A huge thank you to all our speakers and facilitators for a wonderful series of eye-opening discussions this week around Converging Crises: Mental Wellbeing and Home. A special thanks to our Keynotes: Nikita Simpson and Fiona Andrews.

Convened by Prof Ann Vickery, the ‘Reading and Writing Ageing in Australia and Aotearoa’ symposium is taking place on 22-23 June at Deakin Downtown. Registration is free 😊

Article out now by Prof Fiona Andrews & Prof Richard Tucker of Deakin HOME. Come and see their keynote on the topic at Converging Crises: Mental Wellbeing and Home 9 June! Registrations still open, see the link in comments below ⬇️

Full program out now! Join Deakin HOME, SSN, A/Prof Nikita Simpson (UK), and 10 groundbreaking speakers for our 2026 'Emerging Issues in Science and Society' in-person event. Registration and program links in comments...

#systemdynamics can help you tell a more differentiated story, says Bridget Kopainsky as she makes a case for Systems thinking as useful for interdisciplinary research. "Its the perfect marriage between #qualitative and #quantitative research" #ssnseminar

"You can't manage complex problems, but you can dance with them" - Birgit Kopainsky on feedback thinking as part of Systems Dynamics. #ssnseminar

We're in the room with Birgit Kopainsky who has just kicked off her #SSNseminar on food systems thinking - she's focusing on food security to walk us through her thinking on Systems Thinkings. Jump on now- you can catch up or plunge in. www.youtube.com/live/_vfxaeY...

Sujatha Raman is now pointing out at that Culture is often targeted for behaviour modification, something interdisciplinary research can address. Also, deeply contextual place-based knowledge is crucial, particularly when we want to 'scale up' knowledge #ssnseminar www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I7g...

Robert Faggian is now responding from the Australian context, where he has also found that modular/ cookie cutter policy solutions in climate adaptation fall short. Policy treats informal and community responses as risky, rather than an as asset in adaptation.

The effects of heat, unsurprisingly, impacts women disproportionately: Aalok Khandekar is now sharing a tech stack they are working on to model better models for policy and practice www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I7g... #ssnseminar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I7g... a fab seminar kicking off right now - jump on. We have Aalok Khandekar in the house (the Deakin downtown house) about to talk about his fascinating/ hot ethnographic work in Hyderabad

Are you joining us tomorrow? Our next hybrid SSN seminar, "Cooling in a fractal grid" is by Aalok Khandekar, in conversation with experts in Climate Change and STS, policy and science communication- Robert Faggian and Sujatha Raman. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1497797174...

Very much looking forward to hosting Aalok Khandekar from IIT-Hyderabad for a @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on Community-based climate adaptation. With two fabulous discussants, Sujatha Raman and Robert Faggian. Join us in the city or online!

Our next #SSNseminar deals in responses to extreme heat, examining the rift between policy and everyday realities, the gendered nature of heat vulnerability and possibilities and challenges thereto. Join the SSN and Aalok Khandekar, Thursday 7 August www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

Come and join us tomorrow afternoon to celebrate 6 years of interdisciplinary research supported by the SSN - it's going to interesting, and fun. All are welcome!

Join the SSN, Christina Twomey of the ARC, Peter Enticott and a line up of interdisciplinary experts on 8 July for “Doing Interdisciplinarity..." — a TEDx-inspired event showcasing powerful stories of interdisciplinary research in action. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/doing-inte...

🤯 Andrew Lakoff's SSN seminar (live now, just started) www.youtube.com/watch?v=400P... on 'Planning for the wrong pandemic' didn't start with Covid-19 news trickling in. It started with an emergency packaged hospital designed to shelter North American atomic bomb refugees, being set up in Nigeria..

The SSN and Andy Lakoff going live in 5 - jump on and join us! www.youtube.com/live/400Pt5R... @tdneale.bsky.social

Jump on now to join @profemmakowal.bsky.social and Toija Cinque speaking interdisciplinarity at this #SSN and #DeakinRDA workshop youtube.com/live/1Iu0cP_...

Reminder to Deakin researchers to register asap if you can join us on Thursday at 10am for our workshop on 'Making Interdisciplinarity work for you'. We're adding on a livestream link if you can't join us in person

If you're a Deakin Researcher with an interdisciplinary itch... We worked with the RDA (@tseenster.bsky.social and co) to put on a workshop just for you. This coming Thursday, 10 AM, Deakin Downtown, lunch 🌮. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/making-int...

New PhD Position at Maastricht University, in #philtech, #STS or #techethics of agricultural #automation. Come join a fun group of interdisciplinary scholars!

Come celebrate DORA’s 12th birthday with the launch of “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”! With guest speakers in 3 sessions, we will introduce and discuss how the guide can help take action. See you there! bit.ly/DORAGuide-La...

Delighted to be putting on an SSN seminar with Andy Lakoff on Tuesday 27 May on his new book "Planning for the wrong pandemic". Join online or in the flesh! Thanks to @tdneale.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

"When you take your own pandemic response road, you need to pave it with your own data". This crucial lesson draws on the point that a "Precautionary Principle comes with an evidence obligation". Future pandemic decision- makers, take note! #ssnseminar #CatherineBennett #Covid19Inquiry

#CatherineBennett is walking us through this extremely complicated process and journey of working together. What an incredible talk on the Independent Covid Inquiry.

During the pandemic, Catherine answered calls from members of the public who rang up to berate her. They'd end up having a conversation. She says this was a key way to understand misinformation #ssnseminar

Catherine Bennett starting off her seminar today with insights into her criss-crossing and surprising career path. Who knew she was the first 'state physical anthropologist' in Victoria. Join us online now www.youtube.com/live/Yr6j7Zk...

It's not every day that an interdisciplinarian & distinguished public analyst like Catherine Bennett sits down to share the inner workings and lessons gleaned from a collaborative public inquiry process. Join the SSN and @profemmakowal.bsky.social on Thursday www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

So cool. Amit Kumar is showing us how he helps students move between real and virtual world environments for STEM learning. Removing fear is an important aim, and designing for assessment matters. #DataCultures #SSNseminar archived here: youtube.com/live/5FQ4B8P...

Augmented Reality (AR) is changing STEM education. Our 2024 Visiting Scholar Amit Kumar will be discussing real-world applications of AR at 14:30 AEST (online, free), with Luke Heemsbergen of @digitalchildau.bsky.social, Peta White and @ngocthuong.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

The SSN is honoured that Catherine Bennett is coming to share her insights on working across disparate disciplines and organisational cultures to develop an ambitious and comprehensive plan to prepare Australia for future pandemics. Hybrid event, 17 April www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

Our SSN 2024 Visiting Scholar Amit Kumar of Chitkara University came over to further his fascinating work on the use of Augmented Reality in STEM pedagogy. Join us online on 2 April to learn more about the potential of this exciting new step in teaching www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1290989527...

Great to see Anne Pollock open with observations on how problematic the critique to Trump's USAID and other funding cuts in South Africa are - especially as depicting South African's as pitiable objects of charity - jump on now youtube.com/live/TFyeaaj...

@4sweb.bsky.social presidents past and present are in the room at Deakin Downtown. Jump onto the Livestream to hear about Anne's new work on vaccine and pharmaceutical production in Africa youtube.com/live/TFyeaaj...

Anne Pollock going live with the SSN in 35 mins - at 15:30. You can jump on here directly! @profemmakowal.bsky.social is chairing and we are delighted to have Laura Foster joining via Zoom. youtube.com/live/TFyeaaj...

We're so thrilled to catch Anne Pollock whilst she's visiting Naarm! Join her #SSNseminar at Deakin Downtown TOMORROW, 5 March, 15:30. She'll be in conversation with Laura Foster after her talk, which will be Livestreamed www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

Pharmaceutical manufacture touches everyone. Have you registered yet for our #ssnseminar with Anne Pollock on 5 March yet? Its both in-person and online, and we're delighted to have Laura Foster join as discussant www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1234208253...

My series of 'Researchers and social media' workshops is starting up again in April (Deakin folks, you can register here for the 1st one: www.eventbrite.com/e/researcher...) It's hard these days to teach social media. It's such a fraught space, but I think there's still value. #DeakinRDA

Pharmaceutical manufacture touches everyone. Have you registered yet for our #ssnseminar with Anne Pollock on 5 March yet? Its both in-person and online, and we're delighted to have Laura Foster join as discussant www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1234208253...

If you missed Jane Calvert's fantastic book talk on Tuesday - you're in luck. You can hear Jane's walk through the many rooms of #STS and the rich ensuing discussion with @radhikagorur.bsky.social in the live recording, here www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_G...

An opportunity to work in #emergencymanagement in Australia. Briefing on 25 March. Activities include lit reviews, consultation, surveys, co-design and more www.naturalhazards.com.au/research/res...

@Jane Calvert "thinking with others helps show that things could be otherwise" #SSNbooktalk

Visit our website to browse our amazing archive of SSN seminars, view the excellent interdisciplinary projects we fund, and sign up for our newsletter scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/contact/news...

Jane Calvert is discussing the importance of STS in the classroom. She quotes Callard and Fitzgerald (2015): Interdisciplinarity can be a way of "perturbing the existing order of the world". That sounds more important now than ever #SSNbooktalk

Going live in 8 Minutes! #SSNbooktalk with Jane Calvert on her brilliant new book. Chaired by @profemmakowal.bsky.social and in discussion with @radhikagorur.bsky.social. Jump on directly here to join us www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_G...

A reminder that we are hosting Professor Jane Calvert for an online #SSNbooktalk today. Join us as at 15:00 for 'A Place for Science and Technology studies' www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-book-t...

Post-doc in planetary health humanities, to work with Andy Lakoff and colleagues at USC on their timely project on 'The city on life support: Los Angeles as a laboratory for planetary health'. Important topic... #STS #envhum #medanthro

We're so delighted to have Anne Pollock visit us on 5 March - register below for her SSN hybrid seminar on "Transforming the Pharmaceutical landscape from & for Africa" www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...