Past events

Fenner School of Environment and Society past events.

18
Mar
2023
12pm 18 March 2023

Join one of our two sessions where we invite you to experience a hands-on hour-long taster of what it’s like to study at The Fenner School.

09
Mar
2023
14
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2023
16
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2023
21
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2023
23
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2023
28
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2023
30
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2023
04
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2023
06
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2023
11
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2023
13
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2023
18
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2023
20
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2023
25
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2023
27
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2023
30
May
2023
02
May
2023
04
May
2023
1pm 16 March 2023

The Fenner School HDR Cohort invite you to join our HDR Shut Up and Write sessions!

09
Mar
2023
14
Mar
2023
16
Mar
2023
21
Mar
2023
23
Mar
2023
28
Mar
2023
30
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2023
04
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2023
06
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2023
11
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13
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2023
18
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2023
20
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2023
25
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2023
27
Apr
2023
30
May
2023
02
May
2023
04
May
2023
10am 14 March 2023

The Fenner School HDR Cohort invite you to join our HDR Shut Up and Write sessions!

09
Mar
2023
1.30pm 9 March 2023
By Professor Anthea Roberts

This talk introduces a new Risk, Reward and Resilience Framework (RRR) that synthesizes and integrates insights from diverse disciplines and domains.

09
Mar
2023
14
Mar
2023
16
Mar
2023
21
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2023
23
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2023
28
Mar
2023
30
Mar
2023
04
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2023
06
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2023
11
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2023
13
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2023
18
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20
Apr
2023
25
Apr
2023
27
Apr
2023
30
May
2023
02
May
2023
04
May
2023
1pm 9 March 2023

The Fenner School HDR Cohort invite you to join our HDR Shut Up and Write sessions!

08
Mar
2023
11am 8 March 2023
By Professor Tiffany Knight

In this seminar, Prof Tiffany Knight presents her research into plant-pollinator interactions and ecosystems, and discuss the various challenges, solutions, and nuanced imperfections presented in contemporary approaches to capturing the complexities of pollinator biodiversity.

07
Mar
2023
1pm 7 March 2023
By Dr Anoulak Kittikhoun

In this seminar, Dr Anoulak will draw on his extensive experience to reflect on what sustainable management of the Mekong River will mean in a globalising world.

23
Feb
2023
2pm 23 February 2023
By Kate Wingett

Australia is the second largest sheep producing country globally and lamb and mutton production is the second largest meat industry within Australia. Yet Australians eat very little mutton or offal. Kate Wingett investigates.

23
Feb
2023
12pm 23 February 2023

The Fenner School is back for another year of wall-to-wall Environment and Society, and you’re invited to eat a classic Fenner spread.

15
Feb
2023
11.30am 15 February 2023

Join Dr Suraj Upadhaya as he explores how he has come to understand farmers’ individual social and economic motivations and their farms’ biophysical and economic characteristics influence their behaviors, in order to promote adoption of conservation practices.

09
Feb
2023
10am 9 February 2023

Join three guests from the Fire Neural Network - a neural network based approach to detecting wildfires in real time - as they speak to the challenges and solutions to sourcing lighting ignitions.

09
Dec
2022
12.30pm 9 December 2022

Fenner School of Environment & Society Christmas party! We'll have food & drinks, games and music - and of course the annual Fenner School photo competition!

07
Dec
2022
11am 7 December 2022
By Shawn Ross (Co-Director, FAIMS Project), Penny Crook (Co-Director, FAIMS Project) and Brian Ballsun-Stanton (Technical Lead, FAIMS Project)

This presentation will briefly present the history of the FAIMS Project, the current and planned feature set, and our approach to sustainability through a commercial open-source software business model.

04
Dec
2022
11pm 4 December 2022

The 2022 Fenner School Photography Competition is open for submissions!

30
Nov
2022
1pm 30 November 2022
By Dr Luke Peel and Dr David Freudenberger

The Affiliates Seminars are an occasional series of events intended to showcase the diversity of research interests and activities of the Fenner School’s many visiting researchers, honorary staff and emeriti.

17
Nov
2022
1pm 17 November 2022
By Stuart Ling (Consultant) and Dr Khamtan Phonetip (National University of Laos)

This seminar presents results from case studies at two factories, to seek understand the current roles of women in wood processing and how they compare to men in terms of their access to employment, compensation, and developmental opportunities in Laos.

16
Nov
2022
11am 16 November 2022
By Jesse Erens

Diseases are considered one of the main factors behind decline in global amphibian populations. This seminar will discuss research into a newly discovered pathogen - Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) - and the impact it's had on European salamanders, and the implications for global salamander diversity.

14-15
Nov
2022
14 November 2022
By Fenner research students

ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society research students from across our cohorts are presenting their research across two exciting days of talks.

10
Nov
2022
1pm 10 November 2022

This seminar will provide an overview of Josh Ettinger's research on how extreme weather influences climate change attitudes, with a focus on his recent case study examining the effects of bushfire experiences on climate activism in Australia.

08
Nov
2022
2pm 8 November 2022
By Caroline Henderson-Brooks

Discover how to get started publishing in journals

27
Oct
2022
1pm 27 October 2022
By Professor David Lindenmayer

A major landscape experiment run by the Fenner School of Environment & Society has been underway since 1997 on how biodiversity responds to multiple conversions in land cover. This seminar highlights some of the novel and highly unexpected responses of biodiversity to these changes.

20
Oct
2022
6pm 20 October 2022

This year the Fenner School of Environment & Society at the Australian National University celebrates 15 years since its formation. Please join us for a Spring Celebration with food, music and memories with your colleagues and friends, old and new.

17
Oct
2022
4pm 17 October 2022
By Michael Wellington

Michael's research is developing methods to estimate trends in crop production, crop water consumption, and water use efficiency at a range of spatial scales.

14
Oct
2022
9.30am 14 October 2022
By Belinda WIlson

Belinda aims to elucidate knowledge relating to the eastern quoll’s biology that can be harnessed to improve reintroduction outcomes, as well as develop frameworks that can be applied to other programs across the globe.

13
Oct
2022
2pm 13 October 2022
By Prof Jamie Pittock, ANU , Dr Mario Chilundo, Eduardo Mondale University, Dr Luitfred Kissoly, Ardhi University, Thabani Dube. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Dr Richard Stirzaker, CSIRO, PhD Candidate Karen Parry, UniSA, PhD Candidate Michael Wellington, ANU, Dr Njongenhle MB Nyoni, The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network, Pretoria, South Africa, Dr Ana Manero, ANU and Dr Neil Lazarow, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

It is increasingly acknowledged that multiple interventions are needed to transform rural communities into sustainable communities, creating jobs, food security and prosperous livelihoods for their residents. This event will discuss what kind of approaches are required to create rural transformation and development.

13
Oct
2022
12.30pm 13 October 2022
By Prof Peter Greste, Dr Rebecca Pearse, Andrew Meares and Prof Katherine Daniell (Facilitator)

Should journalism be seen as a public good rather than a commercial enterprise? And if so, how do we support this pillar of democracy?

30
Sep
2022
12pm 30 September 2022

It's time for the 2022 International Lunch!

29
Sep
2022
11am 29 September 2022
By Dr Jane Catford

This seminar will explore how context dependence is a critical challenge in invasion ecology, essential for increased understanding and prediction.

23
Sep
2022
4pm 23 September 2022
By Sami Shah

Sami’s PhD Project explores the potential of Remote Sensing derived fire characteristics in fire danger modelling including development of a new fire danger index for Australia.

23
Sep
2022
1pm 23 September 2022
By Kenneth Er

This seminar will touch on the science behind Singapore’s City in Nature, a concerted effort to restore nature into the City. It will focus on the efforts in research pertaining to conservation planning, and nature and people.

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