8-14 September 2025

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Informal Sport and the Urban Commons

Macquarie University 25 Wally's Walk, North Ryde

Visit the Arts Precinct at Macquarie University during this year's 2023 Social Sciences Week for a special preview of research findings from a visual ethnography project, Informal Sport and the Urban Commons, exploring the role that informal sport plays in facilitating social inclusion in the global city. Between September 5 to 8, the Theatrette at the Intercultural Foyer located inside the Arts Precinct will come to life with video interviews and documentary photography taken with temporary migrant workers in Singapore who share stories about the significance of informal sport in their everyday lives. Informal Sport and the Urban Commons is a visual ethnography that aims to provoke reflection on the intersection between leisure practices, migrant place-making, and the right to the city. Event details: Cost: FREE Date: September 5 to 8 Location: Theatrette, Intercultural Foyer Level 2, 25 Wally’s Walk, Macquarie University Drop in to meet and chat with the project team on September 5, 12pm to 3pm Project team Professor Amanda Wise (Macquarie University) A/Professor Selvaraj Velayutham (Macquarie University) Dr Kristine Aquino (University of Technology Sydney) James Loganathan (University of Technology Sydney) Project funded by Australian Research Council (Discovery Project) Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, University of Technology […]

FREE
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Social Science Week TikTok Challenge

Virtual

Are you ready to tell the world about an important social issue and showcase your creativity? Swinburne’s high school student TikTok challenge aims to showcase the social issues that are important to young people and highlight the role that technology plays in our everyday lives. Whether you're interested in sociology, history, Indigenous studies, political science, media studies, or any other social science discipline, this challenge is for you! The competition is open to all current Victorian high school students. The most engaging video will win $300, with $100 prizes for the most creative, and Swinburne student choice awards. Step 1: Create an engaging and informative TikTok video that explains a social issue that is important to you, and how it is impacted by technology. Make sure your video is captivating, concise, and visually appealing. You can use creative animations, text overlays, or any other TikTok features to enhance your content. Your video should aim to educate and entertain viewers, providing them with valuable insights and fostering curiosity about our technologically embedded social world.  Step 2: Include the hashtags #SSW2023 & #SwinSocialSciences in the caption of your TikTok video. Step 3: Follow and tag @SSW2023 and @SwinHASS in your video to ensure your entry is […]

Free

Professional Youth Work Outdoors

Virtual

What does it mean to provide professional youth work outdoors? Is it simply having fun outside or is there more to it? In this discussion, founder of Gippsland Adventure Therapy, Doug Moczynski, presents on how youth workers can operationalise “professional youth work” - whatever that is - in the outdoors. Doug will discuss physical and emotional safety, how to improve engagement to foster better therapeutic outcomes, and strategies for remaining professionally apt at handling disclosures and other complicating factors. Along with Will, Doug will explore what is considered a professional: does particular education warrant him identifying as one? Are there quantifiable differences in outcomes, safety, accountability? Since 2020, Doug has run a small private practice in Gippsland working alongside the NDIS, child protection, and other community organisations with youth and families. Register your attendance here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/professional-youth-work-outdoors-w-doug-moczynski-tickets-695983223557?aff=oddtdtcreator

Free

WA Migration Update

Curtin University City Campus Curtin 137 St George’s Terrace, Perth

The WA Migration Update one day conference, now in its 8th year, brings together academia, communities, not-for-profits, the private sector and government, to share experiences and research on migration and settlement, and improve understandings of these critical contemporary issues. This is an important year for migration and multiculturalism. Our theme, 'Beyond Racism', recognises migrant experiences of racism, as well as programs building inclusion and resilience. This year the focus is on the recent government reviews of Australia's multiculturalism framework, and migration policies, as well as hearing the latest Scanlon social cohesion survey results. The program explores the following questions: To what extent are Australia's migration and settlement systems inclusive? What does it mean to move 'beyond racism'? What are migrants' and ethnic minorities' experiences of inclusion and exclusion? How are services and communities challenging racism and promoting inclusion? Sessions include Racism and social cohesion in Australia: trends, challenges and opportunities; the Australian Migration Review; and Australia’s Multiculturalism Framework. As usual we will have a combination of dynamic and informed speakers and panellists from government, community, service provision, business and academia, showcasing their knowledge, policies and experiences.

$35 – $80

Year 9 Futures Thinking Workshop: Why AI and Social Sciences are Everywhere

The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) group at James Cook University invites Year 9 students to attend the Futures Thinking workshop. Students will meet and engage with social scientists and learn how AI and social sciences impact our everyday lives. Artificial Intelligence is everywhere – we talk about it in classrooms, on the news, on social media, and it’s fast becoming part of our everyday lives. But what does AI mean for people and for society? What are the ethical issues involved? Spend a day exploring these questions at JCU. September 4 to 10 is Social Sciences Week in Australia. The theme for 2023 is Social Sciences are Everywhere. On Friday, 8 September, the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) group at JCU is inviting Year 9 students to come to campus for a day of discussion, activities, and scenario-based learning with social scientists and current social science students from a range of disciplines. The day will include short ‘lightning talks’ from experts in a range of social science disciplines, interactive ‘beat the bot’ sessions to apply a critical lens to AI, and small group activities to facilitate inquiry skills, ethical thinking, and futures thinking about the impacts of AI on society and […]

Year 9 Futures Thinking Workshop: Why AI and Social Sciences are Everywhere

Virtual

The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) group at James Cook University invites Year 9 students to attend the Futures Thinking workshop. Students will meet and engage with social scientists and learn how AI and social sciences impact our everyday lives.

Contemporary issues fuelling gender inequality

RMIT Media Portal Media Portal, Building 12, 402 Swanston Street, Melbourne

The Centre for Social Organisations and Change (COSC) and the Social Equity Research Centre (SERC) at RMIT University invite you to a panel discussion examining contemporary issues fuelling gender inequality as part of Social Sciences Week. Moderated by Professor Lisa French, the panel discussion covers topics ranging from gender gaps in the workforce, career development for women in male-dominated sectors and sexual and family violence against women. The panel features leading scholars: Dr Leonora Risse (COSC), Dr Leila Afshari (COSC), Professor Anastasia Powell (SERC) and Associate Professor Brianna Chesser (SERC). Please join us for a thought-provoking discussion and analysis of gender inequality taking in the social sciences of economics, management and criminology.

Free

Do STEMM leaders have the gender competence for change?

Hybrid - Online and at RMIT Activator Level 02 Event Space, 102-104 Victoria Street+, Carlton

Many STEMM leaders have expressed a commitment to overcoming the gender inequality that stubbornly persists across the sector. But do they have the gender competency needed to drive change in their organisations? This free, hybrid face-to-face/online seminar will present recently published findings from RMIT researchers Professor Kay Latham (Dean, STEMM Diversity and Inclusion) and Associate Professor Robyn Barnacle, including much-needed insights into: the competency of STEMM leaders to act as change agents: Do leaders understand the nature and scope of the problem, or are misapprehensions hampering their efforts? what resistance to gender equality looks like in STEMM: What are the behaviours minimising the significance of the problem and reinforcing the status quo? The event will be introduced by Libby Lyons, SAGE Chair and former Director of the Australian Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency. This research draws on detailed data from a qualitative, cross-sectoral study of 20 prominent Australian STEMM leaders, who were asked to examine their perceptions of gender inequality, sexual harassment, sex discrimination and gender bias within their organisations. The presenters will suggest supports needed by leaders to achieve their gender equality commitments, including specific leadership programs, diagnostic tools and strategies for combatting and harnessing resistance. Join us for a […]

Free

Society 5.0 Ethics: The Future of Digital Disruptions

Council Chambers - Building 1 (Francis Ormond Building) - RMIT University 124 La Trobe Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 RMIT University 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne

In this interactive plenary panel, internationally-recognised RMIT experts present a set of provocations around near-future challenges and opportunities based on the converging impacts of continuous digital disruptions. What should societies look like in 2050? How can we get ahead of the curve when it comes to ethical problems around new tech? How can we be sure emerging technologies serve us as humans rather than the other way around? What focus is needed to centralize social concerns in the push for continuous technological development? Join us for this exciting and provocative discussion to launch RMIT's Society 5.0 Ethics Initiative, in conjunction with Social Science Week 2023. This is an RMIT Engaging for Impact event and is supported by the RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms, College of Design and Social Context, College of Business and Law, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. Speakers Professor Annette Markham Co-initiator and lead RMIT Professor, Global digital culture and ethics expert Professor Lisa Given Co-initiator and lead RMIT Professor, Global information science and ethics expert Professor Jason Potts Co-initiator RMIT Professor, blockchain and web3 futures expert Professor Julian Thomas Co-initiator RMIT Professor, AI and decision-making expert Professor Karin Verspoor Co-initiator RMIT Professor, Machine learning in health […]

Free

Monash University Photo Essay Competition – Award Ceremony

Virtual

Monash Arts invites you to celebrate the winners of the Social Sciences Week 2023 Photo Essay Competition. This competition is being run by the School of Social Sciences at Monash University to help elevate the voices of young people and to highlight the social justice issues they are most passionate about. The prize winners will be announced during the award ceremony. The Zoom link to attend the ceremony will be shared closer to the date. Panellists: Dr Matteo Bonotti Dr Bill Flanik Georgina Gibson Dr Clair Tanner Dr Elissa Waters This competition is being coordinated by Dr Matteo Bonotti in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.

Ethnographic Film Night: Horror in the Andes – Between Memories

Virtual

This year’s Social Science Week Ethnographic Film night will feature two short movies: Horror in the Andes and Between Memories by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich. These films present parts of Dietrich’s work in Peru, where, for almost a decade, she has explored the questions of how people create worlds for themselves after violent conflicts and how stories are told about violence and trauma. Horror in the Andes (2020) is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. In this film, Dietrich explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means to revive stories of a pre-colonial past. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community. Between Memories (2015) is an exploration of the practices of remembering in the shadow of the complex legacies of twenty years of violence and war. In three audio-visual pieces made in collaboration with relatives of the disappeared, insurgents of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) and members of the Armed Forces, this documentary creates an on-screen dialogue between memories, which in practice remains elusive. The screening of the two films will begin at […]

Free

‘Voice to Parliament’ – Online Information Session

Virtual

Hosted by The Office of Indigenous Strategy & Engagement and The College of Business, Government & Law This information session provides an opportunity to listen to our panellists discuss key questions such as , ' What is the voice to parliament?' and 'What are the foremost issues and debates?'. Our Speakers include: Welcome: Prof. Simone Tur, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) Political aspects: Assoc. Prof. Rob Manwaring, Associate Professor of Politics and Policy Legal aspects: Dr. Rowan Nicholson, Lecturer in Law Process of Adelaide Regional Dialogue: Dwayne Coulthard, member of the Uluru Dialogue, SA Issues and debate: Dr. Jessica Genauer, Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Sci-Fight Comedy Debate: Should we fear Ai?

University of Wollongong Science Space UOW Science Space, Innovation Campus, Puckey Avenue, Wollongong

Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate brings together comedians and scientists to debate serious issues in a ridiculous way. UOW Science Space Theatre Doors open: 6.30 pm Run time 7:00 pm till 8:30ish Tickets $20 Paid bar service available Proceedings are loosely held together by your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley. Sci Fight has been described as a nerdy, silly, and only occasionally litigious romp into what it even means to be alive. This round, we debate: should we fear AI? Just this year, AI chatbots have given people instructions on how to build a bomb, told users that they loved them, and instructed one user to leave their spouse and a child to stick nails into a live power socket. Before now you had to go to 4chan for that quality of abuse. Has Silicon Valley simply built a better troll? Programmers are running behind ChatGPT and other AI trying to fix the problems as they arise and yet for every bit of fool proofing they achieve, humanity builds a better fool. Our one saving grace right now? It’s bad at Wordle. But this will surely not be the case for long. Or is AI over hyped? Is our distrust […]

$20.00

Artificial Intelligence and Society 5.0 | The Peer Revue Improv Comedy

The Improv Conspiracy Theatre 1/19 Meyers Pl, Melbourne

Due to unforeseeable circumstances Academy Fellow Jenny Hocking is unable to appear on Friday night with Peer Revue as planned. But don’t worry, we still have a great night in store this Friday and plans to revisit the Palace Letters with Jenny Hocking at another date. A big welcome to academic superstar, Academy Fellow and RMIT Professor Lisa Given! Lisa will appear with Peer Revue to tell stories and inspire improv comedy from her work on AI and future society. Hang on to your tickets, hold your sides and get ready for a Friday night of fun with Lisa Given and Peer Revue. Artificial Intelligence and Society 5.0 | The Peer Revue Improv Comedy With the rise of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, society is changing rapidly. How are we to navigate a world of misinformation, data breaches and mass surveillance? With the help of our guest Professor Lisa Given of course! Lisa is an expert in global information science and ethics at RMIT. She’s Co-initator and lead of the Society 5.0 Ethics project. Society 5.0 is “a broad label for the near-future, inseparable interconnection between humans and technologies in the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It […]

$24