Trisia Angela Farrelly (née Prince) is a New Zealand social anthropologist, and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in plastic reduction and pollution, and campaigning against excessive and hazardous plastics production.

Trisia Farrelly
Academic background
Alma materMassey University
Thesis
Doctoral advisorSita Venkateswar, Regina Scheyvens
Academic work
InstitutionsMassey University, Massey University - Manawatū Campus

Early life and family edit

Farrelly is the daughter of Gabrielle and Richard Prince.[1] In 1998, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Massey University.[2] She is married to Matt Farrelly.[1]

Academic career edit

Farrelly completed a PhD on community-based ecotourism at Massey University in 2009. Her thesis was titled Business va'avanua: cultural hybridisation and indigenous entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji and was supervised by Sita Venkateswar and Regina Scheyvens.[1] Farrelly then joined the faculty at Massey, rising to associate professor in 2022 and full professor in 2024.[3][4] She is co-director of Massey's Political Ecology Research Centre.[4] Farrelly's research focuses on excessive and hazardous plastics production, and how to reduce plastic use and pollution in New Zealand and internationally.[5][6][7]

Farrelly is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Group on Marine Litter and Microplastics, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee.[4] Farrelly co-founded the Steering Committee of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, which has more than 300 members from 50 countries.[4] She also co-founded the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance and the New Zealand Product Stewardship Council, of which she is a trustee.[4][8] Farrelly is a Technical Advisor to the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.[4]

Farrelly is a senior editor on the editorial board of the journal Cambridge Prisms: Plastics.[4][9]

Awards and honours edit

Farrelly was awarded a Massey University medal for Exceptional Research Citizenship, and another for Excellence in Teaching.[4] She was a finalist in the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards in 2021, and in 2023 won a WasteMINZ Award for Excellence for Product Stewardship, for "her longstanding and ongoing work to end plastic pollution".[4][10][8]

Selected works edit

Books edit

  • Trisia Farrelly; Sy Taffel; Ian Shaw, eds. (30 June 2021). Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and Politics. doi:10.15215/AUPRESS/9781771993272.01. ISBN 978-1-77199-328-9. OL 34227117M. Wikidata Q124288042.

Journal articles edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Farrelly, Trisia Angela (2009). Business va'avanua: cultural hybridisation and indigenous entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji (PhD thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/1166.
  2. ^ Graduation programme 1998. Massey University. p. 47. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  3. ^ "2021 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "2023 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Plastic pollution expert to speak in Whanganui". NZ Herald. 15 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Trisia Farrelly, Author at Pacific Security College". Pacific Security College. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Trisia Farrelly | fellows | Sylff Official Website | Cultivating Leaders of Tomorrow". www.sylff.org. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Awards for Excellence 2023". www.wasteminz.org.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  10. ^ "2021 Women Of Influence -Trisia Farrelly - Massey University". alumnionline.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

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