Dr Kat Taylor

• Water policy
• Water governance

• Taylor, Katherine Selena, Sheri Longboat, and Rupert Quentin Grafton. 2019. “Whose Rules? A Water Justice Critique of the OECD’s 12 Principles on Water Governance.” Water 11 (4): 809. Reprinted in Eds: Nicole J. Wilson, Leila M. Harris, Joanne Nelson, and Sameer H. Shah Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics, 2019.

• Taylor, KS, Poelina, A, Moggridge, BJ, Bourke, S, et al. 2026, ‘Integrating hydrogeology and water justice for more effective and equitable groundwater planning’, Hydrogeology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-025-02997-x
• Manero, A, Adamowicz, W, Akter, S, Spencer-Cotton, A, et al. 2024, ‘Benefits, costs and enabling conditions to achieve ‘water for all’ in rural and remote Australia’, Nature Water, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 31–40. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00182-6
• Bates, W.B. (Badger), Chu, L., Claire, H., Colloff, M.J., Cotton, R., Davies, R., Larsen, L., Loughrey, G., Manero, A., Marshall, V., Martin, S., Nguyen, N.-M., Nikolakis, W., Poelina, A., Schulz, D., Taylor, K.S., Williams, J., Wyrwoll, P., Grafton, R.Q., 2023. A tale of two rivers – Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared voices and art towards water justice. The Anthropocene Review 10, 1–34. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20530196231186962
• Manero, A., Taylor, K., Nikolakis, W., Adamowicz, W., Marshall, V., Spencer-Cotton, A., Nguyen, M., & Grafton, R. Q. (2022). A systematic literature review of non-market valuation of Indigenous peoples’ values: Current knowledge, best-practice and framing questions for future research. Ecosystem Services, 54, 101417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101417
• Wyrwoll, P. R., Manero, A., Taylor, K. S., Rose, E., & Quentin Grafton, R. (2022). Measuring the gaps in drinking water quality and policy across regional and remote Australia. Npj Clean Water, 5(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00174-1
• RiverOfLife, M., Taylor, K. S., & Poelina, A. (2021). Living Waters, Law First: Nyikina and Mangala water governance in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 25(1), 40–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1880538
• Taylor, K. S. (2021). Australian water security framings across administrative levels. Water Security, 12, 100083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2020.100083
• Taylor, Katherine Selena, Longboat, S., Grafton, R.Q., 2019. Whose Rules? A Water Justice Critique of the OECD’s 12 Principles on Water Governance. Water 11, 809. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11040809
• Poelina, Anne, Katherine S. Taylor, and Ian Perdrisat. 2019. “Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council: An Indigenous Cultural Approach to Collaborative Water Governance.” Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 26 (3): 236–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2019.1651226
• Taylor, KS, Moggridge, BJ & Poelina, A 2017, ‘Australian Indigenous Water Policy and the impacts of the ever-changing political cycle’, Australasian Journal of Water Resources, vol. 21, no. 1. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13241583.2017.1348887
• Taylor, K.S., Anda, M., Sturman, J., Mathew, K., and Ho, G., 2005. Subsurface Dripline Tubing- An Experimental Design for Assessing the Effectiveness of Using Dripline to Apply Treated Wastewater for Turf Irrigation in Western Australia.  Journal of Desalination 187(2006) 375-385

• Grey-Gardner, R. and Taylor, K.S., 2009. Bridge Over Troubled Water. National Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health conference, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, May 12-15 2009.

• The Water Justice Podcast

• Taylor, K., Garlett, E., O’Donnell, E., Poelina, A., 2023. Western Australia, ‘be the change’ for water. Global Water Forum. URL https://globalwaterforum.org/western-australia-be-the-change-for-water/
• Kat, T, Poelina, A & Grafton, Q, 2022 ‘The lie of aqua nullius, ‘nobody’s water’, prevails in Australia. Indigenous water reserves are not enough to deliver justice’, The Conversation. <http://theconversation.com/the-lie-of-aqua-nullius-nobodys-water-prevails-in-australia-indigenous-water-reserves-are-not-enough-to-deliver-justice-195557>.
• Taylor, K. S., & Poelina, A. (2022, April 4). Groundwater justice is justice for all. Policy Forum. https://www.policyforum.net/groundwater-justice-is-justice-for-all/
• Learning from Indigenous knowledge. (2021, May 6). Policy Forum. https://www.policyforum.net/learning-from-indigenous-knowledge/
• “Water security”: four myths and why we need a fit-for-purpose definition, 2021. Global Water Forum. URL https://www.globalwaterforum.org/2021/02/22/water-security-four-myths-and-why-we-need-a-fit-for-purpose-definition/
• Taylor, K.S., Longboat, S., Grafton, R.Q., 2020. Countering water colonialism: Indigenous peoples’ rights, responsibilities and international water governance frameworks - Undisciplined Environments. Undisciplined Environments. URL https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/06/16/countering-water-colonialism-indigenous-peoples-rights-responsibilities-and-international-water-governance-frameworks/

Honorary Research Fellow, Water Justice Hub, Australian National University.

• Australian Research Council 2026 Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) for ‘Rethinking Water Governance: Forever Economies and Industries of Wellbeing’.
• Australian Post Graduate Award
• 2018 Australian Parliamentary Library Summer Scholar

Policy Brief

• Taylor, KS, Poelina, A, Nikolakis, W, Larsen, L & Grafton, Q 2022, ‘Indigenous water reserves in Australia: 2022 policy brief, version 1.0’ <https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/280411>.