How to use social marketing to create impact and change
This week I attended the Change Conference 2018 in Brisbane that focused on social marketing and behavioural change, organised by Griffith Social@Marketing from our Business School. Social marketing is (and yes I had to google this…) “the use of marketing theory, skills and practices to achieve social change”. The conference featured a great line up of […]
How to build identity-based habits
This week I was really struck by James Clear who was on the Coaching for Leaders podcast (episode 376). He has just published the book Atomic Habits where he discusses simple yet effective strategies in how we can change our habits, how to break the bad ones and how to excel in good ones. I […]
What you need to know about temperature targets
This week marked the release of the long-awaited Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the chances of the world limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The report has been covered by many prominent scholars already (you can read here Professor Mark Howden’s and Rebecca Colvin’s excellent piece) so I won’t cover […]
3 mistakes most people do in career transitions
Those of you following me in Twitter or LinkedIn already know that only last week I began a new job at my university, transitioning from research role to a role of lecturer in environmental policy where my job will consist of teaching, research and service. Given many people have flagged to me how teaching often […]
The 4 kinds of people you need for breakthrough success
So for those of you who read my last blog post on creativity, it might have seemed somewhat superficial. Some of you might be asking so what if there are assumptions about creativity and the lone genius, how is that going to help me to get more creative? Well the good news is that now […]
How climate adaptation is moving forward
This week it has been upheaval one after another. Australian politics at the moment seems to be in full disarray with climate change again being at the centre of controversy as a policy issue. Yet, the good news is that climate adaptation is still moving forward in many ways. Yesterday we organised as part of […]
Are we heading to Hothouse Earth?
This past week the news have not been any getting better. The heat waves are still affecting countries: in South Korea, temperatures around +39 are said to prevail at least 23 consecutive days and in southern Europe, temperatures are still abnormally high. In California, wild fires are ranging to the extent that now the military […]
Unprecedented yet so close: why heatwaves and flooding could be here to stay
This past week the news have sizzled with news about extreme fire events, large ranging bushfires in Sweden and Greece. Japan declared last week the heatwave a disasters while being faced with an unprecedented heatwave. 22 000 people were taken to hospital and this has impacted the elderly in particular. Portugal is set to face […]
How to create leadership and innovation at work place?
I have just finished reading Richard Feynman’s book Surely you are joking Mr Feynman!” It’s a unique book in explaining how one of the great minds in physics thought about life, and more importantly how he maintained an innate curiosity and often questioned the very basic assumptions of physics in order to better understand the […]
Why peer review should be fun but can make you cry
The life of an academic is very much focused on and surrounded by the process of peer review. With peer review, I mean making and receiving comments on manuscripts that we have written or have been asked to read and assess for scientific journals. Most of us review papers for scientific journals in the hope […]