Research Festival

Faculty of Science & Technology Research Showcase

Date: Tuesday 7 June
Time: 9am – 12.30pm
Location: 6C12 (capacity 101)
All UC staff and students welcome.

The SciTech Research Showcase is a celebration of all research in the Faculty of Science and Technology. We will be holding talks from all our research strengths including water science, cyber security, biomedical science, human centred technology, digital inequality and social change, and conservation ecology and genomics. We will also be holding a poster session during morning tea, followed by speed talks from our early career researchers.

All are welcome to attend, no registration required.

Faculty of Science & Technology Research Facilities Tour

Date: Tuesday 7th June
Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Location: Various, meeting point is 6C12

All UC staff and students welcome. Registrations are required as spots are limited.

Join us on a tour of some of our research facilities on campus with a guided tour of our spaces.

Spaces may included the following:

• E2R Aquatic Mesocosm Array
• Reptile Facility
• Wildlife Genetics Lab
• Biomedical Labs
• Human Centred Computing Lab
• Robotics Lab
• Innovation Lab

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Krebs Lecture 2022

Date: Tuesday 7 June
Time: 5.30pm
Location: Ann Harding Conference Centre

Open to the Canberra public. Registration required.

Globally we are facing a biodiversity crisis, with species becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate. What if extinction was not forever, and we could ‘de-extinct’ species? Modern molecular approaches are making it increasingly feasible to bring back extinct species. Internationally, efforts have focused on species as diverse as passenger pigeons and woolly mammoths. In Australia there has been a particular focus on the potential to recreate the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

While the molecular science is advancing rapidly there are a range of important questions about de-extinction. How feasible is it really?? Are there concerns from ecological, ethical and Indigenous perspectives? Should we recreate extinct species or focus our limited resources on preventing extinction?

Our esteemed panel will discuss these issues and more in a free-flowing session based on short presentations from different perspectives and an open forum with questions from the floor.

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SciTech Three Minute Thesis Heat

Date: Wednesday 8 June
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Location: 2B9
All UC staff and students welcome.

Come along and hear SciTech HDR students deliver their thesis in 3 minutes!

The Three Minute Thesis competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by Doctor of Philosophy students. 3MT cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills.

The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

More information on who will be speaking will be updated closer to the event.

Upending | Mending: Faculty of Arts & Design Exhibition

Date: 20 May – 3 July 2022
Time: 10am – 4pm, Tuesday to Friday
Location: Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, 2617

The University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts & Design annual exhibition presents diverse creative responses to the inspiration, and provocation, of the theme Upending | Mending. Our artists, designers and creative educators bring together a variety of approaches to their practice – recuperating found materials, collaborating with communities, using art to focus attention on ugly matters – but share a sense that creative expression is central to their ways of reflecting, repairing and questioning the world.

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VisionACTion Launch

Date: 7 June 2022
Time: 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Location: University of Canberra, UC Health Hub, Building 6C12

Vision ACTion, brings together the major research, education and clinical centres from across the Australian Capital Territory and region that specialise in clinically oriented Vision research.

Vision ACTion are a group of dedicated vision scientists, educators, and clinicians from across the ACT region looking at developing better outcomes for patients with visual disorders today, while developing technologies, treatments and diagnostics for the future. Our research is focused on unravelling the fundamental mechanisms of a range of eye and brain diseases that affect vision. These include age-related macular degeneration (AMD), amblyopia, diabetic eye disease, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, myopia, Parkinson’s disease, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and stroke to develop novel therapeutics and diagnostics for treating and managing these and other debilitating diseases.

We hope you can join us.

Registration is essential.

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Faculty of Education Research Showcase

Date: Wednesday 8 June
Location: Online and in person at Inspire Centre Seminar Rooms 1 and 2

9:30-10:00am
Centre for Sustainable Communities, Faculty of Education
Valuing diverse ways of knowing, being and doing: Learning for change

10:00-10:30am
Dr John Williams and Dr Michael Davies, Faculty of Education
A Collaborative Approach for Quality Physical Education in Early Childhood using a Personalised System of Instruction

10:30-11:00am
Dr Benny Wilson and Dr David Spillman
Teaching for Country: Exploring transformative opportunities in initial teacher education through enacting Indigenous way of knowing being and doing

11:00-11:30am
Morning tea

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Faculty of Education HDR Milestone Seminars

Date: Friday 10 June
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Location: Inspire Centre TEAL Room and online

9:30-10:20am
Confirmation Seminar
Master of Education (Research) – Amy Dennis
Exploring teachers’ understanding of the personal and social capability in the secondary STEM environment

10:30am
Morning tea

11:00-11:30am
Introduction Seminar
PhD Candidate – Chris DeBritt
Data Literacy and Data Culture as Predicators for Sensemaking and Pedagogical Action

11:30am-12:00pm
Pre-submission Seminar
PhD Candidate – Geoff Taylor
Citizenship Education in the classroom: How the orientations of effective experienced teachers influence their knowledge and practice

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A Creative City: Researching Canberra’s Creative Industries

Date: Wednesday 8 June
Time: Drinks and canapes: 5pm – 7pm; Public lecture: 6pm – 7pm
Location: 1A21

The 2022 Creative Canberra research project is an environmental scan of the ACT creative industries sector undertaken for, and in partnership with the ACT Government, the University of Canberra, and the local creative industries. Through mixed methods analysis and the development of a suite of bespoke methodological tools, this study analysed the current state, scope and potential of the ACT creative industries to identify the ACT’s unique competitive advantage, development pathways and distinctive opportunities for (and constraints on) future jobs creation and the sustainable economic development of the sector. Our research shows that the ACT is a highly creative city with opportunities for strengthening and growing the role of creativity and the creative industries. This seminar explores the complex research process and findings for Canberra from this significant interdisciplinary partnership project.

Professor Jason Bainbridge

Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design: Jason has extensive experience in developing creative industries strategies and leading multidisciplinary teams to implement and imbed them in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.

Associate Professor Cathy Hope

Cathy has expertise in designing and delivering creative sector-led projects for improved people and place outcomes in the ACT. She has delivered and evaluated multiple projects in partnership with ACT government, industry, the creative and community sectors and community including Haig Park Experiments, Social Art Park, Grants in the City and Ginninderry Open and Green Spaces.

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