Politics & History Swinburne Uni

22/05/2023

Vale Peter Love. https://labourhistorymelbourne.org/2023/05/22/citizen-love-teacher-activist-scholar-and-friend/?fbclid=IwAR3vxgi2zDFKwnGPRLqgWJrJf68d3VVuuuoVgkv5hKiPqQZDnsQd_xJkyuU

Our dear friend Peter Love is no more. His involvement with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History spans fifty years. For the last thirty-five of those years, Peter has been president of its Melbourne Branch. He personified his 'communitarian civic ideal' with an 'unassuming national...

02/09/2021

All welcome to this exciting panel on Monday, featuring former Greens senator Scott Ludlam, Co-founder of ICAN DImity Hawkins, our amazing lecturers Julie Kimber and Kerry Ryan. Register below!

Former Senator Scott Ludlam, ICAN Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dimity Hawkins and Dr Julie Kimber share their experiences changing the world In this public l...

29/07/2021

Eleanor Quinlan is doing a PhD at Macquarie University focused on young people’s involvement in unpaid workplace training in Australia, including internships, work trials, student placements, and work for the dole. The aim of the research is to compare these different types of unpaid workplace training to see how similar or different they are and if they should be paid. The information that is collected will be used to make recommendations for law and policy reform in Australia.

The study involves a survey for young people (aged 18 to 35) with experience of unpaid workplace training. This survey is confidential, multiple-choice, takes around 15 minutes, and includes the chance to win prizes. The study has been approved by the Macquarie University Human Ethics Board and Prof. Gabrielle Meagher is the Chief Investigator. The link to the survey is: https://limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/981417?lang=en.

Toggle navigation Load unfinished survey 0% Caution: JavaScript ex*****on is disabled in your browser or for this website. You may not be able to answer all questions in this survey. Please, verify your browser parameters. Unpaid Workplace Training in Australia This is a confidential survey about yo...

19/07/2021

Australian Foreign Policy students, this will be of interest - do sign up to attend.

Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 05:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (Victoria).

19/07/2021

Australian Foreign Policy people (POL20008), your Canvas unit is now released into the wild. Here's a little trailer of what's in store...

01/07/2021

Congratulations to Grace Mannings who is the recipient of the 2021 Baylis, Smith and Owen Prize for POL20010 International Relations & Security Studies! Grace now gets to release her inner nerd and choose some excellent titles from Oxford University Press as part of her prize.

On hearing the news, Grace said: “I really enjoyed the unit, especially the interaction and sharing of ideas within the tutorials. This combined with studying the various security approaches has helped to inform my own perspectives, which has assisted my work throughout the rest of my units.”

Grace’s work and contributions have been consistently excellent all semester. We were super impressed with all our students this semester too - this was a competitive field with so many of you doing excellent work. Congrats to Grace and all the students in this unit!

07/05/2021

Volunteers wanted for survey on political engagement and pod-cast listening...

Hi All,
One of our PhD students at Swinburne (Dylan Bird) is looking for people to complete a quick survey for his study on political engagement and news podcast listening. It's a really interesting project, so if you fit the criteria and have a spare 10-15 minutes it would be great if you could help him out! Further details and a link to the survey below.

Cheers,
Damon

I’m writing to request your participation in a survey of news podcast listeners in Australia. The survey forms part of my PhD project at Swinburne University of Technology exploring news podcasts and democracy, and will help inform a pilot episode for a new podcast that will be produced as part of my candidature in collaboration with Melbourne-based community broadcaster Triple R FM.

I am seeking survey participants who:
• Have listened to a news podcast in the past month
• Currently reside in Australia
• Are aged 18 years or older
If you fit the criteria, it would be great if you could fill out the survey at a time of your convenience by clicking on this link. It should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

For the purposes of the survey, a news podcast is considered any that is listed within the ‘News’ or ‘News and Politics’ categories in popular podcatchers such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify, but can also include any podcast that you think qualifies as ‘news’.

You will not be personally identified in any published survey results, although I would like to conduct follow-up interviews with some participants for potential inclusion in a podcast. I am also interested in recruiting some participants to give feedback on a podcast pilot that will be informed by the survey and follow-up interviews. The survey includes a provision to record your full name and email address for the purposes of recruiting participants for these subsequent research activities, however if you are not interested in participating in these and wish to remain anonymous you may skip over this question. Alternatively, you can directly register interest in participating in either of these activities by contacting me according to the information below.

More information about the project, including how the data will be used and confidentiality provisions, can be found on the landing page of the survey.

Take the survey by clicking on the link below: https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2gxGdPpMJHDDnal.

News Podcast Listening in Australia

14/04/2021

Victorian Parliamentary Internship Program (VPIP 2021)

Applications are now open for the Victorian Parliamentary Internship Program which will run in semester 2, 2021. Students who participate in the VPIP are placed with a current member of the Victorian Parliament and complete a significant research project jointly supervised by the MP and academic staff from Swinburne. Participation in the unit counts for 25 credit points towards your degree and the time commitment is approximately 1 ½ days per week as well as weekly half-day research workshops held on Friday mornings. At this stage these workshops will be held face-to face at Parliament House, but this is subject to change depending on COVID-19 developments.

Entry to the program is competitive, with eligibility normally limited to students with a Distinction average. Please note that the program will not run in 2022 due to the timing of the state election. With this in mind we encourage eligible students currently studying at second and third year level to apply this year.

Students interested in completing the internship are invited to submit an Expression of Interest comprising a brief cover letter outlining their reasons for undertaking the placement (250 words); a transcript of their grades; a CV; and a sample of their writing (eg. an essay or paper).

Applications should be emailed to [email protected] by 5pm Friday May 14th. For further information contact Dr Damon Alexander.

04/03/2021

Purpose of the survey: • To gain a better understanding of the career pathways and employability of all those with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in history or a degree that was historically-focused. • To facilitate wider discussion of diverse employment pathways for history graduates. ...