Project Impact
Webinar Updates
Two introductory webinars were held in December 2020 to engage RACE Gippsland partners, sponsors and future participant schools. The sessions discussed how the RACE Gippsland team would deliver the program focused on building student capacity in STEM, digital technologies, agribusiness, manufacturing and food and fibre concepts. During National Science Week, the team also hosted a series of virtual events connecting students with industry professionals across dairy, meat and horticulture careers. Click below to watch.
Overview of RACE – Gippsland Project
CQUniversity researchers Dr Amy Cosby and Dr Nicole McDonald give an overview of the RACE – Gippsland project.
National Science Week
Virtual Meet the Meat
Dairy Careers Panel
Horticulture Careers Panel
Publications
The RACE Gippsland program has contributed to a growing body of peer reviewed research exploring how agricultural industry school partnerships can build student engagement, career aspirations and connections between schools and the food and fibre sector. The publications below represent the research outputs from the program team at CQUniversity Australia.
O'Dea, M. R., Cosby, A., Manning, J., McDonald, N., & Harreveld, R. (2026). Who are the educators participating in agricultural industry school partnerships?. Education+ Training, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-11-2024-0530
Taylor, E., Manning, J., McDonald, N., Cosby, A., & O’Dea, M. (2026). How perception, gender, parental occupations and role models shape Gippsland secondary school students' agriculture career choices. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 36(1), 17-35.
https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.T2026032700008101219370825
O'Dea, M., Cosby, A., Manning, J., McDonald, N., & Harreveld, B. (2025). Key principles for successful agricultural industry school partnerships. International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 33(5).
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/CAL/article/view/18181
O’Dea, M., Cosby, A., Manning, J., McDonald, N., & Harreveld, B. (2024). Exploring the Ecological Structure of Agricultural Industry School Partnership Systems in the Gippsland Region, Australia. Agriculture, 14(10), 1668.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14101668
O'Dea, M., Cosby, A., Manning, J., McDonald, N., & Harreveld, B. (2024). The Nature of Agricultural Industry School Partnerships: A Case Study. International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 32(5).
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/CAL/article/view/17955
O’Dea, M., Cosby, A., Manning, J., McDonald, N., & Harreveld, B. (2024). Who, how and why? The nature of industry participants in agricultural industry school partnerships in Gippsland, Australia. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 30(4), 571-590.