The University of Queensland's School of Social Science invites you to attend our 2025 Postgraduate Conference.
What methods do we use to address change itself? Who or what do we rely on in moments of disaster? How do we build resilience against future crises?
Under the theme Crisis and Resilience: Social Environments in Transition, we will explore critical, interdisciplinary engagement with the ways that individuals, communities, institutions, and environments experience, resist, and adapt to disruption across time and space. From global pandemics and environmental collapse, to war, displacement, rising gendered violence and systemic injustice, crisis increasingly defines our world – and our work as researchers.
This conference provides a platform for postgraduate scholars to explore and collaborate on the social, political, cultural, and environmental dynamics of crisis and resilience through diverse methodological and theoretical approaches. Join us to reflect, connect, and imagine new responses to salient challenges in our time.
Date: Friday 28 November 2025, 8:45am–3:30pm
Venue: ViewPoint, Campbell Place (Building 33), UQ St Lucia
RSVP: Thursday 20 November 2025. Please confirm your attendance by this date to ensure catering is provided for all attendees.
8:45am | Registration |
9:00am | Welcome and opening |
9:20am | Keynote speaker |
10:00am | First session – Presentations |
11:00am | Morning tea |
11:30am | Second session – Presentations |
1:00pm | Lunch break |
2:00pm | Third session – Presentations |
3:30pm | Drinks, nibbles, and networking |
Helen Berents is a feminist scholar centrally interested in the interconnected areas of the presence and roles of young people in global politics; everyday experiences of conflict and peacebuilding; and local-global relations in peace and security governance. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Helen has a PhD (International Relations) from the University of Queensland and recently completed an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship that examined youth leadership and inclusion in the context of the global ‘Youth, Peace and Security’ agenda. She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples.