The Governing Change research program combines the political and climate sciences with ecology and geography to understand and improve the design of complex environmental governance regimes. The team works closely with a range of governments, NGOs and donors on co-creating solutions to environmental governance problems. Interdisciplinary science capacity and competitiveness is underpinned by partnerships with an international expert working group, involving co-tutelle PhD supervision and co-appointed postdoctoral fellowships at James Cook University, University of Melbourne, WorldFish, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and the University of Tasmania.
Meet the Team
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Tiffany Morrison
Lead Investigator
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Gretta Pecl
Chief Investigator
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Pip Cohen
Chief Investigator
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Emily Ogier
Senior Research Fellow
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Terry Hughes
Chief Investigator
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Kirsty Nash
Senior Research Fellow
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Sarah Lawless
Research Fellow
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Lucy McHugh
Research Fellow
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Robert Streit
Research Fellow
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Missaka Hettiarachchi
Research Associate
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Andrew Sullivan
PhD Candidate
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Navam Niles
PhD Candidate
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Luisa Bedoya Taborda
MPhil Candidate
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Pasha Morrison
Senior Canine Fellow
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Victor Huertas
Communications Officer
Expert Working Group
Governing Changing Oceans Workshop held at Hobart, Tasmania in 2024. Click below to read more about the group:
Recently graduated PhD students and former postdoctoral researchers include:
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Dr. Lucy McHugh
JCU/University of Michigan
In danger? Climate crisis frames in polycentric World Heritage governance
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Dr. Jessica Spijkers
JCU/Stockholm University PhD Graduate
Navigating international conflicts in the governance of shared stocks
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Dr. Sarah Lawless
JCU PhD Graduate
Assessing and orchestrating complex meta-norm diffusion in natural resource governance
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Dr. Amber Datta
JCU/University of Montana PhD Graduate
Navigating extreme climate events: Uncovering the challenges of social-ecological system governance in the Anthropocene
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Dr. Andrew Song
JCU/WorldFish Postdoctoral Fellow
Maritime security and regional governance of fisheries
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Dr. Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao
UQ PhD Graduate
Global governance for conserving migratory shorebirds
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Dr. Jon Day
JCU PhD Graduate
Transformative policy reform and the Great Barrier Reef
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Dr Missaka Hettiarachchi
UQ PhD Graduate
Urban wetlands: a comparative analysis of ecological and governance transformation in South Asia
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Assoc. Prof. Justine Bell
UQ/ARC Super Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Defend or retreat? Adapting to the impacts of sea level rise as a result of rapid climate change
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And many more fabulous researchers from the former People & Ecosystems Program,
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
2015-2022