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.
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
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2022
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
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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 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 |
