Joining us are the project’s lead researchers: Dr Felicity Small, Dr Lucia Wuersch, and Associate Professor Alain Neher, from the School of Business, who have brought together staff, students and community members to turn concern into action. Today, we’ll talk about why pollinators matter, what’s happening here on campus for World Bee Day, and how small, practical steps can make a big difference for pollinators, people and the planet.
The Bathurst campus pollinator garden was created as a bed and breakfast for birds, bees, butterflies and biodiversity, responding to the very real decline of pollinators in Australia and globally. It’s also a research project, exploring how communities co‑create meaning, knowledge and care around sustainability initiatives. So let’s jump in.
Topics
- UN World Bee Day theme (Timestamp 02:45)
- Practical actions and supporting pollinators (Timestamp 04:29)
- B&B for birds, bees, butterflies and biodiversity (Timestamp 06:04)
- The lived journey as a research enquiry (Timestamp 07:41)
- Collaborative ethnography (Timestamp 10:55)
- Studying anthropogenic pollutants (Timestamp 13:40)
- Impacts of the Bathurst pollinator garden (Timestamp 16:19)
- Outcomes of the pollinator garden (Timestamp 18:29)
Resources
- You can learn about the Pollinator Garden project here.
- Read about what happens on World Bee Day in Bathurst here.
- Don’t forget to register for this year’s World Bee Day event on Bathurst Campus, 20th May 2026.
- You can read our guests’ research articles related to the pollinator garden project here:
- Wuersch, L., Neher, A., & Small, F. (2026). Building community capitals through stakeholder engagement in a pollinator garden of a regional Australian university: A business school initiative
- Neher, A., Wuersch, L., & Small, F. (2026). Creating a Community Pollinator Garden: Values and Emotion Work in a Grassroots Initiative. In: Espedal, G., Ruebottom, T., Struminska-Kutra, M., Bento da Silva, J., Creed, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Emotions and Values in Organizational Institutionalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12670-2_20
