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Cairns South Community Champions

A pilot program to encourage community to strengthen and cultivate community champions in Cairns South was recently delivered by the Cairns Institute and PCYC Safer communities. Jennifer McHugh throug...

Re-visualising the Past, Imagining the Future: Race, Governance and Development in PNG

Laurie Bragge’s gift of his personal archive of material concerning his life and work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to James cook University was astoundingly detailed. Laurie was a "kiap"; patrol of...

Delivering research findings to Northern stakeholders

To finalise remote work and to enable further engagement with remote stakeholders and partners following COVID-19 lockdowns, many projects of the Northern Australia Hub (part of the Australian Governm...

Backseat Books

During the COVID lockdown period (April-June 2020) The Cairns Institute, as part of the Cairns South Collective Impact project, brought service providers together through informal online meetings. Thi...

Bobikíxh: An international online conference on the Indigenous languages of the Chiquitania

Organizers: José Chuvé, Luca Ciucci, Swintha Danielsen, María Pia Franco, Brittany Hause, Andrey Nikulin, Paula Peña, Ignacio Tomichá, Claudia Vaca....

Feral Atlas ranks 15 in Power 100

The London-based magazine ArtReview recently released their annual Power 100 list of the top influencers in the contemporary art world for 2020. The Cairns Institute's theme leader...

Celebrating Indigenous Voices

Every society and every human group thrives on telling stories, legends, and myths. The intricate fabric of every culture is reflected in how people talk to each other, and what they talk about. A leg...

Join a multi-institutional team of social scientists contributing to the RRAP

Three opportunities to be involved in this partnership; a multi-institutional team of social scientists contributing to the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP), Community Engagement Subprog...

Enhancing Women’s Position in PNG’s Protected Area Network

James Cook University has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme in Papua New Guinea to conduct a Gender Analysis and develop a Gender Action Plan for the Sustainable Financing of PNG...

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...

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...

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...

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...

COVID-19 and Young Australians - The long-term effects of a pandemic

Don’t take a gap year, stay engaged, work or study, was the advice from University of Melbourne researcher Dr Jenny Chesters for young people wondering what they should be doing to build positiv...

Toku Fenua Tuvalu - Project

Tuvalu is the smallest Pacific Island state, with a population of less than 13,000 people, predominantly Polynesian, located to the north of Fiji and immediately south of Kiribati. The former British ...

Mossman Botanic Gardens taking shape

A new Australian national tropical botanical garden is taking shape in Mossman, north of Port Douglas, with strong links to The Cairns Institute and James Cook University. The Mossman Botanic Garden w...

Agricultural futures: growing with technology

Drought, climate variability, biosecurity, global competition and consumer preferences are some of the greatest challenges facing Australian farmers, their impacts threatening our position among the m...

JCU at Istanbul Biennial

In September last year the 16th Istanbul Biennial officially opened, unveiling its theme of ‘The Seventh Continent’ to a packed room of cameras and international Press. The Cairns Institut...

Dances with Cranes

Dr Tim Nevard has just joined the Cairns Institute as an Adjunct Professor. His career has encompassed roles in corporate governance, business development, sustainability, policy and communicati...

Clean Growth Choices

Professor Allan Dale has led the Clean Growth Choices project which partnered with USQ, CSIRO and the Eco-Efficiency Group (the Clean Growth Choices Consortium) with funding from Queensland Government...

Reuniting a linguistic family: From the ancient Taino of the Caribbean to the modern Tariana of the Brazilian Amazon in the times of COVID 19

COVID 19 has swept across the world, wreaking havoc and affecting the most vulnerable and unprotected. With a ‘tropical Trump’ for a president and a precarious health care system for those...

Examination of the Bradfield inland irrigation scheme

Professor Allan Dale has been appointed to a three person panel to conduct a comprehensive State government examination of the Bradfield inland irrigation scheme. The panel will be chaired by Professo...

Disquiet: Ecological Anxieties & Transformations

The knowledge that, every year, millions of tonnes of plastic are discarded into the environment, and that plastic is found everywhere from deep ocean floors to high mountain ranges, gives rise to fee...

Cairns South Collective Forum in July

Led by Professor Allan Dale,the Cairns South Collective Impact Project, continues to connect and collaborate to improve outcomes for children in Cairns South. In July we held a forum including a prese...

Ever wondered what our curriculum teaches kids about climate change? The answer is ‘not much’

The following article was originally published in The Conversation on 19 September 2019, authored by Cairns Institute Research Fellows, A/Prof Hilary Whitehouse and Ms Larraine Larri. This story...

New book, Pil: Ancestral Stories of the Lihir Islands, launched in Papua New Guinea

A new book by TCI Research Fellow, Dr Kirsty Gillespie has recently been launched in Papua New Guinea. Pil: Ancestral Stories of the Lihir Islands is a collection of seven pil stories in Lihir and Eng...

Poor digital inclusion in FNQ is a barrier to economic and social development

New research by James Cook University explores the need to improve digital connectivity in Far North Queensland agricultural communities. Rural local governments and community organisations also need ...

Ironic twist wraps up PhD

Kristine Van Dinther explored the ethics of end of life decision making by examining the experiences of family members who were engaged with the care of a loved one with terminal cancer. She found tha...

The National Family Wellbeing Forum: Sharing stories on the journey to empowerment

This is a story about saving lives. It’s a story about regaining control. It’s a story about overturning generations of disempowerment. Above all it’s a story of hope. This is the st...

Addressing inclusive and sustainable economic development across a global stage

Approximately half the world’s population lives on the equivalent of US$2 a day with global unemployment rates of 5.7%. There is great need to rethink our social and economic policies aimed at e...

Please help us maintain a beautifully restored Kubirri Creek

On the northern outskirts of Mossman appears a line of riparian vegetation framed against the mountain backdrop. The vegetation is along the banks of Kubirri creek, a small seasonal tributary of the M...

Cairns South community come together to make a Collective Impact

Late last month, the Collective Impact project group held a workshop to update key stakeholders on the project progress and to also seek input into the update of the 2016 State of the Children Report....

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Cairns South Community Champions

Re-visualising the Past, Imagining the Future: Race, Governance and Development in PNG

Delivering research findings to Northern stakeholders

Backseat Books

Bobikíxh: An international online conference on the Indigenous languages of the Chiquitania

Feral Atlas ranks 15 in Power 100

Celebrating Indigenous Voices

Join a multi-institutional team of social scientists contributing to the RRAP

Enhancing Women’s Position in PNG’s Protected Area Network

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Phone and Spear

Call to smarten up Northern Australia’s agricultural supply chains

JCU scoops the pool in national video competition

COVID-19 and Young Australians - The long-term effects of a pandemic

Toku Fenua Tuvalu - Project

Mossman Botanic Gardens taking shape

Agricultural futures: growing with technology

JCU at Istanbul Biennial

Dances with Cranes

Clean Growth Choices

Reuniting a linguistic family: From the ancient Taino of the Caribbean to the modern Tariana of the Brazilian Amazon in the times of COVID 19

Examination of the Bradfield inland irrigation scheme

Disquiet: Ecological Anxieties & Transformations

Cairns South Collective Forum in July

Ever wondered what our curriculum teaches kids about climate change? The answer is ‘not much’

New book, Pil: Ancestral Stories of the Lihir Islands, launched in Papua New Guinea

Poor digital inclusion in FNQ is a barrier to economic and social development

Ironic twist wraps up PhD

The National Family Wellbeing Forum: Sharing stories on the journey to empowerment

Addressing inclusive and sustainable economic development across a global stage

Please help us maintain a beautifully restored Kubirri Creek

Cairns South community come together to make a Collective Impact

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Rural Sustainability in the Urban Century

Rural Sustainability in the Urban Century

XV World Congress of Rural Sociology 19-22 July 2022 Cairns Australia