Featured Scientist: Professor Brendan Choat, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Brendan Choat is a world leader in plant water relations and interested in how plants, especially trees, cope with water stress. Brendan works on plants from the nanometer to continental scales, piecing together how native and also crop species cope with environmental stresses like drought and fire. Brendan explains in a great and easy to understand way how climate change is impacting our forested landscapes in Australia and how his work is helping conservation management. He also explains what cavitation is and how it leads to ‘popping’ sounds in trees.

Featured Scientist: Professor Brendan Choat, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Brendan Choat is a world leader in plant water relations and interested in how plants, especially trees, cope with water stress. Brendan works on plants from the nanometer to continental scales, piecing together how native and also crop species cope with environmental stresses like drought and fire. Brendan explains in a great and easy to understand way how climate change is impacting our forested landscapes in Australia and how his work is helping conservation management. He also explains what cavitation is and how it leads to ‘popping’ sounds in trees.

Hi! Welcome to Up For Research – the show from the frontline of science. 

In a world where powerful forces think misinformation (aka ‘alternative facts’) is the way to get things done, it is more important than ever to scrutinise information, question conventions and burst knowledge bubbles. This is what good researchers do all the time. In fact, good researchers apply the unambiguous principles of science – truthfulness, respect for the integrity of knowledge, transparency, and openness – all the time. Through their work, they become agents of change.

This show is about good research. It gets you in the room with agents of change that work at Western Sydney University. You will hear from practitioners and managers of research in disciplines related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), but also from Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS). 

The world today hopes for technological inventions to solve the biggest challenges faced by humanity, like climate change, biodiversity loss, global urbanization or eliminating hunger. However, besides inventing the next machine that goes ping, it is important that we nurture social change, compassion, respect, equity and equality, and defend human rights. 

Up For Research gives you a glance into this kaleidoscope of contemporary scientific work done at a young, ambitious university in Australia. In 2022, and among more than 1,400 universities worldwide, Western Sydney University was ranked #1 by the THE Impact Rankings for its efforts to deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We live for good research. Our work delivers positive change and impacts societies and environments.

Subscribe to Up For Research and you will not miss a single episode that unpacks what our agents of change are working on right now.

Hi! Welcome to Up For Research – the show from the frontline of science. 
In a world where powerful forces think misinformation (aka ‘alternative facts’) is the way to get things done, it is more important than ever to scrutinise information, question conventions and burst knowledge bubbles. This is what good researchers do all the time. In fact, good researchers apply the unambiguous principles of science – truthfulness, respect for the integrity of knowledge, transparency, and openness – all the time. Through their work, they become agents of change.
This show is about good research. It gets you in the room with agents of change that work at Western Sydney University. You will hear from practitioners and managers of research in disciplines related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), but also from Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS). 
The world today hopes for technological inventions to solve the biggest challenges faced by humanity, like climate change, biodiversity loss, global urbanization or eliminating hunger. However, besides inventing the next machine that goes ping, it is important that we nurture social change, compassion, respect, equity and equality, and defend human rights. 
Up For Research gives you a glance into this kaleidoscope of contemporary scientific work done at a young, ambitious university in Australia. In 2022, and among more than 1,400 universities worldwide, Western Sydney University was ranked #1 by the THE Impact Rankings for its efforts to deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We live for good research. Our work delivers positive change and impacts societies and environments.
Subscribe to Up For Research and you will not miss a single episode that unpacks what our agents of change are working on right now.

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