Elizabeth Lester

Research output

Research output per year 2005 2011 2013 2015 2017 2021 2023 2025

• 47 Article
• 24 Chapter (Book)
• 5 Book
• 4 Other Report
• 12 More
  • 3 Edited Book
  • 3 Review Article
  • 1 Commissioned Report
  • 1 Foreword / Postscript
  • 1 Meeting Abstract
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Audio / Visual Recording
  • 1 Curation

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Public understanding of climate change in malaysia: results of a national survey

  Azhari, A., Richardson, L. M., Pandya-Wood, R. & Lester, L., Feb 2025, In: Environmental Research Communications. 7, 2, 18 p., 025024.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2024

  Increasing food insecurity severity is associated with lower diet quality in Australian adults

  Kent, K., Schumacher, T., Seivwright, A., Visentin, D., Collins, C. E. & Lester, L., 2024, In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 83, OCE1, 1 p., E130.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › peer-review

• Michael Mansell: a Life of Radical Resistance

  Lester, L. (Producer), Green, F. (Producer) & Mansell, N. (Producer), 27 Apr 2024

  Research output: Non-textual form › Audio / Visual Recording › Other

• What makes a place special? Understanding drivers and the nature of place attachment

  Jayakody, D. Y., Adams, V. M., Pecl, G. & Lester, E., Feb 2024, In: Applied Geography. 163, 12 p., 103177.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• When does place attachment lead to climate change adaptation and when does it not? A quantitative review and thematic analysis

  Jayakody, D. Y., Adams, V. M., Pecl, G. & Lester, E., Oct 2024, In: Environmental Science and Policy. 160, 13 p., 103866.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2023

  Birds of Tasmania

  Lester, L. (Editor), 2023, Tasmania Australia: Outside the Box/Earth Arts Rights. 320 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book

• Environmental communication, global trade and being here

  Lester, L., 2023, The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. Hansen, A. & Cox, R. (eds.). 2nd ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 272-284 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Envisioning a green modernity? The future of cricket in an age of climate crisis

  Hutchins, B., Troon, S., Miller, T. & Lester, L., 2023, In: Sport in Society. 26, 10, p. 1723-1738 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Formula one and the insanity of car-based transportation

  Miller, T., Hutchins, B., Lester, L. & Maxwell, R., 2023, The History and Politics of Motor Racing: Lives in the Fast Lane. Sturm, D., Wagg, S. & Andrews, D. L. (eds.). 1st ed. Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 733-760 28 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change

  Tranter, B., Lester, L., Foxwell-Norton, K. & Palmer, M. A., Aug 2023, In: Public Understanding of Science. 32, 6, p. 691-708 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Introduction: Taking Flight

  Lester, L., 2023, Birds of Tasmania by Susan Lester. Tasmania Australia: Outside the Box/Earth Arts Rights, p. 10-13 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other

• Journalism and environmental futures

  Lester, L., 2023, The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Allan, S. (ed.). 2nd ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 299-306 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Protests, publics and participation (still in an environmental age)

  Lester, L. & Cottle, S., 2023, The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. Hansen, A. & Cox, R. (eds.). 2nd ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 146-156 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Quick and slow violence: the age of billionaire biodiversity

  Hutchins, B., Lester, L., Miller, T., Maxwell, R. & Monaghan, W., 2023, Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital. Smith, P., Monea, A. & Santiago, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Lanham MD USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p. 247-267 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Understanding the use of fire by Aboriginal people in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

  David, B., Cahalan, S., Lehman, G., Lester, L., Mikosza, J. M., Rimmer, Z., Styger, J. & Taylor, R., 2023, Tasmania Australia: University of Tasmania.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other

• Understanding the use of fire by Aboriginal people in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA): Research review and recommendations

  Lester, L., Lehman, G., Cahalan, S., Mikosza, J., Rimmer, Z., Styger, J., Taylor, R., Wilson, C. & Bowman, D. M. J. S., 2023, Tasmania Australia: Tasmanian Government.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
• 2022

  (Not) saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster: media then and now

  Foxwell-Norton, K. & Lester, L., 2022, Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News and Public Policy. Freedman, E., Shipley Hiles, S. & Sachsman, D. B. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon Uk: Routledge, p. 187-202 16 p. (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Consumer-driven strategies towards a resilient and sustainable food system following the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

  Kent, K., Gale, F., Penrose, B., Auckland, S., Lester, E. & Murray, S., Dec 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 1539.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  28 Citations (Scopus)

• Food insecure households faced greater challenges putting healthy food on the table during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

  Kent, K., Murray, S., Penrose, B., Auckland, S., Godrich, S., Lester, E. & Visentin, D., 1 Feb 2022, In: Appetite. 169, 105815.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  21 Citations (Scopus)

• The invisible architecture of creative and cultural work: the relationship between miscategorisation and sector wellbeing during COVID-19

  Williams, K., Lester, L. & Seivwright, A., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Creative Industries Journal. 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Towards a Shared Understanding and Articulation of a Common Population Outcomes Framework

  Seivwright, A., Kocar, S., Fabian, M. & Lester, L., Jun 2022, Tasmania Australia: University of Tasmania. 72 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
• 2021

  Audience perspectives on paying for local news: A regional qualitative case study

  Lester, L. & Konkes, C., 2021, In: Journalism Studies. 22, 8, p. 1066-1082 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Coal versus coral: Australian climate change politics sees the Great Barrier Reef in court

  Konkes, C., Nixon, C., Lester, L. & Williams, K., 1 Dec 2021, In: Queensland Review. 28, 2, p. 132-146 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Experiences and opinions about living and travelling in Tasmania during and after the pandemic

  Kocar, S., Lester, L. & Horton, E., 2021, University of Tasmania. 6 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other

• Greening media sport: sport and the communication of environmental issues

  Hutchins, B., Lester, E. & Miller, T., 2021, Communication and Sport. Butterworth, M. L. (ed.). 1st ed. Berlin Germany: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 369–385 17 p. (Handbooks of Communication Science).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• Make love, not war? Radical environmental activism’s reconfigurative potential and pitfalls

  Milstein, T., McGaurr, L. & Lester, L., Jun 2021, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 4, 2, p. 296-316 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Mediated Visibility and Public Environmental Litigation: The Interplay between Inside and Outside Court during Environmental Conflict in Australia

  Nixon, C., Konkes, C., Lester, L. & Williams, K., Jun 2021, In: Laws. 10, 2, 13 p., 35.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Perceiving environmental science, risk and industry regulation in the mediatised vicious cycles of the Tasmanian salmon aquaculture industry

  Cullen-Knox, C., Fleming, A., Lester, L. & Ogier, E., 2021, In: Social Epistemology. 35, 5, p. 441-460 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• The climate gaze and koalas in extremis

  McGaurr, L. & Lester, L., 2021, Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations. Dare, A. M. & Vail Fletcher, C. (eds.). Lanham Maryland USA: Lexington Books, p. 353-369 17 p. (Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• The Tasmania Project Wellbeing Survey: Report for the Premier's Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council

  Lester, L., Banham, R., Horton, E., Pisanu, N., Rumund, A., Steel , R., Stoeckl, N., Sutton, G. & Tranter, B., Mar 2021, Tasmania Australia: University of Tasmania. 106 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
• 2020

  Citizens and science: Media, communication and conservation

  Lester, L. & Foxwell-Norton, K., 2020, Conservation Research, Policy and Practice. Sutherland, W. J., Brotherton, P. N. M., Davies, Z. G., Ockendon, N., Pettorelli, N. & Vickery, J. A. (eds.). Cambridge UK: Routledge, p. 265-276 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Foreward

  Anderson, A. & Lester, L., 2020, The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication. Díaz-Pont, J., Maeseele, P., Egan, A., Maitreyee Mishra, S. & Foxwell-Norton, K. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 6 p. (Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review

• Prevalence and socio-demographic predictors of food insecurity in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Kent, K., Murray, S., Penrose, B., Auckland, S., Visentin, D., Godrich, S. & Lester, E., Sept 2020, In: Nutrients. 12, 9, p. 1-20 20 p., 2682.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  114 Citations (Scopus)

• Tracing Environmental Sustainability Discourses: An Australia-Asia Seafood Case Study

  Cullen-knox, C., Fleming, A., Lester, L. & Ogier, E., 24 Mar 2020, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7, 13 p., 176.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  A freelance-based foreign exchange programme: Tasmanian students’ professional development on WORLDREP

  Bill, D., Claire, K., Donald, R. & Lester, L., Jun 2019, In: Australian Journalism Review. 41, 1, p. 85-102 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest: The View From Here

  Lester, E., 2019, Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 177 p. (Palgrave Studies in Media And Environmental Communication)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

• Publicised scrutiny and mediatised environmental conflict: The case of Tasmanian salmon aquaculture

  Cullen-Knox, C., Fleming, A., Lester, L. & Ogier, E., Feb 2019, In: Marine Policy. 100, p. 307-315 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  38 Citations (Scopus)

• Trust, engagement, information and social licence - insights from New Zealand

  Edwards, P., Fleming, A., Lacey, J., Lester, L., Pinkard, E., Ruckstuhl, K., Bezuidenhout, C., Payn, T., Bayne, K. & Williams, T., 1 Feb 2019, In: Environmental Research Letters. 14, 2, 10 p., 024010.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  31 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  See it before it’s too late? Last-chance travel lists and climate change

  McGaurr, L. & Lester, L., 2018, Climate Change And The Media: Volume 2. Brevini, B. & Lewis, J. (eds.). 1st ed. New York NY USA: Peter Lang Publishing, p. 123-140 18 p. (Global Crisis and the Media).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

• ‘All for One, One for All’: Communicative processes of co-creation of place brands through inclusive and horizontal stakeholder collaborative networks

  Lester, L., 2018, In: Communication & Society. 31, 4, p. 59-78 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  14 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia

  Tranter, B. & Lester, L., 1 Aug 2017, In: Public Understanding of Science. 26, 6, p. 738-752 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Contemporary Challenges in Environmental Governance: Technology, governance and the social licence

  Cullen-Knox, C., Eccleston, R., Haward, M., Lester, E. & Vince, J., 1 Jan 2017, In: Environmental Policy and Governance. 27, 1, p. 3-13 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  49 Citations (Scopus)

• Environmental groups treading the discursive tightrope of social license: Australian and Canadian cases compared

  Mcgaurr, L. & Lester, L., 2017, In: International Journal of Communication. 11, p. 3476-3496 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Environmental Pollution and the Media: Political Discourses of Risk and Responsibility in Australia, China and Japan

  Hook, G. D., Lester, E., Ji, M., Edney, K., Pope, C. G. & van der Does-Ishikawa, L., 2017, Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge. 216 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Environment and human rights activism, journalism and 'the new war'

  Lester, L., 26 Jun 2017, The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights. Tumber, H. & Waisbord, S. (eds.). Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 268-276 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking: When conspiracy theories become news

  Konkes, C. & Lester, L., 3 Jul 2017, In: Journalism Studies. 18, 7, p. 826-844 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Leadership and the Construction of Environmental Concern

  Tranter, B., Lester, E. & Mcgaurr, L., 2017, 1st ed. London UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 183 p. (Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now

  Foxwell-Norton, K. & Lester, L., 1 May 2017, In: Media, Culture and Society. 39, 4, p. 568-581 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  24 Citations (Scopus)
• 2016

  Containing spectacle in the transnational public sphere

  Lester, L., 1 Nov 2016, In: Environmental Communication. 10, 6, p. 791-802 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour?

  McGaurr, L., Tranter, B. & Lester, L., 1 Jul 2016, In: Conservation and Society. 14, 3, p. 254-266 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  5 Citations (Scopus)