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Associate ProfessorJo Gillespie

Associate Professor

Faculty of Science

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Science

LEARNING & TEACHING SUMMARy

Units:

ENVI3111 Environmental Law and Ethics (Unit Coordinator)

ENVI2122 Environmental Governance and Assessment (Unit Coordinator)

OLES1600 Exploring Sydney

 

Honours Students (since 2015):

Eva Earle (2024) Wetland Conservation: A case study of care & stewardship ethics in Myall Lakes.

Sanaa Shah (2024) Private Protected Areas, Environmental Non-Government Organisations & just/inclusive social outcomes.

Remy Smithers (2023) The evolution of climate change litigation and a new pathway forward?
Emily Woodward Noble (2023) Perceptions of 'nativeness': species management in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales.
Olivia Mulligan (2022) Access to information about the Proposal to Raise the Warragamba Dam Wall: a Human Rights Perspective.

Alyssa McDonald (2022) The Rights of Wetlands, multispecies justice and the role of environmental law.

Josie Lange (2020) Finding the Rights of Nature in Prescribed Burning Fire Management: Blue Mountains National Park, NSW.

Emma Koch (2020) Raising the Warragamba Dam Wall: letting down commitments to World Heritage status?

Ella Hagis (2019) Examining Ecological Injustice: Wild Brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW.

Nicola Perry (2017) Where culture meets conservation: researching the dynamics of gender, law and the environment in Prek Toal, Cambodia.

Hannah Della Bosca (2016) Hanging in the Balance: Community Participation in the Springvale Extension Development Proposal.

Matt Salgo (2015) Cracking the Code: a legal geography of NSW's 10/50 Code for Vegetation Removal

 

Current HDR Students:

Acacia McGowan (MPhil) Environmental Law and Shifting Ecological Baselines in Australia's Protected Areas

Satu Aavanranta (University of Helsinki), A geodesign approach for representing and giving agency to the values of humans and other species in nature restoration planning

Sonia Su A Legal-Geography of Marine Conservation in Anthropocene Taiwan

Emma Koch World Heritage Classifications in Australia: investigating the promise of cultural landscapes

Leilani Craig Exploring Deaf Organisations capacities in responding to Deaf Communiites needs during disasters triggered by natural hazards.

 

PhD Completions:

Shay Dougall (QUT), Host Farmers: Silence at the Centre of the Unconventional Gas People-Place-Law Nexus.

Nicola Perry, Bounded Properties, Interconnected Ecosystems: watering private wetlands in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia.

Ming Li Yong, Public participation and contested hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin.

Sopheak Chann, Land and Natural Resource Territorial Demarcation: a case study in Cambodia Protected Area Context.

Jessie Connell, The Art of Advocacy. Negotiating Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in Cambodia.