Stephen Kearney

PhD candidate
The University of Queensland

Stephen Kearney is a PhD candidate at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Queensland, working with CBCS, GFS and NESP TSR Hub. Through his thesis, Stephen looks to understand how we can improve the response to Australia’s extinction crisis, and is advised by Professor James Watson, Dr Josie Carwardine, Dr Vanessa Adams and Dr April Reside.

Stephen’s research is primarily focused on Australian threatened species and includes high-level analyses of threatening processes; national, regional and local-scale spatial analyses; as well as site-specific threatening process research and management, with a particular focus on feral cats in arid Australia.

Publications

Managing feral cats to benefit the night parrot

The diet of dingoes, feral cats and eastern barn owl on Pullen Pullen Reserve, southwest Queensland
Australian Mammalogy

Threats to Australia’s imperilled species and implications for a national response
TSR Hub

The threats to Australia's imperilled species and implications for a national conservation response
Pacific Conservation Biology

Protected areas for threatened species conservation: Are they enough?
TSR Hub

Estimating the benefit of well-managed protected areas for threatened species conservation
Cambridge University Press