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Developing an institution's research culture is a challenge that is especially pressing given its prioritisation in the context of contemporary university performance. This paper discusses how academic development teams working with researchers can build meaningful institutional research culture through conceiving of researcher cohorts as members of an organisation-wide community of practice. It focuses on supported development of social media knowledge and skills through a programme that synthesises digital practices, institutional and digital literacies, and identity formations. I argue that this informed, generative approach to building an academic community's digital literacy acts as a catalyst to develop stronger institutional research culture.

Developing an institution's research culture is a challenge that is especially pressing given its prioritisation in the context of contemporary university performance. This paper discusses how academic development teams working with researchers can build meaningful institutional research culture through conceiving of researcher cohorts as members of an organisation-wide community of practice. It focuses on supported development of social media knowledge and skills through a programme that synthesises digital practices, institutional and digital literacies, and identity formations. I argue that this informed, generative approach to building an academic community's digital literacy acts as a catalyst to develop stronger institutional research culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies reveal that the breadth of the engagement with cultural formations within Asian Australian studies is wide and complex. The flexible form of engagement might be a key mode of expansion and survival for Asian Australian studies considering Australia's prevailing climate of employment and funding shrinkage in tertiary institutions.

This article examines how globalization has impacted immigration policy in Australia, focusing on racism, nationalism, and exclusion. Topics include refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, the management of detention centers, and government policy towards border control.

This 'round table' discussion took place in Brisbane over the course of a month, in December 2003 and January 2004. TK: Since the rise and fall of One Nation and [...]

This forum-style paper presents contributions by scholars from the area of Critical University Studies (CUS). It articulates the ways that particular concepts from Sara Ahmed's scholarship have influenced or been useful in CUS. Across her scholarship, Ahmed offers intersectional perspectives on exclusionary practices and structures that many within CUS have drawn upon. The contributors to this paper hail from and research across a diverse range of fields that include cultural studies, queer studies, education, critical race studies, and organisational studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monash UniversityEs Center for Australian Indigenous Studies convened eDialogues Across CulturesE in Melbourne on November 11-14, 2004, an ambitious conference that addressed pressing issues in studies of identity and difference. The conference demonstrated and challenged some of the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural conversations, emphasizing both their complexity and necessity.