Trisia was Co-Director of PERC from 2016 – 2024. She is a Professor and Honorary Fellow of Massey University and Senior Editor of Cambridge University Press’s Cambridge Prisms” Plastics.
Based at the Cawthron Institute, Trisia leads a project to develop a Pacific Islands programme for single-use plastics prevention in the tourism industry and coordinates an independent science review panel for a project which aims to design a global set of criteria for plastics, plastic alternatives, and non-plastic substitutes.
Trisia is currently Coordinator of The Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty: a body of over 400 independent scientists across more than 70 countries who provide robust independent science to United Nations member states throughout the global plastics treaty negotiations. She is the co-founder and former trustee of the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance and the New Zealand Product Stewardship Council.
Selected recent publications
Deeney M, Yates J, Kadiyala S, Farrelly T et al. Human health evidence in the global treaty to end plastic pollution: a survey of policy perspectives. Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. 2025;3:e8.
Farrelly T, Brander S, Thompson R, Carney Almroth B. Independent science key to breaking stalemates in global plastics treaty negotiations. Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. 2025;3:e6.
Fuller, S., Ngata, T., Borrelle, S. B., & Farrelly, T. (2022). Plastic Pollution as Waste Colonialism in Moananui. Journal of Political Ecology, 29(1).
See here for further publications by Professor Farrelly