Dr Rini Astuti is speaking as part of the 2026 Responsible Raw Materials online conference: ‘Creating Certainty In A Time Of Change’. For the full schedule and to register for your free ticket, please visit the 2026 conference page.
Dr Rini Astuti is a Senior Lecturer/Fellow at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), College of Systems and Society, at the Australian National University. Her research sits at the intersection of climate and environmental governance, the social dimensions of energy transitions, and critical minerals development, drawing on human geography – particularly from political ecology, science and technology studies, and development studies frameworks and theories. Grounded empirically in Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia) and Australia, her work examines how place-based politics, actor agencies, and justice dynamics shape the outcomes of climate, environment and energy transition policies. She leads an international research program under the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials on plural values and ethical copper supply chains (2026–2029), in partnership with the University of British Columbia, Imperial College London, and the University of the Witwatersrand.
