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JCU is committed to research that aims to address global challenges and improve outcomes for those living in the Tropics. Within Australia and across the globe, JCU prioritises high quality, high impact research. From marine science to tropical medicine, and tourism to biodiversity, our academics engage with colleagues around the world to be at the forefront of innovation within their fields. That’s why JCU has held a 5-Star rating for research by QS Stars since it began in 2021.

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Join us at JCU Mount Isa Information Session this June and chat with future student advisors and current students about study opportunities available at JCU Mount Isa including our Bachelor of Nursing Science degree, along with other exciting courses on offer at JCU!

Join a national conversation hosted by the Social and Citizenship Education Association of Australia (SCEAA) and JCU colleagues on re-energising citizenship education, and youth voice and agency across diverse schools and communities.

The conference features provocations by Professor Stewart Riddle, School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland and Professor Philippa Collin, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.

Conference participants will be involved in roundtable conversations, workshop and paper sessions presented by academics, school leaders and teachers from all over Australia.

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Young people who sit in school classrooms today face a future of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and in this talk, I will argue that a robust and vibrant civics and citizenship education must play a central role in education’s response to the increasing crises of the twenty-first century. Drawing from my recent book, Schooling for Democracy in a Time of Global Crisis: Towards a More Caring, Inclusive and Sustainable Future (Routledge, 2022), I will provide a series of provocations and propositions for schooling for democracy as one potentially generative response to the complex challenges facing young people and their communities now and in the years ahead. In doing so, I will argue for a futures-focused approach to building civic virtues through education, which moves beyond content descriptions in the Australian Curriculum, to consider the diverse ways in which young people’s civic engagement, democratic participation and collective resistance to de-democratisation can be meaningfully nurtured and sustained.

Your dreams, our dreams.

The inaugural James Cook University (JCU) Navigate YOU Summit is a live-in program offering students in Year 10 the opportunity to experience university life during the school holidays.

The program is an entirely immersive residential program that is fully funded by JCU. It provides students with a distinctive experience of tertiary education to inform career goals, develop self-confidence and build capacity for tertiary study.

Professor David Bowman is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and the Director of the transdisciplinary Fire Centre at the University of Tasmania, where he holds a research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science. He is recognised as a thought leader in wildfire science and management publishing influential research in high-impact journals, providing policy advice to government, and serving as an expert media commentor. From 2019 to 2022 he was listed as a Clarivate highly cited cross-disciplinary Researcher.