STAFF PROFILE
Professor Lauren Rickards
Position:
ECP Director, Urban Futures
College / Portfolio:
Research & Innovation Portfolio
School / Department:
R&I|Research & Innovation Capability
Phone:
+61399252614
Email:
lauren.rickards@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Lauren Rickards is a Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, Interim Director of the Urban Futures ECP and co-leader of the Climate Change Transformations research program.
Lauren Rickards is a Professor is a human geographer and ecologist by training now working primarily on climate change futures and related questions about the urban-rural and human-nature relationship. With degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Melbourne, and experience in the private sector, Lauren conducts research on many of the social dimensions of climate change, particularly in the water and agri-food sectors and with collaborators in other disciplines and organisations. Lauren advises a wide range of groups in government, business and the NGO sector on climate change issues and is a Lead Author with the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change. Within RMIT, she has been working with others to support critical and purposeful engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and questions of research impact.
- Interim Director of the Urban Futures ECP (Enterprise Capability Platform) - one of eight platforms in the university designed to foster cross-disciplinary research collaboration on key issues
- Co-leader of the Climate Change Transformations research program in the Centre for Urban Research
- Co-Director of the Climate Change Exchange - an open network for researchers and practitioners progressing transitions to sustainable and just futures.
- A Lead Author with the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change chapter on Australasia with Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
- Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project
- Coordinator of postgrad and undergrad course Climate Change Responses
- Member of RMIT Academic Board, University Research Committee and SDG Working Group
By appointment
- D.Phil. in Human Geography, University of Oxford
- M.Sc. Environmental Change and Management, University of Oxford
- B.Sc. (Hons), University of Melbourne
Current
- Advisor to range of NGO, government and private sector organisations
- Board member, CLIMARTE
Past
- Associate Partner and Senior Consultant, RM Consulting Group
- Deputy Chair, Terrestrial Research Ecosystem Network
- Vice-Principal, Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne
- Thinker in Residence, Birchip Cropping Group
- Tschakert, P.,Schlosberg, D.,Celermajer, D.,Rickards, L.,Winter, C.,Thaler, M.,Stewart-Harawira, M.,Verlie, B. (2021). Multispecies justice: Climate-just futures with, for and beyond humans In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12, 1 - 10
- Farhall, K.,Rickards, L. (2021). The “Gender Agenda” in Agriculture for Development and Its (Lack of) Alignment With Feminist Scholarship In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 1 - 15
- Rickards, L.,Steele, W. (2021). (In Press) The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda?, Springer , Switzerland
- Kokshagina, O.,Rickards, L.,Steele, W.,Moraes, O. (2021). Futures literacy for research impact in universities In: Futures, 132, 1 - 10
- Cooke, B.,LANDAU-WARD, A.,Rickards, L. (2020). Urban greening, property and more-than-human commoning In: Australian Geographer, 51, 169 - 188
- Rickards, L.,Jolley, C. (2020). Exploring the production of climate change through the nomosphere of the fossil fuel regime In: Legal Geographies: Perspectives & Methods, Taylor & Francis Group, Australia
- Jolley, C.,Rickards, L. (2020). Contesting coal and climate change through scale: emergent topologies in the Adani mine controversy In: Geographical Research, 58, 6 - 23
- Rickards, L.,Watson, J. (2020). Research is not immune to climate change In: Nature Climate Change, 10, 180 - 183
- Rickards, L. (2020). Ironies of the Anthropocene In: Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World, Routledge, United Kingdom
- Kearnes, M.,Rickards, L. (2020). Knowing Earth, Knowing Soil: Epistemological Work and the Political Aesthetics of Regenerative Agriculture In: Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury, United Kingdom
- ARC Training Centre for Transformation of Australia's Biosolids Resource. Funded by: ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre 2018 onwards from (2020 to 2025)
- Environmental justice and the making of just food and energy policy (externally led by University of Sydney). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects via other university 2020 from (2020 to 2023)
- Strategies towards integrating urban Edible City Solutions for social resilient and sustainably productive cities in Europe (EdiCitNet) (administered by Technische Universitaet Berlin). Funded by: Horizon 2020 Innovation Actions from (2018 to 2023)
- Expert advice on the design of a long-term state-wide strategic framework for regional climate change adaptation in Victoria. Funded by: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning - Contract from (2018 to 2019)
- Future Jobs and Regional Workforce Development. Funded by: Regional Australia Institute from (2018 to 2021)