The Centre for People, Place and Planet

📢HDR Member Update 📢 Congratulations to CPPP HDR member, Bronte Alston, who has been selected from over 150 applicants to be one of 15 fellows participating in this year’s Future Leaders Program, hosted by Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at The Australian National University (ANU). Run within the School of Regulation and Global Governance, the Future Leaders Program brings together HDR students and Early Career Researchers from across Australia for an intensive fortnight of workshops and masterclasses related to theory, transdisciplinary research methods, and knowledge mobilisation. The program offers an opportunity to develop research skills, spark collaborative ideas, and create opportunities for knowledge mobilisation that aims to improve planetary health equity. This year’s program focuses on The Equity Imperative: pathways to exiting the consumptogenic system. 🎉Congratulations Bronte on this outstanding achievement! We can’t wait to hear about your experience. Edith Cowan University #ECU #edithcowanuniversity #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #HDR #transdisciplinaryresearch

🎬Transformative Aboriginal Agricultural Methods documentary premiere🎬 The Transformative Aboriginal Agricultural Methods team is delighted to invite you to the premiere of their documentary, exploring the work of TAAM, an innovative landscape rehydration project in the Wheatbelt Perenjori region. Witness stunning drone footage and hear insights from key members of the project team, including Aboriginal Loreman Clint Hansen, CPPP Researchers Associate Professor David Blake (School of Science) and Professor Janine J. (School of Arts and Humanities), and local Farmers, Rod and Katrina Butler (Gimlet Ridge farm) and Phil Logue (Weelhamby farm). Following the screening, join the TAAM project team, along with film maker Tim Campbell, for a Q & A session. 📆Date: Wednesday 9 September 2026 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC+08) 📍Location: ECU City Campus Output Suite, 1N.520, (level 5), 500 Wellington Street, Perth 6000 ✉️Registration: https://lnkd.in/gaWnYruP Edith Cowan University #ECU #edithcowanuniversity #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #TAAM #transdisciplinaryresearch

The Centre for People, Place, and Planet is pleased to present, ‘Transdisciplinarity through Transformational Aboriginal Agricultural Methods (TAAM) Project’, the second forum in our new monthly webinar series ‘Conversations in Transdisciplinary Practice: Pathways, Provocations and Possibilities.’ Presented by Professor Janine J. (School of Arts and Humanities), Associate Professor David Blake (School of Science) and Indigenous research fellow Clint Hansen from Maaman Marra Boodjar, this session will explore how TAAM unites Aboriginal knowledge systems, regenerative agriculture, applied field research and place-based collaboration. Together, these approaches consider new ways of healing Country, improving soil health and strengthening drought resilience. Within the CPPP online webinar series, TAAM offers an important example of transdisciplinary research grounded in trust, cultural knowledge, relationship and practical action. 📆When: Friday, 4th September, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AWST 📍Where: Online ✉️For more information and to register your attendance, visit: https://lnkd.in/g2GGr5wa Edith Cowan University #EdithCowanUniversity #ECU #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #TAAM #transdisciplinaryresearch

🌊Last Friday, Indigenous Rangers and researchers from Edith Cowan University, Charles Darwin University and James Cook University celebrated World Rangers Day by launching a new toolkit that gives Rangers the skills they need to lead seagrass monitoring across northern Australia's vast tropical meadows. The co-designed toolkit features step-by-step videos and manuals for Rangers monitoring seagrass - building on long-standing partnerships that are supporting Rangers from Western Australia to Queensland, including the Torres Strait, to care for Sea Country. CPPP Co-Director, Professor Kathryn McMahon (School of Science) worked alongside the Karajarri Traditional Land Association in northern Western Australia to create the new monitoring resources, helping to train up the next generation of rangers. To learn why seagrass is so valuable on Karajarri Sea Country and to check out the new videos, head to: https://lnkd.in/eSh-Dx2r TropWATER: JCU's Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research #ECU #edithcowanuniversity #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #karajarri #worldrangersday

📢We are excited to announce the appointment of Professor Kathryn McMahon (School of Science) as Co-Director of the Centre for People, Place and Planet.   Professor McMahon joins Professor Mindy Blaise (School of Education) in progressing transdisciplinary research at Edith Cowan University, strengthening the CPPP’s collaborations across schools and disciplines.   The Co-Directorship model reflects the nature of transdisciplinary research – co-design, co-production and co-leadership, enabling the successful implementation of the CPPP’s mission. 🎉 #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #ECU #edithcowanuniversity #transdisciplinaryresearch

📢Our monthly webinar series starts this afternoon, featuring CPPP researcher Dr Karen Nociti, along with CPPP Co-Directors Professor Mindy Blaise (School of Education) and Professor Kathryn McMahon (School of Science)! Join in the conversation at 1pm AWST: https://lnkd.in/evZJnKZT

🌏The CPPP and WAAPA's Jo Pollitt and Helena Grehan recently presented at two international conferences; firstly, at the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) conference in Melbourne where they presented a paper on their ongoing research project, focussing on Unstable Weather and the way Weather Symposia bring people together. Helena then presented their joint paper at the Performance Studies Conference (PSi)in Jakarta. During the conferences, Jo also took part in a gathering of the Dance Research Australia committee (Naarm), and Helena (as editor in chief) launched four issues of the international journal Performance Research (Jakarta). 📸1: International Federation of Theatre Research panel (Jo Pollitt, Susanne Thurow, Clara Wilch, Helena Grehan, Lara Stevens, Eddie Paterson and Peter Eckersall). 📸 2: Performance Studies Conference (PSi) panel (Prof Peter Eckersall, CUNY Graduate School and Dr Clara Wilch, Vanderbilt and Professor Helena Grehan). 📸 3: Performance Research issues launch (Professor Helena Grehan, Chief Editor, Dr Felipe Cervera, UCLA, Deputy Editor and Dr Beri Juriac, contributor). 📸 4: Dance Research Australia Committee (Dr Rachael Swain, Dr Tia Reihana, Dr Amaara Raheem, Dr Jo Pollitt and Dr Gareth Belling).

🌱Hear from CPPP Associate Director Research Practices, Associate Professor David Blake, and Maaman Marra Boodjar Founder, Clint Hansen, as they discuss rehydrating landscapes through Aboriginal Knowledge, in Grower Group Alliance’s latest podcast!

CPPP HDR member and WAAPA PhD candidate Shonah Trescott recently presented her PhD exhibition, Leda and the Black Swan, at Spectrum Project Space, ECU City Campus. Bringing together installation, photography, projection, painting, text and reconfigured colonial materials, the exhibition explored how European myth has travelled into the Australian landscape and become embedded within systems of knowledge, representation and possession. A round table discussion held alongside the exhibition opened up a rich conversation around practice-led research, Country, archives, colonial materials, myth, and the role of exhibition-making within the PhD process. The exhibition was an important moment in drawing the works together in one space and reflecting on how the practice is shaping the next stage of Shonah's thesis. Edith Cowan University #ECU #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #HDR #PhD #ledaandtheblackswan #spectrum #spectrumgallery #ecucity #WAAPA

📢The Centre for People, Place, and Planet is pleased to present the first in our monthly webinar series ‘Conversations in Transdisciplinary Practice: Pathways, Provocations and Possibilities.’ Conversations in Transdisciplinary Practice: Pathways, Provocations and Possibilities is an online webinar series that attests to how transdisciplinary research is practiced through specific relationships, places, knowledges, responsibilities and forms of collaboration. Across the series, researchers explore human–environment relations through place-based, just and collaborative processes, whilst showcasing their transdisciplinary projects. A central concern will be how research can respond to complex ecological and social challenges without separating environmental sustainability from questions of justice, governance, care and accountability. The first online forum will be a panel discussion between CPPP Co-Directors , Professor Mindy Blaise (School of Education) and Professor Kathryn McMahon (School of Science), joined by CPPP graduate and Research Member Dr Karen Nociti (School of Education). This conversation will set the scene for the wider series by exploring the ideas and practices that shape CPPP’s transdisciplinary approach. The panel will consider what is meant by place in place-based research, not only as a geographical location, but as a set of relations, histories, responsibilities, knowledges and lived experiences that inform how research is undertaken. Karen will also share examples from her PhD project, reflecting on her critical engagement with the concept of place. She will discuss how her involvement with the CPPP helped shape a shift in understanding place not as a backdrop or a mark on a map, but as a relational, lived and contested field that informs how research, teaching and learning are practiced. For more information and to register your attendance, visit:  https://lnkd.in/evZJnKZT 📆Monday, August 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AWST 📍Online Edith Cowan University #ECU #edithcowanuniversity #CPPP #centreforpeopleplaceandplanet #webinar #transdisciplinarity