Are you busy and have difficulty prioritising all the things that need to be done?!
This Feed Your Brain session will explore a range of techniques and options, and focus on a simple prioritisation matrix. This session is interactive and includes an activity to sort the actions that will help you to achieve your goals.

Useful at home and at work, become the master of focusing on the most important things.

Your speaker is Heather Falckh – Business Excellence and Improvement Specialist

Heather has worked in a wide range of industries and recently established her own consultancy business. She is passionate about involving people in the workplace to improve their own business processes through applying simple improvement techniques.

Fee:

Free

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Mathew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theatre piece.

Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating, and conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews as well as their own experiences, Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience.

The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder, using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words – from rural ranchers to university professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

This production of The Laramie Project will be performed by the Flinders University 2019 Drama Centre graduating actors, by arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc New York. Starring:

Maggie Aylett

Caitlin Hendry

Blake Taylor

Thomas Lowe

Daniel Pitt

Danilo Laganin

Alex Vlahos

Thomas Murdock

Serenna Williams

Designer: Kerry Reid

Lighting Designer: Sue Grey-Gardner

You are invited to join us for:

OPENING NIGHT | THURSDAY 18 JULY 2019
7.00pm | Drinks and nibbles
7.30pm | Performance
More drinks and nibbles to follow the performance.

OR

SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019
7.30pm | Performance only.

Limited seats available. RSVP essential.

The Flinders University map is available here, Matthew Flinders Theatre is located at J8 with car park 5 as the closest car park.

This 1-day Groundwater Modelling Uncertainty Workshop, hosted by the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT), will explore the issue of model predictive uncertainty and how to calculate it.

Presenters from government, academia and industry will discuss decision-support modelling from their perspectives, including what they see as its current strengths and weaknesses. International experts on model
uncertainty quantification, including:

John Doherty (author of PEST)

Jeremy White (author of PEST++)

Ty Ferre (University of Arizona and 2017 Darcy Lecturer)

Presenters from industry will discuss software and techniques that can meet the challenges required to address its present inadequacies as well as their experiences in deploying and enhancing existing uncertainty quantification techniques in real-world contexts.

The day will conclude with the 2019 Darcy lecture.

For more information: http://bit.ly/2XLo2F5

Dr Louise Richardson-Self: ‘Understanding Imaginaries’

The concept ‘social imaginaries’ has been deployed within feminist philosophy (e.g. by Moira Gatens), continental philosophy (e.g. by Cornelius Castoriadis), political philosophy (e.g. by Charles Taylor) and social epistemology (e.g. by Jose Medina). This paper is an attempt to synthesise some of this discussion. The aim is to provide a general account of what images, imagination, social imaginaries, and imaginary bodies are. The purpose of this activity is to develop a model for making sense of social inequalities tracking socially-salient identity traits (e.g. women’s ongoing subordination to men in spite of our avowed commitments to gender equality). Once the phenomenon is so-understood, we can then look to plausible strategies for rectifying identity-tracking injustices.

Louise Richardson-Self is Lecturer in Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania. In 2016 Louise was awarded the prestigious R. M. Crawford Medal for her research and public outreach by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 2017 she was a Residential Fellow of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project, hosted by the University of Connecticut. She currently serves on the Australasian Association of Philosophy’s ‘Status of Women in the Philosophy Profession’ and ‘Philosophy in the Community’ committees. Louise graduated with her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2014, and was a Research Affiliate with the University of Sydney for one year (2014-2015). Her undergraduate and Honours studies were undertaken at the University of Tasmania (2006-2009).

Dr Richardson-Self specialises in feminist philosophy and is currently working on an ARC funded project on Hate Speech Against Women Online (DE190100719). She is the recipient of the Australasian Association of Philosophy’s 2019 Annette Baier Prize, awarded for outstanding research, and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2016 Max Crawford Medal, awarded for outstanding achievement in the Humanities. She is the author of Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation (2015), as well as several articles published in journals such as Hypatia, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and Australian Feminist Studies.

Flinders University’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is delighted to announce the 2019 Continental Philosophy Seminar Series. The first of its kind in South Australia, this exciting series of talks from prominent Australian and international philosophers will offer a unique opportunity for wide-ranging reflection on the challenges of the present and the perennial questions of the past.

The true crime story of a wrongful murder conviction in South Australia and the fight for human rights and the freedom of a person wrongly convicted.

In recent years the USA has had over 2,000 exonerations – some 350 based upon DNA. The UK Criminal Cases Review Commission has helped overturn some 440 convictions – including 4 in which people had been hanged. Innocence Canada has helped exonerate 25 people wrongfully convicted. Major reports in each of those countries have identified prosecutorial misconduct, faulty expert evidence, police misconduct, judicial error – leading to corrective actions.

Australia has no review commission and stubbornly resists claims of wrongful conviction.

In South Australia, it took these researchers 14 years to get one murder conviction (that of Henry Keogh) overturned. This was despite the fact that the state had declared the expert witness in his case to be unqualified 20 years earlier. There has been no previous case as bad as that in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, or America.

So why did it take so long to allow an innocent man’s conviction to be appealed and overturned? And how does this set a precedent for all South Australians and our right to just and fair treatment in the eyes of the law? Learn why vigilance for the protection of human rights should be so important to us all.

Hear about this remarkable story and the roles played by our guest speakers to ‘un-make a murder’ at this month’s BRAVE lecture featuring:

• Associate Professor Bibi Sangha
• Dr Bob Moles, Adjunct Principal Researcher
• Professor Tony Thomas, Pathologist and Expert Appeal Witness
• Graham Archer, former Executive Producer Today Tonight, Author, Unmaking a Murder
• Sam Abbott QC, Senior Counsel on Mr Keogh’s appeal

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5.30pm | Pre-lecture refreshments
6.00pm | Lecture
6.20pm | Panel discussion / Audience Q&A

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Through its education and research programs, Flinders encourages new ways of thinking, and supports experimentation and daring, with the mission to contribute on an international scale through ‘changing lives and changing the world’. So we invite you to share and collaborate with us on our BRAVE journey. We will impart our knowledge and new discoveries, elevate discussion and inspire debate; all with the view to facilitate the betterment of our society.

Be BRAVE, be bold, be at Flinders.

The Australian botanical works of Ferdinand Bauer
Presented by Madeline Reece, Exhibitions Assistant

Take a break with our weekly Lunchbox Lectures as Art Museum staff delve into the collection stores to share interesting insights and knowledge on art and artists featured in the Art Museum’s very unique holdings.

Flinders University Art Museum
Ground floor | Social Sciences North
Off carpark 5 | Humanities Road
Flinders University | Bedford Park

Fee:

Free

Social Transformation | Service Chaos Amplifies Family Chaos: How do we build more integrated services for vulnerable families?

Social Transformation Public Lecture Series

Every year South Australia welcomes about 20,000 newborn children into the world and around 3,700 of these children are in and out of home care, experiencing prolonged stress, neglect and trauma, and need service responses from multiple agencies and professions.

CEO of Relationships Australia Dr Claire Ralfs will explore how family services may be professionally organised and clinically coherent, but vulnerable families still find family services chaotic, confusing, unresponsive and not integrated. Dr Ralfs will present on the need to identify and remove road blocks to improve collaboration between services. She will discuss how more holistic and standardised screening processes need to map strengths and vulnerabilities. Examples of restorative practices introduced in the UK will be explored, including how ‘high challenge – high support’ strategies can shape services in the future.

She will be joined by a panel of leaders from the industry sector to discuss ways to build a more integrated family service system in South Australia including:

Ms Ann-Marie Hayes, Executive Director, Early Years and Child Development at the Department of Human Services

Mr Craig Rigney, Chief Executive Officer, KWY

Ms Cathy Taylor, Chief Executive of the Department for Child Protection

Professor Sarah Wendt, Director of the SWIRLS research centre at Flinders University, will host and conclude the evening’s discussion.

Through its education and research programs, Flinders University encourages new ways of thinking, and supports experimentation and daring, with the mission to contribute on an international scale through ‘changing lives and changing the world’. So we invite you to share and collaborate with us on our SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION journey. We will impart our knowledge and new discoveries, elevate discussion and inspire debate; all with the view to facilitate the betterment of our society.

If you require assistance or would like to talk to a trained professional about these issues, please call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 1800 RESPECT. If you are concerned about a child and have a reasonable suspicion that a child is being abused or neglected, phone the Child Abuse Report Line on 13 14 78.

“You’re following little yellow arrows across a country, which is kind of crazy”.

In 2016, playwright Sarah Peters walked the Camino de Santiago, an 800-kilometre hike across Northern Spain that has been travelled by pilgrims for centuries.

She went to discover the stories of other adventurers – but she also had to confront her own. Drawn from encounters with real people walking ‘The Way’, Blister explores what happens when daily life is reduced to a 10 kilo pack, a pair of boots, and a series of yellow arrows pointing you in the right direction…most of the time.

Fee:

Refer to website for Ticket information

“You’re following little yellow arrows across a country, which is kind of crazy”.

In 2016, playwright Sarah Peters walked the Camino de Santiago, an 800-kilometre hike across Northern Spain that has been travelled by pilgrims for centuries.

She went to discover the stories of other adventurers – but she also had to confront her own. Drawn from encounters with real people walking ‘The Way’, Blister explores what happens when daily life is reduced to a 10 kilo pack, a pair of boots, and a series of yellow arrows pointing you in the right direction…most of the time.

Fee:

Refer to website for Ticket information

Groundwater makes up about 17% of Australia’s accessible water resources and up to 30% of our water consumption in certain regions. Droughts and climate change place pressure on our critical groundwater reserves; therefore, it is important that Australia has a well-informed workforce that is ready to tackle these challenges.

WHY IS THE COURSE IMPORTANT?

The Australian Groundwater School is vital for Australian professionals working with groundwater. Our flagship course, and the premier course of its type in Australasia, the Australian Groundwater School provides participants with a broad but rigorous introduction to groundwater. Introducing hydrogeology, assessment methods, modelling, managed aquifer recharge, management, governance and more, the course truly encompasses the fundamentals of groundwater. We have refreshed the Australian Groundwater School by including a networking session and more tutorials. Read a short history on the Australian Groundwater School 1962 – 2008

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The Australian Groundwater School is an intermediate-level course designed to build on our Groundwater Essentials courses. Scientific, policy and management personnel who want to gain a solid grounding in groundwater should strongly consider attending this course.

WHO IS PRESENTING?

Lectures, demonstrations and tutorials are given by leading groundwater professionals. Our presenters are experienced hydrogeologists and specialists in both public and private practice, from industry, universities and research agencies.

WHAT WILL THE COURSE COVER?

The full schedule for this course is provided in the course program.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POINTS

This course maybe recognised for CPD points in accordance to guidelines from Engineers Australia

The personal is political: Ann Newmarch
Presented by Liam McGeagh, Research Assistant

Take a break with our weekly Lunchbox Lectures as Art Museum staff delve into the collection stores to share interesting insights and knowledge on art and artists featured in the Art Museum’s very unique holdings.

Flinders University Art Museum
Ground floor | Social Sciences North
Off carpark 5 | Humanities Road
Flinders University | Bedford Park

Fee:

Free

Guildhouse and Flinders University Art Museum invite you to the opening of
UTE-ilitarian by contemporary South Australian artist Cynthia Schwertsik

Thursday 8 August 2019

3 – 4pm | Participatory artist talk in conversation with curator Nic Brown

4 – 5.30pm | Exhibition launch

To be officially opened by Associate Professor William Peterson
Creative & Performing Arts | College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Flinders University

Level 1 | Student Hub (near The Tavern)
Flinders University
Sturt Road | Bedford Park

RSVP Essential | Monday 5 August

Exhibition Dates
29 July – 30 August 2019

Exhibition locations
Super Screen | Plaza
Mon – Fri | 10am – 6pm
and
Level 1 | Student Hub
Mon – Fri | 7:30am – 6pm

Flinders University
Sturt Road | Bedford Park

Public Programs

Tuesday 13 August
12 – 1pm | Curator talk and artist performance

Level 1 | Student Hub (near The Tavern)
Flinders University
Sturt Road | Bedford Park

Cynthia Schwertsik works in the genres of visual art and contemporary performance with participatory inclusion. She navigates the everyday by engaging with objects and public spaces and subverts their functionality with humorous interventions.

For The Guildhouse Collections Project Schwertsik explores the Post-object and Documentation collection at Flinders University Art Museum to present new video and performance work that comments on Australia’s ecological footprint.

The Collections Project is a collaboration between Guildhouse and Flinders University Art Museum.

For more information: artmuseum.flinders.edu.au

Fee:

Free

Flinders University Alumni are invited to an exclusive introduction to the collections and opportunity to go behind-the-museum scenes with Art Museum Director, Fiona Salmon followed by morning tea at the university’s award-winning Café Aleré.

Tour timings: 9.30 am – 11.30 am

Groups will be capped at 15

Tour 1: Friday 10 May 2019

Tour 2: Friday 21 June 2019

Tour 3: Friday 9 August 2019

Tour 4: Friday 4 October 2019

RSVP is essential

Fee:

Free

Fee:

Free

Held in over 600 universities across 65 countries worldwide, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a global competition celebrating communication of academic research, challenging PhD students to present their research in a powerful, engaging manner.

In only three minutes, competitors must effectively communicate their research projects to a non-specialist audience, with nothing more than a single PowerPoint slide and their own public speaking skills.

Consolidating ideas and research that may result in an 100,000-word PhD thesis into a concise, engaging three-minute presentation is an amazing achievement. Join us to support Flinders University students as they walk on stage to compete at the 3MT Semi-Finals and take the next steps towards the 2019 Asia-Pacific 3MT prize of a $5,000 research travel grant.

Here’s your opportunity to experience life and learning at Flinders.

Get hands-on with a range of exciting interactive activities, demonstrations, campus tours and more than 160 information sessions over two eye-opening days.

Make yourself at home in our Student Hub and Plaza, the heart of the Bedford Park campus. Talk to lecturers and current students about Flinders life and discover the course that’s right for you!

Friday 16 & Saturday 17 August 2019 | 9:30am – 3.30pm

Flinders University
Sturt Road | Bedford Park

Fee:

Free

Held in over 600 universities across 65 countries worldwide, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a global competition celebrating communication of academic research, challenging PhD students to present their research in a powerful, engaging manner.

The 3MT Finals will see Flinders University students step on stage to effectively communicate their research projects to a non-specialist audience, with nothing more than a single PowerPoint slide and their own public speaking skills.

All in just three minutes.

Consolidating ideas and research that may result in an 100,000-word PhD thesis into a concise, engaging three-minute presentation is an amazing achievement. Join us to support Flinders University students as they compete at the 3MT Finals and take the next steps towards the 2019 Asia-Pacific 3MT prize of a $5,000 research travel grant.

Many parts of Australia and the rest of the world rely on groundwater as a source of drinking water and for agricultural and industrial purposes. Understanding groundwater as a reliable resource can generally only be performed using groundwater models. This course provides the attendees with a solid background and detailed understanding of the process of modelling, taught by world authorities in the field.

This School will introduce attendees to the art and science of groundwater modelling. It will include a brief discussion of groundwater flow before examining the details of the process of modelling. Each step in the process will be thoroughly examined with practical applications as the focus. Extensive tutorials will allow attendees the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with using MODFLOW, the industry-standard groundwater modelling code. Other codes will be introduced and discussed.

Presenter:

Dr. Michael Teubner

Michael has over 40 years’ of experience in developing and applying water systems modelling including 16 years in the consulting industry in the US and 18 years in university education and research in South Australia. Michael has spent 3 years coordinating Flinders University’s Groundwater Hydrology Postgraduate courses (including teaching Groundwater Modelling for 4 years) and 2 years in coordinating the Australian Groundwater School topic at Flinders.

National Archaeology Student Conference provides students at all university levels with a student-led professional forum to network and share their ideas and research.

The 2019 National Archaeology Student Conference will be held by Flinders University 1-4 October in the heart of Adelaide. Our theme this year is “The Future of our Past” with a focus on innovation, multidisciplinary research and inclusion within archaeology. NASC 2019 promises to be thought-provoking and exciting. Please see our website www.nascaustralia.com for details.

This year we are excited to welcome Richard Osgood (Digging for Britain, Operation Nightingale, CAW 2019 Archaeologist of the Year) as our keynote speaker, along with other international guest speakers and several industry partners.

Flinders University Alumni are invited to an exclusive introduction to the collections and opportunity to go behind-the-museum scenes with Art Museum Director, Fiona Salmon followed by morning tea at the university’s award-winning Café Aleré.

Tour timings: 9.30 am – 11.30 am

Groups will be capped at 15

Tour 1: Friday 10 May 2019

Tour 2: Friday 21 June 2019

Tour 3: Friday 9 August 2019

Tour 4: Friday 4 October 2019

RSVP is essential

Fee:

Free

Social licence to operate (SLO) is a term that has emerged in Australia and around the world over the last two decades. For the most part, SLO has been popularised within the mining and extractive industries where it has been used to describe the broad approval or acceptance of a resource development activity that is afforded by local communities or other stakeholders, who can affect the profitability of that activity. However, SLO importantly points to the changing nature of societal expectations that have influenced the way in which the development, management and use of natural resources is now being undertaken.

Communities are increasingly demanding more involvement in decision-making around the use of natural resources in all forms. They have expectations of receiving a greater share of the benefits associated with the development of these resources, and they require assurances that those responsible for these activities are being appropriately regulated. In the context of groundwater management in Australia, an understanding of SLO is useful for two reasons. First, it provides an opportunity to more critically examine the nature of the impacts of the mining and extractives industries on groundwater resources and to explore how we make decisions about competing resource use needs in the landscape within a broader social context. Second, SLO also allows us to more closely examine societal expectations of groundwater management in Australia.

For over a decade, the CSIRO has undertaken applied research to measure and model SLO in the mining and extractive industries, and this work has been extended to a range of other sectors including forestry, agriculture, and environmental conservation. This research has collectively demonstrated how the roles of trust, fairness and governance underpin the development of more sustainable, trust-based relationships between resource developers and society in relation to responsible resource management. This lecture will explore the continued appeal of the term SLO to describe and capture the nature of those social interactions and expectations across a range of resource development and use settings, provide a clear definition of SLO based on over a decade of applied research conducted by the CSIRO, and highlight how this concept might be useful in relation to the management of groundwater resources at local and national scales.

National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training  – http://www.groundwater.com.au/

The International Association of Hydrogeologists Australia – https://www.iah.org.au/

By registering for this event, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with the Flinders University Privacy Policy.

An introduction to the essential basics of conducting an aquifer test and analysing the testing data. 

This course focuses on the practical application of pumping test theory to developing understandings of groundwater systems. It will teach you very important background information to allow defendable interpretations of aquifer testing data using traditional methods and state-of-the-art software. A hands-on application of skills learnt is also part of this course. The course will be given over one and a half days in three components:

1. Introduction – pumping test fundamentals, types of aquifer tests, aquifer parameters, aquifer conceptual models
2. The pumping test – design, undertaking, data preparation and management
3. Analysis – identifying the conceptual model, practicals, case studies

Course Outline

• Pumping Test Fundamentals|
• Terminology
• Aquifer Conceptual Models – Porous Media-
• Identifying the Conceptual Model
• Production Well Analysis
• Checking/Verification/Data Corrections
• Practical’s
• Pumping test design
• Discussion

Course Presenters

Mike Dudding
Principal Hydrogeologist
mdGroundwater

Mike Dudding’s primary areas of expertise include groundwater hydraulic analysis, Managed Aquifer Recharge, and tunnel hydrogeology. He has 27 year experience as a consulting hydrogeologist primarily for infrastructure, water supply, and NRM. Mike has been the Lead Hydrogeologist for major water resource projects including West Werribee (Melbourne) and Gold Coast Managed Aquifer Recharge, Mapping MAR potential for Melbourne, Pyramid Creek Salt Interception Scheme, Lindsay River SIS, investigating new groundwater supply for Geelong, and investigating inter-aquifer connection in southern Victoria, SA/Vic border area, and various CSG projects. He has also been the Lead Hydrogeologist for several major tunnel projects including Melbourne Metro, East-West Link, West Link, and the Northern Sewerage Project. Mike has a Master of Science (Hons) in Engineering Geology from the University of Canterbury.

Stephen Parsons
Senior Hydrogeologist 
Jacobs 

Visual arts, performing arts and literature are instrumental in exposing the complexity of the numerous forms that violence against women and girls can take in the contemporary world, as well as exploring new and old forms of resistance.

This interdisciplinary conference aims to contribute to the ‘glocal’ conversation on the topic of gendered violence and at the same time raise awareness of the global extent of the problem, by analysing ways in which both such violence and resistance to it are represented in the arts. While a key strand of the conference will concern the arts in contemporary Italy, its scope will be broad, encouraging comparison with other societies across space and time.

Presented by Dacia Maraini and Sarah Wendt.

Proudly sponsored by Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS)

Fee:

$75 (inc gst)

Are humans smart enough to avoid making themselves extinct?

The 11th Southgate Oration will be presented by Adjunct Professor Peter Sainsbury.

Peter has had a career-long interest in social policy, particularly related to health equity and the social determinants of health, broadening in the last two decades to include healthy built environments and environmental sustainability.

Fee:

Free

The Australian Groundwater School is an intermediate-level course designed to build on our Groundwater Essentials courses. Scientific, policy and management personnel who want to gain a solid grounding in groundwater should strongly consider attending this course.

WHO IS PRESENTING?

Lectures, demonstrations and tutorials are given by leading groundwater professionals. Our presenters are experienced hydrogeologists and specialists in both public and private practice, from industry, universities and research agencies.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POINTS

This course maybe recognised for CPD points in accordance to guidelines from Engineers Australia

Groundwater makes up about 17% of Australia’s accessible water resources, and up to 30% of our water consumption in certain regions. Droughts and climate change place pressure on our critical groundwater reserves; therefore, it is important that Australia has a well-informed workforce that is ready to tackle these challenges.

WHY IS THE COURSE IMPORTANT?

The Australian Groundwater School is vital for Australian professionals working with groundwater. Our flagship course, and the premier course of its type in Australasia, the Australian Groundwater School provides participants with a broad but rigorous introduction to groundwater.

Introducing hydrogeology, assessment methods, modelling, managed aquifer recharge, management, governance and more, the course truly encompasses the fundamentals of groundwater. We have expanded our Australian Groundwater School in Adelaide to include a one-day field trip – bringing the course to a full five days of groundwater learning. Delegates will have the opportunity to get out of the classroom and put theory into practice, visiting field sites. Read a short history on the Australian Groundwater School 1962 – 2008.