Our members

Past Fellows

• Dr Justin See, School of Geosciences (2022)
• Dr Scott Webster, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies (2022)
• Dr Anna Sturman, Department of Political Economy (2022)
• Dr June Rubis, School of Geosciences (2020)
• Dr Blanche Verlie, Department of Sociology and Criminology (2019)
• Dr Christine Winter, Department of Government and International Relations (2020)
• Dr Kate Johnston, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies (2019) 
• Dr Genevieve Campbell, Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2019)
• Dr Brigitte Sommer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences (2019)
• Dr Killian Quigley, Department of English (2017)
• Dr Bradley Garrett, School of Geosciences (2016) 

Darren Chang

Department of Sociology and Criminology

Darren Chang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. His research interests broadly include interspecies relations under colonialism and global capitalism, practices of solidarity, kinship, and mutual aid across species in challenging oppressive powers, social movement theories, and multispecies justice.

Through political (and politicised) ethnography at animal sanctuaries, Darren's PhD research project explores potential alignments and tensions between animal and other social and environmental justice movements. The multispecies dimension of this project also considers the place, positions, and subjectivities of nonhuman animals in relation to anthropogenic social movements.

Hannah Della Bosca

Department of Sociology and Criminology

Hannah Della Bosca is a Phd candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and a Research Assistant at the Sydney Environment Institute. Hannah has a background in Legal Geography around environmental decision making, generational coal mining communities and energy transitions, and protected upland swamps. She has previously contributed to research on community resilience and responses to disruption, and continues to work on projects related to environmental and social justice, and violence.

Hannah’s PhD research project is titled For Colony and Empire: The Lifeways and Lifeworlds of Ants as Paradox and Paradigm of Terrestrial Resilience. Shifting the lens onto non-human resilience research subjects, the intention of this work is to position the ant as a provocateur in re-imagining and re-storying the terrestrial narrative of colony and domination that characterises the Anthropocene. It draws together biological and biosocial research on ant species with diverse narratives of ant-human encounters in order to explore the boundaries of identity and theory in day-to-day life. The goal is to challenge or extend theories and ideals of justice as they relate to and are applied as solutions in an age of disruption, attending closely to difference, nuance, and messy but vital realities on a shared planet.

Freya MacDonald

Department of English 

Freya Grace MacDonald is a Doctoral Fellow at SEI and a PhD candidate in the Department of English at The University of Syndey. Her interdisciplinary PhD research elucidates and explores the relationship between Environmental Imaginaries and contemporary Environmental Fiction in Australia in the wake of the 2019/2020 Black Summer Bushfires.

Philip McKibbin

Department of Sociology and Criminology

Philip McKibbin is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. He is a New Zealander, of Pākehā (NZ European) and Māori (Ngāi Tahu) descent. He holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Auckland and is passionate about te reo Māori (the Māori language). His PhD explores love, politics, and multispecies relations. His book, Love Notes: for a Politics of Love, is published in New York by Lantern Books.

Ana Maria Ulloa

Department of Government and International Relations

Ana Maria Ulloa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Her work focuses on the role of NGOs in holding governments to account for the lack of actions to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. She is interested in understanding how this dynamic between NGOs and states can enable learning and catalyse actions to improve biodiversity and climate outcomes.

Sam Widin

Department of History

Sam Widin is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He has worked as a tutor in the Environmental Humanities at UNSW, and a number of research assistant positions at USyd. His work focuses on extinction, multispecies studies and environmental history. His PhD is looking at the small and declining population of palm cockatoos in the Cape York Peninsula. Sam collaborates with Thom van Dooren on The Living Archive: Extinction Stories from Oceania. In 2017 he received first class honours in the Environmental Humanities at UNSW.

• Alana Barbaro, Faculty of Law
• Lauren Hocking, Faculty of Engineering/Science
• Antonio Izzo, Faculty of Science
• Arielle Saunders, Faculty of Science
• Sanaa Shah, Faculty of Science

Past Honours Fellows 

2023

• Mik Barrow, Faculty of Science 
• Grace Barrett-Lennard, School of Civil Engineering
• Libby Newton, Sydney Law School

2022

• Ailish Ryan, Department of Government and International Relations
• Olivia Mulligan, School of Geosciences
• Vivienne Goodes, School of Languages and Cultures

2021

• Phoebe Evans, Department of Government and International Relations
• Judita Hudson, School of Geosciences
• Sam Norman, Department of Government & International Relations
• Bart Shteinman, Department of Government and International Relations

2020

• Sarah Chow, School of Geosciences
• Stella Maynard, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
• Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, Department of Government and International Relations

2019

• Mark Bosch, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
• Hadrian Conyngham, Department of Philosophy
• Lauren Macrae, School of Geosciences

2018

• Anja Bless, Department of Government and International Relations
• Patrick James Cain, Department of Government and International Relations
• Alice Simpson-Young, Department of Government and International Relations

2017

• Andrew Brodzeli, Department of Political Economy
• Jodie Pall, School of Geosciences
• Gemma Viney, Department of Government and International Relations

2016

• Akash Bhattacharjee, Sydney Law School
• Anastasia Marie Mortimer, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
• Josephine Wright, School of Geosciences

2015

• Elizabeth,  Department of Government and International Relations

Past Fellows

• Dr Sanna Stålhammer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2024)
• Dr Julia Tschersich, Utrecht University (2024)
• Dr Stefan Pedersen, University of Sussex (2024)
• Prof Chris Raymond, University of Helsinki (2024)
• Dr Maria Saari, University of Oulu (2024)
• Anna Cain, Australian National Univeristy (2024)
• Professor Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University (2023)
• Dr Emily Beausoleil, Victorian University of Wellington (2023)
• Dr Eva Giraud, University of Sheffield (2023)
• Dr Reza Hafezi, National Research Institute for Science Policy (2023)
• Professor Sebastian Ureta, University Alberto Hurtado (2023)
• Associate Professor Nicole Rogers, Southern Cross University (2022)
• Dr Erin Fitz-Henry, University of Melbourne (2022)
• Associate Professor Gareth Edwards, Leverhulme International Fellow, University of East Anglia (2021-22)
• Professor Jennifer Deger, Charles Darwin University (2021-22)
• Professor Lisa Disch, University of Michigan (2020)
• Professor Petra Tschakert, University of Western Australia (2020)
• Professor Karia Norgaard, University of Oregon (2019)
• Professor David Roesner, University of Munich (2019)
• Associate Professor Daniel Barber, University of Pennsylvania (2017)
• Dr Michael Mann, Penn State (2017)
• Professor Julie Guthman, UCLA Santa Cruz (2016)
• Professor Neil Adger, University of Exeter (2015)
• Professor Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin Madison (2015)
• Professor Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington Seattle (2014)
• Dr John Ingram, Oxford University (2014)
• Professor Will Kymlicka, Queen's University (2014)
• Professor Dirk Matten, Schulich School of Business (2014)