Rachel Hay

Position:

Associate Professor

Department:

College of Business Law and Governance

Areas of research & interest:

Agriculture & food
Behaviour change
Climate change
Communications
Communities & society
Economics & business
Education
Environment
First Peoples
Policy & regulation
Social issues
Sustainability
Technology & innovation

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

Email:

rachel.hay@jcu.edu.au

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.