Northern Institute

Seminars

People. Policy. Place.

People. Policy. Place Seminars are open to the public and held in person (at Northern Institute - CDU Casuarina campus) &/or via webinar. The seminars attract a diverse audience including academic staff, university students, NT/ local government and NGOs, local businesses, Indigenous and industry representatives, and interested public members.

If you would like to present your social or policy related research please send an expression of interest to thenortherninstitute@cdu.edu.au detailing your area of research expertise, the proposed seminar title, an abstract (under 250 words) + a link to your online research profile (eg. CDU Research Portal, ResearchGate, Academia, ORCID) for consideration.

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2023 Seminar Program

The 2023 seminar program will be held at 10.00am (ACST) on the 4th Wednesday of each month (starting 22 March - 23 November 2023).

LIVE at Northern Institute & ONLINE via Zoom

2023	Seminar & Presenter	Details	Registration
^MARCH	Collaborations on Sea Country Presenter: Associate Professor Rachel Groom (Northern Institute)	Wednesday 22 March 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)	In Person Zoom
^APRIL		Wednesday 26 April 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^MAY		Wednesday 24 May 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^JUNE		Wednesday 28 June 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^JULY		Wednesday 26 July 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^AUGUST		Wednesday 23 August 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^SEPTEMBER		Wednesday 27 September 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^OCTOBER		Wednesday 25 October 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)
^NOVEMBER		Wednesday 22 November 10.00 - 11.00am (ACST)

Past seminars

2022

Seminar	Date	Recording
Higher Education and First Nations Students: The CDU Story Dr Tracy Woodroffe, Dr Kate Golebiowska, Dr Guzyal Hill and Alicia Boyle	Tuesday 6 December 2:30 pm (ACST)	LIVE at Northern Institute & ONLINE via Zoom *-Final seminar for 2022-*
Establishing pathways into Education for First Nations Students Dr Tracy Woodroffe and Dr Johanna Funk	Thursday 1 December 10:30 am (ACST)	LIVE at Northern Institute & ONLINE via Zoom
Democratic participation and social transformation: Yaṉangu way Ellie Norris	Thursday 24 November 10:30am (ACST)	ONLINE via Zoom
Sharing research from Fulbright experience teaching in Alabama + Incarceration Nation Film Screening film Adelle Sefton-Rowston	Tuesday 25 October	Available soon
Listening to Indigenous literature: letting it tell its story Brenda Machosky - International guest	Wednesday 25 October	Available soon
^{PPP SEMINAR} On a Mission: Catholic Missionaries, Land, and Education among the Potawatomi of Kansas; 1840-1861 Issac Akande	Thursday 20 October	Available soon
^{PPP SEMINAR} Reading the signs: Indigenous weather prediction of the Indigenous Sumi Nagas of India Dr Alino Sumi	25 August 2022	Available after event
^{PPP SEMINAR} Management of Teacher Education in the New Normal: A comparative and Explorative Study Stephen Bolaji, Anselm Bohmer and Nicolas Gromik	21 August 2022 2 pm (ACCT)	Available soon
^{INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR} University North: an example of a modern integrated public university and its relationship with the real market in Croatia Professor Anica Hunjet Western Balkans on the Crossroads: Is the European Perspective Realistic? Instability, Stagnation and Emigration as the main threats Associate Professor Petar Kurečić	23 June 2022	This event was not recorded
^{INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR} Eight Years of the War in Ukraine: Nostalgia for the Soviet Past, Mass Internal Displacement and Military Urbicide Professor Kostyantyn Mezentsev	14 June 2022	This event was not recorded
^{PPP SEMINAR} Landscape knowledge visualisation: Innovations in 4D simulations and gamification of complex systems Rohan Fisher	9 June 2022	Available soon
^{PPP SEMINAR} Storytelling, setting the story straight about the shared history of Aboriginal Australians and their lived experience in the pastoral industry Delyna Baxter	31 May 2022	Available soon
^{PPP SEMINAR} Embodied Reconciliation as Coexistence Catherine Koerner	17 May 2022	Available soon
^{INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR} Developing AI Applications for RegTech: Advancing Regulatory Sandbox in Korea Dr Seung-Hun Hong & Dr Ha Hwang	9 May 2022	Available soon
^{PPP SEMINAR} Social capital in the Territory - opportunities and limitations to developing an index Fiona Shalley & Elizabeth Creed	7 April 2022	Available soon
^{INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT} IWD: Breaking the Bias with Rebecca Forrest NT Australian of the Year - Local Hero	8 March 2022	Available soon

2021

Seminar	Date	Recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} COVID-19 and policy-induced inequalities: Exploring the health and wellbeing implications of exclusions from COVID-19 support policies among ‘temporary’ migrant men in Australia Dr Daile Rung	26 November 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Library for All: Creating children's book collections to mirror the lived experience of the reader Dr Julie Owen & Dr Lara Cain Gray, Library For All	16 November 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Unlocking the learning potential of incarcerated and low socioeconomic status (SES) young people Associate Professor Bronwyn Ewing & Professor Grace Sarra, QUT	4 November 2021	This event was not recorded
^{PPP SEMINAR} Why Policy and what is it? Salli Cohen, The Policy Room	22 October 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Australian First Nation Philosophies within Contemporary Business Contexts Dr Chrystie Watson	7 October 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Indigenous Australia in your Classroom Dr Tracy Woodroffe	10 September 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Regional Workforce Futures in the Northern Territory: A case study of the Barkly Region Salli Cohen, The Policy Room	10 September 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Enhancing the achievement of competency by integration attitude teaching SNF learning in competency-based training: A case study Ser Loy Chan	19 August 2021	This event was not recorded
^{PPP SEMINAR} REFUGEE WEEK - Free the Darwin 15: The history, politics & ways forward Professor Michael Christie, Stephen Enciso, Valerie Leishman & Dr Sara Dehm	24 June 2021	This event was not recorded
^{PPP SEMINAR} REFUGEE WEEK - The Challenge of Protecting the Rohingya Refugees Dr Ridwanul Hoque	22 June 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Job Readiness and Digital Literacies in Cultural Studies Dr Johanna Funk	17 June 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} “You killed my childhood”: fanboys react to women in Doctor Who, Star Trek & Star Wars (2015-2020) Dr Stephen Kerry	3 June 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Who got married in 2018 and why does it matter? A demographic profile of Australia’s same-sex marriage pioneers Fiona Shalley	20 May 2021	This event was not recorded
^{PPP SEMINAR} The Social and Economic Impacts of Heat: Lessons learnt from Darwin Dr Kerstin Zander	28 April 2021	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Reports, Workshops, Evaluations, Theses. From Research in ‘The Real World’ to a Q1 Academic Journal Article Professor Helen Verran	13 April 2021	View the recording
^{INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT} Ending Period Poverty with Isobel Marshall Young Australian of the Year 2021	13 April 2021	View the recording
^{INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT} A Conversation with Dr Wendy Page Young Australian of the Year 2021	10 March 2021	View the recording
^{INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT} NT COVID Emergency Response Workforce: Working to Keep the NT Safe Angela Sheedy	04 March 2021	View the recording

2020

Seminar	Date	Recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Australian LGBTQIA+ Buddhists Dr Stephen Kerry	26 November 2020	View the recording
SPECIAL EVENT Silver Linings: Beyond The Silos Alex Roberts & Vicki Telfer, Professor Ruth Wallace, Joe Hewett, Shane Dexter, George Tan, Jordy Bowman, Clare Martin, Rebecca Murray, Charles Pain & Jodie Ryan	17 November 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} NAIDOC WEEK - Making Things Lively with Miyarrka Media Miyarrka Media Collective	4 November 2020	This event was not recorded
^{PPP SEMINAR} Analysing the commercial relationship between Australia and Japan Devon Turner	30 October 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Introduction to IP Protection and Practical Case Study Dr Steve Rogers	14 October 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} A spatial interpretation of Australia’s COVID vulnerability (with a special emphasis on sparsely populated areas) Dr Dávid Karácsonyi	16 September 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} CDU RESEARCH WEEK - The Territory and Me – a quest to understand migration drivers Fiona Shalley & Dr Sigurd Dyrting	27 August 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} CDU RESEARCH WEEK - Indigenous Women in Science: A framework for Leadership, Knowledge, Innovation and Complexity Dr Tracy Woodroffe	27 August 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} CDU RESEARCH WEEK - What a waste! Where do solar panels go to die? Dr Deepika Mathur	27 August 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} CDU Research Week - Realist influence in the real world: A case study Professor Gill Westhrop	27 August 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} Clan based management model in Ngukurr community Ian Mongunu Gumbula & Mercy Gumbula	27 July 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} RECONCILIATION WEEK - Black Agriculture, White Anger: Arguments Over Aboriginal Land Use in Bruce Pascoe's 'Dark Emu' Dr Richard Davis	28 May 2020	View the recording
^{PPP SEMINAR} From cyclones to COVID-19: Disaster management from a Yolŋu perspective Dr Michaela Spencer, Yasunori Hayashi, Gawura Wanambi, Joy Bulkanhawuy, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy & Stephen Dhamarrandji	23 April 2020	View the recording