Hawke Research Institute
The Hawke legacyA new book examining the legacy of the Hawke era was launched at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial centre's '80 Hawke Years' celebration on 5 November 2009. The Hawke legacy is edited by HRI researchers Gerry Bloustien, Barbara Comber and Alison Mackinnon and published by Wakefield Press. It features interviews with Bob Hawke and his former speechwriter Graham Freudenberg, contributions from former members of the Hawke government and scholarly chapters on equity, education, Indigenous education, environment, multiculturalism, housing and the economy. The book reviews the accomplishments of the Hawke government, assesses what remains to be done and what ground has been lost, and outlines challenges for the Rudd Labor government. The book was officially launched by former SA Premier John Bannon in the presence of Bob Hawke and many of his former parliamentary colleagues.
UniSA media release:
Book celebrates the Hawke legacy
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Wakefield Press
A new project website, Gender-responsive budgeting in the Asia-Pacific region, was launched in October 2009. The website documents the outcomes of a two-year research project funded by an AusAID Australian Development Research Award. The project is a collaboration between Rhonda Sharp (University of South Australia), Diane Elson (University of Essex) and Siobhan Austen (Curtin University of Technology). It also has involved several other researchers including Monica Costa, Sanjugta Vas Dev, Jan Edwards, Ray Broomhill, Anuradha Mundkur and Reina Ichii. The aim of the project is to investigate the practices and potential of gender-responsive budgeting in selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It will foster debate and provide a comparative understanding of how gender-sensitive public finances have been implemented. The website includes information about the research project, its activities and the research team; country profiles of gender-responsive budgeting for most countries in the region; and publications and training materials on gender-responsive budgeting produced by the research team.
In 2009 the Hawke Research Institute relocated to sunny Underdale in the FLC Building, Arthur Lemon Avenue. See our contact page for details of how to contact us here.
Prof Victoria Carrington
was appointed as the Interim Director of
the Hawke Research Institute for 2008 to August 2009. She replaced Prof Barbara Comber, who
acted in the position for the preceding 18 months.
Victoria has been a Research SA Chair and Professor with the Hawke Research Institute and the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures since mid 2007. Before joining UniSA, she was Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth (UK), where she developed and led their research strategy, oversaw the development of postgraduate research students and, until her departure, was the faculty's Unit of Assessment Coordinator for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. While at the University of Plymouth she also held the position of Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) with responsibility for quality assurance, the development of new programs, faculty performance management and professional development for academic staff. Before moving to the UK, Victoria was based at the University of Queensland where she was part of the team that developed and delivered Australia's first specialised middle years of schooling dual degree program. That program's innovative qualities were recognised by a University of Queensland Teaching Innovation Award.
Victoria writes extensively in the fields of sociology of literacy and education (including five single author and edited volumes and more than 30 refereed international journal articles and book chapters) and has a particular interest in the impact of new digital media on literacy practices both in and out of school. Her work has drawn attention to issues of text production, identity and literacy practices within the affordances of digital technologies and new media. Her contributions to the field have been recognised in the many keynotes and seminars she has presented at a range of national and international forums in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada and the UK and via the take up of her work across a range of national and international under/postgraduate education programs.
Victoria is co-editor of the well known international journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and sits on the editorial boards of Literacy, Journal of Early Childhood Education, Digital Culture and Education, and Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement. She was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Edmonton in 2007.
Congratulations to these HRI researchers who have won ARC grants:
Prof Ed Carson was one of the researchers working on the 'State of ageing
in South Australia' project, a joint project between the University of
Adelaide, Flinders Uni, UniSA and the South Australian Ageing Research Round
Table, an initiative of the Office for the Ageing. The project report was
launched by the Minister for Ageing on 17 September 2009. The State of
ageing in South Australia report provides a detailed snapshot of South
Australia's older population. It provides a benchmark of the contemporary
and impending situation of the South Australian older population in order to
identify implications and opportunities both present and into the future
that will influence policy and service directions as the population ages.
Summary report
Hawke researchers Barbara Spears and Bruce Johnson (with Phillip Slee and Larry Owens from Flinders University) have completed a study of covert bullying funded by the Department for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Read their report Behind the scenes: insights into the human dimension of covert bullying.
The Hawke Research Institute hosted the Food Cultures, Markets, Belonging and
Citizenship in the Cosmopolitan City Symposium at its new Underdale home on
18–19 June 2009. The symposium was presented with the support of UniSA's ARC
Discovery Project Development Scheme, and additional sponsorship from the Hawke
Research Institute and the School of Natural and Built Environments. The symposium
was well attended and included presentations from international and national
visiting scholars, in addition to UniSA researchers Prof Pal Ahluwalia, Dr Jean
Duruz and A/Professor Peter Bishop (School of Communication, International
Studies and Languages), Dr Matthew Rofe (School of Natural & Built
Environments), and Prof Elspeth Probyn (HRI).
