Trisia Farrelly | |
---|---|
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Massey University |
Thesis | |
Doctoral advisor | Sita Venkateswar, Regina Scheyvens |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Massey University |
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.
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]
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]
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]