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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 […]

    Annual Sexualities and Genders Research Showcase

    Western Sydney University, Parramatta City Campus 161-169 Macquarie Street, Parramatta, NSW, Australia

    Western Sydney University

    Why are school uniforms gendered? How can schools better support trans and gender diverse students? What are young people doing to tackle online hate? How can communities address problematic masculinity and intimate partner violence? These are just some of the thought-provoking questions explored by researchers in Western Sydney University's vibrant Sexualities and Genders Research community. Join us for the Annual Sexualities and Genders Research Showcase, where leading researchers, PhD candidates, and community partners will share innovative and impactful research on gender, sexuality, identity, inclusion, education, health, faith, and social change. Featuring a series of engaging and accessible speed presentations, the […]

    The Blueprint Documentary and Lived Experience Panel

    RMIT Kaleide Theatre 360 Swanston Street, Lower Ground, Building 08, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    The documentary considers the complex web of factors leading to youth offending and crime such as family and peer dynamics, community marginalisation, identity, mental health, and social media.  By hearing directly from young people, the documentary explores how these factors impact their behaviour, sense of belonging, and relationship with services as well as the supports they relied on to break the cycle of offending. The presentation will also include the launch of the new BP363 Bachelor of Social Science with majors in Youth Work and Mental Health & Wellbeing. Light refreshments will be provided. Speakers Andrea Davidson, CEO Violence Reduction Unit, […]

    Free

    Lived Experiences of LGBTQ+ Religious Youth in a hostile policy landscape: Digital Media, Wellbeing, and Visual Methods

    Virtual , Australia

    Newcastle Youth Studies Centre

    Lived Experiences of LGBTQ+ Religious Youth in a hostile policy landscape: Digital Media, Wellbeing, and Visual Methods This panel discussion will share the empirical and theoretical insights developed from the Australian Research Council Discover Project ‘Youth, Religion, and Sexuality: Digital Media, School Cultures, and Exemptions’. This project explores how LGBTQ+ religious youth navigate the affective entanglements of gender, sexuality, and faith within institutional, digital, and other everyday contexts. We have employed arts-based digital ethnography and photovoice methods to centre emotion, attachment, and embodied experience to understand young people’s subjectivities as well as the effects that religious exemptions from the Federal […]

    Free

    HUMMING INTO 2027: Empowering teachers to strengthen Humanities in their school

    Virtual , Australia

    Katrina Davey

    This event is aimed at Humanities and Social Science (HASS) educators across Australia, particularly those in secondary schools. Based on my recent book release, Humming Along (Amba Press), I wish to support educators with their upcoming preparation and planning of HASS units and courses for 2027. Term 4 provides the perfect opportunity for Humanities faculties to reflect on and update courses, maybe even try a new approach. This online webinar will provide practical strategies and advice on faculty collaboration, analysing HASS curriculum and assessment data, refreshing new units and ideas, and how best to upskill staff in the various subject […]

    Free

    Our Stories: Make a Film with Your Community

    Room 650, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney Science Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Description Our Stories invites community members and anyone interested in storytelling to explore how people represent their experiences and places through film. The evening features a short talk by Dr Habib Moghimi (University of Sydney) and Nick Grinpukel (Social Impact Lab, UTS) on how documentary and creative media can support communities in telling their own stories. The session asks: who tells our stories, who decides what is seen and heard, and what changes when people hold the camera themselves? The event continues with a screening of Parramatta Redux by Malini Sur (Western Sydney University), a 38-minute documentary exploring the diverse communities connected […]

    Free

    Considering the Tale of the Spinning Wheel: Beyond Crisis Management in Outdoor Learning and Outdoor Adventure Therapies

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Outdoor learning and outdoor adventure therapies, like all therapeutic approaches, are shaped by ethical dilemmas. However, unlike many therapies, these dilemmas unfold in dynamic and unpredictable environments where challenge, uncertainty, and risk are often integral to the experience. Rather than offering simple answers, this talk explores how ethical principles can help practitioners recognise and navigate these tensions. Using a familiar fairy tale as a narrative guide, we consider how beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and other ethical principles support everyday ethical decision-making. We examine how practitioners and organisations are required to justify not only how their interventions prevent harm and respond to […]

    Free

    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

    Creative Flow Open Studio: An Experiment in Everyday Creativity

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Why is it so hard to sustain something we know is good for us, and what might happen if we designed the conditions differently? How might rhythm, shared practice, and accessibility reshape the way we engage in everyday creativity? We know that regular creative engagement is linked with improved wellbeing, yet many people struggle to maintain a creative practice amidst the demands of everyday life. This presentation shares the story of Creative Flow Open Studio, a simple experiment that began with one question: What happens if we make just thirty minutes of creative practice part of each weekday? After beginning […]

    Free

    Understanding Crime Through Emotions – Findings from a Two-Phase Study of Alexithymia

    UTS UTS City Campus, Building 10 Level 03, Room 470, 235-253 Jones St., Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

    UTS Criminology

    Alexithymia, characterised by difficulties identifying and describing one’s own emotions, has increasingly been recognised as a transdiagnostic construct associated with a range of adverse psychological and behavioural outcomes. Despite growing interest within clinical psychology, its relevance to offending behaviour remains comparatively underexplored within criminological research. This presentation reports findings from a two-phase doctoral study examining the relationship between alexithymia and offending behaviour through a criminologically informed biopsychosocial framework. Phase One involved a systematic review synthesising over five decades of international research on alexithymia among incarcerated populations, identifying consistent associations with trauma exposure, mental health difficulties, personality functioning, and violent offending, […]

    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 […]