Our recent speakers

  • August 2025 - Jankees van der Have

    ‘The intriguing world of aromatic molecules in plants’

    Jankees is on the board of the Binna Burra Foundation and has a background inbiochemistry and molecular biology.

  • July 2025 - Jacquie Rand

    ‘A scientific basis for urban cat management’

    Jacquie Rand is a vet, Emeritus Professor of Companion Animal Health at the University of Queensland, and the Executive Director & Chief Scientist of the Australian Pet Welfare Foundation.

  • June 2025 - Kinya Shiraishi

    ‘Tokyo's urban tree challenge: Decline in tree cover in Tokyo from 2013 to 2022’

    Kinya has a background in landscape architecture and is completing his PhD at the University of Tokyo.

  • May 2025 - Luke Jeffrey

    ‘Barking up the right trees - A microbial solution for our methane problem’

    Luke is an ARC DECRA Fellow at Southern Cross University.

  • April 2025 - James Watson

    ‘Australia’s biodiversity crisis and our inadequate response’

    James is Professor of Conservation Science at UQ, with roles on bodies including the UN’s Environment Program and its Global Programme on Nature for Development, and the International Union for Nature Conservation Climate Change Specialist Group.

  • March 2025 - Martine Maron

    ‘Wentworth blueprint to repair Australia’s landscapes’

    Martine is Professor oin the School of the Environment at UQ and a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

  • February 2025 - Ian Stewart

    ‘Heat, activity and the human body’

    Ian is Professor in the School of Exercise and Nutrion Sciences at QUT, where he directs the QUT’s Exercise and Environmental Ergonomics Laboratory.

  • November 2024 - Erin Hughes

    ‘Understanding flood risk in a changing climate’

    Erin is Senior Flood Engineer & Queensland Manager with Hydrology and Risk Consulting (HARC).