Researcher, Xuemei Bai, stands in front of the Fenner building with a grass tree beside her.
Researcher, Xuemei Bai, stands in front of the Fenner building with a grass tree beside her.

Path to prosperity for planet and people if Earth’s critical resources are better shared: report.

Cities and businesses have the power to play a crucial role and become the “stewards” of critical Earth systems by demonstrating how they can reduce their environmental impact on the planet.

 
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A Fenner researcher, Shoshana Rapley, kneels with her dog on her leg and looks at her, with woodland in the background.
A Fenner researcher, Shoshana Rapley, kneels with her dog on her leg and looks at her, with woodland in the background.

A nose for ecology

How an ecologist's dog transformed her PhD project.

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A researcher shines her spotlight into the edge of a dam at night.
A researcher shines her spotlight into the edge of a dam at night.

When you Kermit to the bit

why frogs are part of this scientist’s identity now

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A patchwork of spinnifex grass in a red desert environment.
Wednesday, 16 Oct 2024

A patchwork of spinifex: how we returned cultural burning to the Great Sandy Desert

Since colonisation, cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu) has begun again.

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Tracks of a dusky hopping mouse found in red sand.
Monday, 30 Sep 2024

Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

For many years, scientists have been working with Indigenous people in the desert to record these observations in a systematic way. New research collates this data.

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Two people in fire fighting attire face each other and smile while undertaking cultural burning in a woodland.
Thursday, 19 Sep 2024

PhD Opportunity: Supporting the re-emergence of cultural burning in south-eastern Australia

Informing the re-emergence of First Nations burning in contemporary endangered woodlands in south-eastern Australia

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23 Oct 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Fenner Seminar: Flash Talks!

Fenner Flash Talks: Unpacking Research in a Nutshell!
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30 Oct 2024 | 12:30pm

2024 International Lunch

Join us for our annual International Lunch!
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30 Oct 2024 | 3 - 4pm

PhD seminar: Beyond Definitions – Reconceptualising workplace interpersonal mistreatment

Ruth's research highlights the need for new ways to conceptualise interpersonal mistreatment that acknowledge the theoretical commonality and the experience of diverse behaviour co-occurrence.

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