Agile Nation: New Zealand’s response to terrorism (TEDxAuckland 2019)
2025
2025 Monash University Vice Chancellor’s Excellent Awards Nominations
- Prof Hoda was nominated in the Research Engagement and Impact Award
- The DHCRC Enhancing Telehealth project team led by Prof Hoda was nominated for the Research Team of the Year Award,
2025 Dean’s Awards for Research Excellence, Faculty of IT, Monash University
- Prof Hoda received the Ariel Liebman Award for Excellence in Research Engagement and Impact Award, 2025
- Dean’s Research Team of the Year Award went to the DHCRC Enhancing Telehealth project led by Prof Hoda.
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Prof Rashina Hoda is named Top Researcher in Australia for Software Systems by The Australian 2025 Research Magazine, 28 Nov 2024
ABC News Live reporter Melissa MacKay interviews Prof Rashina Hoda about developing Responsible AI, in response to the UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, 14 January 2025
Herald Sun featured Trailblazing Victorian Indian-Australian women in STEM including Prof Rashina Hoda, 7th Jan 2024
2024
“How to be Friends with Qualitative Research in a Socio-Technical World“, an invited talk to the Socio-Technical group at the University of Birmingham (online), Dec 2024
Prof Rashina Hoda received the “Guiding Star Mentorship” Mentor award at the Women of Colour in STEM Awards, December 2024
Scholarly Communication podcast featuring Prof Rashina Hoda talking to host Daniel Shea about research methods, qualitative research, philosophy and much more, December 2024
Book Launch of “Qualitative Research with Socio-Technical Grounded Theory” authored by Rashina Hoda, published by Springer, 26th Nov 2004
Photo: Prof Ann Nicholson launching the book
“How to be Friends with Qualitative Data”, Key Story presented by Rashina Hoda at the Research Bazaar (ResBaz) Conference 2024, 26th Nov 2024
“Herding Cats: Reflections from leading a large interdisciplinary telehealth project”, Rashina Hoda, Successes and Failures in Telehealth (SFT 2024), Brisbane, Nov 2024
“Diversifying Diversity: Beyond Buzzwords Towards Inclusive Innovation”, Rashina Hoda, SXSW Sydney, October 2024
Photo credit: Adrian Phoon
“Ada Lovelace Day Celebration” at the Faculty of IT, Monash University, co-organised by the EDI and Marketing portfolios, featuring Dr Linda McIver, Mayase Jere, and Helen Vorath, hosted by Prof Rashina Hoda
Photo credit: Elka Mallon
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“Happy, Healthy, and Creative – Software Developers of the Future“, Rashina Hoda, Bridges Summit, September 2024
“The Culture Add: Measuring Cultural Diversity and Inclusion at Work” featuring Tasneem Chopra OAM, hosted by Prof Rashina Hoda, co-organised by FIT’s EDI and Marketing portfolios as part of Monash EDI Week, September 2024
“Digital Wellbeing” panel at Mannix College, with Dr Joanne Orlando, Professor Craig Hassed OAM, Dr Geoffrey Pascoe, moderated by Prof Rashina Hoda, September 2024
Keynote on “Ethical AI” at John Monash Science School AI Immersion Day, September 2024
“Shaping the future of work” panel with Michael Fagan (CEO, Quitch), Rashina Hoda (Monash University), Seep Gulati (Dept of Govt Services), and Katrina Kolt (Aurecon), August 2024
“Reimagining Agile: Forward to the Future” panel with Jim Highsmith (co-creator, Agile Manifesto), Chet Hendrickson (co-creator, eXtreme Programming), Angie Doyle (Director of Digital Transformation, Nike), and Rashina Hoda, April 2024.
“Jam packed, energising, and meaningful “– loved the ICSE 2024 and CHASE 2024 experience in Lisbon, Portugal!
“Women in Tech: Building an Equitable World” Panel celebrating International Women’s Day organised by Blacks in Tech Australia
“Spotlight on women of colour in academia at Monash University” -A Monash Lens article celebrating International Women’s Day 2024
2023
“A Tale of Two Species: Balancing new technology and ethical considerations” – An invited commentary in the Australian Book Review (Nov 2023 Issue), based on the ABC Radio National’s Ockham Razor talk, November 2023
“Augmented Agile“ – An invited talk at Agile Australia 2023, Sydney, August 2023.
“When AI Surprises a software engineer” – An invited talk at the ABC Radio National’s Ockham’s Razor live event at Melbourne, shared as a podcast, August 2023
“Staying ahead of the artificial intelligence revolution” – A Monash University documentary
“Soapbox Science Melbourne 2023” – talking about “Ethics in AI” with everyday Melbournians on the streets of Melbourne, outside the State Library as part of the Soapbox Science Melbourne organsied by STEM Sisters in the National Science Week, August 2023
- “Technical Briefing on Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Qualitative Data Analysis” – Technical Briefing presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023, Melbourne (No Video), May 2023
- “Virtually There in Virtual Care” – Invited Talk at ADAM Deep Dives organised by the Alliance for Digital Health at Monash, April 2023
- “You Asked For It: Making Sense of User Feedback” Invited Talk at Never Work in Theory (NWiT) Event, April 2023
- “Digital Health through a Socio-Technical Lens” Keynote at Digital Health Week 2023 (video below), February 2023
2022
“Bridging the Gap: Agile by the book vs Practice“ – An Invited Talk at Agile Australia 2022, Melbourne, August 2022
- “Demystifying AI: Your Top Concerns” Panel presented by Monash Tech Talks as part of the Melbourne Knowledge Week, May 2022
- “Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering“, Journal First Talk at ICSE 2022
- ABC Radio’s Conversation Hour – Listen on “Do we need to reframe how we think about palliative care?” with Richelle Hunt
- WhoIsAgile – Watch Here featuring Rashina Hoda, interviewed by Yves Hanoulle.
2021
- ICSE 2021 Technical Briefing – Watch Here “Decoding Grounded Theory for Software Engineering” – Technical Briefing at ICSE2021 presented by Rashina Hoda, introducing Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for SE research.
- Invited talk on STGT at PUC-Rio – Watch Here “Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering” – An invited talk at the PUC-Rio, Brazil (presented virtually), Dec 2021
- Girls in STEM Toolkit – Read Here “Q&A with Superstar of STEM, Dr Rashina Hoda” – article featured in the Girls in STEM Toolkit (GiST)
- Agile Caravanserai – Watch Here “Agile, the pandemic, and inspiration” – a chat with Rashina Hoda, on Sanjiv Augustine’s Agile Caravanserai series. Sanjiv is a best selling author and consultant on agile project management.
- Science Meets Parliament panel – Watch Here “How to be a great ambassador for the STEM sector” panel at the 2021 Science meets Parliament conference event that ran virtually.
- International Women’s Day – Watch Here Games and Entertainment Association (GEA)’s International Women’s Day: Rashina Hoda and Jini Maxwell in conversation.
- Women’s Agenda – Read Here “20 women who blazed a trail in STEM this year” featuring A/Prof Rashina Hoda and other amazing women in STEM in Australia.
- Selected Superstar of STEM – Read Here by Science and Technology Australia, 2021-22
2020
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Listen Here “Rashina Hoda on using Scrum, Kanban and Agile in academic research”, interviewed by Vasco Duarte and Yves Hanoulle, December 2020
- Invited Guest Talk – Watch Here “A Talk and Q/A with Rashina Hoda on Grounded Theory in Software Engineering” at the Empirical Software Engineering course at the University of Victoria, Canada, hosted by Prof Margaret Anne-Storey, Oct 2020
- ASE2020 Panel Session – Watch Here “Human-centric software engineering, past, present and future“, Rashina Hoda and Chetan Arora, at the HCSE&CS Workshop at the Automated Software Engineering (ASE2020) conference, September 2020
- InfoQ Podcast – Listen Here “Rashina Hoda on Pandemic Programming and Agile Nations”, interviewed by Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, InfoQ, August 2020
- Audiobook featuring “Enable Growth” by Rashina Hoda – Listen Here “Tips from the Trenches – Scrum Master Edition”, 2020
- Monash Tech Talk – Video and Podcast Here “Agile Nations – recovering from a pandemic” with Rashina Hoda, Shane Hastie, Evan Laybourne, hosted by Mimi Kwa, August 2020
- ICSE2020 AMA Session – Watch here “As Me Anything” with Prof Nenad Medvidovic at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), hosted by Rashina Hoda, July 2020
- Melbourne Conversations Panel Session – Watch Here “Melbourne Conversations: Democratise the internet“, Rashina Hoda and Lizzie O’Shea, hosted by Vanessa Toholka at the Melbourne Conversations organised by the City of Melbourne, July 2020
- ACS Article – Read Here “Programmers suffer through pandemic, Survey finds low productivity and well-being among developers” featuring Rashina’s research into Pandemic Programming in Information Age by the Australian Computer Society, June 2020
- InfoQ Article – Read Here “Pandemic Programming Survey Results Show Negative Impact of COVID-19 Changes” featuring Rashina’s research in an InfoQ article, June 2020
- ABC News Article – Read Here “What science and tech can teach us about how to deal with a crisis like coronavirus” featuring Rashina’s research in The Drum, ABC News, May 2020
- Monash Lens Article – Read Here “Harder, better, faster, stronger: Agile nations the most effective in combating COVID-19” by Rashina Hoda, featured in the Monash Lens, May 2020
- 3RRR Radio Podcast – Listen Here “Byte into IT episode” on 102.7FM 3RRR Digital Radio featuring Rashina Hoda (30 mins onwards) and Steven Conway, hosted by Vanessa Toholka, April 2020
2019 and earlier
Becoming Agile vs Doing Agile (Agile India 2019)
Becoming Agile (Agile NZ 2017)
What Makes Your Team Self-Organizing (Agile Middle East 2016)
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