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Luke Carman joins the Charles Perkins Centre as the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow 🙌 Award-winning author and essayist Luke Carman has been announced as the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow at the @Sydney_Uni Charles Perkins Centre. Carman, a Western Sydney writer whose extensive body of work explores Australia’s cultural margins, grapples with mental illness and interrogates the intricacies and ironies of the writer’s condition receives $100,000 to support a year-long residency at the @CPC_usyd. “I see the Charles Perkins Centre as a multi-disciplinary organisation bringing together a range of experts to make people well, to make the culture well, and to make society well. Ultimately what a great writer should aspire to is to find terms for the moment that they're in, and ideally to make people well on a scale outside of themselves.” Luke will be with us at the Charles Perkins Centre for the next year, working, collaborating, thinking, writing and "exploring the quiet desperation of resilience." We can't wait to see what arises from Luke's residency. He joins our stellar WiR alumni: Charlotte Wood, Mireille Juchau, Alana Valentine, Emily Maguire, Tracey Sorensen, Sarah Holland-Batt, @lechblaine Fiona Wright Read the full story ➡️ sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n… @eatlikeanimals | @mscott | @KathyBelov | @JulieCairney | @ArtSS_Sydney | @Sydney_Science | @syd_health | @NswCreate

"As many as half of people with anorexia also have autism. I was unseen, even to myself." Dr Fiona Wright – our current Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow @CPC_usyd – had been in the medical system for around 17 years, being treated for anorexia, before a diagnosis of autism changed the way she viewed herself. This essay in @ConversationEDU is an extract from a collection "Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers" published by University of Queensland Press @UQPbooks, edited by @clembastow and @jocaseau, exploring experiences of autism – and exploding stereotypes. ➡️ Read Fiona's extract: bit.ly/431cw9n

Are you our next Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre? You have two weeks to get your EOI in! Explore the power of creativity with the Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship open to Australian creative writers to begin a project exploring issues around health including wellbeing, food, ageing, social disadvantage and cultural identity. Apply for a year’s program working with our amazing researchers, educators and clinicians supported by a $100,000 grant. 🌏 bit.ly/3FMqqTF 🗓️ Closing | 11:59pm Monday 19 May 2025

Explore the power of creativity at the Charles Perkins Centre: Our Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship is open for Australian creative writers to apply for a year’s program working with our amazing researchers, educators and clinicians. This generous fellowship includes a $100,000 grant to begin a project exploring issues around health including wellbeing, food, ageing, social disadvantage and cultural identity. Will you be the ninth CPC WiR, joining alumni: ✒️ Fiona Wright @writesfiona 🖊️ Lech Blaine @lechblaine ✏️ Sarah Holland-Batt @the_shb 🖋️ Emily Maguire ✒️ Tracy Sorensen @Squawkingalah 🖊️ Alana Valentine ✏️ Mireille Juchau 🖋️ Charlotte Wood 🌏 Explore | bit.ly/3FMqqTF 🗓️ Closing | 11:59pm Monday 19 May 2025

Overhaul the way obesity is diagnosed - experts recommend: A Lancet global Commission published in @TheLancet Diabetes & Endocrinology suggests that the traditional tool used to diagnose #obesity – #BMI – is unreliable when used on its own. Instead, clinicians should use a wider range of measures to determine whether a person has obesity. The Commission involved 56 world-leading experts including @CPC_usyd + @Sydney_Uni Prof @baur_louise former President of @WorldObesity and medical specialists in the US, UK, India and Brazil, as well as people living with obesity. Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/3ChHf7i 📷 Below: Prof Baur + Commission Chair Prof @FRubinoMD from @KingsCollegeLon

ICYMI- Is storytelling essential to innovation? If we can define the elements of a breakthrough, can we engineer the next great discovery in business, science, policy and civic life? Find out what our panel of writers, researchers + uber-creative thinkers say in a stonking conversation presented by @Sydney_Ideas @SydneyPolicyLab + @CPC_usyd 💡 Sophie Gee @sophieggee 💡 Charlotte Wood 💡 Stephen Simpson @eatlikeanimals 💡 Chaired by Kate Harrison Brennan @BrennanKate Watch the📽️ bit.ly/49dih55 Listen to the 🔊 bit.ly/49HO0f5

Partnership for the world: Addressing health inequalities “Huge problems require more than one discipline to solve, and that’s exactly why we get on so well with the @UofGlasgow: we think the same way” 🗣️ Professor Stephen J Simpson @eatlikeanimals, Academic Director, @CPC_usyd, @Sydney_Uni + Professor @RachelSandison, @UofGlasgow discuss how both universities are leveraging each other’s strengths to address health inequalities ⚖️ with joint PhDs, seminars + research projects 📽️ youtu.be/B_NHK2qhOk4

Two Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence alumni celebrating the launch of Emily Maguire's new book "Rapture" in conversation with Charlotte Wood. Presented by Better Read than Dead Bookshop @BRTDbookshop 📚 JHWiRF@CPC bit.ly/46udw5U 🗓️ 6-8pm Tuesday 8 October 2024 📍 St Stephen's Church, Newtown 🎟️ bit.ly/47RWWgY

Congratulations 👏 to Charlotte Wood - #CPC's very first Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow in 2016 - shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2024 for her book 'Stone Yard Devotional'. What The Booker Prize judges say : "Contemporary issues – climate change and a global pandemic – can sometimes appear as flat concepts or stale ideas in fiction, but Stone Yard Devotional is able to make both topics locally and vividly felt as haunting human stories" 🥇 Booker Prize 2024 announced: 12 November 🔗 bit.ly/47rfKn7