Events

This report presents the findings from the 2022 CGEPS grants. This research explored how conceptions of gender equality are informed by an understanding of the experiences of diverse groups of women – in this case, migrant and refugee women in the public sector, specifically local councils. We sought to investigate how the pursuit of gender equality in Victoria, Australia, considers the diversity of women's needs and experiences. The findings presented in this report are best understood as both a challenge and an opportunity for the Commission, for local councils and for the public sector more broadly. This report prioritises the experiences of migrant and refugee women working in local councils and highlights the systemic barriers to their career progression. The findings highlight the importance of paying specific attention to the experiences of migrant and refugee women. Considering this cohort's diversity of identity and circumstances is crucial while tailoring efforts to improve their workplace experiences. This launch is being held in conjunction with Social Sciences Week, to find out more please visit SSW or Social Sciences Week at Monash.

Join us for afternoon tea at RMIT’s Garden Building (City Campus) to discover more about the role digital technology is playing to advance social impact on a global scale. Explore the applications of digital tech for social good Understand how industry is using digital tech to combat modern slavery Celebrate the launch of our new online short course designed to harness digital tech to drive social impact This event is open to businesses, government, academics and the community as part of the Digital Innovation Futures Festival. Event details: RMIT's Business and Human Rights Centre, Associate Professor Shelley Marshall will take us on an exploration of the applications of digital technology for social good, and how we can play in their acceleration and spread. Get involved in an interactive panel discussion with Andre Clarke from AskYourTeam and Greta Korthaus from the United Nations Global Compact to understand how industry is combatting modern slavery with digital technologies. Official launch of RMIT Digital3’s online short course Advancing Social Impact with Digital Technologies produced with RMIT's Business and Human Rights Centre. This short six week course guides participants through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which is a blueprint for how businesses can […]

Today's youth face the unprecedented existential threat of climate change. The groundbreaking book, "Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries," co-authored by Dr. David Rousell and Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, explores how children perceive climate change. Drawn from extensive research with Australian children, the book showcases a picture of how children's insights and imaginings can inform our understandings of climate change and its impacts on our current and future lives. The launch includes a panel discussion with intergenerational voices, discussing childhood, education and climate justice. The event is part of the "Wild Hope" exhibition at Design Hub Gallery, urging a shift towards community-led responses to the climate crisis through creativity and imagination. This event is part of Wild Hope: Conversations for a Planetary Commons.

The Centre for Urban Research is pleased to host the launch of Mike Berry's new book A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism as part of Social Science Week 2023. The launch will feature a presentation by the author followed by a panel discussion with RMIT housing experts. About the book Housing is in the daily headlines as the governments struggle to respond to failures in rental and home ownership markets. The housing crisis has raised critical questions about the role of housing in capitalist societies. In his new book A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism, Professor Mike Berry offers the first coherent Marxist analysis of the central importance of housing in the social reproduction of capitalism as a whole. Berry argues that the circulation of capital and revenues though housing and the built environment helps explain how the capital-labour relation constrains housing outcomes while also being reproduced on an extended scale. He shows how housing is provided by the intervention of building, property and interest-bearing capital fractions; how the land question can be explained by a theory of urban land rent, drawing on Marx's categories of differential and monopoly rent; how housing is vital to the extended reproduction […]