Dr Anna Sanders

I work as an honorary lecturer in Resources, Environment and Development at the Crawford School of Public Policy and formerly based at the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions. Before joining ANU, I held postdoctoral research and teaching roles at the University of Melbourne. Over more than a decade, I have worked on international research programs and collaborative projects examining resource and environmental governance in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. I have experience designing and leading multi-disciplinary research projects and working independently in remote area fieldwork conditions. My long-term ethnographic research focuses on resource governance and climate change in Indonesia, particularly in Central Kalimantan, and has been published in a range of leading peer-reviewed journals. I have also worked as a research scientist and government anthropologist in far north Australia. Drawing on a combination of government, civil society, and ethnographic fieldwork experience, my research emphasises interdisciplinary collaboration spanning political ecology, science and technology studies, and governance studies. My current research priorities focus on: (i) relational justice negotiations and (ii) the intersections of climate change mitigation and adaptation with health and food security issues. I am committed to fostering local capabilities and reciprocal learning to address complex problems of climate change, environmental justice, and resource inequality.

• Climate change, environmental and resource governance
• Political ecology and science and technology studies (particularly dialogue between research traditions)
• Relational justice and inequalities
• Knowledge exchange and reciprocal learning approaches
• Interdisciplinary and ethnographic methods in environmental governance research

2020: PhD: Multi-level Environmental and Resource Governance in Indonesia, University of Melbourne with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

2010: Master of Environmental Policy and Governance, Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne

2005: Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Melbourne