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    • 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 […]

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    Exposing the Shark Attack Industrial Complex

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

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Exposing the Shark Attack Industrial Complex will examine and challenge the public's relationship with sharks, the beach, and our own identity. The way social, political, and commercial interests combine to portray all sharks in a one-dimensional manner to generate increased income, tourism, hotel rooms, movie tickets, and political cover will be discussed by Associate Professor Chris Pepin-Neff. Pepin-Neff’s talk comes at a sensitive and emotional time for the local community following a cluster of shark attacks across Australia. This talk is based on the idea that being silent about shark attacks and shark bite prevention has never made anyone safer. […]

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    • Promising Futures Amid Frustrated Presents: Thinking through the social, economic and biological dimensions of young people’s health and wellbeing

    Virtual , Australia +1 more

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Young people can often find themselves in the crosshairs of intersecting crises - crises that can be exacerbated by the vulnerabilities of youth and the disregard that can be present for young people’s wellbeing and needs. Not only are young people grappling with physical and mental health conditions, but these conditions are colliding with - and intensified by - broader concerns including economic precarity, environmental crisis, social unrest and technological change. Together, these crises shape and constrain what it means to be ‘healthy’ as a young person in 2025. This panel will examine the state of young people’s health and […]

    • Corporations, Markets and Climate Change: Opposition or Opportunities?

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

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Corporations and capitalism are often blamed for environmental problems, and on climate change we are often told that there needs to be a ‘balance’ between economic and environmental outcomes.  This suggests they are mutually contradictory, and therefore that the environmental damage resulting from economic imperatives must somehow be accommodated.  On the other hand, there is enormous potential for business to drive the solutions necessary for decarbonising our economy given the economic motivators to do so through markets.  One reason why this is not stressed as much as it could be is that those benefitting from the status quo are in […]

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    The Teaching-Research Nexus in the Social Sciences: A Panel from The University of Sydney

    Room 650, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney Science Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia +1 more

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Social Sciences Week is a celebration of research, but researchers were once students. Social Scientists do not often reflect on their days as ‘trainees’ in educational settings. In the rush to know more about the state of our societies, political systems and economies, researchers can downplay the importance of teaching the next generation of professionals, scholars and other experts. This event features several academics from the University of Sydney’s School of Social and Political Sciences, all of whom are active researchers and passionately committed teachers who will reflect on the ‘teaching-research nexus’. How does their research influence their teaching, and […]

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    • Lobbying and Agenda Setting: Whose Interests are Served, How and Why?

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

    Lobbying and advising the government are part of the democratic process. Sometimes the interests being served are clear, yet at others they are hidden. Sometimes stories are told to make the outcomes desired easier to understand, and more likely, while at others the narrative serves to shroud the real outcomes desired and undermine democratic processes. In this presentation, the cases of consultants advising governments and the OECD on tax avoidance and LGBTQ+ lobbying are used to tease out some of these tensions. In the case of the former, the role of the Big Four (PwC, EY, KPMG and Deloitte) is […]

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