EMCR Climate and Nature Academy

The EMCR Climate and Nature Academy is a training and future leadership program for Emerging and Mid-Career Researchers [EMCRs] working both in the academy, and in all our partnerships.

The EMCR Academy includes intensive training, mentoring, networking and funding opportunities to build early and mid-career researchers’ capabilities to work in transdisciplinary research environments and to undertake collaborative research that generates real world impact. Our efforts will focus on fostering the next generation of researchers and practitioners able to work across sectors to generate nature-positive climate transitions.

  • EMCRs and early career practitioners will work with our highly experienced CIs and PIs to co-design our program and learn through practice. We will explicitly support mid-career researchers and partners to build the next cohort of professorial and industry leaders through training and mentoring, alongside intentional placement of EMCRs in key positions in our leadership team.

    The Academy will be designed to create a culturally safe space for First Nations practitioners and researchers to gain experience working together with First Nations leaders and our wider network. In collaboration with the Melbourne Indigenous Knowledges Institute, CENPCT will ensure all settler scholars and partners will be trained in the groundwork of cultural competency.

  • We will draw on our published research and experience to develop a Policy and Innovation Lab, that will serve as an incubator for project teams to ensure they are equipped with the transdisciplinary research skills and support to work effectively together on co-creation and translation activities.

    The Academy will also include a secondment program for researchers and partners to support researchers to learn about the practical challenges associated with nature-positive climate transitions, or to provide partners the space to solidify their experiential knowledge into transferable research publications or insights.

  • A key feature of the EMCR Academy is a fund that allows CENPCT to respond to emerging needs, and opportunities led by early and mid-career researchers and partners, over the course of their time working on CENPCT programs and Policy and Innovation Lab projects.

Students working in the field at Dookie Campus, University of Melbourne

Academy Outcomes

EMCRs will leave the Academy with an applied, nature-positive ethos, transdisciplinary training, and experience alongside practitioners across academy, government, industry and on-ground partners, ready to lead just and nature-positive approaches to climate transition. 

In the decades to follow, EMCR Nature Academy graduates and postdoctoral appointments will be establishing and leading organisations that are consolidating positive climate transitions and leaving society better connected with nature, understanding the benefits and enjoying the shared prosperity brought by a more just and nature-positive approach to the critical transitions we are facing.

EMCR Climate and Nature Academy Leadership

Prof Martine Maron

DEPUTY DIRECTOR (EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT)
Node Lead | University of Queensland

Deputy Director (Capability and Diversity) Maron (UQ) is a global leader in environmental policy research and thought leadership, including leading UN and national development of offset and compensation policies.

She has a national reputation for nurturing and launching the careers of ECRs.

Maron will lead our Emerging and Mid-Career Researcher and Partner Climate and Nature Academy’ with a focus on maximising networks, innovation opportunities, impact and career development for early and mid-career researchers and partners.