Event Description

Come along to reflect on how leading scholarship and practice across the ANU might inform future university strategies and structures. The event will be a collaborative discussion, that seeks to explore the roles, capabilities and literacies required by university staff to enable universities to respond to societal, environmental and civic need, and suggest ways forward for universities to implement and enact these.

Abstract

There is currently significant international discussion and action focusing on developing Engaged & Adaptive Universities that explores how universities can be more relevant to the societies and communities that they serve and better navigate emerging societal and planetary-scale challenges and crises. Despite this, there appears to be little or no focus on university staff capability, development strategies and structures in enabling institutions to become Engaged and Adaptive Universities.

This seminar, developed as part of a collaboration between ANU, RMIT and La Trobe Universities, seeks to begin to address this gap.

Speakers

• Professor Helen Sullivan will be describing her work ‘Imagining the 21st Century Public Service Workforce’ and reflecting on what universities might learn from the public service workforce.
• Professor Gabriele Bammer will be discussing ‘Expertise needed by the 21st Century transdisciplinary researcher’.
• Dr Ginny Sargent  will draw from research to describe the current experiences and perspectives of people involved with engaged research at ANU and how their experience at the ANU influences their work.
• Julie Monro-Allison will be reflecting on the CASS Collaborative Cultures Project and the roles required in effective collaboration.
   

Knowledge to Action Network:

• Kirsty Jones
• Wendy Russell
• Sej Malde
• Sara Bice
• Ginny Sargent