The Human Side of Modelling

Every model carries a worldview — whose questions it asks, whose values it counts, whose futures it imagines.

Join us for this month's Front Room, an informal space for the McCusker Institute's growing community to connect, reflect, and learn from each other's practice.

Dr Ehsan Nabavi (Senior Lecturer Technology & Society, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science and Head of Responsible Innovation Lab, ANU) makes the case that the hardest problems in scientific modelling were never really technical — they're social, cultural, and ethical, and it's time we treated them that way.

Monday 24 August | 12-1pm | McCusker Institute, John Yencken Building

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The ANU McCusker Institute Front Room offers a dedicated space and time, for our growing cohort of people to come together informally to learn and reflect on each other's practices, motivations and challenges. We invite all who are connected with the McCusker Institute - students, fellows, affiliates, partners, staff - or anyone who is interested in building a shared collaborative culture to enable social change, to keep in touch with our community and contribute to our development.

The format is intentionally low-key — designed to build genuine connection across the cohort while also helping McCusker Institute better understand the questions,challenges and opportunities emerging across our community.

This event series is led by Sejul Malde, McCusker Institute Affiliate, the Collaborative Research Initiatives Manager, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU & the Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives Lead, Cobeo

Sejul works at the intersection of research, partnerships, and collaborative culture-building. Alongside his role at ANU, he co-leads Cobeo, a research-based initiative helping people and organisations navigate collaboration more effectively — making the often invisible dynamics of working together visible, and giving teams practical tools and language to address them. His background spans the cultural and community sector, corporates, think tanks, policy, and philanthropy, with a consistent focus on people, values, and building collaborative capability for social good.