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| Name | Research title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Carmine Buss | Reducing Individual Carbon Footprints: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change for Promoting Climate Mitigation Behaviour | Patrick Nunn |
| Pradeep Baral | Climate Change and REDD+ in the Himalayas: Implications for Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity | Carmen Elrick-Barr, Bob Fisher |
| Susan (Zela) Bissett | Preserving Paradise: Fifty Years of Protecting K’gari) | Patrick Nunn |
| Zoe Bridge | Climate-Aggravated Barriers to the Recognition of World-Class Tangible Heritage in the Pacific Islands | Patrick Nunn |
| Louisa-Anne Buwalda | Women’s experiences of natural disaster – Ni-Vanuatu women’s voices on their issues and solutions | Patrick Nunn |
| Aaron Driver | Telling tales: narratives for climate change | Patrick Nunn |
| Leigh Franks | Precise age determination of Indigenous Australian stories: examples of maar lake formation in Queensland | Patrick Nunn |
| John Grogan | Defining and actualising 'migration with dignity' for I-Kiribati | Patrick Nunn |
| Amalya Harding | Post-Pandemic Opportunities for Enhanced Food and Nutrition Security in the Tropical Pacific | Patrick Nunn |
| Tony Millroy | Baroon, A Social History: From Flinders to Federation. The people, events, and ramifications of the colonisation of South-East Queensland | Patrick Nunn |
| Wendy Nelson | Towards Intercultural Literacy - Growing intercultural competence in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region | Patrick Nunn |
| Mark Reilly | Contrasting Histories of Coastal Barrier Evolution: Indigenous and Scientific Narratives of, the Origin and Evolution of the Younghusband Peninsula | Patrick Nunn |
| Nittya Simard | Socio-ecological impacts of developing shell-handicraft livelihoods in a coastal community, Papua New Guinea | Patrick Nunn |
| Lila Singh-Peterson | Examining landscapes, values and livelihoods in the South Pacific and the influence of globalisation and multifunctionality activities | Patrick Nunn |
| Hans Wendt | Policy implications and community-led governance for water security in relocated coastal communities in the Western Pacific. | Patrick Nunn; Carmen Elrick-Barr |
| Name | Research Title | Supervisors |
| Samantha Wilcocks | Increasing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience Through Eco-Embodied Community Engagement | Carmen Elrick-Barr; Marcus Bussey |
| Romone Montine | Evaluating the Vanuatu Traditional Governing System as a Vehicle for Implementation of the Vanuatu National Policy on Climate Change and Disaster-Induced Displacement. |
Carmen Elrick-Barr; Patrick Nunn |
| Italo Alvarado | Indigenous Perspectives on Successful Climate-Induced Relocation | Carmen Elrick-Barr. |
| Sueba Momin | Enabling the Green Hydrogen Transition: Exploring Barriers and Enablers in Australia’s Green Hydrogen Initiatives via Policy Review and Case Studies |
Carmen Elrick-Barr; Savindi Caldera |
| Name | Thesis Title | Completion Year | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alain Ngute | Determinants of mortality across a tropical lowland rainforest community | 2024 | Andrew Marshall; David Schoeman |
| Amalya Valle | De dominaciones incomprensibles. De risotadas escondidas tras los montes. Desierto de Atacama perforado | 2023 | |
| Angela Mallette | Understanding public preferences for coastal adaptation | 2024 | Tim Smith, Carmen Elrick-Barr, Ryan Plummer (Brock University), Jessica Blythe (BU) |
| Anna McKinlay | Societal influences on the dwelling size of Australia's suburban housing model | 2023 | |
| Francisco Gelves Gomez | Vivid natures: disrupting the human/Nature divide in adaptive management for protected areas | 2022 | Jennifer Carter |
| Kerrie Pickering | Food security in an era of rapid social and ecological change in Fiji | 2021 | Tim Smith; Tristan Pearce ; Ryan Plummer ; Bill Carter |
| Kirsty O'Callaghan | Discussing a ‘man-made’ problem: The role of gender in effective climate change communication | 2025 | Patrick Nunn; Sarah Casey; Gail Crimmins; Harry Dugmore |
| Lisa McIlwain | The influence of power dynamics on climate-related water governance in Australia | 2024 | Claudia Baldwin ; Catherine Manathunga; Julia Baird ; Gary J Pickering; Tim F Smith |
| Marilyn Shrapnel | Relationship between Land for Wildlife, landholder conservation behaviour and personality | 2024 | Claudia Baldwin; Lee Kannis-Dymand |
| Martyn Eliott | Economic Evaluation of Prescribed Fire as a Wildfire Risk Mitigation Tool in Southeast Queensland | 2023 | |
| Miguel Frohlich | Towards Adaptive Coastal Management Law: Lessons from Australia and Brazil | 2021 | Tim Smith |
| Nittya Simard | Investigating small-scale fisheries supporting shellcraft in Papua New Guinea | 2024 | Paul Southgate; Patrick Nunn; Steven Underhill |
| Pippa Huddleston | Building adaptive capacity in critical infrastructure providers – how our lifelines are adapting to climate change. | 2024 | Tim Smith, Carmen Elrick-Barr, Iain White (Waikato University) |
| Ryan Delaney | An ecocritical exploration into constructions of masculinity in contemporary Australian literature | 2022 | Patrick Nunn |
| Christopher Evans | Migration and Livelihood Sustainability in Fiji and Tuvalu | 2022 | Patrick Nunn |
| Jack Koci | Hydrogeomorphic processes driving sediment and nutrient movement in dry-tropical rangelands and implications for land management | 2019 | Patrick Nunn |
| Loredana Lancini | Phénomènes volcaniques et traditions mythiques : du monde grec colonial aux sociétés de l’Océan Pacifique (îles Fidji) | 2022 | Patrick Nunn |
| Shalini Lata | Facilitating Climate Change Adaptation and Engagement by Understanding Risks and Climate Behaviours: An Assessment of Future Sea-Level Rise Risks and Climate Change Community Perceptions in Fiji | 2018 | Patrick Nunn |
| Daniela Medina Hidalgo | Climate change vulnerability and resilience in Pacific Island Countries | 2022 | Patrick Nunn |
| Madeleine Page | Knowledge for climate-change adaptation in remote Queensland communities | 2021 | Patrick Nunn |
| Annah Piggott-McKellar | Community uptake of climate-change adaptation in Kiribati and Vanuatu | 2020 | Patrick Nunn |
| Jasmine Pearson | Understanding Pacific Islander knowledge and attitudes towards changes in mangrove ecosystems and associated coastal resources | 2020 | Patrick Nunn |
| Sarah Pye | Saving Sun Bears: one man’s quest to save a species | 2020 | Patrick Nunn |
| Delia Siivola | Indigenous Knowledge in Protected Areas Management: Adaptation, Sustainability and Opportunities in the Circumpolar North | 2022 | Patrick Nunn |
| Jonathan Raikes | Disaster risk reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals: Pre-disaster governance for integrated management in Canada and Australia | 2021 | Tim Smith; Claudia Baldwin, Daniel Henstra (University of Waterloo) |