Cara Beal
Cities Research Institute
Areas of research & interest:
- Behaviour change
- Built environment
- Circular economy
- Climate change
- Communications
- Communities & society
- Education
- Emissions reduction
- Energy & fuels
- Environment
- First Peoples
- Health
- Policy & regulation
- Social issues
- Sustainability
- Technology & innovation
- Transport
- Tourism
- Agriculture & environment
- Communities in transition
- Emissions reduction & sequestration
- Energy & infrastructure
- First Nations
- Industry & business solutions
- Nature based solutions
- Policy & regulation
- Technology solutions
- Transport
BIO
Professor Cara Beal is the Director of GU's Cities Research Institute. Her teaching and research interests include environmental health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples environmental health, Pacific Island community water management, resilient & sustainable water and water-related energy management, behaviour change and community engagement, smart metering and big data, schools water efficiency management. She lectures in the Environmental Health program at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and leads research projects at the Cities Research Institute and School of Engineering and Built Environment. Cara also teaches and supervises WASH students in the International WaterCentre's Master of Integrated Water Management.