Courtney completed a Bachelor of Environmental Management with Honours (2017) and a Doctor of Philosophy (2022) at The University of Queensland. She now works as a research ecologist for Bush Heritage Australia on a national project that merges her PhD research experience in managing key threatening processes and guiding habitat restoration for the conservation of the woodland bird community, with eco-acoustic methods.

 

Courtney is passionate about threatened species conservation, a passion that was solidified by her first research project working with her then Honours supervisor Dr April Reside, on Critically Endangered Black-throated Finch.