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Northern Institute
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Independent Social & Public Policy research & training for northern Australia at Charles Darwin Uni

✊🏿Indigenous Knowledge & Governance 👪Population 🖊️Policy & Program Analysis 📘Education & Health 🌿Sustainable Economy, Environment & Climate
🌟 NT Human Rights Awards – The Fitzgeralds 2025 🌟

📅 10 Dec 2025
⏰ 5:30pm refreshments & networking | 6:00pm awards
📍 Community Learning Space, CDU Danala City Campus

This plastic-free event is free — please register via Humanitix: go.cdu.edu.au/f7aq
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
🌿 NT Communities of Practice Online Event 🌿
Join us to explore key innovations in health, climate, and environmental challenges across the NT and Australia.
🆓 Free online event — no registration needed.
🔗 Learn more & join: go.cdu.edu.au/f7bq
🌱 Part of HEAL 2025 Conference | healnetwork.org.au
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🌿 NI News: Dinidjanggama – Gurrulwa guligi – Dalirrgang Edition 2025 🌿
We’re celebrating NI’s achievements across three Larrakia seasons, highlighting our work from May–Oct 2025 — research, events, exhibitions, awards & our big move to CDU Danala City Campus.
👉 Online edition: go.cdu.edu.au/f7da
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
📊 Join us for the CDU & NT Treasury and Finance Demographics Seminar 2025!

Explore new insights into NT population research, projections, life expectancy, mobility data & climate vulnerability.

🗓️ 4 Dec | 10:30–12:00 ACST
📍 Room 32, Level 4, CDU Danala Precinct, Darwin
🔗 RSVP: go.cdu.edu.au/f75a
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
🌿 You're invited! 🌿

Join us Friday, 21 Nov, 8 am–5 pm for the HEAL Climate Impacts on Country Pop-Up Indigenous Art Exhibition 🎨✨

📍 CDU Danala, Room 1.11 (Ground Floor)
☕ Morning tea at 10:30 am — meet the artists & researchers!

Explore art, culture & climate resilience.
✨ All welcome! ✨
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A powerful milestone for CDU, Northern Institute, and Australia. 🎓✨
The late Dr. Paul Gurrumuruwuy Wunungmurra is the first Yolŋu scholar to be awarded a PhD for his own original research.
Read the full article: go.cdu.edu.au/f76a
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Northern Institute with Menzies School of Health Research presents: Erica van Ash on Australian CBRN Health Systems Preparedness & Governance 🧬

🗓️ 26 Nov | 🕙 10:30–11:30 am (ACST)
📍 Red 9.1.48 (Menzies), CDU Casuarina + 💻 Zoom

🔗 Register & more info: go.cdu.edu.au/f7zq

#CBRN #PublicHealth
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
🎉 BIG CONGRATS to Northern Institute researcher Sharna Motlap for winning a HEAL Innovation Fund* Grant for her 'Exploring Career Pathways of NT Indigenous Community Researchers' project.👏 ➡️ healnetwork.org.au
#HEAL2025 #CDUResearch #IndigenousResearch @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Record-breaking heat in the NT: nearly 8 million ha burnt in October. NI Fire researcher Rohan Fisher warns of shifting fire regimes & remote lightning ignitions⚡🔥🌏 #CDUresearch
Full #ABCdarwin story👉🏼go.cdu.edu.au/f72q #bushfireresearch
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
📊 Visiting Academic Seminar 2025
Join Dr. Kazumasa Hanaoka from Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan, for insights on mobile phone big data & COVID-19 mobility patterns.

🗓️ Wed 12 Nov 2025 | 🕥 10:30–11:30am (ACST)
📍 CDU Danala or 💻 Zoom
🔗 Learn more and register: go.cdu.edu.au/f4la
#BigData #Geography #COVID19
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Join author Salli Cohen as she unveils her book 📘'Rollercoaster: How to be a bloody good policy officer'
📅Tuesday 4 November ⏰ 5pm 📍 Danala, Darwin City
🎟️ go.cdu.edu.au/f4oa FREE 🪑 in-person only event
👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 All Welcome 🎤 Hosted by Prof Ruth Wallace
✍🏼 Book can be purchased & signed by Salli at event
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
📻Missed it? NI PhD candidate Sam Williams spoke with #ABCDarwin’s Rick Hind about his #3DMapping project with Elders in #Maningrida, combining tech & #traditionalknowledge to preserve stories for future generations.
🎧 go.cdu.edu.au/f4na (scroll to 1:19:20)
📰 go.cdu.edu.au/f4aqe
#CDUResearch
October 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
💡Report highlights ways to increase Aboriginal teachers in the NT!💡 The Australian Centre for Student Equity & Success has released a First Nations Fellowship report by NI's Tracy Woodroffe, exploring how Aboriginal students & teachers view teaching as a career.📄👉 go.cdu.edu.au/f4mq
#CDUResearch
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🚀 NEW Realist Economic Evaluation (REE) v3.0 is here — built by an international team (incl NI's Gill Westhorp👏🏼) to help researchers & decision-makers apply realist approaches in economic evaluation. Free to access 👉 go.cdu.edu.au/f4lq
#Research #Impact #Evaluation
@reemecon.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
NI researcher Alicia Boyle has been working with Tiwi Plantations Corp co-designing the Tiwi Forestry Workforce Plan 2026–2030➕collating Tiwi forestry worker stories — a project especially for Tiwi families & communities - that will form part of her PhD.🌳🎓
#CDUresearch #collaborativeresearch
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🌟 Launching soon: The NT Gender Equity & Diversity Knowledge Hub — a new space to connect people, ideas & action for inclusion and leadership in the NT.

📅 24 Oct | 10am
📍 CDU Danala Precinct, Darwin City

RSVP: go.cdu.edu.au/f44a
Info: go.cdu.edu.au/f44q

Morning tea is served!
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
🗣️ How does language fuel hate & legitimise violence?

Join Dr. Awni Etaywe on 24 Sept 2025 for a seminar on extremist discourse, the Great Replacement manifesto & the power of words in radicalisation.

📍 RSVP: thenortherninstitute@cdu.edu.au

💻 Zoom: go.cdu.edu.au/f5ea

#Seminar #HateSpeech
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🔥 Vincent Lingiari Memorial Gathering Yarn by Charlie King OAM AM 🎶 Music by Sara Storer + Sky Nelson
📅 Wed 6 Aug, 5.30–7.30pm📍 Orange 7 Amphitheatre, CDU Casuarina🎟️Free ALL welcome!👉Register go.cdu.edu.au/f5wq
#vincentlingiari @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🎡Friday 25 July is a public holiday in Darwin for Show Day🎠
🤩NI will be closed & reopen 28 July | darwinshow.com.au🎉
July 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🌍 Our researchers are sharing insights on the world stage at #IPC2025!
🔹 Sigurd Dyrting: internal migration data
🔹 Tom Wilson: housing squeeze metrics
🔹 Kate Golebiowska: chaired migrant & refugee session
Global research, real-world impact.
🔗 pc2025.iussp.org/ #ResearchImpact #CDUresearch
July 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
From reef restoration & turtle tracking to Indigenous-led mapping & protection of Sea Country, the insights shared at #AMSA2025 showed just how vital Indigenous knowledge is for a healthy ocean future. 🌏🪸🐢We were there alongside our Aboriginal Sea Country partners 👉🏼 go.cdu.edu.au/f5ra #CDUresearch
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
📚 NEW GUIDE ALERT! "Working With Observational Data: Researching Human Behaviour in Public Places" by NI PhD student (&former NI researcher) A/Prof Emma Williams is out now! Explore ethical, rigorous methods for collecting & analysing public behaviour data.📊#SAGEpublication
📎 doi.org/10.4135/9781...
July 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Gill Westhorp (RREALI, Northern Institute) joined global experts in Newcastle UK to review draft guidelines for Realist Economic Evaluation—part of a 3-year NIHR-funded project. Final guidelines due 30 Sept 2025. Full story👉 go.cdu.edu.au/f2na 📸Advisory Group in action! #realistevaluation
July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🗣CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | HEAL 2025 | 4-6 NOVEMBER
Weaving Diverse Knowledges into Climate Action for Better Health | Learn more healnetwork.vfairs.com/en/
⌚️Submissions close Friday 29 August 2025🏃
@charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
🌟 NAIDOC Week 2025 is HERE! 🌟 6–13 July
“The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy.”
It’s all about recognising the incredible strength of First Nations youth, the vision of their communities, and the lasting legacy of their Elders.💪🏽🖤💛❤️ #firstnationsvoice #thenextgeneration #strongertogether
July 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM