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Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Teaching and learning feminisms with Pacific Islanders: An emotional journey(2024) Calabrò, Domenica Gisella; Palmieri, SoniaThis paper is a feminist reflection of our experience teaching and learning feminisms with Pacific Islanders. We take as a starting point that feminism itself is encased in emotion. In the Pacific, some antagonise the term “feminism” as a foreign imposition and a “threat” to Pacific cultures. To others, feminism instils hope in the context of egalitarian aspirations framed within a development discourse. Some cautiously engage with feminist values, others embrace the notion passionately, generating multiple Pacific feminisms. Indirectly but instinctively, our approach to the teaching of feminism in this context has been to embark with students on a journey of experience and idea sharing and view it as an emotional journey. Acknowledging our positionalities, with their commonalities and differences, we examine the sentiments towards feminism embedded in postcolonial dynamics, as they manifest in our classrooms, and consider strategies for decolonial pedagogies of feminism.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Biosphere(2023-11-24) Rodigari, SarahBiosphere 2023 single channel video, 19.00 minutes. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Spaced, Rural Utopias Biosphere collages text, video and sound collected during conversations with local residents. It presents a humorous and self-reflexive counter narrative to a utopian dream, told through a outsider’s portrait of a town attempting to renew itself (once again), supported by the ebb and flow of mining and farming in relation to the regions, history with First Nations peoples and climate change. Concept, text, performance: Sarah Rodigari Editing: Garden Reflexxx Video: Jarvis Smallman, Dave Riggs, Sarah Rodigari Sound Composition: Evelyn Ida MorrisItem type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Harbour(2023) Rodigari, SarahHarbour 2023 single channel video, 13.41 minutes. Commissioned by the Sydney Opera House for the exhibition Returning, this video layers cultural themes of belonging, memory and home in relation to the iconic architecture of the Sydney Opera House, its colonial history and the labour mechanism housed within. Awarded Goulburn Gallery Art Prize 2024. Concept, text, performance: Sarah Rodigari Cinematography: Jen Atherton Editing: Garden Reflexxx Video: Jen Atherton, EO Gill, Andrew Macnaughton, André Shannon, Sound Composition: Evelyn Ida MorrisItem type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , Transforming Science into Compelling Art(2025-08-14) Menario Costa, Weliton; Jürgens, Anna-SophieAn interactive workshop designed to train researchers, students, and science enthusiasts to uncover the most compelling narratives hidden within their scientific work – and translate them into creative formats that resonate with audiences. Participants are guided through a structured process: identifying the simplest, most relatable elements of their research; creating socio-culturally resonant hooks; and exploring artistic outputs such as music, dance, poetry, and video. Rather than simply simplifying science, the workshop encourages participants to think creatively about how non-scientific audiences perceive critical scientific topics, such as climate change, sustainability, health, etc. By considering cultural identity and social context, participants build narratives that foster stronger emotional and personal engagement. Led by Dr. Weliton Menário Costa (WELI), award winner of Science Magazine’s Dance Your PhD 2024, and supported by Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens (Popsicule/CPAS-ANU), the workshop is participatory, inclusive, and designed to empower a new generation of creative science communicators.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , SportsHCI Meet-Up: Exploring the Role of AI in the Evolving World of SportsHCI(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2026-04-13) van Rheden, Vincent; Adiwangsa, Michelle; Montoya, Maria Fernanda; Smith, Ian; Elvitigala, Don Samitha; Harrison, Daniel; Rapp, Amon; Meschtscherjakov, Alexander; Mueller, Florian FloydSports Human-Computer Interaction (SportsHCI) is a growing field that is dedicated to investigating the coming together of humancomputer interaction and sports. Through this meet-up, we aim to bring together the SportsHCI community and engage adjacent communities including User-centered AI, MobileHCI, CHIPlay, ISWCUbicomp, and Augmented Humans. Sports inherently involves mobile, playful, and ubiquitous technologies as well as human augmentation—making SportsHCI directly relevant to these subcommunities. By framing discussions around AI in the athlete experience and the role of multifaceted sports data, we create natural entry points for researchers across these domains. We invite participants to discuss their thoughts on these topics to foster collaboration among research groups.Item type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , Next Steps for Augmented Reality On-the-Move: Challenges and Opportunities(2026-04-13) Stefanidi, Helen; van Rheden, Vincent; He, Linjia; Adiwangsa, Michelle; Sünderkamp, Jan-Hendrik; Itzlinger, Alina; Matviienko, Andrii; Williamson, Julie R.; Oakley, Ian; Tatzgern, Markus; Meschtscherjakov, AlexanderRecent advancements in augmented reality (AR) technologies have brought us closer to the vision of everyday ubiquitous computing and pervasive AR use. State-of-the-art AR glasses now enable mobile, on-the-move experiences that extend beyond laboratory settings. This promise has already been explored across diverse mobile contexts, including transportation, entertainment, shopping, and tourism. This workshop focuses on AR on-the-move, examining how AR can support interaction in dynamic settings where environmental and social contexts shift rapidly and users are in locomotion. We will discuss both the unique challenges and the rich opportunities such scenarios present for meaningful augmentation and new forms of interaction. By uniting established scholars and emerging researchers from across HCI, this workshop seeks to map out critical directions for future inquiry. Through hands-on activities and refection, participants will collectively identify key opportunities, challenges, and next steps for advancing research on AR on-the-move.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Corruption Sanctions: What Governments Need to Know(Basel Institute on Governance, 2026-05-29) Moiseienko, AntonHow can governments respond to serious corruption when those responsible are beyond the reach of the law? Some governments have turned to corruption sanctions to address this issue. This Working Paper examines how corruption sanctions – tools that allow governments to impose asset freezes and travel bans on individuals suspected of corruption without any finding of guilt in a court – have evolved over the past decade, and offers recommendations for their more effective and legitimate use.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Lapsing evaluation report – Women’s leadership programs(2023) Stephenson, Elise; Mikolajczak, Gosia; Oliveira-Silva, Ligia; Fisher, Alexandra; Hayes, Jack; Vacaflores, Isabella; Ryan, MichelleItem type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , Designing Artificial Identity: The Identity Design Framework and Research Agenda(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2026-06-12) Bransky, Karla; Sweetser, Penny; Holthaus, Patrick; Laban, Guy; Winkle, Katie; Akalin, Neziha; Ashok, Ashita; Lee, Jihye; Khot, Rucha; Bejarano, Alexandra; Thijn, Jorrit; Moore, Roger K.; Jang, Minsu; Fischer, Joel; Lee, MinhaThe identity design of artificial agents carries growing ethical, psychological, and cultural weight, as ubiquitous language models and diverse robotic forms are blended into everyday use. However, structured approaches to designing coherent and interpretable artificial identities remain limited. To address urgent challenges in artificial identity design, including harmful stereotypes and deceptive practices, we introduce the Identity Design (ID) Framework and an accompanying research agenda. Drawing on emerging work on artificial identity in human-robot interaction and taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we propose twelve design principles across three levels: individual (recognisability, behavioural consistency, identity continuity, memory, persistent goals), group (membership signalling, social alignment, role clarity), and societal (benevolence, artificiality, social justice, transparency). The research agenda outlines open questions around the operationalisation and measurement of identity, social dynamics, and ethical considerations for identity design. Together, they lay the groundwork for future research and responsible practice in robotic, virtual, and multi-embodied agents.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Expanding secondary education in Uganda: A pathway to women's empowerment(2025-04-03) Kazibwe, Douglas; Li, JinhuDespite the increased access to primary education in sub-Saharan Africa, secondary school enrolment and completion remains low. Evidence from Uganda reveals that universal secondary school policies can play a transformative role in women’s empowerment.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , The Religion of the Market in a Time of Coronavirus(2020-04-14) Foltz, RichardDiscussions on the role of religion in the contemporary world generally fail to take into consideration an argument advanced by David Loy more than 20 years ago. Loy argues that the dominant faith system practiced across the globe today is in fact that of so-called "free-market" capitalism, a self-serving ideology forcibly imposed by a worldwide plutocracy of sociopathic bullies and based upon a blind acceptance of premises and promises that are not only unproven but are in many cases demonstrably false, such as unlimited "growth" within a system of finite resources. Will the current crisis, which has rapidly and devastatingly demonstrated the inability of our corporate greed-driven economy and its unprincipled political (and yes, religious) enablers to provide the kind of urgent response the world needs, lead to a reassessment of its unchallenged privilege to direct and determine the future of all humankind? Or will the spin doctors of power succeed in twisting our understanding of the crisis into an even deeper embracing of a system whose principle achievement has been to concentrate wealth upward—at the expense of any kind of social justice and the integrity of the biosphere that makes all life possible—to a degree never seen before?Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Knowledge Sharing in Inter-organisational Project Teams(2026-06-01) Ning, Yan; Zwikael, Ofer; Muskat, BirgitKnowledge sharing is especially challenging when the team is temporary, and time is limited, such as in project teams. Inter-organisational project teams work under high time pressure, which can hinder knowledge sharing beyond organisational boundaries. Adopting a relational perspective on knowledge sharing between teams, we draw on the concept Shadow of the Future, i.e. the positive anticipation of future team relationships, to explain how a positive outlook on future relationships encourages knowledge sharing behaviours in the present. This study conceptualises knowledge sharing as a collaborative task for project teams. Using survey data of 360 projects in China, we study the effect of Shadow of the Future and interactions with time pressure on explicit and tacit knowledge sharing in inter-organisational projects. Results offer important insights on knowledge sharing in inter-organisational project team settings: First, high Shadow of the Future leads to high tacit and explicit knowledge sharing. Second, when time pressure and Shadow of the Future are high, less tacit knowledge sharing occurs between teams than when time pressure is low. However, time pressure is not an obstacle for explicit knowledge sharing. This study extends the current knowledge management literature by offering a deeper understanding of knowledge sharing in inter-organisational project teams. Specifically, we show how team members’ positive outlook on future collaboration influences tacit and explicit knowledge sharing under time pressure in inter-organisational project teams.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Young people’s interest in a Defence career: Findings from Waves 1-3 of the GENERATION study(POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research, 2026) Arnup, Jessica L.; Doery, Kate; Edwards, BenThis report investigates the factors shaping young Australians’ plans to join the Australian Defence Force (ADF). There is a current need to increase the numbers of the ADF. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the GENERATION Study, this report examines the characteristics of senior secondary students who plan to join the ADF after finishing school. Seven percent of Year 10 students reported plans to join the ADF. Having parents who want the young person to join the ADF was the strongest predictor of plans to join the ADF. Having parents employed in the ADF, having parents born in Australia, being male, and having friends with ADF aspirations were also associated with plans to join the ADF. Young people with Realistic, Enterprising, Engineering, or Physical Science career interests were more likely to plan to join the ADF. The findings highlight the influential role of families, peers, and career preferences, suggesting recruitment approaches should engage broader social and educational contexts to effectively attract and retain future ADF personnel.Item type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , From Religion to Ethnonationalism: Civil Society-Based Prevention Programming in Bosnia and Herzegovina(University of Belgrade, 2026) Welty, LauraCivil society organisations (CSOs) are widely recognised as critical actors in preventing and countering violent extremism, yet existing scholarship has overwhelmingly focused on religious radicalisation—particularly Salafism—while neglecting right-wing ethnonationalism. This article argues that community-based prevention and de-radicalisation strategies developed in response to Salafist extremism in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not only relevant but transferable to ethnonationalist radicalisation. Drawing on social identity theory and interdisciplinary literature on radicalisation, the article analyses how group belonging, identity formation, and community legitimacy function across ideological contexts. Using Bosnia as a critical case, the study synthesises existing empirical research, policy analysis, and qualitative interview material to demonstrate that civil society-led interventions—particularly those emphasising intergroup dialogue, critical thinking, and local legitimacy—address shared underlying mechanisms of radicalisation. The article contributes to debates in terrorism studies and nationalism scholarship by reframing ethnonationalism as a form of radicalisation amenable to established CVE approaches, while highlighting the indispensable role of civil society in sustaining long-term prevention and disengagement.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Downfall of Jell-O salad: Boundary spanning and a shift in taste(2017-05-20) Song, Eun YoungCombining recent work on market categories with a historical perspective, this study examines how broader cultural frames can shape boundary spanning rules—taste for variety and atypicality, and a shift in the rules. Focusing on Jell-O salad, an American dish that is known to mix all sorts of food in aspic and had been popular until the 1970s, this article traces how this salad dish that used to be accepted as a delicious mixture of distinct food (variety) has become seen as a disgusting blend traversing established categories of food (atypicality). Using 247 Jell-O package inserts, recipe books, pamphlets, and magazine advertisements between 1905 and 2005, the present study employs a mixed method approach: a historical process analysis and an event count analysis of the prevalence of Jell-O salad. Results show that the salad is no longer interpreted as a dish serving a variety of favorite food items because the main ingredient, powdered gelatin or Jell-O, has become available to all and dissociated with middle-class cultural frames. The results challenge an implicit assumption of the boundary spanning rules; once a mixture is considered an assortment, it tends to be favorably seen as a creative mix not an atypical hybrid. By evidencing how changes in the relationships between food and cultural frames affect the taste for variety, this study advances current understandings of category spanning and crossing social dichotomies of food.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , More education leads to a healthier lifestyle(The Conversation, 2014-02-03) Li, JinhuIt is recognised that healthy habits account for large differences in health outcomes. Unhealthy behaviour has been cited as the main predictor of premature and preventable disease. But this raises an important, policy-related question. Why do some people invest more in a healthy lifestyle than others? Health economists argue that better educated people are more likely to choose healthier lifestyles. This is in part because future returns for healthy behaviour (in terms of both health and lifetime earnings) are higher for the better educated, thus leading them to invest more in a healthy lifestyle. People of higher educational background are on average less likely to smoke, abuse alcohol, and will exercise more, eat healthier foods, and have more frequent health checks than the average population. This can be explained by a variety of different reasons. For instance, students with healthier lifestyles may be more efficient in acquiring knowledge so they tend to perform well in their education. One could also imagine that people who value future consumptions more than current consumption will stay in school for longer, work more at younger ages and invest more in positive health-related behaviours.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Net Assessments for Australia(Lowy Institute, 2025) Carr, AndrewEstablished in 2023 in the Australian Department of Defence, netassessments will play an increasingly important role in shaping the future ofthe Australian Defence Force, disciplining long-term capability decisions to aseries of key scenarios of concern. With Australia’s security requirements ranging across many more domains —and dependent on careful analysis of trends and networks beyond its shores— four additional Directorates of Net Assessment should be established, inthe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of HomeAffairs, Treasury, and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Net assessments will help Ministers better understand key strategicproblems as well as potential confl ict scenarios and outcomes, assistingthem to make effective decisions to improve Australia’s competitive positionand prepare the nation for any confl ict in its region.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Towards process-based sustainability indicators for water management and planning: Developing viable paths through strategic systemic innovations(Engineers Australia, 2013-01-01) Nabavi, Ehsan; Daniell, Katherine AThe sustainable development of regional socio-ecological systems (SESs) is a major challenge for the multiple stakeholders at different levels of governance responsible for their planning and development. Effective water management and planning, especially for regions experiencing water stress, is just one key objective of such development. It is also one for which researchers and decision-makers tend to develop and apply as many indictors as resources will permit, in order to more fully understand the impact of water systems' management on the overall regional SES's sustainability. However, it is considered that the productivity of indicator application can be enhanced by adopting an appropriate framework that promotes the use of more strategically defined indictors. In this paper we argue that having many different baskets of indicators does not necessarily support effective governance along viable pathways to sustainability; rather, that regional SESs need systemic and strategically defined indicators to do so. Using a Systems Dynamics approach, the paper articulates this idea through balancing “Reinforcing Loops" which cause destructive mechanisms, and links them to the definition of systemic and strategically indicators which can more effectively warn governors of the regional SES about unsustainable management pathways. The development and application of such indicators is illustrated through a case study in central Iran, Zayandeh-Rud basin, on water allocation strategies for regional development planning. From this theoretical proposal and case study application, this paper highlights that in order to develop viable paths for sustaining a complex regional SES, it is not only crucial to adopt a systemic and strategic perspective towards the case's indicator development, but also develop innovative strategies to maintain its viability.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Thermally Stable Epiwafers for PV Applications(2026-01-20) Basnet, Rabin; Winter, Clemens; Bein, Nicole; Heilig, Matthias; siebke, Frank; Vescavo, Giuliano; MacDonald, DanielThis work assesses the thermal stability of n-type Epiwafers after a boron diffusion based on the carrier lifetime measurements and photoluminescence images. The Epiwafers show a high bulk quality (iVoc > 735-745 mV) in their initial state after passivation with PECVD SiNx:H films. After a customized thermal budget for boron diffusion, the Epiwafers did not show any significant degradation, suggesting their high thermal stability. In contrast, some n-type Czochralski (nCz) silicon control samples degraded significantly (∆i Voc = -30 mV) due to the formation of ring defects during boron diffusion.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Mental Health Concern during COVID-19 Pandemic in Nepal(2020-07-04) Chalise, Anisha; Paudel, ShishirThe whole world is struggling to combat COVID-19 pandemic forcing nations to take extreme measures in an attempt to prevent outbreaks and save lives. It has been noted that COVID-19 has established itself as a risk factor for psychological distress among the population of different subgroups. There are several factors such as uncertainties, controversies, misinformation, social isolation, stigma, and discrimination which are escalating the risk of massive mental distress among the public. Nepal is trying to increase its effort to combat COVID-19 by adopting community containment measures, but the mental health of the frontline health workforce, service providers, and the general public seems to be highly overshadowed. In this aspect, this paper aims to shed light on different aspects of mental health issues emerging in Nepal during the time of COVID-19 lockdown, along with some of its potential contributing factors. Nepal lacks adequate infrastructure and human resource to provide mental healthcare services effectively in case of any massive mental distress. In this state of resource deprivation, providing education and training regarding psychosocial issues to health system leaders, first responders, and health care professionals could be a key to address the population need at present and to prevent further complications.