Dr Kate Crowley is currently the Acting Dean of Graduate Research for the University of Tasmania. She had previously acted as Dean of Graduate Research in 2004 and 2006, and has been the Deputy Dean since 2004. Her substantive position is as Senior Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator (Public Policy) in the School of Government. She Chairs the University's Board of Graduate Research, and the State Government's Environment Industry Council. She is also a member of the University's Research College Board, and the State Government's Tasmania Together Progress Board.

She has published extensively on green politics and environmental policy, and is co-editor of Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in Decline and Devolution (University of New South Wales Press) with Ken Walker. She is a member of an international policy research group which has been looking at the comparative politics and policy of the Kyoto Protocol process.

Most recently, Dr Crowley has been appointed inaugural Chair of the Tasmanian Climate Action Council, and written a A Framework for Action for Reducing the Tasmanian Government Emissions which has been adopted in full by the Tasmanian Government.

Kate is also is a keen cross country skier who has represented Australia in both racing and instructing in past years and has lived and worked in Scandinavia.