12-20 September 2026
Hooked on true crime podcasts or crime dramas, but wondering how much is actually real? This free, one-hour community event brings together leading criminologists and community safety practitioners to separate fact from fiction – no academic background required. Set...
Break the silence around death and dying through expert discussion and facilitated community conversations. Despite the inevitability of death and dying, they remain social taboos such that the silence around them leads people to be unprepared, feel isolated and...
Join leading researchers, educators and community voices at the Social Cohesion Symposium: Belonging, Resilience, and Democratic Participation as part of Social Science Week 2026. This thought-provoking event explores some of the most pressing challenges facing...
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...
Building Resilient Families: Applying Social Science to Everyday Life Join us for a free 20-minute self-paced online learning session as part of Social Sciences Week 2026. The material can be accessed on https://resilientproject.com.au This short course explores how...
This session will cover key aspects of modern societies and compare them with pre-modern perspectives and practices. We will discuss when and how modern societies were formed before then exploring what our ancestors can teach us about how they lived differently and in...
Moderated by QUT's Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice (CIESJ) Executive Dean, Professor Lori Lockyer, this event will bring together QUT researchers from a range of Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines with Community partners to reflect on the...
This event invites people to come together and reflect on what solidarity means in our world today. Drawing on ideas from Emile Durkheim, the event explores how connection, cooperation, and shared purpose can help us respond to the challenges of an increasingly...
Join us for a special evening to mark 50 years of PNG independence, featuring a film screening from the early election period, panel discussion led by PNG academics based in Gimuy, Cairns and the launch of a new exhibition showcasing PNG memorabilia with stories of...
This public forum brings together a group of scholars and landscape practitioners whose work troubles separations that are often artificially drawn between 'nature' and 'culture'. Looking at a diversity of actors, from estrogens and wild animals to water and plant...