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Find a supervisor

Choosing the right supervisor and project for your research is key to your success and will empower you to make new and innovative discoveries that can make a change.

Browse through our list of MSDI supervisors and their research interests below and click on their profiles to get in touch.

Cameron Allen
Sustainable development, SDGs, transitions and transformations, scenarios and pathways, policy and governance, systems thinking, system dynamics and simulation modelling.

Mitzi Bolton
Sustainable development, SDGs, public policy, governance, integrated decision making and contaminated environments.

Kim Borg
Behaviour change, behavioural sciences, survey research, environmental behaviour, plastic waste, biodiversity conservation

Annette Bos
Urban water, governance, social learning, sustainable transitions/education, transformative learning, SDG and interdisciplinary.

Mark Boulet
Behaviour change, food waste and household resource consumption, pro-environmental behaviours, multi-level frameworks, environmental education.

Peter Bragge
Review science including rapid reviews, systematic reviews, evidence mapping and review methodology; evidence-based policy and practice.

Tony Capon
Planetary health, environmental health, health promotion, human health, sustainable development and urbanisation.

Gretel Evans
Environmental history, oral history, memory studies, disaster histories and studies, migration histories, social network analysis, history, digital humanities, capability development.

Filia Garivaldis
Psychology and behaviour change, education systems, online teaching and learning.

Denise Goodwin
System thinking, qualitative methods, physical activity and health, health systems and behaviour change.

Emi Gui
Energy transition, climate risk management, green infrastructure and economy.

Paris Hadfield
Geography of sustainability transitions, urban climate policy and governance, financing sustainability, just transitions, social innovation, place-based experimentation, university living labs.

Melissa Hatty
Psychology (health, conservation, environment), human/environmental health nexus, pro-biodiversity/pro-environmental behaviour change, research methods (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods).

Jane Holden
Transdisciplinary research, water sensitive cities, waste management, research capacity building and research management, inclusive circular economy.

Stefan Kaufman
Behaviour change, sustainability transitions, systems change, circular economy, sustainable consumption, climate change adaptation, natural capital markets and agriculture, environment and public health protection, adaptive/maladaptive behaviours.

Adriana Keating
Disaster resilience, climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, flood, bushfire, social-ecological systems.

Paul Kellner
Research methods, evidence reviews, children and young people's health and wellbeing, forced migration, international development.

Celine Klemm
Mass media and environment, environmental health promotion (intersection of health promotion and environment), communication for development.

Sarah Kneebone
Behaviour change, environmental education, social inclusion.

Breanne Kunstler
Physical activity, exercise, physiotherapy, behaviour change.

Shirin Malekpour
SDG, sustainability transitions, infrastructure planning, urban transformations, futures and scenario planning, strategic planning, governance, urban water, decision making under deep uncertainty (DMDU).

Fernanda Mata
Retirement, finances and behaviour change, advance understanding of human decision-making and behaviour change, cognitive assessment and policy studies in education/training and work.

Kien Nguyen
Disaster risk, vulnerability, qualitative research and case study.

Jana-Axinja Paschen
Community-based research methodologies, resilience practice.

Bernice Plant
Behaviour change in social influence and persuasion, social psychology and randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews.

Rob Raven
Systems innovation, sustainability transitions, energy, cities, mobility, spatial and institutional or governance perspective around the notion of experimentation.

Briony Rogers
Urban water, water sensitive cities, SDGs, strategic planning and governance, transitions, resilience, community, climate change adaptation.

Paul Satur
Water and environmental management, social inclusion, social inequalities and cities.

Darren Sharp
Sustainability transitions, urban governance, experimentation, living labs, social innovation, sharing economy, grassroots innovations, action research, participatory methods.

Liam Smith
Behavioural spill over, habit formation, organisational change, pro-environmental behaviour, behavioural economics, social inclusion and public policy.

Fraser Tull
Behaviour change, behavioural science and behavioural intervention.

Susan Van de Meene
Urban water management, urban water governance, urban sustainability and socio-intuitional change.

Lara Werbeloff
Governance and institutional change, system change and innovation, urban water management.

Abby Wild
Social inclusion, social disadvantages, prison sociology and behaviour change to promote social connection.

Breanna Wright
Mental health and well-being, family violence, gender equality, patient engagement in healthcare.

Kun Zhao
Behavioural economics, social decision making, behaviour change and personality psychology.

Behaviour change / psychology

Mark Boulet
Peter Bragge

Filia Garivaldis
Denise Goodwin
Melissa Hatty
Stefan Kaufman
Paul Kellner
Sarah Kneebone
Breanne Kunstler
Fernanda Mata
Bernice Plant
Liam Smith
Fraser Tull
Abby Wild
Kun Zhao
Kim Borg

Circular economy

Mark Boulet
Emi Gui
Jane Holden
Paul Kellner
Darren Sharp

Climate action

Mark Boulet
Emi Gui
Stefan Kaufman
Adriana Keating
Paul Kellner
Kien Nguyen
Jana-Axinja Paschen
Briony Rogers
Darren Sharp

Environment and health

Peter Bragge
Jane Holden
Paul Kellner
Sarah Kneebone
Kien Nguyen
Briony Rogers

Gender equality

Breanna Wright

International development

Mark Boulet

Planetary health / health promotion

Annette Bos
Peter Bragge
Tony Capon
Melissa Hatty
Celine Klemm

Policy and governance

Cameron Allen
Mitzi Bolton
Annette Bos
Peter Bragge
Stefan Kaufman
Shirin Malekpour
Briony Rogers
Liam Smith
Lara Werbeloff

Research and data

Mark Boulet
Denise Goodwin
Jane Holden
Paul Kellner 

Social inclusion

Mark Boulet 
Jane Holden
Paul Kellner
Briony Rogers
Darren Sharp
Abby Wild
Breanna Wright

Sustainable cities and communities

Mark Boulet
Emi Gui
Jane HoldenAdriana Keating
Paul Kellner
Sarah Kneebone
Shirin Malekpour
Jana-Axinja Paschen
Briony Rogers
Paul Satur
Darren Sharp
Susan Van de Meene

Sustainable development / SDGs

Cameron Allen
Mitzi Bolton
Annette Bos
Peter Bragge
Tony Capon
Paul Kellner
Tahl Kestin
Shirin Malekpour
Jana-Axinja Paschen
Briony Rogers

Sustainability transitions

Annette Bos
Shirin Malekpour
Rob Raven

Systems thinking

Cameron Allen
Mitzi Bolton
Denise Goodwin
Shirin Malekpour
Rob Raven
Lara Werbeloff

Waste

Mitzi Bolton
Jane Holden
Paul Kellner 

Water

Annette Bos
Jane Holden
Shirin Malekpour
Briony Rogers
Paul Satur
Susan Van de Meene
Lara Werbeloff