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Doctor of Philosphy (Griffith University), Master of Business (Communication Studies) (Queensland University of Technology), Graduate Diploma of Sciences Communication (Central Queensland University), Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology), Graduate Certificate in Management Communication (Other), Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Science (Australian Environmental Studies) (Griffith University)
With a PhD in public consultation and policy analysis, I have more than 20 years of experience conducting research and providing policy and strategy advice across the areas of environmental policy, participatory planning, community engagement, staff development, and organisational strategy and development. I have extensive experience in developing and delivering consultative approaches for a range of issues including infrastructure planning, and environmental policy review and have conducted and supervised a range of research activities to inform strategic evidence-based decision-making. Within a government setting these include research into: boating activity in high growth areas; Indigenous boating safety; transport needs and disadvantage; and risk management approaches in regulatory regimes. I currently research stakeholder engagement with a focus on marginalised or disadvantaged groups, particularly young people and women, and cultural and political engagements with sustainability particularly those associated with waste. I also explore the potential for exploitation and exclusion presented by unpaid work and emerging forms of unpaid and unwaged work. The pursuit of social justice is a driver for my work.
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Unspeakable policy & planning problems • To explain high levels of regulatory resistance to marine pollution policy I theorized a new form of wicked policy problem—unspeakable policy problem—characterized by a high level of psychosocial sensitivity and verbal proscription. The successful management of unspeakable policy problems has potentially significant sustainability, social justice and economic impacts. My research explores a wide range of unspeakable policy problems such as unpaid internships, innovation in death-related industries, planning for deathscapes, public acceptance of recycled water, climate change, and Indigenous disadvantage.
Stakeholder engagement & sustainable governance • Sustainable governance represents one of the major challenges of our times. I research stakeholder engagement within sustainability and social justice contexts such as the regulation and management of heterotopic and ludic spaces, the responsibilisation of environmental management, and participatory approaches to disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation.
Just work and responsible management practices • Just work is concerned with the social, economic and cultural inequalities of paid and unpaid employment. I research the equity considerations of and potential for exploitation and exclusion presented by emerging forms of unpaid and unconventional internships and the institutional and policy responses required to safeguard the wellbeing of all workers.
Gender-sensitive infrastructure and social policy • Gender-sensitive infrastructure and social policy has the potential to increase women’s economic empowerment and promote gender equality. I research gendered mobilities, right to the city, and the potential for radical, grassroots and insurgent planning and gender-sensitive infrastructure and social policy responses to enhance community resilience.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was awarded the inaugural Carumba Institute Embedding Indigenous Perspectives Outstanding Proposal Award
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- Fellowships
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- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was awarded Associate Fellow (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy. The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is an international organization which promotes excellence in teaching and learning. This award demonstrates an emerging engagement with Indigenous perspectives in teaching and learning.
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- Other
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- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was named a 2020 World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED) Champion for Change by the Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA) and National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE). This award recognises those who regularly go above and beyond to make the Australasian tertiary education landscape more inclusive and accessible
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2017
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded an Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. AAUT Awards recognise the impact that educators have on the learning and teaching experiences and outcomes of university students.
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- Other
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- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was awarded a Case Writing Scholarship from the Case Centre UK
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2016
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- Dr Grant-Smith was named the 2016 Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Early Career Researcher. This award recognises the research and scholarly achievements of emerging researchers who are at an early stage of their academic career.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2016
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded a QUT Vice-Chancellors Performance Award for research excellence in recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the university.
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- Other
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- 2016
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded the 2016 Higher Education Research Network (HERN) Best Higher Education Research Publication Award Early Career.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2015
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded a QUT Vice-Chancellors Performance Award for teaching excellence in recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the university.
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- Fellowships
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- 2015
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is an international organization which promotes excellence in teaching and learning.
- (Re)Constructing power in the Australian Federation: Advancing Multi-level Governance as an explanation for the emergence of independent regulators (2021)
- Governing the Interface of Commercial Mining and Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Indonesia (2021)
- Regional Planning In Transition: Policy Narratives at the Intersection of Regional Planning and Sustainable Infrastructure Transitions (2020)
- Maintaining Responsibility to Place: Indigenous Place Values in Statutory Land-Use Planning (2016)
- Environmental Equifinality: (Re)Examining Predictors of Specific Responsible Environmental Behaviours in Australian Recreational Fishing Environments (2021)
- Fishers Are Doing It For Themselves? Responsibilisation and the framing of fish habitat rehabilitation and stewardship (2018)
- Fostering Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment: Employee Discretionary Green Behaviour in a School-Based Setting (2018)
- Mining Company Engagement with Universities: a CSR Approach (2018)
- Problematising The Wickedness of 'Disadvantage' in Australian Indigenous Affairs Policy (2018)
- The Role of Professional Identity and Self-Interest in Career Choices in the Emerging ICT Workforce (2016)