Bula si’a (greetings and life to you)
Na yacaku – Suli Vunibola (my name)
Yavu o vale ni bu’a (sense of place)
Vanua o Naduru (tribe)
Vitina (clan)
Nubunilagi/Qaraimasi (sub-clan)
Viti (Fiji Islands)

I am a transdisciplinary scholar specialising in Pacific studies, international development studies, human geography, ethno-ecology, ethnography with a focus on climate resilience and adaptation, sustainable land, waterways, oceans management in the Pacific, and Indigenous innovation. My work is deeply influenced by my lived experiences in Pacific Island Countries and a commitment to improving livelihoods and socio-ecological and cognitive justice. I immensely support research impact through applied action for community self-determination. I explore the nexus of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and science within community-driven development as in agrobiodiversity through decolonised methodologies and discursive analysis. Recently, I contributed to the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs-funded Pacific Ocean and Climate Crisis Assessment, a vast transdisciplinary study of climate crisis as a Pacific Island communities’ voice to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other global platforms. My research also critiques neoliberal development aid and advocates for flourishing of Indigenous peoples including food security, food sovereignty for example Māori in New Zealand and Pacific diaspora communities.