Professor Kristen Lyons
Director, Indigenous Engagement
Professor
School of Social Science
+61 7 336 52020
Researcher biography
Professor Kristen Lyons is a public intellectual with over twenty years experience in research, teaching and service that delivers national and international impacts on issues that sit at the intersection of sustainability and development, as well as the future of higher education. Trained as a sociologist, Kristen is comfortable working in transdisciplinary teams to deliver socially just outcomes, including for some of the world's most vulnerable communities. Kristen works regularly in Uganda, Solomon Islands and Australia, and her work is grounded in a rights-based approach. In practice, this means centring the rights and interests of local communities, including Indigenous peoples, in her approach to research design, collaboration, and impacts and outcomes. Kristen is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Oakland Institute.
Publications
Books
Hil, Richard, Lyons, Kristen and Thompsett, Fern (2022). Transforming universities in the midst of global crisis: a university for the common good. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003021117
Lyons, Kristen, Richard, Carol and Westoby, Peter (2014). Carbon violence: the real cost of carbon markets. The impacts of green resources and plantation forestry in Uganda. Oakland, CA United States: Oakland Institute.
Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen and Wallington, Tabatha (2010). Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan. doi: 10.4324/9781849774499
Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2006). Going organic: Mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food production. 1 ed. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: CAB International Publishing.
Book Chapters
Lyons, Kristen (2024). Mining and fossil-fuel entanglements with the university in an era of climate change: impacts for academic freedom and climate (in)action. Academic freedom in a plural world: global critical perspectives. (pp. 353-366) edited by Nandini Ramanujam and Frédéric Mégret. Budapest, Hungary: CEU Press.
Rashidi, Pedram and Lyons, Kristen (2023). Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Economics and climate emergency. (pp. 284-299) edited by Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003174707-21
Lyons, Kristen and Ssemwogerere, David (2022). Not seeing the forest for the trees: how plantation forestry for carbon offset fails people and the climate. Offsetted. (pp. 110-115) edited by Cooking Sections and Jesse Connuck. Berlin, Germany: Hatje Cantz.
Lyons, Kristen and Walters, Peter (2021). Policy and planning responses to climate change in Solomon Islands: a place for forest-based carbon offset initiatives in building just and resilient territories?. Towards a just climate change resilience: developing resilient, anticipatory and inclusive communities response. (pp. 47-64) edited by Pedro Henrique Campello Torres and Pedro Roberto Jacobi. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81622-3_4
Lyons, Kristen (2019). Rural farmer empowerment through organic food exports: lessons from Uganda and Ghana. The Palgrave handbook of ethnicity. (pp. 1-18) edited by Steven Ratuva. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_109-1
Thornton, Alec, Lyons, Kristen and Sharpe, Scott (2018). Carving out space for community gardens in Australia: exploring the potential of community gardens as social movements for urban change in Sydney and Canberra. The Routledge handbook of community development research. (pp. 223-235) edited by Lynda Shevellar and Peter Westoby. Abingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315612829-15
Nel, Adrian, Lyons, Kristen, Fisher, Janet and Mwayafu, David (2018). An environmental justice perspective on the state of carbon forestry in Uganda. Conservation and development in Uganda. (pp. 125-147) edited by Chris Sandbrook, Connor Joseph Cavanagh and David Mwesigye Tumusiime. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315200538-7
Lyons, Kristen (2018). Plantation forestry and carbon violence in neoliberal Uganda. Uganda: the dynamics of neoliberal transformation. (pp. 218-233) edited by Jörg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco. London, United Kingdom: Zed Books. doi: 10.5040/9781350223721.ch-011
Westoby, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2016). Soul, song, music and social change - in dialogue with Kristen Lyons. Soul, community and social change: theorising a soul perspective on community practice. (pp. 107-118) Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315562919-8
Lyons, Kristen, Palanippan, Gomathy and Lockie, Stewart (2013). Organic agriculture governance in the Global South: new opportunities for participation in agricultural development and livelihood outcomes. Organic agriculture for sustainable livelihoods. (pp. 132-152) edited by Niels Halberg and Adrian Muller. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203124680
Scrinis, Gyorgy and Lyons, Kristen (2013). Nano-functional foods: nanotechnology, nutritional engineering and nutritionally-reductive food marketing. Innovation in healthy and functional foods. (pp. 547-554) edited by Dilip Ghosh, Shantanu Das, Debasis Bagchi and R. B. Smarta. Boca Raton, FL United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/b13022
Smith, Kiah and Lyons, Kristen (2012). Negotiating organic, fair and ethical trade: Lessons from smallholders in Uganda and Kenya. Food systems failure: The global food crisis and the future of agriculture. (pp. 182-202) edited by Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock and Hugh Campbell. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
Lyons, Kristen, Scrinis, Gyorgy and Whelan, James (2011). Nanotechnology, agriculture, and food. Nanotechnology and global sustainability. (pp. 117-140) edited by Donald Maclurcan and Natalia Radywyl. London, United Kingdom: CRC Press.
Scrinis, Gyorgy and Lyons, Kristen (2011). Nanotechnology and the techno-corporate agri-food paradigm. Food security, nutrition and sustainability. (pp. 252-270) edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan. doi: 10.4324/9781849774499
Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen and Wallington, Tabatha (2010). Introduction: Food security, nutrition and sustainability in a globalised world. Food security, nutrition and sustainability. (pp. 1-23) edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington. London, U.K. ; Sterling, VA, U.S.A.: Earthscan. doi: 10.4324/9781849774499
Lyons, Kristen and Scrinis, Gyorgy (2009). Under the regulatory radar? nanotechnologies and their impacts for rural Australia. Tracking rural change : community, policy and technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. (pp. 151-172) edited by Francesca Merlan and David Raferty. Canberra: ANU Press.
Lyons, Kristen (2007). Supermarkets as organic retailers and impacts for the Australian organic sector. Supermarkets and agri-food supply chains: transformations in the production and consumption of foods. (pp. 154-172) edited by David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence. Cheltenham, UK: Edgar Elgar.
Burch, D., Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (2006). What do we mean by green? Consumers, agriculture and the food industry. Rikka rokassa vai sattumia sopassa? Johdatus yhteiskuntatieteelliseen maatalous-ja elintarviketutkimukseen. (pp. 69-87) Helsinki, Finland: University of Joensuu, Karelian Institute.
Lyons, K., Burch, D., Lawrence, G. A. and Lockie, S. (2004). Contrasting paths of corporate greening in Antipodean agriculture: Organics and green production. Agribusiness and society: Corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation. (pp. 91-113) edited by K. Jansen and S. Vellema. London: Zed Books.
Lyons, K., Lockie, S. and Lawrence, G. A. (2004). Consumer views of organic and GM food. Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering. (pp. 94-107) edited by R. HIndmarsh and G. Lawrence. Sydney: UNSW Press.
Lyons, Kristen, Lockie, Stewart and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2004). Organics, Biotechnology and Food: Views from Australian Consumers. Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives in Genetic Engineering. (pp. 87-104) Sydney, NSW Australia: University of NSW Press.
Burch, David, Lyons, Kristen and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2001). What do we mean by green? Consumers, agriculture and the food industry. Consuming foods, sustaining environments. (pp. 45-68) Bowen Hills, Qld: Australian Academic Press.
Lyons, Kristen (2001). From sandals to suits: green consumers and the institutionalisation of organics. Consuming foods, sustaining environments. (pp. 82-94) edited by Bill Pritchard and Stewart Lockie. Bowen Hills, Qld: Australian Academic Press.
Lyons, Kristen and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2001). Institutionalisation and resistance – organic agriculture in Australia and New Zealand. Food, nature and society: rural life in late modernity. (pp. 124-147) edited by Hilary Tovey and Michel Blanc. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Lyons, Kristen (1998). Understanding organic farm practice: contributions from ecofeminism. Australasian food and farming in a globalised economy: recent developments and future prospects. (pp. 45-67) edited by David Burch, Geoffrey Lawrence, Roy Rickson and Jasper Goss. Melbourne VIC, Australia: Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University.
Lyons, Kristen (1996). 'Agro-industrialization and rural restructuring: a case study of the Australian poultry industry'. Social change in rural Australia. (pp. 167-177) edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Salim Momtaz. Rockhampton, Australia: Rural Social and Economic Research Centre.
Lawrence, G., Lyons, K. and Momtaz, S. (1996). Introduction. Social change in rural Australia. (pp. 1-8) edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Salim Momtaz. Rockhampton, QLD, Australia: Rural Social and Economic Research Centre.
Lyons, Kristen (1995). Agro-industrialization and social change within the Australian context: a case study of the fast food industry. Globalization and agri-food restructuring: perspectives from the Australasia region. (pp. 239-250) edited by David Burch, Roy RIckson and Geoffrey Lawrence. Aldershot: Avebury.
Journal Articles
Boafo, James and Lyons, Kristen (2023). A political ecology of farmers’ exposure to pesticides in Ghana. Cogent Food and Agriculture, 9 (2) 2286728. doi: 10.1080/23311932.2023.2286728
James, Robyn, Lyons, Kristen, McKay, Philippa, Konia, Ruth, Lionata, Hilda and Butt, Nathalie (2023). When solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises ignore gender, they harm society and the planet. Biological Conservation, 287 110308, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110308
Thompsett, Fern, Lyons, Kristen and Hil, Richard (2023). Response to Schildermans’ Book Review. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 42 (6), 1-5. doi: 10.1007/s11217-023-09901-8
Lyons, Kristen (2023). Why focusing on our strengths matters: reflections on leaving a volunteer role I actually liked. Community Development Journal, 59 (1) bsad027, 8-11. doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsad027
Lyons, Kristen, Esposito, Anthony and Johnson, Murrawah (2023). Indigenous rights-led post-extractivist futures in Australia. CICADA Newsletter (9), 4-6.
Walters, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2023). As vozes ausentes dos pobres urbanos na pesquisa climática e na elaboração de políticas. Diálogos Socioambientais, 16 (6) 6, 30-37.
Walters, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2023). The missing voices of the urban poor in climate research and policy making. Diálogos Socioambientais, 6 (16), 30-35.
Lyons, Kristen and Walters, Peter (2023). Indigenous peoples’ demand rights-led responses to the climate crisis. Dialogos Socioambientais, 6 (16), 24-29.
Lyons, Kristen and Walters, Peter (2023). Os Povos Indígenas e as respostas baseadas em defesa de direitos face à crise climática. Diálogos Socioambientais, 6 (16) 5, 30-34.
James, Robyn, Fisher, Jonathan, Carlos-Grotjahn, Chelsea, Boylan, Marissa, Dembereldash, Baigalmaa, Demissie, Meaza, De Villegas, Crystal Diaz, Gibbs, Bridget, Konia, Ruth, Lyons, Kristen, Possingham, Hugh, Robinson, Cathy, Tang, Tiantian and Butt, Nathalie (2023). Gender bias and inequity holds women back in their conservation careers. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10 1056751, 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1056751
Lyons, Kristen , Seini, Monica , Coogan West, Catherine , Rashidi, Pedram , Freeman, Camille , Ryall, Glenn , Chen, Susan and Vu, Ciarra (2022). Post-graduate work integrated learning: using diversity to prepare graduates for a messy and contested world. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 23 (4), 595-605.
Hil, Richard, Lyons, Kristen and Thompsett, Fern (2022). For the common good: why we need ecological universities. Times Higher Education.
James, Robyn, Ariunbaatar, Javkhlan, Bresnahan, Meaghan, Carlos‐Grotjahn, Chelsea, Fisher, Jonathan R. B., Gibbs, Bridget, Hausheer, Justine E., Nakozoete, Cynthia, Nomura, Sarah‐Kate, Possingham, Hugh and Lyons, Kristen (2022). Gender and conservation science: men continue to out‐publish women at the world's largest environmental conservation non‐profit organization. Conservation Science and Practice, 4 (8) e12748. doi: 10.1111/csp2.12748
Lyons, Kristen, Fredericks, Bronwyn, Bradfield, Abraham, Mayes, Christopher and Koerner, Catherine (2021). Nano white food and the reproduction of whiteness. Impacts for Indigenous health and relationships with food. Borderlands, 20 (1), 207-235. doi: 10.21307/borderlands-2021-008
Rashidi, Pedram and Lyons, Kristen (2021). Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Globalizations, 20 (8), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2021.1979718
Lyons, Kristen (2021). Security for the big polluters: plantation forestry for carbon offset delays action on climate. Green Agenda, Autumn.
Boafo, James and Lyons, Kristen (2021). The rhetoric and farmers' lived realities of the Green Revolution in Africa: case study of the Brong Ahafo region in Ghana. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 57 (3), 002190962110190-423. doi: 10.1177/00219096211019063
Lyons, Kristen (2021). Academic freedom's precarious future. Why it matters and what's at stake. Australian Universities' Review , 63 (1), 4-7.
Hil, Richard, Thompsett, Fern and Lyons, Kristen (2021). Over the horizon: Is there an alternative to neoliberal university governance?. Social Alternatives, 41 (1), 63-69.
Lyons, Kristen, Esposito, Anthony and Johnson, Murrawah (2021). The pangolin and the coal mine: challenging the forces of extractivism, human rights abuse, and planetary calamity. Antipode: Intervention.
Lyons, Kristen (2021). Letter from the guest editor. Australian Universities Review, 63 (1).
Walters, Peter, Benavides, Adrian and Lyons, Kristen (2020). Education for a vocation or society ? The dialectic of modern and customary epistemologies in Solomon Islands. Pacific Dynamics: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 4 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.18124/hgmr-7603
Boafo, James and Lyons, Kristen (2019). Expanding cashew nut exporting from Ghana’s breadbasket: a political ecology of changing land access and use, and impacts for local food systems. International Journal of the Sociology and Food and Agriculture, 25 (2), 152-172.
Lyons, Kristen, Walters, Peter and Shewring, Annabel (2019). “Forests for life” or forests for carbon markets?The case of Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands. Pacific Dynamics: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 3 (1).
Hil, Richard and Lyons, Kristen (2019). Getting to where we want to go. Do we need a new relational politics?. Arena, 159, 25-27.
Lyons, Kristen (2018). Securing territory for mining when Traditional Owners say ‘No’: the exceptional case of Wangan and Jagalingou in Australia. The Extractive Industries and Society, 6 (3), 756-766. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2018.11.007
Claudio, Fernanda and Lyons, Kristen (2018). Transnational corporations, violence and suffering: the environmental, public health and social impacts from comparative case studies in Zimbabwe and Uganda. Research in Political Economy, 33, 145-169. doi: 10.1108/S0161-723020180000033006
Lyons, Kristen (2018). The failure of a forestry giant's carbon offset project in Uganda. Chain Reaction, 17.
Lyons, Kristen and Smith, Naomi (2018). Governing with ignorance: understanding the Australian food regulator’s response to nano food. NanoEthics, 12 (1), 27-38. doi: 10.1007/s11569-017-0309-2
Lyons, Kristen (2017). The Queensland Government is the Real Driver of Adani’s Dirty Land Grab. New Matilda, 1-1.
Lyons, Kristen and Smith, Naomi (2017). Nanomaterials in our Food. ABC Organic Gardener.
Lyons, Kristen and Smith, Naomi (2017). Nano Foods’: There’s No Proof Some of the Tiny Things You’re Eating Are Safe. New Matilda, 1-1.
Lyons, Kristen and Hil, Richard (2017). Liberals lifting higher learning out of reach for poorer Australians. Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union, 24 (2), 22-22.
Hil, Richard and Lyons, Kristen (2017). The Liberals are Lifting Higher Learning Out of Reach for Poorer Australians. New Matilda, 1-1.
Hil, Richard and Lyons, Kristen (2017). A Post Neoliberal Academy? Can Academics Do Politics Too?. Arena Magazine (147), 44-47.
Lyons, Kristen, Westoby, Peter and Nel, Adrian (2017). Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda. Journal of Political Ecology, 24 (1), 324-341. doi: 10.2458/v24i1.20812
Westoby, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2017). The place of social learning and social movement in transformative learning: a case study of sustainability schools in Uganda. Journal of Transformative Education, 15 (3), 223-240. doi: 10.1177/1541344617696970
Walters, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2016). Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: when science meets culture. Land Use Policy, 57, 730-738. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.06.029
Richards, Carol and Lyons, Kristen (2016). The new corporate enclosures: plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis. Land Use Policy, 56, 209-216. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.013
Lyons, Kristen (2016). Privatisation: challenging the privatised university. Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union, 23 (3), 31-31.
Hil, Richard and Lyons, Kristen (2016). The great divide: the new fat cats in Australia’s universities. Arena Magazine (144), 9-11.
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2016). Weighing up the evidence: a response to Fischer et al. Journal of Rural Studies, 47, 269-270. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.06.015
Lyons, Kristen, Tager, Jeremy and Sales, Louise (2016). Introduction to the special issue: Challenging the Privatised University. Australian Universities Review, 58 (2), 3-4.
Westoby, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2016). Privatising development and environmental management: undermining social license in the Ugandan plantation forest sector. Environmental Sociology, 2 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/23251042.2016.1163963
Westoby, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2016). Community organising in the oil conflict zone: Friends of the Earth Uganda ‘Sustainability School’ advocacy initiative. Chain Reaction, 126, 46-47.
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2016). The other side of green! Sweden freezes payments in carbon trade deal following expose that global company has cheated local communities and the environment. Fair World Project - Special Issue on Carbon Grabbing
Westoby, Peter and Lyons, Kristen (2016). ‘We would rather die in jail fighting for land, than die of hunger’: a Ugandan case study examining the deployment of corporate-led community development in the green economy. Community Development Journal, 51 (1), 60-76. doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsv005
Lyons, Kristen and Hill, Richard (2015). Reform won’t do it, Australian universities need revolution. New Matilda
Lyons, Kristen, Walters, Peter and Riddell, Erin (2015). The role of faith-based organizations in environmental governance: the case of forestry in Solomon Islands. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 18 (3), 342-360. doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2015.1098524
Shevellar, Lynda, Johnson, Laurel and Lyons, Kristen (2015). Re-imagining the practices of town, social and community planning in Australia: opportunities for planning in neoliberal policy settings. Australian Planner, 52 (4), 266-276. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2015.1056816
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2015). The darker side of green. Chain Reaction, 123.
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2014). Carbon markets and the new ‘Carbon Violence’: A Ugandan study. International Journal of African Renaissance, 9 (2), 77-94. doi: 10.1080/18186874.2014.987956
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2014). Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impacts. Journal of Rural Studies, 36, 13-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.06.002
Lyons, Kristen (2014). Urban Food Advocates' tactics to rebuild food systems convergence and divergence in food security and food sovereignty discourses. Dialogues in Human Geography, 4 (2), 212-217. doi: 10.1177/2043820614537163
Lyons, Kristen (2014). 'Partner or Perish'? The convergence of public and private interests pose new questions for controversial university research. Chain Reaction, 121, 32-34.
Larder, Nicolette, Lyons, Kristen and Woolcock, Geoff (2014). Enacting food sovereignty: values and meanings in the act of domestic food production in urban Australia. Local Environment, 19 (1), 56-76. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2012.716409
Lyons, Kristen (2014). Critical engagement, activist/academic subjectivities and organic agri-food research in Uganda. Local Environment, 19 (1), 103-117. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2012.719018
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2013). Carbon markets and the failed promise of new green gold: plantation forestry in Uganda. Chain Reaction (119), 20-21.
Lyons, Kristen and Whelan, James (2013). Can government fulfil its commitment to engage the public about nanotechnology?. Social Alternatives, 32 (3), 51-57.
Lyons, Kristen (2013). Governing organic food exporting: possibilities for democratic engagement and impacts for smallholder farmers. International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 20 (3), 335-355.
Lyons, Kristen and Richards, Carol (2013). Mining universities: can we count on the integrity of research coming out of today's mining-funded tertiary sector?. Arena Magazine (124), 7-9.
Dunstan, Laura and Lyons, Kristen (2013). Organic food improving health services in Uganda. Chain Reaction (117), 15-15.
Kristen Lyons, Carol Richards, Lotus Desfours and Marco Amati (2013). Food in the city: urban food movements and the (re)imagining of urban spaces. Australian Planner, 50 (2), 157-163. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2013.776983
Lawrence, Geoffrey, Richards, Carol and Lyons, Kristen (2013). Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change. Journal of Rural Studies, 29, 30-39. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.12.005
Lyons, Kristen and Whelan, James (2012). Australia's nanotechnology public engagement ineffective and biased. Chain Reaction, 116, 14-15.
Lyons, Kristen (2012). Foreign investment: failing people and the environment. Right Now
Lyons, K. (2011). Organic movement adds its voice to concerns about nano food and agriculture. Australian Certified Organic Magazine
Lyons, K and Whelan, J. (2010). Community engagement to facilitate, legitimize and accelerate the advancement of nanotechnologies in Australia. NanoEthics, 4 (1), 53-66. doi: 10.1007/s11569-009-0070-2
Paull, John and Lyons, Kristen (2008). Nanotechnology: the next challenge for organics. Journal of Organic Systems, 3 (1), 3-22.
Scrinis, Gyoegy and Lyons, Kristen (2007). The emerging nano-corporate paradigm: nanotechnology and the transformation of nature, food and agri-food systems. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 15 (2), 22-44.
Lyons, Kristen (2006). Environmental values and food choices: views from Australian organic food consumers. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (87), 155-166. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388058
Lockie, Stewart, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen and Grice, Janet (2005). Factors underlying support or opposition to biotechnology among Australian food consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation. Food Policy, 30 (4), 399-418. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2005.06.001
Whelan, James and Lyons, Kristen (2005). Community engagement or community action: choosing not to play the game. Environmental Politics, 14 (5), 596-610. doi: 10.1080/09644010500257888
Lockie, S., Lyons, K., Lawrence, G. A. and Grice, J. C. (2004). Choosing organics: A path analysis of factors underlying the selection of organic food among Australian consumers. Appetite, 43 (2), 135-146. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2004.02.004
Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen, Lawrence, Geoffrey and Mummery, Kerry (2002). Eating 'Green': Motivations behind organic food consumption in Australia. Sociologia Ruralis, 42 (1), 23-40. doi: 10.1111/1467-9523.00200
Lyons, Kristen (2001). The culture and politics of organic food: an Australian perspective. Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Lockie, Stewart and Lyons, Kristen (2001). Renegotiating gender and the symbolic transformation of Australian rural environments. International Journal of the Sociology of Food and Agriculture, 9 (1), 43-58.
Lyons, Kristen, Lockie, Stewart and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2001). Consuming ‘Green’: the symbolic construction of organic foods. Rural Society, 11 (3), 197-210. doi: 10.5172/rsj.11.3.197
Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2000). Constructing "green" foods: corporate capital, risk and organic farming in Australia and New Zealand. Agriculture and Human Values, 17 (4), 315-322. doi: 10.1023/A:1026547102757
Lyons, Kristen and Lawrence, Geoffrey (1999). Alternative knowledges, organic agriculture, and the biotechnology debate. Culture and Agriculture, 21 (2), 1-12. doi: 10.1525/cag.1999.21.2.1
Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen and Lockie, Stewart (1999). Healthy for you, healthy for the environment: corporate capital, farming practice and the construction of 'Green' foods. Rural Society, 9 (3), 543-554. doi: 10.5172/rsj.9.3.543
Lyons, Kristen (1999). Corporate environmentalism and the development of Australian organic agriculture. Rural Sociology, 64 (2), 1-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00017.x
Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1999). Europe's growing interest in organic food. Nexus, 11 (3).
Conference Papers
Hawkes, S., Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (2012). Reimagining the State in World Agriculture: Observations and Questions. Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 26-29 November 2012.
Lawrence, G., Richards, C., Burch, D. and Lyons, K. (2011). Is Australia Food Secure?. XVIII Conference of the Australasian Agri-food Network, Canberra, ACT Australia, 6-9 December 2011.
Burch, D., Lawrence, G., Lyons, K. and Richards, C. (2011). Financialisation: Is this a Useful Concept in Understanding Contemporary Developments in the Agri-food System?. XVIII Australasian Agri-food Research Network Conference, Canberra, ACT Australia, 6-9 December 2011.
Lawrence, G., Richards, C., Burch, D. and Lyons, K. (2011). Food security: emerging challenges for Australia. XXIV European Congress of Rural Sociology, Chania, Crete, 22-25 August 2011.
Neal, S., Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (2007). Governing Organic: the Changing Industry Regimes in Australia. XIV Conference of the Australasian Agri-food Research Network, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 25-29 November 2007.
Lockie, S., Lyons, K., Lawrence, G. and Halpin, D. (2006). Conventionalisation, radicalisation or both? The structural and ideological transformation of organic agriculture. XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.
Lyons, K., Burch, D., Lawrence, G. and Rickson, R. (2005). Globalisation, Sustaining Rural Livelihoods and Organics. Shaping Sustainable Systems, 15th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Adelaide, 20 - 23 September, 2005.
Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen and Lockie, Stewart (2003). Food sovereignty, food security and the environment: Australian consumer attitudes to organics and genetic engineering. Conference on Organic Agriculture, Havana, Cuba, 27-30 May 2003.
Lyons, K., Lockie, S. and Lawrence, G. (2003). Backlash? Media discourses on food, environment and health. Xth Conference of the Australasian Agri-food Research Network, Akaroa, New Zealand, 21-24 April 2003.
Lawrence, G. A., Norton, J., Lockie, S. and Lyons, K. (2002). Organics and biotechnology: Never the twain shall meet?. World Congress of Sociology: International Sociological Assoc., Research Committee on Agriculture & Food, x, 2002. USA: International Sociological Assoc.
Lawrence, G. A., Lyons, K. and Lockie, S. (2002). Localism, community and the politics of organic food systems. Cultivating Communities, 14th IFOAM Organic World Conference, Victoria, Canada, 21-24 August, 2002. Canada: IFOAM.
Lyons, K., Lockie, S. and Lawrence, G. (2002). Global moves on the local level - community supported agriculture. Australian Organics Conference 'Local Global Organics', Lismore, NSW, Australia, 3-4 October 2002.
Lockie, S., Lyons, K., Lawrence, G., Norton, J. and Mummery, K. (2001). Organic foods: Australian consumer motivations, concerns and preferences. IX Conference of the Australasian Agri-food Research Network, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 11-14 September 2001.
Lyons, K., Lockie, S. and Lawrence, G. (2001). Organic: what do consumers really think?. Third National Public Health Association of Australia Food and Nutrition Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 15-17 July 2001.
Lockie, S., Lyons, K., Mummery, K. and Lawrence, G. (2001). Eating 'Green': the relative importance of environmental concerns in the consumption of organic foods. Kyoto Environmental Sociology Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 21-23 October 2001.
Lyons, K., Mummery, K., Lockie, S. and Lawrence, G. (2001). Who buys organics, who doesn't, and why? Insights from a national survey of Australian consumers. Inaugural National Organic Conference 'The Organic Challenge - Unity Through Diversity', Sydney, Australia, 27-28 August 2001.
Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1999). Standard Resistance: Organic Growers in Australia and New Zealand. Farming for the Future: Organic Producer for the 21st Century Conference, Mackay, QLD Australia, 22-23 September 1999.
Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1999). Greening, Agriculture and Change: Incorporation and Resistance. Farming for the future : organic produce for the 21st century, Mackay, QLD Australia, 22-23 September 1999. Mackay, QLD Australia: Central Queensland University.
Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1999). Institutionalisation and resistance: organic agriculture in Australia and New Zealand. XVIII Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Lund, Sweden, 24-28 August 1999.
Burch, D., Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1998). What do we mean by Green? Consumers, Agriculture and the Food Industry. Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 1-5 December 1998.
Lockie, S., Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1998). 'Healthy for you: healthy for the environment': corporate capital, farming practice and the construction of 'green' foods. XIV World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, Canada, 26 July-1 August 1998.
Lyons, K. and Lawrence, G. (1997). Reconstruction of knowledges and the biotechnology debate: views from growers and grower representatives. Ecopolitics XI Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne , 4-5 October 1997.
Creative Work
Lyons, Kristen (2014). Addressing climate change requires real solutions, not blind faith in the magic of markets. Portland, ME, United States: Inter Press Service.
Newspaper Articles
Lyons, Kristen and Walters, Peter (2023, 09 28). Babatana rainforest conservation project: a lightning rod for others NAKAU Blog 1-2.
Lyons, Kristen, Walker, Jim and Rashidi, Pedram (2023, 05 15). Never mind the “Green Games” — let’s aim for a 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games that deliver on climate justice ABC Religion and Ethics
Thompsett, Fern, Lyons, Kristen and Hil, Richard (2022, 11 18). To save higher education, we must look beyond traditional university models Times Higher Education
Thompsett, Fern, Lyons, Kristen and Hil, Richard (2022, 11 17). To save higher education, we must look beyond traditional university models THE Campus
RItchie, E. , O'Donnell, E. , Moore, G., Lyons, K. , Christoff, P. and Kaufman, S. (2022, 05 18). 6 Books about the climate crisis that offer hope, recommended by experts The Conversation
Mayes, Christopher, Leahy, Deana and Lyons, Kristen (2022, 02 09).
A gutful of lunchbox hype – has selling ‘good bugs not drugs’ for kids’ health gone too far? The Conversation
Lyons, Kristen, Thompsett, Fern and Hil, Richard (2021, 12 17). Amid global crisis, how can universities be regenerated to serve the common good? The Conversation
Boafo, James and Lyons, Kristen (2021, 09 20). Global demand for cashews is booming. How Ghana can take advantage to create jobs The Conversation
Boafo, James and Lyons, Kristen (2021, 06 15). Ghana's farmers aren't all seeing the fruits of a Green Revolution The Conversation
Lyons, Kristen (2021, 06 03). Universities' relevance hinges on academic freedom The Conversation
Lyons, Kristen (2019, 05 27). Torres Strait Islanders ask UN to hold Australia to account on climate 'human rights abuses' The Conversation
Lyons, Kristen and Brigg, Morgan (2019, 04 17). Traditional owners still stand in Adani's way
Lyons, Kristen and Hil, Richard (2018, 02 05). Vice chancellors’ salaries are just a symptom of what’s wrong with universities The Conversation
Lyons, Kristen (2017, 11 23). Traditional Owners expose Adani’s relentless pursuit of W&J country New Matilda
Lyons, Kristen, Brigg, Morgan and Quiggin, John (2017, 11 16). The Adani Carmichael coal mine: introduction to a special five-part series New Matilda
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2016, 03 25). Green resources hedging around growing international calls for radical reform of its plantation forestry practices Oakland Institute Blog
Hill, Richard and Lyons, Kristen (2015, 11 09). A Shift Towards Industry Relevant Degrees Isn’t Helping Students Get Jobs The Conversation
Research Reports
Devillers, Eve and Lyons, Kristen (2023). Green colonialism 2.0 Tree plantations and carbon offsets in Africa. Oakland, CA, United States: Oakland Institute.
Rashidi, Pedram, Lyons, Kristen and Seini, Monica (2019). The development of postgraduate work integrated learning (WIL) – a review of the literature and lessons for the master of development practice and HASS faculty. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Lyons, Kristen , Brigg, Morgan and Quiggin, John (2017). Unfinished business: Adani, the State and the Indigenous Rights struggle of the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Lyons, Kristen and Ssemwogerere, David (2017). Carbon colonialism: failure of Green Resources’ carbon offset project in Uganda. Oakland, CA, United States: Oakland Institute.
Lyons, Kristen, Richards, Carol and Westoby, Peter (2014). The darker side of green plantation forestry and carbon violence in Uganda. Oakland, CA, United States: The Oakland Institute.
Blumfield, Tim, Bacon, Gary, Lyons, Kristen, Walters, Peter and Tutua, Shane (2013). Improving silvicultural and economic outcomes for community timber plantations in Solomon Islands by interplanting with Flueggea flexuosa and other Pacific agroforestry species. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
Burton, Paul, Rose, Nicholas, DesFours, Lotus, Pires, Victor, Barclay, Rochelle, Lyons, Kristen, Richards, Carol and Amati, Marco (2013). Urban food security, urban resilience and climate change. Southport, QLD, Australia: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
Lyons, Kristen, Walters, Peter, Riddell, Erin, Burch, David and Boer, Henry (2012). Agro-forestry and its Social Impacts Social Science Research Final Report - 2012. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
Generic Documents
Lyons, Kristen (2019). Australia – violating both climate and human rights obligations?. Asia & the Pacific Policy Society.
Lyons, K (2018). Carbon colonialism: failure of Green Resources’ carbon offset project in Uganda. World Rainforest Movement.
Lyons, Kristen and Westoby, Peter (2015). Climate Change Efforts are Hurting Africa’s Rural Poor. Carbon News.
Lyons, Kristen (2015). How Climate Change Got Me Thinking About the NTEU. NTEU News UQ Branch, News and Views.