Supporting inclusivity in sustainable employment
Dr Ashok Manoharan, Dr Claire Hutchinson and Associate Professor Janice Jones hosted a roundtable event on Friday 5 May to co-design a toolkit for hospitality small-to-medium size enterprises (SMEs) that support the employment of people with intellectual disability. The event was attended by the industry’s peak bodies, disability employment providers, hospitality managers and other stakeholders.
Sports expert conference appearance
Associate Professor Shane Pill was one of two academics invited to speak at the Australian Sports Commission National Coaching and Officiating conference at Aquis Park on the Gold Coast in Queensland. The conference was attended by sports national coach education and official managers. Associate Professor Pill provided a presentation on youth retention in sport, and presented a “play with purpose for athlete game sense” workshop. Ideas discussed in the presentation have been summarised in this blog.
Associate Professor Pill has also recently had a new book published. Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding brings together leading and innovative thinkers in the field of teaching and sport coaching pedagogy to provide a range of perspectives on teaching games and sport for understanding.
Funding to improve palliative care
Flinders University researchers have been awarded more than $5 million in federal government funds to enhance workforce education and training for Australians who require palliative care. The “CareSearch including PalliAGED” project has been awarded $3,699,387, and “End of Life Essentials for Acute Hospitals and Clinicians” received $1,365,567. Flinders shares $53 million in new funding awarded to universities, health services and palliative care organisations around the country.
Uncovering South Australia’s history
Dr Susan Arthure has been awarded the History Council of South Australia Wakefield Press Essay Prize for her essay ‘Rage and Resistance: Remembering the Women of Baker’s Flat’. The Wakefield Press Essay Prize is awarded to the author of an essay that deals substantially with an aspect of South Australian history.
Award for project in public interest
Flinders alumni Dr Kurt Bennett and Matthew Gainsford have won the 2023 ASHA Martin Davies Award for Best Public Archaeology Initiative for the HMS Buffalo Re-examination Project. The award acknowledges the best project that presents historical archaeology to the general public in Australia or New Zealand.