Maxine Newlands

(she/her)
  • Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland, Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, Cairns Institute, James Cook University

Maxine Newlands is a political scientist and policy analyst. She is an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. Her research focuses on policy, governance, and regulation, with an emphasis on marine and environmental politics, as well as Queensland politics.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Adjunct associate professor, James Cook University
  • 2023–present
    Adjunct senior research fellow , UQ
  • 2021–2023
    Associate professor, James Cook University

Education

  • 2013 
    University of East London, Ph.D
  • 2009 
    University of Surrey, MA
  • 2009 
    University of East London , PGCERT HE
  • 1998 
    University of East Anglia , BA (Hons.)

Publications

  • 2024
    Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities , Routledge, London
  • 2018
    Environmental Activism and the Media: the politics of protest, Taylor Francis, NY

Contact Maxine for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision