Rachel Teen

My PhD research investigates optimal factors and contexts for urban water management strategists to transition away from unsustainable and technocratic hydro-social arrangements. Interested in urban human-water dynamics, I am carrying out an Australasian cross-case comparison between water management strategists in Melbourne and Christchurch. This has involved understanding policy and regulation frameworks influencing both cities, researching their historic and contextual archives, undertaking narrative of practice and career story semi-structured interviews with past and present water management strategists, and applying a strategy as practice lens to the data. I have held board positions in the tourism, education and impact assessment sectors, was project managing biodiversity restoration projects for Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere, and has now taken a role as lecturer for Waterways also.