Rodney Hawksworth

CV

Professional Highlights:

Published work

  • Lost History - Short historical sketches of Central Victoria - 2002 - 2004 - Lost Publishing

  • Crime & Investigation - Evocative ramblings and short factual biographies - 2018-2020 - Foxtel

  • History Channel - Short essays and historical profiles - 2018-2020 - Foxtel

Written work

  • A History of every thing - Treatment for television interstitial

  • Crime & Investigation - Evocative ramblings and short factual biographies - 2018-2020 - Foxtel

  • History Channel - Short essays and historical profiles - 2018-2020 - Foxtel

Project Work:

Site-based Municipal Scale Projects:

  • Development of a Friends of Group and volunteer worker program at Maroondah Reservoir, Healesville, Victoria, 2016

  • Establishment of Koala fodder plantations with Landlinks Environmental Services and Zoos Victoria in Healesville, Victoria, 2013.

  • Silvicultural, Biodiversity and Habitat Hectare assessments of forest areas with Department of Sustainability and Environment following Black Saturday Fires in the Yarra Ranges, Victoria, 2010

  • Biodiversity and Habitat Hectare assessments of forest areas with Department of Sustainability and Environment following cessation commercial logging in the Wombat State Forest, Victoria, 2006

  • Great Divide Fire 2006 – 2007 Bushfire Recovery Program (Native Forest Silviculture) with Department of Sustainability and Environment, Mansfield Victoria

Site-based Collaborative Projects:

Consulting Gardener / Advisor to These Are The Projects We Do Together

  • Testing Grounds Phase 1 (2013-2016), Arts Victoria

  • Testing Grounds Phase 2 (2016-2019), Creative Victoria

  • The Projects Quarry (2016+), self initiated

  • Embedded creative spaces, Lynall Hall Community School (2019+)

  • Developing environmental management and site safety plans for The Projects (Ongoing)

Employment History

  • Foxtel Australia —Writer / Digital Content Producer 2017 – Ongoing

  • These Are The Projects We Do Together - Consulting Gardener / Advisor 2013 - Ongoing

  • Conservation Volunteers Australia - Team Supervisor and Trainer 2015 -2016

  • Landlinks Environmental Services - Leading Hand / Field Crew 2013 -2015

  • Department of Sustainability and Environment 2006 -2012

  • Lonely Planet Publications / BBC World -Digital Content Producer 2008 – 2010

  • Lost Publishing -Writer/Researcher 2002 – 2004

Academic History

  • 2021 Certificate IV Workplace Health and Safety Pinnacle Safety

  • 2009 – 2010 Certificate IV Workplace Training & Assessment MWT

  • 2005 – 2006 Diploma Conservation & Land Management University of Ballarat

  • 1990 – 1992. Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) Deakin University

  • 1989 HSC / VCE Daylesford Technical High School 

Licences and Accreditation

  • Full Victorian Driver’s Licence Heavy Vehicle (MR)

  • Senior First Aid - Level 2

  • Construction Industry OH&S White Card

  • General Fire Fighter

  • Agricultural Chemical User Permit

  • Defensive Driving

  • Operate 4x4 vehicle in off-road conditions

  • Perform water crossing and recovery of 4x4 vehicles

  • Trim and crosscut felled trees (non-commercial/non-production)

  • Work safely at heights