Global Studies, Social Science and Planning: News & Events

Promotion of Environment, Planning and Sustainability programs and careers in schools
The School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University is promoting Environment, Planning and Sustainability programs and professions through interactive information sessions targeted towards Secondary School students.

08/11/2011 The Melbourne Salon presents Georges Perec: The Australian Connection, 30 Years On
The Melbourne Salon is a joint venture between RMIT University, the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations and the Alliance Française de Melbourne.

18/11/2011 Legal and Police Interpreting Conference
This conference seeks to explore the role of interpreters in legal and police contexts, share current research, and identify much needed further research and training needs.

19/04/2012 Homelessness Research Conference
The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and RMIT University are pleased to co-host the inaugural Homelessness Research Conference in Melbourne on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 April 2012.

US foreign policy off course: new book 06/02/2012
An RMIT University academic has co-authored a new book suggesting the Founding Fathers' view of America's place in the world differed sharply from foreign policy today.

RMIT students shape UN programme 27/01/2012
RMIT University students are making an important contribution to the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme, part of the world's largest voluntary corporate social responsibility initiative.

Dr Ian Ridley awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowships 18/01/2012
Professor Margaret Gardner AO, Vice-Chancellor and President RMIT University has announced five successful recipients of the 2011 Senior Research Fellowships.

RMIT Gallery's future visions captivate critics and audiences 16/01/2012
Visitors have just two weeks left to see the highly popular RMIT Gallery exhibition, 2112 Imagining the Future .

RMIT news in brief 12/01/2012
Dr Xu Wang has been appointed a Visiting Professor in the Department of Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, because of his outstanding achievement in automotive engineering research.

Choose your own adventure 10/01/2012
A group of International Studies students at RMIT University have completed overseas internships, gaining new insights into globalisation, language, cultural diversity and change.

Talent scouts spot Gippsland scholar 10/01/2012
Callum Adams is in Germany, thanks to winning the RMIT University Society for Australian German Student Exchange (SAGSE) scholarship for 2011.

Guide dog managers get training 09/01/2012
One of Victoria's best-loved charities, Guide Dogs Victoria (GDV), has partnered with RMIT University to upgrade its managers’ skills.

'New approach' to religion and politics 21/12/2011
Is religion irrelevant and irrational, as many Westerners assume, a purely historical artefact that secularism, the separation of church and state, has successfully removed from politics?

Imagining a world without money 20/12/2011
The welfare of people and the environment would be better managed if we dispensed with money, according to a new book.