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http://socialsciences.org.au 20-02-2012 04:08:09
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We are SO excited to announce that tickets are now available for @historynsw Annual History Lecture & Awards Chau Chak Wing Museum featuring keynote speaker Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History at the Australian National University. Book your spot now: buff.ly/3yrFP8s
Social theorist Anthony Elliott Academy of Social Sciences Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia featured in ‘Politics and Rights Review’ on the outsourcing of decisions to smart machines. UCD Sociology Cambridge University UniSA
💻12 SEPT 4-5.30PM UNSW Expert panel on #childprotection & #AI w/ Prof Michael Salter (@Childlight NSW), advocate Grace Tame, Jon Rouse (Queensland Police) & Zoe Lonard (Norton Rose Fulbright) as they outline legal challenges + solutions for keeping kids safe. socialsciencesweek.org.au/event/child-pr… #SSW2024
🐠 GREAT BARRIER REEF SYMPOSIUM 2024 🐠 Register now for this free #SSW2024 event from 11-13 Sept at the Gold Coast & hear keynote stories of creativity, cooperation & courage from the #socialscience community. Hosted by Griffith University + Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority👉🏽 socialsciencesweek.org.au/event/social-s…
UniSA Distinguished Prof Anthony Elliott featured in today’s HuffPost from his Polity Algorithms of Anxiety. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Academy of Social Sciences huffingtonpost.it/cultura/2024/0…
📸 11 SEPT 5.30-6.30PM ONLINE Join @CHASS President Frank Bongiorno with Vic McEwan, winner of the 2023 Distinctive Works Prize for 'Face to Face: The New Normal' project featuring patients experiencing facial nerve damage. Register⬇️ socialsciencesweek.org.au/event/distinct… #SSW2024
💻 Does social media unite or divide us? Join us on Tues 10 Sept as judges Richard Holden, Deb Welsh (eSafety Commissioner) & Lauren Dubois assess the sharp arguments from Professors Prof/Dr Lisa M Given, FASSA 🇨🇦🇦🇺 & Anthony Elliott. National Library of Australia Social Sciences Week Australia #SSW2024 Tickets👉events.humanitix.com/the-great-deba…
A new study by Academy Fellow Prof Nick Haslam & colleagues examined how labelling a person’s relatively mild or marginal mental health problems affects how others perceive them. Read more ⬇ Psychological Sciences
Academy Fellow Professor Henry Brodaty AO, Researcher, Clinician, Policy Advisor, will address the National Press Club of Australia on 'Dementia: hope beckons' next month. Tickets available ⬇️ National Press Club UNSW Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) npc.org.au/speaker/2024/1… #socialsciences
The Academy welcomes Australia's Chief Scientist putting open access on the public agenda—an important national issue and conversation highlighted during our roundtable 'An Australian Roadmap for Open Research' in June this year (socialsciences.org.au/events/austral…) News: chiefscientist.gov.au/news-and-media…
Get students engaged with the big issues this Social Sciences Week Australia with our new debate kits! Topics include: 🗳 Should the voting age be lowered? 📱 Should social media be age restricted? 🌟 Should influencers use their platforms only for the benefit of society? seriouslysocial.org.au/subject/debati…
'We need to question whether the use of imprisonment is suitable for any child or young person. At a cost of more than $1 million every year to lock up a child, it does not come cheaply,' writes Fellow Prof Chris Cunneen & colleagues in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand⬇ #socialsciences
🕊️ 12 SEPT 6-7.30PM ONLINE 🕊️ Join Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror as he examines the challenges and future of #InternationalLaw in the wake of conflicts in Ukraine & Gaza at UNE School of Law’s Sir Frank Kitto Public Lecture 2024 ⬇️ #SSW2024 socialsciencesweek.org.au/event/une-scho…