November 2025 Congratulations to Associate Professor Michele Barnes, Director of the Social Dynamics & Environmental Change Lab, on receiving the 2025 Garry Robins Early Career Research Award from the Australian Network for Social Network Analysis. Presented at ASNAC 2025 in Byron Bay, the award recognises an early- to mid-career scholar for outstanding contributions to theContinue reading “ANSNA Garry Robins Early Career Research Award”
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PhD milestone and Best Oral Presentation Award
November 2025 Congratulations to Carmen Dobszewicz, PhD candidate in the Social Dynamics & Environmental Change Lab, who was officially confirmed as a doctoral candidate and received the Best Oral Presentation Award for her proposal presentation. Well done Carmen! Her project, “Fostering empathy through projects: using human–shark interventions to promote coexistence,” examines how project-based interventions canContinue reading “PhD milestone and Best Oral Presentation Award”
WWF Fonseca Leadership Program Fellowship Award
October 2025 Huge congratulations to Luisa Fernanda Bedoya Taborda, PhD candidate in the Social Dynamics & Environmental Change Lab, on being awarded a WWF Fonseca Leadership Program Fellowship! Luisa’s research focuses on nature-based solutions and climate adaptation projects in conflict-affected coastal communities in Colombia, at the intersection of environmental change, peacebuilding, and community resilience. TheContinue reading “WWF Fonseca Leadership Program Fellowship Award”
UNESCO endorsement as a Decade Action for the Ocean Decade
July 2025 Our research project on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in conflict-affected coastal communities has been officially endorsed as a Decade Action by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. NbS offer significant potential to enhance resilience in communities facing overlapping challenges—such as restricted mobility, economic instability, and environmental degradation. Yet in conflict-affected settings, adaptation projects, including NbS, canContinue reading “UNESCO endorsement as a Decade Action for the Ocean Decade”
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