Trisia Farrelly
Senior Research Scientist, Transdisciplinary Science Group
Role at Cawthron
Trisia is the Coordinator of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty: a voluntary body of over 650 independent scientists across more than 65 countries who provide robust independent science to United Nations member states throughout the global plastics treaty negotiations.
Trisia is also regularly invited by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to provide science-policy support to Pacific Island country representatives to the global plastics treaty negotiations, and she is an active member of the World Trade Organisation Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade (WTODPP).
With more than two decades working in the higher education sector and ten years working with policy makers and civil society organisations, Trisia has gained extensive experience in national and international science-policy work and science communication. Trisia continues to supervise doctoral students as Professor and Honorary Fellow of Massey University. Her research seeks intergenerational rights and systems-based solutions to plastics pollution across diverse contexts with recent work focusing on cross-sectoral evidence-based criteria and standards for plastics, plastic alternatives, and non-plastic substitutes. Trisia is Senior Editor of Cambridge University Press’s Cambridge Prisms: Plastics.
Technical skills, experience and interests
- Coordination of science-policy teams
- Qualitative social science methods
- Research ethics
- Systems approach
- Community-centred environmental management
- Political ecologies
- Rightful knowledge holders and rights holders
Politics of science - Democratising science
- Science-policy interfaces
- Transparency and essentiality criteria
- Right to safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment
- Rights of the environment
- Restorative and regenerative circular economies
Professional Affiliations
- Massey University
- Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty / The Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty
- Cambridge University Press Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Qualifications
- PhD