Episode 9: Dr. Florence Chiew, HDR Learning Adviser, Macquarie University
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Florence is the HDR Learning Advisor for Social Science at Macquarie University and earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of New South Wales. She has published on a broad range of topics, including social theory, educational philosophy, the sociology of neuroscience, new materialist feminism and human–animal relations.
As an HDR Learning Advisor, Florence is also interested in forging supportive mentoring relationships with research candidates in ways that enhance their research experience and sense of belonging and community at the university. Her research training curriculum includes workshops and courses on developing sustainable writing practices, learning to work with critical feedback, and applying creative, interdisciplinary thinking to research questions. As a researcher, with specialisations in medical sociology, feminist theory and science and technology studies, Florence is particularly interested in how empirical data from the life sciences can be used to foster conceptual innovation in the humanities and social sciences
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