Postgraduate Forum, Melbourne

Posted on | June 12, 2006 |


‘Life after the PhD: Publishing, Grant Writing and Employment Advice for Women’s and Gender Studies graduates’

Date: Sunday 9 July 2006

Location: Hotel Y, 498 Elizabeth St, Melbourne (same as AWSA conference)

Cost: Free for registered AWSA conference delegates, $10 for non-delegates

The purpose of this forum is to:

* Enable postgraduates from different universities who are doing feminist research to meet each other, as well as key scholars in their field
* Offer practical advice on publishing your research, grant writing, employment opportunities
* Create a space to discuss shared interests around feminist research.

Program:

10.00-10.15am Welcome
Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) & Kerreen Reiger (LaTrobe)

10.15-11.00am Getting published
Dr Alison Bartlett (UWA)

SHORT BREAK

11.15-12.00pm Getting funding
Dr Melissa Gregg (UQ)

12.00-12.45pm Getting a job
Dr Sarah Squires (HREOC)

12.45-1pm Closing discussion
Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) & Kerreen Reiger (LaTrobe)

About the speakers:

Dr Alison Bartlett is in the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Western Australia. She has published extensively in the areas of feminist theory, Australian literature, feminist methods and pedagogy, and media and cultural discourses of women’s sexuality. She is the co-editor of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming Relations (Peter Lang, 2001).

Dr Melissa Gregg is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include cultural studies, media studies, feminism, politics and critical theory.

Dr Sarah Squires completed a PhD in Women’s Studies and is currently working as a Policy and Research Officer in the Sex Discrimination Unit of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

About the organisers:

Dr Kim Toffoletti is a graduate of Women’s Studies at Monash University and now convenes the Gender Studies program at Deakin University (Burwood).

Associate Professor Kerreen Reiger teaches in the School of Social Sciences at LaTrobe University.

Inquiries and RSVP to kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au

Sponsored by the Australian Women’s Studies Association, together with Deakin and LaTrobe Universities

Comments

6 Responses to “Postgraduate Forum, Melbourne”

  1. Penelope Robinson
    June 12th, 2006 @ 5:03 pm

    Wow! That seminar sounds really good. I wish I could go! I’d love to read a summary of it, if you have a moment afterwards to blog about the event. :)

    Cheers,
    Pen.

  2. melgregg
    June 13th, 2006 @ 5:56 pm

    Maybe not the whole thing - as I’m only getting there in time to speak - but can definitely post my notes here.

  3. craig bellamy
    June 14th, 2006 @ 5:38 pm

    heya melissa,

    good to see your blog is moving in the right direction. keep up the good work. and that blog book you have an entry in looks grand.

    CB

  4. Clif
    June 14th, 2006 @ 6:33 pm

    great initiative this. shame I’m out of country. I would imagine it will have good attendance, well … it should do. good luck with it Mel. Would like to read your paper too, if at all possible.

  5. melgregg
    June 15th, 2006 @ 11:12 am

    Thanks guys. Will be in touch Clif - where are you going you lucky one? More exotic surf locations??

  6. Clif
    June 15th, 2006 @ 7:48 pm

    ummm… research ;) Interviewing ‘the boys’ about ‘mateship’;)

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