Fiona is currently working in the space of bushfire management, biodiversity and water resources. Fiona's research aims to provide better advice to decision makers on effective policy design and the factors driving community adoption of such policies.  In particular, Fiona is working on the NERP projects:

4.1   Trade-offs among social, economic and environmental values, and

5.7   Comparing the value for money from targeted, untargeted and landscape-scale approaches to biodiversity protection

She is also working on CEED projects 'Comparing decision metrics used in environmental project prioritisation' and 'Understanding barriers to the adoption of decision theory in environmental policy'.

She received her doctorate from the University of Western Australia on September 15 2011.