The Cairns Institute | Research in tropical societies

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

A digital experiment in multispecies storytelling, has just been released by Stanford University Press as an open access, interactive website. Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecolo... Read Full Article

Phone and Spear

Right in time for Open Access week, Phone & Spear by Miyarrka Media has gone digital. It is now available to everyone as on MIT's Knowledge Futures Group platform Pubpub. The book stretc... Read Full Article

Call to smarten up Northern Australia’s agricultural supply chains

Northern Australia’s agricultural supply chains need an urgent shake up to fully capitalise on the region’s economic development opportunities – a new Cooperative Research Centre for... Read Full Article

JCU scoops the pool in national video competition

Picking up their cameras to answer the question “What is Anthropology?”, JCU postgraduate students took out two out of three prizes in the Australian Anthropological Society’s E... Read Full Article

Research

The Institute’s research addresses critical points of social and environmental transformation in the tropics. We aim to be visionary, multidisciplinary, and driven by principles of social justice and reciprocity

Training

The Institute offers multiple opportunities for learning via higher degree research programs, focused non-award professional development and short courses, and collaborative research

Dialogue

The Institute informs and supports public debate about sustainable development and other issues shaping life in the tropics, creating democratic spaces for the dissemination and discussion of ideas and knowledge

Partnerships

The Institute’s location in Tropical North Queensland and proximity to neighbouring countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia offer unique opportunities for partnerships. We aim to provide cross-institutional leadership in relationship and coalition building with regional partners.