Industry Expert Series
The Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience and Innovation Hub (TNQDRIH) has engaged with two leading industry experts Professor Roger Stone and Bob Shepherd to build a series of v...
First Keynote for Day Two of the CASE HDR Conference Dr Ann Lawless presents “Bridge Building for Social Scientists… https://t.co/G82tMOfC6K
10:20 AM Nov 25thSara Mohamed, PhD Candidate in Session Three - Perspectives from across the environment, presents “Rifts & Reconnec… https://t.co/vRXATQf6EX
04:39 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Nita Alexander in Session Three - Perspectives from across the environment, presents “(In)Action: Har… https://t.co/ec2rBGbBT6
04:06 PM Nov 24thMPhil Candidate Ellie Bock opening Session Three - Perspectives from across the environment by presenting “Biocultu… https://t.co/ehwtclWmTm
03:49 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Elizabeth Smyth finalizing Session Two - Beyond Language, Identity and Narratives by presenting “Writ… https://t.co/SvTg2K4hER
02:59 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Dom Orih finalizing Session One ‘Navigating Wellbeing’ theme by presenting “The feasibility of the Fa… https://t.co/D3VXkvujkn
01:09 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Rebekah Lisciandro kicks off Session One ‘Navigating Wellbeing’ by presenting “The Unbalanced Researc… https://t.co/kGANHi7kR9
11:49 AM Nov 24thToday!!! To register for this event, please use the link https://t.co/VAQqetiVTL All welcome #coralspawning #abctv… https://t.co/iSap7R1xp3
08:55 AM Nov 17thScan the QR to reserve your seat or use the link https://t.co/fub2HCWYKX https://t.co/zvYOOOla1Y
11:01 AM Nov 11thDr Musliharti presenting today in D3.063 - 1500h AEDT https://t.co/SgsY6x6TxT
02:00 PM Nov 10thJCU’s Research for Ethical Development group – JCU RED – was established in late 2021 to promote ethical development research and ethical development practice. The work of the JCU RED group is both conceptual and applied, aiming to contribute to scholarly and policy debates regarding the ethics of development work, as well as to inform practice through research partnerships. The group is multi-disciplinary and works across a wide range of development settings and sectors.
JCU RED is also fast growing, with 46 current members. If you are interested in joining the RED team contact founder and chair; Dr Kearrin Sims or co-Chair Claire Holland.
Inaugural Symposium
JCU RED will host its inaugural research symposium on 13-14 July 2022, at the Cairns Institute. The symposium’s primary aim is to bring together existing RED members to foster new research collaborations. The two-day event will include team or individual research presentations, ‘free chat’ time during coffee and lunch breaks, and a closing strategic roundtable. The call for external papers theme was: Beyond bullshit as usual: Re-centering power and politics in the SDGs. Dr Sims has been received an overwhelming response to researchers wanting to share their work and advised that the program is comprehensive.
The need to move ‘beyond business as usual’ has become a catchcry for increasing private sector contributions to the SDGs. This phrase reflects a broader trend towards privatization in global development that includes: a redirection of aid funding away from not-for-profit civil society and towards for-profit aid contractors; a return to economic growth as the principal objective of aid; and an enduring faith in using technofixes to address complex social challenges. Proponents of increased privatization assert that the private sector has specific strengths for advancing the SDGs, including innovation, responsiveness, and efficiency. While the private sector does have an important role to play in responding to poverty and other development challenges, technocratic and depoliticised interventions often ignore and perpetuate root structural causes of inequality and disadvantage.
Harry Frankfurt’s (2005) engaging essay On Bullshit begins with the sentence ‘One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.’ Yet, as Frankfurt continues, ‘we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what function it serves.’ This symposium brings an analysis of bullshit into arenas of development, including but extending beyond the SDGs. We welcome papers that expose and critique public relations stunts and unfulfilled pledges, toothless commitments and harmful state subsidies, tokenistic inclusivity efforts, unethical business practices, and strategies of deflection, misinformation, and the pursuit of personal gain in the name of public good.
The Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience and Innovation Hub (TNQDRIH) has engaged with two leading industry experts Professor Roger Stone and Bob Shepherd to build a series of v...
Young people are frequently relegated to a state of waiting; expected to passively absorb and learn an adult culture that actively damages the earth. Governments persist in relying on h...
The TNQ Drought Hub, Sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Enterprise (SATSIE) program are pleased to partner with the Western Cape Chamber of Commerce, Aurukun Shire Counci...
James Cook University Associate Professor and The Cairns Institute Fellow Robyn Glade-Wright is passionate about climate change and seeks to communicate with the greater public about en...
The Oceania region has an incredible array of ecosystems and biocultural diversity along with many threats to those. Safeguarding and effectively managing such ecosystems and the liveli...
Tyá Dynevor is a proud Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander mixed-race woman; born on Dharawal Country, Campbelltown, Greater Western Sydney but had grown up between Darwin, Larrakia&nb...
Ellie Bock has been awarded a Masters degree after completing her Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture). Ellie’s primary advisor was Professor Allan Dale and her secondary advisor...
Allan Dale heads the TNQ Drought Hub team that sits within The Cairns Institute and delivers the Sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Enterprise (SATSIE) program. The SATSIE&nbs...
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