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    Centre members at the Jarrah Forest Lodge Writing Retreat

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Who We Are

The Centre for People, Place & Planet is a Strategic Research Centre at Edith Cowan University. It was established in January 2021, and it is co-hosted by the School of Science and the School of Education.

The vision of the Centre is to reconnect people, ecosystems, and place-based knowledges for universal well-being.

Our mission is to conduct transdisciplinary research using participatory methodologies in the context of global environmental change.

Objectives

The centre’s objectives are that all research strives to satisfy each of the following process features of Human and Environmental Interactions. It is intended that all research projects supported by the Centre strive:

  1. To co-design research and action with and influenced by Indigenous knowledge holders
  2. To transform human-environment relations through place-based, just and collaborative processes.
  3. To recognise living systems where there are interdependencies and mutualities
  4. To strengthen governance and management for sustainability and ecosocial justice

Values and principles

  • We live on land that holds Indigenous wisdom and colonial histories. We stand in solidarity with, and on, Country.
  • We acknowledge, from the outset, that social ecological systems are complex and uncertain and require a transdisciplinary approach to avoid the structural societal problems associated with siloed sectors and disciplines.
  • We recognise that societies have much to learn from Indigenous knowledges and practices, and the process of that learning is best done with the direct guidance and leadership of Indigenous people.
  • We value opportunities to co-design and co-create research with communities in place.
  • We want our research to be transformational (change-oriented and action-oriented), and process-driven, to deliver just outcomes.
  • We are supportive of each other and willing to be open and learn, inclusive (while retaining our cohesion), participatory, reciprocal, and consensual in our decision-making.
  • We are creative and courageous, open to ideas, opportunities and serendipity, and we push boundaries where needed to create the society we envision.
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