Workshop on Media and Listening with Professor Charles Husband for ECR and postgraduate researchers

Thursday 13 November 2008
University of Technology, Sydney

Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers participated in a full day workshop on ‘Media and Listening’ with international guest speaker, Professor Charles Husband. The workshop included a presentation and thematic discussion of Charles Husband’s recent work on media, multiculturalism, listening and understanding, as well as opportunities for participants to discuss and gain feedback on their own research projects.

Professor Charles Husband

Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland
Chair of Social Analysis, Bradford University, England

Charles Husband specialises in the politics of diversity and ethnic relations in multi-ethnic societies and is the author of The Right to be Understood (1996). Over the last ten years and more, a significant amount of Husband’s time has been committed to international networks that have had the aim of generating a new cohort of young researchers with competence in inter-disciplinary research in the area of ethnic relations.

Professor Husband has a commitment to inter-disciplinary research and analysis and a long established interest in understanding the intersection of the social psychology of collective identities, the politics of human rights, and the negotiation of ethnic relations. The role of the mass media in generating and reproducing ideologies of racism and social exclusion: and, more generally, the fundamental contribution of the media to a viable civil society has been a core pillar of activity throughout Husband’s work. With the new dynamics of a globalized, and ironically, increasingly fragmented and targeted media-environment, the complexities of analysis have continually benefited from an inter-disciplinary perspective.

The sociology of ethnic relations without the insights of social psychology can seem too static and socially over-determined. The social psychology of individual and collective identities necessarily leads to an engagement with context: historical, sociological and political. Contributing toward contemporary social policy issues would seem to demand the creative interplay of all these forces. Husband’s work has seen an interplay between contributions to theoretical debates and the concrete application of this theory to specific areas of social policy, including: the mass media, education, social work, health and social care, and the politics of multiculturalism. Typically, this work has involved collaboration with relevant government bodies or NGOs.

Professor Husband’s Website:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/socsci/staff/departmental/husband_c/

Download the following from Prof. Charles Husband’s presentation:

Prof. Charles Husband’s Listening and Understanding paper [pdf]

Prof. Charles Husband’s PG/ECR Workshop Presentation [pdf]

Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Workshop Booklet [pdf]

Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Workshop Report [pdf]

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