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Postdoctoral researcher CSIRO, CSIRO

At CSIRO, Dr Sabrina Chakori’s research, called Navigating the Sustainability Transitions and Innovation Dynamics, investigates the complex social-economic-ecological interaction that can influence the short and long-term success of a socially just and ecologically sustainable transition in Australia.

Her academic qualifications from the University of Geneva (BSs) and the University of Queensland (MSc, PhD) are in the fields of biology, ecology, environmental management, systems approaches, ecological economics and political economy. Her interdisciplinary research experience encompasses circular economy, sharing economy, food systems, social entrepreneurship, degrowth and beyond-GDP frameworks.

Founder of the Brisbane Tool Library, winner of the 2020 Create Change: 7 News Young Achiever Award (QLD) and recipient of the Emerging Female Leader bursary (National Council of Women of Queensland, 2020), Sabrina is a multi-award social entrepreneur, researcher and educator.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIRO

Education

  • 2022 
    The University of Queensland , PhD
  • 2016 
    The University of Queensland, MSc Environmental Economics
  • 2014 
    The University of Geneva, BSc Biology

Publications

  • 2022
    Taking a whole-of-system approach to food packaging reduction, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • 2022
    Taking a whole-of-system approach to food packaging reduction, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • 2021
    Untangling the underlying drivers of the use of single-use food packaging, Ecological Economics Journal
  • 2021
    The role of tool libraries in the new economy: sharing in an economic degrowth society, A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy (pp. xx)
  • 2017
    Consumer, citizen or a new definition? The necessity to change both the term and our behaviour, Positive Steps to a steady state economy (pp. 380-387)
  • 2017
    Building a sustainable society: the necessity to change the term consumer, Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS)