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2025 Scholar in Residence Series

Friday, 27 February 2026

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

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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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ECU joins community and schools to explore the biodiversity and culture of Mandoon Bilya

Monday, 03 November 2025

Staff from the School of Science has taken part in the BioBlitz along the lower Mandoon Bilya.

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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.

Events

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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.

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