SCU Staff Directory

I am a marine ecologist with over a decade of experience on reef-building corals and their microalgal symbionts. I am particularly interested in research that advances insights into how corals and the reefs they build may adapt to warming oceans. I work in both, tropical and subtropical systems. A detailed research profile can be found in the link - https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/profile/david_abrego/

Dr Ali Reza Alaei obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, India, in 2012. For his PhD thesis, he worked on the segmentation and recognition of handwritten document images. He has since worked as a Post-Doc research fellow at the Computer Science Laboratory of Tours (LIFAT - EA 6300), Université François Rabelais de Tours, France, from June 2012 to July 2015. His Postdoc research work at the University of Tours was on fast detection and recognition of symbols (logos) in administrative document images enabling fast document retrieval, classification, and on the problem of image quality assessment. He has been a research fellow at the Griffith School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and latterly at the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) on several Big Data projects. His research focuses on artificial intelligence in general and data analysis, document image analysis & recognition, pattern recognition, and biometrics. He has published more than 50 research papers in high-quality international journals and conference proceedings. He has further developed a strong collaboration with many national and international laboratories/universities in Australia, India and France. He has served as a conference organizing chair, organizing committee member, and program committee member in various international conferences and workshops, including ICDAR, ICPR, ACPR, ICFHR, DAS, ICSIP, CVIP, ASAR, and PR4MCA. He is the reviewer of more than ten 'A' ranked international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Pattern Recognition, and Pattern Recognition Letters. His research interest includes Big Data analysis, statistical data modelling, symbolic data analysis, human perception modelling, pattern recognition, image processing, document image analysis and recognition, and biometrics (Signature/Writer identification/verification).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1669-2606

Fahimeh has a PhD in Computer Science from Griffith University. She has taught students in different age groups and has more than 10 years of teaching experience in different institutions. The focus of her research is on image processing and retrieval. She has worked on the problem of texture feature-based document image retrieval, classification, and biometric. Results and contributions of her research have been published in the form of international journal, international conferences, and workshops.

In her role as Lecturer in Humanities at Southern Cross University, Leticia primarily teaches in the area of Cultural Studies. Leticia has a dual research speciality in inclusive and transformational higher education and on race relations and Islamophobia in contemporary Australian society. Her current research is particularly focussed on strategies for connecting cultural competence to social justice curricula, and on evaluating representations of Islam and Muslims in press reporting during Australian election campaigns. Leticia formerly worked as an academic at the University of Sydney for ten years, most recently as a Lecturer at the National Centre for Cultural Competence. Leticia had also previously served as Degree Director for the Master of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. Prior to commencing her academic career, Leticia worked in the Indigenous rights and reconciliation movement, including as Executive Officer for the NSW Reconciliation Council.

Provision of policy advice to all areas of the University and its partners including investigation of non-academic misconduct matters; policy advice and education of staff on academic integrity including the academic integrity framework, Academic Integrity Management System (AIMS); oversight of the University complaints framework; policy review and implementation; and development of procedures and resources to assist compliance with new and, or existing University policy or rules.

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Team Leader, Science and Allied Health Laboratories.

Oversee a team of Technical Officers who are responsible for providing laboratory, computing, software, electronic and workshop support to students, staff, and clinicians in Health and Human Sciences course offerings at the Gold Coast, Lismore and Coffs Harbour campuses.

Provide leadership and technical expertise in all phases of software and equipment design, development and maintenance for teaching and research in the School of Health and Human Sciences across the Gold Coast, Lismore and Coffs Harbour campuses.

Design, write and/or adapt software applications to support research and teaching activities within the school. Electronics design and production to enable existing equipment to interface with modified software applications to enable users, eg staff and students, to extract data required for research projects.

Create custom databases or adapt existing databases to meet specific School objectives including scope definition, design and implementation of web interfaces for the databases which support administrative and functional activities within the school.

President of the Health And Exercise Science Technologists Association

Aspa Baroutsis (PhD) is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Education. She is known nationally for her research in media sociology, focused on portrayals of teachers, teaching, and schools across traditional print and social media; learning engagement and student voice across mainstream and alternative school settings; and digital pedagogies and school learning spaces that support student belonging and participation. Aspa has been awarded significant research income, including her current Australian Research Council Linkage grant. She has authored over 30 research publications in scholarly journals and with notable book publishers, co-authoring a number of these publications with leading scholars in the field.

Director of the National Marine Science Centre

https://www.scu.edu.au/marine-ecology-research-centre/people/kirsten-benkendorff/

Email:  admin@scpa.net.au (Postgraduate Association)

Librarian (Lismore Campus) working with Research Portal and liaison contact for Gnibi: College of Indigenous Australian Peoples. Currently working on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

My profile on ResearchGate

My profile on Academia.edu

My work page

Available for statistical consultation

Bill a geographer, archaeologist and landscape scientist, with scholarly interests in environmental change, human-landscape interaction, cultural studies and higher education. He has published extensively in all these areas, and has co-authored several books. Bill is the former Professor of Geography at Southern Cross University, and over his final decades at the university served it in various capacities, including being Chair of the Human Research Ethics and Animal Care & Ethics Committees, the University's Student Ombud, member of the University Council. He holds doctorates from the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, is a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, a Visiting Professor at the Australian Studies Centre, University of Barcelona, and a Visiting professor in the School of Education, Glasgow University.

Web pages:

https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/profile/william_boyd/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-boyd-b9262014

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Boyd

Junee is a member of the Learning Experience Team located on the Lismore campus.

Office of VP (Students) & Registrar

Associate Professor Wendy Boyd joined Southern Cross University in February 2009 with professional expertise in the field of early childhood education and care, where she taught for 25 years. This experience has taken her into research in this field, particularly in the field of the quality of early childhood education and care. She completed her PhD in 2011, the title of which was Parent decisions regarding paid work and care of the child. Wendy has published and presented from her PhD, and collaborated to publish research involving pre-service teachers' attitudes to child care, early childhood education for sustainability, pre-service teachers' mathematics anxiety and advocacy of pre-service teachers in the field of early childhood. Her approach to teaching of pre-service early childhood teachers has been recognised through the award of a 2011 Vice Chancellor's Citation Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 25 years of early childhood professional experience, Wendy led a large staff team to consistently achieve the highest ratings in the early childhood Quality Improvement and Accreditation System. Wendy is highly regarded in the early childhood field and active with the North Coast Branch of Early Childhood Australia, actively advocating for high quality early childhood education and care for children and their families.

Her research interests include adult tertiary education; hospitality and club management; the operations, economic and social impacts of gaming; responsible gambling evaluation; impacts on staff working in gaming venues; Indigenous gambling, older people's use of clubs and female gambling. Helen has been involved in many joint research projects attracting external and internal funding grants.

She is co-author of Australia's first textbook designed for gaming management students and has published extensively in international journals and conference proceedings.

Teaching into invertebrate Life, Fisheries and Marine park management and other marine ecology units

Research interests in marine ecology, particularly subtidal reef and sediment biodiversity and the age, growth record and environmental histories contained within shell, tooth and bone of invertebrates, fish, turtles and marine mammals.

Cathy is currently the Equity and Inclusion Support Officer in the University's Student Equity and Inclusion office, responsible for the co-ordination and management of administration and logistics to support the planning and implementation of the School and Community Outreach Program as well as offering support for Inclusion team members who assist students with disability. Cathy was previously the Staff Equity and Diversity Officer responsible for the Staff Development Program for Women and managed Equity and Cultural Diversity Events such as International Women's Day, Harmony Day and the Fusion Festival. Cathy has been employed in the University since 2000 and has held positions involving student support for the School of Education, the Southern Cross Business School and Student Services. She has a long history and extensive experience in adult education as a Computer Trainer and ACE Tutor.

Lecturer / Work Integrated Learning Coordinator

International Research Fellow

Antonia is a social anthropologist with the Centre for Children and Young People and is currently developing a new program of research which builds synergies between the interdisciplinary fields of childhood studies and tourism studies in order to advance knowledge informed by children and young people in the diverse tourism contexts of our increasingly globalising world. Antonia's previous work and research experience have developed her expertise in community wellbeing, with a particular focus on the wellbeing of children and young people. Research interests include: children's rights and participation, ethical dimensions of research with children, the anthropology of tourism and youth cultures.

Dr Leigh Carriage is an Australian composer, educator, performer, vocalist and public speaker. Leigh was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Vice Chancellor. The Citations recognise and reward the diverse contributions that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning. Leigh recorded an album Mandarin Skyline in Sydney at Studio 301, all of the original compositions were mixed and mastered in LA by Grammy Award winning Engineer, Helik Hadar. Mandarin Skyline was nominated for a National Bell Award. https://www.birdland.com.au/leigh-carriage-mandarin-skyline

Leigh recorded her fifth album Weave, featuring ten original compositions.http://jazz.org.au/weave-leigh-carriage/  Several pieces were written for large ensemble with horn and string sections. Weave won Album of the Year in the North Coast Entertainment Industry Awards in 2016. Leigh completed her research and compositions for her Ph.D., Doctorate in Philosophy (Composition) at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University. https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/20368 

Festival performances include the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival USA as well as Wangaratta Jazz and Blues, Brisbane Jazz Festival, East Coast Blues and Roots, Woodford Folk Festival, Melbourne International Women's Jazz Festival and Mullum Music Festival, Sydney's Newport and Manly Festivals. Recently Leigh performed with her quartet in the the famous Spiegeltent.

Research interests include composing, performance, improvisation techniques, vocal pedagogy and recording. At the International Jazz Voice Conference, Helsinki Finland, Leigh presented research on 'Hybridity in the music of Youn Sun Nah: New directions in jazz vocal style'.https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/Hybridity-in-the-Music-of-Youn-Sun-Nah-Directions-in-Jazz-Vocal-Style/991012831700002368 

Leigh is also an online contributor for the international publication The Conversation.https://theconversation.com/profiles/leigh-carriage-456522

Professor Collen Cartwright was appointed SCU Emeritus Professor in 2014 and Chair of the SCU Human Research Ethics Committee in 2018 (her current role). 

Qualifications: PhD (UQ 2004); MPH (UQ 1996); B. Soc Wk (Hons) (1989 UQ); ADA Arts/Drama (1984 NRCAE, now SCU).

From 2005-2014 she was SCU Foundation Professor of Aged Services and Director of the ASLaRC Aged Services Unit.

Her main areas of research have focussed on ageing issues, plus medical decisions at the end of life.  Professor Cartwright conducted several population-based studies into medical decisions at the end of life, including one in the Northern Territory while the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act was in place there (the first place in the world to pass legislation allowing both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide). She led the Australian arm of a study into medical decisions at the end of life, in conjunction with 6 European countries.

Professor Cartwright designed the Advance Care Directive and Enduring Power of Attorney documents that became part of the Qld Powers of Attorney Act 1998.

She has over 100 refereed publications, including journal articles, book chapters and reports to government and the aged care industry.

Professor Collen Cartwright was appointed SCU Emeritus Professor in 2014 and Chair of the SCU Human Research Ethics Committee in 2018 (her current role). 

Qualifications: PhD (UQ 2004); MPH (UQ 1996); B. Soc Wk (Hons) (1989 UQ); ADA Arts/Drama (1984 NRCAE, now SCU).

From 2005-2014 she was SCU Foundation Professor of Aged Services and Director of the ASLaRC Aged Services Unit.

Her main areas of research have focussed on ageing issues, plus medical decisions at the end of life.  Professor Cartwright conducted several population-based studies into medical decisions at the end of life, including one in the Northern Territory while the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act was in place there (the first place in the world to pass legislation allowing both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide). She led the Australian arm of a study into medical decisions at the end of life, in conjunction with 6 European countries.

Professor Cartwright designed the Advance Care Directive and Enduring Power of Attorney documents that became part of the Qld Powers of Attorney Act 1998.

She has over 100 refereed publications, including journal articles, book chapters and reports to government and the aged care industry.

I am the responsible for the stable isotope laboratory of the centre for coastal biogeochemistry. I have developed a new method to measure planktonic respiration in the light.

Southern Cross University Nurse Practitioner Clinic. Clinical specialty working with people with autism, their families, and service providers for people with autism such as school staff. Research focus is autism, intellectual disability and Advanced Practice Nursing.

Associate Professor Michael Charles is a member of the School of Business and Tourism at Southern Cross University. He is currently the School Director Higher Degree Research and the Coordinator of the Doctor of Business Administration, as well as a member of the School Executive and SCU’s Higher Degree Research Committee. He has a PhD from the University of Queensland and a Master of International Business Studies from the Queensland University of Technology. He has published over 80 refereed journal articles, together with numerous book chapters and refereed conference papers. His current research mainly focuses on infrastructure policy (particularly pertaining to transport), public values and infrastructures, research policy, collaboration and engagement between industry and academia, and history (mainly of the ancient world, with a particular interest in ancient Persia, elephants in warfare and ancient sexuality). He is also increasingly interested in research pertaining to the supervision of HDR candidates.

Data and Survey Coordinator at the Office of Business Intelligence and Quality.

Dr Marilyn Clarke is an obstetrician and gynaecologist. She is a Worimi woman from Port Stephens area and has been working on Gumbaynggirr country for the past 20 years. She works part time as part of the iSISTAQUIT project which aims to improve the smoking cessation rate in pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Assoc Professor Mike Climstein (PhD, FASMF, FACSM, FAAESS, AEP)

Academic:
+ Mike is working with the Clinical Exercise Physiology program at Southern Cross University (Gold Coast Campus).
+ Adjunct appointments as Assoc. Professor at the Exercise Health and Performance Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences The University of Sydney
+ Adjunct Associate Professor and Co-director of the Water Based Research Unit. https://www.facebook.com/WaterBasedResearchUnit/

At present Mike has 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications: 12 book chapters and over 100 national and International conference presentations. Current HDR supervision includes 5 PhD students, 1 MSc student and 1 Hons student.

Assoc Professor Climstein has been awarded Fellowship by the following organizations:
+ American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM)
+ Sports Medicine Australia (FASMF)
+ Exercise and Sports Science Australia (FAAESS)

Additionally, Assoc Professor Climstein sits on 3 national committees for Exercise and Sports Science Australia.

His research has been funded by Health Workforce Australia (Clinical Training funding scheme), Roche Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme, Diabetes NSW, National Heart Foundation and the ARC.

Current research projects include:
+ Medical and health history of Master's athletes
+ Effects of exercise on glycaemia in individuals with Type 2 diabetes
+ Lifetime prevalence of non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancer in Australian professional and recreational surfers
+ Lifetime prevalence of exostoses in surfers and swimmers
+ Musculoskeletal and physiological investigation of stand up paddle boarding (elite vs. recreational and 6wk intervention)
+ Musculoskeletal and physiological investigation of surfing (professional vs recreational)
+ Effect of cold water swimming on core temperature and strategies to improve cold tolerance in cold water swimmers
+ High intensity aerobic and resistance interval training in supervised cardiac rehabilitation

In his spare time mike surfs and continues to study karate.

For CV and other information email author.
 

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7815-3451

Born in New Zealand and based in Australia, Grayson Cooke is an interdisciplinary scholar and media artist, Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University. Grayson has presented media art and live audio-visual performance works in Australia and internationally, and he has exhibited and performed in major international festivals such as the Japan Media Arts Festival, NeMaf in Seoul, VIDEOFORMES in France, TIVA in Taipei, and the FILE Festival in Sao Paulo. As a scholar he has published widely in academic journals, and he is an associate editor for the online peer-reviewed journal Transformations. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montreal.

>>> Visit Grayson's personal website: http://www.graysoncooke.com

Introduction

I arrived at SCU for  first semester 2008 and ended my continuing position late 2017. I am currently an adjunct lecturer. I am a writer and have worked as an editor. I’ve taught semester-long writing subjects at the University of Canberra (a subject I wrote) online, the University of Adelaide (a subject I wrote), and Flinders University. I have given single seminars at the universities of Western Sydney and South Australia. I have taught writing at TAFE and to community groups.

Research

Grants and Awards

- Australia Council and Arts SA writing grants

- Varuna and Barbara Hanrahan Fellowships

- Writer-in-Residence, Monash University

- guest: Sydney, Melbourne, Byron, Yamba, Gold Coast and Bellingen Writers Festivals. I launched my first book at the Adelaide Festival Writers Week, on the committee 1998-2000 and judged the Festival/Premier’s nonfiction award.

- judged awards eg Bank SA short-story, Friendly Street Poetry, Carmel Bird Digital..

Creative Production

Books: two collections of short fiction, two short novels, and one collectin of prose poems. pressed specimens: Prose Poems from the Medicinal Plant Herbarium, Southern Cross University, from Beir Bua Press 2022. Numerous short creative prose pieces published in anthologies and literary journals. Edited a number of anthologies. 

Scholarly Production

(please see the link above for papers):

- the Australian writer Murray Bail

- ecocriticism

- fabric and affect with Dr Denise Rall

- art writing (also with Dr Rob Garbutt)

- home (with SASS colleagues)

- food and wine (also with Dr Steve Evans)

- creative-writing pedagogy

- intertextuality

- experimental writing

- the gothic (also with Tessa Chuddy and Dr Nell Cook)

- educating literary professionals in a region

Teaching

Introduction to Creative Writing, Prose, Writing Genre, Writing from the Edge, Writing Short Stories, Issues and Themes in Contemporary Writing, Food and Wine Writing, Introduction to Editing and Publishing, and supervised in Independent and Writing Projects.

Supervision

PhDs: as principal one Masters and six PhDs, co-supervised three (two at the University of Adelaide) PhDs. Subject matter: writing and visual art, scriptwriting, Atlantic salve trade, Picasso, Gothic/Noir, coastal living, storytelling and community transformation. Examined approximately 8 + PhDs and as many Masters (from universities of Canberra, New South Wales, Western Sydney, Adelaide, Victoria, Deakin, CQU, SQU, La Trobe, RMIT).

Honours: Supervised four theses to first-class, and three more. Subject matter: children’s writing, experimental writing, digital technologies (and realism and familial relationships), film script (non-horror serial murder), and short stories (community/place/loss). Examined many theses from Griffith University, the University of Adelaide, SCU etc.

Community Engagement

- Member of now defunct Arts and Culture Policy Advisory Group, Lismore City Council, Friends Lismore Regional Gallery (for whom I have written a catalogue essay), Byron Writers Festival, and informal Lismore Wine Club, Station Hotel.

- Read/perform my work at various venues.

- Chair numerous sessions at the Brisbane, Bellingen and Bryon Bay Writers Festivals.

- Wrote a wine review column for the Northern Rivers Echo 2009-2010 and The Village Journal (2012-present).

- Organised/co-organised eight readings in the Northern Rivers.

Registered Nurse in emergency, have been working in emergency for past 9 years. I developed and implemented the mentor program for new grads and 1st and 2nd year RNs coming to work in ED. I have my graduate certificate in critical care, I use my First Line Emergency care credentials when working in emergency. This gives me a broader capacity as a clinician when commencing treatment. My passion is teaching and bringing through excellent registered nurses into the system.

Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (BEd Hons Griffith, PhD CQU) is a Professor of Sustainability, Environment and Education at Southern Cross University, Faculty of Education, Australia. She is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Cluster. She has led over 40 research projects in environmental education and published over 150 publications largely centred on ontologies in/as nature through posthuman philosophy. She has a particular interest in child-framed arts-based research methodologies. Amy has also been recognised for both her teaching and research excellence in environmental education, including an OLT Teaching Excellence Award, Citation and the Australian Association for Environmental Education Fellowship (Life Achievement Award) for her outstanding contribution to environmental education research. 

Earle de Blonville FRGS is Chief Executive Officer of the Oceanic Research Institute (ORI). He is an Adjunct Professional Fellow at Southern Cross University, Australia; a Fellow of the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, University of Catalonia, Spain; and since 1984, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK. Earle holds the 1000th Queen Elisabeth II Silver Jubilee Award (1986).

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Social-ecological systems specialist focussing on collaboration for resilience.

www.linkedin.com/in/kristindenexter/

Kay Dimmock: PhD (SCU), M.Ed (USQ), B.Bus Tourism (Hons)(SCU). Kay has extensive experience teaching and researching within the School of Business and Tourism across 24 units at post graduate and undergraduate levels ranging from business management and strategy to leisure experiences and marine tourism. She has published in various peer reviewed journals including A*, individually and collaboratively written book chapters and contributed to industry based technical reports - in areas including management competencies in tourism education, managing tourism operations, international tourism trends and risk management in outdoor adventure. She works collaboratively with marine tourism stakeholders at regional and local levels. Kay supervises post graduate research students including in marine tourism, scuba diving tourism, teaching and education in tourism and adventure leisure.

I have been a nurse since 1979 and a midwife since 1990. I have taught nursing and midwifery in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Australia and China. My research interests involve the provision of woman-centred care for all childbearing women regardless of the midwifery context in which their care is provided. My other research interest involves educational strategies that will support graduate midwives and nurses to implement woman/patient-centred care into their practice.

Research

Midwifery, Nursing, Women's health in relation to childbearing, Educational strategies that support graduate health care professionals to implement patient-centred care into their practice, and Perinatal Mental Health. I have published 30 plus peer-reviewed articles and received over $400,000 in grant income.

Supervision

I have experience as primary supervisor and co-supervisor for Honours, Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy students, in nursing, midwifery and occupational therapy.

Teaching

I have been teaching within the midwifery, nursing undergraduate and postgraduate disciplines since 2002. I have been the recipient of a UON Vice Chancellors Award - Teaching Excellence & Contribution to student learning as well as a Faculty of Health and Medicine, Teaching and Learning Award for contributions to teaching excellence.

I have been a nurse since 1979 and a midwife since 1990. I have taught nursing and midwifery in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Australia and China. My research interests involve the provision of woman-centred care for all childbearing women regardless of the midwifery context in which their care is provided. My other research interest involves educational strategies that will support graduate midwives and nurses to implement woman/patient-centred care into their practice.

Research

Midwifery, Nursing, Women's health in relation to childbearing, Educational strategies that support graduate health care professionals to implement patient-centred care into their practice, and Perinatal Mental Health. I have published 30 plus peer-reviewed articles and received over $400,000 in grant income.

Supervision

I have experience as primary supervisor and co-supervisor for Honours, Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy students, in nursing, midwifery and occupational therapy.

Teaching

I have been teaching within the midwifery, nursing undergraduate and postgraduate disciplines since 2002. I have been the recipient of a UON Vice Chancellors Award - Teaching Excellence & Contribution to student learning as well as a Faculty of Health and Medicine, Teaching and Learning Award for contributions to teaching excellence.

International Student Support Officer, R1.46, Lismore Campus

www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-ferguson-652b97a0/

Adjunct Fellow, Marine Ecology Research Centre; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Southern Cross University

Monica Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in evolutionary ecology at Southern Cross University where she directs the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab as part of the Diverse Intelligences Initiative of the Templeton World Charity Foundation. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory) in plants. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, she has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. Inspired by encounters with Nature and indigenous elders from around the world, she applies a progressive and holistic approach to science – one that is comfortable engaging at the interface between areas as diverse as ecology, physics, law, anthropology, philosophy, literature, music and the arts, and spirituality. By re-kindling a sense of wonder for this beautiful place we call home, she is helping to create a fresh imaginative ecology of mind that can inspire the emergence of truly innovative solutions to human relations with the world we co-inhabit. Her latest book is Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic Books, 2018).

Nursing Clinical Skills Technical Officer

Faculty of Health

Nursing Clinical Skills Technical Officer

Faculty of Health

Rob Garbutt is an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies and Written Communication at the School of Arts and Social Sciences. His research takes an interdisciplinary cultural studies approach to issues of place, identity and belonging. Much of this work takes place with community members, or in collaboration with other researchers. His publications have focused on "settler" identity (for example in two books The locals and Inside Australian culture), explorations of relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians (in journals such as History and Anthropology and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies), and relationships in place between human and more-than-human inhabitants (in Continuum, Coolabah, M/C Journal and Transformations). In each instance, it is place, belonging and identity that are contexts for matters of concern.

Schelly Gardner is the Manager, Research and Academic Engagement team. Her team is responsible for the technical support for Southern Cross University's online learning management system, Blackboard Learn and ancillary tools including but not limited to Collaborate Ultra, Turnitin, Grammarly, ReadSpeaker, TextAid and VoiceThread. The Research arm of the team is responsible for providing support to Researchers and the Division of Research with ensuring access to an environment necessary to support world-class research. This includes supporting IRMA, LIMS, Qualtrics, and providing and implementing adequate storage and appropriate backup solutions.

Brief Biographical Details
Sam Garkawe is an Associate Professor at the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, NSW. Sam completed his Law Degree at Monash University, Melbourne, and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He has been employed in a number of legal environments, including private practice, legal aid, as a research solicitor for the Victorian parliament, and has been an academic since 1991. He further holds Masters of Law degrees from both London University and Sydney University, and is also admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in California.
Sam has taught International Criminal Law/Justice in a number of places around the world - Monash University (Melbourne); Hamline University School of Law, Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA); Tel Aviv (Israel); Whittier School of Law and Chapman University School of Law, (California, USA); and Murdoch University (Perth).
In 2009 Sam was elected to the Executive Committee of the World Society of Victimology and has been an active member of their UN Liaison Committee since 2003. He has published widely in the field of victimology, particularly with respect to the role of victims in international criminal justice mechanisms, such as the International Criminal Court and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Membership and involvement with Professional and Academic Organisations
Australasian Society of Victimology - Appointed to the executive Committee in May 2000, appointed as President in 2007.
Life member, World Society of Victimology - Member of the Academic Committee of the 8th International Symposium on Victimology, held in Adelaide, August 1994 & appointed to UN liaison Committee in July 2003, to its Awards Committee in 2006 and in early 2008 to the academic Advisory Committee for the 2009 International Symposium held in Mito, Japan in August 2009. Elected to the Executive in 2009, and appointed as Deputy-Chair of the UN liaison Committee in December 2009. In 2010 was appointed Chair of Standards and Norms Committee.
International Commission of Jurists up to 2006 - Brisbane branch, appointed to the Board in 2004, 2005 & 2006.
Full member of the Centre for Social Justice and Peace (formerly the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice and formerly Law, Politics and Culture), Southern Cross University.
International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Member of the California Bar (inactive).

Current Teaching
Human Rights
Victimology
Criminal Law & Procedure
International Criminal Justice

Units Taught
International Criminal Justice (At the 2011 Byron Bay Summer School Sam taught a specialist course covering the International Criminal Court).
Criminal Law & Procedure
Human Rights
Victimology

Awards Won:
On the 23 September 2008 Sam was awarded the Annual Victim Support Australasia Annual Prize for 2008. This was ‘In recognition of his Outstanding Leadership in Advancing the Academic Discipline of Victimology in Australia, and in Promoting International Recognition of Victims Rights’.

Current Research
The role of victims at the International Criminal Court

Research Interests
International & National Criminal Justice
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Victims of Crime
Victimology
International Human Rights & Civil Rights
Holocaust & Truth Commissions
Restorative Justice
International Law
 

Dr Emma Gentle is a researcher and an art therapist. Emma completed her PhD (USyd) on the capacity of group art-making processes to form connection. She has a MA in Art Therapy (UWS) where she researched the impact of art therapy on incarcerated young people, and explored identity through art-making processes. Emma also completed a MA in Applied Anthropology, Community and Youth Work (GU), with a dissertation on the efficacy of community arts projects in creating individual and social change. She completed under graduate diplomas in both psychology and applied psychology (BU). Emma’s research explores the capacity of art and creativity to improve mental health and promote wellbeing. In practice, Emma utilises art processes to: 1) cultivate unencumbered expression of difficult feelings; 2) for story-telling; 3) to increase connection; 4) to reduce stigma; and 5) as a creative recovery tool. 

Emma’s current work focuses on the impact of recent disasters on indviduals and their communities, pre-school children and young people with complex trauma backgrounds, families experiencing D.V, and people with mild and complex support requirements through the NDIS. Her previous work predominantly concentrated on using art processes to improve the mental-health of children, young people and families in Australia, UK and Mexico.

Reza’s research interest includes human-computer interaction, innovative application of technology in various context, IT innovation adoption, and virtual communities, and he has published several publications in these fields. Reza has a background in software engineering and information systems, and teaches software development and user experience units to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Kate Giles (nee Tuck).

Publishing under K Tuck.

I work Tuesdays and Fridays

Current Appointment: Learning Experience Team Assistant
Organisational Unit: Student Outrach
Email: shaka.gleeson@scu.edu.au
Location: Lismore 

Brief Biographical Details
A former Malaysian Rhodes Scholar, Professor Bee Chen Goh is a Fellow and Director of the Australian Academy of Law. She specialized in International Law at Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Harvard Law School in the Summer of 1993. Bee Chen is also a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London.

Bee Chen was Head of School, School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University (2006-2009). Currently the School Director of Research & Research Training, and Director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Bee Chen is also a Member of the University's Inter-Faith Committee. She currently serves on the Queensland Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee.

In the field of Chinese Negotiation (also the focus of her doctoral thesis), Bee Chen has published, and presented papers in Australia, New Zealand, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Norway. Bee Chen is well-versed in English, Mandarin, Malay/Indonesian and Hokkien (Taiwanese). Major Publications: Negotiating with the Chinese (1996, Dartmouth) (Hardback); Law Without Lawyers, Justice Without Courts - On Traditional Chinese Mediation (Ashgate 2002) (Hardback); Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices and Contexts (Ashgate 2012) (Hardback) (Edited by Goh, Offord and Garbutt).

Areas of Expertise
Alternative Dispute Resolution
International Law of Peace
Law and Religion
Contract Law

Climate Justice

Areas of Teaching
Mediation and Dispute Resolution
Mediating Across Cultures
Contract Law
International Law

Research Interests
Alternative Dispute Resolution (with a focus on Sino-Western issues)
International Law of Peace
Law and Religion

Climate Justice

Affiliations
Fellow and Director of the Australian Academy of Law
Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society
Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London
Member of Queensland Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee (2011-2014)
Director of Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University
Research Collaborator of Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion, University of Adelaide
Member of Southern Cross University's Inter-Faith Committee
Member of Women Lawyers Association of Queensland
 

His research interests currently encompass improving the management uses of nest and roost boxes (artificial hollows) for wildlife, determining whether specialised road crossing structures for gliding mammals are effective, and how to manage threatened species such as the broad-headed snake and eastern pygmy-possum within National Parks.

Ross is currently the editor of Australian Mammalogy, the journal of the Australian Mammal Society.

Some recent publications include:

Goldingay, R. L., and Dobner, B. (2014). Home range areas of koalas in an urban area of north-east New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 36, 74-80.

Goldingay, R.L., Harrisson, K.A., Taylor, A.C., Ball, T.M., Sharpe, D.J., and Taylor, B.D. (2013). Fine-scale genetic response to landscape change in a gliding mammal. PLoS ONE 8(3): e80383.

Newell, D.A., Goldingay, R.L. and Brooks, L.O. (2013). Population recovery following decline in an endangered stream-breeding frog (Mixophyes fleayi) from subtropical Australia. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58559.

Taylor, B. D., and Goldingay, R. L. (2013). Squirrel gliders use road-side glide poles to cross a road gap. Australian Mammalogy 35, 119-122.

Goldingay, R.L. (2012). Characteristics of tree hollows used by Australian arboreal and scansorial mammals. Australian Journal of Zoology 59: 277–294.

Taylor, A.C., Walker, F.M., Goldingay, R.L., Ball, T., van der Ree, R. (2011). Degree of landscape fragmentation influences genetic isolation among populations of a gliding mammal. PLoS ONE 6 (10): e26651.

Goldingay, R.L., Taylor, B.D. & Ball, T. (2011). Wooden poles can provide habitat connectivity for a gliding mammal. Australian Mammalogy 33: 36-43.

Taylor, B.D. & Goldingay, R.L. (2010). Roads and wildlife: impacts, mitigation and implications for wildlife management in Australia. Wildlife Research 37: 320-331.

Goldingay, R.L. & Taylor, B.D. (2009). Gliding performance and its relevance to gap crossing by the squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis). Australian Journal of Zoology 57: 99-104.

Gillian Gould is Professor in Health Equity and is currently completing an NHMRC Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellow, co-funded by Cancer Institute NSW, at Southern Cross University. She is an active vocationally registered GP with >30 years' experience, and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Her clinical work is at the Coffs Harbour Refugee Health Clinic which she co-founded in 2006. Previously a founding academic at UNSW Faculty of Medicine Rural Clinical School 2002-11, Head of Campus Rural Clinical school, senior research fellow. Gould is committed to supporting regional research.

Anne Graham is Professor of Childhood Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University. A primary school teacher and sociologist by background, Anne has worked in teacher education for 20 years and was Head of the School of Education at Southern Cross University from 2005-2009. Anne also holds a conjoint Professorial appointment at the University of New South Wales. In her capacity as Director of the Centre for Children and Young People, Anne has led over 60 research projects, including 7 Australian Research Council funded studies, most of which focus on children’s rights, wellbeing and safety. While Anne collaborates closely with education systems, she also leads projects involving other major state and Commonwealth government departments, key statutory bodies, major national and international NGOs, and many regionally based organisations providing programs and services to children. Anne’s research, which emphasises the critical importance of hearing children’s views, has been recognised by numerous awards, including most recently an Officer of the Order of Australia (2018) for her contribution to higher education in the area of childhood studies and children’s research. Anne serves on several key advisory bodies and is a Key Institution Director for the Childwatch International Research Network. While Anne has published extensively in scholarly journals and books, she also ensures her research culminates in ‘plain English’ research summaries, websites, ‘good practice’ guidelines, webinars, professional learning workshops, and education programs, to help ensure the research is accessible and relevant to those who can best use it. Anne is the author of the highly successful Seasons for Growth program, which provides children, young people and adults with knowledge and skills to adapt to significant change in family life following death, separation, divorce and other loss experiences. This not-for-profit program, sponsored by Good Grief Ltd, is now in its 3rd edition, with over 270,000 children, young people and adults, in 5 countries, having participated in the program. Anne continues to train and support hundreds of adult Companions who facilitate the program in schools and community settings.

Iain Graham, Professor of Healthcare Development, is the current Dean and Head of School for Health and Human Sciences. He is also the Director of Clinical Services overseeing the University Health Clinic.

Professor Graham has been in this role since April 2007. Prior to this appointment, Iain was the Dean of Health at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, and Professor of Nursing, at Bournemouth University, UK.

Iains role is to lead the evolution of the School at Southern Cross University, and position it so that the School can meet the major changes, and challenges, expected in the 21st Century for both the Health Service and Higher Education as it pertains to the health professions.

It should be noted that every health care system in the world, and by inference, every University which hosts a Nursing, Allied Health or Medical School, is facing reform and change. The worlds demographic and epidemiological profile is moving. Consumer expectation is rising, and every government seeks to provide a cost effective, quality based, and safe health care system. Therefore, Professor Graham is positioning the School so that it can work with such change, and re-position itself for an exciting future. Iains motto is: Be strong locally in order to be heard internationally.

Key Facts:

• Registered Nurse
  • United Kingdom
  • Commonwealth of Australia
    
• Adjunct Professorial Positions
  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  • Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Sydney NSW Australia
    
• Memberships & Fellowships
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
  • Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science
  • Member of Australasian College of Health Service Executives
  • Member of the Registered Nurse Accreditation Committee of ANMAC
  • Member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Iota Chapter – Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee USA
    
• Research Interests
  • Nursing theory, art, and science development
  • Leadership
  • Cultural aspects of health
  • Health improvements and system redesign
    
• International Activity
  • Various links and engagements in the UK, USA, South East Asia, China
    
• Policy Development Involvement
  • Held positions in both the UK and USA on various policy boards
    
• Academic & Professional Literature Contributions
  • Professor Graham writes for various academic and professional journals, and contributes to various books in his fields of interest.
  • Iain has been on various editorial boards for a number of professional and academic journals.
  • He is also a reviewer for various journals, particularly in the fields of nursing practice, nurse management and leadership, and organisational change.
    

Dr Evgeny Guglyuvatyy has a degree in Law from the Chelyabinsk State University and he also holds a Master’s degree in Law from Nottingham University. His PhD from UNSW was a comparative study of the climate change policies focusing on potential applicability of carbon tax and emissions trading in Australia. 

Evgeny's teaching and research experience spans over number of years at various Universities including: the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology Sydney and others. He specialises in commercial law, tax law, climate law and policy, corporations law, international law and international tax law.

Research Interests 
Climate change law
Comparative taxation
Tax law
Commercial law

Qualifications 
PhD (UNSW)
LLM (Nottingham)
LLB (Chelyabinsk)

Areas of Teaching 
Currently, Evgeny teaches corporations law. Beyond corporations law, he has also lectured in tax law, climate law and carbon markets, contract law and commercial law.
 

Currently, I am looking for dedicated ME/ Ph.D. students. If you are a POTENTIAL STUDENT (Domestic or International) with relevant research publications/experience/master degree in ROBOTICS/MECHATRONICS/CONTROL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS IN ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, please send your CV to HABIBULLAH@SCU.EDU.AU. For details about SCHOLARSHIPS AND ADMISSION please visit our website https://www.scu.edu.au/graduate-school/how-to-apply/scholarships/ and contact HDRSCHOLARHSIPS@SCU.EDU.AU.

I am also engaged in INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS for designing and developing solutions for INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION. We have a dynamic team @SCU working on Robotics and Automation with local primary industries, please don't hesitate to contact me if you need to consult any problem regarding AGRICULTURAL/INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS/AUTOMATION.

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John joins dots and brings people together for innovation. He has pitched to Google and (back in the day) Yahoo!, and held various executive and C-level roles, from an Australian Youth Ambassador in micro-enterprise in Nepal to EL2 contracts with government and corporate Australia.
Interests include technology, marketing, community, social enterprise, painting and fatherhood and camping.

Michael Hannan established the Contemporary Music program at Southern Cross University. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences.

EDUCATION

Hannan studied musicology at the University of Sydney and was awarded a PhD in 1979. In 1980 he undertook postgraduate studies in music composition with Peter Sculthorpe, with whom he had also worked as a composition assistant from 1969 to1971 and in collaborations throughout the 1970s. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award which enabled him to work for a year in the Program in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While at UCLA Hannan also studied composition with Elaine Barkin.

PUBLICATIONS

Michael Hannan has written over seventy works for concert hall, stage and screen, including electronic and experimental works and works involving improvisation. He has issued a CD of his experimental piano interior works, Terrains, on Tall Poppies Records (2000), and he composed the songs and many of the soundscapes for the Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA)'s major music theatre production, The Flood (2004).

He is the sole author of three books, Peter Sculthorpe: His Music and Ideas 1929-1979 (University of Queensland Press, 1982), The Australian Guide to Careers in Music (UNSW Press, 2003) and The Music of Richard Meale (Wildbird, 2014). His main areas of published research activity are in:

• Screen music and sound (particularly in Australian feature films)
• Work practices of musicians
• The education of professional musicians
• The Beatles' music
• Arts practice-based research
• Music of Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale and Ross Edwards
• Local music cultures

SUPERVISION

Michael Hannan has supervised 10 PhD and 4 Masters by Research projects to completion. These cover a broad topic range, including popular songwriting, contemporary a cappella music, electronic dance music, contemporary music theatre, new music composition, third stream jazz, ambient music, multimedia, intermedia frottage and music production. Most of his research students have done composite theses, combining a creative or performance project with a written contextualising paper (exegesis).

COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

Hannan has received a variety of grants and awards including:
 

• ARC Linkage-Project Grant (co-chief investigator with Professor Paul Thom and industry partner, Lyndon Terracini) Regional performing arts: theory, practice and policy ($87, 384 for 2003)
• ARC Discovery -Project Grant (co-chief investigator with Dr. Rebecca Coyle and Professor Philip Hayward). Music production and technology in Australian Film: enabling Australian film to embrace innovation. ($136, 125 for period 2007-2010)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Hannan was a member of the Music Board of the Australia Council from 1999 to 2002 and Chair of the Music Council of Australia from 2002 to 2004. He was a member of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician from 2004-2010, and was its Chair, 2004- 2006 and 2008-2010.

Jennifer Harrison BBus (with Dist.) Hons I, University Medal (SCU) PhD (UNE) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Tourism at the Gold Coast Campus. She has over 20 years higher education experience and was recognised as a 2021 Southern Cross University Inspiring Educator. During 2016 and 2017, Jennifer managed the SCU Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Professional Accounting (MPA) programs and earlier service positions include Department Head of Accounting, Finance and Quantitative Methods, School Director of Higher Degrees Research Training, and Honours Coordinator. She has experience in not-for-profit governance, having served as a voluntary board member. During her academic career, Jennifer has taught business finance, managerial economics, research methods, quantitative methods and accounting at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prior to entering academia, she held accounting positions in the advertising industry. Jennifer has over 40 research publications in entrepreneurship, strategy, management, accounting, finance and marketing, reflecting her multidisciplinary understanding of business. As methodological consultant and data analyst, she has also been actively involved in a wide range of consulting projects across a variety of industries including banking, agriculture, software development and sport and fitness and for firms such as Microsoft and the Chandler McLeod Group. Dr Harrison’s current research interests are focused on financial literacy, financial well-being, financial advisor anxiety and, in the context of accounting and finance education, maths anxiety. She supervises a number of higher degree research students in related topics.

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Dr Barry Hill is a musician and music researcher. As a bass player and guitarist, Dr Hill has peformed and recorded with many popular music ensembles, theatre and dance groups and multimedia projects both in Australia and overseas. His published research specialises in the fields of popular music culture and performance practice, audio technology and musicology. Dr Hill currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer at Southern Cross University School of Arts and Social Sciences.and teaches into the SCU Bachelor of Contemporary Music Undergraduate program.

Matt Hill is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Contemporary Music at Southern Cross University. He completed a PhD at James Cook University with a practice-based study researching the influence of new technologies on music creation in a variety of genres from historical, analytical and personal practice perspectives. His research interests include collaborative music making processes, film music, music analysis and musician careers. Matt is a composer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist and has worked in a wide range of contemporary music contexts. He is the keyboard player and sound-scape co-designer with the group amphibian, with whom he has toured to the UK and throughout Australia. He won the NCIEA Dolphin album of the year award for his solo album "Warm Keep Warm" and has received Australia Council for the Arts grants with amphibian. His album "Stars and the Moon and Satellites" was released in 2018.

Dr. Wes Hill is an art historian, art critic, curator and artist who lectures in art theory and visual culture studies. Speciality research areas include modern, postmodern and contemporary art, the hipster, and the delimitation of critical/aesthetic/ethical taste in cultural practice. His most recent publications are "Art after the Hipster: Identity Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and "How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics" (Routledge, 2016). His writing is regularly published in magazines and journals such as Artforum, Frieze, Broadsheet, Eyeline, Artlink and Art and Australia. Wes has been awarded multiple Australia Council for the Arts grants, in 2004, 2008 and 2012, as well as multiple Arts Queensland grants, in 2004, 2006, 2012. In 2008 he was awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales Dyason Bequest, for which he undertook a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Curated exhibitions include "Archie Moore" (NCCA, Darwin) "Outside Thoughts" (CAT, Hobart) "This is what I do" (Metro Arts, Brisbane), and 'Speech Acts' (UTS Gallery, Sydney). As an artist he specialises in the medium of installation, collaborating with Wendy Wilkins as ‘Wilkins Hill’ at institutions such as Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Artspace (Sydney), and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Following a long career as a professional musician, composer and entertainer, and a period working for the Australian and UK governments, Owen now lectures in business and creative arts at Southern Cross University. Owen teaches and consults in areas of entrepreneurship, service innovation, strategy, and design thinking. Owen has published research in fields such as entrepreneurship, strategic management, higher education policy and small business innovation. Owen has also founded two successful creative industries businesses.

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Dr Louise Horstmanshof (BA, GradDipApPsych, MOrgPsych, PhD) has been researching and publishing for over 20 years with a focus on person-centred ageing and aged care.  She led two Australian Department of Health (formerly HWA) grant projects for Southern Cross University. These projects were aimed at increasing student placements in Primary Health Care settings and with older adults. Despite not being a research project, Dr Horstmanshof published the positive findings for both Nursing and Allied Health students and older adults from this community engagement project. With her team Dr Horstmanshof was awarded a community engagement award for this work.

From her experience of working with students and their supervisors to prepare health-work students for practice, she has developed a keen understanding of the explicit and implicit expectations and requirements of the various stakeholders and how to best manage these. This skill is key to maximising the outcomes of such interactions and relationships. She is published in this area of training and preparation of health workers.

Horstmanshof, L., & Moore, K. (2016). Understanding the needs of all stakeholders: Issues of training and preparation. Asia Pacific Journal for Cooperative Education, 17(2), 93-100.

She is regularly invited to collaborate, co-author, and review as a result of her expertise in this area. 

Moore, K., Bacon, R., Bevitt, T., Biolocerkowski, A., Ciccone, N., Haworth, N., Horstmanshof, L., Milne, N., Naumann, F., Sanderson, B., & Wells, C. H. (2018). The university health clinic: Definition, educational practices and outcomes. Focus on Health Professional Education, 19(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.11157/fohpe.v19i2.213

Haworth, N., Horstmanshof, L., & Moore, K.M. (2020).  Chiropractic and Osteopathic students’ perceptions of readiness for transition to practice: The educational value of different clinical education settings. Journal of Chiropractic Education. https://doi.org/10.7899/-19-13

The Realist Evaluation of the Dementia Literacy Toolkit Project on behalf on the North Coast PHN was published and has been cited in The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Rowland et al, (2019) Report on Health Evidence. Particular mention was made of the mixed methods approach and the used of the Health Literacy Questionnaire.  It was a good example of co-design and co-production of resources and demonstrated that this “not about us, without us” collaborative approach

Grace, S. & Horstmanshof, L. (2019) A realist evaluation of a regional Dementia Health Literacy Project. Health Expectations. doi:doi:10.1111/hex.12862

Louise has held several leadership roles in the university.  She was the Chair of School Board for the School of Health and Human Sciences from 2019-2021. Currently she is in Psychology in the Faculty of Health and is the Unit Assessor for Development Across the Lifespan (Bachelor of Psychological Sciences) and Applied Research and Evaluation for the Psychological Scientist-Practitioner in the Psychology Honours Degree. Louise is a strong advocate for Interprofessional teaching and learning. She supervises several PhD students and also supervisors students from the Psychology Honours Degree.

Katie Hotko is an Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University. Katie is the Unit Assessor of CRTV1001 Creativity and the Arts. She is also an active member of the SEAE (Sustainability, Environmental, and Arts Education) Research Cluster. Katie is in the final stages of her PhD exploring Primary Teachers’ self-beliefs about creativity, and how these beliefs affect their teaching of the Visual Arts. Katie is a self-taught artist who is passionate about making the Visual Arts accessible to all people. Through the lens of process philosophy and a/r/tography, her inquiry delves into the becoming of the creative self-identities of practising generalist primary teachers in the Visual Arts. 

Dr. Ya-Ling Huang has her Masters and PhD in Nursing, and is a registered nurse in Australia and overseas. She is a teaching and research academic, Faculty of Health (Nursing Discipline) at the Southern Cross University and a visiting research fellow at the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service (GCHHS) as well as an adjunct research fellow at the Griffith University with various experiences in clinical, education and research. She was previously awarded for Nursing and Midwifery Professional Recognition Program -RN Expert Level, GCHHS. 

Previously, she has worked as a research coordinator and clinical nurse researcher (emergency department) at the GCHHS and has successfully mentored clinicians and nursing students in clinical research and published in peer-review journals. She has also worked as a registered nurse in various acute and subacute clinical areas. 

She has been involved in research projects which have attracted more than a quarter of a million dollars in research grants and award as a principal and associate investigator. Her research interests focus on clinical research in acute care settings and research evidence-based practice.

Key research topics: Acute Care (Emergency; Respiratory), Sub-acute Care (Palliative; End of Life; Chronic Care), Vulnerable Populations (Older People; Cultural and Linguistic Diversity), Research Evidence-based Practice, Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research and Cultural and Social Aspects.

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Mark Hughes is a social worker and has worked in health, aged care and mental health settings in both Australia and the UK. He has also worked as a social work academic at the University of Queensland, the University of New South Wales, and Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is currently Dean and Head of School, School of Arts and Social Sciences.

Mark's research interests centre around ageing and the delivery of health and aged care services to older people. He has completed research projects on conflict and violence in care-giving relationships involving older people, dementia and care-giving, older people's transitions through health and community care systems, and educational initiatives to facilitate reflective practice with older people. In addition to work on ageing, Mark has also published more broadly on social work and social work education.

He is currently engaged in a program of research on ageing in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities, which has involved projects on sexual identity expression in health and aged care, lesbian and gay people's experiences and expectations in accessing services, and the care networks of older LGBTI people.

Grants

Advancing Social Work Research - ARC Discovery Grant 2017-2020
The aim of the Advancing Social Work Research project is to increase the production, utilisation, and impact of social work research in Australia in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of human services. It is designed to enhance conceptual, methodological, and empirical understandings of the distinctive nature of social work research and its contribution to human services policy and practice. Research team: Professor Clare Tilbury, Griffith University; Professor Mark Hughes, Southern Cross University; Professor Christine Bigby, La Trobe University; Professor Mike Fisher, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Reducing Health Disparities for Older LGBTI Australians - ARC Linkage Grant 2016-2019
This project brings together researchers and key organisations in the health, aged care, and LGBTI sectors to build a much-needed evidence base to optimise health and aged care services throughout Australia. It will utilise quantitative and qualitative methods to provide detailed data on the health and support-related challenges and needs of older LGBTI Australians, as well as the educational and support needs of service providers, and will develop essential resources to support policymakers and service providers in reducing the health disparities faced by older LGBTI Australians. Research team: A/Prof Anthony Lyons, La Trobe University; Dr Catherine Barrett, La Trobe University; Prof Victor Minichiello, University of New England; Prof Mark Hughes, Southern Cross University; Prof Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, University of Washington, USA.

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Amanda is an Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Education. 

Midwifery academic, researcher and author  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-227X

Luke is a wetland biogeochemist and scientist with experience in greenhouse gas emissions, groundwater, estuaries and carbon cycling. His postdoctoral research position will lead a ground-breaking project and team, exploring the role trees play in both consuming and releasing methane from soils to the atmosphere.