home cooked theory

Farewell to Pig City

It’s my last day at UQ, which makes a fresh theme seem fitting. The banner design this time is by Sarah Xu, who has been taking the lead for the past few months on the Working From Home project. I think she gets the Home Cooked Theory vibe just right. Thanks Sarah!
One of my [...]

Manifesto caution

On Saturday night some friends and I went to see Ang Lee’s latest film, Lust Caution. At the time, it felt long, exhausting and tragic — especially given I was already tired from the night before and dissecting the week that spawned not one but two quasi-manifestos from lady bloggers. Was there something in the [...]

Domestic journalism

Yesterday I made my first film for the You Decide 2007 website. It was very time consuming, so I might not make too many more, but it was a good way to appreciate how much work is involved in trying to do something even this tiny. I’m not computer illiterate, but I don’t veer too [...]

Working from home – recruitment begins

This past week Nadia and I have been busy recruiting participants for the interview stage of my APD project, “Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity.” The study will follow the technology use of 30 workers across Brisbane for the next three years, focusing on those in the [...]

What’s happened to the Eleanor Schonell bridge?

In December it will be a year since the Dutton Park ferry service was decommissioned to make way for the $55 million pedestrian, cyclist and Brisbane City Council bus-serviced “Green Bridge”. Officially named the Eleanor Schonell Bridge, perhaps because someone noticed hubby Fred already had his own theatre and road leading into St Lucia’s UQ [...]

Ryan candidate forum, UQ Thursday

As part of the lead up to the election the NTEU UQ branch has organized a candidates forum at St Lucia campus for the seat of Ryan featuring Ross Daniels, ALP, Jim Page, Democrats, Evan Jones, Greens, Charles Worringham, Independent, and Michael Johnson, Liberal (to be confirmed). Qld Senate candidates have also been invited.
When: 12pm [...]

Archiving, blogging and research

On Friday Home Cooked Theory was approached by the State Library of Queensland to be included as part of the National Library’s Pandora archive. This means the blog will now be available for the public to access in years to come. I feel incredibly humbled by this, and even more motivated to keep blogging in [...]

$55 000 to study social networking online

I’ve been keeping a big secret and now I’m finally able to spread the news. Last night my online intimacy project was given a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award! You can read all about the study here, but if you are a regular reader you’ll already know that this is the spin-off project from my [...]

You Decide

It’s the Brisbane Writers Festival and the Valley Fiesta this weekend – just as the weather looks like warming up for good this time. I actually can’t find much I’d like to go to at either, but I’ll be heading to the Crikey session this afternoon to support discussion of alternative publishing. I noticed last [...]

Pig City symposium is tomorrow

There have been over 200 RSVPs, so if you haven’t let us know you’re coming yet, please do… we want everyone to have a seat. The email is in the flyer below.
For those of you who have asked about whether the event is being recorded, Radio National will be doing some audio and additional interviews [...]

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