Don’t Miss Out On These Exciting Sessions Next Week!
1. Introduction to Research Impact and Metrics
When: Tuesday 11 March 2025, 1pm – 2pm
This webinar provides an overview of research metrics for graduate researchers, academic staff, and professional staff working in research. Research metrics are used to quantify engagement with research outputs and range from traditional metrics like journal impact to non-traditional or “altmetrics”, like shares on social media.
Session details and registration: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/v2ap
2. Interested in how Technology can Support Social Connection & Wellbeing?
When: Thursday 13 March 2025, 11am-12.30pm
FoE hosts the Digital Wellbeing Communities Hub – an interdisciplinary group meeting quarterly, and collaborating on key digital wellbeing research projects in between.
If you’re interested in how AI, smartphone apps or other digital tools can be used to help foster social connection, belonging and wellbeing in young adults (including university students), come along and join us at our next workshop on Thursday 13th March, 11-12.30.
Email nrickard@unimelb.edu.au for Calendar invite and to advise dietary preferences, or just turn up: Room 814-815.
3. Masterclass: Policy problematisation and social activism in education research: using the What’s the Problem Represented to be? (WPR)approach
When: Thursday 13 March 11am-12.30pm
Masterclass for researchers, including graduate researchers on Thursday 13thMarch titled Policy problematisation and social activism in education research: using the What’s the Problem Represented to be? (WPR)approach facilitated by Professor Susan Goodwin. Follow this link to learn more and to register. 11am-12:30pm
4. 2025 Theodore Fink Memorial Seminar in Australian Education
When: Thursday 13 March 4-6pm
On the “Right” Side of the ‘70s: How Conservative Activists Sought to Reshape Australian Schooling in the 1970s and 1980s and What it Means for Today
A public seminar on Thursday 13th March, titled, On the “Right” Side of the ‘70s: How conservative activists sought to reshape Australian schooling in the 1970s and 1980s and what it means for today will be presented by Professor Helen Proctor, Professor Jessica Gerrard and Professor Susan Goodwin. 4pm for refreshments before a 4:30pm start – REGISTER HERE and please share widely
5. Visiting Scholar Seminar – Dr Eszter Neumann presneting Religious populism and the restructuring of the Hungarian education sector
When: Friday 14 March 12.30-1.30pm
Where: 100 Leicester St, Carlton, Level 7, Rooms 713/714
Online: Zoom – https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/87162457372?pwd=p5sOp7uHPw7bVbtQtdw7WQzksVKn7D.1&from=addon
RSVP – Jessica.Gerrard@unimelb.edu.au
Since 2010, Hungary has been governed by a right-wing populist government led by Viktor Orbán and become an influential source of right-wing populist knowledge production and transnational policy learning. This talk explores how Hungarian education policy has been reconceptualized in the framework of religious identity politics and Christian conservativism. The government has instigated the outsourcing of significant public and social services, including education and childcare, to Christian churches and faith-based organizations on a massive scale. Based on interviews conducted with policy-makers affiliated with the church sector, I will focus on how the religious elite engage with populist governance and the invitation to expand the church’s public roles and thus become influential actors in steering the school system and radically redrawing the boundaries of religious and secular in the public sector. The talk aims to move beyond the literature that concentrates on populist rhetoric and political discourses and explore populist governance in action.
Eszter Neumann is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary. Eszter completed her PhD at King’s College London under the supervision of Sharon Gewirtz and Meg Maguire. She is the link convenor of the Sociologies of education network of the European Education Research Association and the editor of Intersections East European Journal of Society and Politics. Her postdoctoral research explores conservative education policy discourses and policy-making in Hungary, focusing on the policies facilitating the expansion of the faith school networks and church elites’ engagement with religious populist governance.