The recently convened Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability cordially invites teaching and research staff at Murdoch University to become members of this exciting new venture.

Teaching and Research staff whose interests align with the Centre will be invited to take part in collegial activities designed to further research and teaching in a range of areas.

It costs nothing to join but we ask that you complete an application form - available by emailing crcs@murdoch.edu.au

The Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability

Origins

The Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability was formed in October 2014 by members of the Responsible Citizenship Research Group (RCRG) within the School of Management and Governance. The Centre builds on the foundations of the former Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) and the Institute for Social Sustainability (ISS) as its successor.

The Centre is a multi-disciplinary hub for teaching and research in the areas of business, politics, security studies and sustainability, reflective of the broad disciplinary variety within the School of Management and Governance. Centre staff engage in theoretical and empirical research, endeavouring to shape new thinking and practice on key aspects of Responsible Citizenship – Responsible Management; Responsible Governance; Ecological Citizenship; Security; Human Rights and Social Justice and to engage in scholarship on teaching and learning in these areas.

Mission

Central to the mission of the Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability is the creation of a platform for collaborative work across different discipline areas from within School of Management and Governance, across all schools within Murdoch University and institutions outside the university.

The Centre aims at bringing together researchers, scholars and practitioners from public, non-profit and private sector organisations, helping advance teaching and research in areas at the heart of key global challenges and that are relevant to future university graduates and society at large.

The Centre seeks to contribute, by way of advancing the critical and increasingly complex research agendas in business and governance, to the strategic goals of the School of Management and Governance and those of Murdoch University.

The value-based nature of the work at the Centre is well aligned with the commitments made by the School of Management Governance under the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRiME), which require a strong nexus between business and ethics.

The Centre’s research agenda also corresponds with Murdoch University’s research priority areas, targeting sustainability, wellbeing and security. Thus, CRCS is well positioned to support the university in its ambition to be an outward-facing and socially relevant institution.

The CRCS currently has an interim leadership team comprising of Dr Megan Paull, Dr Rochelle Spencer and Dr Martin Brueckner and a membership of around 20 staff with a shared PhD supervision load of close to 30 students and combined research grant monies of over $2 million.

Email contact:  crcs@murdoch.edu.au