Cultural mapping
Cross-cultural management of freshwater on resource-constrained islands
This project aims to develop a methodology for community-led adaptive water management on resource-constrained islands and will involve Indigenous communities in the development of predictive groun
Facing new worlds: comparative histories of Australasia and North America
Facing New Worlds turns around a major exhibition to be held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 in conjunction with the Smithsonian.
Howitt & Fison’s anthropology
Howitt and Fison carried out some of the earliest anthropological research in Australia and left extensive archival materials on language, kinship, and social organisation.
Has it always burned so hot? Fuel and fire in southeast Australian forests.
Indigenous cultural burning has been raised as a way of mitigating against climate-driven catastrophic bushfires in southeast Australian forests.
Remaking the Australian environment through documentary film and television
This project aims to investigate how documentary film, television and online media have transformed our sense of the Australian environment since the 1950s.
Message sticks: Long-distance communication in Indigenous Australia
Message sticks are marked wooden objects that were once used throughout Indigenous Australia to convey important information between communities.
Contemporary Indigenous film and television: new frames of understanding
Australian Indigenous film and television has exploded into the mainstream of the national media landscape over the last five years and is now a leading sector of the local industry.
Geographies of co-existence in urban and rural areas
This Indigenous-led project has strengthened place-based responses to environmental change through intergenerational and intercultural knowledge sharing of caring for Country in Gumbaynggirr-led wa
Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge
This project seeks to identify ways to protect biodiversity-related Indigenous knowledge.
#thismymob: Digital land rights and reconnecting Indigenous communities
#thismymob: Digital land rights and reconnecting Indigenous communities.