The Centre for Sustainability Research investigates:
- Environment governance
- Conservation biology
- Insect behaviour and evolution
- Socioecological systems
- Conservation mātauranga
Lead researcher interests and projects
Professor Priscilla Wehi
Director, Te Pūnaha Matatini, Centre of Research Excellence
Professor Priscilla Wehi is a conservation biologist whose research has two main research themes: ecological knowledge; evolutionary ecology, and especially foraging behaviour, including isotope and nutrient analyses of diet, and socioecological relationships, including cultural environmental management.
Email priscilla.wehi@otago.ac.nz
Projects
- Kaitiakitanga and Antarctic narratives (Marsden Fund)
- Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Introduced Species and the new New Zealand Environment (Rutherford Fellowship Royal Society)
- Ross Sea research and monitoring programme: Is the world's largest MPA effective? (NIWA)
Completed environment and ecological systems research projects