Events

November
Throughout 2009
2010

Events presented by research concentrations

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.

November

Smarter schools: CoAG National Partnerships round table

Free public event co-presented by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, HRI, and the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.

Monday 9 November 2009, 5.30–7pm
Bradley Forum, Hawke Building, City West campus

Panel members:

Prof Lori Beckett, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK (on low SES school communities)
Prof Barbara Comber, UniSA (on literacy and numeracy)
Prof Tania Aspland, Adelaide University (on improving teacher quality)
Prof Alan Reid, UniSA (respondent)

Recently the Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) agreed to three new 'Smarter Schools' National Partnerships which aim to improve the outcomes for students and the skills and qualities of teachers and school leaders. These three national partnerships are for literacy and numeracy, improving teacher quality, and low socioeconomic-status school communities. The federal government funding commitment with co-contributions from the South Australian government and non-government education sectors aims to bring about systemic and sustained educational reforms. A commitment to collaboration between the three schooling sectors in South Australia means that there is widespread interest in related matters. The event will adopt a roundtable format and focus on the CoAG National Partnerships.

Doing knowledge work in tough schools

Free public event jointly presented by the School of Education, Flinders University and the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Hawke Research Institute
Lori Beckett, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 4.00–6.00pm
Room 2.09, Education Building, Flinders University

This seminar is geared towards sharing what we have learned from research and practice in disadvantaged schools in Sydney and Leeds about teachers and others becoming self-conscious knowledge workers. Much emphasis has been on the reflective practitioner, and the ways school heads, teachers and other staff learn and think about their work with students, families and communities with deep needs. Much has been done to provide opportunities for teachers to engage in knowledge building through action inquiries and building school learning portfolios comprised of individual, group and school-wide action reports. There is a need to pause and take stock of our efforts to support teachers and others to move on from a reliance on implicit knowledge and unspoken theories. I will share some of the strategies we have engaged in our school–university partnerships to support professional learning communities and build a stock of professional knowledge. It is hoped the ideas and our critical reflections will contribute to our critical understandings not only about professional learning in disadvantaged schools but also what we need to do to sustain teachers' knowledge building by reading professional literature as it pertains to their concerns and action enquiries and working with academic partners.

Lori Beckett took up her professorial appointment at Leeds Met in 2006, and on arrival began to organise and edit the centenary book, City of Leeds Training College 1907–2007: continuity and change, published by the university in October 2007. Having led a team of twenty-four people to bring the project to fruition, she was honoured to be nominated by Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Lee for the newly established Winifred Mercier Chair of Teacher Education, in memory of the first so-called Lady Vice-Principal. In her first year, Lori also worked to establish school–university partnerships in inner city Leeds, forging inquiry communities where academic partners work with teacher partners to support professional learning and development focused on teachers' work practices. The 'Patterns for Learning' project, successfully trialled in Little London Community Primary School (LLCPS) in 2006–07, was rolled out into its family of schools in 2008 as 'side-by-side learning' with one year TDA funding for CPD in challenging schools. This enabled the university to establish a connection with a network of disadvantaged schools. Lori is currently completing her book, Teaching in tough schools, which brings together the voices from our inquiry communities in disadvantaged schools in England and Australia, where she worked with schools on the NSW Priority Action Schools program. She has co-presented with teacher partners Jill Wood (LLCPS) and Kathleen Gallagher (City of Leeds High School) in numerous forums, including the DCSF 2009 spring workshops on the Gender Agenda.

All welcome. The presentation will be followed by drinks and nibbles.
For catering purposes, please RSVP by 6 November via email to teresa.hayton@flinders.edu.au or phone 8201 3219

Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2009
A slow revolution: maternity leave, women and work

Associate Professor Marian Baird, University of Sydney

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 5.30–7.30pm (registration at 5.15pm)
Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, City West Campus

The Clare Burton Memorial Lecture Series is presented annually at all ATN universities as a tribute to the life and work of the late Dr Clare Burton. This year's lecture will be presented by Dr Marian Baird, Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies and the Convenor of the Women and Work Research Group in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney.

Why did it take so long for women in Australia to achieve paid maternity leave – and what happens next? The lecture analyses changes in Australia's attitudes to working women from the first unpaid maternity leave decision in 1979 to the government's announcement of a national system of paid parental leave on Mother's Day in 2009 and the change from 1 Jan 2010 which allows working parents the right to request an additional 12 months of unpaid parental leave and flexible working arrangements. These are significant, even revolutionary, policy changes in Australia. What will be the implications of these changes for employers and for working parents, particularly women? The lecture proposes answers to these questions and argues that the revolution needs to continue – but at a faster pace and with broader impact.

RSVP: register here (UniSA internal) or email Justene Knight (if external)

Developing a resilient Australia in an age of uncertainty

UniSA Gift of Knowledge Lecture Series

Panel discussion with Prof Pal Ahluwalia, Pro Vice Chancellor of UniSA's Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, Associate Professor David Cropley, UniSA's Associate Professor of Engineering Innovation in the Defence and Systems Institute, Professor Paul Fairall, Foundation Dean of Law at UniSA's School of Law.
Chaired by Associate Professor Wendy Lacey, School of Law

Tuesday 10 November, 6.00–7.30pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building, City West Campus

Traditionally the key elements of Australia's defence policy have been keeping Australia free from direct threat, maintaining economic security and fostering an international security environment. Australia is free from threat largely because of the deterrent effect of our armed forces. Equally we deter other forms of threat to our security by means of our political system, our economic system, our border security and our legal system, among others. This lecture will focus on these deterrents, as well as the importance of resilience, and practical measures that must be addressed now to ensure that our deterrents remain both credible and able to recover quickly if needed.

Publishing masterclass

with Dr Kane Race
For postgraduate students and early career researchers who want to know more about publishing journal articles and academic books

Thursday 12 November, 3–4.30 pm

Dr Kane Race is Senior Lecturer at the Gender and Cultural Studies Department of the University of Sydney. He has published extensively in international journals in the areas of drug use, HIV and culture, spanning the fields of sociology, cultural studies, queer studies and public health (see his homepage). His recent book Pleasure consuming medicine: the queer politics of drugs was published by the internationally recognised academic publisher Duke University Press. Dr Race will talk about his experience in publishing, particularly his recent book, and there will be extensive time to ask your own questions as well as network with other students and postdoctoral researchers.

Places are limited. RSVP by 10 November by contacting Gilbert Caluya, gilbert.caluya@unisa.edu.au, with your details: full name, position (if any), institutional affiliation and one to two paragraphs about your research.

In conversation:
Pleasure consuming medicine

Dr Kane Race, University of Sydney

Thursday 12 November, 2009, 5–6pm
Room H 6-12, Hawke Building, City West Campus

It is usual to think of pleasure and medicine as polar opposites, one always ruling out the other. In this paper Dr Race asks what may be gained by bring them into better articulation. He draws from the gay community responses to HIV/AIDS, as well as the increasingly blurred distinction between licit and illicit drugs. A queer inquiry into pleasure and medical governance not only illuminates the ideological role that the illicit drug user fulfils for the neo-liberal state, but may also generate new, more effective, practices of care.

Dr Kane Race is a senior lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on how new medical technologies developed in response to HIV have affected gay sexual and political cultures and everyday life. He is the author of Pleasure consuming medicine: the queer politics of drugs, recently released by Duke University Press.

For further enquires please contact Prof Elspeth Probyn.
Places are limited. RSVP (essential) to Sonia Saitov.

Itek research commercialisation and funding workshop

Chris Hill, Commercialisation Manager

25 November 2009, 10–11am
ITEK Pty Ltd, Mawson Lakes Campus, Building P, Level 1, Rm 48

Come along and 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. Included free: notebook and pen, morning tea, certificate of attendance

Registration form (Word)
Registration form (PDF)
Further information: Annalisa Agresta, info@itek.com.au or 8302 5300

Throughout 2009

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

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

Invited speakers include:

Professor Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Jennifer Biddle (UNSW)
Professor Pal Ahluwalia (University of South Australia)
Professor Michael Dutton (Griffith University & Goldsmiths College)
Professor Sophie Watson (Open University)
Professor Stephanie Hemelry Donald (University of Sydney)
Irene Watson (University of South Australia)

Call for papers: now closed
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.

Conference website
Inquiries to CPCSGlobalisation@unisa.edu.au
Chair of the Organising Committee: Prof Elspeth Probyn, Research SA Chair & Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies, Hawke Research Institute.

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