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    Hurriyet Babacan

    Professorial Research Fellow, Rural Economies Centre of Excellence, Regional, Economic and Policy Development

    Professor Babacan’s research is multidisciplinary and espouses the principles of ‘engaged scholarship’

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    Vincent Backhaus

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Crown of Thorns Project

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    Henry Bartelet

    Researcher

    Henry is a systems scientist whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the sustainability of social-ecological systems

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    Michael Bird

    Professor

    Professor Bird leads a research group focused terrestrial biogeochemistry and environmental change in tropical Australia & South-East Asia.

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    Chris Cunneen

    Tropical Leader, Justice & Social Inclusion

    Professor Cunneen has an international reputation as a leading criminologist specialising in Indigenous people and the law

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    Allan Dale

    Professor of Tropical Regional Development

    Professor Dale has a strong interest in integrated natural resource policy and management in northern Australia

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    Narayan Gopalkrishnan

    Researcher

    Developing Social Enterprise in FNQ

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    Tori Graham

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Dr Tori Graham is a conservation scientist whose research focuses on measuring the outcomes of environmental programs.

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    Rachel Hay

    Knowledge Broker

    Tropical North Queensland Drought Hub

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    Anna Hayes

    Senior Lecturer - Political Science

    Dr Hayes is a senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the College of Arts, Society and Education

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    Rosita Henry

    Professor

    Professor Henry’s anthropological research focuses on tropical Australia and the Pacific, especially Papua New Guinea.

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    Ariana Lambrides

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Dr Lambrides' research focuses on the factors that influence long-term reef health

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    Lauren Linnenlucke

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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    Ana Carla Leite de Almeida

    Research Officer

    Sustainable Finance for Agricultural Systems

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    Jane Oorschot

    Program Lead

    Building Human Capacity

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    Nick Osbaldiston

    Senior Lecturer

    Dr Nick Osbaldiston is a sociologist whose primary research interests are in the role of lifestyle in migration throughout Australia

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    Ton Otto

    Tropical Leader, People and Societies of the Tropics

    Professor Otto is recognised internationally as an expert in Pacific studies and Manus ethnography

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    Gillian Paxton

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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    Theresa Petray

    Theme Leader: Social & Environmental Justice

    Dr Petray is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Anthropology. Her research centres on the concepts of agency and social change

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    David Phelps

    Director

    Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub

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    Emma Rehn

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Dr Rehn’s work focuses on the archaeology and palaeoecology of human-environment interactions in the tropics

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    Komla Tsey

    Tropical Leader, Education for Social Sustainability

    Professor Tsey is an expert in health, education, welfare issues concerning Australia’s Indigenous and rural Ghanaian communities

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    Sean Ulm

    Theme Leader: Cultural & Linguistic Transformations

    Professor Ulm’s research focuses on persistent problems in the archaeology of northern Australia and the western Pacific

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    Felecia Watkin

    Theme Leader: Indigenous Futures

    Dr Watkin Lui is a Torres Strait Islander woman and Director of Research Training at the School of Indigenous Australian Studies

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    Riccardo Welters

    Theme Leader: Sustainable Development

    Associate Professor Welters conducts applied labour market research and lectures in a broad scale of economics subjects

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