Society and Environment

A week of celebrations has marked the 35th anniversary of RMIT’s presence in Singapore and its longstanding partnership with the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) over that time.

UK-based architect and RMIT Professor Tom Holbrook is a London Mayor Design Advocate – one of 42 practitioners appointed by the city to promote quality and inclusion in the built environment with the aim of making London an even better place in which to live and work.

Bottles fitted with GPS tracking devices are being released into the Barwon River to demonstrate how and where litter travels once it enters Victoria’s precious waterways.

A new report out of the RMIT Asia Trade and Innovation Hub has made 19 recommendations designed to strengthen Victoria’s connections with the countries of Southeast Asia.

A first-of-its-kind, city-wide survey of Melbourne residents shows just how dramatically our working practices have changed since the beginning of the pandemic and highlights the digital infrastructure we need to support a vastly changed working, learning and thriving city, a new RMIT report reveals.

Engineers at RMIT University have developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste.

To coincide with RMIT’s annual Pride Week, the new Gender Equity & Justice Project will be hosting a pop-up barbershop in collaboration with Little Rebel Barbershop.

RMIT has continued to improve in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), demonstrating the University’s momentum as a globally recognised research and education institution.