Past events
Major Suspect
Entertainment
Peter Maloney, Untitled, 2015, acrylic and graphite on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist. Reception: 12 February 2016 6:00pm Duration: Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 12:00 - Friday, February 26, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art Main Gallery I have been working in art for most of my adult…
Gender, Science and Wonder - Postgraduate workshop
Workshop & workshop
Sponsored by the ANU Gender Institute. How do science and technology make us wonder? And how do gendered understandings figure into our wonderings? Science and technology offer underexplored territory when it comes to wonder, and the ways in which both scientists and non-…
Consultations between indigenous people and government - policy and implementation: the example of Norway and the Sami
Seminar
Presented by the College of Arts and Social Sciences and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR). The Sami Parliament in Norway (Sámediggi) was established in 1989, and is a cornerstone in Norwegian Sami policy. It is the main partner for carrying out the state's duty to consult…
Psychosocial therapy to people at risk of suicide in the Danish Suicide Prevention Clinics: a register-based multicenter study
Seminar
Although people after self-harm are at elevated risks of repeating self-harm as well as dying by suicide and other causes of death, the evidence for effective interventions is meager. Danish Suicide Prevention Clinics have since 1992 offered psychosocial therapy to persons at risk of suicide in an…
ACSPRI summer program 2016
Workshop & workshop
The Australian Corsortium for Social and Political Research Inc (ACSPRI) will be running small group, 'hands on', 5 day intensive courses in social research methods and research technology during the summer break at the ANU and University of Melbourne. The ANU is an ACSPRI member organisation…
Using sound to explain scientific data
Lecture/seminar
Professor Dr David Worrall presents Sonification of Scientific Data for Investigation and Public Communication. Sonification can been concisely defined as the use of nonspeeech audio to convey information. It is usually described as the auditory equivalent of…
Measures for comparing the mortality history of cohorts
Lecture
The commonly used period life expectancy comparisons between populations correspond to juxtapositions of current mortality levels. To construct actual life expectancies as experienced by cohorts one needs complete historical series of mortality, which are only found in a subset of developed…