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Clara Obregón

Research Fellow

Faculty of Business and Law, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS)

  • Research Fellow
    Faculty of Business and Law, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS)

BIO

Clara is a fisheries scientist, focusing on the human dimensions of fisheries and fisheries sustainability. She completed her PhD on the social-ecological dimensions of blue swimmer crab small-scale fisheries in Western Australia. Since 2023, Clara works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS). Her research is on scaling community-based fisheries management, with a special focus on coastal fisheries in Vanuatu.

Before joining ANCORS, Clara worked with conservation organizations such as World Wide Fund for Nature (Madagascar), and the Zoological Society of London (United Kingdom), as well as research institutions such as the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (Spain) and Murdoch University (Australia). Her primary interests include working with fishing communities, government agencies and other stakeholders, to provide a better understanding of small-scale fisheries governance and to support the sustainability and resilience of the communities depending on fisheries resources.

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG APPOINTMENTS

  • Research Fellow
    University of Wollongong, Faculty of Business and Law, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), Wollongong, Australia1 Feb 2023 - 1 Dec 2025

DEGREES

  • D.Phil. Doctor of Philosophy, Fisheries Social Sciences
    Murdoch University, Perth, Australia2017 - 2021
  • Master of Social Science, Small-scale fisheries
    Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom2013 - 2014
  • B.S. Bachelor of Biological Sciences & Master of Ecological Systems
    Universidad de Salamanca, Spain2007 - 2012

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Catalan; Valencian
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review