Dr Wendy Steele
Professor, Sustainability and Critical Urban Governance, RMIT University
Fellows Festival 2025 Oceania
The power of connection
19 May 2025 | 09:00 am – 10:00 am | BST British Summer Time
Online via Zoom
Community and place-based action
Environment
Social connections
Sustainability
Fellows Festival 2025 will bring together visionary thinkers and experts from diverse fields including culture, media, the arts, public policy, civil society, and business.
Immerse yourself in ground-breaking ideas and be part of driving powerful conversations. Kindle new partnerships and engage directly with bold RSA projects designed to create real-world impact.
Embracing the spirit of connection, regions nationwide and internationally will host local events featuring live-streamed keynotes, dynamic discussions, and region-specific content. With opportunities for collaboration at every level, the festival will bring all participants together, no matter where they are in the world.
What to expect from the Oceania Fellows Festival event
Join RSA Oceania and the RSA Sustainability Network for our 2025 Fellows Festival event on 19 May from 6pm – 7pm AEST (9am – 10am BST), exploring social connections in a more-than-human world. This is an online event held via Zoom.
We live in a deeply relational world. In this event, we explore how to create “communities of care” that support human relationships and our relationships with our non-human kin. Together, we will discuss how we can enlarge our “ethics of care” to include the more-than-human world and what this means for our social connections.
Dr Louise Whitaker (Associate Professor, Social Work at Southern Cross University) and Dr Wendy Steele (Professor in Sustainability and Critical Urban Governance at RMIT University) will lead a fascinating discussion on building communities of care in a more-than-human world.
Join us for the Fellows Festival 2025
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Dr Louise Whitaker
Associate Professor, Social Work, Southern Cross University
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