Catie is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow in the School of Agriculture and Environment. Her DECRA project examines rare and heritage breed livestock conservation and agroecological farming in Australia in the climate change era. See here for further information. 

With a disciplinary background in anthropology, and a regional focus on Australia and southern Africa, Catie's research explores how the cultural values and practices of settler communities influence, and are influenced by, the particularities of their social and natural environments. She has published on issues including foodways, interspecies relations, tourism, identity and belonging, and health and illness. She also has a keen interest in student support at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 

Catie is a Director of the Board of the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia, the co-ordinator of the Ecology, People, Place (EcoPeoPle) network, and an Editorial Board member of Anthropological Forum. She is a former University of Melbourne McArthur Fellow and gained her PhD (anthropology) from UWA.