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    • Can Students Defend Their Thinking? Oral Assessment, AI, and Professional Judgment

    Megaflex 3 Building 8, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia +1 more

    RMIT

    In an era of changing assessment practices, oral assessment is attracting renewed interest as a powerful way to evaluate student learning, communication, and disciplinary understanding. This interactive workshop invites educators from across disciplines to share positive and challenging experiences of oral assessment, explore what should be assessed, and discuss level benchmarks and potential gatekeeper questions. Participants will also be guided to work collaboratively on devising interactive oral assessment task question sets. The group workshop outcome will be a practical, adaptable framework disseminated to participants. It could be adapted for assessing oral performance fairly, consistently and transparently across diverse disciplinary contexts

    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 […]

    Why We Eat What We Eat: Food Writing, Social Science and the Stories Behind the Plate

    Macquarie University 25 Wally's Walk, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

    Macquarie University

    Food is so much more than just nutrition, calories, or personal choice. Food is shaped by culture, family, class, migration, memory, markets, health messages, gender, place and power. Every plate carries stories about where ingredients come from, who produced and prepared them, how knowledge travels, and what particular foods come to mean. 'Why We Eat What We Eat' is a public Social Sciences Week event bringing together food writing, storytelling, tasting and social science. Through short, accessible talks and creative activities, participants will explore food as a form of cultural expression, a community practice and a meeting point between people, […]

    Free

    PhDs with publications & creative practice: Demonstrating influence, translation and impact

    Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture 15 Blackall Street, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia +1 more

    Charles Sturt University

    This one-day workshop provides insights for PhD candidates, supervisors, academics and researchers on: How PhDs with publications (including prior publications) and creative practice contribute to knowledge, policy, practice and impact. Planning a coherent publication strategy and integrating publications into a thesis. Demonstrating research influence, translation and impact using program logic. Publishing within and beyond the PhD, including strategies for securing a book contract. Building collaborations, networks and communities of practice. Optional Prereading: Beyond the Evidence Paradox: Engaging with Service Users and Citizens in the Implementation of Social Work Practice Research (Webber et al., 2026)

    Free

    AI in the public university – a critical conversation for HASS

    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

    School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney

    Explore the social, ethical and democratic implications of corporate AI in universities through an interactive workshop Artificial Intelligence (AI)/GenAI is being rapidly adopted across public universities in Australia, including at UNSW. The speed and scale of AI rollout has prompted concerns about environmental impacts and intellectual property, corporate influence, amplifying surveillance and discrimination, and more. Educators have signed open letters and published articles urging caution on the rollout of AI in universities, and students have signed petitions against the compulsory use of GenAI. In this workshop, participants will explore the impacts and implications of corporate AI for the public interest […]

    Water and Words: A Swimming and Writing Workshop in Rural Victoria

    Wangaratta Sports and Aquatic Centre 41 Schilling Drive, WANGARATTA, VIC, Australia

    Wangaratta Masters Swim Club

    There has been an increasing interest in how physical movement, like walking, can be used to think and write sociologically. However, what happens when swimming and writing are combined? In this workshop hosted by the Wangaratta Masters Swim Club, up to twenty participants will get the opportunity to engage in a combined writing and swimming class to explore, through words, their love of the water, what inspires them to swim, and the meaning swimming has in their everyday and social lives. The workshop will involve a brief planning and idea generation session followed by participation in a coached swimming program […]

    Free