Researchers responding to Anthropocene challenges through transdisciplinary research
We live in unprecedented times with the 4th industrial revolution, the 6th mass extinction, global pandemics, and climate crises impacting all beings. The Centre for Regenerating Futures members are responding through aligning and emerging research practices and innovations to engage in transdisciplinary research that will mitigate, educate, and support adaptation to these socio-ecological challenges.
About us
The Centre facilitates connections and fosters collaboration between researchers who share a commitment to act through research in response to urgent global challenges.
Creating community
At the Centre for Regenerating Futures, we build capacity, create relational community, and communicate research through three events: On Country, Regenerator, and Futures Forum.
Research
We support our members’ research through: Enabler, Strategiser, and Retreats.
Centre news
Keep up to date with our latest news and through our Newsletter.
Showcase projects
Find out more about the professional learning community, Time to Act, and our Artefacts of the Future.
What our Members say about the Centre.
“My sense of being a researcher has been transformed by being a member of this centre.”
Llewellyn Wishart
Member“I think it’s been a real collegial space. And I’ve also really appreciated the way in which, desire to work in more regenerative ways has been actively flag discussed, practised, you know, challenged”
Eve Mayers
Member“The CRF just feels like a very safe space where you can voice your thoughts out. You can share your confusion, discuss your vulnerabilities, you don’t feel like you’ve got a lack of understanding”
Amrita Kamath
Member“[Nature journaling] was a fabulous opportunity and a great experience for me personally, and because my area of research is, pretty much arts and how it can be inclusive in schools, I think that was a really important one for me to go forward with”
Jo-anne Britt
Member“For me, within the Centre, I’ve really felt a sense of community for myself. And I’d like to see how we can bring that knowledge or the idea of community from this context into the future.”
Michelle Tourbier
Allied Member“For me, it’s a sense of community and a sense of belonging and a sense of putting the theoretical frameworks and conceptual understanding that I was exploring during my PhD into practice”
Amanda Peters
Member“I’ve had some students come to me through the visibility of their network, or the research group. And, it seems to be a very important area of research to connect, aspects of people’s ecological concerns within creative practices”
Katie Lee
Member“To be a member of the CRF is to support collegiality around futures based approach towards our work in the school of Education. And so the link between our theoretical work and the practice for schools into the future, I think is really important.”
Glenn
Member“The collegiality has just been fantastic. It’s really been great to work with a really mixed group of, um, academics, students, just all the people who’ve been part of the CRF. It’s just been providing me with different insert greater.”
Genee Marks
Member“It’s a safe space. It doesn’t feel hierarchical when you join in, you know, you’re not an outsider. Just one of the gang or the tribe.”
Robyn Fox
Allied Member“[The Centre] just feels like it really genuinely understands and supports interdisciplinarity.”
Shelley Hannigan
Member“The CRF is very democratic in its structure and approach. Both leaders, Peta and Jo, are very inclusive in the way that they invite everybody into the space and ensure that a wide range of academics from different fields and positions can contribute. The practices of the centre illustrate the practices that need to occur more broadly.”