Events and Activities

2026

Research masterclasses

Research Masterclass Schedule of Guest Speakers  

Please see below the list of speakers lined up for the masterclasses this year. More information to be sent with monthly invite which will include the presentation focus, bios and suggested readings.

The sessions will be held monthly (2nd Thursday of the month) online and sometimes hybrid when we have guests or are running practical workshops as we did in 2025. The focus of the sessions is to explore a range of new contemporary research thinking supported by invited guest speakers, practical workshops, readings and a reading group. 

The first meeting will be on April 9 11.30-1pm where I will provide an Educational Research in the Anthropocene (see post on here of the presentation) – by mapping current research trends and issues being addressed in education and the social sciences in response to the ecological crisis, new technologies and planetary futures.

Session 1 9^th April:  Professor Karen Malone (see video of presentation here https://vimeo.com/1181446034)

Session 2 14^th May: Associate Professor Kate Coleman (University of Melbourne)

Session 3 11^th June: Associate Professor Sonja Arndt (University of Melbourne)

Session 4 13^th August: Professor Lisa Kervin (Monash University)

Session 5 10^th September: Dr Tracy Young (Southern Cross University)

Session 6 8^th October:  Professor Mark Rickinson (Monash University)

Location: Hybrid online (TEAMS see below) and on-campus – 400B 220 meeting room

Teams Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/49092180420768?p=fPAkBPzDFHD1sR4kCs

Meeting ID: 490 921 804 207 68.      Passcode: 5Lm6xQ9q

2025

2025 HDR & ECR Research Support Activities

Department of Education and School Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education

HDR Shared Cohort Meetings – 4^th Wednesday month 2-3.30pm TEAMS online or meeting room AS324

April	“What are the New Humanities and the new Posts?”
May	“Are Posthumanism and New materialism the same thing?”
June (full day 5th June) Workshop 1	“How do I do post qualitative inquiry?”  Presentation and workshop – guest speakers Dr. Angela Molloy-Murphy, University of Melbourne and PhD student Trude Iverson University of Stavanger
July	“How do I write with the more-than-human voice?”
September	What is narrative inquiry? Guest speaker Damien Lyons
October	Doing and writing with narrative inquiry Guest speaker Damien Lyons
November	Developing Your Research Profile
December (full day 17th December) Workshop 2	Theorising Posthumanist Multispecies Childhoods – Presentation ad workshop – guest speaker Associate Professor Riikka Hohti, University of Helsinki  Research Masterclasses – 1st Wednesday Month 11-12pm TEAMS online or room AS324

Research Masterclasses – 1^st Wednesday Month 11-12pm TEAMS online or room AS324

Date	Topic
March	The Doctoral Pilgrimage
April	Theory – What do you mean by my ontology?
May	Writing – Mastering a Critical literature review
June	Writing – Adding my personal story, why?
July	Ethics – Being ethical before, during and after the study.
August	Documents – GenAI, what do you really need to know?
October	Writing – Preparing for an editor
November	Publishing- Including papers in, and publishing from your thesis

For further details contact:  kmalone@swin.edu.au

2024