ARCSHS Events
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Past events
Latest Insights into LGBTIQ+ Mental Health, Suicide and Self-Harm
Tuesday 26 March 2024
ARCSHS Natalie Amos, Ruby Grant and Jordan Hinton will share early insights into their latest findings in mental health, suicide and self-harm amongst LGBTIQ+ communities.
Catalysts for Change: working with GBTQ men who have used violence
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Join us for a virtual discussion on how to support GBTQ men who have used violence and be a catalyst for positive change in our communities.
Implementation workshop: A stigma reduction toolkit for the Victorian healthcare workforce
Thursday 14 March 2024
Victorian healthcare professionals are invited to participate in a workshop about a new toolkit for addressing blood-borne virus and sexually transmissible infection-related stigma and discrimination.
Troubling Care: research perspectives on Womens’ care work
Friday 08 March 2024
The Care Economy Research Institute (CERI) and the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) look forward to welcoming Dr Pat Armstrong, this International Women’s Day for a conversation about the importance that women’s paid, and unpaid work plays in the care economy and how best to use womens' experience of care work to address some of the key challenges post Covid.
Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
Tuesday 05 March 2024
Marika Cifor examines how we reckon with the AIDS past amidst the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Measuring recovery from alcohol and other drug use: a collaborative research study
Wednesday 08 November 2023
ARCSHS invites you to a presentation by Professor Jo Neale (Kings College, London). Jo will talk about how one small study, conducted in collaboration with people with living and lived experience of substance abuse, turned into a 10-year programme of work.
Out In Suburbia: The Untold Story of LGBTIQ+ People in Australia's Outer Suburbs
Friday 06 October 2023
ARCSHS invites you to a hybrid information-sharing and meaning-making seminar to examine new research and its implications for LGBTIQ+ people in outer suburban areas in Australia, and those who serve them.
Exploring the cultural phenomenon of the dick pic
Friday 22 September 2023
Come along and celebrate the publication of Dr Andrea Waling's Exploring the Cultural Phenomenon of the Dick Pic.
Exploring Swinger Clubs in the UK: Upside Down Pineapples, Erotic Hierarchies and the Pleasuring of Desire
Thursday 14 September 2023
ARCSHS invites you to a research and practice seminar with Chris Haywood. The seminar introduces you to UK swinger clubs, who visits them, what happens in the clubs and how we might begin to explain the dynamics of gender and sexuality within these spaces.
Sexual Communication and Sexual Consent: New Challenges and Directions
Tuesday 12 September 2023
Join us for an eye-opening event on sexual communication and sexual consent exploring fresh perspectives and tackling emerging challenges.
Contemporary Drug Problems Conference
Wednesday 06 September 2023
The 2023 Contemporary Drug Problems conference, themed 'Embracing trouble: New ways of doing, being and knowing', will take place in Paris in September.
Global transgender health and rights: Addressing inequality in Indonesia
Wednesday 16 August 2023
ARCSHS invites you to a research and practice seminar with Dr Benjamin Hegarty and Dr Alegra Wolter exploring healthcare and rights for trans people in Indonesia.
Addressing hepatitis C–related legal, policy & practice discrimination in a post-cure world: Report launch and findings from a national qualitative study
Monday 14 August 2023
Join ARCSHS as we share findings from a three-year study, funded by the Australian Research Council, on people’s experiences following hepatitis C treatment, and the laws, strategies and practices that shape stigma and discrimination post-cure.
HIV Futures: New knowledge, nuance, and new directions in HIV research
Thursday 06 July 2023
An event, in conjunction with Living Positive Victoria, to discuss findings from the HIV Futures 10 study, and other recent HIV social research.
Queering Survival: Reconceptualising healing beyond heteronormative and cisnormative frames
Wednesday 14 June 2023
ARCSHS invites you to a research and practice seminar with Dr Shaez Mortimer exploring the results of Dr Shaez Mortimer’s doctoral research, which involved in-depth interviews with service providers and LGBTQA survivors of sexual violence in Victoria and South Australia. The seminar will focus on the stories and practices of healing by the survivor participants.