SCOS Update: Novemeber, part III
Three treats for you this week:
1) Conference on communication and change in Australia
2) Workshop on urban renewal, uncertainty and exclusion in France
3) PhD studentship opportunities at Queen Mary University, London
1) Conference on communication and change in Australia
2) Workshop on urban renewal, uncertainty and exclusion in France
3) PhD studentship opportunities at Queen Mary University, London
Item 1:
The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA): The 2012 ANZCA Conference ‘Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21st Century’ will be held in Adelaide at the picturesque North Terrace campuses of the Universities of Adelaide and the University of South Australia from 4-6 July 2012, with a pre-conference postgraduate research workshop on 3 July.
Call for Papers:
The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), is a professional association for researchers, teachers, and practitioners in the diverse disciplines of media and communication in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The annual conference is a major event in the ANZCA calendar, and attracts delegates from across the globe. The conference provides members with valuable professional development opportunities, including scholarly publication, networking and presentation, and learning about the latest national and international trends in media and communications research, teaching and learning. Research students are encouraged and supported to take advantage of formal and informal mentoring opportunities afforded by participation in the conference, especially the preconference research and postgraduate mentoring forum and other activities of the association.
The 2012 ANZCA Conference will be held in Adelaide at the picturesque North Terrace campuses of the Universities of Adelaide and the University of South Australia from 4-6 July 2012, with a pre-conference postgraduate research workshop on 3 July.
Conference Theme:
When the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that the world is in constant flux, and that opposites are intrinsically linked, the world did not understand him. But today we can confidently say that the only constant in our current global dispensation is change itself. We have witnessed dramatic changes since the World Wide Web became user friendly.
The pace of communication technology has ensured that we can no longer step into the same river twice. Our economic values have changed from landed assets to digital assets. We have witnessed changes from media consumers to ‘produsers’. We have witnessed changes in movies from Hollywood to Bollywood and from Bollywood to Nollywood. We have witnessed news making change from rich nations to poor nations and from the elite to ordinary citizens. We have witnessed and are still witnessing the effects of people power in the gulf region through the use of social media. We have become circumspect in defining our geopolitical and spatiotemporal spaces, especially as we witness the unfolding of new political landscapes and movements.
Shifting the post or posting the shift in Global events?
The question is how have media and communication institutions been communicating these changes, and how have these changes affected the way media and communication operate in the 21st century. What other changes are we likely to witness in the near future? We are therefore interested in papers which explore the issue of change from different media and communication perspectives. For example, how has change affected public relations practices, or journalistic practices, or community and citizen media and, how have these media practices affected or influenced change?
Papers and abstracts addressing these issues should be submitted by 09 March 2012 for the referred stream, and 20 April 2012 for the non-referred papers. However all abstracts are due by 09 March 2012. ANZCA conferences have the flexibility of two types of paper acceptance modes: the fully referred stream which conforms to Australian and NZ research publication guidelines, and a non-refereed stream. Some Stream Coordinators have developed individual calls for papers for their streams. Every referred paper undergoes double blind peer review processes and has the option to be published in the edited conference proceeding. Non-refereed conference papers are not published in the proceedings. ANZCA conference publications use the APA referencing style. Papers are not limited to the listed streams. If your research falls outside any of the listed streams but fits within the conference theme, it will be considered under the open stream.
Papers should not be more than 5000 words in length. State whether you would want your paper to be refereed or not. The paper should include an abstract of not more than 300 words with your institutional affiliation. All papers and abstracts should be sent directly to the stream coordinators listed against each stream or to anzca2012@unisa.edu.au if the paper does not fall under any of the listed streams. Please note that all accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program while only fully referred papers will be published in the conference proceeding. If your paper does not fall under any of the listed streams it will be considered under the open stream.
Streams and Stream Coordinators:
Media and Citizenship: Prof Terry Flew; t.flew@qut.edu.au
Creativity and Communication: Phillip McIntyre; phillip.mcintyre@newcastle.edu.au
Cross Cultural and Intercultural Communication: Niranjala (Nina) Weerakkody; nina.weerakkody@deakin.edu.au
Health Communication: Mike Wilmore; michael.wilmore@adelaide.edu.au
Indigeneity and Media: Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller; kerry.mccallum@canberra.edu.au & lisa.waller@deakin.edu.au
Journalism and New Media: Anne Dunn and Fiona Martin; anne.dunn@sydney.edu.au & fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au
Communication Law and Ethics: Donald Matheson; donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz
Mobile, Digital and Social Media: Scott Rickard and Clare Lloyd srickard@swin.edu.au & Clare.A.Lloyd@curtin.edu.au
Organisational and Business Communication: Colleen Mills; colleen.mills@canterbury.ac.nz
Public Relations: Alison Henderson; alison@waikato.ac.nz
Science and Environmental communication: Catherine Simpson; Catherine.Simpson@mq.edu.au
Community and Activist Media: Alana Mann; alana.mann@usyd.edu.au
Sports Media and Communication: Brett Hutchins; brett.hutchins@monash.edu
Terrorism, Crime and Media: Jacqui Ewart; j.ewart@griffith.edu.au
Political Communication: Terence Lee; t.lee@murdoch.edu.au
Advertising and Communication: Ying Jiang; ying.jiang@adelaide.edu.au
Communication and Pedagogy: Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten cwootten@waikato.ac.nz
Interpersonal Communication: anzca2012@unisa.edu.au
Communication and Disability: anzca2012@unisa.edu.au
Enquiries to Conference Convenors:
Chika Anyanwu, University of Adelaide: chika.anyanwu@adelaide.edu.au
And Kerry Green, University of South Australia: Kerry.green@unisa.edu.au
Item 2:
Call for papers
Workshop “Urban renewal, uncertainty and exclusion”
At EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), Nanterre, France, 10-13th July, 2012
www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/index.htm
Convenors:
Martijn Koster (Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University) m.koster@uu.nl
Monique Nuijten (Social Sciences, Wageningen University) monique.nuijten@wur.nl
Short Abstract:
This panel seeks to understand how urban renewal affects the lives of marginalised city residents. Our concern is how these changes in their daily living environment produce anxiety and social exclusion. We are also interested in how people rework these changes that are imposed on their lives.
Long Abstract:
Urban renewal produces uncertainty among those affected. "Upgrading" of marginalised urban areas, like social housing in the global North and slums in the South, forces people to move due to renovation or, more often, demolition of their houses. Urban renewal is a consequential intervention in the socio-spatial and economic dimensions of people's lives, as it disrupts social networks and removes people from their homes and workplaces. Before renewal is actually carried out, people are left in a state of anxiety, as they - for long periods of time - remain uninformed about what exactly will happen. After their move, to an appointed or chosen dwelling or a new land occupation, the unknown new living environment also causes disquiet.
Urban renewal produces a differentiation between different categories of citizens (based on property ownership, economic class or ethnicity) and leads to forms of social exclusion. In many cases, participatory procedures legitimate urban renewal programmes, and conceal the real estate speculations that guide it, through a discourse in which residents, as autonomous citizens, are co-responsible for the redesign of their living environment.
This panel seeks to understand how urban redesign affects the lives of marginalised city residents. Our concern is how renewal programmes and their participatory procedures produce anxiety and social exclusion. Although these processes may seem to evolve relentlessly, we are also interested in how people find creative ways to rework the changes that are imposed on their lives.
This panel welcomes studies, especially ethnographic, of urban renewal from all over the world.
Discussant: Steffen Jensen (RCT, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Deadline for abstracts:
November 28th 2011
Please upload abstracts at: www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm
Item 3:
The School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, is seeking to appoint three fully funded PhD Students, commencing September 2012.
The award covers home/international fees and an annual maintenance stipend.
Two studentships in any of the following areas:
– The Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/): Possible PhD topics include: the implications for equality and diversity of the recession; diversity management in less developed countries; the implications of recent immigration on the labour market opportunities of more settled ethnic minority communities; intersectionality and careers; women, equality and trade unions. We will also consider other topics related to the work of CRED. Please contact Professor Gill Kirton for further details (g.kirton@qmul.ac.uk).
– The Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR) (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cgr/index.html): Possible PhD topics include: monetary and financial policy, macroeconomics, development economics and institutional economics. We will also consider other topics related to the work of CGR. Please contact Professor Brigitte Granville for further details (b.granville@qmul.ac.uk).
– The Centre for Management and Organisational History (CMoH) (http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cmoh/index.html): Possible PhD topics include organisational memory and the history of women in the accounting profession; historical analysis of industry and firm profitability and of industry investment patterns, using macroeconomic and/or micro level data; evolutionary theories of economic change and the analysis of technological and organisational developments; historical perspectives on corporate governance and the relationship between companies and their external investors. We will also consider other topics related to the work of CMoH. Please contact Professor Sean McCartney for further details (s.mccartney@qmul.ac.uk).
– Studentship with the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/ This studentship offers an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified candidate to work on a live equality and diversity project with Queen Mary’s Planning Unit. Over the period 2012-2014 Queen Mary will be undertaking substantial Equality Impact analysis work as part of its preparations for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 exercise. The PhD will both investigate and contribute to this important project.
Application Deadline:
The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 27th January 2012. All short-listed applicants will be interviewed (either face-to-face or, in the case of overseas candidates, by Skype or telephone) and applicants must be available for interview between 15th and 29th February 2012.
Further Details and Application Process:
Please address all general enquiries to Richard Makin (School of Business and Management PhD Administrator) r.makin@qmul.ac.uk. Please state which studentship(s) you are applying for. For further details of how to apply, visit: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/; http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprogramme/index.html.
The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA): The 2012 ANZCA Conference ‘Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21st Century’ will be held in Adelaide at the picturesque North Terrace campuses of the Universities of Adelaide and the University of South Australia from 4-6 July 2012, with a pre-conference postgraduate research workshop on 3 July.
Call for Papers:
The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), is a professional association for researchers, teachers, and practitioners in the diverse disciplines of media and communication in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The annual conference is a major event in the ANZCA calendar, and attracts delegates from across the globe. The conference provides members with valuable professional development opportunities, including scholarly publication, networking and presentation, and learning about the latest national and international trends in media and communications research, teaching and learning. Research students are encouraged and supported to take advantage of formal and informal mentoring opportunities afforded by participation in the conference, especially the preconference research and postgraduate mentoring forum and other activities of the association.
The 2012 ANZCA Conference will be held in Adelaide at the picturesque North Terrace campuses of the Universities of Adelaide and the University of South Australia from 4-6 July 2012, with a pre-conference postgraduate research workshop on 3 July.
Conference Theme:
When the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that the world is in constant flux, and that opposites are intrinsically linked, the world did not understand him. But today we can confidently say that the only constant in our current global dispensation is change itself. We have witnessed dramatic changes since the World Wide Web became user friendly.
The pace of communication technology has ensured that we can no longer step into the same river twice. Our economic values have changed from landed assets to digital assets. We have witnessed changes from media consumers to ‘produsers’. We have witnessed changes in movies from Hollywood to Bollywood and from Bollywood to Nollywood. We have witnessed news making change from rich nations to poor nations and from the elite to ordinary citizens. We have witnessed and are still witnessing the effects of people power in the gulf region through the use of social media. We have become circumspect in defining our geopolitical and spatiotemporal spaces, especially as we witness the unfolding of new political landscapes and movements.
Shifting the post or posting the shift in Global events?
The question is how have media and communication institutions been communicating these changes, and how have these changes affected the way media and communication operate in the 21st century. What other changes are we likely to witness in the near future? We are therefore interested in papers which explore the issue of change from different media and communication perspectives. For example, how has change affected public relations practices, or journalistic practices, or community and citizen media and, how have these media practices affected or influenced change?
Papers and abstracts addressing these issues should be submitted by 09 March 2012 for the referred stream, and 20 April 2012 for the non-referred papers. However all abstracts are due by 09 March 2012. ANZCA conferences have the flexibility of two types of paper acceptance modes: the fully referred stream which conforms to Australian and NZ research publication guidelines, and a non-refereed stream. Some Stream Coordinators have developed individual calls for papers for their streams. Every referred paper undergoes double blind peer review processes and has the option to be published in the edited conference proceeding. Non-refereed conference papers are not published in the proceedings. ANZCA conference publications use the APA referencing style. Papers are not limited to the listed streams. If your research falls outside any of the listed streams but fits within the conference theme, it will be considered under the open stream.
Papers should not be more than 5000 words in length. State whether you would want your paper to be refereed or not. The paper should include an abstract of not more than 300 words with your institutional affiliation. All papers and abstracts should be sent directly to the stream coordinators listed against each stream or to anzca2012@unisa.edu.au if the paper does not fall under any of the listed streams. Please note that all accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program while only fully referred papers will be published in the conference proceeding. If your paper does not fall under any of the listed streams it will be considered under the open stream.
Streams and Stream Coordinators:
Media and Citizenship: Prof Terry Flew; t.flew@qut.edu.au
Creativity and Communication: Phillip McIntyre; phillip.mcintyre@newcastle.edu.au
Cross Cultural and Intercultural Communication: Niranjala (Nina) Weerakkody; nina.weerakkody@deakin.edu.au
Health Communication: Mike Wilmore; michael.wilmore@adelaide.edu.au
Indigeneity and Media: Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller; kerry.mccallum@canberra.edu.au & lisa.waller@deakin.edu.au
Journalism and New Media: Anne Dunn and Fiona Martin; anne.dunn@sydney.edu.au & fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au
Communication Law and Ethics: Donald Matheson; donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz
Mobile, Digital and Social Media: Scott Rickard and Clare Lloyd srickard@swin.edu.au & Clare.A.Lloyd@curtin.edu.au
Organisational and Business Communication: Colleen Mills; colleen.mills@canterbury.ac.nz
Public Relations: Alison Henderson; alison@waikato.ac.nz
Science and Environmental communication: Catherine Simpson; Catherine.Simpson@mq.edu.au
Community and Activist Media: Alana Mann; alana.mann@usyd.edu.au
Sports Media and Communication: Brett Hutchins; brett.hutchins@monash.edu
Terrorism, Crime and Media: Jacqui Ewart; j.ewart@griffith.edu.au
Political Communication: Terence Lee; t.lee@murdoch.edu.au
Advertising and Communication: Ying Jiang; ying.jiang@adelaide.edu.au
Communication and Pedagogy: Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten cwootten@waikato.ac.nz
Interpersonal Communication: anzca2012@unisa.edu.au
Communication and Disability: anzca2012@unisa.edu.au
Enquiries to Conference Convenors:
Chika Anyanwu, University of Adelaide: chika.anyanwu@adelaide.edu.au
And Kerry Green, University of South Australia: Kerry.green@unisa.edu.au
Item 2:
Call for papers
Workshop “Urban renewal, uncertainty and exclusion”
At EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), Nanterre, France, 10-13th July, 2012
www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/index.htm
Convenors:
Martijn Koster (Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University) m.koster@uu.nl
Monique Nuijten (Social Sciences, Wageningen University) monique.nuijten@wur.nl
Short Abstract:
This panel seeks to understand how urban renewal affects the lives of marginalised city residents. Our concern is how these changes in their daily living environment produce anxiety and social exclusion. We are also interested in how people rework these changes that are imposed on their lives.
Long Abstract:
Urban renewal produces uncertainty among those affected. "Upgrading" of marginalised urban areas, like social housing in the global North and slums in the South, forces people to move due to renovation or, more often, demolition of their houses. Urban renewal is a consequential intervention in the socio-spatial and economic dimensions of people's lives, as it disrupts social networks and removes people from their homes and workplaces. Before renewal is actually carried out, people are left in a state of anxiety, as they - for long periods of time - remain uninformed about what exactly will happen. After their move, to an appointed or chosen dwelling or a new land occupation, the unknown new living environment also causes disquiet.
Urban renewal produces a differentiation between different categories of citizens (based on property ownership, economic class or ethnicity) and leads to forms of social exclusion. In many cases, participatory procedures legitimate urban renewal programmes, and conceal the real estate speculations that guide it, through a discourse in which residents, as autonomous citizens, are co-responsible for the redesign of their living environment.
This panel seeks to understand how urban redesign affects the lives of marginalised city residents. Our concern is how renewal programmes and their participatory procedures produce anxiety and social exclusion. Although these processes may seem to evolve relentlessly, we are also interested in how people find creative ways to rework the changes that are imposed on their lives.
This panel welcomes studies, especially ethnographic, of urban renewal from all over the world.
Discussant: Steffen Jensen (RCT, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Deadline for abstracts:
November 28th 2011
Please upload abstracts at: www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm
Item 3:
The School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, is seeking to appoint three fully funded PhD Students, commencing September 2012.
The award covers home/international fees and an annual maintenance stipend.
Two studentships in any of the following areas:
– The Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/): Possible PhD topics include: the implications for equality and diversity of the recession; diversity management in less developed countries; the implications of recent immigration on the labour market opportunities of more settled ethnic minority communities; intersectionality and careers; women, equality and trade unions. We will also consider other topics related to the work of CRED. Please contact Professor Gill Kirton for further details (g.kirton@qmul.ac.uk).
– The Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR) (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cgr/index.html): Possible PhD topics include: monetary and financial policy, macroeconomics, development economics and institutional economics. We will also consider other topics related to the work of CGR. Please contact Professor Brigitte Granville for further details (b.granville@qmul.ac.uk).
– The Centre for Management and Organisational History (CMoH) (http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cmoh/index.html): Possible PhD topics include organisational memory and the history of women in the accounting profession; historical analysis of industry and firm profitability and of industry investment patterns, using macroeconomic and/or micro level data; evolutionary theories of economic change and the analysis of technological and organisational developments; historical perspectives on corporate governance and the relationship between companies and their external investors. We will also consider other topics related to the work of CMoH. Please contact Professor Sean McCartney for further details (s.mccartney@qmul.ac.uk).
– Studentship with the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) (http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cred/ This studentship offers an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified candidate to work on a live equality and diversity project with Queen Mary’s Planning Unit. Over the period 2012-2014 Queen Mary will be undertaking substantial Equality Impact analysis work as part of its preparations for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 exercise. The PhD will both investigate and contribute to this important project.
Application Deadline:
The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 27th January 2012. All short-listed applicants will be interviewed (either face-to-face or, in the case of overseas candidates, by Skype or telephone) and applicants must be available for interview between 15th and 29th February 2012.
Further Details and Application Process:
Please address all general enquiries to Richard Makin (School of Business and Management PhD Administrator) r.makin@qmul.ac.uk. Please state which studentship(s) you are applying for. For further details of how to apply, visit: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/; http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprogramme/index.html.