Provocations Public Lecture
Description
Provocations lecture
Date: Wednesday, 2 December
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm (AEDT)
Cost: This online lecture is free.
Is this what you really want? Reflections on academic life in times of global change
Abstract
This presentation questions why anyone would want to be or become an academic in 2026. Given the challenges of a seemingly endless juggle of workload, increasing pressure to produce more research with greater impact, in an increasingly competitive AI enhanced and resource constrained environment, let alone teaching an increasingly diverse student cohort with greater individual needs, in programs that require regulation that appear to have no end, why do we do it? Yet here we all are.
As we step, (crawl or leap) towards our holiday season refresh, this presentation questions what we do as academics in rural Australia, within global contexts of competition, societal impact and values of knowledge, place and power.
| Julian Grant is a Professor of Nursing working on Wiradjuri land, leading the Charles Sturt Rural Health Research Institute. With 18 years as a child health nurse across rural, remote and metropolitan areas, Julian’s research has focused on addressing child health inequities. She now provides strategic and operational leadership to promote excellence in research across the health and wellbeing sector, focusing on research that addresses the place-based needs of rural communities with global impact. |
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