Kate Crowley

Adjunct Associate Professor Kate Crowley researches environmental and climate change policy, public policy, green politics and minority government. She has worked as a secondary school teacher, a policy officer, an industrial relations consultant and a cross-country ski instructor. She is widely published in public policy and political science, and has edited ‘Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in Decline and Devolution’ [with Ken Walker], ‘Environmental Policy Failure: The Australian Story’ [with Ken Walker], ‘Minority Government: The Liberal Green Experience in Tasmania’ and ‘Policy Analysis in Australia: the State of the Art’ [with Brian Head]. Her most recent book is ‘Public Policy Reconsidered: Complexity, Governance and the State’ (2020 Policy Press Bristol) written with colleagues Jenny Stewart, Brian Head, and Adrian Kay. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, and recently published a new book ‘Regional climate leadership in the East Asia Pacific’ [Routledge 2025] with Aki Nakamura.