Dr Kat Taylor

Adjunct Research Fellow
PhD (Australian National University), BSc (Hons) environmental science and BSc conservation biology

Email: katherine.taylor@anu.edu.au

  • Biography

    Kat is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Water Justice Hub, as part of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU.  Through her work and research in Central Australia and Western Australia, she has experience in environmental technology, drinking water risk management, and water policy with focus on water rights, responsibilities and water decolonisation. Kat's PhD was a collaborative research project examining water security and water governance in the West Kimberley, Western Australia.

  • Research expertise and supervision

    • Water policy
    • Water governance

  • Book chapters

    • 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.

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    • 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

  • Conference papers

    • 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.

  • Original creative works

  • In the media

    • 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/

  • Professional affiliations

    Research Fellow, Water Justice Hub, Australian National University.

  • Awards

    • Australian Post Graduate Award
    • 2018 Australian Parliamentary Library Summer Scholar

  • Other

    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>.