Sustainability
Faculty of Arts
Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne have long been concerned with questions of sustainability ranging from histories of the impact of mining in Australia to studies of how national and international agreements might mitigate existing and impending climate disasters.
We aim to continue and enhance those traditions of scholarly engagement with environmental sustainability.
On this page, you’ll find information about researchers working in their disciplines on aspects of environmental sustainability, from scholarship around climate policy and media representations, to work on ecological justice, and First Nations, philosophical and anthropological thinking about environment.
Our hope is that this site can be a place where scholars can connect and collaborate, a place where research can be showcased, and where we can celebrate the distinctive roles our scholarship and imagination can bring to some of the most pressing questions of equity and survival in a finite world.
Professor Chris Healy
Deputy Associate Dean, Sustainability
Projects and collaborations
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Towards an Australian Ecological Theatre
This project explores how the Australian performing arts is responding to the climate emergency and how human interactions with the natural world have been represented historically on Australian stages since the 1950s.
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Melbourne Biodiversity Institute
The Melbourne Biodiversity Institute is a collective of researchers, innovators and problem-solvers from across the University of Melbourne dedicated to addressing Earth’s biodiversity crisis.
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Sustainability and Climate Change Working Groups - Global Humanities Alliance
The Global Humanities Alliance is a signature international initiative from the Faculty of Arts, working towards a range of joint research and global classrooms initiatives. These initiatives will be coordinated by working groups focusing on four core themes, including sustainability and climate change.
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John Medley Living Lab - Amplifying Arts Sustainability
The John Medley Living Lab project imagines the John Medley Building (JMB) Parkville as a Living Lab through a series of workshop experiments focused on environmental sustainability.
People
Faculty of Arts academics working in and around Environmental Sustainability.
Dr Christiaan De Beukelaer
Prof Rachael Diprose
Prof Fiona Fidler
A/Prof Erin Fitz-Henry
A/Prof Edwin Jurriens
A/Prof Fabio Mattioli
Dr Fallon Mody
A/Prof Nicole Tse
Contact us
To get in contact, please email arts-sustainability@unimelb.edu.au