Ruth Nettle
Biographic Data
| ID | 2298043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Nettle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Nettle |
| SIGNATURE | NETTLE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8347-6693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Building agricultural advisors’ capability within agricultural innovation systems: A systematic review of capability development for practice
Tracing young people's entry and retention in the Australian agriculture sector: A longitudinal analysis of rural employment pathways
The migration of rural youth to urban areas for employment opportunities has been a central scholarship focus on young people in rural and regional contexts. While leaving has often been characterised as a normative transition toward achieving socially accepted visions of adulthood, recent contributions to the rural mobilities literature challenge the assumption that leaving equates to success. These works call for renewed attention to the lived …
Smart farming technologies and changes to farm work: New insights into on-farm experiences
The intersect between technologies and the future of work is a key topic for both practitioner and scholarly communities. In this paper, we explore this intersect within agriculture by examining the changes to work for farmers implementing smart farming technologies (SFTs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia. We interviewed 17 farmers across the UK and Australia from horticulture, dairy and mixed farming (arable and livestock) enterprises wh…
Farm transformation in the context of climate change: Beyond the incremental-transformational divide
Revisiting the concept of ‘decent work’ for agriculture
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry
There is growing policy and research interest in the quality or attractiveness of farm jobs, driven by both the deepening problem of agricultural workforce shortages worldwide, and by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of achieving “decent work for all” by 2030. Our contribution to this work is a case study of fifty-seven waged workers' experiences of their jobs in the orchard industry in the Australian state of Victoria. Our quantit…
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for 'responsible' digital agri-food innovation
This editorial introduces a special issue (SI) concerning quests for responsible digital agri-food innovation. We present our interpretations of the concepts of responsible innovation and digital agri-food innovation and show why they can and have been productively interrelated with social science theories and methods. First, each of the articles in this SI is briefly introduced and synthesised around three themes: (1) the need for a critique of …
Shaking it up: The realities of ‘doing’ co-innovation in a privatised agricultural advisory and extension system
Factors associated with farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors in a privatized agricultural extension system
The privatization of agricultural advisory and extension services in many countries and the associated pluralism of service providers has renewed interest in farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors. Understanding farmers’ use of advisory services is important, given the role such services are expected to play in helping farmers address critical environmental and sustainability challenges. This paper aims to identify factors associated with farme…
Navigating shades of social capital and trust to leverage opportunities for rural innovation
How private-sector farm advisors change their practices: An Australian case study
There is increasing interest in the extent to which private-sector farm advisors support farmer responses to emerging challenges, such as climate variability or new forms of agricultural production. However, scholars have paid limited attention to what motivates farm advisors to develop their knowledge and how they go about changing their practice in areas outside their disciplinary expertise. This paper presents a qualitative study of the proces…
Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: A case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment
Ayre, M. L., and R. A. Nettle. 2017. Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: a case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment. Ecology and Society 22(3):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09256-220301
Dynamics and distribution of public and private research and extension roles for technological innovation and diffusion: Case studies of the implementation and adaptation of precision farming technolo…
Community sustainability and agricultural landscape change: Insights into the durability and vulnerability of the productivist regime
Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process
The promise of integrated research for addressing complex problems of sustainability such as catchment management has been widely recognised. However, the mechanisms for achieving integration in research have been the subject of few empirical studies. A major challenge of doing integrated research is how to combine and effectively manage diverse disciplinary perspectives and other knowledge/s in the generation of new knowledge for practice and po…
Achievements and challenges of innovation co-production support initiatives in the Australian and Dutch dairy sectors: A comparative study
Farms and Learning Partnerships in Farming Systems Projects: A Response to the Challenges of Complexity in Agricultural Innovation
Managing the competing interests of productivity growth, environmental concerns, landscape change and societal expectations presents challenges for agricultural industries. Innovation projects supporting knowledge development to address these challenges often involve partnerships with commercial farms, a methodology which promises much but has inherent challenges as well. This paper will examine the requirements of learning partnerships between f…
Dynamics and distribution of public and private research and extension roles for technological innovation and diffusion: Case studies of the implementation and adaptation of precision farming technolo…
How private-sector farm advisors change their practices: An Australian case study
There is increasing interest in the extent to which private-sector farm advisors support farmer responses to emerging challenges, such as climate variability or new forms of agricultural production. However, scholars have paid limited attention to what motivates farm advisors to develop their knowledge and how they go about changing their practice in areas outside their disciplinary expertise. This paper presents a qualitative study of the proces…
Navigating shades of social capital and trust to leverage opportunities for rural innovation
Achievements and challenges of innovation co-production support initiatives in the Australian and Dutch dairy sectors: A comparative study
Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process
The promise of integrated research for addressing complex problems of sustainability such as catchment management has been widely recognised. However, the mechanisms for achieving integration in research have been the subject of few empirical studies. A major challenge of doing integrated research is how to combine and effectively manage diverse disciplinary perspectives and other knowledge/s in the generation of new knowledge for practice and po…
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for 'responsible' digital agri-food innovation
This editorial introduces a special issue (SI) concerning quests for responsible digital agri-food innovation. We present our interpretations of the concepts of responsible innovation and digital agri-food innovation and show why they can and have been productively interrelated with social science theories and methods. First, each of the articles in this SI is briefly introduced and synthesised around three themes: (1) the need for a critique of …
Farm transformation in the context of climate change: Beyond the incremental-transformational divide
Shaking it up: The realities of ‘doing’ co-innovation in a privatised agricultural advisory and extension system
Community sustainability and agricultural landscape change: Insights into the durability and vulnerability of the productivist regime
Farms and Learning Partnerships in Farming Systems Projects: A Response to the Challenges of Complexity in Agricultural Innovation
Managing the competing interests of productivity growth, environmental concerns, landscape change and societal expectations presents challenges for agricultural industries. Innovation projects supporting knowledge development to address these challenges often involve partnerships with commercial farms, a methodology which promises much but has inherent challenges as well. This paper will examine the requirements of learning partnerships between f…
Revisiting the concept of ‘decent work’ for agriculture
Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: A case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment
Ayre, M. L., and R. A. Nettle. 2017. Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: a case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment. Ecology and Society 22(3):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09256-220301
Farms and Learning Partnerships in Farming Systems Projects: A Response to the Challenges of Complexity in Agricultural Innovation
Managing the competing interests of productivity growth, environmental concerns, landscape change and societal expectations presents challenges for agricultural industries. Innovation projects supporting knowledge development to address these challenges often involve partnerships with commercial farms, a methodology which promises much but has inherent challenges as well. This paper will examine the requirements of learning partnerships between f…
Achievements and challenges of innovation co-production support initiatives in the Australian and Dutch dairy sectors: A comparative study
Community sustainability and agricultural landscape change: Insights into the durability and vulnerability of the productivist regime
Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process
The promise of integrated research for addressing complex problems of sustainability such as catchment management has been widely recognised. However, the mechanisms for achieving integration in research have been the subject of few empirical studies. A major challenge of doing integrated research is how to combine and effectively manage diverse disciplinary perspectives and other knowledge/s in the generation of new knowledge for practice and po…
Dynamics and distribution of public and private research and extension roles for technological innovation and diffusion: Case studies of the implementation and adaptation of precision farming technolo…
How private-sector farm advisors change their practices: An Australian case study
There is increasing interest in the extent to which private-sector farm advisors support farmer responses to emerging challenges, such as climate variability or new forms of agricultural production. However, scholars have paid limited attention to what motivates farm advisors to develop their knowledge and how they go about changing their practice in areas outside their disciplinary expertise. This paper presents a qualitative study of the proces…
Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: A case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment
Ayre, M. L., and R. A. Nettle. 2017. Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: a case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment. Ecology and Society 22(3):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09256-220301
Navigating shades of social capital and trust to leverage opportunities for rural innovation
Shaking it up: The realities of ‘doing’ co-innovation in a privatised agricultural advisory and extension system
Factors associated with farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors in a privatized agricultural extension system
The privatization of agricultural advisory and extension services in many countries and the associated pluralism of service providers has renewed interest in farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors. Understanding farmers’ use of advisory services is important, given the role such services are expected to play in helping farmers address critical environmental and sustainability challenges. This paper aims to identify factors associated with farme…
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for 'responsible' digital agri-food innovation
This editorial introduces a special issue (SI) concerning quests for responsible digital agri-food innovation. We present our interpretations of the concepts of responsible innovation and digital agri-food innovation and show why they can and have been productively interrelated with social science theories and methods. First, each of the articles in this SI is briefly introduced and synthesised around three themes: (1) the need for a critique of …
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry
There is growing policy and research interest in the quality or attractiveness of farm jobs, driven by both the deepening problem of agricultural workforce shortages worldwide, and by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of achieving “decent work for all” by 2030. Our contribution to this work is a case study of fifty-seven waged workers' experiences of their jobs in the orchard industry in the Australian state of Victoria. Our quantit…
Smart farming technologies and changes to farm work: New insights into on-farm experiences
The intersect between technologies and the future of work is a key topic for both practitioner and scholarly communities. In this paper, we explore this intersect within agriculture by examining the changes to work for farmers implementing smart farming technologies (SFTs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia. We interviewed 17 farmers across the UK and Australia from horticulture, dairy and mixed farming (arable and livestock) enterprises wh…
Farm transformation in the context of climate change: Beyond the incremental-transformational divide
Revisiting the concept of ‘decent work’ for agriculture
Building agricultural advisors’ capability within agricultural innovation systems: A systematic review of capability development for practice
Tracing young people's entry and retention in the Australian agriculture sector: A longitudinal analysis of rural employment pathways
The migration of rural youth to urban areas for employment opportunities has been a central scholarship focus on young people in rural and regional contexts. While leaving has often been characterised as a normative transition toward achieving socially accepted visions of adulthood, recent contributions to the rural mobilities literature challenge the assumption that leaving equates to success. These works call for renewed attention to the lived …
Business (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Rural development and sustainability (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works)