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Sexuality and space

Over the past few months Kane Race and I have started a working group in our department called “Sexuality and Space”. The idea is to develop an archive and a network of resources, ideas and events about the politics of urban space in Sydney, particularly as this relates to gender and sexuality. The group builds [...]

Tips from an ‘ECR’ survivor

I promised to report back on the career pathways discussion but I got distracted. One reason is that straight after the talk that Friday I went to my office and received a special, hand delivered notification from the Provost saying I had been promoted! So, even though I think I was supposed to keep it [...]

Learning to labour

To anyone who might be interested, there is a brief summary of last year’s State of the Industry conference in this month’s NTEU Advocate. I have no idea how many readers of this blog are union members, and it’s debatable whether the conference would have generated more applications to join, so I thought it might [...]