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    Plug-In Solar Systems in Australia: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Prospects

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

    RMIT

    Australia’s rooftop solar boom has helped many homeowners cut electricity bills, but renters and apartment dwellers remain excluded. Plug-in solar panels and batteries could help close this gap. Plug-in solar systems include one or two photovoltaic panels and a micro-inverter, feeding power into a home’s mains circuit through a standard outlet. A combination with plug-in batteries can increase the use of self-generated electricity. Although widely adopted overseas, plug-in solar systems are illegal in Australia. Join us to discuss regulations, safety standards, consumer acceptance and protections to better understand the role of this technology in a fair low-carbon housing transition. Panel […]

    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenged

    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenged

    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 […]

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    The Comfort Dogs of Uganda: Free Screening + Q&A

    Kim E. Beazley Lecture Theatre, Murdoch University 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA, Australia

    Global Security & Politics Collective

    In collaboration with the Global Security & Politics Collective and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Murdoch University invites students, staff, and members of the public to a free screening of The Comfort Dogs of Uganda. About the Film: The trauma of war never truly goes away. For the former child soldiers of rebel warlord Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, the shock of abduction and unspeakable atrocities they witnessed left a lasting, scarring impact. But in the shadow of that brutal 20-year conflict in Northern Uganda, a remarkable story of resilience unfolds through the unexpected companionship of rescued dogs. The […]

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    Book Launch: Understanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants: Practical Approaches and Effective Research Methodologies

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

    RMIT

    Please join us for the launch of Understanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants: Practical Approaches and Effective Research Methodologies. This is the first book which provides readers with practical, culturally aware and engaging ways to research migrant multicultural communities. Come and hear from the editors and authors who not only come from diverse disciplines across humanities, arts and social sciences, and STEM as they reflect on the importance of understanding the complex and nuanced migrant experience, but who are migrants themselves. Prof Catherine Gomes, RMIT University Associate Prof Jing Qi, RMIT University Dr Wilfred Wang, University of Melbourne Dist/Prof Lisa […]

    Nature, People and Place: Exploring multiple dimensions of human and nature relationships

    Virtual , Australia

    Mosaic Insights

    Our relationships with nature and Country are diverse and deeply connected to how we experience place, wellbeing, belonging and the world around us. By exploring how people connect with nature, what they value in those experiences, and how these connections vary across people and places, we can gain powerful insights into what helps communities and environments thrive. Mosaic Insights invites you to join us for a webinar bringing together voices from social science, community and creative practice, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge, to explore the many ways people understand, experience and relate to nature and Country and what […]

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    Empowering Senior Voices: Shaping Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods in City North

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

    RMIT

    Join us for the launch of the Empowering Senior Voices report, showcasing how older adults in Melbourne's City North precinct used citizen science and participatory research to identify opportunities and challenges for creating more age-friendly neighbourhoods. Drawing on the Stanford Our Voice methodology, the project enabled older residents to document their lived experiences and work collaboratively to develop recommendations for improving inclusion, participation, accessibility, and wellbeing. The event will present key findings and bring together researchers, community members, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how community voices can inform positive social change. Welcome Associate Prof Lauren Gurrieri, RMIT University Lauren Gurrieri […]

    WA Migration Update Spotlight Forum

    ECU City Campus 500 Wellington St, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

    WA Migration Update Spotlight Forum This event is a part of Social Sciences Week At this inaugural WA Migration Update Spotlight Forum Dr Francesco Ricatti presents his volume “Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands: Challenges, Reflections, Pathways", co-edited with Adonis Piperoglou, which examines the uneasy relationship between ongoing colonial histories and the sovereignty of First Nations peoples. Migration does not happen on empty ground, but on and with deep histories, custodianship and continuing political claims. Dr Ricatti’s presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with leading social scientists in this area. 17 September 5:00-8:00PM AWST CC.1N.500 (ECU CITY CAMPUS Level […]

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    AI Data Centres: Exploring the Buildings Behind the AI Boom

    The Capitol 113 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    AI is here - the genie is out of the bottle. The question now is how we manage its impact and shape a digital future that benefits society. Behind the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is a vast and complex infrastructure network, with data centres playing a critical role in powering the technologies transforming how we live, work and connect. As part of Social Sciences Week, 'AI Data Centres: Exploring the Buildings Behind the AI Boom’ brings together industry, government and academic perspectives to explore the opportunities and challenges of Australia’s digital transformation. The panel will examine how we can […]

    Clean Energy, New Waste: Exploring a Just and Circular Transition

    Virtual , Australia

    Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University

    Panellists: Vanessa Lea, Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Associate Professor Anderson Assuah, Profesor Matthew Kearns Facilitator: Dr Deepika Mathur As the global race toward renewable energy accelerates, a silent challenge is piling up in the background. The rapid deployment of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries is creating entirely new, massive waste streams that must be managed throughout their lifecycle. How can we ensure the transition to a clean energy future doesn't come at a cost to the environment and local communities? Join us for this special Social Sciences Week webinar as we bring together a world-class panel of international scholars from Australia, Canada, […]

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    Social Sciences in Uncertain Times – 2026 Annual Emeritus Professor Andrew Jakubowicz Lecture

    University of Technology Sydney (UTS Central Foyer CB01.04.150) 61 Broadway, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Social and Political Sciences Discipline & Ultimo Institue, University of Technology Sydney

    In an era marked by economic volatility, geopolitical tensions, climate disruption, rapid technological change, and declining public trust in expertise, the social sciences are more important than ever. Yet the disciplines themselves are also under pressure. Recent restructurings, funding pressures, and program reviews affecting humanities and social sciences across Australian universities raise fundamental questions about the future, value, and place of these fields in public life. This year, the UTS Social and Political Sciences (SPS) Andrew Jakubowicz Annual Lecture, presented in collaboration with the UTS Ultimo Institute, invites us to reflect on the future of social sciences: Where are the […]

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