Research

2018 Queensland Tax Researchers Symposium
09 Jul

2018 Queensland Tax Researchers Symposium

The Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School is proud to host the 9th Queensland Tax Researchers Symposium on Monday 9th July 2018. This conference brings together tax academics, research higher degree students, tax practitioners and ATO professionals to discuss and present their current and future research.
Metahistories of music Workshop
08 Jun

Metahistories of music Workshop

How to take music in its sonorous and audiovisual form into account when analysing how histories of music have been constructed?
Understanding Australian Indigenous art at auction
07 Jun

Understanding Australian Indigenous art at auction

This talk represents our journey as a research team to better understand Australian Indigenous art that is offered for sale at auction.
Musical parody as an interpretive strategy
06 Jun

Musical parody as an interpretive strategy

Parody may be conceived as an intertextual artistic genre or mode of expression in its own right, but it can equally be approached as an interpretive strategy that is based more on the context of reception than any artistic intentions. To treat parody as an interpretive strategy is to consider also its political dimensions: for what purposes might a phenomenon be interpreted as parodical?
Life writing as Historical Social Science - putting people back in? Some exploratory thoughts
30 May

Life writing as Historical Social Science - putting people back in? Some exploratory thoughts

Adjunct Professor Peter Ackers, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, ​delivers an exploratory talk to make a case for bringing personal experience and family life stories back into the social sciences, concluding with a plea for use of a methodological individualism that privileges human action and choice over determination by abstract structures, institutions and discourses.
Developing a PhD intellectual project
29 May

Developing a PhD intellectual project

Adjunct Professor Peter Ackers (WOW), will take students through the PhD journey, from building research ideas into a literature review and finding the allusive 'gap', developing questions to underpin the project, what kind of data you'll need and how and where to find it, the feasibility of your project in a three-year, one person timeframe, how to sustain your interest for this period, and your options post-PhD.