DRAFT PROGRAM
2016 Academic Identities Conference Day 1 - Wednesday 29th June
sydney.edu.au/itl/aic2016
8.00-9.00am Registration
9.00-9.30am Conference Opening & Welcome
9.30-10.30am
Keynote address
Does society get the university it deserves? How to conduct our academic lives in the impulse university Professor Gert Biesta, Brunel University London
10.30-11.00am Morning tea
11.00-12.30pm Session 1A
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Collegiality, kindness and care in the measured university: Huh?
Tracy Fortune, Priscilla Ennals, Cheryl Neilson, Chris Bruce & Anoo Bhopti La Trobe University
Becoming the academic middle manager in changing culture of the university
Machi Sato, Hiroshima University & Shinji Tateishi, National Institute for Educational Policy
The Life of Language and Learning Academics in the Measured University
Dana Chahal Victoria University
Constructing the Fantasy Student Glen Thomas Queensland University of Technology
Symposium: 90mins
Becoming ACADEMICWRITINGMACHINE
Eileen Honan, The University of Queensland; Linda Henderson, Monash University & Sarah Loch, University of Technology Sydney
Using the concept of kindness to bring an alternative, relational view to becoming an academic in the measured university
Jan McLean University of NSW
Who am I? TNE and Chinese Academics: Identity, language, investment and intercultural communication as sites of struggle in TNE environments in China
Stuart Perrin, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Personal and professional transformation in structures of performativity
Charles Neame Manchester Metropolitan University
Roundtable: 60mins
Class Performance versus Career Performance: Negotiating an Appropriate Quality Agenda in the Evaluation of University Teaching
Colm Harmon, James Curran & Maegan Baker The University of Sydney
Collegiality – the contradictions and the promise for academic identities in measured universities
Giedre Kligyte University of NSW
The measured subjectivities of academic careers in the UK
Jan Smith Durham University
Lost Souls: the desocialization of Academic Labour in the Measured University
Paul Sutton University of St Mark & St John
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
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1.30-3.00pm Session 1B
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The Value of Professional Dialogue in the Measured University
Mandy Ashgar, York St John University & Ruth Pilkington, Liverpool John Moores University
A discursive account of the impact of student diversity on academic identities
Sophie Goldingay, Greer Lamaro Haintz, Dani Hitch, Juliana Ryan & Susie Macfarlane Deakin University
Pressed for time: developing an academic identity while becoming a researcher in busy PhD life
Lilia Mantai & Agnes Bosanquet Macquarie University
Performance: 90mins
Poetry and the Measured University Kim DeBacco, University of California Santa Barbara & James Burford, Thammasat University
Using narrative to explore SoTL identity Barbara Kensington-Miller, The University of Auckland & Sue Moron-Garcia, University of Central Lancashire
Roundtable: 60mins
Teaching Difficult Knowledge: Educators’ Reflective Engagement with Social Justice Pedagogy
Tapo Chimbganda Leeds Trinity University
Becoming a researcher: mapping critical decisions in the identity development of HDR students
Harry Rolf & Denbeigh Armstrong University of Tasmania
Transformative and troublesome: Reflective blogging for professional learning about university teaching
Amani Bell, Louise Peralta & Andy Smidt, The University of Sydney; Penny Wheeler, Australian Catholic University
Training ethical researchers in a risk averse environment
Kate MacNeill & Barb Bolt, The University of Melbourne; Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT & Megan McPherson
3.00-3.30pm Afternoon tea
3.30-5.00pm Session 1C
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Being and becoming academic: a collaborative exploration of academic identities
Susanne Gannon, Karin Mackay, Claire Power, Sarah Powell & Ila Rosmilawati Western Sydney University
Responding to the Paradox of Space, the Politics of Stewardship and the Absence of Pleasure: Pasifika Teacher Educators and the Process of ‘becoming’ Academics in the Measured University
Tanya Samu The University of Auckland
Roundtable: 60mins
Completion, publication and collaboration: What is the measured university doing to doctoral writing?
Cally Guerin University of Adelaide
Symposium: 90mins
The university as an infinite game Niki Harré, Sean Sturm, Kirsten Locke & Barbara M. Grant The University of Auckland
Academic Identities, Relationalities and Affect in Measured Universities
Susanne Gannon, Western Sydney University; Giedre Kligyte & Jan McLean, UNSW; Maud Perrier, University of Bristol; Elaine Swan, Ilaria Vanni & Honni van Rijswijk, UTS
The Quiet Resistance: Academic Identity and the Contemplative Education Movement in Thai Higher Education
Adisorn Juntrasook Thammasat University
Gendering measurement/measuring gender Kate MacNeill, The University of Melbourne & Anita Devos, Monash University
Being and becoming a professional: Restoring history to the education of health professions
Tracy Fortune & Sarah Barradell, La Trobe University & Tai Peseta, The University of Sydney
Enhancing relationships and community engagement through book clubs that focus on gratitude
Kerry Howells University of Tasmania
5.15-6.15pm Drinks & canapés + book launch
Anytime after 6.15pm
Dinner with friends
Day 2 - Thursday 30th June
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8.30-9.00am Registration desk
9.00am-10.30am Session 2A
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“I am told it is publications”: Becoming a quantified academic in the measured university
Agnes Bosanquet, Macquarie University; Jason Lodge, The University of Melbourne & Kelly Matthews, The University of Queensland
Symposium: 90mins
University teaching practices in local academic workgroups: measuring individuals or tracing change? Tai Peseta, The University of Sydney; John Hannon, La Trobe University; James Garraway & Chris Winberg, Cape Peninsula University; Jan Smith, Durham University; Giedre Kligyte & Jan McLean, UNSW
The power of collaboration: Team supervision of doctoral students
Margaret Robertson La Trobe University
Roundtable 60mins
Unmeasurable Education and Collaboration on campus: The Residential College and other examples of less formal University Education Jack Tan The University of Melbourne
Performance: 60mins
Rendering the pleasures and paradoxes of academic life: using images and prose to speak back to the measured university?
Catherine Manathunga, Mark Selkrig & Kirsten Sadler Victoria University
Negotiating the academic terrain as an early career academic
Jennie Billot, Auckland University of Technology & Virginia King, Coventry University
The measured practices of doctoral supervision
Barbara M. Grant The University of Auckland
Student Mentoring Identities on Film –the pleasures and risks of a collaborative non-curricular project
Paola Bilbrough Victoria University
Encountering and embracing self in academic inquiry
David Wright, Susanne Gannon & Dorian Stoilescu Western Sydney University
10.30-11.00am Morning tea
11.00-12.00pm
Keynote address
From a roar to a whisper: academic voice and governance within the measured university Dr Julie Rowlands, Deakin University
12.00-1.00pm Panel discussion
1.00-2.00pm Lunch
Supervision by numbers: The Social Imaginary of Quantity and Quality in Higher Degree Research Liam Grealy & Tim Laurie The University of Sydney
Later career researchers: clogging the arteries? Gina Wisker University of Brighton
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2.00-3.30pm Session 2B
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Academic writing and the utopia of ordinary habit James Burford Thammasat University
The student experience of online learning: Implications for academic work and identity
Craig Deed, Scott Alterator, Narelle Lemon & Rebecca Miles La Trobe University
Symposium: 90mins
Getting the measure of doctoral curriculum: A response to access and equity?
Tai Peseta, The University of Sydney; Simon Barrie, Western Sydney University; Barbara M. Grant, Mark Barrow & Frances Kelly, The University of Auckland; Lucia Thesen & JeffJawitz, University of Cape Town, & Lisa Lucas & Sheila Trahar, University of Bristol
Roundtable: 60mins
The Digital Academic: measuring daily practice Russell Butson University of Otago
Writers in retreat: Conflicted knowledge workers, shifting identities and changing relations in the new enterprise university
Sally Knowles Edith Cowan University
Measuring international students’ plagiarism in a private HE provider pathway program
Louise Kaktins Macquarie University
Written papers, written papers - and they all look just the same!
Jens J. Hansen University of NSW
Putting a percentage on honesty. A pragmatic, ethics-based response to teaching in the age of Turnitin®
Jennifer Smith-Merry The University of Sydney
Big Data and Learning Analytics-Promises and Challenges: Being 'measured' and Being 'careful'?
Reem Al-Mahmood La Trobe University
3.30-4.00pm Afternoon tea
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Session 2C
An auto-ethnographic reflection of teaching intensive work through a lens of the sociology of emotions
Harriet Westcott The University of Sydney
Preparing to Lead in the Measured University Julie Hall Roehampton University
Performance: 60mins
Singing the sensual politics of the south Jayson Cooper Victoria University
Parenting in the academy - measuring and valuing care-work and wage-work
Danielle Drozdzewski, UNSW & Natascha Klocker, University of Wollongong
“Doomed. Don’t know what’s gonna happen. Scary”: Academic and institutional anxiety in the measured university
Agnes Bosanquet & Cathy Rytmeister Macquarie University
"Pickering's Harem" as a gendered reading of academic leadership
Kirsten Locke, The University of Auckland & Susan Wright, Aarhus University
Finding ourselves at work: personal friendships among academics
Jennifer Wilkinson The University of Sydney
From 7.00pm Conference dinner at the Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour (make your own way with public transport recommendations)
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Day 3 - Friday 1st July
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8.30-9am
9.00-10.30am Session 3A
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A university of play Sean Sturm & Stephen Turner The University of Auckland
Measuring beyond the teaching for the teaching: A “southern” case Fiona Henderson & Tarquam Mckenna Victoria University
Professors of Practice: Agents of performative or traditional cultures?
Rhonda Hallett & Tim Marjoribanks La Trobe University
The Manipulation of Scholarly Rating and Measurement Systems: Social and Ethical Dimensions of Academic Gaming
Jo Ann Oravec University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Identity and measurement: changing ourselves through assessment Bridget Hanna Edinburgh Napier University
I have measured out my life with HERDC points* Jeanette Fyffe & Susan Martin La Trobe University
Performance: 60mins
'Terre Chérie - Ed U. K. Shone': Rappin’ on what matters
Sheridan Linnell & Peter Bansel Western Sydney University
Analytics, code and bare (academic) life: Resisting measurement and reclaiming community Stanley Frielick Auckland University of Technology
Building the identity of interior designers within the confines of a measured educational institution
Sean Dunne, Waikato Institute of Technology & Dorothy Spiller, University of Waikato
From researcher to steward: revisiting the learning experiences in the Australian PhD
Simon Barrie; Western Sydney University & Tai Peseta & Keith Trigwell, The University of Sydney
10.30-11.00am Morning tea
11.00-12.30pm Session 3B
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The pursuit of the academic ‘good life’ within the neoliberal university: First-generation students within doctoral education and their aspirations for the academy
Catherine Mitchell The University of Auckland
Symposium: 90mins
Articulating cultural competence at Sydney: Newer identities for the contemporary university?
Melinda J. Lewis, Tai Peseta, Amani Bell, Stephanie Barahona, Suji Jeong, Longen Lan, Rosemary Menzies, Tracy Trieu & Ann Wenn, Kathryn Bartimote-Aufflick & Philippa Pattison, The University of Sydney & Simon Barrie, Western Sydney University
Roundtable: 60mins
Measures of Pleasure Helen Sword & Marion Blumenstein The University of Auckland
Performance: 90mins
Persona: Beyond the panopticon Josie Healy Queensland University of Technology
Panel-beater or Co-Supervisor? The Politics and Paradoxes of Academic Language and Learning Lecturers providing support to doctoral students
Paola Bilbrough & Nira Rahman Victoria University
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.30pm
Keynote address
Weighing up Futures: Experiences of Giving up an Academic Career Associate Professor Ruth Barcan, The University of Sydney
2.30-3.00pm Thanks and close
Registration desk
