Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia

Australian Research Council - Future Fellowship

Call for overseas expressions of interest: Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship

(Applications to be administered by the Hawke Research Institute)

The Hawke Research Institute (the Hawke) invites expressions of interest from prospective overseas based mid-career researchers to apply for Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship funding grants.

The Hawke will offer expert assistance to applicants where there is a strong link with one or more aspects of our research program. In the first instance, overseas applicants are requested to send an expression of interest to HRI and are asked to provide the following documents;

• a CV which includes; PhD conferral date, a full list of scholarly publications, academic employment history and funding record.
• a project description (between 500 to 1000 words) that the applicant plans to undertake through the fellowship.

Please send expressions of interest to Lynette Copus, Institute Manager: Hawke Research Institute, (lynette.copus@unisa.edu.au) by 9:00am Australian Central Standard time, 25 October 2013.

For more information about the Hawke and our current research theme, please read below or visit: unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute

The Hawke Research Institute

The Hawke Research Institute (the Hawke), with 10 research centres and approximately 120 members, is Australia's largest social science and humanities institute. With its’ mission to help create sustainable and just societies, the Hawke produces world class research, and generates high quality research outputs leading to innovation, change and demonstrable improvements in the world.

The recent appointments of Professor Anthony Elliott as Director and Associate Professor Jennifer Rutherford as Deputy Director, ensure the Hawke will continue to strengthen existing research clusters and develop exciting new research opportunities within the social sciences, humanities and the creative arts.

With a strategic aim to drive research excellence with relevance, the University of South Australia has made a significant funding commitment to the Hawke over the next 5 years enabling investment in outstanding overseas researchers by supporting innovative and high calibre researchers to apply for the 2014 round Australia Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship funding grant. This nationally competitive grant program is highly competitive and seeks research proposals from eligible mid-career researchers (researchers who have been awarded a PhD on or between 1 March 1999 and 1 March 2009) which align with Australia’s strategic research priorities.

More ARC Future Fellowship grant information may be found at: http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/futurefel/future_default.htm)

Biennial Research Theme: Identity Transformations

In May 2013, former Prime Minister Hon Bob Hawke AO launched the Hawke’s new over-arching biennial research theme Identity transformations.

The Hawke seeks to develop a new agenda for identity studies in the twenty-first century. Questions of identity are examined from a rich variety of perspectives including historical, sociological, political, psychological, cultural, aesthetic, spatial, global, postmodern and feminist approaches.

Through drawing the social sciences, humanities and the creative arts together in a reflective configuration, Hawke researchers will examine the constitution and transformation of, among others, racial, ethnic, gendered, queer, consumer, virtual, work, childhood, traumatised and global identities. This program spans the social sciences, humanities and creative arts, and given the complexity of the topic shall be organised into the following 5 research nodes:

• biotechnologies: the analysis of identities where biotechnological processes directly intrude into nature, especially human nature
• disasters: examining how planetary risks and catastrophes including environmental disasters impact upon people and cultures, bringing questions of identity into sharp focus
• mobilities: the conditions and consequences for identities of increased movements of people, objects, goods, services and information around the globe
• intimacies: the complex, contradictory reshaping of identities arising from sexual, gender and corporeal transformations
• métissage: the formation of new transcultural identities through diaspora and migration giving rise to new communities, complex new life stories, new art forms and new narratives.