9:45 - 10:15 AM

Registration

10:15 – 10:25AM

Conference Opening
Prof. Stephen Parker, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra

10:25 – 10:55 AM

Keynote Address
Ms. Deborah Stokes, First Assistant Secretary,
South and West Asia and Middle East Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Coffee/Tea Break 10:55 - 11:10 AM

Session-1

Practitioners/Managers/Academics in International Development
Chair: Barbara O’Dwyer

11:10 - 11:40 AM

Keynote Address
John Davidson, Assistant Director General, Office of Development Effectiveness, Australian Agency for International Development

11:40 - 12:00

What are the appropriate ways in which development studies programs can best be designed to contribute to development and aid effectiveness for AUSAID and other donor agencies? / Dr Patrick Kilby

12:00 – 12:20 PM

What is Development Studies? Dr Nadeem Malik

12:20 -12:40 PM

Panel Discussion

Lunch Break 12:40 - 1:30 PM

Session-2

Practitioners & Academics
Chair: Dr. Patrick Kilby

1:30 – 1:50 PM

International Project-based Learning / Assoc. Prof. Paul Battersby

1:50 - 2:10 PM

Cracking out of the cocoon of ‘expert’ and facilitating learning for social change in International Development Studies: Personal reflection / Dr Jonathan Makuwira

2:10 - 2:30 PM

Learning by Doing: Stories from the ‘sites of development’ / Dr. Tahmina Rashid

2:30 - 3:00 PM

Panel Discussion

Coffee/Tea Break 3:00 – 3:15 PM

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Paul Battersby

3:15 - 3:35 PM

Teaching Human Security: Tackling the Security-Development Nexus in the Classroom. Dr. Jason C. Flanagan

3:35 - 3:55 PM

The Power of Knowledge: developments, challenges and trajectories for pioneering the Gender Studies Programme at the University of the South Pacific / Dr Priya Chattier

3:55 – 4:15 PM

Panel Discussion

9:30 - 9:50 AM

Beyond ‘adding women’ to International Humanitarian Assistance: the value of a critical feminist perspective from academia to policy / Ms. Katherine Smith

9:50 - 10:00 AM

Discussant TBA

10:20 - 10:40 AM

Experiencing Development: Fostering Transformative Learning in the Development Studies Curriculum / Ms. Elizabeth Humphries

10:40 - 10:50 AM

Discussant TBA

Morning Tea 10:50 - 11:10 AM

11:10 - 11:30 AM

Context Sensitivity in International Development / Mr. Anthony Ware

11:30 - 11:40 AM

Discussant TBA

11:40 - 12:00

Development Effectiveness without Aid? From Pedagogy for Development to Pedagogy as Development itself / Mr. Carlos Palacios

12:00 - 12:10 PM

Discussant TBA

12:10 - 12:40 PM

Concluding Remarks / Dr Tahmina Rashid

Lunch 12:40 PM