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
Associate
Professor Karen Bell 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.
Dr Tamara Cumming
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.
Associate
Professor Dominic O’Sullivan
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.
Associate
Professor Peter Denyer-Simmons
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
