At ISF, our staff represent a diversity of disciplines, experience and expertise. Our solutions-based transdisciplinary approach attracts leading thinkers from around the world, who see working with the ISF as a practical step towards building a better future.
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Awards and achievements
ISF researchers are respected internationally as leaders in their field. Here are just a few of the ways ISF’s work and members of our team were acknowledged this year:
ISF played a large part at the 2019 International Transdisciplinary Conference in Gothenberg, Sweden, at which our Deputy Director, Distinguished Professor Cynthia Mitchell, and Research Director, Associate Professor Dena Fam, presented the keynote speech.
A guide for equitable water planning, developed by ISF in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), was launched at an official WHO event in Bangkok for World Water Day.
ISF’s Dr Helen Lewis received the Waste Management Association of Australia 2018 Women in the Environment Award for her contribution to sustainability in Australia.
ISF PhD candidates Jess Macarthur Wellstein and Melanie Lewis were selected as University Innovation Fellows at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute for Design.
“A knowledge network approach to understanding water shortage adaptation in Kiribati”, a paper by ISF Research Principal Rebecca Cunningham, Professor Pierre Mukheibir, Research Director Louise Boronyak and Associate Professor Brent Jacobs, was awarded best paper at the Climate Adaptation Conference in Fiji.
ISF, with AusNet Services and Essential Energy, won the Innovation Award at the 2019 Clean Energy Awards for Networks Renewed.
ISF PhD student Katelyn Bywaters won the 2019 UTS 3 Minute Thesis Final and represented UTS at the 2019 Asia-Pacific leg of the competition.
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Stephen Northey joined ISF in October 2019, having been awarded a UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for outstanding early career researchers. While at ISF, Stephen is continuing his project, Battery industries and sustainable development: transforming metal supply chains, which will develop detailed scenario models for battery material supply chains under a range of sustainable development and climate mitigation pathways. Significantly, the project will support industry and governments to position themselves within the rapidly growing global supply chains for battery materials required to achieve sustainable development outcomes.
