A UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Masterclass with Dr Maria Tanyag, International Relations, Australian National University and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow, and Dr Ari Jerrems (UWA).

2 October, 1pm-3pm, Institute of Advanced Studies

This collaborative masterclass seeks to explore how crises have been thought and intervened upon in international politics with a specific focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Notions of crisis have been central to international political thought since its inception; however, recent theoretical and empirical developments open serious questions around the continued purchase of such formulations. The masterclass will involve brief interventions on the theme of ‘International Political Thought in Crisis’ from Dr Tanyag, Dr Jerrems and Associate Professor O'Brien, followed by a broader discussion with attendees. The masterclass is open to Master’s and HDR students in Perth and will be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA. Attendees will be expected to have read set texts before the event.

Reading List:

• Tanyag, Maria (2024) “‘Forgotten crises’ as forgotten sites of knowledge production for building lasting peace”, Disasters 48(S1): e12632.
• Carr, E.H. (1981) “Part one: The Science of International Politics” and “Part two: The International Crisis” in The Twenty Years’ Crisis, Palgrave.
• Roitman, Janet (2014) “What is at stake?” and “Crisis Demands” in Anti-Crisis, Duke University Press.

Register by emailing [email protected]

A UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Masterclass with Penny Russell, Professor Emerita of History, The University of Sydney.

11 October, 10am-12 noon, Institute of Advanced Studies

This masterclass will explore strategies for using personal archives – diaries, letters, memoirs, oral histories and life stories – in humanities research. Such records are often fragmented: and where they have the appearance of completeness, it is all the more important to treat them cautiously, and to notice the gaps, silences, and omissions that give shape to the stories they contain. Drawing on her years of experience of working both critically and empathetically with intimate archives, Penny Russell will invite discussion on the possibilities and pitfalls of this treacherous – but always fascinating – terrain. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their own research challenges to discuss in the workshop.

Penny Russell FAHA is Professor Emerita of History at The University of Sydney, where she taught Australian history for more than thirty years and was the Bicentennial Professor of Australian History from 2013 to 2021.

This Masterclass is part of the Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture series, held annually by the UWA School of Humanities to commemorate the exceptional contribution made by Professor Tom Stannage (1944-2012) to the Western Australian community.

To register, please email [email protected]

A UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Masterclass with Dr Jessie Blackbourn, Associate Professor in Public Law and Human Rights at the University of Durham.

23 October 2024, 10am - Noon, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies 

Dr Jessie Blackbourn is an expert in counter-terrorism law and policy, with a particular focus on oversight and review of counter-terrorism laws, as well as on state responses to children suspected of extremism, radicalisation, and terrorism. In this Masterclass, Jessie will examine the ethics and practice of researching sensitive topics (such as terrorism) through the use of ethnographic methods, including research interviews and participatory observation. 

This Masterclass is designed for HDRs and ECRs, as well as interested honours or prospective honours students in the Law & Society and Criminology programs, and JD students undertaking or contemplating undertaking Advanced Legal Research.

Dr Blackbourn joined Durham Law School in September 2019 as Assistant Professor in Public Law and Human Rights. She has held previous positions at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales. 

She is the author of Accountability and Review in the Counter-Terrorist State, (with Fiona de Londras and Lydia Morgan, 2019, Bristol University Press),  Anti-terrorism law and foreign terrorist fighters (with D. Kayis and N. McGarrity, 2018, Taylor and Francis) and Anti-terrorism law and normalising Northern Ireland (2014, Routledge).

Dr Blackbourn is a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

The European Social Survey (ESS): data providing great cross-national research opportunities on values and more.

A UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Masterclass with Hester van Herk, Professor of Cross-Cultural Marketing Research, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 10am - Noon, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies 

The ESS is a large-scale bi-annual survey in more than 30 European nations, including Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and Turkey. The samples are representative of the population in the respective nations with sample sizes over 1000. The first wave of the survey was in 2002 and data of the 11th wave (2023-2024) are now available. These waves include a set of core questions on respondents’ values, opinions, attitudes and beliefs, as well as more in-depth ad hoc rotating modules. 
 
The ESS data are open source and available for researchers all over the world. The success of the research is evidenced by ESS’ global outreach to South Africa, Australia, Japan and Korea; in Australia the fieldwork (in the - Life in Australia – online panel) was done 2020. The scientifically sound design of the questionnaires ensures that valid comparisons can be made between countries.
 
More than 6500 publications report on data from the ESS across diverse fields such as sociology, political science, economics, and public health. Publications may focus on one nation, but many include cross-national comparisons. Regarding data quality, the ESS is one of the best cross-national surveys in the world. 
 
The masterclass will give an overview of he development of the European Social Survey, ESS’ questionnaire design, sampling, and data collection, and provide insight into the challenges of doing cross-national comparative research. Topics will be illustrated using ESS data with an emphasis on the human values module.

Hester van Herk is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Social Survey (London, UK). She holds a MSc in Psychometrics (Leiden University,1986) and a PhD from Tilburg University (2000). Before joining academia, she worked  as a research methodologist at Statistics Netherlands, Solvay Duphar, and ABN AMRO. She is an expert in consequences of personal and cultural val­ues on consumer behaviour in developed and emerging markets and in cross-cultural research methodology.