Dr Gillian Cornish

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working on CSIRO's Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform. I will be contributing to the Knowledge Commons project that investigates the challenge of moving from gathering data about sustainability to co-producing coherent and cohesive knowledge with sustainability decision-makers. The impact of this project builds knowledge infrastructure to maximise the chances that our investments in data and information result in useful (and used) sustainability knowledge.

I am a human geographer interested in how different groups of society interact with broader institutional and social systems. Often adopting a community development perspective, my past research has focussed on understanding how impacted groups have been affected by a change in, or introduction of, policies, programs or projects. I have work experience in urban development, digital agtech and natural resource management sectors with a particular focus on the resilience of marginalised groups. Research geographies include Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, India and China.