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HDR Mid-year Workshop 2025
Online workshop June 2025
Being a critical thinker
We are seeking your feedback, after having attended the workshop, or having watched the video, please let us know your thoughts on the following questions:
- What was it that you found most interesting about the session?
- What have you learnt about critical management studies and ethics that you didn’t know beforehand?
- How confident do you feel about applying what you learned in your critical writing?
- Was there anything you were hoping to learn that wasn’t covered in the session?
- Do you intend on applying for the Jan Schapper Scholarship?
HDR Annual Workshop Bathurst, NSW 2025
Time to practice your critical thinking skills
Work with your peers and academic mentors on you PhD topic.
The Postgraduate and HDR Student Workshop will be held from 12.30pm to 5pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 26th November.
At the workshop students will be given time to present their PhD topic and to discuss their ideas with their peers and academic mentors.
Following the workshop, students are invited to attend social functions supported by ABEN.
There is no cost to attend the Postgraduate and HDR Student Workshop.
This will also be offered in hybrid (i.e., face-to-face and online formats).
Expressions of interest, a short biography and/or research summaries should be submitted to submissions.aben@gmail.com by 31 October 2025.
HDR Support for Attending the Conference
To encourage HDR engagement in not only the Postgraduate & HDR Student Workshop, but also the main conference, ABEN will offer a 50% registration fee subsidy for those students who want to attend the main conference – either in-person or virtually.
In addition, we are also offering the opportunity for students to apply for a Bursary to support travel and accommodation costs.
The following bursaries are available:
- NSW: $550
- East Coast (ACT, Vic., Qld., Tas.): $800
- Other (SA, WA, NT, Overseas): $950
As there is only a limited number of bursaries, priority will be given to students who are attending both the conference and the workshop.
Please indicate your interest in applying for the bursary with your Extended Abstract submission, include your institution and the location you will be travelling from too.
Past Posts
HDR Annual workshop 24
Adelaide November 2024
HDR Workshop- Being an authentic researcher
Watch the following recording of ABEN’s 2024 HDR workshop: hosted by Melissa Wheeler and Zairul Nurshazana Zainuddin
Read through the HDR booklet to learn about your fellow students’ projects
May 2024
Role of Communication Bringing Sustainable to Mainstream
Nayomi De Silva nayomidesilva@swin.edu.au
Fashion is the world’s third-largest polluting industry (UNFCCC, 2023). It is being criticised for its significant carbon emissions, fostering the culture of disposability, draining large volumes of water sources while discharging a significant quantity of microplastics to the ocean when washing certain types of clothes (Ritch, 2023), being a major contributor to human rights violations. Even during the three decades of practice and sustainability communication, the pressing issues persist, indicating that significant challenges remain unresolved. Read More
Hi Zairul, Thank you for sharing the findings of your PhD project with the ABEN community today.
Your project on modern slavery is very meaningful and has a high practical impact. The project design is also impressive. I look forward to inviting you again to share the project’s developments.
WalkFree
March 2024
Modern Slavery is closer than you think
by Zairul Nurshazana Zainuddin
In Australia, about 41,000 people live under modern slavery conditions. Modern slavery means someone forces another to work, controls them with threats or financially manipulates them. This scenario includes human trafficking, forced marriage, forced labour, debt bondage, and the worst forms of child labour. According to Walkfree (2023), there are 49.6 million people exposed to slavery-related conditions globally, with 27.6 million victims engaged in corporate supply chains as forced labour.
To combat modern slavery, the Australian government enacted the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018,Read More
Oct 2023
Sustainable Mobility Practices for a Carbon-Neutral Society
by Poornima Gayathree
Massive carbon emissions from exploiting natural resources have made climate changes and natural disasters inevitable. Statistics show that amidst actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that aim at bringing down global temperature well below 1.5 degrees Celsius as agreed by the Paris Agreement, at this rate, global temperature will rise above 2.7 degrees (IPCC, 2023). The strategies for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions have become the primary aim of Australia as the country has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Read More
July 2023
Recycle and reuse your garment waste for a sustainable future for Australia
by Esther Rotimi
Australia’s fashion industry must tackle high rates of garment consumption that contribute to post-consumer textile waste, harming the environment. My study showed that consumers can manage textile waste sustainably by recycling and reusing their end-of-life garments.
I used the theory of planned behaviour (attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control) and various factors such as general recycling behaviour, self-identity, quality consciousness (for reuse only),Read More
March 2023
Participative Inquiry into Systemic Corruption
by Sophia Montgomery
My project uses participative inquiry incorporating the technique of poetic interpretation to understand and represent the veiled essence of systemic corruption, using two Royal Commissions for my case studies. In this poem, I create an allegory to unravel the forces behind a bank’s treatment of business owners in the name of Financial Stability. Read More
Hi Zairul, Thank you for sharing the findings of your PhD project with the ABEN community today.
Your project on modern slavery is very meaningful and has a high practical impact. The project design is also impressive. I look forward to inviting you again to share the project’s developments.