Every year, final year PhD candidates present their doctoral studies to the RSV, competing for four Prizes that recognise excellence in Victoria’s early career scientists across Biological Sciences, Biomedical & Health Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Physical Sciences.

The theme for 2024's National Science Week was 'Survive and Thrive', exploring how we can use science to help flora, fauna, and ourselves not only survive, but also thrive in this changing world.

The events were coordinated by the RSV in its role under the Inspiring Victoria program.

De-extinction is not simply about putting a carbon-copy of an 1800’s thylacine back into the Tasmanian ecosystem. The thylacine co-evolved within that ecosystem over many thousands of years, and its role remains intact. Returning the native apex predator to that environment has the potential to stabilise it, and even save other endangered marsupials.