December 7th, 2023

Since We Last Met

Things I’ve Been Working On:

Events, Workshops, and Professional Development Modules:

Currently Reading:

Past Updates

Things I've Been Working On:

  • Submission to Te Rua Mahara Archives New Zealand on their draft scope and definition of care records
  • Child Consent in the Creation of Datasets - C3D (Formerly Epistemic Network Analysis mini-project)
    • 20 November - Submitted revised ethics application
  • Information Architecture Design and Reform - IADR
    • Continued recruiting - scheduling with 2 participants
    • Complementary project with Kirsten - Tracking Tendanya
      • Devising a method for holding people to account/sustaining interest

Events, Workshops, and Professional Development Modules:

  • Professional Development:

    • Recently completed - 24 October to 9 November (10 hours)- Qualitative Research Methods

  • Conference presentation:

    • 30 November / 1 December - RAILS

Currently Reading:

  • Scott, James C. Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. yale university Press, 2020.
  • Spade, Dean. Normal life: Administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law. Duke University Press, 2015.
  • White, G. R. T., Samuel, A., & Thomas, R. J. (2022). Exploring and Expanding Supererogatory Acts: Beyond Duty for a Sustainable Future. Journal of business ethics : JBE, 1–24. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05144-8
  • Sangster, Kirsty. 1999. “Truth Commissions: The Usefulness of Truth-Telling.” Australian Journal of Human Rights 5 (1): 136–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.1999.11911011.

Things I've Been Working On:

  • Child Consent in the Creation of Datasets - C3D (Formerly Epistemic Network Analysis mini-project)
  • Information Architecture Design and Reform - IADR
    • Have sent some additional recruitment emails
  • Machine and Deep Learning Training

Events, Workshops, and Professional Development Modules:

  • Professional Development:
    • Ongoing: 24 October to 9 November (10 hours)- Qualitative Research Methods

Total hours completed to date: 63

Currently Reading:

  • Scott, James C. Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. yale university Press, 2020.
  • Spade, Dean. Normal life: Administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law. Duke University Press, 2015.
  • White, G. R. T., Samuel, A., & Thomas, R. J. (2022). Exploring and Expanding Supererogatory Acts: Beyond Duty for a Sustainable Future. Journal of business ethics : JBE, 1–24. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05144-8

Things I've Been Working On:

  • Child Consent in the Creation of Datasets - C3D (Formerly Epistemic Network Analysis mini-project)
    • Revising Ethics Application
    • Met with Nina and am currently investigating literature to support writing a potential methodology
      • Focusing on Institutional Ethnography, Action Research
  • Information Architecture Design and Reform - IADR
    • Have had some initial discussions with Barbara and Martine
    • Continuing to identify individuals to recruit
  • Machine and Deep Learning Training

Events, Workshops, and Professional Development Modules:

  • 12 September — Pelle Tracy virtual visit with the Records Continuum Research Group

  • Professional Development:

    • Completed: 14 September to 12 October (9 hours) - Ethical Research in IT
    • Upcoming: 24 October to 9 November (10 hours)- Qualitative Research Methods

    Total hours completed to date: 60

Things I've Been Working On:

  • Child Consent in the Creation of Datasets - C3D (Formerly Epistemic Network Analysis mini-project)
  • Information Architecture Design and Reform - IADR
    • Submitted September 8
    • Setting up a meeting with Barbara Reed
  • Machine and Deep Learning Training
  • 8 September - 6 month review

Upcoming Events, Workshops, and Professional Development Modules:

  • 14 September — Diana Marsh virtual visit with the Records Continuum Research Group

  • Professional Development:

    • 14 September to 12 October (9 hours) - Ethical Research in IT
    • 24 October to 9 November (10 hours)- Qualitative Research Methods

    Total hours completed to date: 51

Things I've Been Working On:

  • Provenance Paper - Abstract submitted for consideration to the Archival Science CFP for a special issue on provenance

    • This also sparked some ideas for the content/structure of my overall literature review
      • Themes/topics such as:
        • The history/development of the concept of a "corporate parent"
        • Child liberation and abolition studies and the landscape of the welfare-industrial complex
        • Personhood of children, both in records and in research

  • Child Consent in the Creation of Datasets - C3D (Formerly Epistemic Network Analysis mini-project)

  • Information Architecture Design and Reform - IADR
    • Ethics application ready for submission following any information Melissa has regarding law ethics review.
  • Machine and Deep Learning Training

Upcoming Events, Workshops, and Professional Development Modules:

  • 4-6 September - Australian Society of Archivists Annual Conference
    • Presenting: Ballin, Mya. (2023, September 4-7). 'Never for the adoptee's benefit': Exploring adoptee perspectives on access, preservation, and ownership in the recordkeeping culture of transracial, transnational adoptions [Conference presentation]. Australian Society of Archivists National Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Professional Development:
    • 13 September (3 hours) - Academic Posters: preparing and presenting
    • 14 September to 12 October (9 hours) - Ethical Research in IT
    • 24 October to 9 November (10 hours)- Qualitative Research Methods

Things I've Been Working On:

Professional Development Modules:

  • Thesis Writing 2: Grammar for Editing Research Writing

Total hours completed to date: 48

Things I've Been Working On:

  • Epistemic Network Analysis mini-project Proposal
    • 29 May: Conversation with DFFS - building an ethical dataset
    • Currently working on: Ethics and Benefits Statement
    • Next steps:
      • Contacting DFFH Centre for Evaluation and Research Evidence
        • Collecting and documenting consent/assent
        • Need knowledge of existing procedures to determine what needs to be described as part of the ethics application
      • Continuing conversation with DFFH Archives team
  • Assessing Responses to Review Commissions in Recordkeeping Contexts
  • Machine and Deep Learning Training

Professional Development Modules:

  • MADA Design Ethnography: techniques for working alone and with other researchers
  • MADA Design Ethnography: techniques for working with research participants
  • MADA Design Ethnography: translation beyond the thesis

Total hours completed to date: 44

Events and Workshops I've Attended:

  • Recordkeeping Research Day, 5 June
  • National Reconciliation Week - Documentary 'In My Blood It Runs'
  • Violet's Mid-Canditature Milestone
Things I've Been Working On: Professional Development Modules:
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Feminist Legal Theory
  • Academic Publishing in Information Technology
  • SPSS
  • Body Language for Leaders
Total hours completed to date: 38 Events and Workshops I've Attended:
  • Participated in the 2023 QE Data Challenge, 15 May - 19 May
  • Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Lecture, 9 May