The Workshop Program is a principal component of the Academy's promotion of excellence in research in the social sciences. In its nine years of operation, it has staged 50 workshops and published many books arising from these. 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 very considerable degree of success of the Program in fulfilling these aims to date may be inferred from the several mentions made of its work in the Breakspere Report (1995), which notes that the Program provides an arena for intellectual exchange and innovation, a mechanism for exploring linkages between research and policy, and a means of involving younger scholars. Through the Workshops Program, the Academy is now a major facilitator of collective intellectual work in the social sciences in Australia.

Those wishing to submit a proposal for an Academy Workshop should follow the ASSA workshop guidelines.

Email Sarah Tynan at the Academy Secretariat () for further information, or phone on 02 6249 1788.

Workshop Committee

Professor Mary Luszcz (Chair)
Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu
Professor Peggy Brock
Professor Robert Wood
Professor Wilfrid Prest
Professor Simon Ville
Professor Stuart Macintyre (President of the Academy)
Dr John Beaton (Executive Director)

Sarah Tynan (Project Manager)