Beck Pearse joined ANU’s School of Sociology and the Fenner School of Environment & Society in 2020. Her teaching and research focuses on inequalities and policy. Beck is interested in how people from different walks of life work and experience environmental change and how policy can contribute to building a fair and abundant world.
Beck's PhD thesis was published as a monograph, Pricing Carbon in Australia (2018, Routledge/Earthscan). She is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 'Environmental Justice and the Making of Just Food and Energy Policy' (Schlosberg, Rickards, Pearse 2020-22). Beck previously held a teaching fellowship in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney (2017-20).
Experience
2024–present
Senior lecturer, Australian National University
2020–2023
Lecturer, Australian National University
2017–2020
Lecturer, University of Sydney (Political Economy)
2016–2017
Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University (Sociology)
2015–2016
Research associate, University of Sydney (Education)
2011–2015
Research assistant, University of Sydney (Education)
2008–2015
Research assistant, University of Technology Sydney
2010–2015
PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales
2012–2013
Sessional lecturer, University of Sydney (Government, Political Economy)
2010–2012
Sessional lecturer, tutor, University of Technology Sydney (Social Inquiry)
2010–2011
Tutor, research assistant, University of New South Wales (International Relations)
Education
2015
University of New South Wales, PhD (Social Sciences)
2009
University of New South Wales, Master of Arts (Development Studies)
2005
University of Sydney, Bachelor of Psychology (hons)