Caroline Smith

Associate member
Currently located in Tasmania, Australia

Key skills

Teacher/trainer education – plant protection, organic agriculture, permaculture, science, sustainability, learning, curriculum development and assessment
Writing – journals; training manuals
Facilitation
Permaculture design
Organic farming
Educational research and post graduate research supervision
Secondary teaching – chemistry, biology, environmental science, general science
Conference planning and development

Consultant, training development. (Current). ACIAR Project: Building mechanisms to respond to and manage emerging pests and diseases of horticultural crops in the Pacific islands.
Consultant, training development (2015) ACIAR Project HORT/2016/185.
Developer and Facilitator, Plant Health Clinics short course, FNU, Fiji, 2024.
Review and rewrite of UNESCO Teacher Education Modules for the Pacific, 2014.
Project consultant: Skilling Tasmania for a sustainable future – Skills for the carbon challenge, Commonwealth of Australia, 2014
Trainer and developer: Lead farmers crop protection for Kastom Gaden trainers in Solomon Islands, 2011 (with G. Jackson)
Trainer and developer: Effective learning in plant protection (IPPSI project), Solomon Islands 2008, 2009 (with G. Jackson).
Co-convenor, teachers’ professional learning conference, Archdiocese of Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2006-2009.
Development and implementation of Microscience equipment trial in Solomon Islands schools, Curriculum Development Centre, Honiara, 2009.
Facilitator, various Permaculture Design Certificate and Dip Perm courses, 1998-2012.

PhD University of Melbourne: Thesis title: The Getting of Hope: Personal Empowerment through Learning Permaculture
M.Ed University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
M.Sc Mycology and Plant Pathology, Imperial College London
B.Sc (Hons) Chemistry and Botany, University of London
Graduate Diploma of Education, Physical science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Certificate IV Vocational Training & Assessment, Swinburne University of Technology
Permaculture Design Certificate, Chiltern Permaculture Services

Dawborn, K. and Smith, C. (Eds). (2011) Permaculture pioneers: Stories from the new frontier. Hepburn: Melliodora Publishing (Book).
Fong-Lomavatu M., Ravuiwasa, K., Sar, L., Geno, R., Ndrewou, A., Atu, L., Matapaza, R., Furlong, M.J., Jackson, G. & Smith, C. (2023). Plant health clinics in the Pacific region and the role of regional universities. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 52(4), 358-373.
Jackson, G., Smith, C., et al. (2010). Improving plant protection in Solomon Islands (IPPSI): Crop protection curriculum and teaching methods for Solomon Islands. Manual for Trainers and Trainees. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji.
Jackson, G., Smith, C., et al. (2014). Crop protection training manual for Kastom Gaden trainers in Solomon Islands. Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
Jackson, G., Smith, C. & Furlong, M. (2024) (Eds.) Plant health clinics: A training manual for plant health doctors in Pacific Island countries. Suva: Pacific Community.

Mua, M., Vasuidreketi, T., Jackson, G., Furlong, M. & Smith, C. Pest Identification and Diagnosis in Fiji: Dealing with ‘Unknowns’. Plant Health Cases, CABI Publishing.
Smith, C. (2005). Permaculture, organics and food security: An Australian perspective. Pacific Ecologist 10, Summer.
Smith, C. (2009). Outside Africa: Microscience in the Solomon Islands. In Compendium of innovations and good practices in Microscience. UNESCO, Abuja
Smith, C (2009). Developing quality science education in Solomon Islands: Evaluation trial of Microscience kits. Report to Caritas Australia.
Smith, C. (2006-2011). Solomon Islands Catholic Teachers’ Sodality conference, Solomon Islands. Reports to Catholic Education Offices Archdiocese of Honiara and Diocese of Sale, Victoria.
Smith, C. & Towle, N. (2024). Permaculture as a system for designing sustainable human settlements: Ahead of its time or impossible dream? In G. Ricci (Ed.). Environmental reflections on the Anthropocene. Routledge.
Smith, C., Furlong, M., Jackson, G. & Mua, M. (2021). Developing a training system for plant health clinics in the Pacific region by and for regional trainers. Rural Extension and Innovation Systems Journal 17:38-45. Australasia Pacific Extension Network