CACHE Member Success: A/Prof Tom Murray, and Prof Bronwen Neil
CACHE congratulates our centre members, A/Prof. Tom Murray (Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature) and executive member Prof. Bronwen Neil (Department of History and Archaeology) for their successful Fonds Pacifique grant entitled, “Consilience des connaissances pour les solutions climatiques et la sécurité alimentaire en Polynésie française et dans les îles Cook grâce à la gestion des Rahui/Ra’ui”.
The Fonds Pacifique has been awarded $90,000 to these researchers from the Creative Documentary Research Centre and their international partners from the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea (Darmstadt, Germany), the Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt - Germany’s largest natural history museum), the prestigious Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (Bremen, Germany), and Te Fara Natura Museum (Moorea, French Polynesia). The project is timed to coincide with the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30).
As an Internationally awarded filmmaker, A/Prof Tom Murray will collaborate with cultural historian Prof Bronwen Neil to lead this Macquarie University project. The project will bring together knowledge of the impacts of climate change on the health of the Pacific Ocean and its inhabitants. Environmental science, Indigenous knowledge of sustainable living practices, and creative-arts expertise will combine to produce new understandings and solutions to the problems caused by climate change in the Pacific. Local knowledge-holders, marine scientists, film-makers, and curators will collaborate to create interactive texts and exhibitions that will reach large audiences and allow the sharing of inter-generational, traditional land and sea management practices.
The project’s major aims are to raise public awareness of the problems caused by climate change in the Pacific and to establish a constituency of concern that fosters social, cultural and political change to protect endangered ecosystems and Indigenous knowledge.
Please join us in celebrating Tom and Bronwen’s collaborative success. You can click the linked profiles to learn more about A/Prof. Tom Murray and Prof. Bronwen Neil and their research.