Jon is Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Geography at Melbourne University. He is a political geographer whose research investigates social impacts and responses to environmental change.
He has twenty years of experience conducting field-based research in several Pacific Island Countries, and in Australia, China and Timor-Leste. Jon's research has helped explain the impacts of climate change on cultures, food security, inequality, instability, migration, and water security, and ways in which adaptation can promote social justice and peace. He was a Lead Author of the chapter on Human Security in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and he co-edits the journal Global Environmental Change.
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FEATURED Journal article
The mental health impacts of climate change: Findings from a Pacific Island atoll nation
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Research Fellow
New Zealand Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship
British Academy Visiting Fellow
FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellow
Visiting fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Credentials
Positions
Arc Laureate Fellow
Geography
Member
Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Member
Institute of Australian geographers
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
The Australian National University
Master of Arts (Preliminary) Geography
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Planning and Design
University of Melbourne