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Dr Robyn Gulliver

Honorary Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts
r.gulliver@uq.edu.au

Publications

Books (4)
Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (26)
Thesis (1)
Newspaper Articles (2)

Books

Gulliver, Robyn E, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2021). Civil resistance against climate change. Washington, DC, United States: International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict Press.
Johnston, Jane and Gulliver, Robyn (2021). Public interest communication. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/316efde
Gulliver, Robyn, Wibisono, Susilo, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2021). The psychology of effective activism. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108975476
Gulliver, Robyn E. and Ferguson, Jill L. (2021). The advocates: women within the Australian environmental movement. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press.

Book Chapters

Gulliver, Robyn (2025). Climate crisis communication across Oceania. The Sage handbook of intercultural communication. (pp. 775-798) edited by Shuang Liu, Adam Komisarof, Zhu Hua and Levi Obijiofor. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Gulliver, Robyn, Wibisono, Susilo and Louis, Winnifred R. (2022). Rising tides and dirty coal: the environmental movement in Oceania. The Routledge handbook of environmental movements. (pp. 123-136) edited by Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780367855680-10

Journal Articles

Gulliver, Robyn and Vachette, Astrid (2025). Embracing opportunities and navigating challenges: A study of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Progressive Advocacy Groups' Community Organizing Models. Community Organizing Journal (1). doi: 10.71057/kvtxtn81
Colvin, R. M., Gulliver, Robyn E., Wang, Xiongzhi, Adhikari, Ajay, Boddington, Sarah J., Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2025). Theorising unconventional climate advocates and their relationship to the environmental movement. npj Climate Action, 4 (1) 11, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s44168-025-00217-6
Gulliver, Robyn E., Wang, Xiongzhi, Louis, Winnifred R., Fielding, Kelly S. and Colvin, Rebecca M. (2025). Media ownership and coverage patterns of established, disruptive, and unconventional climate advocacy groups. Climatic Change, 178 (2) 25, 1-24. doi: 10.1007/s10584-025-03865-z
Gulliver, Robyn (2024). The Fossil Fuel Façade : Unmasking an Artificially Constructed Reality. M/C Journal, 27 (6). doi: 10.5204/mcj.3120
McDonald, Matt, Park, Susan, Anantharajah, Kirsty, Burke, Anthony, Celermajer, Danielle, Evans, Megan C., Eckersley, Robyn, Gulliver, Robyn, McNaught, Rebecca, Morgan, Wesley, Ruwet, Melodie, Symons, Jonathan, Schlosberg, David and Vogler, Anselm (2024). Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 71 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1111/ajph.13016
Ettinger, Joshua, Walton, Peter, Painter, James, Fielding, Kelly S., Gulliver, Robyn and Otto, Friederike E. L. (2024). Examining contrasting influences of extreme weather experiences on individual climate activism. Global Environmental Psychology, 2, 1-24. doi: 10.5964/gep.10829
Gulliver, Robyn E., Pittaway, Charlie, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2023). If at first, you don’t succeed: strategies used by environmental activist volunteer leaders to overcome failure. Social Movement Studies, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/14742837.2023.2296871
Gulliver, Robyn E., Vachette, Astrid and Boddington, Sarah (2023). How Australian environmental non-governmental organisations frame and enact climate justice. npj Climate Action, 2 (1) 18, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s44168-023-00049-2
Chapman, Cassandra M., Hornsey, Matthew J., Fielding, Kelly S. and Gulliver, Robyn (2023). International media coverage promotes donations to a climate disaster. Disasters, 47 (3), 725-744. doi: 10.1111/disa.12557
Gulliver, Robyn E., Banks, Robin, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2023). The criminalization of climate change protest. Contention, 11 (1), 24-54. doi: 10.3167/cont.2023.110103
Gulliver, Robyn (2023). Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement. Arcadia, Summer 2023 (9).
Chan, Christian S., Gulliver, Robyn E., Awale, Arya, Tam, Katy Y. Y. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2023). The influence of perceived threat and political mistrust on politicized identity and normative and violent nonnormative collective action. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 11 (1), 126-144. doi: 10.5964/jspp.7979
Gulliver, Robyn E., Pittaway, Charlie, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2023). Resources that help sustain environmental volunteer activist leaders. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 34 (6), 1299-1309. doi: 10.1007/s11266-023-00561-3
Gulliver, Robyn E., Chan, Christian S., Chan, Wendy W. L., Tam, Katy Y. Y. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2023). Bystanders, protesters, journalists: a qualitative examination of different stakeholders’ motivations to participate in collective action. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 17, 1-15. doi: 10.1177/18344909231187018
Gulliver, Robyn, Chan, Christian S., Tam, Katy Y. Y., Lau, Iris S. K., Hong, Ying Yi and Louis, Winnifred R. (2022). Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: a mixed‐methods study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (2), 401-417. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2910
Gulliver, Robyn E., Star, Cassandra, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2022). A systematic review of the outcomes of sustained environmental collective action. Environmental Science and Policy, 133, 180-192. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.03.020
Gulliver, Robyn E., Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2022). An investigation of factors influencing environmental volunteering leadership and participation behaviors. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 52 (2) 08997640221093799, 397-420. doi: 10.1177/08997640221093799
Dean, Angela J., Newton, Fiona J., Gulliver, Robyn E., Fielding, Kelly S. and Ross, Helen (2022). Accelerating the adoption of water sensitive innovations: community perceptions of practices and technologies to mitigate urban stormwater pollution. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 66 (4), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/09640568.2021.2002279
Gulliver, Robyn (2021). Development or dunes? The long struggle to protect Perth’s Scarborough Beach Coastal Reserve. Arcadia, Summer (20).
Gulliver, Robyn, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2021). Assessing the mobilization potential of environmental advocacy communication. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 74 101563, 101563. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101563
Gulliver, Robyn, Fahmi, Marco and Abramson, David (2020). Technical considerations when implementing digital infrastructure for social policy. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56 (2) ajs4.135, 269-287. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.135
Gulliver, Robyn, Chapman, Cassandra M., Solly, Kane N. and Schultz, Tracy (2020). Testing the impact of images in environmental campaigns. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 71 101468, 101468. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101468
Dean, Angela J., Gulliver, Robyn E. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2020). “Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate-related actions. Conservation Letters, 14 (2) e12765, e12765. doi: 10.1111/conl.12765
Gulliver, Robyn, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred (2019). Understanding the outcomes of climate change campaigns in the Australian environmental movement. Case Studies in the Environment, 3 (1), 1.1-9. doi: 10.1525/cse.2018.001651
Gulliver, Robyn, Fielding, Kelly S. and Louis, Winnifred (2019). The characteristics, activities and goals of environmental organizations engaged in advocacy within the Australian environmental movement. Environmental Communication, 14 (5), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2019.1697326
Gulliver, Robyn (2019). Women on the frontline: morality in the Anthropocene. Earth Ethics, 1 (1), 55-58.

Thesis

Gulliver, Robyn (2020). Activists, organisations and outcomes: An empirical analysis of the antecedents and consequences of environmental collective action. PhD Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.979

Newspaper Articles

Gulliver, Robyn (2022, 06 30). ‘Draconian and undemocratic’: why criminalising climate protesters in Australia doesn’t actually work The Conversation
Gulliver, Robyn (2022, 06 09). How Australia’s expanding environmental movement is breaking the climate action deadlock in politics The Conversation
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