School of Science

Professor Marnie Campbell

Professor Marnie Campbell is the Executive Dean of the School of Science, which includes the two major discipline groupings of Science, and Computing and Security. More specifically, this includes Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Ecology, Environmental Science, Information Technology, Information Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics. The School includes four established Research Centres (Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research, Conservation and Biodiversity Research Centre, and Centre for Securing Digital Futures) and we are involved in one Strategic Research Centre (Centre for People, Place & Planet).

Background

Marnie’s career has maintained a balance between active science research and scholarship, and the interface with environmental management, with the aim of translating science into effective policy and determining how policy directs science. A crucial component of this has been helping to guide and create scientists, environmental leaders and decision-makers of the future via innovative (and life-long) education opportunities. This has led to her developing and fostering innovative course/degree designs and research initiatives based upon co-development with stakeholders to meet the needs of government, industry, and community. To succeed, her career has combined non-academic (12 years) and academic (18 years) acumen to provide a modern way of tackling problems.

Professor Marnie Campbell has 18 years’ experience in higher education, with 14 of those years in leadership roles, with her most recent previous role as the Head of School of Life and environmental Sciences at Deakin University. Similarly, she has spent six years in leadership positions in government (Australia and New Zealand), and as a consultant to the UN, and a further four years in a pure science role (CSIRO).

Marnie was the 2007 winner of Australian Maritime College (UTAS) Peter Morris Prize for her significant contribution to the enhancement of the maritime industry via biosecurity. She was also the recipient of Queensland Government Smart Futures Fellowship from 2012-2015 (Restoring Queensland’s seagrass meadows).

Professional Memberships

• 2023-ongoing – Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability (Sustainability in Marine Conservation and Ecology), (Associate Editor)
• 2021-ongoing – Management of Biological Invasions (Editorial Advisory Board Member)
• 2020-ongoing - The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP). GESAMP WG44 (Working Group on Biofouling Management) (Expert Member)
• 2019-2022 – United Nations World Ocean Assessment II, group of experts (Expert Member)
• 2019-2021 – INVASIVESNET (Executive Committee Member)
• 2016-ongoing – Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) (Advisory Panel of Experts)
• 2016-2020 - New Zealand MBIE, Smart Ideas Assessment Panel (Expert Member)
• 2016-2020 - New Zealand MBIE, Targeted Research Assessment Panel (Expert Member)
• 2016-2018 – University of Waikato Human Ethics Research Committee (Member)
• 2013-2021 – Management of Biological Invasions (Editor-in-Chief)
• 2013- ongoing – Aquatic Invasions (Editorial Advisory Board Member)
• 2013-ongoing – Bioinvasions Records (Editorial Advisory Board Member)
• 2011-2013 – Australian Government, Independent Chair of the Advisory Panel for the Port Curtis and Port Alma Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Program (ERMP) (Chair).
• 2008-2010 – Tasmanian Social Science Human Research Ethics Committee (Member).
• 2003-2006 – IUCN Invasives Species Specialist Group (Member)

Awards and Recognition

• 2012-2015 – Queensland Government Smart Futures Fellow (Restoring Queensland’s seagrass meadows)
• 2007 – Australian Maritime College (UTAS) Peter Morris Prize. Significant contribution to the enhancement of the maritime industry via biosecurity.

Research Areas and Interests

• Environmental management: translating science into management, risk analysis, risk perception, risk communication, effects of ecosystem restoration, ecosystem values;
• Introduced marine species management (biosecurity): risk analysis and management, understanding social drivers (including behavioural intent and motivations), vectors and pathways of introduced species, survey and monitoring design;
• Conservation: environmental generational amnesia, cultural and social values, social drivers of impacts, restoring ecosystems, connectivity, threat footprints, acute versus chronic impacts, and value and risk mapping (including cumulative effects);
• Seagrass dynamics: ecology, restoration, trajectories, and landscape patterns, values (natural capital);
• Marine debris: environmental and human health impacts, and social implications;

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University, 2000.
• Bachelor of Science with Honours, Murdoch University, 1993.

Research Outputs