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    • Loneliness in a Digital and AI-Driven Society

    Virtual , Australia
    Virtual Event

    RMIT

    In the AI age, loneliness is becoming a critical issue, exacerbated by rapid technological advancements and societal shifts. AI's integration into workplaces and daily life, while offering efficiency and growth, often reduces meaningful human interactions, leading to increased feelings of isolation. This is particularly concerning as loneliness is linked to severe mental and physical health challenges, reduced productivity, and economic costs. For older adults, loneliness is a public health crisis, affecting over a quarter of this population and contributing to cognitive decline and poor health outcomes. Ignoring this issue risks long-term societal and economic harm. AI offers both challenges and […]

    Talking About Death: Building Community Conversations About Dying, Grief and Care

    John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Sydney Leighton Hall - John Niland Scientia Building, University of New South Wales, Gate 11, Library Walk, Kensington Campus, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

    The Australian Sociological Association

    Break the silence around death and dying through expert discussion and facilitated community conversations. Despite the inevitability of death and dying, they remain social taboos such that the silence around them leads people to be unprepared, feel isolated and afraid. These experiences compound for patients undergoing cancer treatment, who live with uncertainty. This event meets death and dying head-on, and - taking a social scientific lens – is inspired by the recent release of the book Being Patient: Close Encounters in a Cancer World. The event is designed to be accessible, engaging and relevant to people from diverse backgrounds and […]

    Free

    SOLD! Who Broke the Australian Dream? — Screening and Panel

    Theatre 1 (T1), 10 Hadenfeld Avenue, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park NSW 2109 Theatre 1 (T1), 10 Hadenfeld Avenue, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Macquarie University

    Join the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University for a screening of SOLD! Who Broke the Australian Dream?, followed by a panel discussion exploring Australia’s housing crisis, renting and affordable housing solutions. About the film Comedian Mark Humphries is sick of standing in lines for rentals. But if a C-grade celebrity is struggling to buy a house, how do normal people do it? Mark investigates Australia’s housing crisis, uncovering the policies which supercharged the housing market, the solutions at hand, and one big revelation that might just fix it. About Wedge-Tail Pictures Founded in 2020 by journalist Bill […]

    Housing on the Edge: A New Reference Design for the Future Australian Suburb

    Green Brain The Green Brain (Level 7), Building 16, RMIT University, 336/348 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    RMIT

    Australia's greenfield suburbs face mounting pressure: car dependency, housing uniformity, and delayed or inadequate social and physical infrastructure. This panel shares preliminary design directions from a new interdisciplinary research program tackling these challenges head-on. Bringing together social science, urban design, architecture and landscape architecture expertise, the discussion will explore early concepts shaping a new Reference Design for the next generation of Australian suburbs, and invite dialogue on how integrated, design-led approaches can drive meaningful suburban transformation at scale. Moderator Dr Ben Milbourne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Urban Design. Ben’s research focuses on utilising the […]

    A Wicked Problem: AI, Copyright and Intellectual Property

    Hybrid: Online and at the University of Queensland St Lucia The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    University of Queensland

    Join the University of Queensland Library for a timely discussion on the current and emerging impacts of artificial intelligence on copyright and intellectual property, as part of our Connected Conversations series. Featuring a series of lightning talks from experts across UQ, followed by an audience Q&A, this hybrid event will examine the opportunities, risks and challenges AI presents for authorship, knowledge ownership and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP). Whether you are curious about emerging technologies, navigating questions of copyright and intellectual property, or interested in how AI is reshaping legal and ethical frameworks, this event offers valuable insights and […]

    Free

    Sustainable Housing Futures

    RMIT Green Brain 336/348 Swanston Street, Storey Hall, Building 16, level 07, rooms 7&8, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    The Sustainable Housing Futures panel brings together designers, researchers, and housing experts from across RMIT University to explore one of today’s most pressing issues: how we can create better housing for everyone? We have secured an exciting panel of the next generation of experts that will answer the question: What does sustainable housing look like for you? Under the energetic guidance of Anna Cumming, Managing Editor of Sanctuary magazine published by the not-for-profit Renew, experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and property will discuss the ideas they are working on to create sustainable homes. Chair Anna Cumming […]

    Rebuilding Cities After Disasters and Conflicts: Perspectives on Housing Recovery

    RMIT Green Brain 336/348 Swanston Street, Storey Hall, Building 16, level 07, rooms 7&8, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia +1 more

    RMIT

    This seminar brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and policymakers to explore approaches for facilitating effective housing recovery and reconstruction in disaster and conflict contexts. The event will provide a platform for knowledge exchange, interdisciplinary dialogue, and collaboration to explore strategies that support resilient and sustainable recovery within the housing sector. The keynote presentations and panel discussion will draw on lessons from diverse international contexts to examine the challenges, opportunities, and pathways for housing recovery. The session will explore how governments, communities, industry practitioners, and researchers can work together to support resilient and sustainable rebuilding, from emergency and temporary accommodation to […]

    Beyond the Bars: Education, Advocacy and Systems Change

    Megaflex 3 Building 8, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    Join us for an engaging panel session exploring RMIT's award-winning Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, where university students and incarcerated people learn together as peers within prison. This innovative educational initiative not only transforms learning experiences but also provides a foundation for impactful research, advocacy, and systems change. Hear directly from graduates of the program, including both current and former incarcerated participants, as they reflect on their experiences of education in prison and their continued involvement in prison-based and community Think Tanks. These Think Tanks bring together people with lived experience, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to examine complex criminal justice issues […]

    Voices on the map: using AI for better disaster recovery

    Virtual , Australia

    School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney

    Panel discussion exploring the power of lived experience in disaster recovery and how AI will be used to amplify community voices. ONLINE EVENT As climate change increases the frequency and severity of disasters, what will help communities survive, recover and thrive? HowWeSurvive, a new and ambitious initiative out of UNSW’s Arts, Design & Architecture, believes the answers already exist within communities themselves - in local knowledge, relationships, lived experience and the people who show up for one another. To elevate people's voices, the team and its international partners have created an interactive global map featuring more than 1,600 stories of […]

    Free
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    ‘The First Inventors: How People Shaped a Continent’

    The Capitol 113 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    'The First Inventors: How People Shaped a Continent' | An evening with Larissa Behrendt AO, Billy Griffiths and Sean Ulm To celebrate Social Sciences Week, and the research that helps us understand and shape society, RMIT University is proud to present celebrated Eualayai/Gamillaroi author, filmmaker and academic Larissa Behrendt AO, award-winning author and historian Billy Griffiths and one of Australia’s leading archaeologists, Sean Ulm, as they discuss their new book The First Inventors: How People Shaped a Continent. Drawing on the groundbreaking 4-part documentary series of the same name, The First Inventors takes readers on a journey through 65,000 years of innovation, […]

    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenged

    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenges

    Virtual , Australia

    Deakin University

    Join experts in women's sport for an online conversation about the current state of women's sport in Australia. Recent decades have seen significant advances in women's professional sport in Australia. Multiple successful professional women's leagues have been created, like the AFLW and NRLW, and elite women athletes like Ariarne Titmus and Jessica Fox have put Australia on the map internationally. At the same time, women athletes continue to earn less money and less media attention than their male counterparts. How do women athletes make sense of these advances amidst continued marginalisation? Working together, a team of Deakin academics and ABC […]

    Free

    Book launch – Conversations with Leading Transport Researchers: The Unwritten Rules of Academia

    Virtual , Australia

    RMIT

    Join us for the launch of Conversations with Leading Transport Researchers: The Unwritten Rules of Academia. This book lifts the veil on how world-leading transport researchers navigate their profession, sharing advice for a successful academic career. In this book, the unwritten rules of academia are explored through in-depth interviews with 20 eminent researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds within transport studies. The book is a vital resource for research students and early-career researchers in transport studies looking to confidently navigate an academic career. Professor Geoff Rose, Monash University (Chair) Dr Chris De Gruyter, RMIT University (Author) Panel members: […]