Professor Iain Walker
Professor Iain Walker is a social psychologist with broad interests in social and environmental sustainability and in social justice. His research spans many different domains, including understanding public perceptions of climate change and policy
support for different climate policies, promoting pro-environmental
behaviours and sustainable consumption, understanding changes in health-relevant behaviours in response to the 2019-20 bushfires, and promoting organ donor registration.
Much of Iain's research happens in multi-disciplinary teams.
Iain has led and been engaged in major projects on public understandings of climate change, integrating human wellbeing into ecosystem assessments, social forestry and livelihoods of small outgrowth farmers in Indonesia, water security,
energy demand management, and psychosocial issues in biosecurity.
Iain currently leads an MRFF-funded project tracking the effects of the 2019-20 bushfires on mental health, wellbeing, and community cohesion. He is also a co-lead of the Science Communication theme in the national Healthy Environments
and Lives research network.