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Current Roles and Responsibilities
Co-founder, New Zealand Product Stewardship Council (currently steering committee)
Co-Director, Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre
Editorial Board Member; Deja Lu Selection Committee Member; Student Essay Selection Committee Member, Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University Representative, Association of Social Anthropologists Aotearoa New Zealand (ASAANZ)
Co-founder, Carrying Our Future
Current research includes environmental behaviour change; political ecologies of plastic production, consumption, and disposal; hazardous plastics; and social license to operate (marine industries); political ecologies of waste management; and qualitative methodologies (including action research, critical discourse analysis, and collective memory work). Dr Farrelly is the Co-director of Massey University’s Political Ecology Research Centre, a co-founder of the New Zealand Product Stewardship Council (NZPSC), a co-founder of environmental lobby group Carrying Our Future, and the Massey University ASAANZ Representative. Other research interests include community-based development; protected area management; and Indigenous entrepreneurship.
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Research interests include community-based development; protected area management;conservation; Indigenous Fijian epistemologies and methodologies, development, indigenous Fijian micropolitics, governance, and entrepreneurship; socio-cultural analyses of waste minimisation; informal economies; collective memory work; Pacific Islands waste management.
21st Century Citizenship, Resource Development and Management
Field of research codes
Anthropology (160100):
Anthropology of Development (160101):
Built Environment And Design (120000):
Conservation and Biodiversity (050202):
Environmental Management (050205):
Environmental Science and Management (050200):
Environmental Sciences (050000):
Natural Resource Management (050209):
Pacific Peoples Environmental Knowledge (050210):
Social and Cultural Anthropology (160104):
Sociology (160800):
Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology (160808):
Studies In Human Society (160000):
Wildlife and Habitat Management (050211)
Socio-cultural dimensions of household waste in New Zealand
The politics of plastic pollution
BPAs in food packaging
Waste in the Pacific Islands
Indigenous Fijian methodologies
Indigenous Fijian epistemologies
Indigenous entrepreneurship
Environmental management
National parks and protected areas
Community-based development
Ecotourism
Conservation
Urban ecology
Environmental anthropology
Talanoa
Collective memory work
Action Research
| Position | Current | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| Project Leader | 1 | 9 |
| Team Member | 0 | 2 |
Project Title: NSC - Conduct a discourse analysis (led by Charlotte Sunde) of Social Licence to Operate (SLO) in New Zealand (Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge)
Date Range: 2016 - 2019
Funding Body: The Cawthron Institute Trust Board
Project Team:
Project Title: Waste minimisation culture in Palmerston North households
Date Range: 2013 - 2013
Funding Body: Massey University
Project Team:
2015 Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award
2015 Nomination for the Prime Minister’s National Teaching Excellence Award
2015 Massey University Teaching Fellow
2015 College of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching and Learning Committee Teaching Award (Individual “Excellence and Innovation”)
| Position | Current | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| Supervisor | 0 | 2 |
| Co-supervisor | 1 | 4 |
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