prof.dr. TH (Tiffany) Morrison

Tiffany Morrison is a fractional personal professor in the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University & Research. Her expertise is in the governance of environmental change, policy responses to warming ecosystems, and governance of new interventions in warming ecosystems. Through working directly with governments, NGOs, and funders, her overriding agenda is to transform governance of climate impacted systems. In the coming years, she will focus on this mission with faculty and PhD students in the Environmental Policy group.

The research of Prof. Morrison combines political science, public administration, geography and ecology to improve the governance of complex environmental problems. Morrison is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (elected 2022) and the Regional Studies Association (2020) and has held visiting appointments at Stanford University, University of Oregon, University of Kyoto, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her PhD in 2004 at the University of Queensland, supported by a Land and Water Australia scholarship and a visiting fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Between 2004-2008 she taught in the Master of Public Administration program in the School of Political and International Studies at Flinders University. During that time, she was awarded a visiting Fellowship at the University of Kyoto Disaster Prevention Institute in Japan. In 2008, Prof. Morrison joined the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland where she co-led an interdisciplinary team of ecologists, geographers, planners, economists and lawyers on an ARC Super Science Project, Defend or Retreat?. She co-led the People and Ecosystems Program at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University between 2015-2022 and joined the newly formed School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne in 2023.

• James Cook University (5-1-2015/31-12-2099)