Postgraduate research students
Yuxin Cao
Proposed Topic: The Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of China’s “River Chief System” Policy on Administrative Border Regions.
Supervisors: A/Prof. Chunbo Ma; Prof. Yanrui Wu
Proposed submission date: July, 2028.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)478185 939
Dinh Khanh Le
Proposed Topic: Valuing beaches and coastlines to improve coastal management.
Supervisors: A/Prof. Abbie Rogers & A/Prof. Michael Burton
Proposed submission date: May, 2027.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)423 717 068
Emma Scaife
Proposed Topic: Increasing urban forest on private land: a mixed methods investigation of regulatory mechanisms in Australia.
Supervisors: A/Prof. Ram Pandit & Prof. Alex Gardner
Proposed submission date: July, 2026.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 8 6488 6000
Sugat Bajra Bajracharya
Proposed Topic: Assessing the linkages and trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human welfare in a protected area context in Nepal.
Supervisors: Dr. Ram Pandit & Dr. Chunbo Ma
Proposed submission date: February, 2029.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 404 523 301
Alia Manzoor
Proposed Topic: AI Integrated Risk Assessment for Proactive Coastal Hazard Management in Western Australia
Supervisors: A/Prof. Abbie Rogers and Prof. Graeme Cumming
Proposed submission date: February, 2031
Contact Details
Phone: +61 4 0653 6427
Gede Agus Ariutama
Proposed Topic: Household Solid Waste Behaviour and Practices: A Case of Indonesia.
Supervisors: A/Prof. Ram Pandit and A/Prof. Ben White
Proposed submission date: February, 2027.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 8 6488 6000
Brad Vitale
Proposed Topic: Cultural importance, social impacts, economic and environmental benefits of two-way, right-way approaches to digital cultural mapping.
Supervisors: A/Prof. Natasha Pauli & Cristina Ramalho
Proposed submission date: February, 2029.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)408 214 932
Alfian Massagony
Proposed Topic: Understanding Indonesian Energy Policy and Household Energy Consumption.
Supervisors: A/Prof. Ben White & A/Prof. Ram Pandit
Proposed submission date: February, 2029.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)493 700 773
Dinah Yunitawati
Proposed Topic: Stakeholders Interactions in Transboundary Maritime Cooperation: A Case Study of the Arafura and Timor Seas.
Supervisors: Dr Natasha Pauli & Dr Tai Loureiro
Proposed submission date: February, 2027.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)434 173 049
Jemma Thévenau (née Turner)
Proposed Topic: The influence of subjective wellbeing on small-scale fisher behaviour in Mauritius
Supervisors: A/Prof. Abbie Rogers, A/Prof. Natasha Pauli and Dr Matthew Navarro
Proposed submission date: May 2028
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)437 563 165
Darcy Lefroy
Proposed Topic: Human factors affecting the adoption and diffusion of novel biotechnologies.
Supervisors: Prof David Pannell & Dr Atakelty Hailu
Proposed submission date: February, 2028.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 8 6488 6000
Chuanji Yong
Proposed Topic: The optimal level of uncertainty in costs and benefits of conservation decision making.
Supervisors: Prof. David Pannell and A/Prof Abbie Rogers
Proposed submission date: February, 2026.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 (0)405 083 581
Graduated Students
Daniel Martinez Felip (2026)
Topic:The interaction of non-financial incentives and normative expectations in the dynamics of cooperative
behaviour
Supervisors: Steven Scilizzi, David Pannell and Chi Nguyen.
Murni Greenhill (2025)
Topic: Factors affecting farmer decisions to adopt improved silvicultural management in Indonesia and Vietnam.
Supervisors: David Pannell and Fiona Dempster
Marcela Del Carmen Vieira (2025)
Topic: The Economic Value Of Ecosystem Services Provided By Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) to Australia.
Supervisors: Ben White, Fiona Dempster, Theodore Evans and Jacob Berson
Rizky Rahman (2025)
Topic: The Impact of Economic Growth on Environmental Quality in Indonesia.
Supervisors: Chunbo Ma & Ben White
Pratikshya Kandel (2024)
Topic: Evaluating the Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy (Buffer Zone Policy) in Nepal.
Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Maksym Polyakov & Ben White
Deepa Basnet (2024)
Topic: Integrating stakeholders preferences to support lake co-management in developing nations: A case study of Phewa Lake, Nepal.
Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Abbie Rogers, Rajesh Kumar Rai
Sanjeev Poudel (2024)
Topic: Yarsagumba complex: examining its determinants of collection and local communal management practice in Pupal pasture of Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve.
Supervisors: Fiona Dempster, Ram Pandit & Uttam Babu Shrestha
Alemken Jegnie (2024)
Topic: Economic analysis of the demand for urban residential water.
Supervisors: Sayed Iftekhar & James Fogarty
Claire Doll (2024)
Topic: The economics of public open spaces under water scarcity.
Supervisors: David Pannell & Michael Burton
Jon Marx Sarmiento (2024)
Topic: Prospects for participation of smallholder farmers in modern agribusiness value chains in Mindanao, Philippines.
Supervisors: James Fogarty & Fay Rola-Rubzen
Tshering Samdrup (2023)
Topic: Understanding the foreign direct investment, contract farming, and food security dynamics in developing countries
Supervisors: James Fogarty, Ram Pandit, Md. Sayed Iftekhar
Oscar Montes de Oca Munguia (2023)
Topic: Improving the forecasting of adoption in agriculture.
Supervisor: David Pannell
Curtis Rollins (2024)
Topic: Response anomalies in stated preference studies.
Supervisors: David Pannell & Michael Burton
Alaya Spencer-Cotton (2023)
Topic: Land use values for the rangelands of WA. The policy implications for social values in the Fitzroy River Catchment, Kimberley.
Supervisors: Marit Kragt & Michael Burton
Asjad Tariq Sheikh (2023)
Topic: Essays on the Economics of Soil Quality: Crop Productivity, Adoption and Willingness to Accept for Land Restoration Programs in Pakistan’s Punjab.
Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Amin Mugera, Michael Burton
Dinesh Thapa Magar (2023)
Topic: Overseas Labour Migration: Its Determinants and Impacts on Smallholder Farm-Households in Nepal.
Supervisors: Ram Pandit & Fay Rola-Rubzen
Ken Wallace (2022)
Topic: Category Errors in Natural Resource Management Planning - Issues and Solutions.
Supervisors: Milena Kim, David Pannell, & Abbie Rogers
Ashok Chaudhary (2023)
Topic: Dynamics of land degradation, household welfare and sustainable land management in Mahottari District, Nepal.
Supervisors: Michael Burton & Ram Pandit
Sofina Maharjan (2023)
Topic: Economics of adoption of Conservation Agricultural Practices in Nepal.
Supervisors: Fay Rola-Rubzen, Ram Pandit & Atakelty Hailu
Lan Le (2021)
Topic: Managing groundwater sustainably: the role of externalities and institutions.
Supervisors: James Fogarty, Sayed Iftekhar & Steve Schilizzi
Rebecca Coffie (2021)
Topic: Economic Efficiency of Rice farms in the Northern region of Ghana.
Supervisors: Michael Burton, Fiona Dempster & Atakelty Hailu
Bibek Sapkota (2021)
Topic: Farmers' risk perceptions, attitudes and management strategies, and willingness to pay for crop insurance in Nepal.
Supervisors: Michael Burton, Fay Rola-Rubzen, Roy Murray-Prior
Johanna Zimmerhackel (2019)
Topic: Interactions of Diving Tourism and Fisheries in Marine Protected Areas: Market Values and New Approaches to Deter Illegal Fishing in the Maldives Shark Sanctuary
Supervisors: David Pannell, Abbie Rogers, Marit Kragt
Ari Rakatama (2019)
Topic: Examining Implementation of REDD+ Projects in Indonesia from Economic Perspectives.
Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Sayed Iftekhar & Chunbo Ma
Hue Vuong (2020)
Topic: Food safety in Vietnam: Perception, behaviour, economics and policy.
Supervisors: David Pannell, Michael Burton & Steve Schilizzi
Alison Wilson (2019)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisors: Marit Kragt & David Pannell
Toto Olita (2019)
Topic: Can insurance mechanisms enhance the attractiveness of conservation auctions?
Supervisors: Sayed Iftekhar & Steven Schilizzi
Khairunnisa Ahmad Kamil (2019)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Atakelty Hailu & Abbie Rogers
Vandana Subroy (2019)
Topic: To fence or not to fence: Socio-economic considerations in feral predator management strategies for threatened species survivability
Supervisors: Marit Kragt, David Pannell & Abbie Rogers
Tafesse Estifanos (2019)
Topic: Ecosytem Services-Livelihood nexus in Ethiopian Protected Areas: Understanding the roles of socioeconomic values for Natural Resources Conservation
Supervisors: Maksym Polyakov, Ram Pandit & Atakelty Hailu
Thi Quynh Chi Nguyen (2019)
Topic: Economic Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TUFRs) with common property: The case of Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam
Supervisors: Atakelty Hailu & Steven Schilizzi
Sanaz Shoghi Kalkhoran (2019)
Topic: Optimal agricultural lime and fertilizer applications: economic and environmental perspectives
Supervisors: David Pannell, Maksym Polyakov & Ben White
Maria Jose Solis Aulestia (2019)
Topic: Understanding Land use dynamics in the Chure region of Nepal: Integrating biophysical, socio-economic and policy drivers
Supervisors: Maksym Polyakov & Ram Pandit
Matthew Navarro (2019)
Topic: Using bio-economic modelling to measure the impacts of no-take marine reserves on marine users in coastal Western Australia
Supervisors: Marit Kragt & Atakelty Hailu
Andrew Kennedy (2018)
Topic: Simulation and economic modelling of sheep systems
Supervisor: David Pannell
Louise Blackmore (2018)
Topic: Trust relationships and collaborative private land conservation program design: Experimental insights
Supervisors: Steven Schilizzi, Sayed Iftekhar, Abbie Rogers
Thayse Nery de Figueiredo (2018)
Topic: Optimal land-use change to increase water quality, quantity and biodiversity outcomes
Supervisors: Morteza Chalak, David Pannell, Rohan Sandler, Maksym Polyakov.
Katrina Davis (2016)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisors: David Pannell
Tas Thamo (2017)
Topic: Climate change in Western Australian agriculture: a bioeconomic and policy analysis
Supervisors: David Pannell, Marit Kragt & Maksym Polyakov
Jacob Hawkins (2017)
Topic: China’s changing diet and its impacts on greenhouse gas emissions
Supervisor: David Pannell
Sonja Mennen (2016)
Topic: The most cost-effective ways to maintain public open space with less water in Perth
Supervisors: James Fogarty and Sayed Iftekhar.
Veronique Florec (2016)
Topic: Economic analysis of prescribed burning in the south-west of Western Australia
Supervisor: David Pannell, Michael Burton
Gunther de Vos (2016)
Topic: The value of revegetating an urban railway reserve
Supervisor: Marit Kragt
Donkor Addai (2013)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell
Christine Kershaw (2014)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell
James Skurray (2014)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell
Fiona Gibson (2011)
Topic: Comparing economic and psychology approaches to understanding community acceptance of recycled wastewater: a case study in Perth, Western Australia
Supervisors: Michael Burton, James Fogarty Sorada Tapsuwanc.
Abbie Rogers (2011)
Topic: The policy relevance of choice modelling: an application to the Ningaloo and proposed Capes Marine Parks
Supervisors: Michael Burton & Atakelty Hailu
Jessie Beltran (2011)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell
Bronwyn Crowe (2010)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell
Karen Barroga (2009)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell
Sayed Iftekhar (2010)
Topic: Buying beetles and bats: iterative combinatorial auction designs for conservation
Supervisor: David Pannell
Graeme Doole (2007)
(Thesis Topic)
Supervisor: David Pannell