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People. Policy. Place. Seminar Series
rachel Groom in front of sea country where she researches

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 (e.g. CDU Research Portal, ResearchGate, Academia, ORCID) for consideration. 

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Seminar Program

The 2023 seminar program will be held at 10.00 am (ACST) on the 4th Wednesday of March to November, LIVE at Northern Institute & ONLINE via Zoom. Registration opens a week before the event.

 SEMINAR DATE & TIME
MARCH

Collaborations on Sea Country
Dr Rachel Groom (Senior Research Fellow, Northern Institute)

View the presentation slides 

Wednesday 22 March 
10.00 - 11.00 am (ACST)

APRIL

 

Can collaboration, Community Wi-Fi and an innovative healthcare model help "Close the Gap" in remote health?
Marianne St Clair (Simbani Research)

To be rescheduled 

Wednesday  26 April
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

MAY

Open Research Evaluation: The feasibility of replacing ERA with open evaluation, exemplified by a distant reading of higher education research
Professor Lawrence Cram AM (Emeritus Professor, ANU & Honorary, Northern Institute)

Wednesday  24 May
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

JUNE

Policy Kaleidoscope 
Salli Cohen (Founder of The Policy Room &  Former ED of Juvenile Justice, NTG)

Wednesday  28 June
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

JULY

Policy Drivers in the Public Employment Environment
Vicki Telfer (Commissioner for Public Employment, NTG)

Wednesday  26 July
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

AUGUST

Mixed Reality System for Remote Community Engagement in Construction
Dr Cat Kutay (Faculty of Science & Technology, CDU)

Wednesday  23 August
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

SEPTEMBER

Mathematics in Indigenous Languages – extending the Scope of bilingual education in the NT.
Dr Cris Edmonds-Wathen (Faculty of Arts & Society, CDU)

Wednesday  27 September 
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

OCTOBER

Recent Trends in the Demography of Developed Countries
Dr Sigurd Dyrting (Research Associate, Northern Institute)

Wednesday  25 October
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

NOVEMBER

Transgender Awareness Panel 
Professor Kim Humphery (Director, Northern Institute)

*Date brought forward to coincide with 'Transgender Awareness Week' 13-20 November 

Wednesday  15 November*
10.00 - 11.00am (ACST) 

Past seminars

2023
Seminar Researcher Resources

PPP SEMINAR
Collaborations on Sea Country
22 March 2023

Dr Rachel Groom
Senior Research Fellow
Northern Institute
rachel.groom@cdu.edu.au
  • A Recording will be available soon.
  • Presentation slides

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR
Intercultural communication for knowledge generation, sharing and application
18 May 2023

Dr Jessica Ball
Professor, School of Child and Youth Care
University of Victoria (Canada)
jball@uvic.ca
  • A Recording will be available soon.
  • Presentation slides
  • Presentation resources
   
   
2022
SeminarDate
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)

Establishing Pathways into Education for First Nations Students
Dr Tracy Woodroffe and Dr Johanna Funk 

Thursday 1 December

10:30 am (ACST)

Democratic participation and social transformation: Yaṉangu way

Ellie Norris

Thursday, 24 November 10:30 am (ACST)

Sharing research from Fulbright experience teaching in Alabama +  Incarceration Nation Film Screening film

Adelle Sefton-Rowston

Tuesday 25 October

Listening to Indigenous literature: letting it tell its story
Brenda Machosky - International guest

Wednesday 25 October

PPP SEMINAR
On a Mission: Catholic Missionaries, Land, and Education among the Potawatomi of Kansas; 1840­-1861
Issac Akande

Thursday 20 October

PPP SEMINAR
Reading the signs: Indigenous weather prediction of the Indigenous Sumi Nagas of India

Dr Alino Sumi
25 August 2022
 

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)

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
 
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
 

PPP SEMINAR
Landscape knowledge visualisation: Innovations in 4D simulations and gamification of complex systems

Rohan Fisher

 9 June 2022
 

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
 
PPP SEMINAR
Embodied Reconciliation as Coexistence

Catherine Koerner
17 May 2022
 
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SEMINAR
Developing AI Applications for RegTech: Advancing Regulatory Sandbox in Korea
Dr Seung-Hun Hong & Dr Ha Hwang
9 May 2022
 
PPP SEMINAR
Social capital in the Territory - opportunities and limitations to developing an index

Fiona Shalley & Elizabeth Creed
7 April 2022
 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT
IWD: Breaking the Bias with Rebecca Forrest

NT Australian of the Year - Local Hero

8 March 2022
 
2021
SeminarDateRecording

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
 

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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
 

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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 2021This event was not recorded
PPP SEMINAR
Why Policy and what is it?
Salli Cohen, The Policy Room
22 October 2021View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
Australian First Nation Philosophies within Contemporary Business Contexts 
Dr Chrystie Watson
7 October 2021

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PPP SEMINAR
Indigenous Australia in your Classroom
Dr Tracy Woodroffe
10 September 2021View 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 2021View 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 2021This 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 2021This event was not recorded
PPP SEMINAR
REFUGEE WEEK - The Challenge of Protecting the Rohingya Refugees
Dr Ridwanul Hoque
22 June 2021View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
Job Readiness and Digital Literacies in Cultural Studies
Dr Johanna Funk
17 June 2021View 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 2021View 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

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PPP SEMINAR
Reports, Workshops, Evaluations, Theses.  From Research in ‘The Real World’ to a Q1 Academic Journal Article
Professor Helen Verran
13 April 2021View the recording
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT
Ending Period Poverty with Isobel Marshall
Young Australian of the Year 2021
13 April 2021View the recording
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT
A Conversation with Dr Wendy Page
Young Australian of the Year 2021
10 March 2021View the recording
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT
NT COVID Emergency Response Workforce: Working to Keep the NT Safe
Angela Sheedy
04 March 2021View the recording
2020
SeminarDateRecording

PPP SEMINAR
Australian LGBTQIA+ Buddhists
Dr Stephen Kerry 

26 November 2020
 

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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

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PPP SEMINAR
NAIDOC WEEK - Making Things Lively with Miyarrka Media
Miyarrka Media Collective 
4 November 2020This event was not recorded
PPP SEMINAR
Analysing the commercial relationship between Australia and Japan
Devon Turner
30 October 2020View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
Introduction to IP Protection and Practical Case Study
Dr Steve Rogers
14 October 2020

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PPP SEMINAR
A spatial interpretation of Australia’s COVID vulnerability (with a special emphasis on sparsely populated areas)
Dr Dávid Karácsonyi
16 September 2020View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
CDU RESEARCH WEEK - The Territory and Me – a quest to understand migration drivers
Fiona Shalley & Dr Sigurd Dyrting 
27 August 2020View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
CDU RESEARCH WEEK - Indigenous Women in Science: A framework for Leadership, Knowledge, Innovation and Complexity
Dr Tracy Woodroffe
27 August 2020View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
CDU RESEARCH WEEK - What a waste! Where do solar panels go to die?
Dr Deepika Mathur
27 August 2020View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
CDU Research Week - Realist influence in the real world: A case study
Professor Gill Westhrop
27 August 2020View the recording
PPP SEMINAR
Clan based management model in Ngukurr community
Ian Mongunu Gumbula & Mercy Gumbula
27 July 2020View 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 2020View 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

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