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Papers by Emily Gray
There has been much debate in the literature on the extent and nature of Thatcher's influence on ... more There has been much debate in the literature on the extent and nature of Thatcher's influence on British society. In particular, research has examined 'Thatcher's Children'.
This paper uses time-series data to examine the relationship between public research and developm... more This paper uses time-series data to examine the relationship between public research and development (R&D) and extension investment and productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture. The results show that public R&D investment has significantly promoted productivity growth in Australia’s broadacre sector over the past five decades (1953 to 2007). Moreover, the relative contributions of domestic and foreign R&D have been roughly equal, accounting for an estimated 0.6 per cent and 0.63 per cent of annual total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the broadacre sector, respectively. The elasticity of TFP to knowledge stocks of research (both domestic and foreign) and extension were estimated to be around 0.20–0.24 and 0.07–0.15, respectively. The ranges reflect the alternative distributions of benefits flowing from knowledge stocks that were assumed in the analysis. The elasticities translated into internal rates of return (IRRs) of around 15.4–38.2 per cent and 32.6–57.1 per ...
Why do countries� greenhouse gas (GHG) intensities differ? How much of a country�s GHG intensity ... more Why do countries� greenhouse gas (GHG) intensities differ? How much of a country�s GHG intensity is set by inflexible national circumstances, and how much may be altered by policy? These questions are common in climate change policy discourse and may influence emission reduction allocations. Despite the policy relevance of the discussion, little quantitative analysis has been done. In this paper we address these questions in the context of the G7 by applying a pair of simple quantitative methodologies: decomposition analysis and allocation of fossil fuel production emissions to end-users instead of producers. According to our analysis and available data, climate and geographic size � both inflexible national characteristics � can have a significant effect on a country�s GHG intensity. A country�s methods for producing electricity and net trade in fossil fuels are also significant, while industrial structure has little effect at the available level of data disaggregation.
• Gray, E.M., Oss-Emer, M. & Davidson, A. (2013), ‘Looking beyond the farm gate: Closer vertical ... more • Gray, E.M., Oss-Emer, M. & Davidson, A. (2013), ‘Looking beyond the farm gate: Closer vertical coordination along value chains as a means of improving farm performance’, ABARES Science and Economic Insights report, Canberra, April.
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies acr... more Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies across a range of sites. This article begins by considering two pedagogical scenes that attempt to address food. They were enacted within educational settings in Australia; one a Year 8 (13 years of age) health education classroom, the other a professional learning seminar. Each were heavily imbued with the obesity prevention imperatives that have come to characterise social, political and educational discourse around food in contemporary times. Using these scenes as a springboard, we move to consider the place where we initially envisioned food might intersect with environmental education. We imagined that it would be a space with significant potential for approaching teaching and learning about food in new ways. Deploying menu as metaphor, the authors explore the possibilities for this new terrain and argue that bringing a Foucauldian inspired ‘ethics of discomfort’ to the table might help us take stock of contemporary approaches and their effects. Given the dominance of crisis-driven responses that tend to characterise school food education, we conclude by suggesting that we need to interrupt the dominant discourses that circulate around food and try to engage with some new possibilities for teaching and learning about food.
Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Neighborhood disorder refers to those cues in the environment that signal to observers first a we... more Neighborhood disorder refers to those cues in the environment that signal to observers first a weak social order, second the erosion of shared commitments to dominant norms and values, and third the failure of authorities to regulate behaviour in public space. Our study links public sensitivity to disorderly cues -i.e. differential tolerance to environmental aspects like graffiti and young people hanging around in public space -to fear of crime, concerns about collective efficacy, and anxieties about long-term social change. We propose a reciprocal process in which perceived disorder shapes fear of crime and fear of crime heightens public sensitivity to disorderly cues. We conclude with the idea that 'seeing' disorder and 'fearing' crime exacerbate public concerns about social norms and moral breakdown.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Continuum, 2014
ABSTRACT This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular c... more ABSTRACT This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular culture within the teacher education classroom. This article locates such pedagogical practice as existing in opposition to dominant neoliberal discourses around the marketization of higher education as well as queerness in mainstream popular culture, and the expectation of students that all education coursework should be ‘relevant’ to mainstream marketplace classrooms. In response to previous research and our own empirical evidence that highlights the ways in which students’ (and teacher education courses’) conception of ‘relevance’ is not critically theorized in either pedagogical or curricular ways, this paper problematizes such notions of ‘relevance’ within a changing ecology of teacher education classrooms. Here we argue that the hopes for challenging normativity within teacher education spaces can be at odds with the possibilities that popular culture devices offer, as they are inevitably shaped, informed and foreclosed by governmental policy and social expectations. Such neoliberal influences do not necessarily align well with the high hopes held by critical educators for the use of popular culture as a tool for challenging notions of ‘difference’ within the teacher education classroom.
Objectives: To examine policymakers and providers' views on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and t... more Objectives: To examine policymakers and providers' views on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and their willingness to support its introduction, to inform policy and practice in this emerging field.
and Awards! These students were chosen from a field of very qualified applicants. The Educational... more and Awards! These students were chosen from a field of very qualified applicants. The Educational Foundation wishes them well in their future studies and endeavors. You can read more about the recipients and the awards at www.pmi.org/pmief.
British Journal of Criminology, 2010
Word count: 9,987 (including title, abstract, keywords, references and footnotes)
There has been much debate in the literature on the extent and nature of Thatcher's influence on ... more There has been much debate in the literature on the extent and nature of Thatcher's influence on British society. In particular, research has examined 'Thatcher's Children'.
This paper uses time-series data to examine the relationship between public research and developm... more This paper uses time-series data to examine the relationship between public research and development (R&D) and extension investment and productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture. The results show that public R&D investment has significantly promoted productivity growth in Australia’s broadacre sector over the past five decades (1953 to 2007). Moreover, the relative contributions of domestic and foreign R&D have been roughly equal, accounting for an estimated 0.6 per cent and 0.63 per cent of annual total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the broadacre sector, respectively. The elasticity of TFP to knowledge stocks of research (both domestic and foreign) and extension were estimated to be around 0.20–0.24 and 0.07–0.15, respectively. The ranges reflect the alternative distributions of benefits flowing from knowledge stocks that were assumed in the analysis. The elasticities translated into internal rates of return (IRRs) of around 15.4–38.2 per cent and 32.6–57.1 per ...
Why do countries� greenhouse gas (GHG) intensities differ? How much of a country�s GHG intensity ... more Why do countries� greenhouse gas (GHG) intensities differ? How much of a country�s GHG intensity is set by inflexible national circumstances, and how much may be altered by policy? These questions are common in climate change policy discourse and may influence emission reduction allocations. Despite the policy relevance of the discussion, little quantitative analysis has been done. In this paper we address these questions in the context of the G7 by applying a pair of simple quantitative methodologies: decomposition analysis and allocation of fossil fuel production emissions to end-users instead of producers. According to our analysis and available data, climate and geographic size � both inflexible national characteristics � can have a significant effect on a country�s GHG intensity. A country�s methods for producing electricity and net trade in fossil fuels are also significant, while industrial structure has little effect at the available level of data disaggregation.
• Gray, E.M., Oss-Emer, M. & Davidson, A. (2013), ‘Looking beyond the farm gate: Closer vertical ... more • Gray, E.M., Oss-Emer, M. & Davidson, A. (2013), ‘Looking beyond the farm gate: Closer vertical coordination along value chains as a means of improving farm performance’, ABARES Science and Economic Insights report, Canberra, April.
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies acr... more Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies across a range of sites. This article begins by considering two pedagogical scenes that attempt to address food. They were enacted within educational settings in Australia; one a Year 8 (13 years of age) health education classroom, the other a professional learning seminar. Each were heavily imbued with the obesity prevention imperatives that have come to characterise social, political and educational discourse around food in contemporary times. Using these scenes as a springboard, we move to consider the place where we initially envisioned food might intersect with environmental education. We imagined that it would be a space with significant potential for approaching teaching and learning about food in new ways. Deploying menu as metaphor, the authors explore the possibilities for this new terrain and argue that bringing a Foucauldian inspired ‘ethics of discomfort’ to the table might help us take stock of contemporary approaches and their effects. Given the dominance of crisis-driven responses that tend to characterise school food education, we conclude by suggesting that we need to interrupt the dominant discourses that circulate around food and try to engage with some new possibilities for teaching and learning about food.
Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Neighborhood disorder refers to those cues in the environment that signal to observers first a we... more Neighborhood disorder refers to those cues in the environment that signal to observers first a weak social order, second the erosion of shared commitments to dominant norms and values, and third the failure of authorities to regulate behaviour in public space. Our study links public sensitivity to disorderly cues -i.e. differential tolerance to environmental aspects like graffiti and young people hanging around in public space -to fear of crime, concerns about collective efficacy, and anxieties about long-term social change. We propose a reciprocal process in which perceived disorder shapes fear of crime and fear of crime heightens public sensitivity to disorderly cues. We conclude with the idea that 'seeing' disorder and 'fearing' crime exacerbate public concerns about social norms and moral breakdown.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Continuum, 2014
ABSTRACT This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular c... more ABSTRACT This paper troubles the im/possibilities of exploring difference through queer popular culture within the teacher education classroom. This article locates such pedagogical practice as existing in opposition to dominant neoliberal discourses around the marketization of higher education as well as queerness in mainstream popular culture, and the expectation of students that all education coursework should be ‘relevant’ to mainstream marketplace classrooms. In response to previous research and our own empirical evidence that highlights the ways in which students’ (and teacher education courses’) conception of ‘relevance’ is not critically theorized in either pedagogical or curricular ways, this paper problematizes such notions of ‘relevance’ within a changing ecology of teacher education classrooms. Here we argue that the hopes for challenging normativity within teacher education spaces can be at odds with the possibilities that popular culture devices offer, as they are inevitably shaped, informed and foreclosed by governmental policy and social expectations. Such neoliberal influences do not necessarily align well with the high hopes held by critical educators for the use of popular culture as a tool for challenging notions of ‘difference’ within the teacher education classroom.
Objectives: To examine policymakers and providers' views on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and t... more Objectives: To examine policymakers and providers' views on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and their willingness to support its introduction, to inform policy and practice in this emerging field.
and Awards! These students were chosen from a field of very qualified applicants. The Educational... more and Awards! These students were chosen from a field of very qualified applicants. The Educational Foundation wishes them well in their future studies and endeavors. You can read more about the recipients and the awards at www.pmi.org/pmief.
British Journal of Criminology, 2010
Word count: 9,987 (including title, abstract, keywords, references and footnotes)