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About the Event

To celebrate National Water Week 2022, ANU Institute for Water Futures (IWF) and the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water (DCCEEW) invite you to the panel discussion: Imagining the Science-Policy Interface in 2050. 

IWF researchers and DCCEEW policymakers will share their creative thinking on how science and technology will intersect with policy in 2050.  What will science and technology look like in 30 years? In what ways will policy-making change? How will the interface between science and policy evolve, particularly around the complex challenges of water and the environment?

This is an in-person-only event. A complimentary light lunch will follow the panel discussion.  Please register by 17 October to secure your spot. 

Panellists will discuss topics including:

• How decision-making can be improved and the role of learning-oriented knowledge systems, digital twinning, uncertainty management and decision-making under deep uncertainty.
• Real-time data availability and advances in technology and how this will impact policy-making 
• The new economics of water infrastructure: environmental values, valuation, and policy.
• The role of youth and community influences in policy making.

Panellists:

Matthew Dadswell is the Head of Division (acting) of the Water Division at the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. Working on water and biodiversity policy, Matthew has supported the Australian Government to implement the Murray Darling Basin Plan and led programs to improve water use monitoring and compliance. He has held senior roles in government, across the agricultural, environment and water industries and is a committed volunteer with Scouts Australia. 

Dr Joseph Guillaume is a research fellow at the ANU Institute for Water Futures and the ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society.  Joseph specialises in uncertainty management in decision support, with a particular focus on collaborating to construct the future of knowledge management and governance of water resources in Australia.

Dr Mahdiyeh Razeghi is a research fellow at the ANU Institute for Water Futures and the ANU Research School of Earth Science. Mahdiyeh specialises in combining geodetic satellite data sets with in-situ observation to study changes to water resources. She is one of the first scientists in Australia to use this approach.

Dr Paul Wyrwoll is a research fellow at the ANU Institute for Water Futures and the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. He works on water economics and policy in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. His current research focuses on risk-cost-benefit analysis of water infrastructure projects and the economics of drinking water provision in regional and remote Australia. 

Hannah Feldman is the ANU Institute for Water Futures research fellow at the ANU School of Cybernetics. Hannah researches how young people engage with a changing climate through political action. Hannah’s latest projects investigate how and why teenagers end up forming events such as #climatestrike, and what happens when politicians tell them to “go back to school”…

The discussion will be moderated by Associate Professor Carina Wyborn, an interdisciplinary social scientist and research fellow at the ANU Institute for Water Futures. She studies the role of science and other types of knowledge in decision making, and specifically on the science, policy and politics of how decisions about the future are made.