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About Roger Wilkinson
Roger Wilkinson is Senior Social Researcher with the Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo, Victoria. He has been researching rural social issues in Australia and New Zealand since 1989, and has written or co-authored more than 70 journal articles, book chapters and research reports.
Before joining DPI, Roger worked as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a social scientist at Landcare Research New Zealand. Roger’s research has involved rural social change, adoption of new technology, social aspects of resource management, perceptions of risk, and social impact assessment. With qualifications in agricultural science, rural sociology, philosophy and engineering, along with a farm of his own and a lifelong interest in agricultural machinery, Roger is equally adept with a gas axe in the workshop and a statistics package in the office.
View symposium presentation: The Many Meanings of Adoption
Abstract
Adoption is much more complex than a brief assessment might suggest, so complex that it is almost misleading as a term. Adoption may occur gradually, partially, even in a stepwise manner. It can be hard to distinguish between trialing and partial or gradual adoption. A technology may be adopted in niche fashion or integrated into the farming system. For some technologies, adoption decisions vary from paddock to paddock and year to year. Disadoption may occur. Roger will examine all these issues and more in his presentation.
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