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As we step into 2024, the importance of the humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) has never been clearer. In a time of rapid change, our disciplines provide the critical thinking, cultural understanding, and evidence-based insights needed to navigate complex societal challenges.
At CHASS, we remain committed to championing the value of HASS, fostering cross-sector collaborations, and ensuring that our voices shape national conversations. A key highlight this year will be the Congress of HASS, which will take place at The University of Melbourne in the last week of November. This gathering of HASS associations will be a vital opportunity to share research, build connections, and advocate for the role of our disciplines in shaping Australia’s future.
We look forward to working closely with our members throughout the year and hope you enjoy this edition of the CHASS newsletter.
| | HASS Scholarships & Fellowships | In keeping with Professor Mulvaney’s deep commitment to Indigenous people and cultures, the John Mulvaney Fellowship is an award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities. The recipient of the John Mulvaney Fellowship will receive $4000 towards undertaking research or fieldwork in Australia or overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with researchers and networks.
The Australian Academy of Humanities will again be offering the John Mulvaney fellowship in 2025 to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities. The recipient will receive $4000 towards their research or fieldwork.
Nominations for the 2025 round open at 9am AEDT Monday 10th February 2025. Read on...
| Congress
2025 Congress of HASS
CHASS
The University of Melbourne
Monday 24 - Friday 28 November 2025
SAVE THE DATE
Conferences
The ANZAMEMS 15th Biennial Conference: ‘Possibilities’
ANZAMEMS
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 3 - Friday 5 December 2025
NEW: Sociology in Action! Wellbeing, Policy, and Activism in Times of Crises and Change
TASA
The University of Melbourne
Monday November 24th - Thursday November 27th
Symposium
NEW: War, Memory & Diplomacy: celebrating the career of Professor Joan Beaumont
Centre for Contemporary Histories
Deakin Downtown
Friday 9:30AM - 5:30PM 14 February 2025
| All of the below articles are available on open access:
Alexandra Ridgway, Gemma Hamilton, Anastasia Powell, Georgina Heydon, Time Will Tell: A Temporal Analysis of Victim-Survivor’s Formal Support-Seeking for Co-occurring Family Violence and Sexual Harm, The British Journal of Criminology, 2024;, azae092, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae092
Gertz, J., Petray, T., Jorgensen, M., Vivian, A., & Achterberg, C. (2025). ‘For the good of the Gugu Badhun people’: Indigenous Nation building, economic development and sharing as sovereignty. Thesis Eleven. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136241308886
Moon, R., Hellmueller, L., & Wasserman, H. (2025). Introduction: The Future of Global Journalism—Relationships, Tools, and Power. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241311083
Törnberg, P., & Chueri, J. (2025). When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241311886
Andı, S., Çarkoğlu, A., Baruh, L., & Bocskay, Z. (2025). Authoritarians Do It Better? Belief in Misinformation in Turkey. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241307812
Borges Jelinic, A., Hegedus, P., Marchetti, E., & Dionysius, B.-L. (2025). Sorella’s Story: Holocaust awareness among generations, through technology and empathy. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437251314335
Kim, S., Lee, D. S., & Park, S. (2025). The perceived identity of policy participants: The agenda-building process of universal basic income in South Korea. Public Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241312361
van Mulken, M., & Heslenfled, L. (2025). Improving Complaint Handling: The Rhetorical Turn in Defensive and Accommodative Strategies. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906241308523
Erin Twyford, Rachel Rowe, Jane Andrew, Financial gaslighting: The financialisation of care in later life, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2025, 102788, ISSN 1045-2354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2025.102788
Joshua Brookes, Ben Lohmeyer, Kate Seymour, A Rapid Review of Wellbeing, Offending & Successful Matching in mentoring for ‘at-risk’ young people, Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 169, 2025, 108132, ISSN 0190-7409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108132
Gomes, Catherine; Qi, Jing; Thong, Li Ping; Chen, Lucia; WANG, WILFRED (2025). Respectful Methods: Understanding Multicultural Migrant Communities in Australia. RMIT University. Report. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.28237472.v1
| A new book called "Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education", edited by Dina Zoe Belluigi, seeks to address this the lack of attention given to academia and its citizens during periods of political violence and social conflict by exploring, and evoking, the complexities of academic subjectivity, place and practice in contexts where intellectual and state authority are contested or in transition.
The full text can be accessed here.
| | HASS Employment Opportunities | Director of Communications
Full Time
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Application deadline: TODAY January 31. Read on...
School of Design Leadership Opportunities
Full Time
RMIT University
NEW: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Literacy)
Full Time
Australian Catholic University
NEW: Lecturer - Digital Design (UX & UI)
Full Time
RMIT University
NEW: Research Officer (Justice Health Research Program)
Part Time
UNSW
NEW: Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science
Full Time
University of Sydney
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