Research Futures // Lee Baumgartner

Research Futures is a series of video interviews with Charles Sturt’s Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and senior academics by Virginia Haussegger AM, an award-winning television journalist, writer and commentator. Research is, and will always be, vital to Charles Sturt’s social purpose - to generate world-class applied research to help foster prosperous communities across New South Wales.
Charles Sturt aims to be the leading regional university known for solving real-world problems and enhancing the quality of life of regional Australians.
This extract is taken from Professor Lee Baumgartner’s interview with Virginia, where he discusses the need to embrace Gulbali values and understand country, his big research ideas, the challenges facing Australian freshwater river systems, and the important research program he is leading to address these challenges.
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