{"id":13044,"date":"2016-09-21T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=13044"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:49:06","slug":"research-travels-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=13044","title":{"rendered":"research travels in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from a wonderful research visit to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. I was invited by the fabulous Angelina Russo<\/a>, who was the most amazing host, and made my trip truly unforgettable.<\/p>\n

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I spent most of my time in Sydney, staying in the visiting scholar’s flat\u00a0at the Women’s College<\/a>, which was a really good\u00a0base for writing, visiting and seeing the city. There I gave a seminar for the new Centre for Research in Learning and Innovation<\/a>, heard Pippa Yeoman<\/a> talk about her research, met with Amani Bell<\/a> and some of her colleagues to talk about educational innovation, and had an excellent discussion about cross-centre collaboration with CRLI’s director, Peter Goodyear. I also had a chance to meet with Mike Michael<\/a>, whose work on speculative method has greatly informed my own.<\/p>\n

Also in Sydney I gave a talk to Lynda Kelly and her colleagues at the Australian National Maritime Museum<\/a> (what an amazing space!). Lynda’s blog post<\/a>\u00a0expands on the rich discussion we had about artcasting, evaluation and engagement. Lucila Carvalho<\/a> and I met with Paul Donnelly and his colleagues at the Sydney University Museum<\/a>\u00a0to talk about plans and possibilities for them as they combine their locations\u00a0into one new museum building (I also got to see the Alpha & Omega exhibition<\/a>, which was the perfect blend\u00a0of eccentric and informative). Paul, Angelina and I went to the launch of the Powerhouse’s Out of Hand exhibition<\/a>, which I loved. I had an entertaining chat there with one of the makers, Mitchell Whitelaw<\/a>. His weather bracelet<\/a> and cup were definitely highlights of the show.<\/p>\n

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Mitchell Whitelaw’s weather cups and bracelet, Out of Hand exhibition, Powerhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I visited Canberra for a couple of days, mainly to attend the 2016 Whisper Workshop<\/a>. The workshop was chock full of amazing people, some\u00a0of whom I knew online and was delighted to meet in person\u00a0(Kylie Budge<\/a>;\u00a0Narelle Lemon<\/a>; Kate Bowles<\/a>; Megan McPherson<\/a>). It was great to meet Inger Mewburn again and to get to know Jonathan O’Donnell & Tseen Khoo. I was especially pleased to meet Tamson Piestch<\/a>, whose work on the histories of higher education has made its way to the top of my reading list. I spent some time reflecting on Australia’s fraught histories\u00a0in the National Museum of Australia<\/a>, and my visit ended on a happy note, when\u00a0Tracy Ireland<\/a>\u00a0and I\u00a0picked\u00a0up our conversation where we’d left off in Montreal at the Critical Heritage Studies Conference.<\/p>\n

My last few days in Australia were spent in Melbourne, doing some more in-depth research planning with Angelina. We also\u00a0met with Phil Pond from RMIT<\/a> to talk about methods of tracing digital activities and objects; and with Seb Chan<\/a> to learn about how the Australian Centre for the Moving Image has incorporated co-working spaces as a way of bringing new ideas and insights together with the work of the Centre. We went to part of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre’s ‘refiguring techniques in digital-visual research’ symposium<\/a>. I especially liked the talk given by Alison Young<\/a>; and was pleased to say a quick hello to Neil Selwyn<\/a>\u00a0 and visiting scholar from my side of the pond, John Potter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I loved Australia – there is an energy and a talent for networking and building partnerships there that I found really inspiring. Everyone was incredibly welcoming, and I’ve come back with new ideas, connections and perspectives. I also loved the bird life!<\/p>\n

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I’m just back from a wonderful research visit to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. I was invited by the fabulous Angelina Russo, who was the most amazing host, and made my trip truly unforgettable. I spent most of my time in Sydney, staying in the visiting scholar’s flat\u00a0at the Women’s College, which was a really good\u00a0base … Continue reading research travels in Australia<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13140,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions\/13140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}