We are increasingly livestreaming our events to help members stay connected to our programs during the pandemic, and to reach communities from regional and rural areas. If you want to join an event happening *right now,* you can access any active livestream from our Facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/royalsocietyvictoria/live/ , or review past livestreamed presentations by selecting the corresponding tab below.
Missed an event? We’ve recorded many of our recent presentations, either in high quality with accompanying interview material, or very simply through livestream footage. You can browse through our video highlights below, check out our YouTube channel for full lectures, or see our livestream archive on our Facebook page.
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2021 Highlights
Summaries of major presentations hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria in 2021. Full presentations are available at our YouTube channel.
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Championing Translation and Commercialisation of Australian Medical Research (Short)
Changing Forests in a Changing Climate - What Might the Future Hold? (Short)
The Anthropocene: Where on Earth are we Going? (Short)
Surviving the Journey: Protecting Astronauts from Space Radiation (Short)
The Democratisation of Remote Sensing to Monitor Forests
New Technologies for Monitoring Bushfires and Water Quality
Early Detection of Natural Disasters with Integrated Sensor Networks
Location, Location, Location: Immune Protection by Tissue-Resident T Cells (Short)
Biodiversity Conservation to Avert Mass Extinction, Ecosystem Collapse & Global Economic Risk (Short
Liveable Cities for All: Are We There Yet? (Short)
Coastal Resilience - How Landforms Cope with Changing Waves and Rising Seas (Short)
Decarbonising Energy: At the Tipping Point (Short)
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2020 Highlights
Summaries of major presentations hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria in 2020. Full presentations are available at our YouTube channel.
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Sustainable Solar Energy (Short)
AQFx - an Australian Smoke Forecasting System (Short)
From Wolfe Creek to Tunguska - Meteorites in Cultural Traditions (Short)
Writing on Stone - Graptolites and Ancient Ground (Short)
Climate Change - Managing the Unavoidable, Avoiding the Unmanageable (Short)
Imagine a World - Postcards from the Pandemic (Short)
The Corrosion Characteristics of Additively Manufactured Austenitic Stainless Steel
On the Nature of Neutron Stars in Accreting Systems
Foaming at the Mouth: How eating floral foam microplastics harms animals’ health
Temporal and Geochemical Evolution of Kimberlite Magmatism in Finland
Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor: A new target in neonatal lung disease
Cellular origin and developmental complexity of embryonic chicken gonads revealed
Investigating the Marlborough Fault System by recreating a tectonic plate boundary in a sandbox
Full Steam Ahead? The unintended harm of detecting Fetal Growth Restriction
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Stupidity? (Short)
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2019 Highlights
Summaries of major presentations hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria in 2019. Full presentations are available at our YouTube channel.
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Darkness Visible Down Under (Short)
Mind Over Faecal Matter: Gut Biome & Mental Health (Short)
Social Work - Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction (Short)
Science Gossip - Woodland Rumours & Thinking Trees (short)
Summaries of major presentations hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria in 2018. Full presentations are available at our YouTube channel.
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Australian Indigenous Astronomy - 65.000+ Years of Science
You and Your Racist Brain: The Neuroscience of Prejudice
Earthrise: Looking Back at our Planet (Short)
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Future Thinking
Recent presentations to the Royal Society of Victoria concerned with climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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The Goulburn Murray Resilience Strategy
Climate Change - Managing the Unavoidable, Avoiding the Unmanageable (Short)
Imagine a World - Postcards from the Pandemic (Short)
Future Thinking: Preparing for the Transition of the Water Sector
Future Thinking: Taking a Place-Based Approach - The Voice of a Region
Future Thinking: Preparing for Biodiversity Decision Making
Future Thinking: Climate Change and Systems Transformation
Future Thinking: Agricultural Transitions
Future Thinking: Building Community Agency
A Message From The Future - Lauren Rickards
A Message From The Future - Sharon Friel
A Message From the Future - Peter Doherty
A Message From The Future - Dr Jenny Gray
Changing Forests in a Changing Climate - What Might the Future Hold? (Short)
The Land and its Laws of Obligation
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Live-streamed Presentations on Facebook
Live-stream footage of lectures and seminars hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria (note: these are mostly very basic video recordings. There’s some overlap with our professionally filmed YouTube content). You can click “load more” to scroll through the archive here, or visit our Facebook page to browse playlists.
Australia installed more renewable generation in the last three years than in the thirty years prior. It seems that every week a new renewable energy record is smashed. Yet despite this, Australia has the highest per-capita greenhouse emissions of any advanced economy, we’re on track...
To predict how our coastlines will look in a future dominated by climate change, it is critical to understand the unique local conditions that have combined to give us the forms we see today. Associate Professor David Kennedy (The University of Melbourne) is a coastal...
Australia installed more renewable generation in the last three years than in the thirty years prior. It seems that every week a new renewable energy record is smashed. Yet despite this, Australia has the highest per-capita greenhouse emissions of any advanced economy, we’re on track...
In a ‘post-truth’ society, fuelled by soundbites and status updates, opinions and personal theories are often presented with unwavering certainty but remain untested.
In this climate, it can be confusing when we hear from scientists reluctant to deal in absolutes, who instead...
Human pressures on the planet as a whole – the ‘Earth System’ – have now become so great that scientists propose we have left the Holocene, the 11,700-year geologic epoch that has been humanity’s accommodating home, and have entered a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene,...
For many years, Melbourne, Australia has dined out on being recognised as “the most liveable city in the world;” and is now second to Vienna. While this global recognition is a source of great pride and an excellent marketing tool – is this measure of...
Our coast is a dynamic system. As the protective boundary between the land and sea it absorbs the constant energy it receives from waves and tides and in doing so creates the landforms on which people recreate and build. The forms we see on the...
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