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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Media and Communications
- Swinburne Institute for Social Research (SISR)
- Academic A or B: $55,640 – $93,922 plus 17% Superannuation
- Full-time, fixed-term two year position – Hawthorn, Melbourne campus
The Swinburne Institute for Social Research <www.sisr.net> is one of
the largest social science and humanities research centres in
Australia, with an international reputation for independent,
innovative and influential work. Staff work across disciplines
including media and communication studies, sociology, economics,
political science, urban studies, human geography and history. The
Institute participates in leading national and international research
networks, including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative
Industries and Innovation, and the International Research Consortium
for an Open Internet, sponsored by Google.
We are now seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to work on new and
existing media and communications research projects, in collaboration
with the SISR’s Director, Professor Julian Thomas, and other SISR
staff. Areas of particular interest include communications law and
policy; intellectual property and piracy; and the social dynamics of
digital media. The role will combine the development of your own
research with opportunities for collaboration on larger projects.
Skills & Experience
The successful applicant will have a relevant PhD, or equivalent qualification, in conjunction with research experience. You will also need advanced writing, communication and organisational skills.
How to Apply
Swinburne encourages applications from Indigenous people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, women and men.
For position information and to apply online go to: www.swinburne.edu.au/jobs
Please do not email or send paper applications, all applications must be submitted online.
For further information about the position, please contact Julian Thomas on +61 3 9214 5466.
Refer to Position Number: 27365
Applications close 5pm, 9 June 2012
Artists for Human Rights and Action (AHRA) invite you to an evening of film, talk and positivity – Thursday, 14 June 2012
On the evening of June 14, we will be launching our most ambitious initiative to date – The Visualising Human Rights Art Competition 2012.
You are invited to the evening launch, which includes a film screening.
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Kino Cinema, 45 Collins Street, Melbourne
Cost: $20.30 (inc. booking fee)
Book and Buy Tickets: http://www.trybooking.com/BLXU
What?
The evening will begin with an occasional address by Dr Julie Roberts and Dr Elizabeth Branigan on the importance of art as an instrument of awareness and change, followed by a screening of Across the Universe. Visually stunning, this film explores the themes of love, loss, friendship and equality in America during the turbulent late-1960s. Set against the antiwar, civil rights and women’s rights movements, this revolutionary reimagining intertwines a classic Beatles soundtrack, a host well known faces and a subtle human rights conversation. This is a musical film like no other!
Who should attend?
Artists, advocates, individuals and organisations that support positive social change. This year’s competition asks artists to focus on the issue of Human Trafficking, so if you or someone you know is involved in combating this destructive trade we would love to hear from you (and see you at the event!)
Why attend?
First and foremost, this event will launch AHRAs most exciting initiative to date – the Visualising Human Rights Arts Competition. It will provide artists with the opportunity to interact and learn more about the Competition, including its key themes, articles and entry requirements.
Second, it provides the community at large with an opportunity to reflect on the role played by art in creating and sustaining positive social change. This night is guaranteed to leave you feeling uplifted and hopeful!
What is AHRA’s work?
Like many Australians, the team behind Artists for Human Rights and Action (AHRA) long for a world in which human rights are understood, respected and realised. What’s more, we are actively committed to seeing this vision fulfilled. Over the last 12 months the team has developed a number of innovative campaign opportunities aimed at growing a rich and vibrant human rights culture in Australia. AHRA aims to raise human rights awareness by harnessing the creative energies of artists and taking this work to the public. Working with a variety of like-minded partners, we also links artists with innovative campaign opportunities and experiences. With artists having been at the forefront of human right advocacy for generations, AHRA believes that in reflecting the lived experience, art and artists can inform, educate and inspire people in profoundly positive ways.
So please join us for a terrific evening of talk, film and positivity. Please also free to forward this invitation onto your friends, colleagues, networks and any like-minded groups.
Best Wishes
Sam Carroll-Bell (President, Artists for Human Rights and Action (AHRA))
The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is a collaboration between Perth-based artists Abdul Abdullah, Casey Ayres and Nathan Beard. Capitalising on their Asian-Australian heritages, the artists have created an embassy for a fictional pan-Asian empire, located in Federation Square.
This Oriental embassy is the setting for a cultural program of live events, where various Eastern and Western influences are brought together and confused. As ambassadors for this faux-embassy, the artists investigate how multiculturalism operates in contemporary Australian society with humour, and personal reflections on how the work mirrors their own hybrid cultural experiences as Asian-Australians.
Location: Federation Square (2 Swanston Street, Melbourne) – NGV Studio
Contact details: http://www.nextwave.org.au
Date & times: 18/05/2012 to 27/05/2012
- Mon-Wed, Sun: 10am – 5pm
- Thurs-Sat: 10am – 10pm
Price: This is a free event.
Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke and CHASS invite you to a forum exploring the links between behaviour change strategies in various disciplines including the arts, and anti racism strategies, to inform development of the National Anti-Racism Strategy.
Forum Themes
- Behaviour Change Strategies and Lessons for Anti Racism
- At the forefront: Arts, Social Change and Lessons for Anti Racism
Confirmed speakers include:
- Mr Michael Moore, Public Health Association
- Dr Paul Harrison, Deakin University
- Prof Jacqueline Lo, Australian National University
- Dr Paula Abood
and several other eminent artists and academics. There will be opportunities for interactive participation and feedback during the forum.
Venue: Australian Human Rights Commission, Level 3, 175 Pitt St, Sydney
When: 9.30 (for 9.45 am) to 4.00 pm, 15 May 2012
Numbers limited, register now!
Entry to the event is free, however, registration is essential.
Please register by COB,Wednesday 2 May 2012 by emailing membership@chass.org.au to ensure your place.
MELBOURNE – Radio Australia – the international broadcasting service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) – launches new multi-lingual web and social media services.
Targeting audiences in Asia and the Pacific, the new digital services bring greater immediacy in coverage of breaking news, major stories, activities and events as they happen in and around Asia and the Pacific including Australia.
New multi-lingual web sites featuring Burmese, French, Indonesian, Khmer, Mandarin, Tok Pisin and Vietnamese will be accompanied by three English language web sites, tailored for Asian, Pacific and the wider international audiences.
As well as continuing to offer high quality news and current affairs radio programs in multiple languages, Radio Australia’s new web services encourage the sharing, participation and collaboration of stories of interest and relevance among audiences in Asia and the Pacific. English language learning content is also available in five languages.
Visitors to Radio Australia’s new sites will experience more tailored and relevant content thanks to the latest technology that allows location detection enabling content to be delivered to and tailored for audiences on the basis of location and language.
“Socially, politically, and economically, Australia continues to more closely embrace the people, nations and cultures of Asia and the Pacific. Our neighbours in this region are growing in wealth, education and confidence and we are interested in what matters to them, what they are doing and what they have to say. In addition to that, our neighbours are curious about us, as Australians, who we are and what we do, how we live our lives and why we think and perceive issues the way we do. Our new web and social media services provide the opportunity for thoughts, attitudes and opinions to be shared and exchanged,” said Dr Mike McCluskey, CEO of Radio Australia.
Radio Australia’s new web site is located at www.radioaustralia.net.au and for Australian audiences Radio Australia’s multi-lingual audio streams can be accessed through the ABC’s mobile apps at: http://www.abc.net.au/services/mobile/
New Book:
Alien Shores Tales of Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Australia and the Indian subcontinent.
Published Brass Monkey Books, an imprint of Hunter Publishers and Penguin Australia. May 2012.
‘It is the writer’s act of imagination which is the basis of all good fiction, the kind of fiction that opens new worlds to the reader. The power of literature to move people, allow us to see into one another’s hearts, to foster compassion and understanding and inspire political action works in a way that almost nothing else does.’ — Foreword, Rosie Scott
Alien Shores presents nineteen remarkable stories from acclaimed writers based in Australia and on the Indian Subcontinent, which ruminate on the lives of refugees and asylum seekers all over the world. Powerful, poignant and sometimes funny, they tell the tales of brave people who, at great peril to their own safety, seek out a new life in a new land.
Contributors: Deepa Agarwal, Jamil Ahmad, Ali Alizadeh, Meenakshi Bharat, Michelle Cahill, Susanne Gervay, , Amitav Ghosh, Abdul Karim Hekmat, Linda Jaivin, Tabish Khair, Anu Kumar, Andrew Y M Kwong, Julia McKay-Koelen, Sophie Masson, Joginder Paul, Sharon Rundle, Sujata Sankranti, Bijoya Sawian and Arnold Zable
Official Penguin Books webpage is HERE.
VIDEO – Report by Kate Arnott (Newsline) on the cultural aspects of the ‘Asian Century’
The Asian Century will redefine not just economics and global security, but have a profound effect on values and culture.
There is little doubt about the Australian Government’s growing commitment to trade and diplomatic ties with nations across Asia. But what about its commitment to increasing cultural engagement?
A new paper called “Finding a Place on the Asia Stage” is highly critical of what it claims is the Government’s declining artistic interest in Asia, reports Kate Arnott for a Newsline special on the Asian Century.
View the video HERE.
Image: Luzio Grossi, Refugee Festival 2011, Tibetan Volunteers, St Kilda Town Hall
The Freilich Foundation in Conjunction with the Immigration Museum in Melbourne present:
Deconstructing the Refugee Debate in the Classroom
A one day workshop for school teachers and associated professionals
23rd of April 2012 – Immigration Museum Melbourne (400 Flinders Street, Melbourne VIC 3000)
This workshop will be lead by internationally recognised human rights and refugee lawyer, Professor Penelope Mathew. The workshop will carefully examine the refugee debate which has taken hold of the Australian political discourse over the past decade, and attempt to carefully untangle the law and the policy from the rhetoric and the politics. From the Tampa, to SievX, to the Malaysian swap deal, this workshop will examine Australia’s responses, it will question their legality as well their morality and attempt to develop a strategy for moving the refugee and asylum seeker debate to a more positive level both in the classroom and in the general community.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Professor Penelope Mathew, Freilich Foundation ANU
- David Manne Executive Director Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre
The cost for this one day workshop is $150.00. This will include full attendance, morning and afternoon tea and lunch.
To find out more or register for this workshop go to http://freilich.anu.edu.au/
You are invited to a conversation.
In 2010, Australia, along with Russia and New Zealand joined ASEM, the Asia-Europe meeting. But were we invited as part of Asia or Europe? Australia is a rare hybrid, we have a strong cultural empathy with Europe but our geographical location puts us in Asia. How do we maximise this potential? Can we turn Australia into a productive two-way portal between the two continents? And in the broader picture, how do we develop a cultural strategy that is international, inclusive and multi-lateral?
PUBLIC FORUM – Free event!
Monday 30 April 2012, 6:30 pm
Speakers:
- H.E. Mr David Daly – Ambassador and head of the delegation of the European Union to Australia and New Zealand
- H.E. Mr Patrick Renault – Ambassador to Belgium
- Lesley Alway – Director, Arts Program Asialink
Introduction: David Pledger – Artistic Director, NYID
Moderator: Michael Shirrefs – Series Producer, Creative Instinct, Radio National
Venue: Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Bookings: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Artshouse/Program or phone 03 9322 3713
Macquarie University PhD scholarship (MQRES) is available in the Department of Sociology affiliated with an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP120101157 entitled “Everyday Multiculturalism at Work”.
Please quote the allocation reference number 2012090 on your application form.
Project Name: Everyday Diversity at Work
A PhD candidate is sought to work on a topic related to this project. The exact thesis topic can be negotiated and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. The candidate will work under the supervision of Drs Velayutham and Wise.
Interested candidates must be Australian (or New Zealand) citizens or have permanent Australian residency status to qualify for a full scholarship, including living allowance stipend. International Candidates may be considered for a tuition only (no stipend) scholarship.
Candidates should have either an honours or a master’s degree in sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human geography, or a closely related discipline. They should have a strong interest in theoretically informed qualitative research, ideally some past research experience, and an excellent academic record.
Candidates will be required to develop their own independent PhD project entailing fieldwork based research in either (both) Singapore or Australia in one or more of the following topics:
- Everyday Multiculturalism, conviviality and negotiating everyday difference in suburbia
- Everyday Diversity in global cities
- Everyday racism
- Ethnicity, identity, and everyday multiculturalism in the workplace
- Inter-ethnic solidarity and conflict in the workplace, and/or through unions
- Migrant (and transnational migrant) labour
- New immigrants and work in Singapore
- Working class cosmopolitanism
- ‘White’ attitudes towards and experiences of multiculturalism in Australia
Interested prospective applicants should contact, in the first instance, either Selvaraj Velayutham or Amanda with a short (3-5 pages) research proposal and an academic writing sample prior to submitting a formal application form.
Contact
Selvaraj Velayutham email: Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au or phone: 61 2 9850 4426, or
Amanda Wise email: Amanda.wise@mq.edu.au or phone: 61 2 9850 8835.
The 2012 MQRES full-time stipend rate is $23,728 pa tax exempt for 3.5 years.
Prospective PhD applicants should have a first class Honours degree or equivalence, and for scholarship holders, additional relevant research experience and/or qualifications in line with the University’s scholarship rating guidelines. Refer to Scholarship Requirements for further information about this.
Applicants will need to complete a candidature/scholarship application form and arrange for two academic referee reports to be submitted to the Higher Degree Research Office. Refer to the Applications page for further application instructions. Macquarie University will advise the successful applicant of entitlements at the time of scholarship offer.
Please quote the allocation number 2012090 on your application. CLOSES 28 MAY 2012.
