Sociology HDR application workshop
Workshop
The School of Sociology is holding an informal workshop for anyone interested in applying to do a PhD with us. Please come along to find out more about the School, about funding and prospective supervisors, and to discuss the application process with our HDR Convenor and current PhD students.…
Dr Luke Bearup: Protecting Victims (of the Discourses) of Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery
Seminar
Increasingly the rhetoric of modern slavery is being deployed alongside that of human trafficking, as a means of addressing various forms of injustice and exploitation. Drawing on primary and secondary research, related to sexual violence in Cambodia and the Australian campaign to end orphanage…
Sociology students film festival
Arts & entertainment
The 2019 Sociology Students Film Festival celebrates some of the best videos produced by sociology students during 2018 courses. Produced on the occasion of assessments, these videos have exceeded this frame to become full-blown short movies. Each of them stage they students'/makers' perspectives…
Dr Peter Nugus: Who has the right to speak for the public’s health?
Seminar
Social scientific research on medical education, particularly from a sociological perspective, has grown considerably in the last two decades, given the insights it is seen to offer on professional socialization generally. Despite posing important questions about the legitimacy and representation…
The Real Estate Foothold in the Holy Land: Transnational Gentrification in Jerusalem
Seminar
Gentrification theory blames the widening and transnationalisation of the phenomenon on the global commodification of housing and the emergence of a ‘planetary rent gap’. This presentation draws on fieldwork in the UK and Israel and argues that while transnational gentrification is economically…
10 years of global drug policy: What have we learnt and where are we heading?
Lecture
Highlights from the March 2019 UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Join us for the first event of the 2019 Canberra Drug Policy Series where Australian drug policy experts who participated in the 62nd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its Ministerial Segment will present…
Doing the Future Differently: AI and the promise of a new ‘response-ability'
Seminar
The future is upon us, or so it seems. Not for the first time, and surely not for the last, bold and far-reaching claims are being made about how new technologies will change the world. Artificial intelligence will solve previously intractable problems – climate change, cancer and inequality – or,…