Journal of Climate Change and Pollution

Janet has work experience across academia, government, and the charitable, business, and the not-for-profit sectors. This includes senior positions at universities, in the federal government at the Australian Institute of Family Studies and raising funds and management of approximately 25 researchers at the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Janet specialises in inter-disciplinary work across policy, system design, and at operational and community levels. Having an education in the disciplines of social work, economics and psychology, and considerable experience in environment, she takes an inter-disciplinary approach to exploring the interface between social, economic and environmental sustainability. She specialises in social policy, transport, urban planning, equity, wellbeing, child welfare, climate change, adaptation, wildfire, project evaluation and the environment. Janet has undertaken considerable media work over many years – television, radio, print and internet. Commentary has been sought over a range of subjects, with interest particularly on the topics of child protection, wildfire and transport. Janet has maintained a strong voluntary component to her work. These include a Board member of the charitable trust, the Mornington Peninsula Foundation, management of conservation parks (such as the Endeavour Fern Gully, Mornington Peninsula and Conglomerate Gully, Riddells Creek), facilitating  the raising of over $2 million to purchase the Yellingbo Conservation Reserve (to protect the endangered bird, the Helmeted Honeyeater) and gaining a grant to manage five staff for two years to undertake a post-fire environmental assessment and management of the Macedon Ranges. Janet has received many millions of dollars in funding to undertake her research work, numbering well over 80 projects. These funding grants have been from federal, state and local governments, including three Australian Research Council Grants and Co-operative Research Centre programs, as well as business, charitable trusts and not-for-profit organisations. She was a recipient of a five-year Victorian Government scholarship to undertake her Masters’, PhD research and application of the findings in the field of child protection. Janet’s work includes over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has led to policy and practice changes over a range of fields. These include government policy changes in child protection in Australia, UK and New Zealand and in transport project evaluation in Australia, as well as in land conservation and biodiversity protection.  

• Climate change adaptation and wildfire resilience
• Biodiversity protection, conservation and land-use dynamics
• Wellbeing, social inclusion and interdisciplinary system design
• Social policy linked to environmental and community systems
• Sustainable urban planning & transport equity

1. Honorary researcher at School of Design, University of Melbourne
2. Vice-President, Peninsula Preservation Society (current)
3. Research Member, National Institute of Economics and Industry Research
4. Advisor to Mornington Peninsula Council on vegetation, climate change and adaptation
5. Former Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
6. Visiting Professor, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
7. Contributor/reviewer for journals including Transport Policy, Social Inclusion, Sustainability
8. Board member roles in multiple foundations supporting biodiversity, conservation and sustainable policy

1. Stanley, J.R., March, A. Ogloff, J., & Thompson, J. (2025) Sintiendo el calor Perspectivas internacionales sobre la prevención de la ignición de incendios forestales, Vernon Press, Delaware, USA. (Spanish edition).
2. Stanley, JK, Stanley J.R. & Hansen, R. (2023) How Great Cities Happen: Integrating People, Land Use and Transport, 2nd ed. Edward Elgar, UK.
3. Stanley, J.R., March, A. Ogloff, J., & Thompson, J. (2021) Feeling the Heat: International Perspectives on the Prevention of Wildfire, Vernon Press, Delaware, USA.
4. Stanley, JK, Stanley J.R. & Hansen, R. (2017) How Great Cities Happen: Integrating People, Land Use and Transport, Edward Elgar, UK.
5. Stanley J., Birrell B., Brain P., Carey M., Duffy M., Ferraro S., Fisher S., Griggs D., Hall A., Kestin T., Macmillan C., Manning I., Martin H., Rapson V., Spencer M., Stanley C., Steffen W., Symmons M., & Wright W. (2013) What Would a Climate-Adapted Settlement Look Like in 2030? A Case Study of Inverloch and Sandy Point, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast.
6. Stanley, J. & Kestin, T. (eds.) (2010), Collaborating for change: Symposium advancing bushfire arson prevention in Australia, Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne, 25–26 March.
7. Currie, G., Stanley, J., Stanley, J., (eds) (2007) No Way to Go: Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities, Monash University Press.
8. Stanley, J.R. & Goddard, C.R. (2002) In the Firing Line: Violence and Power in Child Protection Work. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.