Taegen Edwards




Research Fellow, Climate Change and Social Justice
McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
Melbourne School of Population Health
Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
Tel:   +61 3 8344 0917
Fax:   +61 3 9348 2832
Email: taegene@unimelb.edu.au
 

Biography

Taegen’s work at the McCaughey Centre is centred on the Climate Transformations initiative, which is broadly concerned with building and disseminating knowledge about the social impacts of climate change and enabling positive, transformative responses to climate change that are consistent with just and sustainable communities.

Taegen completed a Bachelor of Arts (Politics, Spanish)/Commerce (Economics) at the University of Melbourne and Honours in the Department of Management at Monash University. She has previously worked in a research and policy role at the Municipal Association of Victoria, as a trainer and project officer for the Green Steps program, run through the Monash Sustainability Institute, and for the Climate Change and Sustainable Business Project, an initiative within the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University.

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