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StudyingResearch matters @ the Hawke

A series of talks and workshops aimed at building a flourishing research culture for the ECR and PhD community


 

Past events

Gender, capacity and education

14 October 2010, City West Campus. Dating back to the 1970s, building the capacity of institutions and communities became a key means of ameliorating disadvantage and injustice. In the 1990s 'capacity building' was defined by the United Nations Development Program as 'the creation of an enabling environment with appropriate policy and legal frameworks, institutional development, including community participation'. Since this time, capacity building has been routinely adopted by governmental and non-government agencies to inform community and industry approaches to social and environmental problems. Education is almost universally understood as necessary for creating a 'good life' and building capacity. But what makes for an enabling environment? In this Research Matters seminar, early career researchers addressed the capacity-building approach in four different, but interrelated, areas of education and development scholarship.

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The Hawke helps you write a book proposal

2 July 2010, Underdale Campus. Writing a book proposal can be a confusing task, given the extensive and often conflicting information available on the topic. What does a good proposal require? Is it more about marketing and positioning than about the argument itself or is an intelligent idea the driving force of an academic book? As part of our Hawke Helps series, we conducted a workshop on writing book proposals on the arts, the social sciences and cultural studies. The aim of the workshop was to bring together people who are currently writing a book proposal and have specific ideas in mind, in order to discuss possible ways of focusing one's ideas and pitching them.

Facilitators
Professor Elspeth Probyn is the director of the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia. Her books include Sexing the self: gendered positions in cultural studies (Routledge, 1993), Outside belongings (Routledge, 1996), Carnal appetites: food sex identities (Routledge, 2000) and Blush: faces of shame (Minnesota University Press and UNSW Press, 2005).

Suzanne Franzway is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of South Australia. Professor Franzway has a national and international reputation in work, labour movements and feminist theory. Her research on feminist theories of the state provided new models for social change and policy. Her book, Staking a claim: feminism, bureaucracy and the state (1989) (with Dianne Court and RW Connell), published in Australia, the UK and USA, continues to serve as an international benchmark study. Professor Franzway's monograph Sexual politics and greedy institutions: union women, commitments and conflicts in public and in private (2001) was nominated for a prize by the national sociology association.

Domenico de Clario was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1947 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1956. He studied architecture and town planning at the University of Melbourne and studid painting in Italy. In December 2001 he completed a PhD in the Faculty of Human Movement at Melbourne's Victoria University. His PhD focused on the translation of Italo Calvino's master novel Invisible cities into a vast sound/performance work lasting 56 evenings. From 1973 until 1996 he variously taught painting, drawing, sculpture, performance and installation at RMIT in Melbourne (previously PIT). In December 2008 he was appointed Director of Adelaide's Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Australia's first contemporary art institution founded in 1974. Since 1966 he has held more than 200 solo exhibitions of paintings, drawings, prints, installations and sound performances. His paintings, drawings, prints and installations are included all major public and private collections in Australia as well as in numerous private collections worldwide, including the MOMA in New York.

Associate Professor Robyn Ferrell is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Department of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She has published across genres, working as a writer and theorist between philosophy, visual art and creative writing. Her published works – six books and more than twenty shorter essays – use philosophical and literary techniques to address subjects of contemporary intrigue from IVF to Indigenous art and Australian writing. She was a journalist working for a major metropolitan broadsheet before completing a PhD and taking a university job. Since 2008 she has been a freelance writer and artist.
 

Growing projects: connecting research ideas with funds and people

Convenors: Dr Lisa Slater, Prof Elspeth Probyn and Dr Zoe Sofoulis (CCR, UWS). 26 May 2010, Underdale. This workshop focused on the nitty-gritty of building from a research idea to how one goes about connecting with various funding sources (from the ARC Linkage and also from alternative sources). The objective was to thrash out a couple of germs of ideas about projects to see how and where they can grow.

Social science research in a complex world: a round table discussion on contemporary big problems

Friday 19 March 2010, City West Campus. Never before has the world so needed the input of social science and humanities' research to frame interventions into large-scale social problems and concerns. And yet it can still feel as if our research is on the margins. Join an exciting group of ECR researchers to hear about their research on big topics. Over drinks and nibbles we will talk about how the Hawke can help you.

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