Ruby Crandell is a Research Assistant at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), where she investigates the gendered dimensions of climate change, climate governance, the energy transition, and disaster response and recovery.

Her honours thesis, “The Two Faces of Australian Policy at the Gender–Climate Nexus: Sifting Priorities Through the ‘Janus Sieve’,” uncovered a clear divergence between Australia’s foreign and domestic climate policies in their capacity to address gendered climate impacts. Ruby’s analysis showed how entrenched masculinised logics and forms of “petromasculinity” in Australia’s domestic climate governance inhibit institutions from delivering more inclusive mitigation, adaptation, and disaster-related policymaking at the federal level.

Her forthcoming work with Dr Elise Stephenson explores the masculinised epistemes embedded within Integrated Assessment Modelling, proposing a new framework to help policymakers incorporate principles of justice into climate modelling and decision-making processes.

Driven by a commitment to justice-based, decolonial, and feminist approaches, Ruby is dedicated to advancing more equitable and inclusive understandings of the environmental and conservation issues she is deeply passionate about.