Hi everyone
Just a quick reminder on two important points.
1. Looking forward to seeing you at Yoland Wadsworth's talk next week! Yoland has played a hugely important role in this thematic group, TASA and sociology over the years so it is an honour to have her present her life's work for us!
Inquiring for Life - How to build in research and evaluation systemically for (truly) living systems
With a long career of 28 years in applied social research (1973-2001) and 20 years in academic settings (2002-2022), in this presentation Yoland will report on the most important insights derived from her work. Her questions arose initially out of the puzzle of why it is that health, community and human services want to hear from their service-users and paradoxically act repeatedly as if they don't want to hear from their users. This inquiry morphed into a PhD that asked how research and evaluation could be both methodologically sound and effectively valuable for the purposes of meeting service end-users' needs. And finally it became a question of how could the act of human inquiry per se best bring life to question-askers and serve their deepest value-driven purposes. The presentation will set out to outline a complex theory by means of a relatively simple and hopefully familiar conceptual cycle 'backbone', on which the theory's extensive implications may then be mapped. We will steer between over simplification and excessive complexity of what is really a Great Big Theory of Everything! (Although this theory hopes to escape the worst dangers of Grand Theory by being reflexive in its own terms.)
The seminar will be Tues 6 June, 1pm Qld time
Access online via this zoom link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88331762536?pwd=ZFVKTHg0WmFWZ1hIRXMwelh2RHI1dz09
2. Please register for our pre-ISA panel discussion event! It will be online and in-person in Melbourne/Naarm.We have an amazing line-up of speakers coming from diverse practice areas/
Transformative social science: a dialogue between evidence, policy and practice
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Panellists: A/Prof Catherine Robinson, UTAS (sociologist), Anna Adcock (sociologist & Māori scholar), Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Health Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati (sociologist), Dr Simone Casey, Senior Policy Advisor ACOSS (social policy).
More info here: https://tasa.org.au/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=671860&module_id=551031
Register using this link: https://tasa.org.au/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=671860&item_id=1948493&event_date_id=255
Thanks so much everyone and see you soon!
Cheers
Sophie & Catherine
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