Janet Stephenson

Stephenson's father was farmer Gordon Stephenson, founder of the QEII National Trust.^[1] The family moved to New Zealand from the UK in 1958 when Janet Stephenson was a young child.^[1] Stephenson completed a Master's thesis titled The planning framework for Maori land at Massey University.^[2] She followed this with a PhD at the University of Otago in 2005, studying cultural values and the links between society, values and sustainability outcomes.^[3] From 2002 Stephenson taught in the geography department at Otago, before joining the Centre for Sustainability in 2008.^[4] She has been Director of the Centre for Sustainability since 2011.^[4] Stephenson was appointed associate professor in 2018 and research professor in 2021.^[5][6]

Stephenson has been a member of the Advisory Board of INCLUDE, a Norwegian research centre for socially inclusive energy transitions.^[4] She is also involved in the Built Environment and Active Transport to School research programme, and the BRANZ Transition to Zero Carbon Programme.^[4] She is also a involved with the Coastal People: Southern Skies Centre of Research Excellence and both the Deep South National Science Challenge and the Science for Technological Innovation science challenge.^[4][7][8]

Stephenson's research focuses on climate change, and how to achieve societal transition to a sustainable future. She works in multidisciplinary teams, and has developed cultural frameworks as a new theoretical way to explore societal change. She has commented on issues such as New Zealand's electricity infrastructure, and how the economy could be redesigned.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Stephenson has received research funding from the MBIE Endeavour fund, the Norwegian Research Council, and was a principal investigator on a Marsden grants in 2008, with Henrik Moller, titled Tirohia He Huarahi: Co-management of environment by indigenous people.^[14][4]

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• Stephenson, Janet; Abbott, Mick; Ruru, Jacinta, eds. (2010). Landscape and identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. University of Otago Press. ISBN 978-1-877372-81-0.
• Stephenson, Janet (March 2023). Culture and Sustainability: Exploring Stability and Transformation with the Cultures Framework. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25515-1. ISBN 978-3-031-25515-1.
• Ruru, Jacinta; Stephenson, Janet; Abbott, Mick, eds. (2013). Exploring land-use tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand. University of Otago Press. ISBN 978-1-877372-88-9.

• Janet Stephenson (February 2008). "The Cultural Values Model: An integrated approach to values in landscapes". Landscape and Urban Planning. 84 (2): 127–139. doi:10.1016/J.LANDURBPLAN.2007.07.003. ISSN 0169-2046. Wikidata Q125820041.
• Janet Stephenson; Henrik Moller (December 2009). "Cross‐cultural environmental research and management: Challenges and progress". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 39 (4): 139–149. doi:10.1080/03014220909510567. ISSN 0303-6758. Wikidata Q125820038.
• Jessica B. Graham; Janet R. Stephenson; Inga J. Smith (September 2009). "Public perceptions of wind energy developments: Case studies from New Zealand". Energy Policy. 37 (9): 3348–3357. doi:10.1016/J.ENPOL.2008.12.035. ISSN 0301-4215. Wikidata Q125820039.
• Janet Stephenson; Barry Barton; Gerry Carrington; et al. (May 2015). "The energy cultures framework: Exploring the role of norms, practices and material culture in shaping energy behaviour in New Zealand". Energy Research & Social Science. 7: 117–123. doi:10.1016/J.ERSS.2015.03.005. ISSN 2214-6296. Wikidata Q58213225.
• Nancy J. Turner; Fikret Berkes; Janet Stephenson; Jonathan Dick (1 August 2013). "Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems". Human ecology. 41 (4): 563–574. doi:10.1007/S10745-013-9591-Y. ISSN 0046-8169. Wikidata Q108531236.
• Janet Stephenson; Barry Barton; Gerry Carrington; Daniel Gnoth; Rob Lawson; Paul Thorsnes (October 2010). "Energy cultures: A framework for understanding energy behaviours". Energy Policy. 38 (10): 6120–6129. doi:10.1016/J.ENPOL.2010.05.069. ISSN 0301-4215. Wikidata Q125820040.