Kerrie Foxwell-Norton lectures in Journalism, Media and Communication. Her research interests focus upon environmental communication, with a special interest in coastal and marine communities and their environments. Kerrie has specific expertise in community based research and engagement, exploring links between communication and community therein.She leads the ‘Motivation’ theme within the Griffith Climate Action Beacon, a strategic university wide research initiative. She is Co-Chair of the Environment, Science and Risk Working Group and a member of the Environmental Impact Committee for the International Association of Communication and Media Research. She is also the Co-Chair of the Queensland Chapter for the Australian Coastal Society and Associate Editor (Environment) for Queensland Review.Professor Iain Duncan McCalman, AO, FRHistS, FASSA, FAHA, FRSN was born in Malawi, Africa, schooled in Zimbabwe, and earned his BA, MA and PhD in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia. He recently retired from a position as Research Professor of History and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. He has held many Visiting Research Fellowships in Britain and the United States, including at All Souls and Oriel Colleges, Oxford, Princeton,New Jersey, and as a Mellon Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.Iain is a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of three other Learned Academies in Australia and Britain, and is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.
