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Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
Academic Board PresentationSlide2
Research Themes
Environment and Society
Collective Action and Learning
Cultural Life and Festivities
Indigeneity and PowerKnowledge-sharing and Information
Alternative CosmopolitanismsMigration, Diversity and RacismHuman Rights, Inclusion and Communication
Strengthening Civil SocietiesSlide3
Our research themes
directly relate to
UTS Values and Model of Learning
UTS Values Empower each other and our students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference
UTS Objectives Strengthen the standing of the UTS Model of global practice-oriented learning UTS Model of Learning
Professional practice situated in a global workplace, with international mobility
and
international and
cultural engagement as centre pieceSlide4
Strengths
Inclusiveness
Cross, inter, multi, trans (discipline)
Support of HDR, Research Associates, and community researchers
Outward looking and inward welcoming Quality and impact beyond ERASlide5
Challenges
ERA!
Disciplinarity/silos
Valuing diversity and inclusion
Research and policy intersectionSlide6
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‘Wran Give US Our Land’: captures a moment in the movement for Aboriginal Land Rights in NSW from the mid
1970s
Snapshot of Research Strengths
Researching the Land Rights movement Slide7
Once Upon a time in Cabramatta: SBS TelevisionSlide8
Measuring social impact
Melinda Edwards, Jenny Onyx,
Simon Darcy & Hazel Maxwell UTS &Vanessa Brown & Shauna Sherker SLSASlide9
Exhibition: Unsafe Haven: HAZARAS IN AFGHANISTAN. Presenter: Abdul KarimSlide10
Education in Afghanistan Seminar: Dr Attaullah Wahidyar
.Slide11
Hosting Head of Radio Free North Korea at North Korea Futures EventSlide12
National Stolen Generations Alliance & the ATSI Social Justice CommissionerSlide13
Women and Human Rights
Nasima
Rahmani:
UTS Masters of
Law Student Slide14
Examples of Current Research Projects
Dr Catriona
Bonfiglioli
, "Changing the media diet - Investigating the power of the news media to prevent obesity", funded by ARC Discovery Projects,
Dr Deborah
Edwards
, "An Empirical Basis for the Ratio of Crowd Controllers to Patrons", funded by Australian Institute of
Criminology
Professor Heather Goodall, Ms Heidi Norman, Professor John Collins, "Political history of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act, 1983", funded by ARC Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development 2013
Prof Tom Barker, "NextGen: the next generation of Australian affordable housing for urban neighbourhoods.", funded by UTS Challenge Grants
Dr Nina Burridge “Mapping
Human
Rights Education in the School
Curriculum” funded by the Federal Attorney-General’s Department
Dr James Goodman, "The role of environmental movements in democratisation: Taiwan and PRC compared", funded by Academy Social Sciences Australia - DIISR ISL - HASS Academies Program,
A/Prof Simon
Darcy
, "The Jeenee project: empowering training and support for independence and disability citizenship through personal digital assistants and virtual technology", funded by UTS Partnership
Grant with Community Connections Australia