Lead Researcher

Dr. Angela Guerrero is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Angela has a PhD in Environmental Social Science and a Masters in Environmental Management from the University of Queensland, and an Engineering degree with a major in Operations Research from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.

If you have a PhD project idea which you would like to discuss with me, please contact me.

Post-doctoral researchers

Dr. Daniel Cruz-Lopez. Research Associate in Social-Ecological Systems

PhD Students

Bridget McGlynn. PhD Thesis : Fit for purpose and performance? Investigating social-ecological fit and governance performance in social-ecological systems (Principal supervisor)

Lillian Stevens. Phd Thesis: Understanding the relationship between collaborative governance and agricultural practice change: A Great Barrier Reef catchments case study (Associate supervisor)

Erica Cseko Nolasco Freitas Fonseca. Phd Thesis: Social-ecological drivers and outcomes of conservation in private lands (Associate supervisor)

Nisa Abeysinghe. PhD Thesis title: Tackling invasive species using a collaborative approach (External supervisor; The University of Queensland.)

Kristyn Stewart. PhD Thesis title: Connecting the dots: A social-ecological assessment of the Northern Bobwhite decline in Texas (External supervisor; Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville)

Laura Roldan-Gomez. PhD Thesis title: A social-ecological analysis of the nexus between armed conflict and deforestation in Colombia from 2000 to 2018 (External supervisor; University of Exeter)

Past students:

Bridget McGlynn. Masters by Research (Brock University). Graduated 2021. Thesis title: An Examination of Collaborative Governance for Complex Adaptive Systems in the St. John River Basin (External supervisor)

Frida Romiely Díaz Almeyda. Masters by Research in Ecological Economics (The University of Edinburgh). Graduated 2020. Thesis title: An appraisal of the social-ecological dynamics of Quintana Roo (External supervisor)

Daniel Davis. Masters in Engineering (Bristol University). Graduated 2020. Thesis title: Inferring natural and social networks from island data (Associate supervisor)

Russel McKenna. Masters by Research (The University of Queensland). Graduated 2017. Thesis title: The Eastern Bristlebird – An Institutional Analysis (Associate supervisor)