About Catherine

 

Dr Catherine Knight is a public policy professional, an award-winning author and environmental history researcher. She is a Senior Associate at the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington and Honorary Research Associate at the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University.

 

She has published five books and contributed chapters to a number of others.

- Nature and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand: Exploring the connection (Totara Press, 2020)

- Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 2018), a finalist in the New Zealand Heritage Book Awards.

- New Zealand’s Rivers: An environmental history (Canterbury University Press, 2016), long-listed for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, short-listed for the New Zealand Heritage Book Awards and selected as one of The Listener’s Best Books for 2016. 

- Ravaged Beauty: An environmental history of the Manawatu (Dunmore Press), which was the winner of the J.M. Sherrard Award for Regional and Local History. 

- Wildbore: A photographic legacy (Totara Press, 2018), awarded best book about the Manawatu by Palmerston North Heritage Trust.

 

Catherine has extensive experience in both strategic and operational environmental policy, and governance in the education and environment sectors.

 

She is currently working in strategic policy in the government sector.  

 

She is also a RYS 500 hour yoga teacher, and teaches classes in the Manawatu and Kapiti Coast from her Hauora Yoga studios.

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Strategic policy & thought leadership

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Looking for a top-notch policy analyst and thought leader? Catherine may be available for projects in central, regional and local government, non-governmental organisations, and industry and research organisations.

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She has extensive experience in both strategic and operational environmental policy, and governance in the education and environment sectors.

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Speaker with vision

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Catherine is an experienced lecturer and speaker and has delivered numerous invited talks at universities and for professional and scientific organisations.

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Follow Catherine on LinkedIn to see what she is up to.

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See also Catherine's consultancy website www.khm.co.nz

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