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Dr Helen Scarborough

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Position

Casual Sessional Academic

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Business School

Campus

Warrnambool Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University, 2008
Master of Economics, Deakin University, 1997
Bachelor of Economics, University of Adelaide, 1980

Biography

Helen Scarborough is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. Helen has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, a Master of Economics from Deakin University and a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU).

Her research interests include environmental economics and economics education. She has published in journals such as Ecological Economics and The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and is also the co-author of a book on the incorporation of distributional preference in environmental policy. 

Helen was a member of the working party that developed the National Economics Learning Standards and was also a member of a team which received an Office for Learning and Teaching grant to develop shared assessment items for embedding the national economic learning standards in curriculum. She is based at the Warrnambool campus.

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Research interests

  • Environmental Economic
  • Non-Market Valuation
  • Economics Education

Affiliations

  • Member, Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES).
  • Member, Business and Professional Women Australia, South West Branch.
  • Member, Economic Society of Australia.
  • Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Board Member, Wannon Water.

Units taught

  • MAE101 - Economic Principles
  • MAE203 - The Global Economy
  • MAE201 - Competition and Industry

Publications

No publications found

Funded Projects at Deakin

Australian Competitive Grants

Addressing institutional and social barriers to science impact in Coastal Zone Management (CSIRO Flagship Cluster)

A/Prof Kevin O'Toole, A/Prof Geoffrey Wescott, Dr Anne Wallis, A/Prof Kelly Miller, Prof Monica Keneley, Dr Helen Scarborough, Prof Gerry Quinn, Dr Anna Macgarvey

CSIRONRF Grant - Wealth from Oceans - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

  • 2013: $22,984
  • 2012: $136,605
  • 2011: $68,647
  • 2010: $101,948

Desalination within supply networks and life cycles in Australia: exploring and communicating the bigger picture

Prof Michael Porter, Prof Paul Carter, Dr Helen Scarborough, Prof Andrew Parratt

DEWHA - National Centre of Excellence in Desalination - Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

  • 2014: $102,587
  • 2013: $115,133
  • 2012: $50,000

Other Public Sector Funding

Warrnambool-Corangamite Land Suitability Decision Framework

A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Dr Anne Wallis, A/Prof Kevin O'Toole, Dr Helen Scarborough, Prof Frank Stagnitti, Prof Vincent Versace

WCC Grant - Research - Warrnambool City Council

  • 2013: $14,698
  • 2012: $43,636
  • 2011: $86,363
  • 2009: $70,000

Realising Regional Potential Through Understanding the Value Created by a Regional Water Corporation

Prof Monica Keneley, Dr Helen Scarborough, Dr Scott Salzman

WW Grant - Research - Wannon Region Water Corporation (Wannon Water)

  • 2020: $140
  • 2019: $109
  • 2018: $13,710
  • 2017: $5,000

Giant Spider Crab ecological and socio-economic assessment in the marine water of Port Phillip Bay.

A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Dr Paul Carnell, Dr Justin Rizzari, Prof John Arnould, Dr Helen Scarborough, Prof Peter Macreadie, Dr Mary Young, Dr Sasha Whitmarsh

Department of Environment Land Water and Planning

  • 2023: $61,000
  • 2022: $447,467

Supervisions

Principal Supervisor
2016

Terence Clarke

Thesis entitled: The efficacy of offering monetary bonuses to thoroughbred horse breeders

Doctor of Business Administration, Department of Management

Associate Supervisor
2020

Taylor Leigh Hunt

Thesis entitled: Fish Stocking in Australia - Social and Economic Considerations

Doctor of Philosophy (Life & Env), School of Life and Environmental Sciences

2013

Athula Senaratne

Thesis entitled: Shared beliefs, expectations and surprises: Adaptation decisions of village tank farmers in Sri Lanka

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance

Mayula Chaikumbung

Thesis entitled: Estimating wetland values: A comparison of benefit transfer and choice experiment values

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance

Rajesh Rai

Thesis entitled: Estimating the Benefits of Managing Invasive Plants in Subsistence Communities

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance