12-20 September 2026
Panellists: Vanessa Lea, Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Associate Professor Anderson Assuah, Profesor Matthew Kearns Facilitator: Dr Deepika Mathur As the global race toward renewable energy accelerates, a silent challenge is piling up in the background. The rapid...
The theme for Monash University's 2026 School of Social Sciences Graduate Student Research Symposium is Challenges of the Age: Climate Change, Geopolitical Security, Thriving Communities. As stated in Monash's Strategic Plan, Impact 2030, we must continue to seek ways...
Australia’s energy industry has the opportunity to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the past 100. The transition from a coal-dominated industry to majority renewables is at the core of discussions on Australia’s climate futures. As 2035 looms,...
Join researchers, council representatives, activists, policy makers, students, creatives, and community organisers for a day of collaboration and conversations on how everyday practices of reuse and repair can be harnessed for climate justice. We’ll be exploring how...
This public forum brings together a group of scholars and landscape practitioners whose work troubles separations that are often artificially drawn between 'nature' and 'culture'. Looking at a diversity of actors, from estrogens and wild animals to water and plant...
2025 is the International Year of Quantum, as it is 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics. But what does this mean for society? How can quantum technologies help reduce inequalities, support clean energy, and inform climate action? This year...
Stories matter in climate changed worlds. They matter in how humans and non-humans dwell with, envision and respond to climate change impacts. Storytelling translates and represents lived experiences and scientific projections. In this panel, we consider the forms and...
Corporations and capitalism are often blamed for environmental problems, and on climate change we are often told that there needs to be a ‘balance’ between economic and environmental outcomes. This suggests they are mutually contradictory, and therefore that the...
The 16th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture The annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia. Not Going Away: First People and...
Join us for an ocean take over in Wild Hope. Explore the art of Oceans Research and Climate Action Network (ORCA) members Fiona Hillary, Rebecca Olive and Jordan Lacey, who explore oceanic knowing through sound, film and virtual...