Members of the Environmental and Social Justice Research Group (ESJ) at Charles Sturt University are social researchers from a diverse range of academic, professional and research backgrounds.

We are passionate about working for social change, psychosocial wellbeing, community resilience and environmental justice.

We do this by

• Co-creating research in partnership with community members, government and non-government organisations, and other researchers
• Focusing on action-based outcomes and capacity-building
• Using innovative strengths-based, decolonising approaches, and
• Sharing our research to transform knowledge and practice.

Real world outcomes include:

• Evaluations, needs analysis, surveys
• Submission-writing, funding applications, reports
• Service delivery models
• Policy development
• Community consultation, forums and events
• Professional development workshops
• Research publications and presentations.

Our social research explores

• Wellbeing e.g. health, mental health, ability and disability
• Gender equity
• Cultural diversity and multicultural communities
• Development across the lifespan e.g. healthy ageing, children, family and youth welfare
• Regional and rural communities
• Sustainability and the environment
• Disaster resilience
• Professional practice
• And other focus areas.

We are guided by Charles Sturt University’s ethos:

Yindyamarra Winhanganha

The wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in

and Charles Sturt University’s motto:

For the public good

In partnership with the Gender and Feminist Studies Network