
CV
Dr Meg Parsons
Lives & works in Tāmaki Makarau Auckland,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Education
2009 PhD
University of Sydney
2005 Bachelor of Social Sciences (First Class Honours)
University of Waikato
Experience
2013-present
Senior Lecturer (Environmental Management)
The University of Auckland
2012
Visiting Research Fellow
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
Griffith University
2010-2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
2008-2009
Report Writer
Waitangi Tribunal
New Zealand Government
Grants & Awards
2020-22, Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge, Enabling Kaitiakitanga and Ecosystem Based Management, $638 900. (Co-Principal Investigator with Lara Taylor Manaaki Whenua Landcare)
2020-22, World University Network, (Re-)Negotiating Power to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change, $30 000 (Co-Principal Investigator, Meg Parsons; With Principal Investigator - Petra Tschakert, University of Western Australia)
2016-2021, Marsden Standard Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand, $615 000 – Rethinking freshwater in Aotearoa New Zealand (co-Principal Investigator)
2019, Faculty of Science Summer Scholarship, University of Auckland – Community perspectives on the Kauri dieback and management approaches (co-Principal Investigator with Dr Annie Bartos)
2014, Seed Grant, Transformations to Sustainability Programme, International Social Science Council, $47 350 – Network on Indigenous Transformations to Sustainability (Principal Investigator)
2014, Seed Grant, Transformations to Sustainability Programme, International Social Science Council, $47 350 – Resource Sovereignty Network (Associate Investigator)
2014, Faculty Research Development Fund, University of Auckland, $30 000 – Historical experiences of social and environmental change in Oceania (Principal Investigator)
2011-2012, Research Grant, Climate Change Adaptation Research Grant Program, NCCARF and Commonwealth Government of Australia, $350 000 (AUSD) – Learning from the past, adapting to the future: identifying successful adaptation in Indigenous communities (Principal Investigator)