APSA 2018 Postgraduate Workshop Program (Draft) Saturday 21 July Griffith University Southbank Webb Centre Level 7 10:30am-17:30 Time Session Speaker 10:30-10:45 Coffee and tea available 10.45-10:50am Introduction Sarah Warner APSA Postgraduate Representative 10:50-11:00 am Welcome: President of APSA Professor AJ Brown APSA President 11:00-12:00 What do PhD examiners look for? Dr Margaret Kiley ANU 12:00-13:00 Surviving your PhD- tips and tricks 13:00-14:00 Lunch Election of new APSA Postgraduate Representative 14:00-15:00 Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Research Dr Shannon Brincat University of Sunshine Coast Sarah Warner Dr Frank Mols University of Queensland 15:00:15:15 Afternoon Tea 15:00-16:00 Publishing: How to turn your PhD into a book 16:00:17:00 Careers: Alt academia- not teaching and research but not outside the academy Dr Emma Hutchison- University of Queensland Dr Chris Butler- Griffith University Dr Helen Berents- QUT Dr Michele Dunn Manager PNG and the Pacific UQ International Development 17:30 Drinks on the terrace
Professor A J Brown President of ASPA 2018 AJ Brown has been a professor at Griffith University since 2009, where he is Program Leader, Integrity & Anti-corruption in the Centre for Governance & Public Policy, and teaches in the School of Government & International Relations. Also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, he specialises in constitutional issues, public accountability, judicial politics, integrity systems, whistleblower protection, anticorruption policy, federalism and intergovernmental relations. Since 2010, he has been a board member of Transparency International Australia, the anti-corruption NGO; and in 2017 he was elected to the Transparency International global board. He was formerly a senior investigation officer with the Commonwealth Ombudsman; Associate to Justice Tony Fitzgerald AC, President of the Queensland Court of Appeal; and a State ministerial policy advisor. Dr Margaret Kiley For many years Margaret Kiley s research and teaching interests have been related to the education of future researchers. Margaret holds an adjunct position at the Australian National University and has a conjoint position at Newcastle University, Australia. In addition to working in Further/Higher Education in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the UK she has also presented workshops on research education and training in New Zealand, Myanmar, Canada and the USA. In 2017 she received the Australian Council of Graduate Research (ACGR) Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership. A recent publication is: Taylor, S., Kiley, M., & Humphrey, R. (2017). A handbook for doctoral supervisors (2nd ed.). Oxon: Routledge.
Dr Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia His research focuses on international relations theory, recognition and cosmopolitanism, dialectics, tyrannicide, climate change justice, and Marxism & Critical Theory. His most recent manuscript, The Spiral World, has traced dialectical thinking between the Axial Age and the Medieval World. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently From International Relations to World Civilizations: The contributions of Robert W. Cox; Dialectics and World Politics; Recognition, Conflict and the Problems of Ethical Community; and the three volume series Communism in the Twenty-First Century. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse and helps run the Queensland School of Philosophy. Dr Frank Mols Frank Mols is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Queensland. His research interests include populism, nationalism, political psychology, voter attitudes, EU attitudes, public policy analysis, and behavioural economics. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as the European Journal of Political Research, Public Administration, Political Psychology, Evidence and Policy, Journal of Social Issues, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration.
Dr Chris Butler Chris Butler is a Lecturer at the Griffith Law School. His research draws on influences from the fields of social and legal theory, critical approaches to state power, and urban political ecology. He has written widely on the implications of Henri Lefebvre s social theory for critical legal scholarship and his book Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City was published by Routledge in 2012. More recently, Chris co-edited a collection of essays (with his colleague Edward Mussawir) entitled Spaces of Justice: Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations (Routledge 2017). Dr Helen Berents Helen Berents is a lecturer in the School of Justice at the University of Technology. She received her PhD in International Relations from the University of Queensland in 2013. Helen s research is centrally concerned with debates around youth, peace and security, and engagement with the lived experiences of violence-affected young people. Her first book, Young People and Everyday Peace: Exclusion, Insecurity and Peacebuilding in Colombia was published with Routledge this year. Her work has been published in journals including International Feminist Journal of Politics, Peacebuilding, Critical Studies on Security, and Signs.
Dr Emma Hutchison Emma Hutchison is a UQ Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Her work focuses on emotions and trauma in world politics, particularly in relation to security, humanitarianism and international aid. She has published in numerous academic journals and scholarly books. Her book Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After Trauma (CSIR Series, Cambridge University Press, 2016) was awarded the British International Studies Association Susan Strange Book Prize for 2017 as well as recently the 2018 International Studies Association Theory Section Best Book Award. Dr Michele Dunn Manager PNG and the Pacific UQ International Development Michelle completed her PhD in 2016 which focused on how international gender policy is translated into local practice within postconflict environments. Michelle chose not to pursue an academic career but made the transition back into State government taking on a role within two major reform activities around Child Protection and Domestic and Family Violence. Most recently she has shifted into the role of Manager, PNG and the Pacific at UQ International Development. In this role she combines her extensive public and private sector background and experience in project management, leadership, and risk, with her study of political science and gender policy and practice to manage a portfolio of projects and programs delivered into PNG and across the Pacific. The skills and knowledge Michelle developed through her PhD are utilised across the unit to provide specialist input on tenders and projects that require gender expertise.