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UNESCO Chair Program in Communication, Environment and Heritage

The UNESCO Chair Program in Communication, Environment and Heritage is hosted by the University of Tasmania. The program focuses on protecting local places, histories, and cultures in a world with great environmental and social challenges. It aims to negotiate a shared future that respects communities and their environmental and cultural heritage.

Program Overview

The program works with researchers across the University, with expertise in environmental history, environmental communication, Aboriginal heritage, community wellbeing, policy, environmental law, visual arts, and biophysical sciences. The program's government and community partners are at the forefront of heritage protection, managing some of the world's most precious wild and historic assets for local and global communities.

Research Areas

The program's research areas include:

• Coastal and marine environments and cultural landscapes
• Cultural and natural heritage in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic
• The important place Indigenous knowledge and communities play in World Heritage management

Projects

Some of the program's projects include:

• Understanding the use of fire by Aboriginal people in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
• Restoring and Resisting Tasmania's Past
• Communication, Environment, and Conflict Across Oceans: An Analysis of Human Connections to Marine Resources
• Fields of Green: Sport as a Communications Platform for Environmental Issues
• Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest: The View From Here
• Negotiating climate change

PhD Research Opportunities

The program offers PhD research opportunities on relevant topics, devised in liaison with the UNESCO Chair, program researchers, and associated partners.

Team

The program team includes:

• Associate Professor Alessandro Antonello, UNESCO Chair in Communication, Environment and Heritage
• Professor Libby Lester
• Professor Alana Mann
• Dr. Christopher Wilson, Aboriginal Heritage Research Fellow

Recent Developments

Recent developments in the program include the launch of the UNESCO Chair and program, and the awarding of the Richard Ernest Glazebrook Environment Scholarship to PhD candidate Kianna Gallagher.