Katie currently holds a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within UQ’s Business School. Her research interests include financial and social exclusion from insurance; the social role of weather disaster protection in a climate changed future; cross-sector partnerships and collaboration to address climate change; and, public engagement processes, specifically power imbalances and the use of technical information.
Katie completed her PhD in Environmental Communication in 2020 at UQ. The thesis examines how citizens experienced the public participation undertaken for four proposed mines in Queensland’s Galilee Basin through the lens of fairness and competence in environmental decision-making. The study found that fairness and competence were impeded by three factors: the relationship between inclusion and fairness, mining company control of information, and the Queensland Government’s dual role as regulator of, and beneficiary from, mining projects. These findings have implications for both practice and theory, namely: addressing resource inequality between stakeholders; establishing equitable access to information; and, changing regulatory practice to improve the legitimacy, accountability, and impartiality of public participation.
Katie has taught at UQ since 2018 across a range of Business School management and strategy subjects, including most recently as course coordinator of Corporate Sustainability in the Master of Business program.
Prior to commencing her PhD at UQ, Katie worked in communication roles across a variety of industries including mining, transport, tourism and retail.
Other Outputs: Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne and Meissner, Katie (2023). Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Conference Publication: Repairing the past: tensions in a cross-sector partnership between a scripted stakeholder engagement process and future-making
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Meissner, Katie and Unger, Corinne (2023). Repairing the past: tensions in a cross-sector partnership between a scripted stakeholder engagement process and future-making. 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 6-8 July 2023.
Other Outputs: Is the social legitimacy of protest in Australia in flux?
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne and Meissner, Katie (2023). Is the social legitimacy of protest in Australia in flux?. Brisbane: The University of Queensland Business School.
T4-A6 Evaluating the Resilient Homes Fund
(2024–2025) Natural Hazards Research Australia
Australia’s new Cyclone Reinsurance Pool: Implications for insurance in a climate changed future
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Meissner, Katie and Unger, Corinne (2022). Australia’s new Cyclone Reinsurance Pool: Implications for insurance in a climate changed future. Australian Environment Review, 37 (3), 43-45.
Plastic pollution and packaging: corporate commitments and actions from the food and beverage sector
Phelan, Anna (Anya), Meissner, Katie, Humphrey, Jacquelyn and Ross, Helen (2022). Plastic pollution and packaging: corporate commitments and actions from the food and beverage sector. Journal of Cleaner Production, 331 129827, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129827
Meissner, Katie and Everingham, J. A. (2021). Information control and competence: participant experience of public participation in EIA for proposed mining projects in Queensland. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 28 (3), 287-304. doi: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1955023
Meissner, Katie (2012). Environmental disaster meets state politics: an analysis of the representation of the Pacific Adventurer oil spill during and following the 2009 Queensland state election. Australian Journal of Communication, 39 (2), 101-117.
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Meissner, Katie and Unger, Corinne (2023). Repairing the past: tensions in a cross-sector partnership between a scripted stakeholder engagement process and future-making. 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 6-8 July 2023.
Meissner, Katie, Unger, Corinne and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2022). When is a context extreme? Processes of construction what is extreme, or not, through social legitimacy in disruptive contexts. 13th PROS Symposium, Rhodes, Greece, 25-28 June 2022.
Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne and Meissner, Katie (2023). Extremist movements in Australia: a study of individual ideology. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Is the social legitimacy of protest in Australia in flux?
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne and Meissner, Katie (2023). Is the social legitimacy of protest in Australia in flux?. Brisbane: The University of Queensland Business School.
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne J. and Meissner, Katie (2022, 03 04). Victims of NSW and Queensland floods have lodged 60,000 claims, but too many are underinsured. Here’s a better way The Conversation
Terrorism and violent protests: where do these disruptive events meet?
Jarzabkowski, Paula, Unger, Corinne J. and Meissner, Katie (2022). Terrorism and violent protests: where do these disruptive events meet?. ARPC Thought Leadership Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Business School.
Citizens’ panels on the role of future fuels in a low-carbon future energy mix in Australia
Ashworth, Peta, Petrova, Svetla , Witt, Kathy, Wade, Belinda, Bharadwaj, Bishal , Clarke, Elliot, Meissner, Katie and Kambo, Amrita (2021). Citizens’ panels on the role of future fuels in a low-carbon future energy mix in Australia . Australia: Future Fuels CRC.
Meissner, Katie Jane (2020). A study of participant experience of public participation in the EIA processes for proposed coal mining developments in the Galilee Basin.. PhD Thesis, Business School, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.124
T4-A6 Evaluating the Resilient Homes Fund
(2024–2025) Natural Hazards Research Australia