The role of the professions in science-based farming and land management Jeremy Phillipson, Amy Proctor and Philip Lowe

A philosophy of knowledge exchange Knowledge producers Knowledge users Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge producers Knowledge users A philosophy of knowledge exchange Knowledge Exchange

stakeholders engaged throughout as active partners in research reciprocal exchange between scientists and stakeholders knowledge exchange through people exchange and informal networks bringing social consideration to bear on technical research A philosophy of knowledge exchange combined socio-technical innovation

The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries? Farmers Weekly 12 July 2011 “Teamwork reaps benefits on beef finishing unit”

The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries?

Regulatory Knowledge Formal Professional Knowledge FIELD-BASED PROFESSIONALS Formal Scientific Knowledge LAND MANAGER The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries?

The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries? “I think I have a very important role in converting what the scientists have done and come up with into a format that my farm clients can use and understand” (Veterinarian) “I think the skill of empathy and the skill of being able to explain your technical knowledge in ways that the farmer can understand is the most important thing really. Ecology can get very, very technical and very science, if you like, so it's being able to translate that into sort of sensible, understandable information really for the farmer” (Ecologist) “You always make a point of reading certain technical journals to see what the latest things are and you try and remember what’s happened. You will pick up some good ideas and you will try and implement them …. You don’t realise you’re necessarily using these things, but it’s part of your personal knowledge bank and, therefore, it comes into play. You think, ‘Oh yeah, well, that’s something that’s worth applying” (Land agent)

Experiential Knowledge Experimental Knowledge Regulatory Knowledge Formal Professional Knowledge FIELD-BASED PROFESSIONALS Formal Scientific Knowledge LAND MANAGER The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Producers?

 Research and agriculture = innovative modern food production The Advisory Professions as Agents for Socio-Technical Innovation? Getting a glimpse of future precision farming tech Farmers Weekly 05 November 2009

How are public and private research agendas and strategies responding to the needs of the agriculture and land advisory professions? What knowledge exchange approaches and mechanisms have been adopted and how could they be improved? Landbridge and Today’s Workshop