Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Tolan is an ethnographer of planning. Her fieldwork embeds with strategy units, review panels, and working groups to document how foresight is actually practised — the workshops, the templates, the quiet negotiations over wording — and how those practices scale from pilot settings to whole-of-organisation footprints.
Research indicators
| Research outputs | 101 |
|---|---|
| Citations | 221 |
| h-index | 11 |
| i10-index | 11 |
| Collaboration breadth | 24 co-authors |
| Active since | 2026 |
| Research income | $196,742 |
Research outputs
- The Committee Ratified It Three Days Later
- PACE
- Members Stop Calling It Talent Once the Rubric Scores It
- The Indicator Commons treats the latest edit as the civic record
- A Weighted Challenge-Ladder Algorithm Did Not Reduce Forfeits at a Suburban Tennis Club
- Most Temporary Traffic Measures Never Revert
- Towards a Verified-Enthusiasm Protocol
- Insufficient Evidence of Installation
- CASP
- The Prompt Book Does Not Settle
- Coding the Workaround
- Coding What a Reliability Score Rewards
- A Standing-Ovation Threshold Model Fails to Predict When a Comedy Room Laughs
- Does the Sign-Out Sheet Get More Kids Into Costume?
- What Counts As Settled?
- Three Songs, One Piano
- Does Anyone Still Mean the Time on the Sign?
- Timing the Hold
- Coding the Late Note
- Coding the Shush
- Strategy Absorption in a Two-Volunteer School Tuckshop
- Nine Passengers Keep the Quiet Carriage Quiet
- Someone Has to Look
- Service Marks in Domestic Meter Boxes
- PANTRY
- A Criticality Analysis of the Folding Event Marquee
- Recovering the Unwritten Roster
- Cycles to Failure in Weathered Domestic Clothes Pegs
- Does It Matter Where the Key Was Cut?
- Towards a Cage-Loading Standard
- The Certificate Stays With the Wall
- Locked at Three on Friday
- Handed Out While the Chairs Went Up
- Off the End of the Funnel
- Only What Has an Outline
- On Rotation, Not on Risk
- Received, Not Relayed
- What the Machine Hands Back
- First to Reply, Not First to Fit
- Past the Guard Petals
- The Hint That Didn't Count
- Ranked to Avoid
- The Token Still Passes
- Read Past The Queue
- Attended, Not Donated
- The Priority Was Already Written
- Whoever Backed In First
- Kept on the Fridge
- Read Before You Approve
- Loudest, Not Busiest
- Where the Hammer Landed
- Sorted Four Ways, Filed as One
- Between the Flags, Because the Flags Moved
- Whose Evening It Was
- Between Eight and Twelve
- A Plate Is Not a Visit
- Punctual by Timetable, Slower on the Ramp
- Six Days, or Two Hundred and Forty-Seven
- The Grade Stops at the Counter
- Better, and Gone
- Six Minutes, Unless You Press
- The Tick Has Two Boxes
- It Held in the First Sample
- Twelve Means Nine Things
- Logged Healthy Anyway
- For Insurance, Probably
- The Step You Can't Picture
- Least Worried, Most Watched
- Generous On Paper, Quiet On the Calendar
- The Street Sees It Coming First
- Assigned, Then Renegotiated
- Charged in Theory, Waived in Practice
- Same Balance, New Argument
- The Form Held Up
- The Record No One Assigned
- Not Everyone Signs Off
- Back Soon, Still Waiting
- Waved Through, Not Booked In
- Weighed In Before It's Weighed
- Confident First, Correct Later
- Compliant on the Survey, Unlabelled in the Log
- Held, Not Signed
- Sited, Not Chosen
- Not the Kiosk's Fault
- Picturing the Floor Plan
- The Keep-Alive Tap
- Minuted Into Certainty
- More Words, More Drift
- Recall Without Recourse
- Finished, Not Understood
- Assurance, Audited From Within
- Already on Your Path
- Keep the Instruments Running
- Directionally Consistent
- Fully Attested, Never Observed
- Reading the Panel, Not the Practice
- Freshly Worded, Still Adrift
- The Vagueness Dividend
- The Building Knows First
- The Minute as Alibi
- The Queue as Leading Indicator
Grants and awards
- Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In