Dr Rachel Sanderson - VIAfilm production manager
Dr Rachel Sanderson is an environmental historian interested in globalisation, regionalism, histories of colonialism and environmental change. Rachel was awarded a Doctorate in environmental history at James Cook University in 2005 and received the University medal for excellence for a doctoral research thesis. She has published on the history of colonisation and development of rainforest areas in North Queensland, the history of the environmental protest movement, and issues of modernisation and regionalism. Rachel tutored in history, communications and effective writing at James Cook University, and has also worked as fundraising coordinator for Amnesty International in Townsville. Rachel is VIAfilm's production manager, based in Canberra, and is also collaborating as writer and researcher on a number of documentary film projects, including co-writing a feature length independent documentary film with Robert Nugent.