Opportunities
A space for collaboration
SSSHARC advances collaborative partnerships through its visiting fellowship programs and other initiatives. We are particularly interested in projects that are strategically aimed at industry, philanthropic or international funding opportunities and would include the University of Sydney as an administering or partner organisation.
Launched in 2023, HISS is a summer intensive in sexuality studies at the University of Sydney that is timed to coincide with Sydney Mardi Gras.
HISS brings together outstanding early career researchers from around the world to undertake workshops and work with international research leaders from across the full breadth of the humanities and social sciences.
HISS is not like other expert masterclasses. HISS is a collective attempt to reimagine the classroom—and pedagogy—from a queer perspective. The emphasis is on creativity, collaboration and play, as well as the provision of real-world graduate training in an interdisciplinary environment in which queerness is assumed rather than included.
HISS was always conceived as a three-year experiment: next year will be its final iteration.
In 2025, HISS takes the theme Homecoming.
HISS is codirected by Professor Lee Wallace (Director of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, aka SSSHARC) and Dr Victoria Rawlings (Sydney School of Education and Social Work). The HISS 2025 teaching cohort includes:
The SSSHARC Visiting Fellows program brings together outstanding researchers of international standing to enhance research in humanities and social sciences at the University of Sydney.
The University of Sydney has a generously endowed international fellowship program in sexuality studies. Funded by the late Dr Gary Simes—a linguistic historian, bibliographer and University of Sydney graduate—the Hunt-Simes Chair of Sexuality Studies bequest enables a number of fellowships per year.
Please note, Fellows may also be appointed on nomination by the Director to assist in the development and delivery of an annual Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies at SSSHARC (HISS@SSSHARC), timed to coincide with Sydney Mardi Gras or other events of relevance to the LGBTQI+ community.
How to apply
Applications for SSSHARC Visiting Fellowships 2025 have now closed. Follow us on follow us on X for updates.
