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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5 color="#003163"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#003163;
font-weight:bold'>STEP 2008 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4 color=teal
face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal;
font-weight:bold'>Science, Technology and Economic Progress <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4 color="#0e4020"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0E4020'>Theme
2008: </span></font><b><font size=4 color="#0e4020"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;color:#0E4020;font-weight:bold'>Technological Rhythms, Socio-Cultural
Change <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4 color="#0e4020"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0E4020;font-weight:
bold'>National Doctoral Program: 30 November to 5 December 2008 <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=4 color=teal
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:teal;font-weight:
bold'>Invitation to PhD students <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>The 2008 </span></font><font color="#003163"><span
style='color:#003163'>Science, Technology and Economic Progress (STEP) </span></font><font
color=teal><span style='color:teal'>forum for PhD students will be hosted by
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at its
Parramatta Campus from 30 November to 5 December, 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color="#003163" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:#003163'>STEP </span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>is an annual, multi-disciplinary, national program to
assist higher degree research students to think about their own topics in a
wider way, by ‘looking over the fence’ into what other disciplines have to
offer. Hosting of </span></font><font color="#003163"><span style='color:#003163'>STEP
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>has been shared
between universities around <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
over the past 17 years. </span></font><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>Each year </span></font><font color="#003163"><span
style='color:#003163'>STEP </span></font><font color=teal><span
style='color:teal'>is conducted around a theme. </span></font><font
color="#003163"><span style='color:#003163'>STEP 2008 </span></font><font
color=teal><span style='color:teal'>has the theme, ‘Technological Rhythms,
Socio-Cultural Change’, and will ask, what is the relation of technology to
socio-cultural change? The program will confront this question drawing on
approaches from a wide disciplinary range. Posing this question in terms of
technological rhythms means moving beyond a deterministic scheme in which
technological advance is understood as the mere cause of socio-cultural change
(or vice versa). Rhythms are necessarily relational and, while unfolding over
time, imply complex patterns of repetition and interference that are not
reducible to mechanical models of social progress or historical transition.
Rhythms inhere in lived experience but also have an objective existence that
can be measured and studied from various angles. The analysis of the relations
between technological rhythms and socio-cultural change thus resists a neat
separation of the poetic from the scientific. </span></font><font size=2
color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>PhD students from across disciplines are invited to participate in </span></font><font
color="#003163"><span style='color:#003163'>STEP 2008 </span></font><font
color=teal><span style='color:teal'>which will bring together a mixed group of
high quality PhD students: mixed in terms of discipline, topics, stage of their
research, and home universities. Students from the social sciences, humanities,
science and engineering, education and information technologies are </span></font><font
size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>encouraged to attend. Participants will not be selected on the
basis of special interest in the 'theme', but rather the theme has been
selected to push students to cross disciplinary boundaries and see their own
work in a different light. </span></font><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color="#003163" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:#003163'>Participation is limited to 25 places. </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>During </span></font><font color="#003163"><span
style='color:#003163'>STEP </span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>all students will be expected to make a presentation on
their own research and to engage actively in the sessions. </span></font><font
size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>There is no registration charge and accommodation for the week will
be provided for the participants in UWS housing. In special cases some travel
assistance will be considered. Academics from several universities attend </span></font><font
color="#003163"><span style='color:#003163'>STEP </span></font><font
color=teal><span style='color:teal'>to provide mentoring and leadership to the
students. In 2008, the coordinator will be Dr Don Lamberton, Adjunct Professor,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Griffith</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Business</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and General
Editor, <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Prometheus</span></i></b>,
and he will be supported by a multi-disciplinary team of distinguished
academics from UWS and other universities. </span></font><font size=2
color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>Interested participants are requested to forward a curriculum vitae
no later than </span></font><font color="#003163"><span style='color:#003163'>1<sup>st
</sup>September 2008 </span></font><font color=teal><span style='color:teal'>outlining
the following: </span></font><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:teal'> Details of their PhD research,
indicating progress to date; </span></font><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:teal'> Academic record; </span></font><font
size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:teal'> Any previous work history; and </span></font><font
size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:teal'> Nomination of two referees (with e-mail
addresses). </span></font><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:teal'>Applications should be sent electronically to Carolyn Love (</span></font><u><font
color="#1e3821"><span style='color:#1E3821'>C.Love@uws.edu.au</span></font></u><font
color=teal><span style='color:teal'>) and copied to Dr Don Lamberton (</span></font><u><font
color="#1e3821"><span style='color:#1E3821'>d.lamberton@griffith.edu.au</span></font></u><font
color=teal><span style='color:teal'>). </span></font><font size=2 color=teal
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 color=teal
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:teal'>Please help by
bringing this Call to the notice of any potential participants. </span></font><font
size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><u><font size=3 color="#003163" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003163'>Hosted by the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Economics</st1:PlaceName> and Finance, the Centre
for Cultural Research, and the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Social Sciences</st1:PlaceName> at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></span></font></u><u><font
size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></u></p>
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