A Discovery doco feeds appetite for sharks, HASS head joins international arts and humanities board, Flinders alumnus and cultural guide is appointed to a national Elders Council, and an accomplished graduate joins the SA Magistrates Court.
Discovery doco feeds appetite for sharks
A Discovery documentary that screened on 11 August featuring the research of an international team including Associate Professor Charlie Huveneers (pictured left in a still from the show), received more than one million views in the USA on that night alone.
The documentary shared the team’s research on white sharks at the Neptune Islands off South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. It was part of a week long shark special by the channel.
HASS head on international board
Vice-President of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Professor Vanessa Lemm has been nominated to the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) board. DASSH is the authoritative agency on research, teaching and learning for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australian and New Zealand universities.
Professor Lemm will officially commence her board role at the DASSH AGM on 25 September.
Alumnus and cultural guide appointed to Elders Council
Alumnus Uncle David ‘Tarnda’ Copley has been appointed to the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives association’s inaugural Elders Council.
Uncle David is one of Flinders University’s Malpas (Aboriginal Cultural Guides) in the first-year nursing topic NURS1008 Indigenous health and cultural safety. Malpas is the Warlpiri word for ‘friends on the journey’. He is an Aboriginal Elder of both the Kaurna and Peramangk communities. Graduating from Flinders University three times, he was the was the first Aboriginal person to obtain a Diploma of Applied Science (Developmental Disabilities), the third Aboriginal man in South Australia to graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing, and is the only male Aboriginal Registered Nurse in the State to hold postgraduate qualifications in Mental Health Nursing.
The primary function of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives is to implement strategies that embed cultural safety in health care and education, and support the recruitment and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People into nursing and midwifery.
Alumna joins Magistrates Court
Alumna Michelle Sutcliffe (LLB ’98) has been appointed to the South Australian Magistrates Court, the first Flinders University graduate judicial appointment.
In announcing the appointment Attorney-General Vickie Chapman said: “Beginning as a Clerk for the Crown Solicitor’s Office, Michelle Sutcliffe has worked on matters as diverse as regulatory prosecutions, applications regarding serious and organised crime and high risk offenders, as well as being involved in the establishment of the statutory office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption.”
Chapter in quintessential nursing and midwifery text
Dr Susan Heyes has co-written a chapter for the most recent edition of Nursing and Midwifery Research, considered the essential guide to help students and practitioners develop their research skills. Chapter 20 ‘A research project journey: from conception to completion’, (SM Heyes, D Whitehead, KP Prior and MJ Bond) features in Nursing and Midwifery Research: methods and appraisal for evidence-based practice, (Elsevier Australia 2020, pp.386-403.)