Dr Sheridan Rabbitt is the Centre Manager for the Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research (ACPIR). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Science from The University of Queensland, and a PhD in marine social sciences from The University of Queensland. Sheridan has been working in the Pacific for eight years, and has worked extensively with local communities, NGOs, and governments in Solomon Islands and is fluent in Solomons Pijin. Her research focuses on ways to improve women’s engagement within community-based marine resource management processes, and how to better integrate nutrition into fisheries management. Sheridan has worked as a consultant for the WorldFish Center, looking at ways to better integrate women into fisheries management practices, and currently provides consultancy services on ways to better include local communities in resource management and emergency preparedness.
Sheridan is also the Senior Project Officer for UQ’s Centre for Marine Science, working to bring together marine researchers from across the university to collaboratively tackle big picture challenges in marine science. Sheridan has been an affiliate member of ACPIR since 2021.
Dr Sheridan Rabbitt has been working in the Pacific for eight years, and has worked extensively with local communities, NGOs, and governments in Solomon Islands and is fluent in Solomons Pijin. Her research focuses on ways to improve women’s engagement within community-based marine resource management processes, and how to better integrate nutrition into fisheries management.
Research areas
- Fisheries
- Community-based resource management
- Pacific Islands
- Solomon Islands
- Marine resource management
- Rabbitt, Sheridan, Lilley, Ian, Albert, Simon, Albert, Joelle, and Tibbetts, Ian (2023). The importance of nutrition-sensitive fisheries management: Women's dietary diversity in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 13 (1) 1-17. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.131.004
- Rabbitt, Sheridan Grace (2023). Nutritional security, gender, and community-based fisheries management in the Pacific: a case study from Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. https://doi.org/10.14264/055cc13
- Smallhorn-West, Patrick, Cohen, Philippa J., Kukiti, Elton, Rabbitt, Sheridan, Rikio, Alik, Sori, Frederick, Tapala, Scotta, Warren, Regon, Boso, Delvene, and Foale, Simon (2022). Ten years of dynamic co-management of a multi-species reef fishery. Coral Reefs 41 (5) 1449-1464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02294-z
- Rabbitt, Sheridan, Tibbetts, Ian R., Albert, Simon, and Lilley, Ian (2022). Testing a model to assess women’s inclusion and participation in community-based resource management in Solomon Islands. Maritime Studies 21 (4) 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00282-1
- Rabbitt, Sheridan, Lilley, Ian, Albert, Simon, and Tibbetts, Ian R. (2019). What's the catch in who fishes? Fisherwomen's contributions to fisheries an food security in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Marine Policy 108 103667 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103667
- Rabbitt, Sheridan, Lilley, Ian, Albert, Simon, and Tibbetts, Ian R. (2019). Fishing for cash – village attitudes towards fish exports in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin 30-33.