Rachel Teen

My PhD research investigated the optimal factors and contexts for executive and senior level urban water management strategists to transition away from unsustainable and technocratic hydro-social arrangements.

Interested in this intersection of humans and water management, I carried out a cross-case comparison between water management strategists in Melbourne and Christchurch. This involved research into the historic and contextual archives of both cities, the policy and regulation frameworks that influence the strategists, and using a strategy as practice perspective to collect data from past and present senior water management strategists.

I have held board positions in the tourism, education and impact assessment sectors, project managed biodiversity restoration at Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere, and currently lecture here in Waterways.