Nooshin Torabi

Ms. Nooshin Torabi

Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Nooshin Torabi is an interdisciplinary social scientist with experience in undertaking both quantitative and qualitative research in RMIT since 2011.

Nooshin brings a wealth of experience from her involvement in interdisciplinary research projects with diverse stakeholders. Her expertise lies in adaptive governance, climate change responses, sustainability communication, and energy justice. Currently, she is immersed in two research projects: one focusing on sustainable consumption to end food waste, and the other exploring the link between climatic and non-climatic vulnerabilities.

Completed her PhD within the Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, Nooshin’s thesis delved into the socio-cultural motivations of private landholders participating in biodiverse carbon plantings. Her research also examined the perspectives of policymakers and academics in the carbon and biodiversity realm. Notably, she developed a Bayesian Belief Network model for predicting landholder participation rates in such plantings. This model explored the impact of program design, financial incentives, and landholder values on participation probabilities.

Research fields

  • 4410 Sociology
  • 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • 410103 Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
  • 4406 Human geography

UN sustainable development goals

  • 13 Climate Action
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 4 Quality Education

Supervisor projects

  • Are eological crisis and existential crisis synonymous? Exploring the impacts of an absence of ecological identity in Western culture, and how one might find its presence through decolonial and spiritual practices.
  • 20 Nov 2023
  • Vulnerability to climate change impacts and adaptations by the urban poor context: Insights from Cambodias informal settlements
  • 8 Jun 2023

Teaching interests

Program Manager for BP000 and BP193

Climate Change Responses Course ENVI1222
Climate Change Responses Course ENVI1212
Communicating Sustainability ENVI1137

Research interests

Climate change responses
Higher education and climate change
Adaptive governance
Climate justice
Interdisciplinary sustainable consumption challenges
Co-design methodology
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.