Contact us

Professor Ruth Nettle

RSHA Independent Chair

ranettle@unimelb.edu.au

Ruth leads the Rural Innovation Research Group at the University of Melbourne, with a prime research focus on better understanding the conditions and needs of the agricultural workforce in Australia and internationally.

Her research has explored changes in the social organization of farms and farm workforces, farm system resilience, farm employment relations influencing the attraction and retention of employees, rural workforce planning and action and agricultural extension design and policy. Safety threads through each of these areas and Ruth brings this ‘big picture’ to the thinking in RSHA.

Pauline Brightling

RSHA Secretariat

pauline@harrisparkgroup.com.au

Pauline is from the Harris Park Group and provides the secretariat for the RSHA. She has worked as an academic, business manager and adviser in the agricultural sector for over 30 years, and has extensive experience in program design, delivery and governance.

Please feel free to contact her (ph 0419 336 211) to chew the fat on issues and opportunities around WHS R&D in the agricultural sector.