Our research
Key projects
Australia’s Contribution to Alliance Strategy for the Western Pacific, 2025-2030
This project adopts a strategy approach linking policy to ends, ways and means to highlight potential strategy deficits in Australian, alliance and coalition defence planning for maritime operations in the western Pacific in the 2025-2030 timeframe.
Community Based Approach to Fisheries Management
Strengthening & scaling community-based approaches to Pacific coastal fisheries management in support of the New Song – “Pathways”
ANCORS Ocean Equity
ANCORS Ocean Equity sits at the intersection between science, policy, law and development studies, and focuses on how we can manage human interaction with our marine environment to achieve equitable outcomes in transboundary ocean conservation, management and development.
Blue Futures
Blue Futures positions the NSW South Coast as a national leader in the development of blue economies, drawing on ocean and coastal resources for economic development, in an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable way.
Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) project
ANCORS and the Jindal School of International Affairs at OP Jindal Global University in India, work together on an Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) project to identify maritime cooperative activities appropriate to the seven IPOI pillars, commencing with a plan to reduce sea-based sources of marine plastic debris in the Indian Ocean.