Professor Allan Curtis, Professor of Integrated Environmental Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Director of the Institute for Land, Water and Society, will present a seminar that examines the uptake of natural resource management in Australia on Wednesday 16 May on CSU Bathurst Campus. In the seminar titled Progress with regional NRM: a social researcher’s perspective, Professor Curtis will draw on his research and experience with catchment management in regional Australia. His research examines the social dimensions of catchment management, including how landholders adopted conservation practices, the social and institutional arrangements for catchment management and the evaluation of natural resource management programs. Professor Curtis is currently involved in research examining aspects of governance for regional firms; projects providing social data to underpin catchment management; and the assessment of constraints on the uptake of automated irrigation technology.