Valuing Impact in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities DASSH Conference and AGM Thursday and Friday, 18 & 19 September 2014 Customs House, Brisbane Hosted by The University of Queensland For more information about the conference, please contact: Ms Gillian Ievers Ms Clare Sidoti Alumni and Events Coordinator Executive Officer Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Australasian Council of Deans of Arts The University of Queensland Social Sciences and Humanities St Lucia QLD 4072 | Australia (DASSH) +61 7 33461634 +61 2 61621297 [email protected] [email protected] www.hass.uq.edu.au www.dassh.edu.au 2 | DASSH Conference 2014 – The University of Queensland PRESIDENt’S WELCOME On behalf of the Board of the I would like to thank Conference Convenor Fred D’Agostino Australasian Council of Deans and his team at The University of Queensland for their of Arts, Social Sciences sterling work on devising an exciting program of focussed and Humanities (DASSH), presentations by high profile speakers. I would also like to welcome to our 2014 annual acknowledge the support of Professor Tim Dunne, Executive conference. Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at UQ, and one of our newest DASSH members. As always, the DASSH Board has worked diligently on Reflecting your feedback from recent conferences, there your behalf during the past is a greater emphasis this year on panels and discussions, 12 months. We have been including the opportunity for an informal get-together on involved in consultations and made submissions on the joint the day before the official conference program begins. This AAH and ASSA scoping study to map the national research is your conference and its primary aim is to offer you the and teaching capacity in the humanities and social sciences, chance to discuss, network and share ideas with colleagues. the demand driven system, the guidelines for ERA 2015, I extend a warm welcome to all delegates and trust you will and proposed changes to the Higher Education Standards find the conference an intellectually and socially rewarding Framework, amongst others. experience. At the last conference you asked the Board for greater I look forward to meeting with you while in Brisbane. engagement with our members – I hope that our revamped DASSH e-news, our entry into the world of social media, and our regular briefings from the DASSH Office on current sector matters go some distance in responding to that. I look forward to continued effort and engagement with you to progress some of the more difficult agendas we face. Professor John Germov President We are certainly entering a challenging period for higher education in Australia. The Coalition’s higher education Pro Vice-Chancellor reform package has the potential to significantly impact our Faculty of Education and Arts sector, making the 2014 DASSH Conference program and The University of Newcastle theme – Valuing Impact in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities – particularly prescient. The next two days offer a framework to explore our future priorities and sustainability. DASSH Conference 2014 – The University of Queensland | 3 CONVENOR’S WELCOME This year’s Conference of We have chosen the topic Valuing Impact as a (rather the Deans of Arts, Social softly enforced) “theme” for the 2014 Conference. It is, I Sciences and Humanities think, an article of faith among ASSH academics and their takes place — but when leaders that the ASSH disciplines do have valuable impact, isn’t this true? — at a time both through the qualities they deliver to their graduates of some turbulence and and through the direct and indirect influence of ASSH uncertainty. research on, for instance, government policy-making, on the informed judgment we bring as citizens of complex Changes to funding democratic societies, and on our cultivated appreciation arrangements for domestic of and contributions to our cultural heritage. My own students are proposed which experience suggests that most of our current students and would have a significant an even larger percentage of our graduates understand impact on funding for our undergraduate programs. the valuable impact of the ASSH disciplines, and we have Commonwealth Support for domestic undergraduate some champions in this regard among both Government students will be significantly reduced with the possibility of a and Opposition portfolio holders. But we might need to corresponding rise in the (deregulated) Student Contribution. become even more articulate about these valuable impacts With the legislation still not approved, there is considerable to continue to prosper in the uncertain and turbulent times uncertainty about how this will play out, made more ahead. challenging, of course, by the need, as we ramp up student recruitment for 2015 intakes, to say something to students On behalf of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at and their families about the likely costs of their education. The University of Queensland, as, indeed, UQ’s last Dean of Arts, I cordially welcome you to Brisbane and look forward to The latest incarnation of the ERA exercise is also hard a vigorous discussion of our theme. upon us and is, I know, preoccupying the Associate Deans (Research) and their colleagues, much as the AQF compliance regime is making lots of work for the Associate Deans (Teaching and Learning) and the various staff who support them. With continuing uncertainty around the role of the regulator, there are rich fields for informed speculation Professor Fred D’Agostino about this evolving situation. 4 | DASSH Conference 2014 – The University of Queensland CONFERENCE PROGRAM Valuing Impact in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Thursday and Friday, 18 & 19 September 2014 Hosted by The University of Queensland at Customs House, Brisbane WEDNESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2014 (PRE-CONFERENCE DAY) Time Program Venue/Room 9am – 5pm Associate Deans (Research) and UQ Business School Associate Deans (Teaching and Learning) Level 19 Networks Central Plaza One 345 Queen Street 1pm – 3pm DASSH Board Meeting Customs House Sylvia Jones Room 399 Queen Street 3pm – 4.30pm Go8 Executive Deans Meeting Customs House Lady Thiess Room 399 Queen Street 4.30pm – 6pm Executive Deans Customs House Pre-Conference Meeting Lady Thiess Room 399 Queen Street Speakers: Professor Bruce Chapman – HECS designer, ANU Professor Shearer West – Head of Humanities Division, Oxford University 6pm – 6.30pm Conference Registration Customs House 399 Queen Street 6.30pm – 8pm Conference Welcome Drinks and Canapes Customs House Sponsored by The University of Queensland The Long Room 399 Queen Street Speaker: Professor Peter Høj – Vice-Chancellor The University of Queensland Music by UQ Little Jazz Band Andrew Saragossi – saxophone Euan Cumming – piano Helen Svoboda – bass DASSH Conference 2014 – The University of Queensland | 5 THURSDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2014 Venue: Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane Time Program Chair 8.30am – 9am Conference Registration Tea and Coffee 9am – 9.15am Conference Welcome Professor Tim Dunne Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences – UQ Welcome to Country Professor Cindy Shannon Pro-Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Education – UQ Professor John Germov – President DASSH SESSIONS 9.15am – 10.15am Professor Terry Flew – QUT Professor Catriona Professor Ross Woodrow – Griffith Mackenzie Non-Traditional Research Outcomes in ASSH Disciplines 10.15am – 11.15am Mr Tony Sheil (Griffith) Professor Tim Dunne Global Rankings and their Relevance in ASSH 11.15am – 11.30am Morning Tea 11.30am – 12.30pm Professor James Arvanitakis – UWS Associate Professor Dr Joanne Lind – UWS Julie Duck Eight Challenges to the Future of Universities and How We Should Respond 12.30pm – 1.30pm Professor Lesley Johnson – AHA Professor Fred D’Agostino The View from the Learned Academies 1.30pm – 2.15pm Lunch 2.15pm – 3pm Guest Speaker: Senator the Hon Kim Carr – Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Industry 3pm – 4pm Professor Stephen Garton – Sydney Professor Tim Dunne Area Studies 4pm – 4.15pm Afternoon Tea 4.30pm – 5.30pm DASSH Annual General Meeting 6.30pm – 7pm Pre-Dinner Drinks 7pm – 9pm Conference Dinner Guest Speaker: Senator the Hon Scott Ryan Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education Music by UQ Little Jazz Band Andrew Saragossi – saxophone, Euan Cumming – piano 6 | DASSH Conference 2014 – The University of Queensland FRIDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2014 Venue: Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane Time Program Chair 8.30am – 9am Tea and Coffee SESSIONS 9am – 10am Professor Marian Simms – ARC Professor Joanne Tompkins Funding Prospects in the ASSH Disciplines 10am – 11am Professor Peter Shergold – UWS Professor Joanne Tompkins Can Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Influence Public Policy? 11am – 11.15am Morning Tea 11.15am – 12.15pm Professor Ien Ang – UWS Professor Joanne Tompkins Research Centres and Institutes in ASSH 12.15pm – 1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm – 2.30pm Associate Professor Angela Scarino – Uni SA Professor Fred D’Agostino Professor Tim Mehigan – UQ Associate Professor Marisa Cordella – UQ Collaborative Arrangements for LOTE Teaching 2.30pm – 3.30pm Professor Duncan Ivison – Sydney Professor Fred D’Agostino Philanthropy in the ASSH Disciplines 3.30pm – 3.45pm Afternoon Tea 3.45pm – 4.30pm Closing Remarks and Conference Outcomes DASSH Conference 2014 – The University of Queensland | 7 GUEST SPEAKERS SENATOR the Hon SENATOR the Hon KIM CARR SCOTT RYAN Shadow Minister for Parliamentary Secretary Higher Education, to the Minister for Research, Innovation Education and Industry Scott Ryan was born in Senator Kim Carr caught Brisbane in 1973 and raised the taste for changing in Essendon. He is married to things early in life. As a Helen, they have a son and young man he studied live in Melbourne. history and political theory at the University of Melbourne, becoming the first in his He was elected to the Senate at the 2007 Federal Election family to receive a university education. He graduated from as the youngest Liberal Senator ever elected from Victoria. Melbourne with a Diploma of Education in 1978 and Master He was re-elected at the 2013 Federal Election that saw the of Arts in 1984.