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This Opening Ceremony will include a plenary panel with 4 panellists reflecting on the way they have used HASS to make change beyond the academy and beyond academic debates.

Opening remarks:
Sally Capp (Lord Mayor of Melbourne)
Russell Goulbourne (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne)

The panellists are:
Tony Birch (author)
Liz Allen (Demographer - ANU)
Alec Coles (CEO of Museums WA)
Raewyn Connell (Sociologist at University of Sydney).

The facilitator is Misha Ketchell Editor in Chief at The Conversation.

Drinks and canapés are included with this event registration.

The Most Pressing Issues facing Australian Early and Mid-Career Academics in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and How to Solve them.

Early and mid-career researchers and academics (EMCRs) working in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts within Australia face significant personal and professional challenges, which have only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is a degree of awareness within academia of the challenges faced by EMCRs – including increased casualisation and other forms of precarity, devaluing of SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Environment) disciplines and related funding cuts – the voice of EMCRs working in these disciplines has not been heard. In part to address this lack of representation, the Australian SHAPE EMCR Network formed in late 2021. As our first priority, we recently surveyed a large number of EMCRs working in SHAPE to quantify and elucidate their concerns, issues, and suggestions for improving experiences of EMCRs. In this session we will present the data and discuss the results emerging from this survey to raise awareness of the current landscape in which EMCRs are attempting to build their careers and establish their personal lives. What are the most pressing issues SHAPE EMCRs face in academia today? We also propose that by coming together within the Australian SHAPE EMCR Network, we can help ensure the humanities, arts, and social sciences thrive and excel in Australia by fostering an inclusive and diverse community that supports, empowers and promotes EMCRs, within and beyond academia.

Panel:
Dr Sarah Midford (SHAPE Futures Executive Deputy Chair)
Dr Tully Barnett (SHAPE Futures Ordinary Executive Member)
Dr Georgia Stannard (SHAPE Futures Executive Professional Bodies Liason)
Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh (SHAPE Futures Ordinary Executive Member).

Social ventures and the translation of humanities, arts and social sciences research.

This panel organised by the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) reflects on the way recent government policy shifts towards the commercialisation of university research might impact, shape and change the approaches and habits of arts, social science and humanities researchers. Our panel brings a particular emphasis on social ventures in the context of a discussion about universities’ public benefit mission. We ask whether a clear distinction can be made between ‘social purpose research’, commercialisation, and the implementation of humanities research for public good. Panel members have been invited to provide practice perspectives informed by academic research. Individually, they show success in research that has led to the development of social ventures that involve some university relationships, as well as research expertise that has informed the design of organisations and guided multiple research partnerships. Together, we ask how academic researchers can work to support non-university ventures to achieve public benefit, including thinking about the tensions involved in this work, the sustainability of specific models, and the way researchers might learn to define, approach and commit to this type of work in the ‘HASS’ fields.

Panel:

Professor Jo Barraket, Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
Dr Kate Barrelle, Chief Impact Officer and co-founder of STREAT, Melbourne
Dr Sharon Zivkovic, Founder and CEO of the social enterprise Community Capacity Builders

Chair:

Professor Catharine Coleborne, Immediate Past President of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

This panel is organised by Humanities 21, a not-for-profit advocacy organisation committed to promoting the importance of the humanities in life and business. The panel will feature distinguished Arts / Humanities graduates and highlight real-life, inspiring stories that showcase the benefits of a humanities education in building a successful and fulfilling career.

- Peter Acton, President of Humanities21. After working in industrial relations in the UK, he spent 20 years with The Boston Consulting Group in Europe and Australia and was Managing Partner of the Melbourne office from 1995-1999. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Peter McCallum Research Board and a Director of the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD in Ancient History by the University of Melbourne. His book, Poiesis, on manufacturing in classical Athens, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.

- Jan McGuiness - a University of Melbourne Arts graduate (English and Politics) and journalist with more than 30 years of experience. She's also written for The Age, The Bulletin and produced for ABC TV's 7:30 Report. She has also served as the chairperson of the Melbourne Writers Festival from 2004-2010.

- Meg Sargant - our social media intern, a second-year student at Charles Stuart University studying a Bachelor of Liberal Arts. She will be talking about her experiences with her degree and how it has inspired her to pursue a career in communications.

- Daniel Fawcett - Daniel is an associate at Ashurst Lawyers. He specialises in employment and industrial relations law, with particular experience in employment law litigation. He also acts for a number of the firm's major public and private sector clients, with a focus on the banking and finance industry, and the Commonwealth Government. He'll be talking about bo

This session is organised by NOADD (Network of Associate and Deputy Deans, part of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities – DASSH). The aim of the session is to share and discuss best practice and innovative approaches to teaching and research support and development during Covid. How can HASS students, researchers, and leaders be best supported with the current financial and organisational challenges?

This session is an opportunity for HASS leaders, teachers, scholars, and practitioners to share and learn from experiences across Australia and New Zealand.

Chair:

A/Prof Andrea Rizzi (Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Chair of NOADD)

Panel members:

Prof Andrea Witcomb (Alfred Deakin Professor and Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University)
Prof Jenene Burke (Professor in Education, Learning and Teaching; Director, Academic Operations, Federation University)
Prof Brett Hutchins (Deputy Dean, Research, Faculty of Arts, Monash University)

The panel will be a facilitated discussion with 4 panellists reflecting on how they see HASS playing a crucial role in addressing contemporary and future challenges.

The panellists are:

Zlatko Skrbis (Sociologist and Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University)
Yves Rees (Historian - Latrobe)
Maggie Walter (Social Scientist and Pro Vice-Chancellor - Aboriginal Research and Leadership, University of Tasmania)
Larissa Hjorth (artist and digital ethnographer - RMIT).

Facilitator Dan Woodman, University of Melbourne and CHASS President.