Tanya is a Scientia Fellow at the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response and School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, UNSW Business School.

Tanya is recognised internationally as an expert in the field of climate risk accounting and accountability. Her research is interdisciplinary and collaborative and considers the translation and integration of information derived from climate and earth system sciences to accounting values and practice. She has published in leading interdisciplinary and accounting journals, including Nature Climate Change, Environmental Research Letters, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Accounting Horizons, and has attracted over $600,000 in research funding.

Tanya engages deeply with industry, standard setters, and regulators, both through her research as well as in an advisory capacity. Her research has informed Australia's National Climate Scenario Guidance, the UK's Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment and investor guidance on Physical Climate Risk Assessments for Defensible Decision-Making from the Investor Group on Climate Change, and has been cited by the Banca d'Italia, the German Environment Agency and the US National Bureau of Economic Research, as well as by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. 

Tanya is regularly invited to speak at both public and private fora in Australia and internationally, and actively contributes to the media.