A/Prof Rachel Hay

Rachel Hay

Position:

Associate Professor

Department:

College of Business Law and Governance

Topics:

  • Agriculture & environment
  • Communities in transition
  • First Nations
  • Green investment
  • Industry & business solutions
  • Nature based solutions
  • Policy & regulation
  • Technology solutions

Profile:

https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/rachel.hay/

Location:

Queensland

BIO

Rachel Hay is a Social Scientist and mid career researcher for the College of Business Law and Governance at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Rachel's PhD research focussed on "Technology Adoption by Women in Agriculture". Rachel’s research extends to trans-disciplinary approaches to sustained behaviour change in social marketing, technology adoption and environmental protection interventions. Projects around changing behaviour include the adoption of technology in rural, regional and remote areas, reducing sediment and nutrient run-off in sugar cane farming and grazing and the Digital Homestead Project.