Trisia Farrelly

New Zealand social anthropologist

  • Business va'avanua: cultural hybridisation and indigenous entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji (2009)
Doctoral advisorSita Venkateswar, Regina ScheyvensAcademic workInstitutionsMassey University, Massey University - Manawatū Campus

Trisia Angela Farrelly (née Prince) is a New Zealand social anthropologist, and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in plastic reduction and pollution, and campaigning against excessive and hazardous plastics production.

Early life and family

Farrelly is the daughter of Gabrielle and Richard Prince.[1] In 1998, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Massey University.[2] She is married to Matt Farrelly.[1]

Academic career

Farrelly completed a PhD on community-based ecotourism at Massey University in 2009. Her thesis was titled Business va'avanua: cultural hybridisation and indigenous entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji and was supervised by Sita Venkateswar and Regina Scheyvens.[1] Farrelly then joined the faculty at Massey, rising to associate professor in 2022 and full professor in 2024.[3][4] She is co-director of Massey's Political Ecology Research Centre.[4] Farrelly's research focuses on excessive and hazardous plastics production, and how to reduce plastic use and pollution in New Zealand and internationally.[5][6][7]

Farrelly is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Group on Marine Litter and Microplastics, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee.[4] Farrelly co-founded the Steering Committee of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, which has more than 300 members from 50 countries.[4] She also co-founded the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance and the New Zealand Product Stewardship Council, of which she is a trustee.[4][8] Farrelly is a Technical Advisor to the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.[4]

Farrelly is a senior editor on the editorial board of the journal Cambridge Prisms: Plastics.[4][9]

Awards and honours

Farrelly was awarded a Massey University medal for Exceptional Research Citizenship, and another for Excellence in Teaching.[4] She was a finalist in the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards in 2021, and in 2023 won a WasteMINZ Award for Excellence for Product Stewardship, for "her longstanding and ongoing work to end plastic pollution".[4][10][8]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Trisia Farrelly (Q109756666).

Books

  • Trisia Farrelly; Sy Taffel; Ian Shaw, eds. (30 June 2021). Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and Politics. doi:10.15215/AUPRESS/9781771993272.01. ISBN 978-1-77199-328-9. OL 34227117M. Wikidata Q124288042.

Journal articles

  • Trisia Farrelly; Unaisi Nabobo‐Baba (December 2014). "Talanoa as empathic apprenticeship". Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 55 (3): 319–330. doi:10.1111/APV.12060. ISSN 1360-7456. Wikidata Q124287748.
  • Trisia Angela Farrelly (September 2011). "Indigenous and democratic decision-making: issues from community-based ecotourism in the Boumā National Heritage Park, Fiji". Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 19 (7): 817–835. doi:10.1080/09669582.2011.553390. ISSN 0966-9582. Wikidata Q124287750.
  • C.A. Tucker; T. Farrelly (10 March 2015). "Household food waste: the implications of consumer choice in food from purchase to disposal". Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 21 (6): 682–706. doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1015972. ISSN 1354-9839. Wikidata Q124287745.
  • Nils Simon; Karen Raubenheimer; Niko Urho; et al. (2 July 2021). "A binding global agreement to address the life cycle of plastics". Science. 373 (6550): 43–47. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.ABI9010. ISSN 0036-8075. Wikidata Q124287731.
  • Jim Sinner; Mark Newton; Jaye Barclay; James Baines; Trisia Farrelly; Peter Edwards; Gail Tipa (May 2020). "Measuring social licence: What and who determines public acceptability of aquaculture in New Zealand?". Aquaculture. 521: 734973. doi:10.1016/J.AQUACULTURE.2020.734973. ISSN 0044-8486. Wikidata Q124287739.
  • Mark J. Newton; Trisia A. Farrelly; Jim Sinner (2020). "Discourse, agency, and social license to operate in New Zealand's marine economy". Ecology and Society. 25 (1). doi:10.5751/ES-11304-250102. ISSN 1708-3087. Wikidata Q124287738.

References

  1. ^ a b c Farrelly, Trisia Angela (2009). Business va'avanua: cultural hybridisation and indigenous entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji (PhD thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/1166.
  2. ^ Graduation programme 1998. Massey University. p. 47. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  3. ^ "2021 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "2023 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Plastic pollution expert to speak in Whanganui". NZ Herald. 15 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Trisia Farrelly, Author at Pacific Security College". Pacific Security College. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Trisia Farrelly | fellows | Sylff Official Website | Cultivating Leaders of Tomorrow". www.sylff.org. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Awards for Excellence 2023". www.wasteminz.org.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  10. ^ "2021 Women Of Influence -Trisia Farrelly - Massey University". alumnionline.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

External links

  • Plastic Pollution Prevention in Pacific Island Countries, presentation by Farrelly at Our Zero Waste World Digital Summit, November 2020


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