Centre for Climate, Migration and Place
The Centre on Climate, Migration and Place advances interdisciplinary, community-grounded research and practice at the intersections of climate change, migration, displacement, religion, and place-making. Located within the Institute of Domestic Violence, Religion & Migration, the Centre focuses on how environmental change, mobility, belief systems, and local contexts shape experiences of belonging, vulnerability, and resilience.
The Centre recognises that climate change and displacement are not only material and environmental challenges, but also deeply social, cultural, and spiritual processes that shape how people relate to place, community, and future possibility. By engaging local knowledge, cultural practices, and understandings of faith as part of lived experience and belonging, the Centre contributes to more humane, inclusive, and sustainable responses to climate mobility.
We combine consulting, policy analysis and evidence generation to help governments, NGOs and international agencies design interventions that are contextualised, participatory and embedded in local systems of response.
As a Centre, we are especially interested in:
- Promoting place-based and culturally grounded approaches that integrate belonging, identity and flourishing into climate adaptation, migration policy and displacement responses.
- Designing and scaling healthy placemaking models that enable displaced and migrant communities not only to survive but to flourish in new or transformed places.
- Producing and applying policy-relevant evidence that shapes consulting, training and practice in climate mobility, displacement governance and inclusive community development.
- Exploring innovative, sustainable, and scalable approaches to embedding cultural sensitivity, belonging and dignity in policy and practice for communities navigating climate change and migration.
We welcome expressions of interest from government agencies, local councils, NGOs and community organisations to explore synergies and offer advisory services.
Centre Lead and Members
