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Dr Lila Singh-Peterson

Name Lila Singh-Peterson
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Senior Lecturer (Climate Science)
Section School of Agriculture and Environmental Science
Office I232
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3812 6393
Extension 6393
Email
Qualifications BSc Curtin , GDipGeoIS&RS Charles Sturt , BSc(Hons) Macquarie , FndUL&T USC , PhD UNSW , PhD Qld
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/810z8/dr-lila-singh-peterson
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Biography

Dr Lila Singh-Peterson is a climate change professional who has worked in the public and private sector specifically in the fields of climate change policy, sustainability, climate adaptation and climate risk. More recently, over the last fifteen years, she has lectured and undertaken research examining the societal and cultural implications of, and responses to climate change – particularly in the fields of community resilience, rural development and food security.

Dr Singh-Peterson was awarded a PhD in atmospheric science from UNSW School of Physics and CSIRO in 2007 and more recently, was awarded a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology with the University of Queensland on the topic of cultural reproduction, loss and limitations of rural social resilience traditions in Fiji. Dr Singh-Peterson has received almost $3m in research funding as a principal or co-investigator. As a trained mixed methods researcher, she has worked across the South Pacific with the United Nations and AusAID and across Australia with multiple funding partners.

In her role as Senior Lecturer of Applied Climate Science and Program Director of the Bachelor of Environmental Science, Dr Singh-Peterson currently supports several PhD and Masters students engaged in research in the fields of climate change implications, adaptation responses and policy.

Research Career


  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation ( 410100 )
  • Pacific Peoples Society And Community ( 451800 )
  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation not elsewhere classified ( 410199 )
  • Development Studies ( 440400 )
  • Rural Community Development ( 440406 )
  • Anthropology ( 440100 )
  • Environmental Anthropology ( 440104 )

Climate Science
Climate Risks
Cultural Impacts of Climate Change
Community Resilience
Community Resilience - First Nations Contexts
Climate Change and Food Security
Climate Change and Sustainable Community Development


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECE)
  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)
  • Centre for Applied Climate Sciences (CACS)

Teaching


CLI6001 Climate Risk (Examiner)
CLI3301 Environment and Climate Risk Assessment (Examiner)
CLI6205 Climate and Sustainability (Examiner)


11 Years


Major Convenor - Bachelor of Environmental Science (Climate Science)

Supervision


  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation ( 410100 )
  • Pacific Peoples Society And Community ( 451800 )
  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation not elsewhere classified ( 410199 )
  • Development Studies ( 440400 )
  • Rural Community Development ( 440406 )
  • Anthropology ( 440100 )
  • Environmental Anthropology ( 440104 )