Sustaining Cultural Research

Posted on | December 3, 2007 |

Below and here is the program for Wednesday’s professional development day - the pre-conference being held the day before CSAA. I am on last! So my thoughts on ‘the way forward’ for public intellectualism will probably be ‘in the direction of the pub’. I am still gathering my notes together and feel quite conscious that the last event like this left some people feeling overwhelmed. But I think we will all learn a lot, and it will be nice to get lots of bright young people together in one place!

If you’re coming, why not let us know below?

9.00-9.30 Registration and Welcome.
- Graeme Turner [re: RQF & other issues]
- Susan Luckman
- Emily Potter

9.30-11.00 Sustaining Cultural Research
- Catharine Lumby [Cultural Research in the Mainstream Media]
- Graeme Turner [Intervening in Policy Debates/Curricula]
- Stuart Cunningham [CHASS; Impact Vs Quality re: RQF]

11.00-11.30 Morning Tea

11.30-13.30 Media Team Australia Workshop (with Annie O’Rourke) covering:
- Ensuring you have the basics right - developing contacts, writing effective media releases and pitching stories to the right journalists
- Understanding the national media cycle
- What stage of the research process is the most effective time to develop your media relations strategy
- Why some issues run while others drop
- Choosing the right outlet and timing for your research to be released
- Developing a profile
- Generating follow up stories and op/ed pieces
- How to engage in issues already running in the national media

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Employment and Communication beyond the Academy
Kate Darian-Smith
Jeremy MacKinnon
Nicole Anderson
Elspeth Probyn
Carol Williams

16.00-17.30 Public Intellectualism: The Way Forward?
- Catharine Lumby
- Maria Tumarkin
- Mel Gregg

17.30 on Function at Aroma

Comments

One Response to “Sustaining Cultural Research”

  1. WildlyParenthetical
    December 3rd, 2007 @ 10:18 pm

    Well, I, for one, will be there :-) I’m not quite sure what to expect, really, but like you say, it’ll probably be fun just to hang out with some other postgrads (and of course the speakers!)

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