Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research CentreIndustry Advisory & AGM

Industry Advisory• Welcome• Apologies • Minutes of previous meeting• Matters arising from previous research discussion• Advisory Board research issues think tank (Industry)• Open discussion regarding issues arising from think tank• CCS Research and Impact - Case Study of Recent Research

Success (Heidi Norman & Nina Burridge)• Closure of meeting and opportunity for

discussion/refreshments

AGM• Apologies • 2012 Retrospective and Performance Indicators (JO/SD)• Seminar Program (NB)• Research Themes (SD/JG)

– Environmental Research Highlight• Research Development for Members (HY)

– a. a research conversation with members– b. research projects– c. research development

• CCS Public Profile and Media Engagement (SD)• Social Impact Research Highlight

• 2013 Strategic Planning (ALL)– a. seminar series– b. conferences– c. grant development

• CCS Governance (JB)• Budget (SD/JL)• Conclusion and social opportunity

UTS Research Themes

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 piece

CCS Research Themes

• Environment and Society

• Collective Action and Learning

• Cultural Life and Festivities

• Indigeneity and Power

• Knowledge-sharing and Information

• Alternative Cosmopolitanisms

• Migration, Diversity and Racism

• Human Rights, Inclusion and Communication

• Strengthening Civil Societies

Strengths

• Inclusiveness

• Cross, inter, multi, trans (discipline)

• Support of HDR, Research Associates, and community researchers

• Outward looking and inward welcoming

• Quality and impact beyond ERA

Challenges

• ERA!

• Disciplinarity/silos

• Valuing diversity and inclusion

• Research and policy intersection

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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

Once Upon a time in Cabramatta: SBS Television

MEASURING SOCIAL IMPACT

Melinda Edwards, Jenny Onyx, Simon Darcy & Hazel Maxwell UTS &

Vanessa Brown & Shauna Sherker SLSA

Exhibition: Unsafe Haven: HAZARAS IN AFGHANISTAN. Presenter: Abdul Karim

Hosting Head of Radio Free North Korea at North Korea Futures Event

Women and Human Rights

• Nasima Rahmani: UTS Masters of Law Student

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