2025

15 April 2025

Sydney Environment Institute welcomes 2025 Honours students

SEI is pleased to extend a warm congratulations and welcome to Catherine Gunawan, Arohi Saini, and Dylan Shadbolt, who have been awarded SEI Honours Research Fellowships, and Cana Nongkhlaw, this year’s recipient of the Iain McCalman Honours Research Award in partnership with the Chau Chak Wing Museum.

03 April 2025

New SEI event series explores the importance of climate justice

SEI launches the Climate Justice Series with panel discussions addressing the intensifying climate, nature, housing, and social justice crises, where the question is not whether we act, but how we do so in ways that are just, inclusive, and transformative.

26 March 2025

Collaboration between disaster agencies and communities key to future disaster resilience

New research highlights the growing role of informal community groups in disaster response and the urgent need for stronger collaboration with formal disaster management agencies.

25 March 2025

Sydney Environment Institute welcomes two more Collaborative Grant projects

One project will explore culturally specific responses to climate distress in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The second project will map social networks in climate adaptation projects to assess who benefits and who is left behind.

06 March 2025

SEI calls for a locally driven approach in National Climate Volunteer Scheme

The Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) has urged the government to rethink the proposed National Volunteer Incentive Scheme, also known as the "Climate Army," advocating instead for a place-based approach that prioritises local knowledge holders and existing community networks.

04 March 2025

Innovate, experiment, fail better, transform: governing climate futures

Historically, climate governance has been characterised by fixed rules, slow-moving institutions and incremental progress. But what if success depends not on targets and rules, but on intensive collaboration and bold experimentation? What if we need to take more risks, build policy and governance frameworks that can learn and adapt in real time and thrive in uncertain environments?

04 March 2025

Closing the loop: feedbacking in community-engaged research

Emily Nabong, a PhD candidate in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, recently travelled to Kiribati to engage in a final round of collaborative feedback before submitting her thesis. Emily designed an interactive session where her research partners could explore her system dynamics model together, drawing their own insights into the cascading impacts of climate change.

31 January 2025

Now open: Iain McCalman Honours Research Award

Applications are open for the 2025 Iain McCalman Honours Research Award. Eligible students can apply to receive a bursary of $2,000 and unique access to the Macleay Collections, in the Chau Chak Museum at the University of Sydney.

31 January 2025

Applications are open for SEI’s 2025 Honours Research Fellowship Program

The Honours Fellowship is open to eligible University of Sydney students who are interested in multidisciplinary research around critical environmental issues.

30 January 2025

Sydney Environment Institute Collaborative Grants Scheme

Applications have opened for the Sydney Environment Institute’s 2025 Collaborative Grants Scheme, designed to engage researchers across the University to develop new, collaborative, multidisciplinary projects.