Masters in Environment, Development and Public Policy, Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Development, University of Sussex

Moni Carlisle returned to the SFS Center for Rainforest Studies as Center Director in 2009. In 2002 and 2003, Moni was the lecturer-in-residence for the Socio-Economics and Policy course in Australia before leaving to pursue a Ph.D. in Education, concentrating on socio-ecological resilience and environmental policy. She returns to SFS after working for the last five years for the Wet Tropics regional natural resource management (NRM) group and brings abundant knowledge of the Wet Tropics management arrangements, community scale aspirations and participation in NRM, environmental planning in Australia and education for sustainability initiatives.

A returned Peace Corps volunteer (Sri Lanka '92) and former teacher-trainer, Moni is passionate about the role education brings in practice change initiatives, transformative learning, public participation in environmental management and enabling practices for stewardship in relation to conservation and land management. Her research interests are in the areas of socio-ecological resilience, ecological identity, and a sense of place. She was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and her funding for her Ph.D. was provided by the Australian Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC) as a Marine and Tropical Science Research Scholar. The defining moments of her life other than the birth of her daughter Nina, were the years she spent in Jamaica and Tanzania as an undergraduate study abroad student.

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