Faculty of Arts and Education

Research in the Faculty of Arts and Education

HDR Summer School 2013

15 - 17 February 2013
Deakin University,
Geelong Waterfront Campus

 Waterfront Campus


Workshops

SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY


9:00am - 10:45am

Intercultural Research in Arts and Education
Dr Rebecca Fanany

Intercultural research has great potential for the disciplines in Arts and Education and can allow the exploration of new dimensions in many research areas. In this workshop, we will discuss the ways in which intercultural approaches can produce more nuanced research findings that take into account the linguistic, cultural, and social backgrounds of the problem and facilitate the applicability of findings across cultures. The workshop will focus on developing an intercultural perspective in research and using cross cultural insights to enrich our work.

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Analysing the Structure of Arguments
Professor Stan van Hooft

How to identify the point that an author is arguing for and the steps in the argument the author is mounting. There will be discussion of the logical structure of successful arguments and also of the most common fallacies found in scholarly literature. The inverse of this analystic process is the constructive process of mounting an argument that is free of fallacies. This will be a practical workshop so bring pen and paper.

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Social Media - Managing your Academic Persona
Professor David Marshall & Dr Chris Moore

Managing your online and social media presence is a crucial component of modern academic identity, one that blends together social networking and self-promotion with student interaction, communication, collaboration and conversation with discipline specific audiences and an engaging public identity. This session will first focus on 'auditing' your current social and online media usage, and begin to help you evaluate the relevance, use and success of social media in the construction of your academic persona. The workshop will examine issues of online and social media use that are relevant to PhD candidates and academics alike, including copyright and intellectual property (including the Creative Commons), alternatives for dissemination and prepublication sharing. It will also discuss generally strategies and specific tactics for generating and managing your online content across multiple platforms and services.

Introduction

  • constructing an online identity and academic persona ma
  • management ‘presence’ and professional practice

Social Media Audit

  • how do you use social and new media?
  • considering your social media goals

Expanding your Social Media Presence and Use

  • integrating a teaching persona (YouTube, Twitter and G+)
  • connecting and managing academic ‘micropublics; nationally and internationally (Facebook, Linked In, Academia.edu)
  • Alternative Channels for dissemination (pre-publication) (Zotero, Scribd, Social Bookmarking)
  • Issues: Opportunities, Repercussions and Pitfalls - copyright/intellectual property, privacy and the public/provide divide, Work/Life balance - 'being' an academic online
  • Building Collaboration in teaching and research with social media (Google Docs, Blogs)Experimenting with Social Media (remaining time)
  • Start a new online profile or resurrect to represent one of your academic selves
  • Content Management and Planning - thinking about content strategically.
  • Google Docs and using Social Media Collaboratively

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Presenting at a conference / Preparing for publication
Dr Antonia Pont

This workshop will approach the two hot and scary topics of candidature: presenting at conferences, and submitting articles for refereed publication. It will, firstly, encourage you to consider your approach to academic presentations, affirming that it is possible for both creativity and rigour to inform your communications at conferences and with your colleagues. An academic audience is no different to other audiences in so far as it is made up of people keen to hear about what you know. The workshop will then outline some of the major stages of publication and the refereeing process, giving participants lots of space to ask questions and for the sharing of existing knowledge and experience. Learn how to approach the task of presenting with ease and enthusiasm, using qualities you already have to get your message across generously and memorably. Find fresh determination for submitting your work to public forums, to ease anxieties about post-candidature pathways.


SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY

9:30am - 10:10am (all summer school participants)

Career success- luck or judgement?

David Essex

This interactive workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and tools to forge a satisfying and successful career. Discover how to identify skills in a meaningful way, look at personal values and how to apply these to the professional labour market. The workshop will also provide a focus on some of the typical myths, errors and misunderstandings common among people seeking to develop their career and what strategies actually work.

David has been assisting HDR students with career development for 15 years and is currently the manager of the Careers and Employment Service at Deakin University.

The best way to predict the future is to create it - (Abraham Lincoln)


11:15am - 12:45pm

Methodology

Due to demand, there are two methodology workshops running simultaneously. Associate Prof essor Julianne Moss's workshop is aimed more at earlier candidature with Professor Deb Verhoeven's methodology workshop aimed at humanities to a slightly more advanced phase of candidature. Please select your preferred workshop.

Methodology one

Associate Professor Julianne Moss

Theory and reading theoretical work in early stage research design

The workshop is designed for early stage post graduate researchers. In recent years questions of theory in social science research and it implications and complications for novice and experts have become key issues. In the RHD context supervisors lament the absence of depth, beginning educational researchers wonder and wander and get lost fearfully rather than cheerfully amidst social theory. Qualitative research in the social sciences can produce a rich palette, yet the hues utilised by the researchers are predominately black on white. The novice researcher is often reluctant to move beyond taken-for granted assumptions of how research works and can work. The workshop invites early stage researchers to consider which theories and methods can be put to work to undo and redo questions of ethics, identity, culture and change. In the workshop examples produced over the past decade of those who dare will be shared and analysed. Principally the examples draw from visuality and show how digital imagery, video and metaphor work readily assemble alongside the theories of Foucault, Deleuze and Bourdieu constructing a new imaginary for social science research

Methodology two

Professor Deb Verhoeven

Evidently: New methodologies for humanities research.

"The humanities" encompasses a broad collection of disciplines with a loosely defined set of approaches to the discovery and creation of knowledge.

In recent years we have seen the expansion of humanities scholarship sometimes described as series of "turns". There's been the "spatial turn", the "material turn", the "linguistic turn", the "performative turn", the "computational turn", even the "neuro-scientific turn". Scholars in the humanities are now faced with an array of new methodological practices that both challenge and advance the field and which have given rise to emerging disciplines:

  • Digital humanities
  • Spatial humanities
  • New materialism
  • Object ontologies
  • Economies of the humanities
  • Algorithmic humanities

This workshop will explore some of the benefits of an expanded approach to humanities research

  • New materialism
  • Object ontologies
  • Economies of the humanities
  • Algorithmic humanities

This workshop will explore some of the benefits of an expanded approach to humanities research

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BeComing an Academic
Dr Adam Brown

What happens after the PhD? How do you ‘make it’ in(to) academia? Well, the answer to these questions can be influenced in important ways by what happens during candidature - what you do now. This session will explore the numerous areas of academic life that you can engage in throughout your postgraduate studies, including conferences, publications, teaching, committee membership, industry involvement, among others. Drawing on recent experiences and observations, the panel’s discussion will outline:

  • How to build up the skills and experiences covered in an academic job application
  • How to negotiate issues of interdisciplinarity in academia
  • How to ‘sell yourself’ and your research in your academic field(s)

Practical advice and an interactive workshop will seek to help you better understand how you can develop a compelling Curriculum Vitae and enhance your standing in national, international and online communities.A presentation by the Processes of Signification Emerging Research Group (PSERG).

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NVivo
Associate Professor Damain Blake

This is a hands on workshop for beginners that looks at the concept of the NVivo. What is it? What does it do? How do you work with it?

Reading Groups

When registering please select your preferred reading group. Only one selection is available for each attendee. If your first preference is not available, you will be allocated to your next preference.

The readings for each reading group will be distributed prior to summer School. If you have any queries about the Reading Groups, please contact Shaun Rawolle on shaun.rawolle@deakin.edu.au.

Group 1 - NOW FULL

TITLE: New Approaches to Culture, Politics and Subjectivity - Seyla Benhabib and the Frankfurt School
Room/space: D2.193
Facilitator: Dr Geoff Boucher

Readings:

  1. BENHABIB, Seyla (1992). “The Generalised Other and the Concrete Other,” in Situating the Self. London; New York: Routledge; 148-177.
  2. BENHABIB, Seyla (2002). “Nous et les Autres (We and the Others): Is Universalism Ethnocentric?” in The Claims of Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 24-48.

Group 2

TITLE: Modernising Anthropology: Where to next?
Room/space - D2.194
Facilitator: Chris Speldewinde (PhD candidate), Anthropology

Readings:

  1. David Price - Weaponising Anthropology
  2. Cris Shore, Susan Wright, David Pero - Policy Worlds:Anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power

Group 3 - NOW FULL

TITLE:Revisiting Bourdieu’s forms of capital
Room/space - D2.211
Facilitator - Dr Julie Rowlands

Bourdieu, P 1986, 'The forms of capital', in JG Richardson (ed.), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, Greenwood, New York, pp. 241-58

This reading will be available in the Library's electronic reserves collection for easy accessability.

Group 4 - NOW FULL

TITLE: Reflexivity
Room/space - D2.212
Facilitator - Dr Adam Brown

Readings:

  1. Foley, Douglas (2002), 'Critical ethnography: The reflexive turn', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 469-490
  2. Lynch, Michael (2000), 'Against Reflexivity as an Academic Virtue and Source of Privileged Knowledge', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 26-54.


Group 5 - NOW FULL

TITLE: Globalisation, identity, difference
Room/space - Level 3, outer Costa Hall foyer - stair end
Facilitator - Dr Ruth Arber

Readings:

  1. Rizvi, Fazal "International education and the production of cosmopolitan identities": RIHE International Publication Series 2005
  2. Hall, S Who needs 'identity',
  3. Bauman, Zygmunt Identity in the globalising world, Social Anthropology (2001), 9, 2 pp121-129
  4. You tube vidoe, The trouble with being human these days

Group 6 - NOW FULL

TITLE: Visual research methods

Room/space - Level 3, outer Costa Hall foyer
Facilitator - Dr Julianne Moss

Readings:

  1. MacLure, Maggie (2009) The wonder of method: International Jounal of Research and Method in Education, vol 32, no 3, pp249-265
  2. Weaver-Hightower, Marcus (2003) The "Boy Turn" in Research on Gender and Education, Review of Educational Research, vol 73, no 4, pp 471-498

Group 7 - NOW FULL

TITLE: Whose learning is it anyway? Constructing positive learner identities.

Room/space - Level 4, outer Costa Hall foyer - stair end
Facilitator - Dr Janet Moles

Readings:

Caraballo, L, 2002, Theorizing Identities in a "Just(ly)" Contested Terrain: Practice Theories of Identity amid Critical-Poststructual Debartes on Curriculum and Ahievement, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy,

Group 8

TITLE: Researching hard-to-reach populations
Room/space - D4.108
Facilitator - Dr Richard Evans

Readings:

Dixon, D & Maher, L 2002, 'Anh hai: Policing, culture and social exclusion in a street heroin market', Policing and Society, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 93-110

Group 9 - THIS GROUP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

TITLE: The global Occupy Movement : The 'corporate uni' and contemporary expressions of anti-capitalism

Room/space - D4.108
Facilitator - Dr Christopher Smith

Readings:

  1. Smith, C 2004,: "Whose Streets?", Urban Social Movements and the Politicization of Space to be read in conjunction with viewing a 10 minute video from visible city
  2. (Pre) Occupied America, 2011, Verso
  3. Occupy Melbourne protest (photo)

Group 10 - NOW FULL

TITLE: Feminist theory, agency and resistance
Room/space - D4.109
Facilitators - Dr Claire Charles and Christy McGillivray

Readings:

  1. Jacqueline Kennelly (2011) Citizen Youth: Culture, activism and agency in a neoliberal era. New York: Palgrave. Chapter 5.
  2. Jessica Ringrose (2013) Postfeminist education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling. London: Routledge. Chapters 5 & 6.
  3. Braidotti, R (2009) On putting the active back into activism. New Formations. (68) 1 pp 42-57.

 

Enquiries

Robyn Ficnerski
Email: robyn.ficnerski@deakin.edu.au or artsed-research@deakin.edu.au

 

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22nd February 2013