ARC success
Dr Jung Yoon, from the Centre for Social Impact (College of Business, Government and Law), has been awarded a $514,863 Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Fellowship for her project entitled, ‘Invisible Ramp: A Job-Matching Navigation for Disability Employment’.
With industry partner EPIC Assist, this fellowship will help to expand a novel job-matching navigation model to help people with cognitive disability understand their skills and interests to match them with their employment preference and support needs.
Australia’s disability employment support sector will benefit by amplifying its work on employing people with disability, enhancing their clients’ job satisfaction and financial and personal well-being, says Dr Yoon.
The latest project builds on ongoing collaboration with major retail and hospitality employers to create sustainable and inclusive employment pathways for individuals with cognitive disability.
Flinders new International Fellow of the British Academy
Flinders Law Professor Margaret Davies FBA has been made an International Fellow of the British Academy. She was among 92 distinguished scholars from around the world elected to the fellowship in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Davies, a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Law, who joined the newly formed Flinders Law School in 1992, says it’s an honour to be recognised by the UK Academy.
“My aim as a researcher has been to use the deep insights of humanities and social science scholarship to enrich the philosophical understanding of law,” she says.
“It is therefore an immense honour to be recognised by the British Academy which exists to promote research across all humanities and social science disciplines.”
Professor Davies’ research focuses on critical legal theory, feminist legal theory, legal pluralism, the philosophy of property, and ecological jurisprudence. Her most recent books concern the many ways that law is embedded in social and ecological conditions.
Professor Davies is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Another for the history books
Matthew Flinders Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science as released his fourth book, A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa, published by Oxford University Press.
It will be launched at a round table discussion at the German Studies Association Conference in Washington in September, and is part of the work undertaken as a part of Professor Fitzpatrick’s Future Fellowship