
The Rescue Project, which won the 2022 UNSW Faculty Award for The Best Doctoral Thesis and the 2022 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Thesis, considers how people, in a time of environmental crisis, gather courage and come together to rescue animals and their natural habitats. Using a publicly accessible website to gather stories from rescuers - our citizen storytellers - the project has resulted in a podcast series titled The Rescue Project. These four podcasts immerse listeners in the ‘home ground’ of the storytellers, communicating their inspiring accounts of environmental rescue to spark hope and to motivate others to build a more regenerative world.
Website
Landcare Rescue Project
Research duration
January 2018 - December 2021
Lead researcher
Gretchen Miller
UNSW PhD candidate
Funding partner
Landcare Australia
Research area
Environment & Society
- Gretchen Miller, UNSW PhD candidate
The Rescue Project is a brilliant demonstration of how the modern format of podcasting and audio design can be used to tell stories of hope, courage and individual and democratic action. Ultimately, it hopes to inspire listeners to take their own action to care for their surrounding environment. Tema Milstein, Associate Professor of Environment & Society, was Dr. Miller’s supervisor for her PhD.
- James Link, Head Corporate Partnerships, Landcare Australia
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