Strategic Research Partnerships
Event archive
The inaugural "in-quiz-itive" on children's health and wellbeing
You are warmly invited to attend this special "in-quiz-itive" - an interactive symposium to explore issues that affect children's health and wellbeing. This fun, engaging and insightful event offers an opportunity for researchers (from many disciplines), government, education and other community members to explore important issues affecting children's wellbeing and meet people who share some of your interests.
This event is FREE but registration is essential
email yvonne.boardman@unisa.edu.au
by Tuesday 1 December.
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Monday 5 December
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Education Development Centre
4 Milner Street
Hindmarsh
download the brochure for more information (250 kb, pdf file)
A Day in the Lives of Regional South Australians
What are we talking about when we refer to Regional Australia? What do we mean by Rural? Remote? Do these terms refer to different places or to different concepts? Are these differences important - to the policy makers or to the communities themselves?
What are the distinctions experienced by those living and working in these towns and smaller communities?
How does this play out in their day to day life?
What do these communities see as important distinctions for those developing policy?
These and related questions will be addressed at this exciting event!
Drawn Here
A visual arts exhibition that explores the portrait as an affirmation of belonging by Visual Artist, Daniel Connell
Place as Identity
Place as Identity is a one day research symposium that will explore how, and why, connections to place, country and the local area produce cultures and communities. Individual and collective understanding of what it means to be from and of a particular place serves to shape questions, attitudes and behaviour. It is also the ground upon which national and state policy, economic development, technological change and innovation play out. Knowing and caring for a place, in all its dimensions and contradictions, is an essential component in growing sustainable, healthy regional futures.
This free event is open to anyone with an interest in the future of our rural, regional and remote communities.
Room H1-44
Amy Wheaton Building
Magill Campus,
UniSA (St Bernards Rd, Magill)
Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Tea provided
Post Event Networking with drinks and nibbles from 4.15pm to 5.30pm
Registration by Monday 19 September 2011 to Lynette Kelly on 8343 8731 or by email lynette.kelly@unisa.edu.au
Download the brochure for more information - (208 kb pdf file)
More than Square Eyes? Children and the Media
How can young people use social media without being at risk? This interactive discussion will explore the various ways in which children engage with social media and associated benefits and risks.
This event is FREE but for catering purposes please REGISTER by emailing lynette.kelly@unisa.edu.au by the 31st of August.
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Monday 5th September
2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Bradley Forum, Level 5 - Hawke Building
UniSA City West Campus
50-55 North Terrace,
Adelaide
Afternoon tea will be provided
Download the brochure for more information - (450 kb pdf file)
2011 Migration Update Conference - Framing the Migration Debate
23 June and Friday 24 June
Basil Hetzel Lecture Theatre,
The Institute Building
(corner North Terrace & Kintore Ave)
With much in the media concerning Australia's Refugee and Migration policies, it is appropriate to deeply consider our practices in migration, the regional impacts of migration as well as community responses and the issues of skills, youth and pathways to employment for young refugees and migrants in South Australia. More information...
Knowledge Works continues UniSA's popular public lecture series focusing on the University's groundbreaking and world-class research in action. In the 2011 Knowledge Works series, insightful findings will be shared across a broad spectrum of UniSA's research expertise including health and wellbeing, marketing and business, our society and culture, and Australia's technological and sustainable future.
| Watch our video for a snapshot of the 2010 Knowledge Works lecture series. |
Risk Roundtable
On 11 November 2010 the University of South Australia Peace, Defence and Security Research & Innovation Cluster, in partnership with the School of Nursing and Midwifery Health Research Group held an 'ideas roundtable' on the topic of risk (broadly defined) for people living in the community with mental health problems or mental illness.
The Roundtable discussed risk in mental health by bringing together service leaders, practitioners and academics with an interest in making, responding or researching risk assessment. It is widely acknowledged that people with serious mental health problems and mental illness have complex needs and risk factors that require multiple stakeholder involvement and evaluation. The Roundtable considered critical themes, debates and research possibilities associated with risk for people with mental illness in the community, with a view to formulating an interdisciplinary research grant submission to be led by UniSA in 2011.
It is hoped that the ideas roundtable will help craft a grant submission leading to research that makes meaningful progress toward SA Health service reforms for people with mental illness interacting across sectors and living in the South Australian community. Subsequently, client and service provider outcomes will be greatly improved by offering evidence based guidance towards better risk management strategies and inter-agency collaboration between stakeholders.
For further information, please contact Nadine Painter Nadine.painter@unisa.edu.au
Are you being compromised? Challenges of cyber communication in the 21st century.
Professor Jill Slay
and Detective Senior Sergeant Barry Blundell
Wednesday 20 October
2010, 6.00pm.
This public lecture presented by two experts in the area of cybersecurity, Detective Senior Sergeant Barry Blundell and Professor Jill Slay will challenge our thinking about how ICT impacts law enforcement, and how research is playing a pivotal role in enhancing security in today's cyber communication. More information
Cities' Futures. Managing material flows and resource recovery in the City of Tomorrow
'Cities are resource-intensive systems. By 2030, we will need to produce 50 per cent more energy and 30 per cent more food on less land, with less water and fewer pesticides.'
Zero Waste SA Research Centre featured at this Knowledge Works free public lecture on 23 September 2010. In this compelling lecture, international urban sustainability expert Professor Lehmann discussed the need to build resilience in the design of new districts and more compact communities, and to reorganise the supply of construction materials through the reuse of building components and modular prefabrication of construction systems.
Prof Lehmann leads an interdisciplinary team of researchers at UniSA, discovering and disseminating new knowledge on how cities will need to transform and grow, and how we can reduce consumption, to ensure sustainable urban development. Both behavioural change and resource related research are understood as major components of a low-to-no-carbon future.
Why collaborate: thinking together differently
A workshop on collaborative research projects from start to finish
Facilitators: Prof Elspeth Probyn and Janet Dibb-Leigh
This two-hour workshop held on 24 May provided real and fresh insights into the joys, challenges and rewards of collaborative research - across disciplines and across organisations. Key principles and successful practices in early stage to long-term collaboration were illustrated through the sharing of selected case studies of current partnerships spanning science and technology, the social sciences and humanities.
Peace, Defence & Security Cluster
Refugee trauma across the
lifespan - Symposium
29 October 2009, National Wine Centre
Refugee trauma across the lifespan is recognised worldwide as a significant mental health issue in our times.
Refugee trauma can be across many cultures and there is much diversity with regard to idioms of distress causing a change in behaviour and mental well being. Refugee trauma is included in Australia's National Mental Health Plan, yet the extent to which it is recognised, researched or discussed in an interdisciplinary context is perhaps less than we would expect, even in places where there resides a diverse population of people from refugee background.
This one-day symposium was a joint event held by UniSA Peace, Defence & Security Research & Innovation Cluster and University of Adelaide's Healthy Development Adelaide Cluster. Critical themes, debates and research possibilities related to refugee trauma for young people, with implications for later life, were considered using a range of illustrative case studies, clinical practice and research presentations.
The event was opened with a
keynote address by the Lieutenant Governor of South Australia and
Chairman of the SA Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission, Mr
Hieu Van Le.
Symposium
program (PDF file, 525kb)
Audio files
- Mr Hieu Van Le From trauma to triumph
- Dr Ida Kaplan The assessment of children and adolescents of refugee background: human rights, the family and the settlement context
- Prof Graeme Hugo Refugee and humanitarian settlement in Australia: recent trends
- Ms Nicola Trenorden From theory to practice: working with young survivors of torture and trauma
- A/Prof Wendy Lacey Human rights, refugees and Australian law
- Prof Alexander McFarlane The challenge of understanding: the mental health perspective of trauma in refugees
- Dr Jon Jureidini Psychiatry, politics and trauma
- Dr Julie Robinson What can we learn from comparing the wellbeing of newly arrived child and adolescent refugees and migrants?
- Ms Jill Brodie-Tyrrell Providing safe school environments for students with refugee background
- Mr Tindaro Fallo In treatment experiences of the impact of trauma and resettlement on identity formation and the future emotional wellbeing of young adult refugees
- Dr Fiona Arney Think child, think family, think community: multidisciplinary approaches to supporting families from refugee backgrounds in a new culture
Gift of Knowledge
Gift of Knowledge (now Knowledge Works) is a free public lecture series and invitation to learn more about the contributions UniSA researchers are making to our communities, both nationally and internationally.
The Panel discussion Developing a resilient Australia in an age of uncertainty on Tuesday 10 November 2009 featured A/Prof Wendy Lacey (Co-convenor) and Prof Pal Ahluwalia (member) of the Peace, Defence & Security Research & Innovation Cluster.
