Creating intellectual energy and new insights among IKS researchers.
Offering support and networking for IKS researchers’ seeking to develop interdisciplinary projects with natural and technical science colleagues and/or external partners.
Providing impact and visibility across IKS, AU, and beyond.
Organising events that attract and support the needs of a broad range IKS colleaguesacross disciplines and career stages.
Serving as an “entry point” for internal and external actors interested in contacting EHresearchers, including journalists and natural/technical scientists, while also ensuring the presence of EH in sustainability conversations, via ambassadorial work within and beyond AU.
Organising and co-organising EH events at IKS, including talks, workshops, small conferences, film screenings, guest scholar visits, etc.
Providing seed funding/small grants program, with emphasis on supporting junior researchers
Fostering an EH junior scholar community, including opportunities to present work and help organise activities.
Arranging grant-writing support for IKS colleagues developing EH-related projects.
Maintaining communication platforms, including website, monthly newsletter, and curated IKS publications, to document and enhance visibility.
Promoting and documenting of sustainable practices within the programme’s activities; e.g., catering, travel, IT use and other consumption.
The greatest potential for EH stems from reinvigorated curiosity. We hope to pushourselves to reconceptualize research in the face of ecological crises. To do this we must question established paradigms, open up, and entertain alternative approaches to shared environmental issues. By fostering productive tensions among participants, our research program has the potential to spark the novel insights that sustainability debates need in order to avoid ossification.
Further potential for the development of the research program lies in its potential to foster expanded collaborations between IKS researchers and those beyond. We will build on existing ties with IKK and DPU colleagues, who have been active in CEH, as well as withEH-related researchers at AIAS. We will also build further links to the environmentally-themed AU interdisciplinary research centres, including iClimate, CBIO, CiFood, and WATEC. Lastly, we will connect with groups mission-based green research groups and innovation platforms, such as AU Kitchen and START.
