Opportunities
A space for collaboration
We provide innovative platforms and fellowships to approach and solve problems, such as huddles, ultimate peer reviews, pop-up research labs and more.
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 organization.
Fellowships
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.
These SSSHARC visiting fellowships are for outstanding international or Australian-based humanities researchers who wish to collaborate with researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
How to apply
Review the Humanities Fellowship guidelines (pdf,140KB) and complete the online application form.
Applications for 2023 will open on 2 May close on 30 May.
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. The theme for 2023 is Queer Age / Queer Youth.
How to apply
Review the Hunt-Simes Chair of Sexuality Studies Fellowship guidelines (PDF, 152kB) and complete the online application form.
Applications for 2023 will open on 2 May and Close 30 May.
These SSSHARC visiting fellowships are for outstanding international or Australian-based social science researchers who wish to collaborate with researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
How to apply
Review the Social Sciences Fellowship guidelines (pdf,140KB) and complete the online application form.
Applications for 2023 will open on 2 May close on 30 May.
Ultimate Peer Review
A world authority evaluates the full draft of a major research output (book, article, or NTRO) by a University of Sydney researcher and offers rigorous and constructive criticism to take the work from great to landmark.
Applicants must have a high-ranking publisher (or equivalent) in frame (ie: contracted or with an agreed deadline for submission) and a full draft of a manuscript (or equivalent) at the time of the review.
The UPR session has an invited audience of disciplinary peers, including postgraduate research students, who will also be given access to draft portions of the manuscript.
SSSHARC can provide funding to bring the expert reviewer to Sydney to allow for meaningful engagement around the manuscript and other research activities. UPR events may take place over Zoom by arrangement.
Review the Ultimate Peer Review guidelines (pdf, 107.5KB) and submit your expression of interest at any time.
Romantic Empiricism: Philosophy, Art and Nature
- Associate Professor Dalia Nassar
Reviewer: Professor Sebastian Gardner (UCL) - Outcome: Book – Romantic Empiricism
Treacherous Play
- Dr Marcus Carter
Reviewer: Professor Mia Consalvo (Concordia) - Outcome: Book – Treacherous Play
A Victorian History of Modern Censorship
- Professor Chris Hilliard
Reviewer: Professor Adrienne Stone (UMelb) - Outcome: Book – A Matter of Obscenity
Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
- Dr Matthew Sussman
Reviewer: Professor Helen Small (Oxford) - Outcome: Book – Stylistic Virtue
Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics
- Associate Professor Charlotte Epstein
Reviewer: Professor R.B.J (Rob) Walker (Victoria, CA) - Outcome: Book – Birth of the State
All Marriage is Gay
- Associate Professor Lee Wallace
Reviewer: Professor Robyn Wiegman (Duke) - Outcome: Book - Reattachment Theory
Huddles
A SSSHARC research huddle is a one-day collaboration intensive around an idea or question that is highly compelling but needs further articulation before it can be advance as a funded research program or other landmark outcome.
The aim of a huddle is not to present talks but to bring in an outside expert or experts who can critically guide the existing discussion towards a defined outcome, such as a joint grant application, a co-authored article, a book prospectus or a journal special issue proposal, a white paper or a high-profile opinion piece.
Review the research huddle guidelines (pdf, 106KB) and submit your expression of interest at any time.
Trauma-aware practices for children in out-of-home care
- Professor Amy Conley Wright
- External expert: Dr Mandi MacDonald (Queens, Belfast)
- Outcome: Trauma-informed family contact practice for children in out-of-home care, Collings, S., & Wright, A.C., McLean, L., & Buratti, S. (2021), The British Journal of Social Work, bcab147.
Boys: Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies
- Professor Catherine Driscoll
- External expert: Professor Anoop Nayak (Newcastle, UK)
- Outcome: ARC Special Research Initiatives - Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem
Working across difference and inequity in social work and policy studies
- Associate Professor Susan Goodwin and Professor Donna Baines
- External experts: Dr Bindi Bennett (Sunshine Coast) and Dr Selma Macfarlane (Deakin)
- Outcome: Book - Working Across Difference
Community-led research methodologies: learning and knowledge building?
- Associate Professor Margot Rawsthorne and Professor Catherine Burgess
- External experts: Uncle Michael Welsh, Leslie Franks, Rob Roberts, Kerry Johnson, Julie Welsh, Blake Robinson, Uncle Kerry Mackenzie, Aunty Barbara McGrady
- Outcome: Book - Everyday Community Practice
Pop-Up Research Lab
A Pop-Up Research Lab is a three-week intensive program of activities specifically tailored to advance research that is already producing outstanding results and has the potential to be scale up into a landmark program attracting external support.
Pop-Up Research Labs are usually planned in alignment with SSSHARC research nodes or in support of external grant ambitions, such as ARC Future Fellowships, Laureates and Centre of Excellence bids to be administered by the University of Sydney or projects aimed at international funding agencies. If you have an established program of research that fits this brief, please contact the SSSHARC Director to discuss possibilities.
Sexual Violence in the Military
- Professor Megan McKenzie
- External expert: Dr Shannon Sampert (Winnipeg)
- Outcome: ARC- Future Fellowship ($1,052,328)
Brave New Law: Legal Personhood in the New Biosciences
- Associate Professor Sonja Van Wichelen
- External expert: Professor Thomas Lemke (Goethe University)
- Outcome: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality (Palgrave, 2020) ed. Marc de Leeuw and Sonja Van Wichelen
Critical research into death in contested circumstances
- Associate Professor Rebecca Scott Bray
- External expert: Professor Phil Scraton (Queen's University Belfast)
- Outcomes: Carpenter, B., Harris, M., Jowett, S., Tait, G., Scott Bray, R. (2021). Coronial Inquests, Indigenous Suicide and the Colonial Narrative. Critical Criminology, 29(3), 527-545.
- Scott Bray, R. (2020). Contested Deaths and Coronial Justice in the Digital Age. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(4), 90-103.
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