Missed collegiality: Making space for community

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The nature of research can make academia an isolating place - how can we address this?

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This session explores strategies to engage colleagues (including research collaborators) to increase research productivity, promote career trajectory, and increase happiness. How do networks work? What can they do and what might be good ways to get yours going? For &#x27;Missed collegiality&#x27;, Research Whisperer and #Whisperfest convenor Dr Tseen Khoo will be in conversation with Dr Troy Heffernan, Dr Wade Kelly, and Dr Rebekah Willson. The session will feature evidence-based perspectives on networking and collaboration in academia. Register and join us at this Zoom link: <a href="https://anu.zoom.us/j/81693983069?pwd=RitVOTZVYmVnSGNvTFNYUXFvYWliUT09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://anu.zoom.us/j/81693983069?pwd=RitVOTZVYmVnSGNvTFNYUXFvYWliUT09</a> <ul><li><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Missed+collegiality%3A+Making+space+for+community&amp;iso=20201124T1330&amp;p1=152&amp;ah=2" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Check the session time in your location!</a></li></ul>

Dr Tseen Khoo is a Senior Lecturer in the Research Education and Development team, Graduate Research School, La Trobe University. She’s been a Senior Advisor (Research Grant Development) at RMIT University, and a research fellow at Monash University and the University of Queensland. She has written on research funding issues, early career researcher experiences, alternative academic streams, and racial diversity issues in Australia. With Jonathan O’Donnell, Tseen created and runs the research development and research culture blog, The Research Whisperer.

Dr Troy Heffernan is Lecturer in the School of Education at La Trobe University. His research examines higher education administration and policy with a particular focus on investigating the inequities that persist in the sector. His work examines issues such as those related to precarious employment, the implication of academic networks, the factors involved in hiring and promotional decisions, and how universities define success for their staff in a neoliberal age. Dr Heffernan’s research objective is to support universities as their role in the community continues to grow, and help ensure that diverse and marginalised groups are represented and treated equitably throughout the sector.

The focus of Dr Wade Kelly’s research is the nexus of engagement and impact. He is passionate about knowledge mobilisation to non-academic audiences and the differences institutions can make in communities and society. Wade has been working with adult learners in public and private institutions for almost two decades in a variety of roles. He weaves his passion for learning and fascination with the information needs of communities throughout his academic work and community-based projects. As part of his mission to make learning more accessible to the general public, he has hosted Nerd Nite in three cities.

Dr Rebekah Willson is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Before this, she was a Lecturer in Information Science in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK.) Her PhD, obtained in 2016 from Charles Sturt University (Australia), focussed on the experience of individuals transitioning from doctoral student to early career academic. Her main area of research is in information behaviour – what information individuals need and how they find, share, and use that information – particularly in the workplace. Her latest research examines the precarity in modern universities and the influence that has on academics and researchers on short-term contracts. For more information and her CV, please go to: <a href="https://rebekahwillson.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://rebekahwillson.com</a>

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