HDR Life at ICS
ICS is well-known for its strong HDR students collaborative academic and social events. Students have amazing opportunities to present and participant in students organised academic events including Stepping Stone Seminars and HDR Mid-Year Conference, but also engage with monthly HDR catch-up and social events.
Our student reps work closely with HDR director Associate Professor Malini Sur and HDR committees to organise regular HDR workshops, Key Thinkers and Concepts, ICS HDR Newsletter (Quarterly issued) and to promote sustainable research culture.
If you want to learn more about what being an HDR at ICS is like, read an interview (opens in a new window) with our current HDR students.
If you want to learn more about what being an HDR at ICS is like, read an interview (opens in a new window) with two of our previous graduates.
The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.