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Any staff or student at Curtin University is welcome to attend any FOWI Academy and FOWI Practice Academy session they like. Please bear in mind that the Academy was created to meet the needs of early career researchers (i.e., HDR students and junior academics) within the disciplines of Management, Organisational Behaviour, and Organisational Psychology. This may mean that some of the content or examples may not be relevant to people from other disciplines. We do not wish to discourage people from attending, but just want to be careful to manage expectations

Please refer to the schedule above, and available on the Future of Work Institute website. Occasionally, the FOWI Academy may host an ‘extraordinary’ session if, for example, a visiting academic or practitioner is available and willing to deliver a workshop.

The sessions will be held on the 2nd floor of 78 Murray Street, Perth, depending on lecture room availability. We will try to notify you of any venue changes, and signs will be posted on the day.

The FOWI Academy and FOWI Practice Academy programs were constructed after asking ECRs from the Future of Work Institute to tell us what they would like to learn about. The four themes that were identified were: contemporary research methods, life/career as an academic, how to engage with industry, and how to ensure research has an impact. Most workshop sessions will focus on topics within these four themes. Workshop presenters will generally be asked to limit their sessions to 2 hours, and to try to make the ses-sions interactive where possible. Supplemental FOWI Academy and FOWI Practice Academy events will take on different forms (e.g., journal club, round tables).

Please contact Diane Garnham to register for a session (fowi-admin@curtin.edu.au)

Our goal is to video record all sessions and upload them to Office 365 and grant access to anyone who requests it. However, please bear in mind that the video recording technology we have access to is limited, and so we cannot guarantee that the presenters will be standing in the field of vision, or that the audio will be detected/recorded. Some of the sessions will include interactive components, and these activities will not translate well to video.

In some cases, you will be asked to prepare something before you attend the session. This preparation might involve installing software (e.g., R Studio), reading an article, or jotting down some ideas that would connect the topic of the session to your own research interests. Presenters will be asked to make clear whether there is any homework or preparation. Please bear in mind that most presenters are participating in the FOWI Academy and FOWI Practice Academy on a voluntary basis, so please respect their requests to complete the preparation activities. If you have not completed the preparation, the presenter will not be willing nor able to wait for you to catch up!

Between 2020-2022, we ran several sessions in a hybrid format with mixed success. Our suggestion is to attend face to face, as the sessions will be designed with the live audience in mind. Nonetheless, we will continue to run a live stream using WebEx, and you are welcome to participate in that, but we cannot guarantee an equivalent experience.

Please contact the FOWI Academy program committee (currently Micah Wilson (micah.k.wilson@curtin.edu.au), Lucinda Isles (lucinda.isles@curtin.edu.au, and Patrick Dunlop, patrick.dunlop@curtin.edu.au) with details on what you like to present on and when you are available. The FOWI Practice Academy program is organised by Karina Jorritsma (karina.jorritsma@curtin.edu.au) and Belinda Cham (belinda.cham@curtin.edu.au). Please bear in mind that the sessions are planned many months in advance, so it may not be possible to accommodate your request.

If you would like to run a session or suggest a session (e.g., if you have a visitor), please get in touch with the FOWI Series Coordinators (see below), who will arrange a date. The sooner you approach the Coordinator, the more likely your time slot will be available.