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Research Education Support Activities (RESA) at the University of South Australia support higher degree by research students and supervisors to achieve timely and successful completion of the research degree.


July


Timor Leste: budgeting for gender equity

A seminar presented by the Research Centre for Gender Studies, Hawke Research Institute and the Australian Institute for Social Research (University of Adelaide)

Wednesday 8 July, 12.30–2.00 pm
Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR) Board Room, Level 4, 230 North Terrace, Adelaide

This seminar draws on research undertaken for a Development Research Award (ADRA) funded project 'Budgeting for women's empowerment: the practices and potential of gender-responsive budgeting in the Asia-Pacific Region' of which East Timor (and Indonesia) are case studies. The research team is joined by Timor Leste visiting research officer, Mr Hermino Xavier, of the Office of the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Gender Equality, Dili.

Presenters:

RSVP to Josie Covino: josie.covino@adelaide.edu.au or ph: 8303 3350 as places are limited.
 

Mutual learning through a university–school partnership: a synergistic and sustainable model

Prof Jerri Willett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Presented by the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures

8 July 2009, 3.30–5.00pm
Room C1-60, Magill Campus

Over the last decade, teachers, teacher educators and educational researchers in the US have been the target of harsh criticism by conservative reformers, who, in the name of greater accountability and higher achievement in schools, have marginalised educators and educational researchers. These attacks and subsequent mandated reforms, such as scripted curriculum materials, devastated the morale of educators. Seeking to reclaim their voices, a group of school and university educators formed the ACCELA Alliance, a University–Schools Professional Development Partnership between Springfield, a low-performing, high-poverty school district, and the Language, Literacy and Culture Concentration at the University of Massachusetts. In this partnership, teachers and faculty with the assistance of doctoral students worked together to document teaching and learning across the year with both mandated curriculum scripts and teacher-developed curriculum units. This presentation will describe the synergistic model of mutual learning that emerged, how it transformed relationships and identities among its members, and how their efforts improved learning and teaching. But it was the documentation of the children's learning that enabled these educators to reclaim their voices in the conversations about educational reform. Drawing on the ACCELA model, the School of Education and the Springfield School District are currently expanding the partnership to incorporate additional programs and faculty from the School of Education and teachers and administrators from the Springfield School District. The goals of this expanded partnership will be: 1) recruiting, supporting and retaining teachers in high need subject areas, 2) to provide seamless and articulated professional development across all stages of teacher development (pre-service, residency, induction and leadership), and 3) building coherence through negotiated core commitments and strategies.

Professor Jerri Willett has earned an international reputation for her groundbreaking work in the fields of language and literacy. For more than two decades, she has been a compelling advocate for the professional development of teachers of second language learners. Jerri spends countless hours in the schools, working with teachers in Holyoke and Springfield, and mentoring students in the doctoral concentration. Her consistent presence in the lives of these public school teachers along with her dedication to improving the education of second language learners have been instrumental to the ACCELA Alliance's success. Professor Willet and her colleagues in the language and literacy concentration at University of Massachusetts, Amherst are currently working to expand the ACCELA program across the Commonwealth.

RSVP to sarah.rose@unisa.edu.au
 

August


Work–life balance policies in a declining economy: are they still win-win?

Professor Eileen Appelbaum, School of Management and Labor Relations, Director, Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University, USA

Wednesday 12 August, 6.00 pm for a 6.15 pm start
Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building, City West Campus, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide

Jointly presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, the Centre for Work + Life and the School of Management

This lecture will examine US federal and state policies and initiatives to improve work–life balance. The US ranks close to the bottom among countries in terms of workers' access to job-protected unpaid and paid leave for childbirth and bonding, to recover from an illness, or to care for a seriously ill family member. Many workers lose pay, and may even lose their jobs, when they take time off from work to care for a parent who has a stroke or a child who is gravely ill. Research shows, and workers know, that health outcomes are compromised when they can't take time off to care for themselves or their families. Less well known, however, are the costs imposed on businesses and on public health by this lack of paid time off for workers to care for themselves and their families. Improving work–life balance is the second of five goals of President Obama's White House Task Force on Working Families. Initiatives are underway in Congress and in several US states and cities to remedy this lack of access to paid leave. This lecture will consider implications for working families and businesses, and the adjustments we might consider to encourage implementation now.

Eileen Appelbaum is Professor II (Distinguished Professor) in the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University where she directs the Center for Women and Work. She holds a concurrent appointment as Professor in the Manchester Business School and is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Dr Appelbaum's current research focuses on low-wage work in the US and Europe; on the direct care workforce in child care, elder care and health care; and on policies and practices that facilitate the work and family lives of workers. With Professor Ruth Milkman she is currently conducting a study of California's five-year-old paid family leave program.
 

Throughout 2009


Itek research commercialisation and intellectual property workshops

Come along and learn about how to protect your invention/research, learn about the funding that is available to you as a researcher and most of all learn whether your project may have some commercial value and if so, what steps to take next.

ITEK Pty Ltd, Mawson Lakes Campus, Building P, Level 1, Rm 48
10am to 11am
Included free: notebook and pen, morning tea, certificate of attendance

Intellectual property guide
Presented by Adele Flego, patent attorney from Madderns
24 June, 28 October 2009

Research commercialisation and funding
Presented by Chris Hill, Commercialisation Manager
26 August, 25 November 2009

Registration form (Word)
Registration form (PDF)

For further information contact: Annalisa Agresta, info@itek.com.au or 8302 5300
 

Philosophers Cafe

The Philosophers Cafe is an annual series of community lectures organised by the North Adelaide Community Centre. At the Philosophers Cafe a small audience can eat a meal together, and listen to and comment on a lecture drawn from a number of topics of current interest. This year's speakers include Hawke researcher Ian Richards and former Hawke Fellow Catherine Speck.

Brochure (PDF 147 kb)
 

2010
 

Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies

Adelaide, 6–8 April 2010. Hosted by the Hawke Research Institute and the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.

Invited speakers include:

Call for papers
We invite papers that interrogate emotion, society and space from diverse disciplinary and multidisciplinary backgrounds. We are interested in specific case studies as well as theoretical examinations of the nature of connections among these terms. The conference will be an exciting place to think about new ways of studying the natures, cultures and histories of emotional life. We welcome individual papers as well as panel proposals. We are happy to receive papers that engage in experimental as well as traditional formats.

Possible topics include: embodiment and emotions; affective attachment and the other-than-human; Emotional labour and management; migration, postcolonialism and emotions; Indigenous knowledges and emotion; emotional publics and passionate politics; theories of affect, emotions, feelings; affect and tourism; queer spaces of affect; emotion and political reform.

One special theme of the conference is 'consuming and producing affective spaces of taste'. Focusing on the relations of production and consumption we want to examine how spaces of tastes are being refigured within the cultural economics of transglobalisation. We are especially interested in specific studies of the changing geographies of food, tourism, and other material commodities, as well as more general theoretical investigations of the connections between production, consumption, emotions and space.

Abstracts of 300 words to be sent to CPCSGlobalisation@unisa.edu.au by 17 July 2009.
More information from conference chair Prof Elspeth Probyn, Research SA Chair & Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies, Hawke Research Institute.
 

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