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Dr Clare Hawkins

Honorary Research Associate - Natural Sciences, 

Univeristy of Tasmania

"I think science shouldn't drive people apart but bring people together. It is important  to help improve people’s understanding in the scientific method so that perhaps there will be more trust in it and less politics."

Clare developed an interest in carnivorous animal ecology and conservation, studying the fossa in Madagascar for her PhD. The ecologically similar spotted-tailed quoll lured her to Tasmania in 2001; subsequently, she joined the State Government, first investigating the impact and distribution of Devil Facial Tumour Disease. After nine years as Senior Zoologist for the government's Threatened Species Section, Clare took on a Churchill Fellowship, exploring how to involve citizen scientists in long-term wildlife population monitoring. Clare now coordinates the NatureTrackers program for the Bookend Trust, doing exactly this.

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That’s What I Call Science acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waterways, seas and skies on which the Diversity in STEMM Gallery was produced, the palawa and pakana people in lutruwita/Tasmania. We also acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians across Australia.

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