Society and Environment

RMIT has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indonesian government, during a visit that signals the University’s deepening presence and partnerships in the region.

Beneath shallow coastal waters from Western Australia’s southern coastline to the tropical lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef vast underwater meadows stretch quietly across the seafloor.

For the third year in a row, RMIT has ranked 1st in Australia for both Architecture/Built Environment and Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

RMIT University has once again been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, securing the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) citation for the 2026 to 2028 period.

RMIT is sponsoring the national Walk for Truth, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led initiative bringing communities together to support truth-telling and healing across Australia.

RMIT University engineers in Australia have built a remote-controlled minibot that hoovers up oil spills using an innovative filtering system inspired by sea urchins.

'Provocations' - RMIT College of Design and Social Context's new flagship public talks and ideas series posed a deliberately uncomfortable question for its first event: why are we still talking about gender equality?

This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Give to gain’, calls on all of us to share time, knowledge, resources and opportunities so that gender equality can move from rhetoric to reality.