Jacki Schirmer

Dr Jacqueline (Jacki) Schirmer is a Professor in the Health Research Institute and the Centre for Environmental Governance at the University of Canberra. She leads the WellRes group, who work to examine wellbeing, resilience and liveability across Australia, including conducting the annual Regional Wellbeing Survey. Jacki's personal research interests focusing on understanding the connections between wellbeing, natural resource management and climatic variability, including how to support resilience and wellbeing through drought, bushfire and other natural hazards, and the impacts of change in natural resource dependent industries.