C-SERC postgraduate students enjoy the support of our academics and the Centre’s collaborative culture of research excellence to develop the knowledge, skills and professional abilities to make an impact in academia, government, industry, or community organisations.
Current candidates
- Riikka Heikkinen – Social legitimacy of decarbonisation of energy
- Amy Lin – Wind farm development in Australia and Taiwan
- Liam McLoughlin - Climate Movement Strategy
- Bridget Mullany – The impact of coral reef restoration projects on coastal communities in the Philippines
- Matt Trull – Constructing climate scepticism in the media: How multifarious media frames hinder public belief in and action on climate change
- Eric Duku – Implications of Fisheries Governance for Livelihood and Well-being: Current Perspectives from Ghana’s Small-scale Fisheries
- Farah Sevilla - Political ecology of illegal marine wildlife trade in Palawan, the Philippines
- Aletheia C. Araneta - Comparative analysis of social media use and practice among selected Philippine and Australian media organizations in reporting natural hazards-induced disasters
- Joseph Alhassan – Smallholder Farmers’ Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Heat Stress in Northern Ghana
- Paul Ganderton – The politics of knowledge valorization and communication: How did the “economic turn” come to dominate biodiversity discourse between the Stockholm Conferences 1972-2022?
- Dane Erlo Matorres - Shadow Economies in Palawan’s Live Reef Fish Trade
- Mohammad Gorjizadeh - Design, develop, and evaluate a digitally enabled ESG measurement tool and real‑time analytics platform for infrastructure projects
Completed candidates
- Dr Caroline Colton – The imitation economy: How AT&T’s contestability doctrine transformed the neoliberal project
- Dr Nandita Das – Bio-politics of climate change governance –the Australian narrative
- Dr Sonia Garcia Garcia – Policy disconnections in the regulation of sustainable seafood in Australia
- Dr Manju Menon – Making new environmental knowledges: large dams in Northeast India
- Dr Matt Johnson – Mining the high frontier: sovereignty, property and humankind's common heritage in outer space
- Dr Christopher Odeyemi – Climate change and civil conflict: the contributions of UNSC, UNFCCC, EU and G8 countries
- Dr Ruchira Talukhdar – Environmental movements: bridging the North-South divide
- Dr Raymond Ayilu – The Blue Economy in West Africa: Livelihoods of small-scale fisheries
- Dr Kathy Drayton – The Weather Diaries: a personal journey into the impact of climate change
- Dr Nicole Gooch – The Goro nickel mine: An environmental experiment in New Caledonia
- Dr Alana West – Feminist energy democracy: a comparative ethnography of renewable energy in regional Australia