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TASA 2023: Post Grad Day

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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Venue: Room 311, Eastern Avenue Auditorium, The University of Sydney

PROGRAM

Please see below the program and list of speakers who will be participating in this years Post Graduate Day Program:

Monday 27th November 2023
08:00am	Registration
09:00am	Welcome & Acknowledgment of country Richa George, Monash University
09:15am	Panel Discussion: Imposter Syndrome: Navigating the early career years Turns out, imposter syndrome is far too common. From peers to world-renowned social scientists with prestigious publishing records, everybody struggles, and everybody fears being found out. This round-table panel session will include speakers at different stages of the wide spectrum that is academia – from postgraduate students and early career researchers to established academics. True to the theme of sustaining the social in an atmosphere of increasing precarity and uncertainty, this panel seeks to throw light on the multiplicity of experiences and intersections that are experienced as we navigate the early career year and also collectively deal with the concept of Imposter Syndrome. Participants: Dr Katherine Kenny, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, The University of Sydney Dr Leah Williams Veazy, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Sydney Dr Natalia Maystorovich, Lecturer, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Sydney Dr Anna Denejkina, Research Director, Youth Insight Dr Tom Barnes, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
10:30am	Morning Tea Break
11:00am	Workshop: Zine making Facilitated by Dr Ash Watson This workshop will introduce zine making as a method for social research. Zines are indie publications with a long history as an alternative grassroots platform for community communication and creativity. Featuring diverse work including poetry, collage, personal essays, photography and visual art, the medium offers a rich approach for critical social scholarship by effectively and materially drawing together the personal and political. In this workshop, participants will experiment with zine making by repurposing scholarly and public materials into zines of their own, to think differently about the affective and material encounters that make up social research.
12:30pm – 1:10pm	Lunch and meet and greet with TASA Exec

Your Presenters

Dr Katherine Kenny
Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, The University of Sydney

Dr Katherine Kenny is Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, and an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney. She gained her PhD in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2015. Prior to joining The University of Sydney, she held positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow, then Research Fellow at the Practical Justice Initiative and Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. Her research draws on social theory and qualitative methodologies to better understand how health and disease, (or illness and wellness) are understood, ‘treated’, experienced and made meaningful in clinical contexts and in everyday life.

Leah Williams Veazy
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Sydney

Leah Williams Veazey is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She is the author of the book Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age (2021, Routledge) and has published widely in the areas of migration, parenthood, digital cultures, and experiences of health and healthcare. Her research uses qualitative methods, most commonly in-depth interviews, to explore contemporary social experiences, with a focus on the intersections of health, mobility and relational sociology.

Dr Natalia Maystorovich
Lecturer, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Sydney

Natalia Maystorovich Chulio holds a Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of NSW. She is currently undertaking a PhD with the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Her thesis reflects her broader research interests in humanitarian and human rights law; transitional justice; the archaeological recovery of mass graves. She has experience teaching in socio-legal studies, sociology and Indigenous studies. Since 2012 she has worked with the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH – Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory) in an attempt to draw attention to the difficulties experienced by survivors seeking to recuperate victims of Enforced Disappearance. She is currently working on an ARC-funded study, ‘Understanding Society: The Role of Sociology and Its Social Impact' with Associate Professor Fran Collyer. The study examines the history of Australian sociology and the use of sociological knowledge in public discourse, media, policy development and legislation.

Dr Anna Denejkina
Research Director, Youthinsight

Dr Anna Denejkina is an award winning mixed-methods and interdisciplinary researcher. She has a PhD in the Social Sciences from the University of Technology Sydney and over 10 years of research experience and training. Her research has been published internationally in scientific journals and books, and she has presented research insights at national and international scientific conferences.

Anna has experience in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research, and has conducted national and international research with young people in sectors including health, arts, higher education, government and more. Previously, Anna was a lecturer and researcher at one of Australia’s leading universities, where she conducted research focused on wellbeing and mental health.

Anna is passionate about research innovation, methods and ethics, and achieving real impact through research-informed decision making. She believes that understanding individual human experience and using a human-centric and people-first approach is critical to research, its insights, outcomes and impact.

Dr Ash Watson
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW

Dr Ash Watson is a sociologist of digital technologies, fiction and futures. She is a Senior Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her scholarly work has appeared in The Sociological Review, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, and Qualitative Inquiry. Her other writing includes Into the Sea, a sociological novel published in 2020 by Brill. Ash is Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review and the creator/editor of So Fi Zine which publishes sociological fiction, poetry and visual art.

Tom Barnes
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Tom Barnes is an economic sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University (ACU), in Sydney. His research primarily focuses on insecure, precarious and informal work. He is currently researching global warehouse logistics and automotive manufacturing. His recent Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA project (2017-2019) focused on the demise of Australian automotive manufacturing and the impact on workers and communities in closure-affected regions in Victoria. He completed his PhD in political economy at the University of Sydney in 2011 and has expertise on work and economic development in India. He has written two books in this area: Informal Labour in Urban India: Three Cities, Three Journeys (Routledge, 2015) and Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His articles have appeared in several journals, including Journal of Sociology, Journal of Development Studies and Critical Sociology. His new project focuses on the intersection of surveillance technology, worker agency and rights in warehouse logistics.

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