Category: PhD
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Last week I submitted by PhD thesis. It’s been a long, and frequently difficult road, but I made it in the end. Sincere thanks to each of my supervisors: Karen Hussey, Stephen Dovers, Stuart Whitten, Grace Chiu, and Andrew Macintosh. There are many, many others who have supported me over the last 4.5 years –…
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My final PhD seminar: Thursday 4th May
Somehow, unbelievably, it’s time for my final PhD seminar. Details below and here – all welcome! Public policy for biodiversity conservation: evaluating outcomes, opportunities and risks Thursday, 4 May 2017, 1-2pm Fenner Seminar Room, Megan Evans The conservation of biodiversity remains a daunting and complex public policy challenge. Over the past three decades, two clear…
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Policy internship at the Australian Academy of Science
Earlier this year, I was very fortunate to join the Australian Academy of Science for a 3 month internship in the Academy’s Science Policy team. The internship was for first of its kind offered by the Academy, and provided me with a unique opportunity to learn about its policy and advocacy work. I was attracted…
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Queensland moves to control land clearing: other states need to follow
This article was originally published in The Conversation, and features my new paper published in Pacific Conservation Biology Queensland’s land clearing has yet again become a national issue. After laws were relaxed under the Liberal-National State government in 2013, land clearing rates tripled, undermining efforts to conserve wildlife and reduce carbon emissions. Now the current…
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Future Earth Australia workshop #FutureEarthOz
Since February, I’ve been spending time at the Australian Academy of Science as an intern in their Science Policy team. As part of this role I recently had the privilege of attending the Future Earth Australia workshop. Below is a summary of the event – also posted as a Storify (with tweets and images): https://storify.com/megcevans/future-earth-australia-workshop Over 28-29th…
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Speed symposium at #SCBO2016
The Society for Conservation Biology – Oceania section will have its next conference in Brisbane, July 2016. I’m very happy to say that a speed symposium that I have proposed with my incredible colleagues Claudia Benham and Nadine Marshall has been accepted! It was really encouraging to see quite a large social science presence at the…
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Bias incognito: gender equity in science presentation at ANU
The video of the event can be found here (the presentation starts at 15:00) A summary of the online discussion is here: https://storify.com/megcevans/biasincognito-deborah-may-anu Over 50% of early career scientists in Australian universities and research institutes are women, but among senior academics, this number drops to just 17%. The loss of women through the “leaky pipeline”…
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Science Leadership Training Not Just For Professors
Re-post from CEED Early Career Leaders Blog Throughout this year, those of us in the CEED leadership program have had many discussions about leadership: what it is, who is (or can be) a leader, and how “leadership” is a set of skills that can be learned, rather than something that a person obtains through authority…
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