Research Principal
Rebecca Cunningham is a social scientist with broad research interests including art, big data analytics and visualization, cascades of cooperation, climate adaptation implementation, natural resource governance, network science, organisational psychology, phenomenology, public uptake of policy and trust. After completing a PhD in Business through Griffith University (Thesis title: The Global Performance Art Network: How the net works), Rebecca worked at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) were her focus was primarily in the climate adaptation space (in Australian contexts as well as working in countries within the Indian Ocean Rim). This was followed by an 18 month post-doc at the University of Manchester, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. During this time Rebecca worked on an interdisciplinary project exploring public perceptions of carbon capture and storage as well as collaborating with the Manchester Museum, Manchester Climate Change Agency and others on both an exhibition "Climate Control" and a series of public engagement events under the banner of "Manchester Climate Leaders”. Rebecca is currently a Research Principal at the University of Technology Sydney, Institute for Sustainable Futures working in climate change adaptation.
Joined 2016
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