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0000-0003-4648-7531
Current Organisation
Curtin University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Nanomaterials | Catalytic Process Engineering | Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) | Polymers and Plastics | Horticultural Crop Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) | Materials Engineering | Crop and Pasture Production | Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts | Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts | Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels) | Chemical Engineering | Composite and Hybrid Materials |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Hydrogen Production from Renewable Energy | Hydrogen Distribution | Control of Plant Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Plastic Products (incl. Construction Materials) | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Hydrogen Storage | Clay Products
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Publications
Engaging the public on carbon dioxide capture and storage: Does a large group process work?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Critical factors and pathways influencing genetically modified food risk perceptions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-07-2017
Climate Change—Does the IPCC Model Provide the Foundation for a Potential Global Technology Assessment Framework?
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10617-0_7
Abstract: This chapter explores the structure, practises and methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a legitimate scientific institution and its interplay with the global political decision-making forum of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By examining the successes and shortfalls of the IPCC process and comparing these with Technology Assessment (TA) theory and practice, we investigate whether such an institutionalised process of co-design between governments and researchers could serve as a potential global TA model. We identified four central challenges including: (a) a lack of impact through initiating action based on current government commitments, (b) the pursuit of consensus-based and situated knowledge, (c) reporting inaccuracies leading to mistrust, and (d) accessibility of information across different scales. We suggest there is potential for each of these deficiencies to be addressed using existing analytical and impact TA frameworks, resulting in more authentic and accepted outcomes from a global governance perspective. Highlighting that this may also help to build trust in science advice at the country and community level. By applying a critical lens to the IPCC process as one potential global TA model, we argue that with the addition of grassroots participatory TA, alongside traditional governance and reporting frameworks, there is potential to deliver holistic solutions on a range of global challenges.
Examining the Role of Carbon Capture and Storage Through an Ethical Lens
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-09-2014
DOI: 10.1007/S11948-013-9474-Z
Abstract: The risk posed by anthropogenic climate change is generally accepted, and the challenge we face to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to a tolerable limit cannot be underestimated. Reducing GHG emissions can be achieved either by producing less GHG to begin with or by emitting less GHG into the atmosphere. One carbon mitigation technology with large potential for capturing carbon dioxide at the point source of emissions is carbon capture and storage (CCS). However, the merits of CCS have been questioned, both on practical and ethical grounds. While the practical concerns have already received substantial attention, the ethical concerns still demand further consideration. This article aims to respond to this deficit by reviewing the critical ethical challenges raised by CCS as a possible tool in a climate mitigation strategy and argues that the urgency stemming from climate change underpins many of the concerns raised by CCS.
Societal acceptance of hydrogen for domestic and export applications in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Energymark: Empowering individual Australians to reduce their energy consumption
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2012
The Citizen’s Round Table process: canvassing public opinion on energy technologies to mitigate climate change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-02-2013
Developments in public communications on CCS
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Space matters: reducing energy disparity in Nepal through spatially equitable renewable energy subsidies
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 10-2022
Abstract: Affordability is a major barrier to the adoption of clean energy technologies in low-income countries, which is partly why many governments provide subsidies to offset some of the upfront (installation) costs. However, simple administrative rules might not fully account for economic geography, resulting in lower subsidies for remote areas. Using regression analysis on a rich dataset of adoption, cost and subsidy for about 4000 Nepalese Village Development Committees over 22 years, we show that administratively determined lumpsum subsidies disproportionately hurt remote communities. Simulations show that adjusting the subsidy spatially to reflect the geographic cost of living, can increase clean technology adoption. Thus, spatial targeting of subsidies is key to accelerating energy access in remote settings such as the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
An integrated roadmap of communication activities around carbon capture and storage in Australia and beyond
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Renewable Energy and the Public
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-10-2014
Best Practice for Community Engagement: Determining Who is Affected and What is at Stake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2016
Elucidating Finance Gaps through the Clean Cooking Value Chain
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-02-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU15043577
Abstract: The current supply of finance to enable universal access to clean fuels and technology for cooking does not match the scale of Sustainable Development Goal 7’s access challenge. To date, little attention has been given to the modalities of funding the clean cooking transition at the macro level. Grounded in a review of academic and recent grey literature, this study’s research objective was to provide a granular understanding of gaps in finance flows and financial instruments, mapped against the innovation cycle of companies that provide clean cooking solutions. In the context of wide-ranging barriers to the clean cooking sector’s development, we found a chronic shortfall of finance for companies at the early stages of their business growth and poorly targeted public finance to support innovation and mitigate risk for later-stage investors. This is exacerbated by limited data sharing and knowledge exchange among a small number of funders. We recommend reforms to public funding for clean cooking enterprises, especially for research, development and demonstration (RD& D) and innovation, to mitigate risk for later-stage investors, as well as more effective data sharing, to help catalyse sufficient, appropriate finance through the value chain for universal access.
Towards the Intelligent Grid: A Review of the Literature
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Exploring the orientations which characterise the likely public acceptance of low emission energy technologies
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-12-2011
From research to action: Now we have to move on CCS communication
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2010
Understanding the public’s response towards ‘enhanced water recovery’ in the Great Artesian Basin (Australia) using the carbon capture and storage process
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-11-2019
Print media representations of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technology in China
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
Public acceptance of carbon dioxide capture and storage in a proposed demonstration area
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-01-2009
Abstract: With the rising levels of CO 2 in the atmosphere, low-emission technologies with carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) provide one option for transforming the global energy infrastructure into a more environmentally, climate sustainable system. However, like many technology innovations, there is a social risk to the acceptance of CCS. This article presents the findings of an engagement process using facilitated workshops conducted in two communities in rural Queensland, Australia, where a demonstration project for IGCC with CCS has been announced. The findings demonstrate that workshop participants were concerned about climate change and wanted leadership from government and industry to address the issue. After the workshops, participants reported increased knowledge and more positive attitudes towards CCS, expressing support for the demonstration project to continue in their local area. The process developed is one that could be utilized around the world to successfully engage communities on the low carbon emission technology options.
Public attitudes towards bioplastics – knowledge, perception and end-of-life management
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Exploring the value proposition for RRI in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-04-2019
Effect of Collaboration and Competition in an Augmented Reality Mobile Game
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2011
Investigating the link between knowledge and perception of CO 2 and CCS: An international study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
The demographics of nuclear power: Comparing nuclear experts’ scientists’ and non-science professionals’ views of risks, benefits and values
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Engaging the public with low-carbon energy technologies: Results from a Scottish large group process
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Reflections on a process for developing public trust in energy technologies: Follow-up results of the Australian large group process
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Case Study of the CO2CRC Otway Project
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 15-11-2010
DOI: 10.5341/RPT10-2362
Urban sustainability – a segmentation study of Greater Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-04-2016
Message framing, environmental behaviour and support for carbon capture and storage in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Influence of the large earthquake and nuclear plant accident on perception of CCS
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
Sidrap: A Study of the Factors That Led to the Development of Indonesia’s First Large-Scale Wind Farm
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 31-12-2019
Abstract: The first utility-scale (75 MW) wind farm facility in Indonesia (the “Sidrap” project) was launched in South Sulawesi in early 2018. In this case study, we assess how several factors contributed to the successful development of the Sidrap project including strong signals of support from the Indonesian Government long-term local presence of private sector partners familiarity of private sector partners with the risks and nuances of investing in Indonesia and an innovative private-public sector partnership model. In the last 2 years, Indonesia’s electricity sector has changed much in terms of pricing policy and private sector involvement. Much effort has been directed toward the Indonesian Government meeting its renewable energy deployment target of 23% of the total energy mix by 2025. The question remains, however, on whether Indonesia will be able to develop additional renewable energy projects to Sidrap in the future, given the continuing changes and uncertainty in Indonesian’s renewable energy policy and politics.
Doing the Social in Social License
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-07-2014
What's in store: Lessons from implementing CCS
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Challenges and prospects for negawatt trading in light of recent technological developments
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-08-2020
China's carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) policy: A critical review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2020
Assessing socio-technical mindsets: Public deliberations on carbon capture and storage in the context of energy sources and climate change
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2013
First year of the UQ sustainable energy micromasters series: Evaluation of participation and achievement
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Enhancing developing countries’ transition to a low-carbon electricity sector
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
The development of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) research in China: A bibliometric perspective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
The Language of Science and Social Licence to Operate
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-08-2016
Abstract: Social licence to operate (SLO) is an informal agreement that infers ongoing acceptance of an industrial or energy project by a local community and the stakeholders affected by it. Negotiation of SLOs centrally implicates language and communication, including scientific language and concepts. We first review the literature about the definition and communicative features of SLOs, and their relation to scientific communication. We describe communication accommodation theory and the ways that it can help understand (un)successful SLO negotiation, and describe ex les of texts that show accommodative or nonaccommodative language around SLOs. We summarize some results which help indicate different ways of accommodating communities in the negotiation of SLOs. Finally, we describe a research agenda on communication accommodation and SLOs, in the service of improving their impact on energy, the environment, and the transfer of science.
Societal acceptance of wind farms: Analysis of four common themes across Australian case studies
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2013
Comparing how the public perceive CCS across Australia and China
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Collaborative emission reduction in regional Australia: Maine's power
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 02-2009
What do science communicators talk about when they talk about science communications? Engaging with the engagers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-12-2015
Abstract: A series of workshops on impediments and solutions to best practice in science communication in Australia not only provided insights into the ersity of the community of practice but also reflected discords between best practice and popular ideas among practitioners.
Public support for energy sources and related technologies: The impact of simple information provision
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Rethinking renewable energy targets and electricity sector reform in Indonesia: A private sector perspective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Developing an interactive survey game for informing opinions about CCS
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Relating individual perceptions of carbon dioxide to perceptions of CCS: An international comparative study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
The influence of narrative versus statistical evidence on public perception towards CCS in China: Survey results from local residents in Shandong and Henan provinces
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Low-capacity decentralized electricity systems limit the adoption of electronic appliances in rural Nepal
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
ZeroGen new generation power-a framework for engaging stakeholders
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Low-Carbon Energy Controversies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-02-2013
Public attitudes towards plastics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Awareness of biogas increases its social acceptance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Geothermal technology in Australia: Investigating social acceptance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2011
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Industrial Transformation Training Centres - Grant ID: IC210100023
Start Date: 07-2022
End Date: 07-2027
Amount: $4,943,949.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityIndustrial Transformation Training Centres - Grant ID: IC200100023
Start Date: 06-2021
End Date: 06-2026
Amount: $4,920,490.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityIndustrial Transformation Research Hubs - Grant ID: IH190100022
Start Date: 08-2020
End Date: 08-2025
Amount: $4,787,259.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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