Day 4 of the @ClimateGriffith "Difficult Conversations" seminar series - "what kind of health risks will climate change bring?" feat. @EliseInTheWoods, @AchiengEO, Prof Kristen Lyons, Dr Shannon Rutherford, & Beny Boi of the QLD African Communities Council #GriffithClimateAction @ClimateGriffith @EliseInTheWoods @AchiengEO the incredible Dr Esther Onyango @AchiengEO - very often decisions around climate change and health are made by those who aren't affected by the issues #GriffithClimateAction

And the evening panel is now kicking off! Our incredible panelists, who are chewing on the questions a marvelous group of HDR students worked up this morning, are @SamidSuliman, @FemInt, Rowena Maguire @rosyrosewater, and Lara Kelly
#GriffithClimateAction @ClimateGriffith

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@SamidSuliman @FemInt @rosyrosewater @ClimateGriffith @SamidSuliman draws attention to the politics and uneven availability of movement, and of dwelling. Mobility justice can orient us toward climate justice - this session uses ghost towns as a heuristic to think about movement, place, & people #GriffithClimateAction

Kicking off day 3 of the @ClimateGriffith workshopping the question 'will australia end up with ghost towns?' public forum on this tonight at SLQ! Thinking about transitions, retreats, settler-colonial imaginaries and practices, migration & diaspora
#griffithclimateaction #COP26 whoops forgot to tag our fearless leader, the brilliant @SamidSuliman

@FemInt - there are already significant discrepancies in the kinds of insurance products available (both in terms of options and costs). Brisbane has more options and lower costs than Cairns, folks on some islands have no options at all #GriffithClimateAction #insurance

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@FemInt I'm wondering about the responsibility of local governments and planners in this - approving developments in areas that are likely to rapidly become uninsurable? #GriffithClimateAction #COP26

Listening to Prof Botzen & thinking about insurance & climate justice, I'm wondering about the impacts of disasters on renters, who are far less likely to have adequate, or any insurance, and whose homes are usually the last to be repaired #GriffithClimateAction @GriffithClimate

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Also, I'm wondering about the increased risk of uninsured losses faced by low income and racialised people face due to climate change, given they are already more likely to be underinsured (due to discriminatory practices e.g. insurance redlining) #GriffithClimateAction

It's Day 2 of the @ClimateGriffith
Difficult Conversations seminar series! Tonight's panel is discussing 'what becomes of the uninsurables?' Pop into SLQ if you'd like to join us in person, or catch the livestream griffith.edu.au/research/clima… from 5pm #GriffithClimateAction @ClimateGriffith I'm gonna do my best to live tweet, but it's freely streamable so that's your best bet #GriffithClimateAction #climatechange #COP26

Just to flesh out the impact of Dan Tehan's terrible proposal to cut students who fail 50% of their courses out of HECS. I've had variations on this conversation many times during my time as a tutor/lecturer - a student has fallen so far behind that, even with every accommodation I can give them, it is very unlikely or even impossible that they can pass the course. I suggest they drop that course so they can focus on their other classes and whatever else is going on for them (there's always something). They say they know they're going to fail, but they

In case any one is interested or very bored, I'm gonna thread my teaching adjustment plans/progress over the next few days. Today is the first day I've had without teaching or meetings since the crisis really heated up in Aus, so it's time to get stuck in. #highered #Corvid19 First up, some context. I'll be talking about two courses that are core to an urban and environmental planning program - Public Involvement & Community Development (PICD), and (Advanced) Development Processes Studio (DPS).

I've been thinking a bit lately about workloads in academia, what's counted and what's not, and why I think we should think seriously about outlining maximum expectations for research and service and not just minimums in workload negotiations and accounting I'm writing particularly here about workload issues for academics on ongoing or reasonably long term contracts - we are a diminishing cohort and we are a privileged segment of the workforce. Much of this thread won't be directly relevant to the workloads of casuals/sessionals