Jim Curtis

Biography

Jim has held research positions at the Monash Tourism Research Unit and Parks Victoria. His research focuses on gaining an intimate, theoretical, and applied understanding of the influences impacting on the behaviour of a range of target audiences. These audiences have included building facilities managers, farmers, landfill and waste operators, park visitors, government employees, low-income households, environment protection officers, businesses (small and large), schools, and local councils. Jim has also acquired an intimate understanding of how the public sector interacts with research, working with multiple government partners in Victoria and New South Wales. He has witnessed and experienced first-hand the different ways that research can be applied to inform program design and policy shifts.