I am a health professional and social scientist interested in public health, food systems, health literacy, climate change, agriculture, environment, conservation, and biodiversity. With extensive experience in policy research, community-stakeholder engagement, and collaborative practice. 

My lived experiences of residency and work in urban, rural, coastal, and remote communities, plus travel overseas, provide unique insights in time and place, context, and scale. Prompting many reflections at the ‘science-practice-policy interface’. I often use systems thinking (to avoid silo effects) and transdisciplinary approaches, by working across sectors, jurisdictions, organisations, disciplines and fields of expertise. Making new connections with others through conversation, networking, collaboration, and shared learning, as well as immersion in diverse knowledge systems and evidence sources. Finding common interests to achieve agreed strategic goals for community benefit; the multiple experiences and perspectives of others can aid critical analysis, problem-solving, action, monitoring and evaluation.

Currently working on projects: exploring pathways to sustainable food systems and governance; creating a naturalistic garden; menopause and culture. At the School of Sociology, ANU, I am collaborating with multidisciplinary colleagues to develop the Environment, Nature and Society node and design of a new urban ecology course.