12-20 September 2026
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...
The theme for Monash University's 2026 School of Social Sciences Graduate Student Research Symposium is Challenges of the Age: Climate Change, Geopolitical Security, Thriving Communities. As stated in Monash's Strategic Plan, Impact 2030, we must continue to seek ways...
Join the School of Social Sciences for the launch of Policing People: Background Characteristics and Occupational Attitudes in Law Enforcement by Professor Toby Miles-Johnson. This book explores why police background characteristics and occupational attitudes matter,...
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...
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...
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,...
The False Divide between Nature and Culture: How Estrogens, Yeasts and Snakes Reveal the Entanglement of Everyday Life Hosted by the Newcastle Youth Studies Centre Featuring: Mary Lou Rassmussen (ANU) and Celia Roberts (ANU) Ben Matthews (University of Newcastle)...
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of two pivotal events in modern history: the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the United Nations. Born from the ashes of global conflict, the UN represented a collective hope for peace, security, and international...
Australia’s energy industry has the opportunity to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the past 100. The transition from a coal-dominated industry to majority renewables is at the core of discussions on Australia’s climate futures. As 2035 looms,...
Australia’s energy industry has the opportunity to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the past 100. The transition from a coal-dominated industry to majority renewables is at the core of discussions on Australia’s climate futures. As 2035 looms,...