Research seminar series 2017
The Centre for Human Rights Education organises research seminars to allow for the dissemination and communication of our research and advocacy to the broader university and wider community. These one hour seminars will occur on a weekday afternoon at Curtin University, four to six times a year. Please see the Research Seminar Series page for more details.
News
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Professor Offord speaks to educators about suicide prevention in Ballina, NSW
Baden presented on 'How we think about suicide as educators from the perspective of an educator with lived experience' to the Southern Cross Distance Education teachers in Ballina.
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Dr Fleay presents papers at European conferences
Caroline presented an overview of the project that CHRE has developed with people seeking asylum that aims to enable greater access to higher education.
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CHRE Supports Australian Marriage Equality
Intrinsic to its work, the Centre for Human Rights Education actively supports equality before the law, and equality in terms of social recognition, a core human rights value.
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CHRE staff sign 'Failure to Acknowledge Ugly Truths of Colonisation' Letter
The Letter to the Editor published in the West Australian on the 13th of September 2017 was in response to an Opinion piece by Andrew Bolt, ‘Time for truth about history’, and was signed by 25 Curtin University academics and professional staff.
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NCSEHE Research Grant Success for CHRE academics
CHRE academics Dr Lisa Hartley and Dr Caroline Fleay, with Dr Sally Baker and Dr Rachel Burke from the University of Newcastle have been awarded a grant from the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education.
Events
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Dissidence and Discrimination: LGBTIQA+ research and experience
The UWA LGBTIQA+ Working Group and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies present a panel, including one of the Centre's PhD researchers, Misty Farquhar, offering new research and experiential insights into some of the key issues within the LGBTIQA+ community.
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AAPI 2017 Seminar Series: The Pedagogies of Human Rights
This paper will contextualise the role of pedagogy itself as a core method of communication, language and discourse of human rights.
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Feeling the Past: Indigenous Emotions and History
Dr Elfie Shiosaki will be a speaker at this symposium that will examine how and why Indigenous historians, writers, curators, artists and filmmakers use emotions as a means of investigating and narrating the past.
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National Symposium: People Seeking Asylum and Higher Education
This one-day national symposium will focus on identifying emerging challenges and future opportunities to the barriers to accessing higher education for people seeking asylum in Australia who arrived by boat.
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Australian Academy of the Humanities 2017 Symposium and Annual Fellows' Events
Curtin University is co-principal sponsor for this event (with The University of Western Australia), lead by Professor Alan Dench FAHA and Professor Baden Offord as co-convenors. CHRE will be strongly represented with Baden and Dr Yirga Woldeyes speaking at the symposium.
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Refugees and asylum seekers: what are the barriers to higher education?
Mary Anne Kenny and Caroline Fleay will discuss the social, legal and economic barriers faced by refugees and asylum seekers when accessing higher education in Australia.