Tiffany’s research focusses on complex governance of climate adaptation and conflict in large-scale reef systems, policy responses to warming ecosystems, and governance of new interventions in warming ecosystems. She holdsprofessorial appointments in the School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Melbourne University, the College of Science & Engineering at James Cook University and the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. She currently leads a new international team on Governing Changing Oceans funded by the Australian Research Council discovery program (2022-2025) and the US Science for Nature and People Partnership (2023-2025).
Tiffany has twenty years of experience conducting innovative interdisciplinary research spanning human geography, political science, climate science, and ecology.