The Centre for People, Place and Planet

Federal Inquiry into Nuclear Power Generation in Collie Noongar Elders, community members, Climate Justice Union WA and one of our researchers participated in a recent hearing in Collie for the federal inquiry into nuclear power generation. They highlighted concerns about protecting Country, water and community, and stressed that developments cannot proceed without consent from Traditional Owners. They promoted a just transition from coal in Collie that heals Country and strengthens community. To read more about the Inquiry click the link below. #IndigenousRights #LandRights #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousLand #FirstNations #Indigenous #ClimateJustice #JustTransition

📊 Investigating Communication in Environmental Impact Assessment 📊   Read about this insightful article titled 'Investigating Communication of Findings in Environmental Impact Assessment and Developing a Research Agenda for Improvement.'   This research explores how innovative communication strategies in Environmental Impact Assessments can revolutionise decision-making and promote sustainable development.   Featuring insights from Angus Morrison-saunders from our Centre, the study highlights the need for improved communication strategies to ensure effective environmental management.   Click the link to read the full article 📖   #Research #EnvironmentalImpact #Communication #Sustainability #Science #Innovation #Environment #Improvement

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟   We are proud to announce that the article, "Regeneration Time: Ancient Wisdom for Planetary Wellbeing," by Professor Anne Poelina, Sandra Wooltorton, Mindy Blaise, Catrina Luz Aniere, Pierre Horwitz, Peta White, and Stephen Muecke, has won one of the two Manuscript Excellence Awards for AJEE for 2024! 🎉   "Regeneration Time: Ancient Wisdom for Planetary Wellbeing" explores the integration of ancient Aboriginal wisdom with contemporary environmental education. The authors highlight the importance of postqualitative research in understanding the sentient nature of life and the interconnectedness of people, place, and planet. This work emphasises the need for decolonisation and the recognition of Country's animacy and presence as essential for planetary wellbeing.   Click the link below to read the article. 🌏   #EnvironmentalEducation #PlanetaryWellbeing #AcademicExcellence #AboriginalWisdom

🌦️ Exploring Weather Patterns: Art Meets Science 🌦️ A wonderful ongoing conversation about the art and science of weather between our Centre, The Art Gallery of Western Australia | AGWA, and The Bureau of Meteorology. Meeting amid the Weather Patterns participatory installation in Gallery 09 this week. Thinking through concepts of forecasting, nowcasting, and hindcasting, and the borderlessness and movement of weather. #WeatherArt #ScienceAndArt #Forecasting #Nowcasting #Hindcasting #ArtGalleryWA #BureauOfMeteorology #WeatherPatterns Photo credits: Kate Leslie

🥕 Improving Vegetable Intake in Rural Young Adults 🥬 This research article investigates the feasibility of a tailored intervention aimed at increasing vegetable consumption among young adults in rural areas. Featuring insights from Dr Stephanie Godrich from our Centre, the study outlines the protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of Veg4Me, a personalisable digital vegetable intake intervention programme.   Click the link below to read the full article 📖   #Research #Nutrition #Health #RuralCommunities #Sustainability #Science #Innovation #PublicHealth #Veg4Me

Preparing for an Insightful Presentation on Place-Based Learning 🌏 Dr Leanda Mason and Dr Karen Nociti are practising for their upcoming presentation with Centre Director, Professor Mindy Blaise, "Unsettling place-based learning through thinking with Everywhen" at the The Australian Association for Research in Education. They share three related Everywhen practices, including intergenerational knowledge-making, naming, and relational positioning, and show how these open up different ways of relating to time and place. This is vital for re-establishing human-environment ways of being in ongoing and persistent colonial contexts. #AARE2024 #PlaceBasedLearning #Everywhen #IntergenerationalKnowledge #RelationalPositioning #HumanEnvironment #EducationResearch

🌏 Our Second Objective 🌏   At the Centre for People, Place and Planet, we are driven by four core objectives that guide our research. These objectives help us work towards transdisciplinary approaches, reconnecting people and place. One of these objectives is “To transform human-environment relations through place-based, just and collaborative processes.” This objective is central to our mission and guides all our research and initiatives.   The design and implementation of projects exemplify this commitment. We work with community members, Elders and traditional knowledge holders in the places where our research is located so the work is participatory and informed by community perspectives and experience. We pay attention to features of local ecosystems and draw upon Western and Indigenous knowledges to advance understanding of human-environment interactions. Our research is guided by principles of climate justice, aiming to address and rectify environmental inequalities. By partnering with communities, institutions, and places, we co-create new ways of knowing and being. This collaborative approach ensures that our research is grounded in real-world contexts and has a meaningful impact.   Some examples of our work that illustrate this include the climate justice and community services sector project, the Protecting Peatlands and Ecosystems in Southwestern Australia (PEAT) project and the Intergenerational Cultural Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge project.   #Sustainability #ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge #Collaboration #TransformativeChange 

ECU's Postgraduate Symposium🎓 The theme of this year’s ECU Postgraduate Symposium was Expanding Horizons. The event celebrated innovation and the pursuit of knowledge, emphasising the value of research that embraces diverse perspectives. ECU's Professor Sophia Nimphius delivered an inspiring keynote address, followed by PhD presentations from two of our Centre's HDR members. Rumen Rachev (WAAPA) presented his first PhD talk, Not All Clouds Are Created Equal: Cultivating Playful and Hopeful Engagements with Weather Encounters. Bronte Alston (School of Arts and Humanities) introduced her first phase of the PhD research under the title Imagining the Climate-Just Transformation of Community Service Organisations in Western Australia. #ECU #PostgraduateResearch #Innovation #AcademicExcellence #HigherEducation #PhD #ClimateJustice #CreativeResearch #WAAPA

🎉 Celebrating Success in 2024! 🎉   2024 has been an exciting year for our HDR students, and we are thrilled to congratulate the following individuals on successfully defending their PhDs:   - Vanessa Wintoneak - Karen Nociti - Kuenzang Tshering We also congratulate Barbara Bynder, Aboriginal Cultural Advisor, for successfully defending her PhD. Your hard work and dedication have truly paid off. We are incredibly proud of your achievements and look forward to seeing the impact you will make in your respective fields. 🌟   #PhD #Graduation #Success #HigherEducation #Research #Congratulations

🌍 Supporting young climate justice advocates 🌍   Are you a young person, organiser, parent, educator, or mental health service provider passionate about climate justice? This article, featuring Kylie Wrigley from our Centre, is for you!   A group of climate justice advocates in Western Australia has developed a collective care praxis, offering valuable insights into supporting youth activism and advocacy that is safe, effective, and sustainable. This is crucial as young people, in all their diversity, are disproportionately impacted by climate change, climate distress, and structural injustices.   The article highlights how young people are uniquely positioned to lead the charge for climate justice. It also emphasizes the duty of care adults have in working together to ensure these young leaders are effective, well-resourced, and supported.   Discover how collective care practices can help navigate the many structural challenges, risks, and stresses of climate change. Let’s work together to create a fair and safe future for all.    Click the link to read the article. ☁️🌱   #ClimateJustice #YouthActivism #CollectiveCare #Sustainability #ClimateChange #SupportYouth #Leadership   https://lnkd.in/gGPqa-sn