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Name Interests Dr Joe Greet Traditional Owner Engagement, Plant Life Histories, Wetland Plants, Ecology, Riparian Vegetation, Restoration, Environmental Flows, Feral Animal Management, Natural Flow Regime Wendi Li Globalised public communication, climate change communication, methodological cosmopolitanism, qualitative research Dr Tom Fairman Forestry, ecological applications, forestry sciences Dr Mark de Souza Experiences of biodiversity A/Professor Neil Young Parasitology, genomics, bioinformatics, molecular evolution, transcriptomics, genetics, biological sciences, life sciences & biomedicine Debela Abdeta Veterinary science Dr Chris Baker Environmental sciences, ecology, life on land, life sciences and biomedicine, good health and wellbeing Andrew Irvin Sustainability, climate change mitigation and risk Professor Peter Vesk Plant ecology, plant functional traits, native vegetation management, eucalypt forests & woodlands, biodiversity & conservation, environmental sciences, ecological modelling, ecological statistics, ecological restoration Professor Katherine Johnson ADHD, autism, nature experiences, developmental psychology, attention, response inhibition, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, psychology Dr Stephen Burrell Violence and abuse, gender-based violence, gender equality, men and masculinities, primary prevention, green criminology, environmental harm, climate change, feminism and pro feminism A/Professor Forbes McGain Biomedical and clinical sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, clinical sciences, general & internal medicine, good health and well being, critical care medicine, health services and systems Dr Jodie Valpied Environmental psychology, biodiversity & ecology, personality psychology, individual differences within species, openness to experience, introversion, platypus conservation, connectedness to nature, Healthy waterways & catchments Anna Farago Visual Art and Design Education, A/r/tography, teacher education, Community Based Art Education, Socially Engaged Art Practice, eportfolios teacher education, pebblepad, educational technology and computing, creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy Carmen Yuen Sustainability, design Dr Tiffany Kosch Chytridiomycosis, Conservation Genomics, Targeted Genetic Intervention, Synthetic Biology, Amphibian Genomics, Genetic Management of Threatened Species, Immunogenetics, Engineering Resilience, Disease Ecology Kashmini Sumnanasekera Wildlife conservation, health and infectious diseases Tharaka Liyanage One Health, veterinary diagnostics, infectious agents, parasitology, wildlife Sam Girvan Native mammals Dr Stephanie Lavau Science studies, Environmental humanities, Geography, Biodiversity, Water, Environmental management, Ecologies of knowledge practices, Civic ecology and citizen science, Nature-cultures A/Professor Margaret Grose Ecology & design education, experimentation in design, agriculture & design, suburban, biodiversity, ecology, river systems, colour in plants, science & technology Ahmet Beyatli Medicinal and aromatic plants Kevin Newman Surveillance methods to maximise detections of target species A/Professor Jasmin Hufschmid Epidemiology, Disease Ecology, Conservation, Parasitology, Wildlife Health, Ecotoxicology, Zoonosis, Fluorosis, Bats Dr Nicholas Doidge infection, infectious diseases, biological sciences, science & technology, lord howe island stick insect, agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, microbiology, zoology, veterinary sciences Dr Gerry Ryan science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, good health and well being, infectious diseases, emerging infectious diseases, coronaviruses, environmental sciences, biomedical and clinical sciences, infection Siri Hayes Art, performance Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick Measurement, Technology, Psychology, Adolescent, Wellbeing Science, Mental Health, Biofeedback, Success, Nature Stephanie Campbell Innovation and sustainable regional development, climate change, energy transition Ella Plumanns Pouton Plant ecology, Fire ecology, Seed ecology, Biodiversity conservation Professor Emily Nicholson Environmental sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology, life on land, climate change impacts and adaptation, ecology, biodiversity conservation, biodiversity & conservation Dr Paola Vaz infectious diseases, comparative evolution, herpesviruses, virology, Viral evolution, molecular biology, microbial genomics, Microbiology, science & technology A/Professor Simon Firestone One Health, epidemiology, zoonoses, infectious disease modelling, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, infection, agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, infectious diseases A/Professor Lee Berger Chytridiomycosis, Amphibian, Wildlife Health, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Conservation, Pathogenesis, Fungus, Frog, Diagnosis Dr Andrea Rawluk Bushfire, Environmental Social Science, Collaboration, Landscape change, Agriculture, Indigenous cultural fire, Hope, Restoration Pedro Paulo de Oliveira Nogueira Epidemiology, Parasitology, Animal Genetics, Conservation Dr Jayson Cooper STEM Learning Ecologies, First Nations–Settler Relations, Early Childhood Studies, Place-based Education, Public Pedagogies, Sound Studies and Acoustic Ecologies, Postqualitative Arts-based methodologies, Multimodality Dr Rose Macaulay Good health and well being, behavioral and social science, mindfulness, life sciences & biomedicine, mental health, environmental sciences & ecology, mind and body, science & technology, complementary and integrative health Dr Malyon Bimler biological sciences, ecology, environmental sciences, life sciences & biomedicine, science & technology, coexistence, environmental sciences & ecology, ecology, generic health relevance Dr Patricia Menendez Galvan Statistics, Mathematics, time series, smoothing methods, data science, statistical modelling, applied statistics, Climate research and environmental statistics, Dependent data A/Professor Margaret Ayre community-based, catchment management, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences, agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, environmental sciences & ecology, management, systems Dr Kate Dooley science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology, climate action, environmental studies, environmental sciences, life on land, environmental sciences Dr Panos Loukopoulos Pathology, oncology, One Health, Autopsy, Wildlife, osteosarcoma, genomics, metabolomics, diagnostic investigation Héber Dias de Oliveiraplant biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, in vitro cell culture, plant physiology, plant biology, plant nutrition Dr Stanislav Roudavski generative design, interspecies design, ecocentric design, more-than-human design, design futures, digital fabrication, computational creativity, design innovation, critical design studies Dr Alexis Pang Precision Agriculture, Soil Science, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, Spatial Science, Learning Sciences, Pedagogical Innovation, Technology-enhanced Learning, Mobile Learning Dr Tina Parkhurst environmental sciences, ecology, climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental sciences & ecology Professor Kirstin Parris Urban systems, Bioacoustics and animal communication, Amphibians, environmental sciences & ecology Professor Ray Green Environmental Planning and Design, Tourism, Sustainability, Environmental Perceptions, Coastal Settlements, Trees in Cities, Character of Place, Research Methodlogies Dr Belle Workman Human health, health co-benefits, Climate change, Mitigation policy, Environmental health, Regional transitions, Evaluation, Policy analysis, life sciences & biomedicine Nathaniel Nguyen Zoology Dr Judit Kroo Japan, Policy, Ecological Knowledges, Recovery, Post-Disaster Communities, Future-Imagining, Linguistics, Anthropology, Korea A/Professor Suzie Reichman PFAS, Soil invertebrates, Environmental risk assessment, Earthworm, Terrestrial ecotoxicology, Metals, Microplastics, Plants, Soil chemistry Shankar Adhikari Forest Ecosystem Services, Climate Change Adaptation, Forest Management, Silviculture Professor Ruth Nettle Agriculture, systems, agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, human society, environmental sciences, social sciences Erik Alonso Quantitative ecology Hannah Morrice Child health and wellbeing, Community-based research, Mixed methods, Disasters, Climate and health, health policy, human society Ellie Tsiamis good health and well being, life sciences & biomedicine, prevention, mental health, biomedical and clinical sciences Dr Mahima Kalla Qualitative Research, Poetic Inquiry / Poetic Representation, Children / Youth Empowerment and Education, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Climate Action, Creative Writing / Arts-based Methods of Inquiry, Qualitative Research Terry Walshe Risk, uncertainty, decision-making, environmental sciences A/Professor Amy Hahs Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, environmental sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology, climate change impacts and adaptation Dr Alison Gibberd Linked data analysis, Epidemiology, Perinatal health, Child protection, good health and well being, health sciences, pediatric, life sciences & biomedicine, science & technology Kathryn Edenborough Virology, Microbial genomics, Genomic epidemiology, Infectious diseases, science & technology, infectious diseases, infection, life sciences & biomedicine, emerging infectious diseases Dr Anna Sri biomedical and clinical sciences, infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, antibiotic, stewardship Professor Jacqueline Dutton language, communication and culture, literary studies, literature, cultural studies, social sciences, history, heritage and archaeology A/Professor Sarah Rogers human society, social sciences, china, life sciences & biomedicine, human geography, sociology Dr Melissa Pineda Pinto Justice, Urban Nature, City planning & Design, Critical geography, Social-ecological systems, sustainable cities and communities, science & technology, environmental sciences & ecology, life sciences & biomedicine Professor Jane Davidson music psychology, adaptation, ageing, lifespan, wellbeing, creativity, opera, voice Dr Rachel Morgain Science and technology studies, Biodiversity conservation, Anthropology, Climate adaptation, Human-nature relations, Natural resource management, Knowledge systems, Biodiversity and business, Pacific Studies Professor Alice Hughes biological sciences, environmental sciences, life on land, ecology, environmental management, climate change impacts and adaptation, climate action, ecological applications, life below water A/Professor Martin Tomko spatial communication, retail analytics, cyber-physical-social systems, spatial recommender systems, annotation, search and retrieval, and ranking of spatially related data, eResearch infrastructure in the spatial domain, mobility analytics Dr Emma J Hudgins Invasive Species, Conservation Decisions, Ecological Modelling, Species distributions, Economic Impact, Urban Trees, Forest Management, Urban Ecology, Spatial Ecology Dr Anja Skroblin Fire ecology, population genetics, rangelands management, environmental sciences, life on land, climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental management, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine Ellen Hodgson film production, documentary, Indigenous knowledge Maddy Sbeghen human-bird interactions, community engagement Dr Sarah Webber Human-computer interaction, Animal-computer interaction, Digital nature, Interaction design, Social computing, Technology for social connectedness, Technology for wellbeing, User-centred design, Design thinking Lara Skerratt Ocean governance, tragedy of the commons Dr Vera Korasidis Sedimentology, Geology, Palynology, Climate change, Palaeontology, Palaeoclimate, Stratigraphy, PETM, Cretaceous Dr Viliamu Iese science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, zero hunger, nutrition, human society, environmental sciences & ecology, climate action, health sciences, public health Dr August Hao life sciences & biomedicine, science & technology, environmental sciences & ecology, ecology, biological sciences, biodiversity & conservation, forecasts, uncertainties, ecological niche models Tamar Orly mycology Professor Natalie King Curator, contemporary art, photography, editor, arts leader, mentor, international, feminism, art Kate Senior environmental sciences, climate change impacts and adaptation, life sciences & biomedicine, ecological applications Dr Irshad Bibi Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Hydrogeochemistry, Earth Sciences, Mineral weathering, Trace element geochemistry, Soil Science and soil-plant relationship, Geological CO2 sequestration, Water treatment Dr Janelle Evans performance art, Australian contemporary art, translation, first nations-first, periodic table, history, heritage and archaeology, specialist studies in education Professor Kathryn Williams urban greening, attitudes, restoration, social science, environmental psychology, interdisciplinarity, nature connections, behaviour, forests Michael Traurig environmental sciences, environmental management, climate change impacts and adaptation, life on land, reef characterisations, saccostrea, marine invertebrates, functional diversity, ecology Dr Miranda Stanyon Affect & emotions, Romanticism, long eighteenth century, aesthetics, sound studies, comparative literature, reception theory, Anglo-German literature, sublime Hongyi Liu urban horticulture Jess Abbonizio Sustainable healthcare Dr Louise Shewan Laos, Cambodia, Isoscapes, Geography, Archaeology, Isotope Geochemistry, Jordan, Science and Technology, Cardiology Dr Gillian Howell Community music, Adolescent voice and agency, Peace and conflict, Participatory research, Music in Peacebuilding, Reconciliation, International Development, First Nations music collaborations Dr Jonathan Kemp New Media Art, Materials Conservation, Critical Heritage, Meaning & Matter, Caring for Cultural Heritage, Version Control, Rock & Stone, Sculpture Conservation, Contemporary Art Dr Helen Hayden soil microbiology Ye-Tzu Fan Environmental management, sustainable agriculture Jin Yan Biochemistry, plant research Yifan Qin Biotechnology
About the cluster
The healthy countries, healthy communities, healthy people research cluster brings together a wide range of researchers and academics from across the veterinary school, agriculture, medicine, population and global health, Indigenous knowledge, ecosystem science and beyond; examining the interconnections between human, animal and eco-system health.
The areas of focus of the cluster include but are not limited to:
- Caring for Country
- Ecosystem integrity and condition
- Wildlife health as indicator for healthy ecosystems
- Education, health and music
- Nature benefits for cognitive, psychological, socio-cultural spiritual and
- physical health
- Zoonosis and biosecurity
- Multi-species social/and ecological justice
- Soil health and biodiversity
- Pollution, ecosystems and human health
- Culturally significant species
- Art, health and nature
- One Health
Research projects
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Can dingoes help to manage introduced deer?
Investigating the diet of dingoes in Bunyip State Park to understand the potential contribution of dingoes to deer management.
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Co-designing multi-purpose nature-based solutions for food sovereignty and health (CodeMOANAH)
Piloting an internationally recognised method to characterise, analyse and map biodiversity in Indigenous food production systems.
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Riding the wave to formalise the Melanesian Bio-Cultural Network
Launching the Melanesian Biocultural Network as an Indigenous-led regional platform to advance biodiversity conservation through cultural governance and traditional ecological knowledge.
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Wildlife from Bush to City: a One Health approach workshop
Bringing together experts and stakeholders for a one-day workshop to address knowledge gaps in wildlife health responses to anthropogenic landscape change.
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Plant to Learn the vAlue of biodiversity iN healThcare (PLANT)
This project scales up an existing planting and education program ('Living Lab') for biodiversity at the University of Melbourne's Dookie campus.