– Presentation slides added – The Australian Academy of Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and the Australian Research Council convened a one-day workshop for potential HASS applicants for the forthcoming ARC Centres of Excellence rounds. The workshop featured presentations from the […]
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Advocacy for Energy Transitions – Mapping the Dynamics
This workshop maps the landscape of advocacy for ‘energy transition’, a decisive shift away from fossil fuels to varying forms of renewable energy. We consider the diverse players – scientists, industry, policy networks, media, NGOs, local community groups – and the strategies they employ, and address questions of energy democracy, what constitutes a ‘just transition’, […]
Australian Indigenous self-determination: past practices, future options
Self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has been subject to critical scrutiny in recent years, but debate suffers from a lack of consensus about the policy implications of this ideal. This workshop asks what Indigenous self-determination has meant practically in Australia, and what lessons can be learned for the future practice of self-determination. […]
Gender and Trauma, 1945 to the present
This interdisciplinary workshop asks how gender shaped the definition and treatment of trauma across time and place. The objectives are to: identify key moments when gender has informed theories and treatments of trauma; examine gendered specificities in women’s and men’s experiences of trauma; analyse the role of gender in narratives of trauma. Continue Reading
Regulating Consumptogenic Systems
Excess consumption by industrialised societies is harming human health and destroying the planet. This workshop brings together scholars from across Australia to explore ways in which to regulate systemic and individual level consumption. A meta-synthesis of the discussions will be published in a journal and translated to policymakers, nongovernmental organisations, and civil society actors active […]
Understanding Crime and Rural Communities: Theory, Policy and Practice
Existing understandings of crime are focused predominantly on urban environments: this workshop focuses on expanding comprehensions of crime within regional, rural and remote contexts across Australia. This will address a significant knowledge deficit and produce a range of theoretical and practical outcomes to improve criminal justice responses to rural, regional and remote offending. Continue Reading
Technology and Domestic Violence: Experiences, Perpetration and Responses
This workshop brings together experts in the field of technology-facilitated stalking and abuse to share knowledge and solutions to an emerging issue in the Domestic Violence (DV) arena. It will produce outcomes that will improve our understanding of the significant risk posed to victim/survivors (particularly women and children) by this violence and provide innovative solutions […]
Basic income: a wicked solution to a wicked policy problem
The purpose of the workshop is to progress basic income debates by exploring the potential for designing strategies and project activities toward implementing a basic income scheme in Australia. The expected outcomes are: strategic development of national policy research agenda on basic income, situating Australia at centre of debates, conceptual framework development, and an edited […]
Going beyond the crisis response: building trust and maintaining legitimacy for all stakeholders in environmental flows and water governance
Going beyond crisis management: a workshop to develop new tools to build long-term legitimacy for environmental flows programs by bringing together researchers, practitioners and community organizations. This workshop will draw on multi-disciplinary research to identify a new set of tools and metrics to actively support participation and deep engagement, and build and maintain trust between […]
Women’s empowerment, microfinance and aid in the Asia Pacific: a workshop of policy relevant findings and innovative methods
This workshop of academics and practitioners will discuss and analyse poverty reduction microfinance programs as a strategy for improving the lives of women in the Asia Pacific. Workshop participants will present their experience and knowledge and discuss ways to increase the potential of these programs for the personal, social and economic empowerment of women in […]
Theorising the dynamics of social service markets: risk, regulation and rent-seeking
Australian governments have marketised publicly-funded social services in the hope of reducing costs, increasing diversity and empowering consumers, but the result has been fragile and fragmented service systems, in which risks of rent-seeking, resource leakage and regulatory capture are high. This workshop will identify risk factors for failure in social service markets, to inform service […]
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- Presentation slides added from Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) ARC Centres of Excellence Workshop
- Technology and Domestic Violence: Experiences, Perpetration and Responses
- Basic income: a wicked solution to a wicked policy problem
- Going beyond the crisis response: building trust and maintaining legitimacy for all stakeholders in environmental flows and water governance
- Women’s empowerment, microfinance and aid in the Asia Pacific: a workshop of policy relevant findings and innovative methods
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- What’s Your Story? Surveys, Social Science Expertise and the State in the Twentieth Century
- The Contemporary Policy Challenge
- The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
- IVF and Assisted Reproduction: Australia in the global experience
- Strategies for Success in Indigenous Governing for Development: An international conversation
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- Gender, Migration and the Provision of Social Care
- The Non-Indigenous responsibility to engage: Scoping reconciliation and its alternatives
- Taking stock: The reconfiguration of public housing governance in Australia
- Industrial Relations Reform: Looking to the Future
- Understanding Australian policies on public health
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- Mobility and belonging across the life-course Australian perspectives
- Ten years after the Australia-US free trade agreement Where to for Australia’s trade policy
- The globalisation of international society
- The legal regulation of political parties and electoral integrity in Australia Promoting electoral engagement, competition and inclusiveness
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- Re-imagining environmental governance Beyond the impasse
- The coal rush, and beyond Comparative perspectives
- Religion and sexual politics in post-secular Australia
- Social transformation and international migration Challenges for social theory and national identities
- Vulnerable youth in policy and practice Conceptualisations, enactments and impacts
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- Emerging mechanisms of legislative and political power in response to irregular migration
- New mentalities of government in China Emerging professions, vocations and associations
- Australian constitutional conventions in comparative perspective
- Precarious migrants and national migration systems Re-thinking the mobility/security nexus from a human rights perspective
- Work, care and family in australia linking new research to policy effect in australia
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- Australian women’s non-government organisations and government – an evolving relationship?
- Religion and social policy in Australia and neighbouring countries
- Family, work and wellbeing over the life course
- Cultures of humanitarianism Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region
- Neurolaw in Australia Revealing the hidden impact of neuroscience and behavioural genetics on Australian law
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- Contesting neoliberalism and its future
- 2010 Australian election (Federal election workshop series)
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on intercountry adoption in Australia History, policy, practice and experience
- Understanding emotions An interdisciplinary workshop
- Rethinking Australian research on migration and diversity
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- Privatisation, security and community How master planned estates are changing suburban Australia
- Consolidating research in Australian teacher education
- Energy security in the era of climate change A dialogue on current trends and future options
- Religion and state intervention and opposition Regional and global perspectives
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- The great risk shift? Institutionalisation of individualism
- Positive pathways for couples and families
- Sisters of Sisyphus? Human service professions and the new public management
- Religion and politics Australian cases and responses
- War, commerce and ethics in British international political thought
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- Theoretical, empirical and policy inputs to modelling healthy ageing
- Combating social exclusion through joined up policy Addressing social inclusion through whole-of-government approaches.
- Australia and climate change diplomacy Towards a post-Kyoto regime
- The future of Australian anti-discrimination law
- Police professionalism
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- The 2004 Australian election
- Aborigines, culture and economy The past, present, and future of rural and remote indigenous lives
- The deregulation of the Australian labour market: a workshop in honour of keith hancock
- Publicising performance data on individual surgeons The ethical issues – policy implications
- Corruption: expanding the focus
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- Globalisation, trade liberalisation and economic growth in asia Should labour and environmental standards be part of the equation? the case of bangladesh
- Occupational stress in Australia in the twenty first century: the health, social and economic costs
- Custom: the fate of non-western law and Indigenous governance in the 21st century
- Australian democractic audit: indicators workshop
- Globalisation and educational futures: re-visioning identity, citizenship, and ethics