Dr. Kirsty Wissing

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Trained anthropologist, Kirsty’s research considers Indigenous, customary community values, relationships, resource responsibility in tangible and intangible environments across Australia and Ghana, with a lesser extent in Germany. Her work sits at the intersection of cross-cultural approaches to environmental disasters, flooding, invasive species incursions, and loss of biodiversity. Currently, she is undertaking a research fellowship partnership at the School of Culture, History and Language, Institute of Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University (ANU). Her current research focuses on the perspectives of Indigenous Australians regarding water cultural values in flood mitigation efforts within the Richmond River catchment of the Northern Rivers region in Australia. Kirsty has previously held a postdoctoral research fellowship at CSIRO, where she conducted qualitative applications of Indigenous biocultural knowledge values in synthetic biology collaboratively with community members from the Torres Strait, Australia. Her PhD research investigated customary socio-religious attitudes toward the uses of water and ideas of cleanliness and resource control in Ghana, based on 14 months of ethnographic field research.

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