Dr Thomas Wanner

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• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2016	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2008 - 2015	Lecturer	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2001 - 2007	Lecturer A	Flinders University

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2016	Teaching Award	Teaching Excellence Award	University of Adelaide	Australia	2,000
  2016	Teaching Award	Beacon Commendation for Excellence in Teaching	University of Adelaide	Australia	3,000

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  German	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  1998 - 2004	Flinders University, Adelaide	Australia	PhD
  1990 - 1995	University of Tasmania, Hobart	Australia	Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
  1985 - 1988	Universitaet Hohenheim	Germany	Bachelor Agricultural Science

• Certifications

  Date	Title	Institution name	Country
  2011	Graduate Certificate in Online Learning (Higher Education)	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia

• Research Interests

  Climate Change Processes

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2019	Nursey-Bray, M., Palmer, R., Meyer-Mclean, B., Wanner, T., & Birzer, C. (2019). The fear of not flying: Achieving sustainable academic plane travel in higher education based on insights from South Australia. Sustainability (Switzerland), 11(9), 22 pages. DOI Scopus13 WoS9
  2018	Wanner, T., & Palmer, E. (2018). Formative self-and peer assessment for improved student learning: the crucial factors of design, teacher participation and feedback. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(7), 1032-1047. DOI Scopus41 WoS27
  2017	Garcia, A., & Wanner, T. (2017). Gender inequality and food security: lessons from the gender-responsive work of the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Food Security, 9(5), 1091-1103. DOI Scopus9
  2017	Power, S., & Wanner, T. (2017). Improving Sanitation in the Slums of Mumbai: An Analysis of Human Rights-Based Approaches for NGOs. Asian Studies Review, 41(2), 209-226. DOI Scopus3 WoS4
  2017	Garrett, B., & Wanner, T. (2017). Aid for trade and ecologically sustainable development in Australia’s international aid program. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(6), 661-677. DOI Scopus2
  2017	Wanner, T. K. (2017). Editorial: Empowerment through teaching and learning. Ergo, 4(1), 1-3.
  2017	Wanner, T. K. (2017). Editorial: Empowerment through teaching and learning. Ergo, 4(1), 1-3.
  2015	Wanner, T., & Palmer, E. (2015). Personalising learning: exploring student and teacher perceptions about flexible learning and assessment in a flipped university course. Computers and Education, 88, 354-369. DOI Scopus167 WoS136
  2015	Wanner, T., & Wadham, B. (2015). Men and masculinities in international development: ‘men-streaming’ gender and development?. Development Policy Review, 33(1), 15-32. DOI Scopus9
  2015	Wanner, T. (2015). The new ‘passive revolution’ of the green economy and growth discourse: maintaining the ‘sustainable development’ of neoliberal capitalism. New Political Economy, 20(1), 21-41. DOI Scopus93
  2012	Wanner, T., & Rosser, A. (2012). Building neo-liberal markets and other agendas: the politics of risk management at AusAID. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 42(3), 447-463. DOI Scopus2
  2009	Wanner, T. (2009). Climate change policies in Australia: Gender equality, power and knowledge. Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology, 54, 432-438.
  2009	Wanner, T. (2009). Men-streaming food security: Gender, biodiversity and ecological sustainability. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 5, 1-9.
  2008	Wanner, T. (2008). Leaving green footprints: South Australia's strategic plan and ecological footprint. South Australian Geographical Journal, 107, 86-102.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2020	Wanner, T. K., & Wanner, S. L. (2020). The tensions between philosophies of education and critical pedagogies in neoliberal higher education: implications for learning and teaching practices.. In A. Jones, A. Olds, & J. Lisciandro (Eds.), Transitioning students into higher education - Philosophies, Pedagogies and Practice (pp. 127-136). London, United Kingdom: Abingdon, Oxon; United Kingdom.
  2015	Bonham, J., Bacchi, C., & Wanner, T. (2015). Gender and cycling: Gendering cycling subjects and forming bikes, practices and spaces as gendered objects. In J. Bonham, & M. Johnson (Eds.), Cycling Futures (pp. 179-201). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
  2014	Ferguson, L., Elias, J., & Wanner, T. (2014). Gender and development. In H. Weber (Ed.), The politics of development: a survey (1 ed., pp. 69-87). New York: Routledge. DOI
  2014	Wanner, T. K., & Rosser, A. (2014). Building Neo-liberal Markets and Other Agendas: The Politics of Risk Management at AusAID. In T. Carroll, & D. S. L. Jarvis (Eds.), The Politics of Marketising Asia (1st ed., pp. 145-161). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  2007	Wanner, T. (2007). The Bank's Greenspeak and Sustainable Development. In David Moore (Ed.), The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony (pp. 145-170). South Africa: University of Kwazulu Natal Press.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2016	Wanner, T., & Palmer, E. (2016). From flipped to flopped to flexible classrooms in higher education? – Critical reflections from Australia. In ASCILITE 2016 - Conference Proceedings - 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: Show Me the Learning (pp. 605-610). Scopus1

I am the convenor of the Coffey International Development internship and Scholarship and international study tours related to international development:

DEVT 2010/3010EX Coffey International Development Internship

DEVT  2011/3011EX International Development Study Tour

Other courses taught at undergraduate level:

DEVT 1001 Introduction to International Development

DEVT 2004 Environment and Development (advanced level)

DEVT 2004EX Environment and Development (Online course)

DEVT 3007 Climate Change and Sustainable Development (advanced)

DEVT 3004EX Vietnam Study Tour: International Development in Practice

DEVT 3008 International Development Research Project (capstone)

DEVT 4006 Theories and Contested Concepts in International Development (Honours level)

Previously taught courses:

2010-2018:  Geographies of Globalisation (1^st year)

2010-2019:   Governance & Sustainable Development (advanced)

2008-2018:   People & the Environment in the Asia-Pacific region (Master)

2008-2012:   Environmental Impact Assessment

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• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2021	Principal Supervisor	Wilderness in the West: The rise or fall of a global movement?	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Danielle Betony Ryan
  2021	Principal Supervisor	Human-rights based approaches to education	Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Aaron James Owen
  2018	Principal Supervisor	Post-Disaster Recovery: Nepali Women's Roles in Resilience and Capacity-Building	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Natasha Jane Mackintosh
  2018	Principal Supervisor	Sport for Development and Peace	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Steven John Evanson
  2018	Co-Supervisor	Climate Finance in Wetland Areas of Bangladesh: Mechanisms, Impacts and Effectiveness	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Syed Mohammad Aminur Rahman

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2019 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	State Power and Environmental NGOs in South Australia: Moving Towards a Sustainable Society?	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mrs Meagan Rosaghna Magnusson
  2016 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Exploring the Nexus Between Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Regulatory Oversight in Ghana's Upstream Petroleum Industry	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Derrick Martin Adjei Sowa
  2016 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Mining, Power and Sustainable Development: Micro-Politics of Benefits Sharing in Ghana	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Jerome Jeffison Yaw Ofori
  2016 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Democratic Decentralisation and Good Governance: The Political Economy of Procurement Reform in Decentralised Indonesia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Mochamad Mustafa
  2016 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Grassroots Social Resistance Movements: The Influence of Conflict Narratives in Relation to Mining Policy Development in Australia and the United Kingdom	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Bridie Meyer-McLean
  2015 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Smallholder Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation in the Context of Multiple Factors in the Tigray region of Ethiopia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Rahwa Gebremedhine Kidane
  2015 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Sustaining Off-Reserve Forests in Ghana: A Game-Theoretic Approach	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Emmanuel Otutei

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• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2011 - ongoing	Member	Association for Learning Technology (ALT)	United Kingdom
  2010 - ongoing	Member	Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)	Australia
  2009 - ongoing	Member	Higher Education Research Group Adelaide HERGA	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2020 - 2021	Associate Editor	Sustainability	MDPI Open Access Journal	Switzerland
  2016 - 2017	Editor	Ergo	University of Adelaide	Australia

• Position: Senior Lecturer
• Phone: 83133084
• Email: thomas.wanner@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 8313 3772
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 1
• Room: 1 36
• Org Unit: Anthropology and Development Studies