Today the School of Humanities and Social Science presented the Faculty of Arts and Education (FoAE) Research and Graduate Studies Research Café ‘Fellowship Reflections’ featuring Charles Sturt University FoAE Research fellowship holders: Karen Bell, Tamara Cumming, Sharynne McLeod, Dominic O’Sullivan and Peter Simmons
Please join us for this rare opportunity to hear about the work of our distinguished colleagues. This forum promotes interdisciplinary dialogue in an informal setting, enabling the sharing of the experiences of fellowships and the outcomes and achievements that are possible. Each presenter will talk about what they learned from the fellowships and how these learnings apply to all researchers in the faculty.
When: October – 3-5pm
Where: https://charlessturt.zoom.us/j/66168584352
Schedule of events:
- Introduction and welcome – Professor Wendy Bowles
- Acknowledgement of Country – Professor Manohar Pawar
- Presentations by fellowship holders
- Questions and open discussion
Presentation title - Research leadership, engagement and capacity-building
Karen is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Services in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and is co-leader of the Environment and Social Justice Research Group. Karen’s research area is broadly social justice in social work practice and education in national and international contexts, areas of focus include transformative philosophy of social work; gender; rural and regional service delivery.
Presentation title - Early childhood educators’ well-being: local data and international perspectives
Tamara is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education, co-leader of the CSU Early Childhood Research Group, and co-leader of the Early Childhood Educators’ Well-being Project. Tamara’s research focuses on the well-being and sustainability of the early childhood workforce, and on the complexity of early childhood practice.
Professor Sharynne McLeod
Presentation title - Resilient communicators
Prof Sharynne McLeod has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, is an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia and past Vice President of the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association. The Australian Newspaper named her Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology in 2018, 2019, 2020 based on the “quality, volume and impact” of research. In 2018 she edited a special issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (Taylor&Francis) on Communication Rights which she presented at the United Nations in 2019.
Presentation title - Sharing the sovereign – citizenship, recognition and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Dominic is Associate Professor of Political Science at CSU and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Maori Health Research at the Auckland University of Technology. During his Senior Research Fellowship Dominic finished two books: ‘We Are All Here to Stay’: citizenship, sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was published in September by ANU Press, and Sharing the sovereign: Indigenous peoples, recognition, treaties and the state which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan early in the new year.
Presentation title - Social media, policy and coexistence
Peter is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Industries. Peter’s research is focused on gathering evidence that supports effective public policy and communication strategies. His research interests span interpersonal and organisational communication, qualitative, quantitative and qualquant research methods. He has had three great loves in research – Football referees and the communication of fairness; Strategic Local government communication as instrument of democracy; Social media and coexistence.
Thanks to Dr Donna Bridges – School of Humanities and Social Science Research Seminar Series coordinator for organising the event dbridges@csu.edu.au
