Some selected highlights from my career to date - or you can skip directly to a copy of my CV.


Media appearances

MBIE profile interview

Marsden PhD stipend open letter

Radio interview on the research ecosystem

Listener article on the university crisis, 2023


Non-academic writing

Why I Care About Methane And You Should, Too

We Have Always Sailed - Suffrage 125 guest post on Sciblogs NZ


Grey literature

Regenerative Agriculture Science Roadmap for Toha Foundry

Lead Brief: Addressing Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways To Deliver Transformation

Early Career Researchers in Aotearoa: Safeguarding and strengthening opportunity after COVID-19


Academic literature

2022 – Soar, M., Stewart, L., Nissen, S., Naepi, S., McAllister, T. Sweat Equity: Student Scholarships in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Universities New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies (57:2), 505-523

2022 - Liggins, L. et al. The future of molecular ecology in Aotearoa New Zealand: an early career perspective Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (52:sup1), 92-115.

2020 - Reysenbach, A.L. et al. Complex subsurface hydrothermal fluid mixing at a submarine arc volcano supports distinct and highly diverse microbial communities PNAS (117:51), 32627-32638.

2019 – Stewart, L.C., Algar, C.K., Fortunato, C.S., Larson, B., Vallino, J., Huber, J.A., Butterfield, D.A., Holden, J.F. Metabolic activity and local hydrology define methanogen community size and composition in vents ISME-J (13:7), 1711:1721.

2015 - Kim, Y.T., Jung, J.H., Stewart, L.C., Kwon, S.W., Holden, J.F., Park, C.S. Complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic methanogen Methanocaldococcus bathoardescens JH146T isolated from the basalt subseafloor Marine Genomics (24:3), 229-230.

2010 - Stewart, L.C., Hale, R.J., Hale, M.L. Species-specific primers for the molecular identification of cryptic Bombus species in New Zealand Conservation Genetics (11), 1207-1209.