8-14 September 2025

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Understanding LGBTQA+SB suicidal behaviour and improving support

Virtual

Understanding lived experience is a national mental health priority and has a vital role in shaping the policy and practices aimed at improving social support for suicidal distress in LGBTIQA+ communities. This panel brings together expert social science academics, LGBTQIA+ community sector support services and advocates to present research about the lived experience of suicidal behaviour within culturally diverse LGBTIQA+ communities, including First Nations LGBTIQA+SB people and LGBTIQA+POC. The panel will detail key insights from interviews with 20 lived experience participants, recruited from across Australia including 3 First Nations LGBTQA+SB people, 7 LGBTQA+ POC and 10 LGBTQA+ people. Themes discussed focus on the importance of intersectionality (the overlapping impact of multiple forms of discrimination) when understanding LGBTQA+SB lives, experiences of suicidal distress and the formal and informal support. Recommendations for policy and practice will be outlined, including the need to improve knowledge, awareness, and access to support services that are inclusive of intersectional experiences. We will also outline how, through a process of participatory co-design, this lived experience research has been translated into an online training module that is available for delivery from Switchboard, Victoria. This research was funded by Suicide Prevention Australia. Panelists: Katherine Johnson (RMIT), Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat […]

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Transformative Justice and Peace in Africa

Virtual

Join us for one or both of two online seminars exploring transformative justice and peace on the African continent. Session 1: Transformative Justice and the African Union: Unsettling the Dominant Discourse and Practice of Transitional Justice 4 September, 1-2 pm Online only Speaker: Dr Wendy Lambourne, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, Discipline of Sociology and Criminology, University of Sydney Transitional justice as a field of practice has become standardised around four ‘essential and complementary’ key pillars derived from the Joinet principles against impunity: criminal justice, truth-seeking, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence/institutional reform. These four key pillars were defined by the United Nations in 2010 as central to supporting transitional justice in countries seeking to build peace at the same time as addressing the legacies of mass human rights violations. I have argued that the imposition of these four pillars as the only model of transitional justice not only undermines the principles of local ownership and contextualisation, it is also incompatible with a process of transformative justice and the ultimate goals of peace and reconciliation. The African Union has subsequently developed a Transitional Justice Policy and Framework for the region that takes a broader, more flexible and localised perspective which is […]

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Advancing Social Impact with Digital Technology

Hybrid

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 […]

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Peer review in the Social Sciences

Australian National University, RSSS auditorium 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton

Peer review is considered a hallmark of quality in academic research. But peer-review is a highly diverse process that is sometimes contradictory or unclear. Join our panel for this timely discussion as part of Social Sciences Week. This session explores what ‘quality’ in peer review means and what kinds of peer-review processes are emerging in the social sciences and humanities. Panellists will briefly offer their views and experience before a Q&A session with the audience. Dr Rachael Brown Rachael Brown is Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences at the Australian National University, primarily at the intersection of the philosophy of biology, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science. Rachael is particularly interested in the evolution of cognition and behaviour, the relationship between Evo-devo and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, model-based reasoning in biology and philosophy, and methodological issues in the study of animal behaviour and cognition. Dr Jason Chin Jason Chin is senior lecturer at the College of Law at the Australian National University, the former (2020-21) President of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science (AIMOS), and the inaugural registered reports editor for Forensic Science International: Synergy. He is […]

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Transformative Justice and Peace in Africa

Virtual

Join us for one or both of two online seminars exploring transformative justice and peace on the African continent. Session 1: Transformative Justice and the African Union: Unsettling the Dominant Discourse and Practice of Transitional Justice 4 September, 1-2 pm Online only Speaker: Dr Wendy Lambourne, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, Discipline of Sociology and Criminology, University of Sydney Transitional justice as a field of practice has become standardised around four ‘essential and complementary’ key pillars derived from the Joinet principles against impunity: criminal justice, truth-seeking, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence/institutional reform. These four key pillars were defined by the United Nations in 2010 as central to supporting transitional justice in countries seeking to build peace at the same time as addressing the legacies of mass human rights violations. I have argued that the imposition of these four pillars as the only model of transitional justice not only undermines the principles of local ownership and contextualisation, it is also incompatible with a process of transformative justice and the ultimate goals of peace and reconciliation. The African Union has subsequently developed a Transitional Justice Policy and Framework for the region that takes a broader, more flexible and localised perspective which is […]

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