Centre for Policy Futures

Dr Jennifer Yarnold

Research Fellow
Centre for Policy Futures
07 344 33122
Level 3, 336
General Purpose North 39a
UQ ST LUCIA CAMPUS
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Researcher biography

Jennifer's research themes include the circular economy, digital and biotechnologies and food security.

In addition to traditional research, Jennifer leads two programs within the Centre for Policy Futures – the Policy Impact Program (PIP) and the Policy Engagement Program (PEP). The PIP is a collaboration between UQ and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust which curates a selection of the best ideas from Churchill Fellows that have the potential to guide best-practice policy reform in Australia. Its flagship piece is the Policy Futures: A Reform Agenda publication. Through the PEP, experts on a policy-priority topics are engaged in roundtable discussions to guide the development of the Centre’s Policy Futures Think Piece series - designed to unpack complex topics for policy makers.

Jennifer is contributing to the Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Circular Economy for Business Program and developing projects related to circular business models and supply chains.

Jennifer is a biologist by training with expertise in photosynthesis, mathematical modelling, systems modelling and phycology. Other interests include sustainability, climate change, carbon sequestration, renewable energy, bioeconomy, microalgae biotechnologies and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (12)
Thesis (1)
Research Reports (6)

Book Chapter

Yarnold, Jennifer, Maher, Ray, Hussey, Karen and Dovers, Stephen (2022). Uncertainty: risk, technology and the future. Routledge handbook of global environmental politics. (pp. 253-268) edited by Paul G. Harris. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003008873-23

Journal Articles

Easton, Marleen, De Paepe, Jasper, Evans, Phoebe, Head, Brian W. and Yarnold, Jennifer (2022). Embedding expertise for policy responses to COVID-19: comparing decision-making structures in two federal democracies. Public Organization Review, 22 (2), 309-326. doi: 10.1007/s11115-022-00629-6
Weder, Franzisca, Yarnold, Jennifer, Mertl, Stefanie, Hübner, Renate, Elmenreich, Wilfried and Sposato, Robert (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, 3416. doi: 10.3390/su14063416
Roles, John, Yarnold, Jennifer, Hussey, Karen and Hankamer, Ben (2021). Techno-economic evaluation of microalgae high-density liquid fuel production at 12 international locations. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 14 (1) 133, 1-19. doi: 10.1186/s13068-021-01972-4
Anyshchenko, Artem and Yarnold, Jennifer (2020). From ‘mad cow’ crisis to synthetic biology: challenges to EU regulation of GMOs beyond the European context. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 21 (3), 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s10784-020-09516-1
Sivakaminathan, Shwetha, Wolf, Juliane, Yarnold, Jennifer, Roles, John, Ross, Ian L., Stephens, Evan, Henderson, Garry and Hankamer, Ben (2020). Light guide systems enhance microalgae production efficiency in outdoor high rate ponds. Algal Research, 47 101846, 101846. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2020.101846
Roles, John, Yarnold, Jennifer, Wolf, Juliane, Stephens, Evan, Hussey, Karen and Hankamer, Ben (2020). Charting a development path to deliver cost competitive microalgae-based fuels. Algal Research, 45 101721, 101721. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2019.101721
Huang, Jianke, Hankamer, Ben and Yarnold, Jennifer (2019). Design scenarios of outdoor arrayed cylindrical photobioreactors for microalgae cultivation considering solar radiation and temperature. Algal Research, 41 101515, 101515. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2019.101515
Yarnold, Jennifer, Karan, Hakan, Oey, Melanie and Hankamer, Ben (2019). Microalgal aquafeeds as part of a circular bioeconomy. Trends in Plant Science, 24 (10), 959-970. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.005
Sivakaminathan, Shwetha, Hankamer, Ben, Wolf, Juliane and Yarnold, Jennifer (2018). High-throughput optimisation of light-driven microalgae biotechnologies. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 11687, 11687. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29954-x
Wolf, J., Stephens, E., Steinbusch, S., Yarnold, J., Ross, I. L., Steinweg, C., Doebbe, A., Krolovitsch, C., Muller, S., Jakob, G., Kruse, O., Posten, C. and Hankamer, B. (2016). Multifactorial comparison of photobioreactor geometries in parallel microalgae cultivations. Algal Research, 15, 187-201. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2016.02.018
Yarnold, Jennifer, Ross, Ian L. and Hankamer, Ben (2016). Photoacclimation and productivity of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii grown in fluctuating light regimes which simulate outdoor algal culture conditions. Algal Research: biology, biomass and biofuels, 13, 182-194. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2015.11.001
Yarnold, Jennifer E., Hamilton, Brett R., Welsh, David T., Pool, Gertruida F., Venter, Deon J. and Carroll, Anthony R. (2012). High resolution spatial mapping of brominated pyrrole-2-aminoimidazole alkaloids distributions in the marine sponge Stylissa flabellata via MALDI-mass spectrometry imaging. Molecular BioSystems, 8 (9), 2249-2259. doi: 10.1039/C2MB25152C

Thesis

Yarnold, Jennifer Elizabeth (2016). Photosynthesis of microalgae in outdoor mass cultures and modelling its effects on biomass productivity for fuels, feeds and chemicals. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.536

Research Reports

Yarnold, Jennifer , Brown, Prue, Fidelman, Pedro , Guster, Kirsty , Davey, Adam and Cain, Tracey (2022). Policy futures: a reform agenda. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Yarnold, Jennifer , Marston, Greg , Mackey, Brendan , McVeigh, John , Rolfe, John , Dale, Allan , Babacan, Hurriyet , Lyons, Ben , Deane, Felicity , Molyneaux, Lynette , Plint, Neville , Newlands, Maxine , Keenan-Jones, Duncan , Quiggin, John , Lovelock, Catherine , Birch, Jacob , Ashford, Graham , Maguire, Rowena , Butler, Don and Doran-Browne, Natalie (2022). Decarbonising Queensland: Four pillars toward a resilient and inclusive low-carbon economy. Policy Futures Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Franco, Isabel B., Fidelman, Pedro, Maher, Ray, Ritchie, Brent, Yarnold, Jennifer, Derbyshire, Ellen, Foster, Rose and Ulhmann, Kora (2021). The future of sustainability solutions. Conversation Series Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Yarnold, Jennifer, Hussey, Karen , Davey, Adam and Guster, Kirsty (2021). Policy Futures: A reform agenda. Policy Futures Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Hussey, Karen, Brolan, Claire, Hill, Peter, Hine, Damian, Williams, Owain, Stamms, Julia, McEwan, Chris, Yarnold, Jennifer and Hazell, Rachael (2019). The Pacific Community Futures Project: Ensuring SPC can meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Centre for Policy Futures: The University of Queensland.
Hussey, Karen, Yarnold, Jennifer, McEwan, Christopher, Maher, Ray, Henman, Paul, Radke, Amelia, Curtis, Caitlin, Fidelman, Pedro, Vickers, Claudia and Brolan, Claire (2019). Policy futures: regulating the new economy. Policy Futures Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.