SCMP News: November 2005
posted:28/11/05
National Recognition for Macquarie Postgraduate: AARE PhD Award
Dr Sue Saltmarsh, a postgraduate from the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, has won this year's Australian Association for Research in Education [AARE] Doctoral Thesis Award for her PhD research on sexual violence in an elite private boys' school in Sydney. Dr Saltmarsh's research concerns how schools, church, media and government, are implicated in producing school violence. Her PhD argues that many of the commonplace, taken-for-granted practices associated with elite private schooling are based on market values and imperialist traditions that need to be re-examined. The marketisation of education, Dr Saltmarsh argues, "is deeply implicated in the production of violent school ethos, traditions and cultures." In an address to the AARE annual conference on Monday, she said, "Regardless of the values espoused by schools, governments and communities, education continues to be packaged up and sold as a product that in practice prioritises individual choice, status and competition over collective responsibility, justice and compassion. If young people continue to be surrounded by pervasive messages about the need to gain some form of social dominance, we should hardly be surprised when they explore the boundaries of what it means to claim power over others." Dr Saltmarsh received a Research Award for Areas and Centres of Excellence at Macquarie University to conduct her doctoral study in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, under the supervision of Associate Professor Joseph Pugliese. Her PhD was awarded the Macquarie University Vice Chancellor's Commendation in April 2005. Dr Saltmarsh is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Sydney.
posted:17/11/05
Regimes of Terror
In the post-September 11 era, we are witnessing the exercise of forms of power and governmentality through the dismantling and assembling of a range of institutional discourses and practices in relation to Indigenous rights, civil liberties, human rights, sovereignty, war, asylum seekers and activism among other issues concerned with social justice. This colloquium brings together speakers from a variety of spaces (academic, professional and community organisations) to contribute to emergent knowledge about the effects of the contemporary 'terror formation' on a range of communities situated within national and international contexts. Visit web site
posted:07/11/05
The Division Awarded 6 Prestigious ARC Grants
The Division has won 6 ARC Discovery Grants and a Postdoctoral Fellowship and is thrilled to congratulate in alphabetical order:
Anne Cranny Francis
Catriona MacKenzie
Peter Menzies
Sean Scalmer
Nick Smith and Jean-Philippe Deranty
Amanda Wise and S Velayutham (postdoctoral fellow)
The Division would also like very warmly to congratulate those involved in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion which has now been granted the status of a Macquarie University Research Centre - Nick Smith, Michael Fine and Amanda Wise. This is a splendid achievement and further evidence of the research intensive culture which exists across the Division.
posted:01/11/05
Macquarie World Class in Arts and Social Sciences
The recently released Times Higher Education Supplement world rankings puts Macquarie at number 36 in the world in arts and number 46 in the world in social science. This is an achievement to which all in our Division have contributed. Overall, Macquarie University ranked 7 in Australia ahead of two Group of Eight universities. These rankings are a remarkable recognition for a university of our size and relative youth.
STAFF NEWS
Divisional Examiners Meeting
11am on Wednesday, 7 December, 2005 Room W6A 107.
Reminder: Unit Convenors must submit a completed Results Summary Report at the meeting.
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SCMP/Humanities End-of-Year/Christmas Function
3.30pm on Wednesday, 7 December, 2005
Courtyard behind W6A.
Could all staff who will be attending please complete the attached slip to ensure that sufficient catering is arranged. R.S.V.P. to Ashley Soytemiz by 5pm on Friday, 2nd December.
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Consolidation of Exam Register Meeting
2pm on Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 Room W6A 707.
Please ensure a representative from each Department will be available to attend this meeting to go through the results for students enrolled in SCMP. Those present should have a break-down of marks for units offered in their Department and be prepared to account for any anomalies.