Ms. Nooshin Torabi
Lecturer
Details
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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nooshin.torabi@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-5834-4477
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.
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
- Can contemporary urban planning approaches which centre nature be effectively used as tool by Australian local government to re-connect urban communities with the natural environment.
- 25 Feb 2026
- Assessing Environmental Justice and Urban Heat Risks in Melbourne through Integrated Climate Modeling
- 23 Dec 2025
- 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
- Social Protection and Climate Resilience: A Case Study of Vulnerable Multigenerational Households in Cambodia’s Informal Urban Settlements
- 8 Jun 2023
Teaching interests
Program Manager for BP362 and BP193
Climate Change Responses Course ENVI1222
Climate Change Responses Course ENVI1212
Communicating Sustainability ENVI1137
Policy In Practice
Research interests
Climate change responses
Higher education and climate change
Adaptive governance
Climate justice
Interdisciplinary sustainable consumption challenges
Co-design methodology
Higher education and climate change
Adaptive governance
Climate justice
Interdisciplinary sustainable consumption challenges
Co-design methodology
