Dr Lauren Rickards

Dr Rickards is a Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne working with a range of groups on sustainability-related issues, including the Primary Industries Adaptation Research Network, the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and various themes of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.

Dr Rickards previously worked as an Associate Partner at RM Consulting Group, consulting mainly to government on strategic rural and sustainability issues. She continues to work with the community farming organisation Birchip Cropping Group as Thinker in Residence. Prior to joining RMCG, Dr Rickards was Vice-Principal of Janet Clarke Hall, one of the University of Melbourne’s academic colleges, and a post-graduate student and non-stipendiary lecturer at the University of Oxford, where she had a Rhodes Scholarship. Dr Rickards was a fellow and inaugural chair of the Board of the Centre for Sustainability Leaders Fellowship Program and is now Deputy Chair of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network.