Michael Cuthill

Michael Cuthill is an Australian environmentalist who was the Director of the Community Engagement Centre of the University of Queensland, Ipswich Campus.

Previously, Cuthill was a lecturer at the School of Environmental and Recreation Management at the University of South Australia, a Research Officer at the Great Barrier Reef Cooperative Research Centre at James Cook University, and a technical services manager at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

Selected bibliography

 * Book Chapters
 * Cuthill, M. 2004, Citizen Participation, Local Governance, and Sustainable Communities in Richards, C. and Aitken, L. (eds) 2004, Social Innovations in Natural Resource Management pp. 20–22.


 * Journal Articles


 * Cuthill, M. & Fien, J. 2005, Building community capacity through citizen participation in local governance Australian Journal of Public Administration, 64(4): 63-80.
 * Cuthill, M. & Warburton, J. 2005, A conceptual framework for volunteer management in local government Urban Policy and Research, 23(1): 113-126.
 * Lloyd, K. Harrington, M. Hibbins, R. Boag, A. & Cuthill, M. 2005, Is it fun to be young on the Gold Coast? Perceptions of leisure opportunities and constraints among young people on the Gold Coast Youth Studies Australia 24:1, pp. 22–27.
 * Cuthill, M. 2004, Community visioning: Facilitating informed citizen participation in local area planning on the Gold Coast Urban Policy and Research, 22(4): 427-445.
 * Cuthill, M. 2004, Community well-being: The ultimate goal of democratic governance Queensland Planner, 44(2): 8-11.
 * Cuthill, M. 2003, The contribution of human and social capital to building community well-being: A research agenda relating to citizen participation in local governance in Australia Urban Policy and Research, 21(4): 373-391.
 * Cuthill, M. 2003, From here to utopia: Running a human scale development workshop on the Gold Coast Local Environment, 8(4): 471-485.
 * Cuthill, M. 2002, Coolangatta: A portrait of community well-being Urban Policy and Research, 20(2): 187-203.
 * Cuthill, M. 2002, Exploratory research: Citizen participation, local governance and sustainable development in Australia Journal of Sustainable Development, 10(2): 79-89.
 * Cuthill, M. 2001, Developing local government policy and processes for community consultation and participation Urban Policy and Research, 19(2): 183-202.


 * Other
 * Cuthill, M. 2002, Opportunities for empowerment: Citizen participation, local governance, and collaborative local action for sustainable community, PhD Thesis, School of Australian Environmental Sciences, Griffith University.