Webinar Recordings

CRIS Webinar 6th December 2022 | Online

Professor Amanda Keddie, CRIS, Deakin University
Professor Michael Flood, Queensland University of Technology
Shelley Hewson-Munro, Victoria University
Maria Delaney, Deakin University

There are now many programs that focus on creating more respectful, caring and inclusive men and boys. These programs are important especially given the renewed attention to gender-based violence and the harms of this violence for women, children and other men. However, they may not necessarily support social and gender justice.

The Working with Men and Boys for Social Justice Assessment Tool has been developed to support leaders, designers and facilitators of programs for boys and men to evaluate the social and gender justice capacities of their program.

CRIS Webinar 15th November 2022 | Online

Associate Professor Nida Denson, CRIS
Dr Rachel Sharples, CRIS
Dr Jehonathan Ben, CRIS
Daniel Pitman, Western Sydney University

Have you been curious about how the pandemic has affected Australians? What can we learn about well-being and resilience from the pandemic? As we look to support Australians from the effects of COVID and extended lockdowns, who needs the most support? And how can we protect our societies against future crises?

Join our team of researchers from the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS) for a 30-minute Lunch & Learn seminar. Associate Professor Nida Denson, Dr Jehonathan Ben and Dr Rachel Sharples will host a rapid-fire presentation of a national study of over 1300 Australians conducted in the first year of the pandemic. Nida will discuss the main findings of the report, their significance in 2022, and answer your questions.

CRIS Webinar 15th August 2022 | Online

Professor Amanda Third, CRIS
Soo-Lin Quek, CRIS & Centre for Multicultural Youth
Associate Professor Philippa Collin
Alex Lee. Explore
Komal Grewal, Explore
Michelle Lim, Explore
Peter Savat, Explore

Are you a young person who would like to know more about the world of research? Or a researcher who wants to work with young people to do research in meaningful and relevant ways?

Join our team of young researchers from the Centre for Multicultural Youth and (not so young) researchers from the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies as we launch our new Youth Co-Research Toolkit!

Young people, researchers and allies have long advocated for better ways to conduct research with and for young people. A team of young researchers, in partnership with the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies and the Centre for Multicultural Youth, has been experimenting with how to embed young people in research projects as research team members. They have pulled together their key insights about this work into a resource, designed to support researchers to get the most out of working together in intergenerational research teams. The toolkit has been developed with a general audience of young people and professional researchers in mind but can be tailored to different settings as needed.

Hear how the Toolkit was developed; listen to young researchers’ perspectives on the key ingredients of a successful research project; and brainstorm how we can put this Toolkit into action.

CRIS Conference 5-7 October 2021 | Online

Paul Giannasi OBE, Police Hate Crime Policy Lead, National Police Chief's Council

The racially motivated murder of black student Stephen Lawrence, in 1993, was a watershed moment for policing in the UK. When the subsequent inquiry found that the police force was "institutionally racist", there were major changes to policing, and community approaches to racism.

Paul has 30 years of policing experience and led the cross-government hate crime programme for 12 years, where he was responsible for creating new relationships between police, the state and communities to combat hate. Currently the national Police Hate Crime Policy Lead, In this keynote address Paul explains how police and community use “Critical Incident Gold Groups” to set action plans in response to serious incidents at home and overseas. Collaboration between government, nongovernment and academics has lifted the quality of existing data about hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech, to the benefit of all parties and most importantly, of UK communities. The meaningful, trusting relationships between police and non-government organisations have been formalised in Information Sharing Agreements enabling partners to tailor solutions to critical societal problems.

CRIS Conference 5-7 October 2021 | Online

Professor Linda C. Theron, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Session Chair: Dr Vanessa Barolsky, Deakin University

In sub-Saharan Africa, relentless adversity and disruptive shocks are commonplace. So too is child and youth resilience. Studies of this fast-growing population’s capacity to adjust successfully to adversities and shocks underscore the ordinariness of resilience-enabling resources. In this paper, Linda Theron probes that putative ordinariness. To do so, she explores the systemic dynamics that facilitate everyday resilience and those that demand extraordinary resilience from sub-Saharan young people, their families, and communities. Drawing on current resilience science, she demonstrates that transforming extraordinary resilience into everyday resilience requires multi-systemic, contextually responsive supports and proposes evidence-informed accelerators of such change.

CRIS Conference 5-7 October 2021 | Online

Ro Allen, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission

Session Chair: Dr Matteo Vergani, Deakin University

Ro commenced their role as Victoria’s Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner on 1 June 2021. Ro brings more than 25 years of experience in community services, governance and social justice, and has a deep commitment to equality and a broad experience in strategic advocacy. In this panel, Ro will discuss their plans to empower existing – and establish new – collaborations with communities, and the Commission’s plans to tackle hate against a wide range of target groups.

CRIS Conference 5-7 October 2021 | Online

Dr Mario Peucker, Victoria University
Cristina Del Frate, Yarra City Council
Session Chair: Mark Duckworth PSM, Deakin University

This session discusses practical learnings from a recently concluded research study on far-right dynamics in three Victorian municipalities, paying particular attention to community-specific factors that can influence community resilience to far-right narratives and increase, or decrease, the chances of community-driven counter-mobilisation.

Focusing in particular on the role of local government and civil society, the workshop will explore how structural factors, such as urban planning and segregation, interact with community and identity-related issues, such as local pride, belonging and social cohesion, and in doing so influence local resilience to harmful political mobilisation and social division. Moreover, the workshop will shed light on how local government can manage local conflicts and dissent, and enhance its preparedness and responses to divisive social and political dynamics in their municipality.

CRIS Conference 5-7 October 2021 | Online

Dr Philip Jefferies, Dalhousie University

Session Chair: Dr Matteo Vergani, Deakin University

Within the growing interest in the study of resilience, there is an increasing interest in measurement. But there are as many different approaches to quantifying resilience as there are ways of conceptualising it. Should we limit ourselves to just a direct assessment of how much a person perceives they can ‘bounce back’ from adversity? Or should we consider specific risk and protective factors that might enable a person or community to demonstrate resilience? And what score must a person or community achieve to be considered ‘resilient’? This discussion provides a review of options for measuring resilience as well as a discussion of their utility in different situations. Contexts include individuals and communities experiencing acute crises as well as ‘everyday’ adversities.

CRIS Conference 5-7 October 2021 | Online

Professor Nicole Asquith, University of Tasmania
Peter Wertheim AM, Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Josh Bull MP, Co-Chair of the Victorian Anti-Racism Taskforce
Session Chair: Professor Greg Barton, Deakin University

In this panel session, moderated by Prof Greg Barton, we will explore why a database of hate behaviours can contribute to advance fairness, equality, respect and understanding. Panellists will include Prof Nicole Asquith, Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies and Secretary of the Australian Hate Crime Network, and Mr Peter Wertheim, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. The panellists will discuss how a database of hate can be useful to academics, civil society organisations and government.

30th September 2021 | Online

Dr Mario Peucker (Victoria University)
Dr Julian Droogan (Macquarie University)
Sarah Holmes (Macquarie University)

This webinar presents an overview of several current research studies on the far-left with a focus on their antifascist actions in Australia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and social media analysis, it discusses this topic from three interconnected thematic angles: first, the radical left groups’ offline responses to the rise of the far-right in the second half of 2010s (especially in Victoria); second, the online mobilisation of Australian-based Antifa groups; and third, the offline messaging of far-left groups through public postering and graffiti, especially in Sydney.