Wes is an Adjunct research fellow with CSU’s Gulbali Institute and teaches in the nexus between communication, regional communities and complex agro-ecological systems in regional Australia. His research is in environmental, agricultural, rural, intercultural, organisational and technologically mediated communication. Wes is currently investigating how and why scientific research collaborations work between individuals, groups and organisations, in Australia and overseas, utilising various social research methodologies, particularly Constructivist Grounded Theory and Autoethnography.