Flinders University
Dr Cassandra Star
Dr
Cassandra
Star
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/cassandra.star
Dr Cassandra Star
| Position/s: | Senior Lecturer in Public Policy Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences |
| Phone: | +61 8 82012074 |
| Email: | cassandra.star@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences South (330) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Dr. Cassandra Star teaches in the Graduate Program in Public Administration in the Department of Politics and Public Policy.
Cassandra has been engaged in research and study of global environmental issues for the last two decades. Her interests span government, business and community engagement with these issues from both cooperative and conflictual perspectives. She is currently working on an internationally comparative research project of climate activism in Western democracies.
Qualifications
- PhD Monash University
- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning University of Southern Queensland
- Bachelor of Science (Australian Environmental Studies) Hons (I) Griffith University
- Bachelor of Science (Australian Environmental Studies) Griffith University
Honours, awards and grants
Honours and Awards
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Teaching Award (2010)
- Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation (with Dr McDonald) - For Institutional Leadership in Creating and Sustaining a University-wide Situated Professional Development Initiative to Improve Learning and Teaching Quality by Empowering Academic Teaching Staff (2009).
- Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (with Dr McDonald) (2007).
- Excellence in Design and Delivery of Teaching Materials (2007).
Grants
- Cassandra Star & Jacquelin McDonald, 2010. (ALTC). $218000. Identifying, building and sustaining leadership capacity for communities of practice in higher education.
- Cassandra Star, 2007. (ECR Program, USQ) $7600. Business Engagement with Climate Change Initiatives in Australia: Understanding Different Modes of Engagement in Relation to Levels of Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Cassandra Star, 2007. (Faculty of Business, Research & Higher Degrees Committee) $7991. Climate politics and environmental justice in the North American context.
- Jacquelin McDonald, Michael Sankey, Jill Lawrence & Cassandra Star, 2006. (USQ SDF) $30000. Creating CoPs to improve the experience of teachers and students in first year courses.
- Cassandra Star & Jacquelin McDonald, 2006. (Faculty of Business, Learning & Teaching Enhancement Commitee, USQ) $7990. A CoP Approach to Support the Professional Development of Teachers and the Learning Outcomes of Core Undergraduate Courses.
- Cassandra Star & Jacquelin McDonald, 2006. (Faculty of Business, Learning & Teaching Enhancement Commitee, USQ) $5616. Evaluating student perceptions of, reactions to, and engagement with, embedded graduate attributes.
- Cassandra Star, J McDonald, M Sankey and J Lawrence, 2006. (The Centre for Transformative Pedagogies, USQ) $5000. From poison chalice to badge of honour - Empowering teachers of first year university courses through CoPs.
- Cassandra Star, 2006. (Faculty of Business, Learning & Teaching Enhancement Committee, USQ) $2000. Embedding Graduate Attribute Skills in a Core Undergraduate Course: POL1000.
- Cassandra Star, 2006. (Centre for Sustainable Catchments) $2000. Climate Change Campaigners and Notions of Social Justice.
Key responsibilities
- Director of Studies - Politics, Public Administration and Public Policy
- Member - University Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee
- Member - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Teaching and Learning Committee
Teaching
Research and consultancy
Research interests
- Environmental policy and politics
- Climate change policy and politics
- Climate activism in Western democracies
- Global environmental issues
- Green political theory
- Higher education policy
- Communities of practice in higher education
Postgraduate research supervision
I am interested in supervising students in the following areas:
- Environmental politics and policy
- Climate change politics and policy
- Climate change in vulnerable regions
- Global environmental issues.
Current students:
- Lorraine Macintosh - The effect of the financial crisis and global recession on environmental policy and policy implementation after 2008
- Rosdiana Sijabat - Fiscal decentralization, public expenditures and service delivery in Indonesia
- Cassandra McCreadie - Unitary assumptions and invisible realities: Federal states, constituent states and International relations
- Bimal Regmi - Climate change adaptation in the development mainstream: Assessing climate change policy issues and implications in Nepal
Publications
Book chapters
Hall, N.L. & Star, C., 2007. Climate change messages and strategies by Australian NGOs. In New talents 21C : other contact zones. Perth, WA: Network Books, pp. 137-148.
Refereed journal articles
Green, W., Hammer, S., & Star, C., 2009. Facing up to the challenge: why is so hard to develop graduate attributes?. Higher Education Research and Development (HERDSA), 28(1), 17-29.
Star, C. & Hammer, S., 2008. Teaching generic skills: eroding the higher purpose of universities, or an opportunity for renewal?. Oxford Review of Education, 34(2), 237-251.
Star, C. & McDonald, J., 2007. Embedding successful pedagogical practices: assessment strategies for a large, diverse, first year student cohort. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 3(2), 18-30.
Refereed conference papers
Star, C., Nagy, J., Burch, T., Cox, M., & McDonald, J., 2011. Investigating the leadership needs in communities of practice: an audience driven empirical journey. HERDSA: Higher Education on the Edge.
Halupka, M. & Star, C., 2011. The utilisation of direct democracy and meritocracy in the decision-making process of the decentralised virtual community Anonymous. Australian Political Science Association conference.
McIntosh, L. & Star, C., 2011. The eco-political theory of postmaterialism in times of financial crisis and recession. 6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis 2011:Discursive spaces, politics, practices and power.
Star, C., 2009. Environmental policymaking under Howard: extinguishing the enemy within?. Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009, 1-11.
MacIntosh, L. & Star, C., 2009. The effect of the financial crisis and global recession on environmental policy and implementation. Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009, 1-16.
McDonald, J., Collins, P., Hingst, R.D., Kimmins, L., Lynch, B., & Star, C., 2008. Community learning: member's stories about their academic community of practice. HERDSA 2008 International Conference: Engaging Communities.
Book chapters
Hall, N.L. & Star, C., 2007. Climate change messages and strategies by Australian NGOs. In New talents 21C : other contact zones. Perth, WA: Network Books, pp. 137-148.
Refereed journal articles
Green, W., Hammer, S., & Star, C., 2009. Facing up to the challenge: why is so hard to develop graduate attributes?. Higher Education Research and Development (HERDSA), 28(1), 17-29.
Star, C. & Hammer, S., 2008. Teaching generic skills: eroding the higher purpose of universities, or an opportunity for renewal?. Oxford Review of Education, 34(2), 237-251.
Star, C. & McDonald, J., 2007. Embedding successful pedagogical practices: assessment strategies for a large, diverse, first year student cohort. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 3(2), 18-30.
Refereed conference papers
Halupka, M. & Star, C., 2011. The utilisation of direct democracy and meritocracy in the decision-making process of the decentralised virtual community Anonymous. Australian Political Science Association conference.
McIntosh, L. & Star, C., 2011. The eco-political theory of postmaterialism in times of financial crisis and recession. 6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis 2011:Discursive spaces, politics, practices and power.
Star, C., Nagy, J., Burch, T., Cox, M., & McDonald, J., 2011. Investigating the leadership needs in communities of practice: an audience driven empirical journey. HERDSA: Higher Education on the Edge.
MacIntosh, L. & Star, C., 2009. The effect of the financial crisis and global recession on environmental policy and implementation. Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009, 1-16.
Star, C., 2009. Environmental policymaking under Howard: extinguishing the enemy within?. Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009, 1-11.
McDonald, J., Collins, P., Hingst, R.D., Kimmins, L., Lynch, B., & Star, C., 2008. Community learning: member's stories about their academic community of practice. HERDSA 2008 International Conference: Engaging Communities.
Star, C., 2008. Locating justice in a warming world: developing notions of climate justice in the UK and the USA. Australasian Political Science Association 2008 Conference.
McDonald, J. & Star, C., 2008. The challenges of building an academic community of practice: an Australian case study. HERDSA 2008 International Conference: Engaging Communities.
McDonald, J. & Star, C., 2007. Making meaning of women's networks: a community of practice framework. 2007 International Women's Conference: Education, Employment and Everything... the Triple Layers of a Woman's Life.
Star, C., 2007. Dancing together: environment, development, aid and faith organisations in climate politics in the United Kingdom. Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference 2007.
Star, C., 2007. Whither engagement? Challenges for community engagement within academia. 2007 International Women's Conference: Education, Employment and Everything... the Triple Layers of a Woman's Life.
Star, C., 2006. The mobilisation of norms for legitimacy in the global warming debate. 5th Global Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship Conference.
McDonald, J. & Star, C., 2006. Designing the future of learning through a community of practice of teachers of first year courses at an Australian university. The First International LAMS Conference: Designing the Future of Learning.
Star, C., 2005. Notions of ecological citizenship in climate justice campaigns. Ecopolitics XVI: Transforming Environmental Governance for the 21st Century, 1-19.
Star, C., 2005. Ecological citizenship - a new landscape for human rights Debate?. Proceedings of The Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2005.
Star, C., 2004. Climate justice campaigns and environmental refugees. Ecopolitics XV: Environmental Governance: Transforming Regions and Localities.
Star, C., 2004. Engaged academics? Dilemmas for early career academics. Education and Social Action Conference 2004.
Hammer, S. & Star, C., 2004. Higher education for community and citizenship?. Education and Social Action Conference 2004.
Conference publications
Anderson, C., Hayes, A.C., Heath, M.A., Reynolds, L.C., Star, C., Stephenson, H.R., & Voss, D., 2011. Good CoP or Bad CoP? What makes a Community of Practice successful; Learning from experience at Flinders University. Transformation - 6th ERGA Conference.
Star, C., 2010. The Use of Teaching and Learning Communities of Practice in Australian Higher Education. 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?' Exploring Meaning, Identities and Transformation in Higher Education.
Hall, N.L. & Star, C., 2007. Getting the message: audience resonance with Australian climate change campaigns. Probing the boundaries of environmental justice and global citizenship, 185-194.
Star, C., 2007. The mobilisation of norms for legitimacy in the global warming debate. Probing the boundaries: Environmental justice and global citizenship, 275-283.
Hall, N.L. & Star, C., 2006. Getting the message: audience resonance with Australian climate change campaigns. 5th Global Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship Conference.
Other public research outputs
Star, C., 2005. Ecopolitics XVI: transforming environmental governance for the 21st century (Editor), Hobart, TAS: Ecopolitics Association of Australasia.
Hammer, S., Norton, P., & Star, C., 2004. Cheating to cope in the hothouse. , 42-42.
Professional and community engagement
- Independent Chair, Executive Management Group, Outer South Innovative Community Action Network (ICAN)
- Australian Political Studies Association
- Ecopolitics Association of Australasia
- Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
- CP2 - The Community of Practice about Communities of Practice
- The Flinders College of Distinguished Educators
- University of Southern Queensland Teaching Academy
