Since the mid-2000s I have conducted impact-led research that has demonstrably benefited society, the environment, and the economy in both industry and academic contexts, such as: 

• Between 2014 and 2018 I advised the Australia Council for the Arts’ Nuclear Futures Partnership Initiative, a three-year community arts program for Aṉangu atomic survivor and nuclear veteran communities impacted by, or implicated in, British nuclear colonialism led by Paul Brown (UNSW). In her Foreword to the multimedia special issue “Reimagining Maralinga” that I co-edited, Senior Aṉangu Elder Ms Smart acknowledged the critical role the project played for both intergenerational and intercultural “truth telling”.  

• In 2013, former vice-president of the International Court of Justice Judge Christopher Weeramantry wrote that the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office-sponsored Athens Dialogue that I co-convened and facilitated in 2012—and the subsequent book translated into Hebrew, Farsi and Arabic—was “outstanding” and “a significant step” that makes “a substantial contribution” to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation processes in the Middle East.  

• Prior to 2012, I spent a decade advising pension and sovereign wealth funds on the ethics of transboundary environmental and social harm. In 2007 Australia’s university pension fund UniSuper awarded me the inaugural prize for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research where the panel of judges noted my “pioneering role” which “may have single-handedly debunked any residual concerns [...] and could fundamentally change how [legislators and trustees] now tackle this subject”.  My foundational contributions to mainstreaming the ESG framework in Australia from the early-2000s led to me serving as a founding member of the United Nations Global Compact Expert Group on Responsible Business and Investment in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, for whom I co-authored the first applied report in 2010.

• This work has shaped many Australian policy debates over the last two decades, most notably: on environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk and fiduciary duty in the mid- to late-2000s (as evidenced by UniSuper's prize and changes in Australian legislation); asset exposure to cluster munitions in the late-2000s and early-2010s (which is known to have inspired the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ “Don’t Bank on the Bomb” campaign); sanctions on Iran for alleged nuclear weapons development in the early-2010s; uranium sales to India in the mid-2010s (as demonstrated by a series of rebuttals issued by the Lowy Institute); and the siting of nuclear waste repositories from the mid-2010s, among others. Much of this work was cited under Hansard in Parliament.