The HDR Peer Network brings together HDR/ECR students from across and beyond Deakin University to grow a strong network of peers working in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
In 2021, the HDR Peer Network will convene the Postgraduate/ECR Symposium: Imagining New Futures?
The GSSRN organises opportunities for HDR students to meet and collaborate, and to participate in themed workshops guided by experts in the field.
These workshops serve as spaces to discuss research methods, new directions in research and navigating the HDR journey. They are also social times where postgraduate students can meet each other and learn more about the work other people are engaged in.
Past Workshops
Lisa Waller: Working with Indigenous Epistemologies
Amanda Keddie: Challenging gender polarities through schooling
Lyn McCredden: What is the Sacred?
Joanna Cruickshank: The role play as method
Jack Halberstam and JR. Latham: Special session
Ann Vickery: Writing Sexual Histories
Toija Cinque, Natalie Hendry and Kim Toffoletti: Digital Research in Gender and Sexuality
Daniel Marshall: HDR Meet and Greet
Emily Potter and Jennifer Hamilton: Methods, Practices and Urgencies in the Environmental Humanities
Torika Bolatagici, Victoria Duckett, Janine Little and Debbie Ollis: Reflections on doing feminist research



Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) and Rosemary Overell (Otago): Nonrepresentational Theory
Bob Pease (Deakin): Theorising Gender in Violence Prevention Policy and Practice
Maree Pardy (Deakin): Thinking Through Time
Maddee Clark, Todd Fernando, Laniyuk Garcon Mills, Dino Hodge – Konstantino Hadjikakou: Indigenising Queer Theory
Maria Palotta-Chiarolli (Deakin): Anzaldua in Australia
Patsie Frawley (Deakin) and Amie O’Shea: People with intellectual disability
Gabrielle Fletcher and Karinda Burns (Deakin): Gender and Kinship
Jill Blackmore (Deakin): Why researching gender and organisations is important in the knowledge economy and #MeToo moment
Daniel Marshall (Deakin): Disciplinarity in Gender and Sexualality Studies
We are committed to making our events accessible to the widest range of individuals. If you have any further requests with regards to accessibility please contact us in advance so that we can seek to make arrangements.