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RAS Postgraduate Conference
The annual RAS postgraduate conference will be held Thursday 26 November 2009, 9:30am – 4:30pm.
The RAS conference is designed for Postgraduate students from Australia and New Zealand to interact and share their current research/work among peers in a friendly and stimulating environment. Research can be Australian or international in scope. Students from all universities welcome.
Keynote speaker: Phil Glendenning, Director of Edmund Rice Centre, involved in the documentary A Well Founded Fear and the publicationDeported to Danger: the continuing study of Australia’s treatment of rejected asylum seekers will give the opening keynote address.
The keynote speaker address will be held between 10am-11am (we ask that you arrive a few minutes before to ensure a prompt start).
Venue: Multi-function Room, 2nd Floor, 1888 building Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville. Seehttp://maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/building/198?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=m
All welcome to attend! You don’t have to be a postgraduate student to attend. Attendance is free but we ask you RSVP for catering purposes to ras-contact@unimelb.edu.au
Please note : You are welcome to attend part or all of the conference. Here is the provisional program.
Dreamlarge Knowledge Transfer Student Project Grant
"Building bridges across communities: Creating balanced narratives of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia"
Researchers for Asylum Seekers from the University of Melbourne want to interview anyone who has been a refugee or asylum seeker in their life and WANTS TO HAVE THEIR ‘AUSTRALIAN STORY’ TOLD.
We want to break down negative stereotypes and myths about refugees and asylum seekers not fitting in in Australia. We want to interview refugees and asylum seekers about their lives in Australia and publish their stories in newspapers, magazines, on our website and broadcast them on the radio.
You can tell your story your own way, interview a friend that wants to tell their story or have one of our friendly researchers interview you. If you like, you can also attend one of our free workshops on how to conduct radio interviews.
Contact Nikola: 0418 541 527
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RAS Knowledge Transfer Grant - Briefing papers now available: RAS and A Just Australia have completed a set of research-based briefing as part of a joint Knowledge Transfer Project to set priorities for future policy change. The papers are now available for download.
