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La Trobe Social Inquiry

Locality: Bendigo, Victoria

Address: Kingsbury Drive & Plenty Road 3086 Bendigo, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Tarryn Phillips presented a keynote at "Environmental Illness Today", Uppsala University. Watch her paper ‘'Toxic Talk and Online Oddysseys: Digital place-making among the chemically sensitive' https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/kanal/640/video/12051

22.01.2022 Greece's largest migrant camp is located at Moria. Social Inquiry's Gianmaria Lenti will present " ‘Opposing or sustaining the EU border regime? Humanitarianism versus solidarity work in Moria camp, Lesvos" at https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/hdr-student-conference

21.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Helena Menih has received a Practitioner Engagement Award ($3,492) with Dr Danielle Davidson (QUT) and Dr Bridget Harris (QUT) for a pilot project in collaboration with Brisbane Youth Service (BYS) to explore service provider perspectives of challenges and opportunities to respond to domestic violence experienced by young people who are homeless. https://brisyouth.org/

21.01.2022 "By providing transparency and accounting for the complexities of implementing content moderation strategies efficiently and at scale, social media companies will not only provide more reliable content but increase public trust." Social Inquiry's Mathew Wade collaborates in "The challenges of responding to misinformation during a pandemic" Media International Australia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20951301

20.01.2022 "In late modern work cultures...work is valued as an aesthetic experience that can be used to construct a project of the self" Social Inquiry's Sara James and co-author Fabian Cannizzo in Meaningful work in late modernity: An Introduction, Journal of Sociology https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783320946859

20.01.2022 Congratulations also to David Tei-Mensah Adjartey (anthropology), whose thesis The Effects of Community Resettlement on Socio-cultural Behaviour: The Case of Bui Dam Resettlement in Ghana has been nominated for the AAS PhD Thesis Prize https://www.aas.asn.au/content.aspx

18.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Kiran Shinde organized and chaired two special sessions at the '10th International Conference on Tourism (ICOT2020): Tourism in Uncertain Times: Issues and Challenges’. https://iatour.org/icot2020/. T

18.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Bernardo Lopez Marin interviewed on the Metropolis Sonora YouTube TV program. "Migration, blackness and slavery in the Sahara" https://www.facebook.com/programatvcdmx/videos/686467728622453/?v=686467728622453

18.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Melissa Kennedy, ‘Reconceptualising the Creative Economy: Possibilities in Place in Rural Victoria’. Finalist for the National Planning Institute of Australia Outstanding Student Project award for the project : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvs0w82YKck&feature=youtu.be

17.01.2022 "better management" of shaded paths and roads is needed in Bendigo. "52.3% of the routes traveled by participants suffer from either no or poor levels of shading". Social Inquiry's Julie Rudner and others in, "Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading". Forests, 11, 998. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/11/9/998

16.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Kiran Shinde has published Buddhist Tourism in Asia: Towards Sustainable Development. He is the Lead Author, Editor-in-Chief, and author of South Asia monographs of this UNWTO, which provides comprehensive coverage of 16 countries: https://www.e- unwto.org/doi/epdf/10.18111/9789284421619

14.01.2022 Social Inquiry's John Carroll finds that, in spite of casualization, "the ideal of vocation remains as strong and pronounced a presence as ever in popular culture", in Is the vocation paradigm under threat? Journal of Sociology https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783320905667

12.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Adam Rajcan and Edgar Burns use photographs to compare Melbourne streetscapes in "Suburban class habitus: applying Pierre Bourdieu’s visual sociology to the city", in Visual Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1779609

09.01.2022 Social Inquiry's John Goldlust's paper has now been translated and published in an edited volume that is ‘the first scholarly book in the Polish language focused entirely on the fate of Polish Jews deported to the Soviet Union during the war’: 'Victims or Agents' - Polish Jews in Australia remember their wartime experiences in the Soviet Union shorturl.at/bBQ79

06.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Brooke Wilmsen: "Filming for the International Virtual Roadshow 2020. I am so proud of our Master of International Development & Master of International Relations at La Trobe. We have the most incredible students from around the world!" https://twitter.com/BrookeWilmsen/status/1306372254465318912

06.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Michelle O’Toole has published " Responsibility, language movement, and social transformation: The shifting value of te reo for non-Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand". Siragusa & Ferguson (eds) Responsibility and Language Practices in Place.: https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/e/10.21435/sfa.5/

06.01.2022 Congratulations to Social Inquiry's Deua Jasmine Stojanovska (Anthropology). Her thesis Flourishing in the Desert: Anangu conceptions of wellbeing while living with kidney disease is nominated for the AAS Thesis Prize https://www.aas.asn.au/content.aspx

05.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Julie Rudner and others ask, "How can we support regional communities to ride the social, health and economic shockwaves of COVID-19?" https://www.latrobe.edu.au//online-event-global-pandemic,-

05.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Adam Rajan and Edgar Burns highlight "Bourdieu, Bourgois and Schonberg’s strong commitment to using habitus, attentive to seeing beyond conventional and official explanations, in parallel, long-term, sympathetic integration of their photographic and conceptual evidence" in their article:

04.01.2022 "leading authority on large dams and resettlement...Scudder...admits...naive optimism". Social Inquiry's Joshua Matanzima reviews Scudder's new book "Large dams" https://www.tandfonline.com//10.1080/02508060.2020.1808321

04.01.2022 Aside from teaching Negotiation, Mediation and Community Consultation Social Inquiry's James Robertson has been accepted to the Victorian Small Business Commission of mediators. The VSBC has experienced overwhelming demand for its dispute services in relation to commercial tenancies due to the pandemic and James will be instrumental in helping get through the backlog of these negotiations. He credits his role at La Trobe in helping him to get shortlisted. https://www.vsbc.vic.gov.au/?s=how+mediation+works

03.01.2022 Tech companies need to provide "greater consistency and transparency" in their moderation of "infodemic of misinformation about coronavirus". Social Inquiry's Mathew Wade and others in https://theconversation.com/misinformation-tech-companies-a

02.01.2022 The week we lost Dr Richard Trahair, who began at La Trobe in 1968. He is remembered for Utopias and Utopians and numerous other important works. Colleagues remember Dick as generous, suave, thoughtful, charming, funny and eclectic. Our sincere condolences to his wife Gillian Trahair, family and friends.

02.01.2022 Social Inquiry's Melissa Kennedy presenting at "Making Places for People", Bandarban University, Bangladesh

01.01.2022 Between 40 and 80 million people have been displaced by dams around the world, but what happens to them, long term, after resettlement? We know surprisingly little about this. So Social Inquiry’s Brooke Wilmsen and co-authors explore this in their chapter "Leaving the Three Gorges After Resettlement" In https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030593605