ProfMichael Fabinyi

I use theories and methods from the social sciences to understand the social, political and cultural aspects of marine resource use and management. I completed my PhD at the Australian National University (2009), and from 2010-2016 worked at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University. I have lived and worked in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Solomon Islands. I have held visiting appointments at Peking University (2013-14), WorldFish, Malaysia (2015), and am an Adjunct Associate Professor at Palawan State University, Philippines.

My research interests include coastal livelihoods, agrarian change, food security in coastal contexts, seafood trade and fisheries governance. Current funded projects include ones on sandfish mariculture, coral reef restoration and coral reef governance in the Philippines (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), small-scale fisheries governance in the Philippines (Australian Research Council Discovery); edible bird's nest trade in Indonesia (Australian Research Council Linkage); China's role in global fisheries (Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Centre).