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Q&A With 2020 Honours Fellow Stella Maynard

09 March 2020

Get to know one of the Institute’s new Honours Research Fellows, Stella Maynard, from the Department of Gender and Cultural…

News

Welcome to Our 2020 Honours Research Fellows

03 March 2020

We are excited to welcome Sarah Chow, Stella Maynard and Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, to the SEI team as our new 2020 Honours…

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Introducing New Postdoctoral Research Fellow June Rubis

02 March 2020

We sit down with our new postdoc June Rubis, to talk about her work on native relations and the environment…

Q&A

Introducing New Postdoctoral Research Fellow June Rubis

02 March 2020

We sit down with our new postdoc June Rubis, to talk about her work on native relations and the environment…

Reflection

SEI Celebrates More Than a ‘Bight’ Sized Win as Equinor Pulls out of Bight Oil Project

26 February 2020

After months of collaborative recommendations and campaigning efforts between Sydney Environment Institute’s academic experts, Greenpeace and community activist groups, Norwegian…

Opinion

Strange Bedfellows: A New Era of Resilience and Uncertainty

26 February 2020

Australians are still reeling from the aftermath of the recent onslaught of fire, rain and floods, daily lives upended by…

Reflection

Neighbourhood Heat Stress Response: Reflections on a Community Focused Workshop

21 February 2020

In light of Australia’s hottest year on record, SEI researchers met with influential community members in a workshop dedicated to…

Opinion

From Denial to Resilience: The Slippery Discourse of Obfuscating Climate Action

20 February 2020

Christopher Wright and Michael E. Mann unveil the government’s illusive acknowledgement of a warming planet, questioning whether their actions will…

Opinion

When Fire Burnt (Some Of) the Boundaries

18 February 2020

Sydney Environment Institute researcher Danielle Celermajer returns with an update on Jimmy, her loyal rescue pig, whose tale of miraculous…

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Thom van Dooren Ventures to Northern Lands for Exciting New Research

17 February 2020

University of Sydney Associate Professor Thom van Dooren has been appointed to a new position as a Professor II at…

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Thom van Dooren Ventures to Northern Lands for Exciting New Research

17 February 2020

University of Sydney Associate Professor Thom van Dooren has been appointed to a new position as a Professor II at…

Q&A

Thinking Beyond the Bushfires

14 February 2020

PhD candidate and Sydney Environment Institute research assistant Eva Perroni talks to PolisPlan directors, Steven Liaros and Nilmini De Silva,…

Reflection

Reflections on the 2020 Iain McCalman Lecture

11 February 2020

“The message from Dinesh was clear; the devastating impacts of the environmental crisis we have been experiencing in recent months…

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Welcome Genevieve Wright

10 February 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Events and Administrator Coordinator, Genevieve Wright. “For me, SEI is a figurehead in this battle…

Opinion

We Need to Take up the Burden of Remaking the World

10 February 2020

Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton consider how the past summer of drought and bushfire — and the rain that…

Opinion

Australia and Climate Change: A Collective Action Problem

10 February 2020

As Australia has burned in a climate emergency summer, our Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not only been untruthful about…

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Welcome Genevieve Wright, SEI’s New Events and Administrator Coordinator

10 February 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Events and Administrator Coordinator, Genevieve Wright. “For me, SEI is a figurehead in this battle…

Opinion

The End of the Beach

03 February 2020

At Mallacoota, Tamboon, and elsewhere, this summer’s unprecedented bushfires drove thousands to take shelter on the shore—and permanently transformed one…

Opinion

Fire, Storm, Flood, Blackout: Australia’s Electricity Sector Needs Better Disaster Response

23 January 2020

In the wake of unprecedented climate-induced disaster, Australia’s electricity sector urgently needs to learn from Con Edison’s response to Hurricane…

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Welcome Christine Dundas

22 January 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Project and Communications Officer, Christine Dundas, who takes the reigns from Eloise Fetterplace who is…

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Christine Dundas Joins the SEI Professional Staff Team

22 January 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Project and Communications Officer, Christine Dundas, who takes the reigns from Eloise Fetterplace who is…

News

Congratulations to Our 2019 Honours Research Fellows

17 January 2020

We are thrilled to congratulate Hal Conyngham, Lauren MacRae and Mark Bosch, our three amazing 2019 Honours Research Fellows, on receiving First…

News

Congratulations to Our 2019 Honours Research Fellows

17 January 2020

We are thrilled to congratulate Hal Conyngham, Lauren MacRae and Mark Bosch, our three amazing 2019 Honours Research Fellows, on receiving First…

Opinion

Learning to Live in a Shifted World

16 January 2020

Earlier this week SEI researcher Danielle Celermajer published a heartbreaking essay about returning to her property in the wake of…