Recombinant Regulation: The Asilomar Legacy Thirty Years On. Science as Culture, (14(4), December, Special Issue.
• Hindmarsh, R., Lawrence, G. (eds.) 2004. Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering, UNSW Press, Sydney.
• Hindmarsh, R. 2004. GM Policy Networks in Asia: The Discursive Politics of the 'Doubly Green Revolution'. In N. Stehr (ed.) Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society. Transaction, USA.
• Hindmarsh, R., Lawrence. 2004. Recoding Nature: Deciphering the Script. In R. Hindmarsh, G. Lawrence (eds.) Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering, UNSW Press, Sydney.
• Hindmarsh, R. 2003. Genetic Modification and the Doubly Green Revolution, Society, 40(6): 9-19.
• Hindmarsh, R., Lawrence, G. (eds.) 2001. Altered Genes II: The Future?, Revised edition, Scribe, Melbourne.
• Hindmarsh, R. 1999. Consolidating Control: Plant Variety Rights, Genes and Seeds, Australian Journal of Political Economy, 44: 58-78.
• Hindmarsh, R. 1998. Bioscience in Action! Subduing Dissent, Containing Debate. In R. Hindmarsh, G. Lawrence, J. Norton (eds.) Altered Genes Reconstructing Nature: The Debate. Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Links

http://rHindmarshblogg.blogspot.com/