The Academic Skills Circle (TASC)

A collaboration between Sundhya Pahuja at the LPGCIL, the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School, the UNSW Critique Network of Professor Ben Golder, and La Trobe International and Comparative Law Cluster co-led by Dr Kathleen Birrell.

The skills circle is back for 2024. Online – 1pm or 8am (AEDT/AEST) to accommodate international guests on selected Thursdays, once a month.

The ‘Skills Circle’ is modelled on the knitting circle, which brings knitters of all levels of experience together into a room to knit, and while they do so, to share ideas and techniques, and to experience the camaraderie of a shared activity. The skills circle will be held monthly on Thursdays during the Australian teaching term at either 1pm (AEDT/AEST), or 8am (AEDT/AEST) to accommodate international guests.

Topics for 2024 will be drawn from: Writing PhD Proposals, Designing a syllabus,  How to Read, Writing Practices, Managing your candidature from below, thinking with Documentary Film Making, Organising a workshop.

We invite scholars of all levels, from PhD students and early career researchers, to mid and late career researchers who want to share their knowledge, or watch how other people do things to reflect upon their own methods. Sessions will be kept small to allow for good conversation. They will also be entirely online and recorded for both the IILAH and LPGCIL podcasts.

To see the list of past sessions and listen to the recordings, visit the IILAH website:

https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/iilah/research/resources/tasc