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Dr Lorrae van Kerkhoff B Ec (ANU) BSc (Hons) (ANU) Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 5616 F: +61 2 6125 0740

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Dr Lorrae van Kerkhoff wins ANU pilot funding

Lorrae van Kerkhoff and Associate Professor Paul Kelly have been awarded an ANU Vice Chancellor's Linkage Project Pilot Project grant. This grant is to start up a new research program in Knowledge governance , where they will work with colleagues from the University of New South Wales and researchers in Timor Leste to investigate how global institutions affect the use and application of local expertise. See the 1 page summary of the pilot project here.

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Research Interests

• Knowledge governance : the effects of formal and informal rules and norms on the creation, sharing, and application of different forms of knowledge
• The role of research in informing policy , particularly in low-income countries and fragile states
• Interactions between knowledge and power in the relationships between rich and poor countries
• Institutional arrangements that foster better integration between research and policy and practice, in public health and sustainable development
• Transdisciplinary and qualitative research methods

   

Selected Recent Publications

Pohl C, van Kerkhoff L, Hirsch Hadorn G , Bammer G. Integration. In G Hirsch Hadorn, Hoffmann-Riem H, Biber-Klemm S, Grossenbacher-Mansuy W, Joye D, Pohl C, Wiesmann U, Elisabeth Zemp (Eds). Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research. Zurich . Springer. 2008: 411-426.

van Kerkhoff L, Courville S, Bammer G, Cork S, Dumaresq D, Ellis C. Mutual dependence, mutual strength: trust, social learning and collaboration. In S. Ritchie (Ed.) Research Collaboration: Relationships and Praxis. Rotterdam . Sense Publishers. 2007: 203-224.

Kueffer C, Hirsch Hadorn G, Bammer G, van Kerkhoff L,Pohl C. Towards a publication culture in transdisciplinary research. GAIA 2007;16(1): 22–26

van Kerkhoff L, Lebel L. Linking knowledge and action for sustainable development . Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 2006; 31:12.1-12.33

van Kerkhoff L, Szlezák, N. Linking local knowledge with global action: examining The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria through a knowledge system lens. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2006; 84(8):629-635

van Kerkhoff L. Integrated research: concepts of connection in environmental science and policy, Environmental Science and Policy
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van Kerkhoff L. Integrated research: Concepts of connection in environmental science and policy. Environmental Science & Policy, 2005; 8(5), 439-463

van Kerkhoff L. Strategic integration: The practical politics of integrated research in context. Journal of Research Practice, 2005, 1(2), Article M5. [Available at http://jrp.icaap.org/content/v1.2/kerkhoff.html]

Kjellstrom T, van Kerkhoff L, Bammer G, McMichael A. Assessing health impacts of road transport policies - a comparison between Health Impact Assessment and Comparative Risk Assessment. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003; 81: 451-459.

van Kerkhoff L. 'Making a difference': science, action, and integrated environmental research. Unpublished thesis, Australian National University, October 2002.

van Kerkhoff L. Beyond disciplines: exploring exploratory research as a framework for integration. In: Dovers S, Young M and Stern D. (eds), New dimensions in ecological economics: integrated approaches to people and nature. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. 2003.

van Kerkhoff L. Relating paradigms: what do transdisciplinary researchers need to know about interdisciplinary science? International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology 2001; 2 (1): 145-154.