Dr. Anna Sanders

Biography

Anna Sanders works as an honorary lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, specializing in resource and environmental governance. Her background includes postdoctoral research roles at the University of Melbourne, where she was involved in international research programs that examined resource governance in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. With over a decade of experience, she has designed and led multi-disciplinary research projects, often working in remote fieldwork conditions. Her long-term ethnographic research focuses on the intersections of resource governance and climate change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and has been published in a variety of leading peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, she has worked as a research scientist and anthropologist in far north Australia, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration across political ecology, science and technology studies, and governance studies. Currently, her research priorities include relational justice in negotiations, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and issues concerning health and food security.

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