Rate My Professor Katie Moon

Dr Katie Moon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at the University of New South Wales Canberra, affiliated with the Public Service Research Group and serving as HDR Coordinator. With more than 20 years of experience in environmental policy across Australia and Europe, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy from James Cook University, Master of Environmental Management in Sustainable Development from the University of Queensland and University of British Columbia, and Bachelor of Science (Environmental) with First Class Honours from Monash University. Her work focuses on reimagining a better, more just world for all species through research, education, and collaboration on transformational change.

Moon specializes in social science methods applied to conservation, biodiversity, and environmental policy, emphasizing justice, inclusion, and innovation. Her research themes include innovating methods like social network analysis, mental modelling, complex systems modelling, perception matrices, and mixed methods; advancing critical relational approaches via political ecology, postcolonialism, and relational theory to address power and human-nature interconnections; and protecting biodiversity through political ecology of land-use, social psychology of motivations, and cultural anthropology for collective action. She teaches the postgraduate course ZBUS8210 Critical Analysis in Business (online) and supervises Honours, Masters, and PhD students in private land conservation, relational conservation, method innovation, and critical theory. Key publications include 'A Guide to Understanding Social Science Research for Natural Scientists' (Moon & Blackman, Conservation Biology, 2014; cited over 1,800 times), 'A Guideline to Improve Qualitative Social Science Publishing in Ecology and Conservation Journals' (Moon et al., Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2016), 'Using Quantitative Influence Diagrams to Map Natural Resource Managers’ Mental Models of Invasive Species Management' (Moon et al., Land Use Policy, 2016), 'Inclusivity via Ontological Accountability' (Moon, Conservation Letters, 2022), 'Centring Indigenous Peoples in Knowledge Exchange Research-Practice by Resetting Assumptions, Relationships and Institutions' (Moon et al., Sustainability Science, 2023), 'Unearthing Assumptions and Power: A Framework for Research, Policy, and Practice' (Pérez-Hämmerle et al., One Earth, 2024), and 'The Relational Nature of Citizen Science' (Moon et al., People and Nature, 2024). With 5,490 citations on Google Scholar, her contributions have shaped interdisciplinary environmental research and policy.