Research news and events

News

Events

bccb-healing-cultures-1220x732.jpg

Healing cultures: designing regenerative systems

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 10 Oct 2026

How do we create material cultures, economies, and innovations that actively heal and restore energy? What does it mean to design not just for zero waste, but for positive impact?  

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) 2026 Conference

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 07 Oct 2026
asia-workforce-reference-1220x732.jpg

Building the Asia-Pacific Workforce for the Energy Transition: An RMIT Research Roundtable

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 28 Sep 2026

This half-day roundtable, hosted by the RMIT Asia Hub with the Australian APEC Study Centre (AASC), brings together researchers to establish a research community on regional clean economy and workforce issues.

the-first-inventors.jpg

'The First Inventors: How People Shaped a Continent' | An evening with Larissa Behrendt AO, Billy Griffiths and Sean Ulm

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 15 Sep 2026
Icon / Small / LocationCreated with Sketch. The Capitol

To celebrate Social Sciences Week, and the research that helps us understand and shape society, RMIT University is proud to present celebrated Eualayai/Gamillaroi author, filmmaker and academic Larissa Behrendt AO, award-winning author and historian Billy Griffiths and one of Australia's leading archaeologists, Sean Ulm, as they discuss their new book 'The First Inventors: How People Shaped a Continent.'

yumi-reference.jpg

YUMI – The Whole World: The Pacific fight for climate justice

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 09 Sep 2026

RMIT University's Pacific Initiative, with the Pacific Human Rights Film Festival, invites you to an evening of conversation and film about climate justice, featuring a special screening of YUMI – The Whole World, the powerful documentary about bringing the world's most urgent issue to the world's highest court.

journey-to-achievements-narration-1220x732.jpg

Journey to Achievements Narration: Seminar with Dr Henry Zhao

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 08 Sep 2026

Join us for an inspiring afternoon of conversation with Dr Henry Zhao, lead Neurologist in Australia's First Mobile Stroke Unit. Dr Zhao will share his personal and professional journey, from his arrival in Australia from China when he was seven years old, to being a leading neurologist and researcher in the improvement of stroke prevention and treatment.

3mt-reference-image-1220x732.jpg

RMIT Three Minute Thesis Final

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 26 Aug 2026
Icon / Small / LocationCreated with Sketch. Melbourne City

Our PhDs are ready to entertain! Come along as they compete for the top prize – plus have your say in the People's Choice Award.

stav-lampropoulou-ref-updated-two.jpg

Stav Lampropoulou 'The Wandering Womb and Other Myths'

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 25 Aug 2026 - 18 Sep 2026

'The Wandering Womb and Other Myths' is an immersive exhibition that reimagines the myth of the “wandering womb” to examine and confront gendered histories that have systemically silenced women’s voices.

dominic-white-ref1.jpg

Dominic White, 'Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere' (White Devil Spirit Basket)

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 25 Aug 2026 - 18 Sep 2026

This exhibition brings together sculptural vessels, sound and wearable forms to explore grief and healing through Trawoolway-led art practice.

first-nations-futures-1220x732.jpg

First Nations Futures

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 24 Aug 2026

In partnership with Now or Never and Yirramboi, RMIT presents First Nations Futures, a conversation exploring how new worlds are imagined into being through storytelling, visual language and acts of creative resistance. Featuring Allara Briggs Pattison, Axel Garay, April Phillips and Hayden Ryan, hosted by Amanda Haskard.

science-week-event-reference-image.jpg

Why science needs the 'social': Solving complex problems with interdisciplinary thinking

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 21 Aug 2026

As part of National Science Week, this free panel event explores why solving complex challenges, from climate change and AI to health and inequality, requires social as well as technical expertise. Leading researchers, policymakers and innovators will discuss interdisciplinary collaboration, the role of social sciences, and how integrated thinking can drive meaningful change.

how-to-draw-a-not-straight-line-1220x732.jpg

How to Draw a Not-Straight Line

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 20 Aug 2026

Join Erica DiBenedetto, Curator, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconcin—Madison, USA, in a conversation around Sol LeWitt's concept of the 'not-straight-line'.

venturous-ref-3-1220x732.jpg

VENTUROUS: Design Practice Research Futures in Architecture & Urban Design

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 31 Jul 2026 - 19 Sep 2026

VENTUROUS brings together the projects and design explorations of innovative contemporary architects and designers associated with the RMIT University School of Architecture & Urban Design’s groundbreaking design practice PhD program, over the last decade.

concentric-circles-reference-1220x732.jpg

The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place

Icon / Small / CalendarCreated with Sketch. 05 Jun 2026 - 29 Aug 2026

'The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place' positions Australia at the centre of an ambitious global dialogue on conceptual art, influence and the circulation of ideas. Instigated and directed by Dr Irene Barberis, the project demonstrates how Australian scholarship and curatorial innovation can actively shape international discourse surrounding one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

aboriginal flag float-starttorres strait flag float-start

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

Learn more about our commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples