Melissa Nursey-bray

Biography

Dr Melissa Nursey-Bray is an Associate Professor and currently Head of Department in Geography, Environment and Population (GEP), and the Coordinator of the GEP Masters Dissertation Program. She also teaches the research methods, community engagement and EIA subjects within it as well as undergraduates subjects in ethics, Indigenous resource management, coastal management and EIA. She is currently co-theme leader for the Indigenous theme of the Social Economic and Institutional Climate Adaptation Research Network and is leading projects in fisheries management in partnership with SARDI and FRDC. She is theme leader for adaptive governance as part of the Asia-Pacific Governance Research Centre and a member of the Fay Gale Centre for Gender Research and CHURP. She is also co-theme leader of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Marine Biodiversity, co-theme leader of the NCCARF SEI network (Indigenous theme), Chair of the REDMAP Community Advisory Committee, and an Honorary Tyndall Fellow (2009). Melissa's research interest is the examination of how communities or communities of interest become involved in decision making and in this context she has worked primarily in the area of Indigenous resource management, protected area management, and more recently in climate change adaptation. Her work with Indigenous peoples has included training Indigenous rangers on country, and development of community based management plans, such as the Hope Vale Turtle and Dugong Management Plan, the Girringun Co-management agreement along the Great Barrier Reef and the Arabana Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. As a member of the National Institute of Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability (UTAS, Tasmania), Melissa was active in building research in climate change adaptation for fisheries and local government.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc