2025
Articles
26 March 2025
Collaboration between disaster agencies and communities key to future disaster resilience
New research highlights the growing role of informal community groups in disaster response and the urgent need for stronger collaboration with formal disaster management agencies.
25 March 2025
Sydney Environment Institute welcomes two more Collaborative Grant projects
One project will explore culturally specific responses to climate distress in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The second project will map social networks in climate adaptation projects to assess who benefits and who is left behind.
06 March 2025
SEI calls for a locally driven approach in National Climate Volunteer Scheme
The Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) has urged the government to rethink the proposed National Volunteer Incentive Scheme, also known as the "Climate Army," advocating instead for a place-based approach that prioritises local knowledge holders and existing community networks.
04 March 2025
Innovate, experiment, fail better, transform: governing climate futures
Historically, climate governance has been characterised by fixed rules, slow-moving institutions and incremental progress. But what if success depends not on targets and rules, but on intensive collaboration and bold experimentation? What if we need to take more risks, build policy and governance frameworks that can learn and adapt in real time and thrive in uncertain environments?
04 March 2025
Closing the loop: feedbacking in community-engaged research
Emily Nabong, a PhD candidate in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, recently travelled to Kiribati to engage in a final round of collaborative feedback before submitting her thesis. Emily designed an interactive session where her research partners could explore her system dynamics model together, drawing their own insights into the cascading impacts of climate change.
31 January 2025
Now open: Iain McCalman Honours Research Award
Applications are open for the 2025 Iain McCalman Honours Research Award. Eligible students can apply to receive a bursary of $2,000 and unique access to the Macleay Collections, in the Chau Chak Museum at the University of Sydney.
31 January 2025
Applications are open for SEI’s 2025 Honours Research Fellowship Program
The Honours Fellowship is open to eligible University of Sydney students who are interested in multidisciplinary research around critical environmental issues.
30 January 2025
Sydney Environment Institute Collaborative Grants Scheme
Applications have opened for the Sydney Environment Institute’s 2025 Collaborative Grants Scheme, designed to engage researchers across the University to develop new, collaborative, multidisciplinary projects.