Ass. Professor (hon) Ann Peterson (AP) PhD has over 30 years’ experience undertaking environmental planning research and evaluation, developing and implementing planning policies and related tools and as an educator developing and implementing innovative learning strategies that focus on critical thinking, the development of skills and competencies and the use of relevant emerging learning technologies.
Ann has extensive and relevant expertise as an educator. She is a formally trained teacher with experience teaching in Australia, Zimbabwe and Vietnam, and has over 25 years’ experience as an academic at the University of Queensland (UQ), At UQ she has taught postgraduate students about protected area planning and management and has developed many interactive learning modules.
Ann has worked in a professional capacity with Queensland’s Parks and Wildlife Service and Environmental Protection Agency. She lived in PNG in the early 1990s and has travelled extensively within the country and has a good understanding of PNG’s environment, its people, culture and history. In 2016-17 she worked as part of a team to conduct the first nation-wide evaluation of PNG’s protected area management effectiveness. She was also a key team member in the development of the PNG Policy for Protected Areas in 2014. These projects incorporated extensive field visits and discussions with local community members and relevant staff from all levels of government. She has conducted program/project monitoring and evaluation including the Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan and regional natural resource management (NRM) delivery arrangements in Australia. She is co-author of an evaluation and review of statutory regional coastal management plans in Queensland, contributing author to a benchmarking report on evaluation of regional NRM arrangements in northern Australia and has assessed coastal planning approaches in the Indian Ocean region.
Gregory Peterson has a Master of Education (Social and Environmental Education). He is a formally trained and highly experienced educator across a diversity of educational settings. His experience has been mainly in the tertiary sector, with responsibility for education programs for young adults.. He was a crucial part of the Protected Area Solutions team in the development of the Policy on Protected Areas and the management effectiveness evaluation, where he led facilitation of many workshops. He is able to relate well to people from a different cultural background from his own and is fluent in Tok Pisin. He has high level written and verbal communication skills.
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