This seminar will uncover the gradual and radical changes in China’s contemporary governance towards sustainability under Xi Jinping’s sustainability ideology, named ecological civilization.

This seminar examines the hypothesis that a systematic Indicant or guide to the critical measures and attributes relating to the assessment of landform, agricultural and water resources might help the efficiency and reliability of court decisions in land-use conflicts.

The Fenner HDR Retreat is an oppurtunity to connect with new and old peers in the cohort and other memebers of the school community. There are two days of workshops and activites planned. 

Understanding the effectiveness of research is not a simple task. Research processes, especially in agricultural research for development contexts, are complex. A range of new approaches to understanding, monitoring and evaluating research impact, are being developed and applied in agricultural research.

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

Creating space for agricultural research for development in crowded national policy and program agendas requires effective communication of its benefits to key decision-makers. This panel reflects on experience of communication and policy impact strategies from ACIAR’s work in Lao PDR.

Meena’s work has shown that conservation strategies for rare plant species need to examine the interactions and changes in rare species abundance within an ecosystem across time.

Understandings of society and social relations frame approaches to partnerships and to research; social relations, including those defined by gender, shape research engagement and outcomes. How do we tale a people-centred approach to agricultural research for development?

Tristan Armstrong reflects on Australia's approach to agriculture and food security through extensive experience in the Asia-Pacific region.

This seminar explores the ideas around coexistence with nature and our relationship to nonhumans - and what is occurring when we encounter, respond, and adapt to each other.

ACIAR’s partnership research depends on effective country- and institutional-level partnerships, and on relevant science directed at priority issues. Peter Horne and Dan Walker have these responsibilities at ACIAR.

You're invited to join the 2022 Partnership Research for Agricultural & Natural Resource-Based Development Seminar Series

This seminar will explore the evolution of the global carbon market and how climate finance can be used for transformational change.

In this seminar, Kate Harriden will present research that uses frameworks and methods from Indigenous science(s) to challenge the form and function of storm water channels, in the quest for improved urban stream outcomes.

This seminar will explore pathways for securing sustainable water access in Nigeria in the future.

The 2021 Fenner School Photography Competition is open for submissions.

Shut Up and Write is a weekly writing meet-up, to help staff and students across FSES, RSB and RSES, achieve their writing and work goals together.

This panel and discussion is about how to engage with the sometimes difficult and political issues that we face as researchers, and how to work effectively on a contested issue.

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

The ANU library team will run a 1-1.5 hour session on getting started with EndNote, a software package for managing bibliographies and citations.

Studying at Fenner but you’re not on campus?

Illegal logging and the trade in illegal timber are significant contributors to deforestation and forest degradation in the Global South. This thesis explores the architecture and implementation of the Timber Legality Verification System and implications for forest governance in Indonesia.

A workshop for Fenner HDR candidates. Getting to the end of the project will involve tying all the parts of your thesis together and ensuring cohesion and clarity. We discuss how to craft a strong conclusion. Bring along a draft to apply editing techniques in a systematic way to improve your thesis' overall quality.

Interested in Honours or Masters (Adv)? Join past and present students of these programs, and potential supervisors, to discover the ways you could join The Fenner School in 2022.

Join us for the Fenner School's Higher Degree Research Symposium of semester 2, 2021.

Interested in Honours or Masters (Adv)? Join past and present students of these programs, and potential supervisors, to discover the ways you could join The Fenner School in 2022.

A workshop for Fenner HDR scholars

Melanie’s PhD project explores option to finance ‘Loss and Damage’ (L&D) from climate change in Small Island Developing States.

Academics, researchers, administrators, students, and possums get together once a month, for a chill Thursday afternoon.

Ujjwal from the CSIRO demonstrates new systematic review software 'Sysrev'.