Deb Cleland
Dr Deb Cleland
Dr Deborah (Deb) Cleland is the lead advisor for a Greens MLA in the ACT Parliament, providing strategic advice across offices on the portfolios of Better Neighbourhoods, Corrections, Policy and Emergency Services, Workplace Health and Safety (WHS), Industrial Relations, Multicultural Affairs, Democracy, Integrity and Community Engagement and the Arts. Deb’s PhD examined how games and creative participatory activities could facilitate dialogue and learning in natural resource management. Over the last 20 years, Deb has worked on various community boards and government committees, as well as in physical theatre, academia and conservation. Across these domains, Deb works on improving justice, equality, sustainability and citizen engagement in our democracy.
Research interests
- Research and institutional ethics
- Democracy and inclusion
- Qualitative, creative, participatory and interdisciplinary research methodology
- Sustainability and environmental governance
- Environmental justice
RegNet scholars awarded APIP grant
We are delighted to announce that four RegNet scholars have secured funding from the Asia-Pacific Innovation Program (APIP) for the completion of the following projects:
Deb Cleland accepted as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
RegNet Post-Doctoral Fellow, Deb Cleland has been accepted as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Membership as a Fellow recognises Deb’s expertise and experience in university teaching.
ANU & EPA Awarded Research Grant on Restorative Justice for Environment
The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently awarded the Australian National University (ANU) and Victorian Environmental Protection Authority
Current
Preventing and addressing environmental harm through restorative justice
The project brings together restorative justice experts from RegNet with the Victorian Environment Protection Authority, which has experimented with Restorative Justice for over a decade and now seeks
Completed
Community capacity building in child protection
Safety for children can be improved and care capacity in the child’s local community can be more effectively harnessed through a responsive regulatory approach.
Introducing Justice into the UN’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration: A Community of Practice for Research and Action
This project will create a theoretical, empirical and policy agenda for incorporating justice into the UN’s Decade on Ecosystem Restoration “the Decade”, a 10-year plan to promote efforts to “preven
Regulation and social capital
Why do we often waver in our trust in regulatory systems and how do we establish respectful relations with communities and improve regulatory effectiveness.
Author(s): Forsyth, Miranda, Cleland, Deborah, Tepper, Felicity, Soares, Milena, Nairn, Alistair, Wilkinson, Cathy
Date of publications: 2021
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Deborah Cleland
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Deborah Cleland
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Deborah Cleland
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Opinion piece
Author(s): Deborah Cleland, Raissa O'Caya San Jose
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Book chapter
Author(s): Deborah Cleland
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Journal article
