Associate Professor Kirstin Ross

Kirstin’s research is focussed on the way the environment affects human health. This includes pathogens and toxins in our water and wastewater, waste, and built environments. She is interested in community engagement on these issues, and is particularly interested in the effect of climate change on human health.

Dr Alessandro Antonello

Alessandro is an environmental historian who works on polar and oceanic environments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is interested in how environmental knowledge is formed in a variety of institutional contexts at national and global scales, how environmental knowledge is acted upon to preserve or exploit the Earth, and how communities build affective and ethical relationships with remote and extreme environments.

Professor Sabine Dittmann

Sabine’s expertise lies in coastal ecosystem ecology, restoration and Blue Carbon. She is working closely at the interface between research and environmental management, through translation of research outcomes into scientific advice to achieve ecosystem health and conservation outcomes.

Associate Professor Joshua Newman

Joshua's research interests involve the use of information, evidence, and lesson learning for informing policy decision making. He has written about research utilisation and evidence-based policy, policy outcomes and evaluation, managing wicked policy problems, transport policy, climate change, and urban infrastructure development. He is especially interested in the relationship between government and private sector organisations.

Associate Professor Vivienne Brand

Associate Professor Vivienne Brand is a qualified lawyer, legal academic and governance practitioner with an early background in legal commercial practice. Her academic work focuses on corporate law with a particular emphasis on corporate responsibility. Vivienne has wide practical governance experience on boards and committees in both the for-purpose and for-profit sectors and is a director of an ASX-listed company in the agri-business sector.

Professor Tania Leiman

Tania is a lawyer, legal academic and Dean of Law at Flinders University. She is currently involved with projects regarding delivery of access to justice in disaster impacted areas, and developing a disaster resilient model for delivery of legal services following bushfires. Her work on future mobility has alerted her to the looming environmental and social aspects of increasing demands for critical and rare earth minerals.

Brendan Grigg

Brendan Grigg teaches and researches in property and environmental law. Before joining the Flinders University Brendan worked as a legal practitioner, primarily in the areas of native title law and environmental law at the South Australian Crown Solicitor's Office. He has advised and represented a range of SA government authorities including the Environment Protection Authority and the Native Vegetation Council.

Associate Professor Anthony Langlois

Anthony J. Langlois is a critical human rights theorist. He has a keen interest in the way in which rights language is used for politics, policy and theory, including how this applies to environmental and sustainability concerns.

Dr Claire Nettle

Claire joined CASPR in 2019 after working in the community sector and in academic publishing. She has experience in community development, health promotion and policy, and brings expertise in social research, research translation and communication. Her research interests are in environmental social movements, urban environments and food systems. Her book, Community Gardening as Social Action, was published by Routledge in 2016.

Dr Kirstie Petrou

Kirstie is a human geographer with a decade of experience conducting research in the Pacific. Her research interests include migration, guestworker schemes, urbanisation and development.

Dr Cobi Calyx

Cobi has more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of environmental governance, science communication and disaster response. She has worked in organisations from the UN in Geneva to state environment and disaster response agencies. Cobi has been Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School and has experience with Aid-funded programs in Asia and the Pacific.

Dr Helen McLaren

Dr Helen McLaren is motivated by research that can be applied to building healthier environments, stronger communities and improvements to people’s lives. Recent projects are focused on climate and disaster resilience, the future of sustainable development goals in the context of climate change and Covid-19, and allied health worker secondary trauma and resilience related to climate and drought.

Matt Ryan

Matt conducts research and supports practical projects that strengthen the quality and legitimacy of policy and law through citizen participation. As Deputy Chief of Staff to a South Australian Premier he led work on the government's internationally-recognised democratic reform program, helped craft a strategic policy agenda, and advised on climate policy and the state’s participation in the Paris Climate Summit.