Ella Plumanns Pouton
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) | Master of Environment
​Associate Consultant
  • Bio
  • Recent projects
  • Qualifications
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Background
From an interdisciplinary background, Ella brings social and ecological knowledge of a range of environmental issues to her role at First Person Consulting. She has used creativity and critical analytical skills in a range of research roles, from data collection, to analysis, reporting, and publication. She is particularly interested in vulnerability, adaptability and resilience of socio-ecological systems to climate change and disaster. She is also interested in climate change and emergency management more broadly, natural resource management (NRM), and social change. She has worked on a range of evaluation and social research projects in the areas of NRM, emergency management, climate change, community engagement, and capacity building    
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Past employment
Prior to joining First Person Consulting, Ella has worked in a variety of research, teaching and project-based roles. Her most recent role was as a teaching associate at the University of Melbourne in Environmental Politics and Disaster Resilient Cities. She has conducted research for both non-for profit and academia on a range of environmental issues, spanning climate change policy, conservation areas, international environmental negotiations, and ecological research into eucalypt growth responses. Ella has also previously worked in forest-safe paper certification and migration support programs.
Ella's recent projects include:
  • Evaluative Case Study for the Wye River-Jamieson Track Bushfire Community Development, DELWP
  • Evaluation of the Fruit Fly Action Plan 2015-2020, DEJPR
  • Community Based Bushfire Management evaluation, CFA
    Practice Change Roadshow series evaluation,  Australian Wine Research Institute
  • Strategic Bushfire Management Planning Consultation Reporting, DELWP
  • Evaluation of the Latrobe Valley Home Energy Upgrades, Sustainability Victoria
  • Program Design for Flying Fox Habitat Restoration Program, Local Government NSW
  • Workshop on Interdependencies for the Safer Together Program, CFA
  • Evaluation of the Expertise Framework, EPA Victoria,
  • Evaluation plan for the Victorian Climate Projections 2019 program, DELWP
  • Evaluation of the Victorian Tumour Summits Project, Victorian Integrated Cancer Services
  • Evaluation of Phase 1 of the Pilot Adaptation Action Plan Project, DELWP
  • Evaluation of Councils and Emergencies Project for Local Government Victoria
  • Economic Evaluation of Wildlife Victoria, Wildlife Victoria
  • Evaluation of the Early Years Kitchen Garden Program Model, Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
  • An Evaluation of Film Victoria’s Enterprise Programs, Film Victoria 
Qualifications
Ella holds a Master of Environment from the University of Melbourne, where she specialised in conservation and restoration. Her Masters research was on temperate Eucalypt growth responses to season, competition and other growth attributes. Prior to this Ella completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), in political and international studies/ancient world studies. She simultaneously completed a Diploma of Languages (Spanish). Her honours research focused on carbon markets and their applicability as a functioning climate change mitigation policy in a post-Paris COP21 political climate.