Lawless, Sarah, Ogier, Emily M., Streit, Robert, Gurney, Georgina G., Cohen, Philippa J., Gruby, Rebecca, Pradhan, Sisir, and Morrison, Tiffany H. (2025) Promoting socially responsible governance of new marine climate intervention. Cell Reports Sustainability (100366). (In Press)

Ogier, Emily M., Pecl, Gretta T., Hughes, Terry, Lawless, Sarah, Layton, Cayne, Nash, Kirsty L., and Morrison, Tiffany H. (2025) Novel marine-climate interventions hampered by low levels of governance preparedness and climate goal consensus. Nature Climate Change, 15. pp. 375-384.

Pradhan, S.K., Cohen, P.J., Lawless, S., and Fitz, Dean (2024) Pathways toward Equitable Climate Resilience, Sustainable Fisheries & Tenure Security: A Brief for Funders. Report. Meridian Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

Lawless, Sarah, Lau, Jacqueline, Streit, Robert, and Morrison, Tiffany H. (2024) Risks of competing discourses of scientific responsibility in global ocean futures. npj Ocean Sustainability, 3 (44).

Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Barclay, Kate M., Lawless, Sarah, and Makhoul, Natalie (2023) Gender-based violence: Relevance for fisheries practitioners. Fish and Fisheries, 24 (4). pp. 582-594.

Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Lawless, Sarah, Cowley, Anna, Mangubhai, Jayshree P., and Williams, Meryl J. (2022) Progressing gender equality in fisheries by building strategic partnerships with development organisations. World Development, 158. 105975.

Lawless, Sarah, Cohen, Philippa J., McDougall, Cynthia, Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Song, Andrew M., and Morrison, Tiffany H. (2022) Tinker, tailor or transform: gender equality amidst social-ecological change. Global Environmental Change, 72. 102434.

Mangubhai, Sangeeta, and Lawless, Sarah (2021) Exploring gender inclusion in small-scale fisheries management and development in Melanesia. Marine Policy, 123. 104287.

Lau, Jacqueline D., Kleiber, Danika, Lawless, Sarah, and Cohen, Philippa J. (2021) Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions. Nature Climate Change, 11. pp. 186-192.

Lawless, Sarah, Cohen, Philippa J., Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Kleiber, Danika, and Morrison, Tiffany H. (2021) Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries. World Development, 140. 105348. pp. 1-15.

Tilley, A., Cohen, P.J., Akester, M., Batalofo, M., Boso, M., Cinner, J., Dos Reis Lopes, J., Duarte, A., Eriksson, H., Gomese, C., Grantham, R., Hunnam, K., Khan, F., Kleiber, D., Lau, J., Lawless, S., Haque, A.B.M., Mills, D., Morrison, T., Nahiduzzaman, M., Patel, A., Pereira, M., Rahman, J., Ride, A., Saeni-Oeta, J., Smallhorn-West, P., Sukulu, M., Siota, F., Ullah, M.H., Wahab, A., Warren, R., Zaman, T., Beveridge, M.C.M., Marwaha, N., and Phillips, M. (2021) Increasing social and ecological resilience of coastal fisheries: program brief: FISH-2021-24. Report. WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia.

Lawless, Sarah M. (2021) Gender equality in Pacific small-scale fisheries governance: current progress and future prospects. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Lawless, Sarah, Song, Andrew M., Cohen, Philippa J., and Morrison, Tiffany H. (2020) Rights, equity and justice: a diagnostic for social meta-norm diffusion in environmental governance. Earth System Governance, 6. 100052.

Lawless, Sarah, Cohen, Philippa, McDougall, Cynthia, Orirana, Grace, Siota, Faye, and Doyle, Kate (2019) Gender norms and relations: implications for agency in coastal livelihoods. Maritime Studies, 18 (3). pp. 347-358.

Barclay, Kate, McClean, Nicholas, Foale, Simon, Sulu, Reuben, and Lawless, Sarah (2018) Lagoon livelihoods: gender and shell money in Langalanga, Solomon Islands. Maritime Studies, 17 (2). pp. 199-211.