Research Publications
2025
Smith, K., Cruz, D. & Langford, Z. Solidarity finance and food democracy in civic food networks in Australia: what role for ‘citizen-financiers’?. Agric Hum Values (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-025-10708-1
Tardin-Coelho, R., Fletcher, S., Manzie, N. et al. A systematic review on public perceptions of RNAi-based biopesticides: Developing Social Licence to Operate. npj Sustain. Agric. 3, 15 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44264-025-00057-1
Gunasekara, S., Fidelman, P., Fletcher, S. et al. The future of dsRNA-based biopesticides will require global regulatory cohesion. Nat. Plants (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01953-7
Rose Foster, Nicole Shumway, Daniel Harrison, Pedro Fidelman. Governing marine cloud brightening for ecosystem conservation under a warming climate, Earth System Governance, Volume 23, 2025, 100240, ISSN 2589-8116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100240
Nicole Shumway, Rose Foster, Pedro Fidelman. The governance of marine and coral reef restoration, lessons and paths forward for novel interventions, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 164, 2025, 103999, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103999
Rose-Marie Stambe, Greg Marston, Darryn Snell, Jeremy Moss. Jobs aren't enough: Redefining just transitions in Australia with community voices, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 122, 2025, 103999, ISSN 2214-6296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103999
Bell-James, Justine, Shumway, Nicole, Villarreal-Rosas, Jaramar, Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Brown, Christopher J., Fitzsimons, James A., Foster, Rose, Hamman, Evan, Lovelock, Catherine E., Saunders, Megan I. and Waltham, Nathan J. (2025). Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots. Environmental Science and Policy, 163 103962, 103962. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103962
Bell‐James, Justine, Foster, Rose, Frohlich, Miguel, Archibald, Carla, Benham, Claudia, Evans, Megan, Fidelman, Pedro, Morrison, Tiffany, Rolim Baggio, Liza, Billings, Peter and Shumway, Nicole (2024).Not all conservation “policy” is created equally: When does a policy give rise to legally binding obligations?. Conservation Letters, 17 (6) e13054. doi: 10.1111/conl.13054
2024
Shumway, Nicole, Foster, Rose, Head, Brian, and Fidelman, Pedro (2024). Governance principles for novel reef interventions, report for The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.
Bell-James, Justine, Foster, Rose, Shumway, Nicole, Lovelock, Catherine E., Villarreal-Rosas, Jaramar, Brown, Christopher J., Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Saunders, Megan I., Waltham, Nathan J. and Fitzsimons, James A. (2024).The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8 (5), 840-841. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02389-6
Gunasekara, Sandya and Fidelman, Pedro (2024). Current state of knowledge and on-going developments regulating RNAi-based products for agriculture in 2024 Annual Meeting - ARC Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection. Contact authors for access.
Foster, R., Frohlich, M., Archibald, C., Benham, C., Evans, M., Fidelman, P., Morrison, T., Rolim Baggio, T., Billings, P., & Shumway, N. (2024). Not all conservation “policy” is created equally: When does a policy give rise to legally binding obligations? Conservation Letters, 17, e13054. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13054.
Staines, Zoe, Marston, Greg, Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Mendes, Philip, and Roche, Steven (2024). An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia. Journal of Social Policy 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279424000205.
Rashidi P. Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work. Review of International Studies. Published online 2024:1-22. doi:10.1017/S0260210524000196.
Curtis, Caitlin (2024). Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI). Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/48dfdd6.
Freeman, Camille and Smith, Kiah (2024). From coalitions to social movements: Lessons from civic food coalition formation in Australia. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 30 (1) 1-17. https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v30i1.528
Staines Z, Marston G, Peterie M, Bielefeld S, Mendes P, Roche S. An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia. Journal of Social Policy. Published online 2024:1-19. doi:10.1017/S0047279424000205
Smith, D 2024, Contestation over the Legal and Practical Implications of Implementing CCAMLR MPAs, Marine Policy, under review
Western, Mark and Huang, Xianbi (2024). Social mobility and social capital. Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital. Edward Elgar Publishing. 351-365.https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802202373.00032.
Bell‐James, Justine, Foster, Rose, Frohlich, Miguel, Archibald, Carla, Benham, Claudia, Evans, Megan, Fidelman, Pedro, Morrison, Tiffany, Rolim Baggio, Liza, Billings, Peter, and Shumway, Nicole (2024). Not all conservation “policy” is created equally: When does a policy give rise to legally binding obligations? Conservation Letters 17 (6) e13054 . https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13054.
Smith, D 2024 The legal and ecological complexities of establishing the North Atlantic Current and Evlanov Sea-basin (NACES) marine protected areas in the North-East Atlantic region, ICES Marine Science Journal under review.
Easton, M., Yarnold, J., Vervaenen, V., De Paepe, J., & Head, B. W. (2024). Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia. Policy & Politics (published online ahead of print 2024). Retrieved Jan 4, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2023D000000014
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Yarnold, Jennifer, Marston, Greg, and Moss, Jeremy (2024). Community is key to Queensland’s energy future. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Western, Mark (2024, February 15). Advancing equity in Australian higher education. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
Gunasekara, Sandya and Fidelman, Pedro (2024). The role of regulatory and legal frameworks in enabling RNAi-based biopesticides in 10th Annual Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 8-9 February 2024.
Ablaza, Christine, Gatta, Arianna, Stambe, Rose-Marie, and Marston, Greg (2024). What is a good job and who gets it? Exploring the multidimensionality of job quality in Reimagining Industrial Relations: Work, Care, Climate and Safety. AIRAANZ Conference 2024, Perth, WA Australia, 31 January - 2 February 2024.
Ablaza, Christine, Gatta, Arianna, Stambe, Rose-Marie, and Marston, Greg (2024). Non-standard employment and job satisfaction: the mediating role of job characteristics in Reimagining Industrial Relations: Work, Care, Climate and Safety. AIRAANZ Conference 2024, Perth, WA Australia, 31 January - 2 February 2024.
2023
Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron, Middlebrook, Nathan, Robinson, Richard N. S., Kuskoff, Ella and Plage, Stefanie (2023). "Increases in income-support payments reduce the demand for charity: A difference-in-difference analysis of charitable-assistance data from Australia over the COVID-19 pandemic". PLoS One, 18 (7) e0287533, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287533.
Bell-James, J., Foster,R., and Lovelock, C.E. (2023). Identifying priorities for reform to integrate coastal wetland ecosystem services into law and policy. Environmental Science and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.02.013.
Bell‐James, Justine, Foster, Rose and Shumway, Nicole (2023). The permitting process for marine and coastal restoration: A barrier to achieving global restoration targets? Conservation Science and Practice, 5 (12). https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13050.
Bingley WJ, Curtis C, Lockey S, Bialkowski A, Gillespie N, Haslam SA, Ko RKL, Steffens N, Wiles J, and Worthy P. (2023). Where is the Human in Human-centered Artificial Intelligence? Insights from Developer Priorities and User Experiences. Computers in Human Behaviour 2023, 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107617.
Bingley, William J., Haslam, S. Alexander, Steffens, Niklas K., Gillespie, Nicole, Worthy, Peter, Curtis, Caitlin, Lockey, Steven, Bialkowski, Alina, Ko, Ryan K.L. and Wiles, Janet (2023). Enlarging the model of the human at the heart of human-centered AI: a social self-determination model of AI system impact. New Ideas in Psychology, (70), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2023.101025.
Bingley WJ, Haslam SA, Steffens N, Gillespie N, Worthy P, Curtis C, Lockey S, Bialkowski, Ko RKL, and Wiles J. (2023). Enlarging the Model of the Human at the Heart of Human-Centered AI: A Social Self-Determination Model of AI System Impact. New Ideas in Psychology 2023, 70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2023.101025
Brolan, C.E. Looking Back—Australia’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Policy Agendas. Sustainability 2023, 15, 5688. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075688
Creamer, S, Toombs, M, Tarrago A, Williams R, Frazer J, Curtis C & Brolan C. (2023). More than black printed words on white paper: intergenerational health justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In B. Bennett and I. Freckleton (Eds.), Australian Public Health Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges. Federation Press. ISBN: 9781760024178.
Curtis, C, Gillespie, N, Okimoto T. (2023) Establishing trust in science communication. In S. Roland and L. Kuchel (Eds.), Teaching Science Students to Communicate: A Practical Guide (pp.39-47). Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-91628-2; DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-91628-2.
Dorlach, Tim and Gunasekara, Sandya (2023). The politics of glyphosate regulation: lessons from Sri Lanka’s short-lived ban. Globalization and Health, 19 (1) 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00981-2.
Dorlach, Tim and Gunasekara, Sandya (2023). Pesticide Politics in the Global South: The Turbulent Regulation of Glyphosate and Organic Agriculture in Sri Lanka, in ISA World Congress of Sociology (hybrid), Melbourne, VIC Australia, 25 June - 1 July 2023.
Fish, Allison (2023). Conceptualizing nature as information: rendering South Asian genetic resources and associated knowledge searchable and legible, in Bellido, J and Sherman, B (Eds.), Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (pp. 330-350). Oxford University Press.
Fish, Allison (2023). Monitoring compliance with Nagoya: lessons from India on building a techno-legal infrastructure to track bioprospecting activities in Lawson, C. Rourke, M. and Humphries, F. (Eds.) Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources, information and traditional knowledge (pp. 288-304). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003301998-22.
Frohlich, Miguel, Fidelman, Pedro, Dutton, Ian, Haward, Marcus, Head, Brian W., Maynard, Dianne, Rissik, David and Vince, Joanna (2023). A network approach to analyse Australia’s blue economy policy and legislative arrangements. Marine Policy, 151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105588.
Gallo-Cajiao, Eduardo, Lieberman, Susan, Dolšak, Nives, Prakash, Aseem, Labonté, Ronald, Biggs, Duan, Franklin, Christine, Morrison, Tiffany H., Viens, A. M., Fuller, Richard A., Aguiar, Raphael, Fidelman, Pedro, Watson, James E. M., Aenishaenslin, Cécile and Wiktorowicz, Mary (2023). Global governance for pandemic prevention and the wildlife trade. The Lancet Planetary Health, 7 (4). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00029-3.
Holtum, Peter James (PJ), Lata, Lutfun and Marston, Greg (2023). Be your own boss: the role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(ies). Migratory men: place, transnationalism and masculinities. (pp. 123-138) edited by Garth Stahl and Yang Zhao. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003353232-12.
Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Perales, Francisco and Ablaza, Christine (2023). Of good mothers and violent fathers: negotiating child protection interventions in abusive relationships. Violence Against Women, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231158107
Lashmar, N., Wade, B., Molyneaux, L. and Ashworth, P. (2023). Activating electricity system demand response for commercial and industrial organisations. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 30 (3-4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2023.2242317
Lashmar, N., Wade, B., Molyneaux, L. and Ashworth, P. (2023). Business case or paradoxical decision-making frame? What's influencing Australian managers' participation in energy demand response. Energy Research and Social Science, (102), 103197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103197.
Maher, Ray, Yarnold, Jennifer and Pushpamali, N. N. C. (2023). Circular economy 4 business: a program and framework for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) with three case studies. Journal of Cleaner Production 2023, 412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137114.
Plage, Stefanie, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Clarke, Andrew, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families. Housing, Theory and Society, 40 (3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2173287.
Shumway, Nicole, Foster, Rose, Head, Brian and Fidelman, Pedro (2023). Policy solutions needed for the future of coral reefs. BioScience, 73 (11), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad092.
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Seeing, sharing and supporting: assertive outreach as a partial solution to rough sleeping. The British Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad251.
Turschwell, Mischa P., Brown, Christopher J., Lacharité, Myriam, Melbourne-Thomas, Jess, Hayes, Keith R., Bustamante, Rodrigo H., Dambacher, Jeffrey M., Evans, Karen, Fidelman, Pedro, Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Van Putten, Ingrid, Wood, Graham, Abdussamie, Nagi, Bates, Mathilda, Blackwell, Damien, D’Alessandro, Steven, Dutton, Ian, Ericson, Jessica A., Frid, Christopher LJ, McDougall, Carmel, Lea, Mary-Anne, Rissik, David, Trebilco, Rowan and Fulton, Elizabeth A. (2023). Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy. Environmental Science & Policy, 147, 154-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.008.
Turschwell, M. P., Fulton, E. A., Melbourne-Thomas, J., Lacharité, M., Hayes, K. R., Wood, G., Evans, K., Hatton MacDonald, D., Dambacher, J., Bustamante, R. H., Abbassi, R., Fidelman, P. and Brown, C. J. (2023). A synthesis of approaches to support integrated assessments of hazards for the emerging Blue Economy. Marine Policy, 155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105696.
2022
Brolan, C., et al., (2022). Lessons from the frontline: The COVID-19 pandemic emergency care experience from a human resource perspective in the Pacific region. The Lancet Regional Health- Western Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100514.
Brolan, C. (2022). Public Health and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In D. McQueen (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.013.327.
Bull, Joseph W., Sonter, Laura J., Gordon, Ascelin., Maron, Martine., Narain, Divya., Reside, April E., Sánchez, Luis E., Shumway, Nicole., von Hase, Amrei., and Quétier, Fabien (2022). Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20 (6), 370-378. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2496
Cox, M., Sharma, D., Phillips, G., Mitchell, R., Herron, L. M., Brolan, C. E., ... & Kafoa, B. (2022). Lessons from the frontline: Documenting the pandemic emergency care experience from the Pacific region–Infrastructure and equipment. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100516
Cox, M., Phillips, G., Mitchell, R., Herron, L. M., Körver, S., Sharma, D., Brolan, C.... & Kafoa, B. (2022). Lessons from the frontline: documenting the experiences of Pacific emergency care clinicians responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100517.
Creamer, S., Blair, S., Toombs, M., and Brolan, C. (2022). Indigenous Services Leading the way forAboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Children in out-of-home care. Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2022.2155129.
Curtis, C., Gillespie, N. & Lockey, S. (2022) AI-deploying organizations are key to addressing 'perfect storm' of AI risks. AI and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00163-7
Curtis, Caitlin and Brolan, Claire E. (2022). Health care in the metaverse. Medical Journal of Australia. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51793
Easton, M., De Paepe, J., Evans, P., Head, Brian W., & Yarnold, J. (2022) Embedding Expertise for Policy Responses to COVID-19: Comparing Decision-Making Structures in Two Federal Democracies. Public Organization Review. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00629-6
Fidelman, P. (2022) Coral reefs: The case for ecological reflexivity, pp. 175-182. In: P. Harris (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change. Routledge.
Fish, A., & Sherman, B. (2022). Using 'Technology to Fill the Gaps in the Law': The Use of Machine Learning to Monitor Bioprospecting and Biopiracy in India. In Krishnaswamy, S. & Joshi, D (Eds.), The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India. Centre for Law and Policy Research. https://dx.doi.org/10.54999/2c0l1p0r.
Frohlich, M., Smith, T. F., Fidelman, P., Baldwin, C., Jacobson, C., and Carter, R.W. (2022). Towards adaptive coastal management law: lessons from Australia and Brazil. Ocean and Coastal Management, 219, 106057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106057.
Hartley, S., Taitingfong, R. & Fidelman, P. (2022). The Principles Driving Gene Drives for Conservation. Environmental Science and Policy, 135, 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.04.021.
Herron, L. M., Phillips, G., Brolan, C. E., Mitchell, R., O'Reilly, G., Sharma, D., ... & Cox, M. (2022). "When all else fails you have to come to the emergency department”: Overarching lessons about emergency care resilience from frontline clinicians in Pacific Island countries and territories during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100519.
Lashmar, N., Wade, B., Molyneaux, L. and Ashworth, P. (2022). Motivations, barriers, and enablers for demand response programs: a commercial and industrial consumer perspective. Energy Research & Social Science, 90, 102667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102667.
Maher, R., Mann, S., & McAlpine, C. (2022) MetaMAP: a graphical tool for designing initiatives to support multiple sustainability goals. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01157-4.
Marston, G., Humpage, L., Peterie, M., Mendes, P., Bielefeld, S., & Staines, Z. (2022). Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? Policy Press.
Mitchell, R., O'Reilly, G., Herron, L. M., Phillips, G., Sharma, D., Brolan, C. E., ... & Cox, M. (2022). Lessons from the frontline: The value of emergency care processes and data to pandemic responses across the Pacific region. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100515
Peterie, M., Marston, G., Humpage, L., Mendes, P., Bielefeld, S., & Staines, Z. (2022) "Subjectification, suffering and emotional resistance: Life on the Cashless Debit Card" (Chapter 9) in K. Soldatic and L. St Guillaume (Eds.), Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance (pp. 149-165). Routledge.
Phillips, G., Kendino, M., Brolan, C. E., Mitchell, R., Herron, L. M., Kὃrver, S., ... & Cox, M. (2022). Lessons from the frontline: Leadership and governance experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic response across the Pacific region. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100518.
Shumway, N., Saunders, M. I., Nicol, S., Fuller, R. A., Ben-Moshe, N., Iwamura, T., Kim, S. W., Murray, N. J., Watson, J. E. M., & Maron, M. (2022). Exploring the risks and benefits of flexibility in biodiversity offset location in a case study of migratory shorebirds. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14031.
Sockhill, N., Dean, A., Oh, R., & Fuller, R. (2022). Beyond the ecocentric: Diverse values and attitudes influence engagement in pro-environmental behaviours. British Ecological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10400.
Stambe, R., & Marston, G. (2022). Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response. Social Policy and Society, 1-16. doi:10.1017/S1474746421000944.
Toombs, Maree R., Curtis, Caitlin and Brolan, Claire E. (2022). Supporting Indigenous health equity strategic planning: a Queensland perspective. Medical Journal of Australia. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51794.
Weder, F., Yarnold, J., Mertl, S., Hübner, R., Elmenreich, W., & Sposato, R. (2022). Social Learning of Sustainability in a Pandemic—Changes to Sustainability Understandings, Attitudes, and Behaviors during the Global Pandemic in a Higher Education Setting. Sustainability, 14(6):3416. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063416.
Wilson L, Marasoiu M. (2022). The Development and Use of Chatbots in Public Health: Scoping Review. JMIR Hum Factors. Oct 5;9(4):e35882. doi: 10.2196/35882.
Yarnold, J., Maher, R., Hussey, K. and Dovers, S. (2022) "Uncertainty: Risk, Technology and the Future" in Harris, P. G. (Ed.) Routledge handbook of global environmental politics. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003008873-23.