Dr Cobi Calyx

Dr Cobi Calyx is an Honorary Senior Lecturer with UNSW Sydney, remotely from home on Kaurna country in southern Adelaide. She is a guest lecturer in environmental management, science leadership and space governance. She advises PhD students in environmental and space governance.

She now works in government, having been affiliated at Flinders with the Climate and Sustainability Policy Research group and the Centre for Social Impact. She's also an alumnus of Flinders public health. She remains part of Flinders University Childcare Centre through her children.

Cobi has more than a decade of experience working internationally across international sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, science communication and governance, technology accessibility, health promotion and environmental governance. She has worked for organisations ranging from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to the United Nations. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, reflecting her educational expertise.

Cobi lives on Kaurna land with her family, settlers of British, Dutch, Guernési, Irish and Mauritian Creole heritage. She is multilingual and supports endangered language revival, focused on Kaurna and Guernésiais. She has lived on five continents, including a year with the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact in Thailand through the Australian Aid program. This shaped her ongoing support for Aboriginal self-determination and the Uluru Statement from the Heart.