Society and Environment
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### ‘Sea creature’ minibot hoovers up oil spills
10 Mar 2026
RMIT University engineers in Australia have built a remote-controlled minibot that hoovers up oil spills using an innovative filtering system inspired by sea urchins.
10 Mar 2026
'Provocations' - RMIT College of Design and Social Context's new flagship public talks and ideas series posed a deliberately uncomfortable question for its first event: why are we still talking about gender equality?
### Give to gain: how these RMIT academics are shaping the future of research with RACE
06 Mar 2026
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Give to gain’, calls on all of us to share time, knowledge, resources and opportunities so that gender equality can move from rhetoric to reality.
### Australia’s carbon markets risk penalising Indigenous stewardship
05 Mar 2026
Carbon markets rewarding the recovery of degraded environments risk penalising long-term Indigenous stewardship, according to a coalition of experts writing in Nature Climate Change.
05 Mar 2026
The interdisciplinary laboratory explored the intersections between posthuman methods and First Peoples’ knowledges to develop creative, place-based responses to climate and planetary crises.
02 Mar 2026
The national Professional Experience Conference gathered 42 leaders in initial teacher education from every state and territory in Australia.
### RMIT welcomes Federal Minister to City campus for Earn and Learn showcase
27 Feb 2026
The University was honoured to welcome Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, The Hon. Amanda Rishworth MP, to the City campus last week.
### RMIT scholar awarded prestigious Fulbright to combat human trafficking
27 Feb 2026
RMIT Associate Professor in Criminology and Justice, Brianna Chesser has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award to develop groundbreaking solutions to one of the world’s most pressing human rights crises: commercial sexual exploitation through human trafficking.