Catherine Waldby
cwaldby.bsky.social
Catherine Waldby
@cwaldby.bsky.social
Professor ANU. Biopolitics, innovation, reproduction, history.
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Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...
Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This is such an honour. Thank you to my fantastic colleagues and friends.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...
www.ppesydney.net
September 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Proofs of the Afterword by @cwaldby.bsky.social and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social and me, published in 2026 by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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ANU colleagues and students - please share this post if you can:

The ANU governance project has extended our deadline to comment on the Draft report to next week - 7 October.

Here's a link to a feedback form, which also contains the link to the draft report:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Feedback on ANU Governance Project Draft Report
The ANU Governance Project Working Group are proud to present the Draft Project Report for community feedback and consultation. The Draft Project Report is available on our website or through THIS LINK. Using a process that has involved deep listening and a participatory and deliberative process across the ANU community, we have compiled a unique and valuable body of evidence that documents what’s wrong with governance at the ANU and charts a way forward to help rebuild trust and to deliver best practice governance. Over 600 ANU staff, students, and stakeholders have participated in this project, and in contributing constructively to the future of ANU. This includes 590 members of the community who participated in our survey, 75 who participated in one-hour small group discussions, and over 40 from across the university who participated in our project workshop. The ANU community told us there a critical need for change: Over 96% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants believe current ANU governance is not fit for purpose and should be reformed. Over 92% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants expressed dissatisfaction with current ANU governance. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with current practices of transparency at the ANU. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with accountability frameworks at the ANU. The ANU Community has proposed the following near-term steps forward for a reformed ANU: Council must direct Finance to produce and publish a current budget breakdown. Council must revise and publish selection criteria for Executive positions. Council meetings must immediately be made fully accessible to the community. Academic Board must regularly review and assess the financial decisions of senior executives and Council. Commence senior leadership listening tours with the ANU community. Additional recommendations forwarded by the community are summarised in the full report, including a proposal to co-design legislative reform of the ANU Act with the community. The Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback via this form on the draft report by midnight on Tuesday 7 October. This deadline has been extended in order to allow us more time to hear and incorporate community feedback ahead of the release of our final report on Monday 20 October.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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ANU people - please share! The ANU governance project has a media release about the presentation by the Interim Vice Chancellor's speech on Thursday here: drive.google.com/file/d/1oGH5...
September 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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An ANU all-staff meeting erupted into cheers when it was announced that Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell was stepping down, writes Ben Eltham.
When Bell resigned, staff cheered. The ANU drama and a broken university sector
The downfall of now-ousted ANU boss Genevieve Bell is just a microcosm of a broader crisis in Australian university governance.
www.crikey.com.au
September 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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This moment is a chance to rebuild ANU into a democratic, accountable and thriving institution that has the trust and confidence of its community once again.

It must not be wasted.
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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“dialogue is the antithesis of either top-down or bureaucratic decision-making. It acknowledges the place of risk in the interactions between participants, as they make themselves vulnerable by engaging with a wide range of people...”

ANU Governance Project

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906463...
ANU's crisis runs deeper than the leadership. Here's how we save the university
If we get this right, it could be a model for other universities.
www.canberratimes.com.au
September 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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As the only university covered by federal law, why can’t we see a similar intervention at ANU?

I hear constantly from staff about the huge toll on from the almost year long shambolic process of cuts at the ANU.

We need an immediate pause to forced redundancies.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
UTS told to pause staff cuts because of ‘psychological harm’ risk
The workplace regulator has intervened in a redundancy process at the University of Technology Sydney in what experts say is rare but could become more common.
www.afr.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A gut-wrenching read from a brilliant scholar, on the crisis at ANU. It speaks to the broader sickness in our universities (including my own).

FYI @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social @joshuablackjb.bsky.social

overland.org.au/2025/08/anu-...
ANU at a crossroads: between the social body and the iron cage - Overland literary journal
The organic solidarity on display across ANU gives the institution its moral clarity and counterweight to a bureaucracy that risks becoming a case as hard as steel. In the last six months, ANU staff, ...
overland.org.au
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The country holds round tables on productivity while the university sector is underfunded and suffers from poor neoliberal governance without accountability right at the top. One doesn't need a uni degree to understand stagnant productivity if one doesn't invest in knowledge and innovation.
August 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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@thesaturdaypaper.com.au your headline is grossly inaccurate: the VC intends to continue with more than 100 further forced redundancies. This includes through cruel spill and fill processes scheduled for later this year.
ANU Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell has announced that the university’s restructure will now look at voluntary separation schemes.

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No more forced job losses at ANU, says Bell
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August 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Regulator demands Australian National University defend council conduct amid governance concerns

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Regulator demands ANU defend its council members' conduct
A federal government investigation into the Australian National University demands the university defend the conduct of its council members amid concerns they have failed to competently oversee its op...
www.abc.net.au
August 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Beyond distressing to experience and watch this unfold
We love #ANU. We want it to be a great place for staff & students.

@nteunion.bsky.social members are incredibly disappointed at what has unfolded in recent times.

ANU needs to be protected from its own leadership.
How one of the world's most prestigious universities fell from grace
The prestige of the Australian National University is fast fading. It must now respond to explosive allegations.
www.abc.net.au
August 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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ANU community members, please help complete this governance survey.

The organizers are seeking high volume of responses before the Senate hearing next Tuesday.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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so cool ...
Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
Dr Thao Phan wins 2025 Max Crawford Medal
Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.
humanities.org.au
August 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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“The proposed changes will deprive staff of their livelihoods … Students, who come to university on the promise that they will be able to explore ideas in whichever discipline they choose, will find their study options severely restricted.”

solidarity.net.au/universities...
ANU fights back against savage cuts to jobs and courses – Solidarity Online
On Wednesday 30 July, more than 100 ANU students marched against the university’s proposed Renew ANU cuts.
solidarity.net.au
August 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Participate in the ANU Governance Project, launched today by a group of ANU staff.

Check out their website and fill out the survey:
anugovernance-davidpocock.nationbuilder.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM