Rate My Professor Lauren Rickards

Rickards' research examines climate change adaptation through social research, focusing on impacts across sectors such as environmental sustainability, government, agriculture, water, education, health, and emergency management, implications for collective wellbeing, multispecies justice, research impact, UN Sustainable Development Goals, the role of universities, innovation, and systemic changes in the Anthropocene. She was Lead Author for the Australasia chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Key publications include 'Adaptation opportunities, constraints, and limits' (2014), 'Transformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change' (2012), 'Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics' (2022), and the co-authored book 'The Sustainable Development Goals and Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda?' (2021, with W. Steele). As chief investigator, she has led projects totaling $4.3 million completed and $1.9 million current, including Australia-India research grants ($330,000, 2024) and ARC Discovery Project DP200102599. Awards include Wiley Best Journal Article Award (2021), Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity as part of the IPCC (2022), RMIT Research Excellence Awards (2017, 2019), Teaching Excellence Award (2017), and finalist for the Australian Museum Eureka Prize in Sustainable Agriculture (2013). She edited Dialogues in Human Geography (2016-2022), served on the International Science Council and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Expert Review Group (2020-2021), and is Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Project (since 2015).