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Partnerships
ICS is strongly committed to developing research collaborations and partnerships with government, industry and the community sector. Many of our projects are collaborative partnerships, which deliver quality research for strategic planning and practical outcomes that help understand and resolve the social and cultural challenges impacting on organisations, communities and individuals in a diverse and complex world.
ICS also has a number of formal scholarly exchange programs with overseas institutions:
Formal Partnerships
Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS)
ICS has an Academic Cooperation Agreement with the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (opens in a new window)(ACSIS) at Linköping University (Norrkoping campus). Under the terms of the agreement ICS postgraduate students are eligible to visit Sweden and participate in scholastic life at ACSIS, while ACSIS students are similarly able to visit Australia and take part in ICS collegial events.
This Academic Cooperation Agreement was added to in 2008, with the research project, Culturalisation and Globalisation: Advancing Cultural Research in Sweden and Australia. ICS and ACSIS, together with the Department of Cultural Studies (Tema Q) at Linköping University successfully applied for a four-year STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Institutional Grant. The project explores the interfaces between culturalisation and globalisation in four focal areas - cultural policy and cultural production, uses of history and museums, urban tourism, and media and popular culture. Reciprocally-hosted workshops are well underway and have allowed participants to begin discussing aspects of their research in dynamic and interactive contexts. In doing so, it is intended that the two institutes will continue to build up a strong and multilevel collaborative process.
The collaborative links between ACSIS and ICS have expanded to another Linköping University-based project, European National Museums: Identity Politics, The Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, (opens in a new window)on which ICS’s Professor Tony Bennett is a scientific advisor.
Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
The Institute for Culture and Society has had an ongoing relationship with the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, (opens in a new window)Hong Kong, in the form of an Academic Cooperation Agreement 'to enhance international collaboration in research development between the two institutions'. This relationship was renewed in 2007 and builds on the collaborations that have existed since 2002, when the first delegation of staff and graduate students from Lingnan, including internationally renowned cultural theorist Professor Meaghan Morris attended the inaugural workshop.
Outcomes from this relationship have included Comparative Cultural Research: Hong Kong/Western Sydney Exchanges, (opens in a new window)an electronic publication from the inaugural workshop, and also, a more formal collection of essays in Cultural Studies Review (“Engagements” – vol. 12, no. 1, 2006).
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS)
ICS has had an Academic Cooperation Agreement with the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (opens in a new window)(CIESAS) [Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology] in Mexico since 2002. Professor Bob Hodge and Dr Gabriela Coronado have been the primary ICS researchers working in collaboration with CIESAS. Research arising out of this ACA has included the project, Creating and Using Critical Hypertexts, which led to the co-written book, El Hipertexto Multicultural en Mexico Postmoderno (Hodge and Coronado, CIESAS Press and Porrua, Mexico City, 2004). Bob Hodge’s ARC Discovery project, Cross-Cultural ‘Larrikins’ in a Neo-Liberal World: Ideology and Myth in Postmodern Australia, Mexico and Brazil has also had a collaborative component with CIESAS. One of this project’s outcomes is the publication, Chaos Theory and the Larrikin Principle: Working with Organisations in a Neo-Liberal World (co-authored by Hodge, Coronado, Duarte and Teal, Liber, Copenhagen, 2010).
Expanding Partnerships
Open Space Research Centre (OSRC)
The Open Space Research Centre (opens in a new window)(OSRC) is located at The Open University. Its focus is to ‘think spatially’ around a set of ‘collaboratories’ designed to bring together academics and others within and outside geography to develop collective work on: ‘The Politics of Culture and Space’, ‘Materialities and Non-Human Geographies’, ‘Environment, Politics and Justice’ and ‘Stitched Up: The Politics of Fibre’. ICS cultural geographer Professor Kay Anderson is the main contact.
Monash University
Elite schools and Globalisation: Unfolding Narrations in Connected Locations
It is widely known that elite schools usually function as the gold standard for school education, and that their alumni are often highly influential in economic, political, social and cultural circles. But little is known about how they are responding to the pressures of globalization and whether globalization is altering their educational and social purposes.
In 2011 three forums were held in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, to explore these issues while at the same time engaging in pertinent conceptual and methodological debates. These forums stemmed directly from a current ARC Discovery project called Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography (2010-2014) (opens in a new window).
ICS's Dr Megan Watkins and Associate Professor Greg Noble co-hosted the Sydney forum, along with Dr Anna Hickey-Moody from the University of Sydney.
