Annual Summer School for RHD Students

The Australian Research Council Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science (ARCRNSISS) holds annually a Summer School for Research Higher Degree Students in Spatially Integrated Social Science Theory and Methods. The 10 day residential School is hosted throughout the country each year at participating universities. The Summer School will bring together approximately 30 domestic and international RHD Students each year to provide advanced level training in SISS theory and methods and their applications in research. Instruction will be by some of the leading researchers in SISS from across a number of disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences in Australia, with postdoctoral research fellows acting as tutors to work intensively with the RHD students.

The Summer School will particularly benefit young scholars in geography, regional science, economics, sociology, planning, psychology, and population and public health. It is aimed at new and continuing RHD students whose work engages quantitative or qualitative research paradigms as central to their research and which makes use of place-based analysis and geographic or spatial information systems and process for analysis or presentation of information.

While doctoral students being supervised by participants in ARCRNSISS will be given the highest priority, any doctoral student at any university can apply to enroll with support of his or her supervisor.

The Summer School will run over 10 days and will be taught in intensive mode through lectures, seminar discussions and practical exercises, including accessing on-line data bases in SISS.

Applications and Registrations

You must apply on-line at www.siss.edu.au

For further information contact:

Tracey Johnstone
Network Manager
University of Queensland
Telephone: (07) 3365 6307
E-mail: t.johnstone@uq.edu.au

Instructors:

Professor Bob Stimson, University of Queensland

Professor Ed Blakely, University of Sydney
Professor Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide
Professor Anne Harding, University of Canberra
Professor Lorraine Mazerolle, Griffith University
Professor Mark Western, University of Queensland
Professor Bill Mitchell, University of Newcastle
Professor Andrew Beer, Flinders University
Professor Tony Sorensen, University of New England
Professor Kevin O’Connor, University of Melbourne
Professor Martin Bell, University of Queensland
Professor Pip Pattison, University of Melbourne
Professor Phil O’Neill, University of Western Sydney
Associate Professor Ann Larson, University of Western Australia
Associate Professor Martin Watts, University of Newcastle
Dr David Pullar, University of Queensland
Dr Bill Pritchard, University of Sydney
Dr Michelle Haynes, University of Queensland
Dr Prem Chhetri, University of Queensland
Dr Jonathan Corcoran, University of Queensland
Michael Beahan Australian Bureau of Statistics

Aims:

Students will give:

Outcomes:

By the completion of the summer school, students will be expected to have gained:

To enhance their capacity & capability to undertake socio-spatial analytical research

Venue:

Varies from year to year and will be advised when the first call for participation is sent out.

Catering:

Morning Tea/ Lunch / Afternoon Tea are provided as well as the welcome BBQ and official Summer School dinner

Accommodation:

Accommodation will be provided at a local facility that is fully self contained and within easy access to the venue facility of the Summer School course

Transport:

A Shuttle service is provided daily between the accommodation and course venue.

Transport is also provided to and fro the official Summer School dinner.

Selection and Fees

The call for applications to attend the Summer School generally occurs in September/October each year. Applications are to be lodged electronically using the form available on the ARCRNSISS web-site www.siss.edu.au under Summer School registration.

A maximum of 30 students will attend the course, and preference will be given to doctoral students being supervised by a Participant in ARCRNSISS. The selection of students to attend the Summer School will begin usually in October of the previous year, with successful applicants notified by late November.

Domestic students being supervised by a Network Participant will have their costs of travel and attendance at the Summer School subsidised by ARCRNSISS up to $1,000 for travel and accommodation. The Network will cover the costs of lunches, morning and afternoon teas, the welcome BBQ and Summer School dinner for those students. Students traveling from outside Brisbane may need to arrange supplementary funding from the University in which they are enrolled to cover travel and accommodation costs in excess of that amount.

Interested International students that are affiliated with ARCRNSISS will be advised of fees through their institution. Providing places are available, the course fee is $2,200 for non-Network associated doctoral students, which will cover all costs except airfares and accommodation.

Certification:

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to all students who attend the Summer School and complete the tutorial seminars and exercises.

Tutors:

Up to five Tutors who are postdoctoral research fellows from the Network will assist with instruction and the conduct of the laboratory and workshop sessions. They are Early Career Researchers who are Participants in ARCRNSISS.

Further Information – the following will be available prior to the Summer School start date Course Resource CD will be available & forwarded to successful applicants prior to the start of the Summer School