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ports, maritime transport, shipbuilding, logistics, underwater technologies

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porti, trasporto marittimo, cantieristica, logistica, tecnologie
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Common Good Research

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Common Good Research

Rachel Brighton
researcher & writer
editor & publisher

Known for sharp commentary on economics, public policy, energy projects, and utility regulation — and her data-driven reporting — Rachel Brighton was business editor and reporter at The Sunday Herald Sun in Melbourne, Australia (1994 to 1997) and a columnist, publisher, editor and award-winning journalist in Canada (1998 to 2016).As the former founder, editor and publisher of The Nova Scotia Policy
Review and Coastlands magazine, Rachel is now developing a new
editorial project: Maritime Institutions Research Review: Italy Canada & Arctic (MAIRICA).Rachel’s newspaper columns, and authors published in her former journals, have been cited in the context of international arbitration (Resolute Forest Products Inc. v Government of Canada, Statement of Claim, 2015); international fisheries (a fellowship paper published by the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, 2010); human rights and freedom of information (Nova Scotia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Review Office, 2007 Annual Report); medical policy (Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2011); and in the Nova Scotia Legislature.In her later years as a weekly columnist for The Chronicle Herald (Halifax), from 2009 to 2016, Rachel carved out an influential niche, through her focus on economic and industrial policy, public interest, and government accountability.Rachel's journalism skills have shaped her independent scholarship. Her feature writing on the trapnet fishery in St Margaret’s Bay (Nova Scotia), published internationally, led to a professional writing grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2003. With this support, Rachel generated a considerable body of technical, social, archival and regulatory research on the historic trade patterns, fisheries policies and North American diplomacy in which this unique coastal fishery developed.Her expertise in reporting on energy and utilities is now shaping a new editorial project on the use and effects of lithium technologies in maritime industries.Reflecting her close reading of public policy and economic development, Rachel was a guest panellist for CBC Radio (Halifax) coverage of the 2015 federal election in Canada and the 2013 provincial election in Nova Scotia.Rachel is also the author-editor of a published collection of first-person reflections from immigrant women – The Road Here: Stories from Senior Women in Rural Nova Scotia (2008).For the past decade she has served in public-sector roles in regional economic development and provincial government, with expertise in marketing, research, analysis, agri-business and rural manufacturing.In volunteer service, Rachel has led not-for-profit property development organisations (Aspotogan Heritage Trust and Annapolis County Housing Association) in Nova Scotia.Rachel holds two degrees – Bachelor of Behavioural Science, Honours (Psychology major) from La Trobe University, Australia, and MA (Theology), Acadia University, Canada – and certificates from MicroResearch Nova Scotia and the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT).In her quest for continual education, Rachel is currently enrolled in the 2026 Law Librarians’ Institute at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD).A final note of interest: Rachel resides on the bank of a former inland river port, in a house built in 1822 by the captain of a coastal trading vessel.

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