My PhD project investigates how First Nations energy justice can be realised in the context of energy system transition and climate change. My supervisors are Associate Professor Rebecca Colvin (Crawford School), Dr Lily O’Neill (University of Melbourne) and Professor Quentin Grafton (Crawford School).

Publications

Wilson, S. (2025). Disrupting household energy rights: Examining the policy origins of prepayment for electricity services in Australia. Energy Research & Social Science, 124, Article 104060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104060

White, LV, Riley, B, Wilson, S, Markham, F, O’Neill, L, Klerck, M, & Davis, VN (2024). Geographies of regulatory disparity underlying Australia’s energy transition. Nature Energy, vol. 9(1), p. 92–105. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01422-5

White, LV, Riley, B, Wilson, S, Markham, F, O’Neill, L, Klerck, M, & Davis, VN (2024). Regulatory disparities disadvantage remote Australian communities in energy transition. Nature Energy, 9(1), 14–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01433-2

Riley, B, White, LV, Wilson, S, Klerck, M, Napaltjari-Davis, V, Quilty, S, Longden, T, Jupurrurla, NF & Harrington, M (2023). Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Energy research & social science, vol. 99, p. 103049.

Riley, White, LV, Quilty, S, Longden, T, Frank-Jupurrurla, N, Morton Nabanunga, S, & Wilson, S (2023). Connected: rooftop solar, prepay and reducing energy insecurity in remote Australia. Australian Geographer, vol. 54(3), p. 325-346.

Scholarships and fellowships

Australian Government Research Training Program (AGRTP) Scholarship

Employment history

I have 10 years’ prior experience as a lawyer. Most recently I have been working as part of an interdisciplinary research team at the ANU focusing on energy insecurity and related issues in the energy transition. I have existing and growing expertise in energy justice issues, particularly in the context of remote First Nations communities. In 2022, I was awarded the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific’s Garnaut Prize for highest achievement in the Master of Climate Change.