Megan Star
PhDAdjunct Research Fellow
School of Business and Law
Building 34 - School of Business and Law
Rockhampton
Megan Star is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at CQ University Rockhampton. She is a resource economist and for the past nine years has worked collaboratively across the areas of agriculture and natural resource management. Megan has developed her research interests in investment prioritisation, evaluation, bio-economic modelling, investment analysis, and analysis of environmental and productivity trade-offs. She has worked extensively with a range of stakeholders and led a number of externally funded research projects. Recent research has focused on working in multidisciplinary teams to further understand risk management in increasingly variable climates from grazing and sugarcane producers.
Background
2009-2014 PhD CQuni- Informing natural resource management policy: A case study approach on rangelands grazing in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments
2008-2009 Graduate Diploma in Education -University of New England Armidale
2003-2007 BA. Agricultural Economics- Honours Level 1- University of New England Armidale
