From ‘day of the species’ to ‘protecting species every day’
In April, I attended an art exhibition that helps people visualize the biodiversity crisis in Australia. ‘Day of the Species’ is a community art project with contributions from 200+ artists. As a contributing artist, you get to learn about and draw Australian biodiversity under protection by the EPBC Act. As a viewer, you can see […]
PhD Opportunity
The role of communication and messaging for community buy-in to threatened species conservation. We have top-up funding for a PhD student to undertake research on the role of communication and messaging for enhancing community buy-in and support for threatened species conservation. Potential topics include Increasing support for non-charismatic species: How to get the unloved loved? […]
Melbourne Conversations: Nature in our Liveable City
Check out Dr. Sarah Bekessy’s talk at Melbourne Conversations on the benefits of urban biodiversity. Sarah’s talk runs approximately 10 minutes from minute 33:25 and all of the talks are worth a listen.
Men leaning out can make space for all of us to ‘care, mother and bake’ in our professional lives
by Sarah Bekessy I couldn’t agree more with E.J. Milner-Gulland –Nicola Denzey Lewis’s list of how to be a successful female academic (“don’t care, don’t mother, don’t bake”) – sounds like a list of how to eliminate all things fun and worthwhile in your professional life. Likewise the whole ‘lean in’ approach makes me a […]
ICSRG Christmas Party @ the Clarkefield Pub
Conservation Heroes
Who is your conservation hero?
Sustainable, biodiverse mid-rise development for Fishermans Bend
This post is about research recently featured in The Age that promotes an alternative approach to urban development in Melbourne. This post also appears on Georgia Garrard’s research blog. The case for an alternative Current approaches to urban development in Melbourne focus on low-density urban sprawl and high-density high-rise. In middle-ring suburbs, opportunistic, ad hoc […]
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