Kirsty Anantharajah
Ms Kirsty Anantharajah
Kirsty is a research associate on Professor Neil Gunningham’s DFAT funded project, Harnessing financial markets and institutional investment to increase the penetration of clean energy in the Asia Pacific. She is also a PhD student, her proposed project explores the impacts of climate finance regulation and governance in Fiji.
Kirsty Anantharajah is a lawyer admitted in the ACT with a background in refugee protection. She has previously worked in the fields of human rights law, transitional justice and gender based violence. Kirsty has degrees in Arts and Law (Hons I) from the Australian National University.
Research interests
- Science and Technology Studies
- Law And Society
- Development Studies
- Climate Finance
- Energy Aid in the Asia Pacific Region
- Human Rights Regulation
- Refugee Law
- Gender Based Rights
Supervisor:
Where privacy meets power: questions of data & racial inequality
Data are often understood as self-evident reflections of the world, even though there is growing evidence of how data-driven practices can have racially discriminatory outcomes.
Kirsty Anantharajah on Pacific experiences in climate finance
RegNet PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah recently spoke to Monika Halkort for Austria’s Radiokolleg to discuss Pacific experiences of climate finance.
Harnessing financial markets and institutional investment to increase the penetration of clean energy in Asia and the Pacific
Climate change and energy poverty are just two of the key global challenges that the world is currently facing.
Mobile phones in immigration detention: capturing lessons for post-pandemic transformation?- PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah writes for Green Agenda
PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah, explores the implications of prohibiting mobile phones from immigration detention
The Climate Finance Initiative and capacity building in Fiji
Climate change presents a profound threat to our region, one most felt by our Pacific Island neighbours, manifesting in rising seas, extreme weather events, widespread loss, damage, and displac
RegNet PhD scholar writes on her experience as a Tamil Australian in 'We, Refugees'
RegNet PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah has written about her experience as a Tamil Australian in the new volume edited by RegNet visitor and former staff member, Emma Larking, We Refugees.
Current
Climate Finance Initiative
The Climate Finance Initiative, located within the world-renowned School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, aims to p
Author(s): Kirsty Anantharajah
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Cynthia Banham, Kirsty Anantharajah
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
