Seminars
The People. Policy. Place. (PPP) Seminars Series has been running since the Northern Institute's inception in 2010. The monthly seminars are free and open to the public and all Friends of NI and CDU staff and students. The series focuses on policy through various disciplines and attracts a diverse audience, including academic staff, university students, NT/ local government and NGOs, local businesses, Indigenous and industry representatives, and interested public members.
This year's public seminar program will begin in February and showcase our Northern Institute researchers, collaborators, and guests with updates from their current research projects. All People. Policy. Place. Seminars generally run on the 4th Wednesday of each month (March until November) at 10:30-11:30 am Darwin time (ACST). They are available📍in person and ⏺️online via Zoom (all sessions recorded) unless specified.
Upcoming Seminars 2025
| Month | Seminar | Details |
|---|---|---|
| FEB | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Increasing the number of Aboriginal Teachers in the NT Final project findings & resource launch. with Dr Tracy Woodroffe | Thurs 27 February 🕙10:30-11:30 am View details View raw recording |
| MAR | RESEARCH SEMINAR Understanding pathways to strong learning in two systems: Yolŋu and Balanda + Project findings & Yolŋu healthcare app launch. with Helen Nyomba Gandaŋu, Yenhu Gaylene Gurruwiwi, Dr Emily Armstrong and Associate Professor Anne Lowell | Thurs 6 March 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person @NI ⏺️Online via Zoom View details View raw recording |
| BOOK DISCUSSION A Piece of Red Cloth Conception, research and consultation behind the novel. with Dr Leonie Norrington and guests | Thurs 6 March 🕙4:30-5:30 pm 📍In-person @NI ⏺️Online via Zoom View details No recording - in-person only. | |
| PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Black Lives, White Law Q&A and book discussion. with Dr Russel Marks | Wed 26 March 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person @Danala ⏺️Online via Zoom View details View raw recording | |
| APR | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Bush Foods, Country and Climate Change How can Indigenous ecological philosophy guide a sustainable future? with Sharna Motlap and Collethy Jaru | NEW DATE: Wed 15 April The date was changed to accommodate the easter holidays. |
| MAY | STUDENT EVENT Thursday 15 May: 10:00 am Prakriti Paudel & 11.15 am Om G C Friday 16 May: 10:00 am Patricia Zubair & 11.15 am Kellie Chandler | Thursday 15 & Friday 16 May 🕙10:00am -12:00 noon 📍In-person @NI ⏺️Online via Zoom |
| PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Medical Yarn Ups (MYUs): Decolonising Health Care Delivery with Kalinda Wells and Willow Firth (Waminda Aboriginal Women’s Health and Wellbeing Corporation) and Associate Professor John Stevens (Southern Cross University) | CANCELLED - New date TBC Monday May 19 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person @NI ⏺️Online via Zoom | |
| JUL | NAIDOC WEEK Creole Language Diaspora with Visiting Academic and Adjunct Professor Dany Adone | Wed 9 July 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person ⏺️online via Zoom |
| AUG | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Assessing waterhole health and building digital confidence with the Warddeken (Daluk*) rangers. with Dr Cara Penton *Daluk - means female, woman or wife in Bininj Kunwok | Wed 20 Aug The date changed to accommodate Faculty of Arts and Society Strategic Planning dates. |
| SEP | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Sea Country Research with Dr Rachel Groom and Dr Jackie Gould | Wed 24 September 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person ⏺️online via Zoom |
| OCT | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR with Dr Alicia Boyle | Wed 22 October 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person ⏺️online via Zoom |
| NOV | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR with Associate Professor Pascal Tremblay | Wed 26 November 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person ⏺️online via Zoom |
| TBC | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Medical Yarn Ups (MYUs): Decolonising Health Care Delivery with Kalinda Wells and Willow Firth (Waminda Aboriginal Women’s Health and Wellbeing Corporation) and Associate Professor John Stevens (Southern Cross University) | POSTPONED New date TBC Monday May 19 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person @NI ⏺️Online via Zoom |
| TBC | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Tiwi Turtuni Framework with Marg Ayre, Mavis Kerinaiua and Dr Michaela Spencer | POSTPONED New date TBC 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person @NI ⏺️Online via Zoom |
| TBC | PEOPLE. POLICY. PLACE. SEMINAR Generative AI and the Meta Crisis with Professor Steven Bird | POSTPONED, date TBC (NI office relocation closure - wk of 23-27 June) 🕙10:30-11:30 am 📍In-person ⏺️online via Zoom |
Past seminars and recordings
Where can I watch the recording? Click the link next to the seminar below.
If you cannot find a seminar recording, please contact the Research Support Services at thenortherninstitute@cdu.edu.au, and we will send you the link.
2024
| Seminar | Research Contact | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| PPP SEMINAR Creating a World that Sustains Its Languages February 28 | Professor Steven Bird Northern Institute steven.bird@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| PPP SEMINAR Pathways into Teaching for First Nations Students March 27 | Dr Tracy Woodroffe Northern Institute tracy.woodroffe@cdu.edu.au | |
| STUDENT SEMINAR HDR Student Showcase April 10 | Adrian Harris adrian.harris@cdu.edu.au Alexander Hatzikalimnios alexander.hatzikalimnios@students.cdu.edu.au Johnny Howard jonathanpeteraubreyhoward@students.cdu.edu.au Stephen Enciso stephen.enciso@cdu.edu.au | This recording is only available for student use and reflection. |
| PPP SEMINAR Everything has a reason. Gambling has a reason: Tiwi-led research developing a gambling management strategy for Wurrumiyanga. April 17 | Associate Professor Michaela Spencer Northern Institute michaela.spencer@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| PPP SEMINAR German Ethnographic Expeditions to the Kimberley (1938/9 - 1954/55): A collaborative assessment of research history and the interpretation of Aboriginal heritage May 15 | Dr Martin Porr Associate Professor in Archeology University of Western Australia | View recording |
| STUDENT SEMINAR Master of Public Policy Student Presentations May 15 | Kate Golebiowska Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer, Northern Institute kate.golebiowska@cdu.edu.au | This recording is only available for student use and reflection. |
| PANEL DISCUSSION Positive Duty: Changing the culture and eliminating discrimination | Dr Anna Cody, Leanne Liddle and Dr Dinesh Palipana. Northern Institute thenortherninstitute@cdu.edu.au | Not recorded - in-person only |
| SYMPOSIUM Increasing the Numbers of Aboriginal Teachers in the Territory | Dr Tracy Woodroffe Senior research & Lecturer, Northern Institute tracy.woodroffe@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| MINI-CONFERENCE Central Australian Research Showcase June 19 | Northern Institute Don't hesitate to get in touch with individual researchers about their projects. | Not recorded - in-person only |
| PPP SEMINAR Experiences of an Aboriginal teacher in the NTon July 24 | Dr Tracy Woodroffe Senior Researcher & Lecturer, Northern Institute tracy.woodroffe@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| VISITING ACADEMIC SEMINAR Zooming into Biomodal Bilingualism in Remote Indigenous Communities on August 14 | Professor Dany Adone Chair of Applied English Linguistics University of Cologne, Germany | View recording |
| VISITING ACADEMIC SEMINAR Contemporary Art and Nuclear Cultureon August 21 | Professor Ele Carpenter Director of UmArts University of Umea eleanor.carpenter@umu.se | View recording |
| SPECIAL EVENT Ground Up Making and Doing: 40 years of research inquiry under Yolŋu authority in East Arnhem Land on September 16 | Professor Michael Christi, Professor Helen Verra, Dr Michaela Spence & Dr Matt Campbell Northern Institute thenortherninstitute@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| PPP SEMINAR Project Update + Website Launch: Indigenous Cross-Cultural Higher Education Engagement & Mappingon September 17 | Associate Professor Linda Ford, Dr Robyn Ober, Dr Miriam Rose Baumann, Patrick McKenzie and Noressa Bulsey Linda Ford | View recording |
| PPP SEMINAR Higher Education and First Nations Students: The CDU Story on September 25 | Dr Tracy Woodroffe, Dr Kate Golebiowska, Mrs Alicia Boyle & Associate Professor Guzyal Hill. Tracy Woodroffe | View recording |
| PUBLIC EVENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RIEL Researcher Perspectives of Middle Arm Industrial Precinct on September 27 | Stephen Enciso (NI), Billee McGinley (RIEL) and Colton Perna (RIEL) | View recording |
| PPP SEMINAR Archaeological and Aboriginal Responses to the European Invasion of the Darwin Region 1869 – 2018 on October 23 | Dr Kellie Pollard Lecturer in Aboriginal Futures kellie.pollard@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| RETURNING ACADEMIC SEMINAR Journey through China’s Loess Plateau: Between environmental constraints and social determination on October 23 | Dr David Karacsonyi Casual Research Associate david.karacsonyi@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| TRANS AWARENESS AWEEK From Trans Panic To Trans Joy on October 23 | Professor Kim Humphery Director of Northern Institute kimberley.humphery@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| PPP SEMINAR Indigenous-led Sea Country management:A story about Marra Country and the law on November 27 | Dr Jackie Gould Senior Research Fellow jackie.gould@cdu.edu.au | View recording |
| RESEARCH UPDATE CDU-Department of Treasury and Finance Demographic Research Seminar | Dr Sigurd Dyrting, Dr David Karácsonyi, Dr Tom Wilson and Associate Professor Andrew Taylor Andrew Taylor | Not recorded - in-person only |
2023
| Seminar | Research Contact | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| PPP SEMINAR Collaborations on Sea Country 22 March | Dr Rachel Groom | |
| INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR Intercultural communication for knowledge generation, sharing and application 18 May | Dr Jessica Ball | |
| PPP SEMINAR Open Research Evaluation: The feasibility of replacing ERA with open evaluation, exemplified by a distant reading of higher education research 24 May | Professor Lawrence Cram Emeritus Professor ANU University Fellow Northern Insitute lawrence.cram@cdu.edu.au | |
| INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC WORKSHOP Emergency Management Volunteering Workshop 1 June | Akhilesh Surjan Associate Professor Disaster Management, Northern Insitute akhilesh.surjan@cdu.edu.au | Not available |
| GUEST SEMINAR Policy levers for recruitment & retention of health professionals: evidence (or lack thereof) through a gender lens 8 June | Professor Neeru Gupta Professor, Department of Sociology University of New Brunswick (Canada) | |
| GUEST SEMINAR Optimising Australia's conceptually confused National Training System 22 June | Dr Don Zoellner University Fellow Northern Institute don.zoellner@cdu.edu.au | |
| PPP WORKSHOP Policy Kaleidoscope 28 June | Salli Cohen Founder of The Policy Room & Former ED of Juvenile Justice, NTG) sallicohen@thepolicyroom.com | Not available |
| NAIDOC WEEK SEMINAR Say YES for our elders! 6 July | Georgie Corrie NT Coordinator Yes23 georgia@yes23.com.au | |
| PPP SEMINAR Policy Drivers in the Public Employment Environment 26 July | Vicki Telfer Commissioner for Public Employment, NTG enquiries.ocpe@nt.gov.au | |
| PPP SEMINAR Mixed Reality System for Remote Community Engagement in Construction 30 August | Dr Cat Kutay Faculty of Science & Technology, CDU cat.kutay@cdu.edu.au | |
| GUEST SEMINAR The COVID-19 Quarantine and Isolation Model of Care 7 September | Angela Sheedy Senior Research Officer, CDU Menzies School of Medicine angela.sheedy@cdu.edu.au | |
| INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR Progress of Preparedness and Mitigation in Aceh: 20 Years after Indian Ocean Tsunamis 2004 | Dr Rina Oktari Senior Lecturer, University of Syiah Kuala (Aceh, Indonesia) Head of the Master of Disaster Management Studies. | |
| INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR Mobile Phone Big Data Analysis and the COVID-19 Pandemic September 19 | Associate Professor Kazumasa Hanaoka Department of Geography, Ritsumeikan University | |
| PPP SEMINAR Mathematics in Indigenous Languages – extending the scope of bilingual education in the NT 27 September | Dr Cris Edmonds-Wathen Senior Lecturer in Education, Faculty of Arts and Society, CDU cris.edmonds-wathen@cdu.edu.au | |
| GUEST SEMINAR TASA Seminar: Judicial Work and Emotion: A Socio-legal Approach 26 October | Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu Dean (Research) CHASS, Flinders University sharyn.roachanleu@flinders.edu.au | |
| PPP SEMINAR Dual Seminar: Demographic trends and sparse regions 27 September | Dr David Karacsonyi david.karacsonyi@cdu.edu.au Dr Sigurd Dyrting sigurd.dyrting@cdu.edu.au Northern Institute, CDU | |
| PPP SEMINAR Australian Population Association Seminar November 29 | Dr Kate Golebiowska Senior Research Fellow kate.golebiowska@cdu.edu.au Northern Institute, CDU | |
| PROJECT UPDATE Higher Education and First Nations Students: The CDU Story December | Dr Tracy Woodroffe Senior Research Fellow tracy.woodroffe@cdu.edu.au Northern Institute, CDU |