Blue carbon reputation bolstered
Two Flinders University projects have been awarded funding as part of the Blue Carbon Future Fund project to explore the value of carbon stored along Adelaide’s coastline, and how it can be enhanced by restoration.
The “Blue Carbon opportunities through tidal restoration and avoided disturbance” project will investigate how the reintroduction of tidal flows to coastal areas can restore saltmarsh and mangrove habitats, and also increase carbon storage.
The second funded project – “Carbon storage of coastal sedgeland in relation to use of fire for habitat enhancement” – will determine the amount of carbon stored in Gahnia sedgeland, a type of coastal saltmarsh that is threatened across Australia.
The successful projects will be carried out by the College of Science and Engineering’s Professor Sabine Dittmann, Professor James Stangoulis, Associate Professor Huade Guan and their teams.
Social policy under a microscope
Dr Ben Lohmeyer, from the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work has started a new podcast, Making & Breaking Social Policy. The podcast will feature Flinders Social Work staff as well as practitioners, activists and other experts in the social policy space. The first episode features Flinders’ Luke Cantley talking about the Model of Care for Aboriginal Prisoner Health and Wellbeing, with an emphasis on decolonising social work.
Coming episodes will feature SWIRLS members Lorna Hallahan, Carmela Bastian, Kate Seymour and Sarah Wendt.
You can hear and subscribe to the podcast on most platforms, or you can check it out here: https://anchor.fm/makingandbreaking
If you have a recent publication or project that relates to social policy and would like to do an interview to increase its impact and engagement, Dr Lohmeyer is keen to hear from you, by email ben.lohmeyer@flinders.edu.au or phone 08 8201 7956.
Jane Austen music research sparks online interest
Underlining the world’s enduring fascination of Jane Austen, Dr Gillian Dooley has finished a three-and-a-half-year project cataloguing each playable piece of music in the Austen Family Music Collections, with the recent release of the final volume in the project, titled ‘French Songs'(https://archive.org/details/austen1677443-2001) generating a flurry of global online interest.
Dated from the 1780s, this selection of fashionable Parisian music of the era, including mostly opera arias and other theatre music, probably belonged to Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza, later her sister-in-law when she married Henry Austen.
Dr Dooley performed this research at the University of Southampton library (having been granted a Visiting Fellowship at the University) and worked with Professor Jeanice Brooks in the university’s Music Department.
The catalogue of “Austen Family Music Books” is now live on the University of Southampton Library Catalogue https://www-lib.soton.ac.uk but also incorporated into the UK academic library catalogue JISC/COPAC, and into WorldCat.
For further information about the project, visit Dr Dooley’s website devoted to Jane Austen Music activities – https://sites.google.com/site/janeaustensmusic/home
Wellbeing for equity practitioners focus of special presentation
Associate Professor Lydia Woodyatt was a guest presenter at the NCSEHE and Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA) WA. For this special event held in July, Associate Professor Woodyatt addressed the particular challenges facing equity practitioners and university staff during COVID-19, and identified proactive measures to support ongoing mental wellbeing. You can view the presentation here: https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/event/ncsehe-ephea-presentation-lydia-woodyatt-mental-wellbeing-practitioners/.