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11/11/2025
Climate Resilient Housing Focus Groups
Have you experienced extreme heat, floods, or other climate events?
We’re developing guidelines for climate-resilient housing and we want to hear from you.
Join a 90-minute online focus group and receive a $50 voucher as a thank you for your time.
We’re especially keen to hear from people who’ve lived through extreme weather events. Your experience can help shape safer, healthier homes for the future.
Read more about the project or register your interest: https://monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9QwtxM1vdbiWIpo
For more information contact Dr Michaela Lang, [email protected]
🌍💚 Yesterday we celebrated World Environment Day with the release of a NEW mini documentary series episode from our .
We are inseparable from the environments we live in – how can we create cities, neighbourhoods and homes that support better health and wellbeing for all?
Through RISE (Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments), MSDI and our partners are helping deliver critical water and sanitation management services, designed together with communities, to enhance living conditions and resilience in informal settlements in Makassar, Indonesia and Suva, Fiji.
The latest episode in the series shows how water-sensitive revitalisation in informal settlements is a critical step toward addressing complex urban challenges with new solutions.
Watch the episode 📽️ https://youtu.be/tEN1EFdJb-I?si=hLS-1R8a8VXTYguy
Head to Monash University for the full story💡https://lens.monash.edu/2025/06/05/1387641/rising-to-the-challenge-revitalising-informal-settlements-and-their-environments
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23/04/2024
Just like East Gippsland Fire to Flourish, which advocates for the rights of local people and communities to lead their own disaster resilience, these feminist activists believed not in "charity", but "change." - Dr Emma McNicol, Research Fellow at National Indigenous Disaster Resilience (NIDR), program at Fire to Flourish, talks about Australia’s first women’s shelters as acts of radical grassroots feminism in The Conversation.
Read the full article here: https://loom.ly/FmFvUnM
Squatting, kidnapping and collaboration: Australia’s first women’s shelters were acts of radical grassroots feminism 50 years ago, the first shelter for women experiencing domestic violence was established in Sydney. It’s opening was far from a ribbon-cutting affair, but it’s legacy is long and powerful.
