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Our research outcomes

The Centre for People, Place & Planet has prepared four Case Studies to demonstrate the impact of its research. These case studies each draw from the research contributions made by individual Core Members leading to the establishment of the Centre, and demonstrate the value-add enabled by collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts within the Centre over the period 2021-2023.

Overhead view of a town and a lake.

Watershed Interventions for Society and Environment

The Centre for People, Place and Planet (CPPP) is addressing contemporary challenges in watershed systems, which are vital for safe drinking water, flood and drought mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and food production. The Watershed Interventions for Society and Environment (WISE) program showcases the centre's commitment to improving public and ecosystem health through participatory knowledge co-production and action-oriented research.

Hill of red rocks with green grass in the foreground and blue skies.

Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR)

Researchers at the Centre for People, Place and Planet are leading Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) with community partners. Around the world, it is often the most marginalised groups who have the most to gain from grassroots activism to address environmental and social inequities. However, such groups are typically excluded from spaces of social and political power. FPAR provides a bridge between grassroots activism and policy decision-making.

From 2020-2023 our FPAR work has empowered community action for ecological and social justice through a range of activities delivered in Australia and internationally.

A split picture of two people dancing, and a girl looking up at a light.

Embodied learning for place-based weather literacies

While information and knowledge of weather and climate continue to grow, there is a sense in which weather is still seen as separate from the body; something we can lock ourselves away from, adapt to, or protect ourselves from with barriers. Through a series of linked investigations and exhibitions and a range of interactive activities and resources, our research uses the arts, science, and education to enhance place-based weather literacies. It applies modes of embodied learning toward reconfiguring human-weather relations for more liveable climate futures.

Picture of lettuce growing in a field.

Better food where people live

Our research on food production, access, and policy enables regional Western Australian communities to have better food where they live, contributing to improved food availability, cost and quality across regional and remote Western Australia.

The Better Food Program (2015-2025) has received funding totalling $771,278 from Healthway, the Department of Health WA’s Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, and the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.

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