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New support to help community service organisations tackle social impacts of climate change

Friday, 24 October 2025

A new toolkit and workshops have been created to help community service organisations infuse climate justice and disaster resilience into their operations, policies, programs and practices.

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Launch of Special Issue “Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene” in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education, co-edited by ECU Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cassandra Tytler

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Launch of Special Issue “Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene” in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education, co-edited by ECU Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cassandra Tytler

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2025 Scholar in Residence Series

Monday, 15 September 2025

Thinking-along-the-way: Transdisciplinary and experimental approaches for collaboration, integration, and knowledge making.

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Major grant to expand South West peatland research collaboration

Thursday, 07 August 2025

Scientists studying Western Australia's endangered South West peatland ecosystems have received a $3.38 million boost to better understand and manage the ancient wetlands.

Hyde Park’s Moreton Bay fig trees are at the centre of ARia: Song Unseen.

Exploring interconnections with AR and sound

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

ECU's Dr Catherine Gough-Brady and Dr Cassandra Tytler are working with sound artist, W. Sze Tsang on ARia: Song Unseen, as part of PICA's boorda yeyi mentorship program.

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Events

WED
17
SEP

Underwater Weather: Creative responses for deepening human-environment connection

Join CPPP Associate Director Creative Research Impact, Dr Jo Pollitt and CPPP Affiliate, Professor Helena Grehan for their third symposium into the dynamic interplay between weather and creative practice.

The morning will begin with a keynote presentation from Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, followed by an interdisciplinary panel and audience discussion chaired by Dr Renee Newman, featuring Natalie Davey, Mary Rapp and Professor Kathryn McMahon.

FRI
19
SEP

Co-Designing Findings with Dr Francesca Perugia

Co-Designing Findings: Methodological Reflections on Policy Engagement as a Research Practice

This seminar draws on Dr Francesca Perugia's ongoing research into housing vulnerability and resilience in the context of climate change and natural disasters to examine the role of policy engagement as a methodological tool. At the heart of this approach is the use of engagement not only to inform research but also to foster mutual learning between researchers, policymakers, and actors. By reflecting on how collaboration with institutional actors has shaped both the research process and its outcomes, the presentation invites participants to reflect on their own engagement practices and consider how policy engagement is or can be embedded into research design to enhance collaboration and impact.

19 September 2025 @ 12.00pm-1.30pm | Joondalup Campus Room 34.402 | RSVP to CPPP@ecu.edu.au

MON
27
OCT

Bridging Science and Society: The importance of Co-Design for Ecological Research and Environmental Management

Bridging Science and Society: The importance of Co-Design for Ecological Research and Environmental Management workshop, hosted by the Centre for People, Place and Planet and the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, will explore how co-design can strengthen environmental management, ensuring positive outcomes for both the environment and local communities.

This workshop will explore: How to engage stakeholders in planning, delivery, and evaluation of research. The importance of integrating ecological, social, and Traditional knowledge systems. Social research methods for identifying stakeholder needs and evaluating project success. Concepts of environmental and multispecies justice in threatened ecosystems.

Facilitators:

  • Professor Donna Houston, School of Communication, Society and Culture (Macquarie University)
  • Dr Lizzy Lowe, Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for People, Place and Planet (ECU)
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