Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 October 2010

About HASS on the Hill

The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that HASS On The Hill will be held in Canberra on 18 and 19 October 2010*.

In this election year, HASS On The Hill looks to the future. Policy makers and members of Parliament are showing an increasing interest in engaging and creating connections with researchers, practitioners and professionals, who can give them fresh ways of thinking and good evidence about how to improve innovation, social and education programs.

HASS On The Hill is a landmark event for the humanities, arts and social sciences, providing meetings for the sector to come together and to discuss the value of their work directly with Federal Parliamentarians and senior policy makers. It will be a frank and open exchange based on research.

The 2010 Ahead of the Game blueprint for public sector reform, highlighted the need for the APS to forge greater links with external organisations, particularly with academia and research institutions to achieve this goal. HASS On The Hill is a starting point for building these relationships.

The delegates to earlier HASS On The Hill programs have told us they value the opportunity to meet researchers, advocates, managers and practitioners from the across the humanities, arts and social sciences. Identifying common challenges, common solutions, is one element of this networking. The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences also believes the 2010 event will see new ideas and projects emerge from this discussion from people across its 85-plus member organisations and the delegates from Government, industry and business.

The 2010 HASS On The Hill program includes:

• a dinner for delegates and sponsors at Parliament House, with the opportunity to hear the Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr
• a day of seminars at the National Library of Australia and Parliament House with some of Australia's leading HASS experts addressing some of the pressing policy challenges before us
• an address at the National Press Club
• forums bringing leading researchers together with education, industry and public sector managers
• the Council Annual General Meeting.

New to HASS On The Hill in 2010, is a session which will bring some of Australia's most talented early career researchers in the sector to Canberra. Providing the rising stars of the HASS sector with the opportunity to make connections with policy, this will be also be an innovative chance to further construct networks of knowledge for the future.

Financial members of the Council and nominees of sponsors have the exclusive opportunity to participate and register for this event. To register and participate in HASS On The Hill you must belong to one of our financial member organisations or be a nominee of a sponsoring organisation.

* Alternative arrangements will be announced by the Council in the event that a Federal election conflicts with these dates.

See also: CHASS News - July 2010