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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. Jenny Waycott Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, […]

    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 3.30-6.30PM AWST ECU City Campus Level 6, […]

    YURLU | COUNTRY screening, presented by Yuin woman Fran Grant

    University of Technology Sydney Building 6 Room 06.03.22 Building 6, Level 3, room 06.03.22, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    University of Technology Sydney

    A documentary of what happens when country is mined then abandoned, YURLU | COUNTRY is a powerful film that tells a story all Australians should know about. The film follows Banjima Elder, Maitland Parker, and his fight to bring awareness and healing to his Yurlu (homelands) “Poison Country”, reminding us of the human and cultural costs of mining previous land. This screening is presented by Fran Grant, senior Yuin woman and UTS lecturer in Social and Political Sciences. Since Fran first saw this film she has been committed to sharing it with as many people as possible, in an effort […]

    Free
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    The Great Debate: Australian Politics is Alive and Well

    National Library of Australia Parkes Pl W, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

    The Great Debate is back for its fourth big year! Join us for an evening of compelling debate as six of Australia's premier academics argue for and against the state of Australian politics. Arguing for the affirmative are: Professor Anika Gauja, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research at the University of Technology Sydney, Thomas Mayo, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author, orator and justice advocate, and assistant National Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, Professor Graeme Orr, expert on electoral law at the University of Queensland. For the negative, the team includes: Professor Kim Rubenstein, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, […]

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    19th Annual E.L ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture: Climates of Uncertainty

    Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences Building (A02), The University of Sydney Science Road, Sydney, NSW

    University of Sydney

    Please join us for the annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia. Guest Speaker: Geoff Mann is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he teaches political economy and economic geography. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and the author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution, Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism, and Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (with […]

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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 […]

    E.L ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture: Climates of Uncertainty

    Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences Building (A02), The University of Sydney Science Road, Sydney, NSW

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Description The annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia. This year it will take centre stage in the program of the 2026 Social Sciences Week (12-20 September). Guest Speaker Geoff Mann is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he teaches political economy and economic geography. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and the author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution, Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism, and Climate Leviathan: […]

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    2026 Environmental Policy Lecture: Climate Risk & Response: A Behavioural Challenge?

    Forrest Research Foundation Forrest Hall, 21 Hackett Drive, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

    UWA Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy

    The 2026 Environmental Policy Lecture, Climate Risk and Response: A Behavioural Challenge?, is presented by Professor Ben Newell. Climate risk is often broken down into three separate components: physical risks (floods, heatwaves, sea level rise), transition risks (technological and societal adjustments to a low-carbon economy), and liability risks (legal and financial exposures arising from a failure to disclose potential climate-related impacts). Professor Ben Newell will share how coordinating our responses to all three of these components benefits immensely from an improved understanding of behavioural reactions to climate change. Drawing on data from a range of studies examining individual and institutional-level […]

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    Never Mind the Neurobullocks: The Three Biggest Myths of Neuroscience

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Ana Lund will share the three neuroscience myths that live rent-free in your brain and in your textbooks and why they need an eviction notice. Attendees will explore how these misconceptions arise, why they endure, and the consequences they have for therapeutic practice and human understanding. Rather than dismissing neuroscience, Lund advocates for a more thoughtful, evidence-informed integration of neuroscience into social and therapeutic contexts. About the Presenter Ana Lund is an integrative psychotherapist with a foundation in Transactional Analysis and a member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). Ana holds a PhD in science and has spent […]

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    The Story Within: How Adventure Makes Meaningful Change

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Whether recreational or therapeutic, the process of meaning-making is an inherent part of the human experience. From an existential-heuristic lens, this presentation will explore the stories and adventure activities clients have found purposeful and insightful for their existence and how they view the world. About the Presenter Cian Brown, PhD is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor (LPC-S) in Oklahoma and Supervisor (LPC-S) in Arkansas, Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist (CCAT), and Board Certified in Neurofeedback, Fellow (BCN-Fellow) with a Ph.D. in Counselor Education & Supervision from the University of Arkansas specializing in Adventure Therapy. He received his M.S. […]

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    When Helping Gets in the Way: What the Outdoors Makes Possible

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Outdoor programs are often described as naturally engaging, therapeutic or transformative. Yet being outside does not automatically create participation, safety or meaningful change. Outdoor experiences can reproduce the same adult agendas found in classrooms, services and other institutional settings: predetermined outcomes, tightly managed activities, compulsory reflection and pressure to demonstrate growth. This presentation explores what the outdoors can make possible when practitioners loosen their grip on the planned outcome without abandoning safety, boundaries or duty of care. Drawing on adventure therapy, youth work and relational practice, it argues that the value of outdoor work is not simply found in challenge, […]

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    WSU Parramatta Redux film screening + River Walk

    Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus cnr Victoria Road & James Ruse Drive, Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia

    Western Sydney University

    To celebrate Social Sciences Week 2026, the School of Social Sciences will be screening Parramatta Redux, a short documentary by Associate Professor Malini Sur, including a Q&A with the film maker. The film explores the enduring connections between the Parramatta River and the diverse communities, past and present, that have shaped its identity. From Indigenous custodianship to contemporary multicultural life, it reflects on themes of resilience, colonisation, migration and environmental change, offering a layered understanding of the river as both a living landscape and a witness to ongoing social and cultural transformation. Following the screening, Darug Elder, Uncle Chris Tobin, […]