{"id":9755,"date":"2023-08-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=9755"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:27:58","slug":"fwpa-in-focus-forest-research-learning-wood-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/fwpa-in-focus-forest-research-learning-wood-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"FWPA In Focus: Forest Research, Learning & Wood Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) has appointed Dr Chris Lafferty as head of Research, Development and Extension and Dr Jodie Mason as head of Forest Research and Learning following a restructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FWPA is an Australian-based Rural Research and Development Corporation (or RDC) funded by the Federal Government, member levies and research grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It collaborates with government and industry stakeholders to determine strategy, invest in effective and relevant R&D and deliver programs designed to grow the market for forest and wood products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement follows the appointment of Kevin Peachey <\/a>to Head of Built Environment Programs for Forest & Wood Products Australia<\/a> (FWPA) and WoodSolutions Program<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the FWPA, the restructure will lead to the creation of three distinct programs driving future FWPA activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Research, Development and Extension; now headed by Dr Chris Lafferty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Forest Research and Learning, now headed by Dr Jodie Mason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Built Environment & WoodSolutions Programs, now headed by Kevin Peachy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FWPA reports that “the updated structure will bolster industry support, provide better internal consistency, and simplify approaches across streams.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting activities, the marketing and communication team has also been bolstered, with Sarah Downey leading a strong team <\/a>which now includes Rhiana Archie, Campbell Mayne and Emma Petersson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is behind the highly successful ‘Ultimate Renewable’ campaign, with Wood Central reporting that the latest campaign will go live across Australia from Sunday, August 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam Dovile is the FWPA ambassador for the Ultimate Renewable campaign. Look out for the new campaign from August 20, 2023. (Photo Credit: The Ultimate Renewable).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The highly successful $1.8 million campaign will coincide with the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final <\/a>and screen across free-to-air television, video, radio and social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will run throughout top-rating programs such as The Block, Seven and Nine News and both AFL and NRL matches, including their finals series via video on demand.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FWPA has also welcomed John Campigli, the new Head of Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more up-to-date FWPA news, subscribe to ForWood today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) has appointed Dr Chris Lafferty as head of Research, Development and Extension and Dr Jodie Mason as head of Forest Research and Learning following a restructure. The FWPA is an Australian-based Rural Research and Development Corporation (or RDC) funded by the Federal Government, member levies and research grants. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[50,36,46],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-9755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"category-education","9":"category-industry"},"authors":[{"term_id":69,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"woodcentral","display_name":"Wood Central","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MASTER-BRAND-MARK_POS_RGB-e1676449549955.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MASTER-BRAND-MARK_POS_RGB-e1676449549955.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21494,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions\/21494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}