Sustainability Research
We offer independent review, research, and advisory services in sustainability for governments, universities, industry bodies, NGOs, and sustainability-focused organisations seeking evidence-based insights to inform policy, strategy, investment, and education.
What We Deliver
Policy & Industry Research Advisory
We provide evidence-based policy research, regulatory reviews, and sector-specific sustainability analysis for governments, industry bodies, universities, NGOs, and sustainability-focused organisations.
Sustainability Trends, Risk & Forecasting
Identification of emerging sustainability trends, transition risks, opportunities, and future scenarios to inform long-term strategy, investment, and planning.
Business Intelligence & Data Analysis
Translation of sustainability data into decision-relevant insights through rigorous business intelligence, analytics, and research synthesis.
Survey Design & Stakeholder Research
Design, data collection, and analysis of stakeholder, workforce, and community surveys to support evidence-based decision-making and impact assessment.
Key Features
- Rigorous, scientific research methodologies ensuring credibility, transparency, and defensible findings.
- Cross-disciplinary research and advisory expertise spanning policy, technology, environment, and socio-economic systems.
- Independent review and advisory services free from vendor, technology, or institutional bias.
- World-class researchers with peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals.
Sustainability Research Pathway Advisory
Strategy&Ops Consultancy provides independent Sustainability Research
Pathway Advisory for professionals and students in Australia and internationally who are seeking to pursue research-based postgraduate pathways (Master by Research and PhD) in sustainability-related disciplines.
Our team-based approach draws on professors, senior researchers, and
sustainability practitioners to provide informed guidance on research proposaldevelopment, supervision models and fit, scholarship positioning, and long-term academic and professional pathways.
With deep understanding of the Australian research degree system and strong
international academic and industry perspectives, our advisory supports well-
informed, realistic, and strategically positioned research decisions.
Our advisory is independent and non-commercial. We do not act as recruitment agents for universities and do not guarantee admissions or scholarships.
WHAT WE SUPPORT
Research proposal development
Supervision models and fit
Scholarship positioning
Long-term academic and professional pathways
WHO IT’S FOR
Higher degree research students
Early-career professionals
International applicants of universities and research institutes
How We Work
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Research-first, not solution-first
All engagements are grounded in rigorous, scientific research
methodologies. We prioritise evidence quality, transparency of
assumptions, and methodological appropriateness before
recommendations are formed.
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Cross-disciplinary problem framing
Our work integrates insights from sustainability science, policy,
engineering, economics, and social systems. This ensures complex
sustainability challenges are examined beyond single-discipline or
compliance-only lenses.
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Independent review and critical advisory
We provide independent research and advisory services, free from
technology, vendor, or institutional bias. Our role is to test assumptions,
challenge narratives, and provide defensible, objective insights.
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Research informed by leading scholars and practitioners
Our work is led and reviewed by world-class researchers with peer-
reviewed publications in top international journals, ensuring academic
rigour alongside real-world relevance.
Meet Our Key Experts in Sustainability Research
Our sustainability research capability is supported by a team of professors, senior researchers, and experienced practitioners with expertise across sustainability
science, policy, engineering, economics, governance, and social systems.
Prof Anirudh Singh
Professor Anirudh Singh is an internationally published renewable-energy and climate-change scholar whose books help translate complex energy-transition science into accessible policy and practice. An experienced academic and research leader in the Pacific, he has contributed to international climate assessment and energy-capacity initiatives, bringing rigorous scientific insight to clean-energy strategy and climate action. His work also spans renewable-energy education and capacity building, strengthening the bridge between specialist research, public understanding and regional energy-transition capability.
Qualification: PhD
Prof Fang Zhao
An internationally recognised scholar in digital innovation, strategy and sustainable transformation, Professor Fang Zhao has published more than 120 peer-reviewed works, many in leading international journals. Her distinguished career spans senior academic leadership across continents and major research funded by the Australian Research Council, British Academy and UKRI. She connects frontier research with government policy, smart cities and practical business transformation.
Qualification: PhD in Business Management
Arek Sinanian
With more than 35 years of international experience, Arek Sinanian brings rare depth to greenhouse-gas accounting, emissions abatement and climate resilience. His technical and strategic perspective helps organisations move beyond ambitious net-zero commitments to credible measurement, risk-informed decisions and implementable emissions-reduction pathways. His experience across greenhouse-gas reporting, abatement planning and adaptation offers senior leaders a grounded view of evolving climate obligations, investment priorities and delivery risks.
Qualification: Member, Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC)
Prof Sushila Krishnaswamy-Chang
A former vice-chancellor and senior higher-education leader, Professor Sushila Krishnaswamy-Chang brings executive insight into research, innovation policy and institutional transformation. Her experience spanning science and engineering education, SME innovation, finance and organisational leadership strengthens the team’s ability to connect academic evidence with real-world economic and institutional change. Her breadth across academic governance, business operations and innovation programmes adds strategic insight into the partnerships and systems required to translate research into measurable impact.
Qualification: PhD & MSc in Environmental Toxicology
Prof Craig Standing
Professor Craig Standing is an internationally established authority in information systems and digital innovation, with research published in the field’s top ten journals. A former Foundation Professor of Strategic Information Management, he has secured prestigious Australian Research Council funding and authored influential university texts. His scholarship bridges emerging technologies, organisational innovation and smarter public and private services.
Qualification: PhD
Dr Alex Steinberg
Drawing on nearly three decades across Fortune 500 businesses, entrepreneurship and international leadership, Dr Alex Steinberg brings a distinctive organisational-psychology lens to transformation. His experience across seven countries helps translate research on people, leadership and change into practical approaches for complex, multicultural organisations. As a coach, adviser and work psychologist, he combines organisational research with frontline leadership experience to address the human barriers that often determine whether transformation succeeds.
Qualification: PhD
Dr Suwastika Naidu
Dr Suwastika Naidu combines econometric research and public-policy analysis with a focus on measurable social outcomes. Her work on telemedicine systems in Pacific Island countries illustrates how rigorous evidence can inform service delivery, institutional decisions and inclusive innovation in resource-constrained environments. She also draws on research in public administration, human-resource management and small enterprise, offering a strong analytical basis for policies intended to deliver demonstrable community benefit.
Qualification: PhD
Dr Aarti Sewak
Aarti Sewak brings a research-led perspective to one of sustainability’s most pressing implementation challenges: changing waste-management behaviour. Her published work on community engagement and solid-waste systems connects social insight with practical interventions, helping policymakers and organisations design approaches that communities can adopt and sustain. Her focus on hard-waste management and stakeholder participation strengthens the team’s ability to evaluate behaviour change, design locally relevant solutions and assess their wider social impact.
Qualification: M.Com, PhD
Prof Zhaoyong Zhang
Professor Zhaoyong Zhang brings internationally recognised scholarship in economics, finance and regional market integration. His record includes leading-journal publications, editorial appointments and consulting work with organisations including the OECD. He strengthens the team’s ability to connect sustainability policy and investment choices with economic and financial evidence. His background in East Asian monetary and financial integration adds a valuable international policy lens to research involving market institutions, cross-border investment and economic transformation.
Qualification: PhD
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