Ms. Ashleigh Stokes
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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ashleigh.stokes@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-7082-9362
Open to
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
About
Ashleigh is an early career researcher with an keen interest in transformative societial change, climate change adaptation governance and transformative environmental policy within Australia. She holds a PhD from RMIT University, where her research explored the conjuncture of climate change adaptation. Her PhD emphasized the importance of understanding climate change adaptation planning and policy potential from the persepctive of its (conjunctural) landscape from which it emerges.
She has experience assisting communities, sectors, and individuals in understanding the complex decisions and trade-offs involved in policy decision-making in order to create a sustainable and climate-safe future.
Ashleigh currently works as a research assistant investigating how housing sector practitioners understand and intergrate bushfire adaptive solutions into home design and construction, as well as a project researcher examining enablers for energy effeicency retrofitting in rentals.
Research fields
- 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation
- 370903 Natural hazards
- 4406 Human geography
UN sustainable development goals
- 13 Climate Action
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Research interests
Ashleigh is passionate about working towards a sustainable and equitable future, grounded in adaptive practices and innovative theories of change. Her research interest involve understanding the dynamic relationship between society and the environment, adaptive thoeries of change and applying transformative approaches to address complex challenges.
