A recent workshop in Alice Springs was held to discuss the Let’s Yarn About Smoke project, part of the Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub’s research on improving air quality.
Researchers and Indigenous collaborators met late last year to review progress on the smoke messaging project, focusing on how communities experience and respond to smoke from landscape fires and burns.
The workshop brought together partners who were already travelling through Alice Springs, enabling in-person discussions to review progress from yarning circles held with communities in NSW, NT and WA.
The session also included early planning for a second Key Thinkers Forum, which will likely be held in Sydney later this year.
The forum will bring together Indigenous leaders, researchers and decision makers to share experiences and learnings related to Indigenous Environmental Health.
Let’s Yarn About Smoke is a research project under Impact Priority 4: Air Quality, which aims to improve understanding of air quality impacts and support better health and wellbeing outcomes for communities most affected by smoke.
