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Dr David Curtis

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Dr Curtis has over 20 years of practical and theoretical experience of conservation on farms and in urban areas in Australia, He spent the 1980s researching rural dieback and eucalypt re-establishment through natural regeneration, direct seeding and planting on the Northern Tablelands of NSW as well as forming and coordinating the Armidale Tree Group. In the 1990s he acted as Regional Manager for Greening Australia in Northwest NSW with whom he built up a team of 10-30 staff who worked on projects in community education and extension, training, revegetation, farm forestry, conservation on farms, rural dieback, property planning, and research and development. From 2000 to 2002 he worked as Program Manager of the Bush for Greenhouse Program for the national office of Greening Australia in Canberra. While working at the Institute for Rural Futures, he completed his PhD 'Creating Inspiration – How Visual and Performing Arts Shape Environmental Behaviour' in 2008.