Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

About the Workshop Program

The Workshop Program is a principal component of the Academy's promotion of excellence in research in the social sciences. It aims to identify issues of national concern in the social sciences and to focus specialist attention on them by means of workshops and roundtables. A related aim is to position the Program at the cutting edge of social science research in this country.

The Workshop Program has been recognized as providing an important arena for intellectual exchange and innovation, a mechanism for exploring linkages between research and policy, and as a valuable means of supporting Early Career Researchers. An indirect, but valuable, outcome of the Program has been the establishment of many continuing research collaborations and networks, many of them multi-disciplinary in nature. Through the Workshops Program, the Academy is now a major facilitator of collective intellectual work in the social sciences in Australia.

The ASSA Workshops Program is a competitive program bestowing grants to assist social sciences researchers to convene a two-day, multidisciplinary research workshop. Those wishing to submit a proposal for an Academy Workshop should follow the ASSA workshop guidelines and use the Workshop application form.

Note: To fill in the application form you will need to open the Application form document and use the File/Save As function. Once you have saved the Application form to your computer you can then open it and fill in the fields.

In past years the Academy has funded around 6 workshops each program year. Workshops are normally granted a maximum of $7,500. The number of workshops funded and the amounts allocated depend on the Academy's overall budget and the budget for the workshops program, which are subject to change.

The call for proposals for workshops to be held in 2013-14 is now open.
The closing date for proposals is Friday 12 October 2012.
Applications should be submitted electronically if possible to:
margaret.blood [at] anu.edu.au.

ASSA 2012-13 Workshop Program

The workshops that were successful in obtaining Academy funding for the 2012/13 program year are as follows:

Domestic moral economy: rethinking kinship and economy in contemporary Oceania
Convenors: Jon Altman (FASSA, ANU), Karen Sykes (Manchester), Chris Gregory (ANU)
Location: The Australian National University
Date: 3-4 September 2012

Democracy at the end of the world: new perspectives on the politics and government of Antarctica
Convenors: John Keane (Sydney), Robyn Eckersley (FASSA, Melbourne)
Location: Sydney University
Date:14-15 September 2012

Precarious migrants and national migration systems- rethinking the mobility/security nexus from a human rights perspective
Convenors: Claudia Tazreiter (UNSW), Stephen Castles (FASSA, UNSW), Sharon Pickering (Monash)
Location: Univerisity of New South Wales
Date: 22-23 November 2012

New mentalities of government in China: emerging professions, vocations and associations
Convenors: Barry Hindess (FASSA, ANU), Elaine Jeffreys (UTS) and David Bray (Sydney)
Location: University of Technology Sydney
Date: 6-7 December 2012

Emerging mechanisms of legislative and political power in response to irregular migration
Convenors: Margaret Davies (FASSA, Flinders), Willem de Lint (Flinders), Marinella Marmo (Flinders)
Location: Flinders University
Date: 6-7 December 2012

Science informing public policy: beyond 'what counts as evidence'?
Convenors: Kylie Valentine (UNSW), Susan Kippax (FASSA, UNSW)
Location: University of New South Wales
Date: April 2013

For more information on these workshops see: Upcoming workshops

Queries relating to the Workshop Program should be addressed to:

  • Ms Margaret Blood
  • Project Manager (Workshops, Public Forums)
  • Email: margaret.blood [at] anu.edu.au
  • Phone: +61   .2   62491788
  • It's currently 9:31 pm on Thursday, May 17, in Canberra.