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Opinion

Corona and Climate: One Planet, One Health

15 June 2020

Recognising the complex interconnections between environmental, human and non-human health, Irus Braverman explores One Health, an integrative, multidisciplinary approach to understanding…

Opinion

We’re in This Together: Working Towards a New Food Culture

10 June 2020

FoodLab Sydney doctoral student Eva Perroni finds businesses, individuals and community organisations rising to meet compounding environmental, public health and…

Opinion

Nature in Culture: Aboriginal Aquacultural Science and Sustainability

10 June 2020

Exploring oyster farming, dugong hunting and Indigenous sustainability, June Rubis reflects on Mitchell Gibbs’ conversation with Dr Christine Winter in…

Q&A

Corona and Climate: Bushfire Smoke Exposure, COVID-19 and Respiratory Health

09 June 2020

SEI editor Liberty Lawson speaks with epidemiologist Dr Geoff Morgan about his research on the impacts of smoke exposure from…

Opinion

Climate Change and Civil Unrest: Insights from Syria and COVID-19

04 June 2020

From droughts in the Fertile Crescent to the Arab Spring, Michael Lotsaris tracks political turbulence in response to environmental crises as…

Q&A

Hope, Grief, Anger and Change: Imagining Futures with James Bradley

02 June 2020

SEI editor Liberty Lawson sits down with the Institute’s new Honorary Affiliate, Australian author and critic James Bradley, to talk…

Opinion

Sites of Violence: Threads of Home and Compositional Thinking

28 May 2020

Illuminating landscapes of violence in plain sight, theatre director Michelle St Anne traces the threads of home, solastagia and the sunlit…

Opinion

Nature in Culture: Being and Beings Beyond the Human

27 May 2020

Dr Christine Winter reflects on themes of representation and justice in Marind philosophy, as presented by anthropologist Dr Sophie Chao…

Opinion

Corona and Climate: Governing Global Health Versus Climate Health

26 May 2020

Following on from last week’s World Health Assembly, Charlotte Owens considers the role of politically convenient science in comparing the…

Opinion

Corona and Climate: The Pandemic Has Changed Everything and Nothing

15 May 2020

As the ash has settled and a nation bunkers down, Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO David Ritter reflects on the shift…

Opinion

A World of Vibrations: Storytelling Through Composition and Soundscape

13 May 2020

Multimedia artist and interdisciplinary scholar Diana Chester takes us through her background working with sonic landscapes around the world, from…

News

The Re-(E)mergence of Nature in Culture Multimedia Series

12 May 2020

Lead by Dr Christine Winter, this series of podcasts and articles brings together leading Indigenous scholars across a range of…

Opinion

Taking out the Trash in a Pandemic

04 May 2020

PhD researcher Babet de Groot reports on the increasing demand for personal protective equipment in Australia and why incorrect waste…

Opinion

A Typology of Avoidance: The Race to Renewable Energy

30 April 2020

Ainsley Elbra reports on the increasing use of legal and financial loopholes by mining firms and the dark side of…

Opinion

Sustaining Sustainability in the Wake of Disruption

27 April 2020

Sustainability Strategy Project Lead, Lisa Heinze, reflects on the dramatic changes in university life over the past weeks and how…

News

SEI’s Research Contributes to the University of Sydney’s #2 THE Global Ranking

22 April 2020

The University of Sydney has placed first in Australia and second globally in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which…

Opinion

Corona and Climate: COVID-19 Kills, but Inequality Does Too

22 April 2020

Rebecca Lawrence and Alison Ziller compare the laissez faire COVID-19 management of the Swedish Government with Australia’s approach to explain why decades of…