
Dr Mike Joy
(Victoria University, Wellington)
Mike Joy gained his PhD in Ecology from Massey University and began lecturing there in 2003. After seeing first-hand the decline in freshwater health in New Zealand, he became an outspoken advocate for environmental protection.
Mike has received numerous awards for this work, including an ‘Ecology in Action Award’ from the New Zealand Ecological Society, the Royal Society of New Zealand’s ‘Charles Fleming’ environmental award, and the inaugural ‘New Zealand Universities Critic and Conscience Award’.
Mike has been an Associate Editor of Marine and Freshwater Research Journal since 2015.
Mike has been working for two decades at the interface of science and policy in New Zealand with a goal of strengthening connections between science, policy and real outcomes to address the multiple environmental issues facing New Zealand.