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External shot of the Natural History Museum in London

From ECU to London's Natural History Museum

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Professor Elizabeth Watkin recently presented at the Natural History Museum in London.

Group of people gathered to discuss seagrass

ECU researchers launch Seagrass Heatwave Collective

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Native Australian flowers

2025 Scholar in Residence Series

Friday, 27 February 2026

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

Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us

Thursday, 15 January 2026

ECU Joondalup Building 1 at sunset.

ECU research quality highlighted in Stanford/Elsevier rankings

Monday, 01 December 2025

Fifty-nine ECU researchers have been named among the top 2 per cent of scientists globally in the prestigious 2025 Stanford/Elsevier rankings.

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Events

THU
26
FEB

Cultural Weather Seminar

Cultural Weather Seminar Relational: Practice and the Conditions for Collaborative Climate Work.
Climate action unfolds within cultural and relational conditions that shape collaboration, knowledge recognition, and long-term sustainability. Referred to here as cultural weather, these often-invisible dynamics are frequently undervalued in climate research and policy, yet they play a decisive role in shaping collaborative climate work across disciplines and institutions. Drawing on over twenty years of transdisciplinary practice across art, culture, climate, and social justice, Dr Jen Rae (Centre for Reworlding and Creative Climate) explores how relational practice functions within complex research and policy environments. The seminar reflects on the role of artists and cultural practitioners as facilitators of collaboration, holders of context, and stewards of long-term relationships, particularly in settings marked by disciplinary silos, short funding cycles, and extractive research models. The seminar introduces BILYA, a relational mapping platform grounded in Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property principles. Together, the keynote and workshop invite participants to reflect not only on what climate work they do, but how they work, and how attending to cultural weather can strengthen the conditions for meaningful and collaborative climate futures critical for the wellbeing our future generations and relations. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and copy of their CV or resumé.

FRI
19
JUN

Leda and the Black Swan

Shonah Trescott is an artist-researcher, WAAPA PhD candidate, and HDR member of the Centre for People, Place and Planet at Edith Cowan University. Her practice-led PhD project, Leda and the Black Swan: Ecofeminist Interventions in the Australian Landscape, examines how European myth and colonial visual culture continue to shape ways of seeing, naming, and inhabiting the Australian landscape. Across text, photography, projection, and reconfigured colonial materials, the exhibition traces how myth travelled into the Australian landscape and became embedded within systems of knowledge, representation, and possession. The works do not apply myth to Country. They examine how myth has been imposed onto it, and how those inheritances might be unsettled through practice.

MON
03
AUG

Conversations in Transdisciplinary Practice: Pathways, Provocations and Possibilities

This online webinar series attests to how transdisciplinary research is practiced through specific relationships, places, knowledges, responsibilities and forms of collaboration.

Across the series, researchers explore human–environment relations through place-based, just and collaborative processes, whilst showcasing their transdisciplinary projects. A central concern will be how research can respond to complex ecological and social challenges without separating environmental sustainability from questions of justice, governance, care and accountability.
The first online forum will be a panel discussion between CPPP Co-Directors , Professor Mindy Blaise (School of Education) and Professor Kathryn McMahon (School of Science), joined by CPPP graduate and Research Member Dr Karen Nociti (School of Education).

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