College of Arts, Society & Education

Karen Cavu

Karen Cavu

Pascal Agbadi

Pascal Agbadi

Leonard Freeman

Leonard Freeman

Kate Manlik

Kate Manlik

Subhashni Taylor

Subhashni Taylor

Peta Salter

Peta Salter

Ines Zuchowski

Ines Zuchowski

Jemma Hamley

Jemma Hamley

Rosita Henry

Rosita Henry

Michael Ackland

Michael Ackland

Improving access to disability information and supports in Charters Towers and Hinchinbrook Shires (Old ID 26606)
Nonie Harris
12 Aug 2019 - 31 Aug 2020
As an evaluator, JCU will work collaboratively with the project leader from Epilepsy Queensland and evaluate both the research process and outcome. During this participatory evaluation process, a number of activities will be undertaken such as field visits to Ingham and Charters Towers, Designing the evaluation process, meeting with community leaders, consumers and family members. The outcome of the evaluation will be documented as a report for the organisation, and based on the feedback received, strategies for improving access to disability information and supports in Charter Towers and Hinchinbrook Shires will be made available for consideration.
PS311 – JCU NQ Social Worker Placement in General Practice Expansion (Townsville & Cairns) (Old ID 29007)
Albert Kuruvila
01 Jul 2023 - 31 Mar 2026
The aim of this project is to research the benefits and challenges of social work practice in GP clinics to develop evidence-based pathways and integrated care options focused on improving holistic health outcomes for the community and in particular older people, people with chronic disease and first Nation people. This will be achieved by providing funding to GP clinics to hire and support social workers and social work students in their practice. The research will evaluate the project, document and examine the social work contributions and outcomes in GP, and investigate pathways for funding social work in GP.
Re-Curating the Tropics in the era of climate change: Indigenous relationships with natural science collections in the Queensland Museum (Old ID 23071)
Simon Foale
01 Dec 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
That Aboriginal people have made significant contributions to natural science collections in museums is little known and poorly understood. We explore relationships between natural species collectors and Aboriginal people who often helped create those collections. Our focus is no culturally significant tropical species in museum collections and how these species are represented in artefact collections. We will explore ideas about environmental change evidenced in museum practices (collecting, archiving, curating) and Aboriginal artists' responses to these ways of representing nature. In collaboration with Aboriginal artists and curators, we will begin to develop an analytical exhibition concerning environmental change in the tropics.
Language emergence in multilingual contexts (Old ID 23509)
Luca Ciucci
01 Jan 2018 - 28 Feb 2020
As European colonisation spread around the world, European languages infiltrated numerous areas, giving rise to new language varieties. Bringing indigenous people from various language groups together — on plantations, in missions and boarding schools — has resulted in creating new forms of dominant languages for inter-group communication, among them European-based Creoles (such as Tok Pisin, the English-based Creole, and the previously undescribed Unserdeutsch, a creolized variety of German, in PNG). New blended languages emerge, as communities come to live together. We focus on areas of high linguistic diversity covering New Guinea, Amazonia, and East Asia, in the context of multilingual situations.
Sustainable Livelihoods and Protected Area Planning in PNG (Old ID 25083)
Simon Foale
01 Jul 2018 - 30 Nov 2019
The Nakanai Ranges have been identified as a Key "Biodiversity Area due to their high density of endemic and range-restricted species of high conservation concern due to pressures of industrial logging and oil palm development. We aim to engage local communities in stewardship of world heritage through tangible conservation and livelihood benefits, acknowledging the causal relationship between heritage, local people and their well-being. Protection of primary rainforest in Nakanai will enable the continued flow of ecosystem services, such as the provision of clean water and the protection of soil resources.
Responding to Indigenous students' and their communities' voiced experiences regarding effective teaching practices: A Catholic Education initiative (Old ID 20664)
Helen Boon
01 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2017
In response to the continued gap in achievement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, this project focuses on addressing the essential need for Australian-based empirically-grounded culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) research on teaching practices consistent with the voiced concerns of Indigenous students and the communities they represent. Paralleling consequentially similar work in Canada and New Zealand, the study will tease out and test facets of quality teaching that are salient to Aboriginal students for the purpose of improving achievement outcomes for Indigenous students and informing teaching and teacher education.
Understanding the experience of women in a tuberculosis hot spot in Solomon Islands to effectively find, treat and care for people with tuberculosis. (Old ID 28952)
Karen Cheer
01 Nov 2022 - 15 Aug 2024
• TB remains at unacceptable rates in East Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands. There still are many more undiagnosed cases, or new cases, known to occur amongst people living in mountainous areas. • Women are central to the care of children and family members, including being responsible for growing food. They experience tuberculosis, and care of people with tuberculosis, differently to men and children because of these responsibilities. • Barriers to finding, testing and treating TB remain due to social and cultural challenges faced by women, health system exclusion and geographic isolation. The aim of this qualitative study is to explore and describe women's experience of tuberculosis in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands to determine how to effectively test, treat and support people with tuberculosis.
Knowledge Brokering from the Bottom Up: Co-designing Climate Information Products with the Kwaio people of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands (Old ID 28981)
Karen Cheer
27 Apr 2023 - 30 Apr 2024
Baru Conservation Alliance (BCA) and JCU successfully implemented the APCP funded “Traditional Knowledge about Climate and Food Security in Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands” in 2021/22. This current “Knowledge Brokering from the Bottom Up: Co-designing Climate Information Products with the Kwaio people” project strengthens capacity built in 2021/22 to inform climate information products based on Kwaio traditional knowledge. The project will create communication products that utlise both western scientific and traditional Kwaio knowledge about the weather, how the weather is changing and what this means for people living on Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Interactive governance analysis of the Beche-de-mer 'Fish Chain' from Papau New Guinea (Old ID 22287)
Simon Foale
01 Sep 2015 - 01 Mar 2016
This project proposal is to generate knowledge about whole beche-de-mer supply chains through to consumption in end markets, focusing first on the PNG end and moving on to international connections later in the project. This knowledge will be developed within the conceptual framework of 'interactive governance' - focusing on the various actors involved in the supply chain and their networked influences at different scales affecting the way the fishery operates. This knowledge will form the basis for a set of recommendations to improve sustainability in PNG's sea cucumber fishery, to complement existing recommendations developed by the PNG government and community and conservation organisations.
Constructed Seascapes: Understanding Fishtrap Construction, Use, Condition and Future in the Wellesley Islands Region, Gulf of Carpentaria
Ariana Lambrides
01 May 2024 - 31 Dec 2027
This project is a partnership between the Wellesley Islands Rangers (WILSSED) and the PhD candidate Lucy Hughes (enrolled at James Cook University, Cairns) to investigate stone-walled fishtrap construction, use, condition, and futures in the Wellesley Islands region. The project will use existing data previously collected from the Wellesley Island region, including aerial photos, drone imagery, LiDAR and on Country survey recordings.
Title: Best Reviewer Award
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2022
Title: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Curriculum renewal to strengthen evidence-informed practice of preservice teachers from novice to graduate standard of practice.
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Best Paper Award: Balancing classroom ready with community ready: enabling agency to engage with community through critical service learning
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Enabling teachers as change agents through service learning.
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2017
Title: Mobility Grant ($49 500), Education for Sustainable futures: JCU Education Service Learning Placement in Cambodia
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2017
Title: Research Performance Award: Commendation for External Research Income
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2015
Title: Sessional Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
Reseracher: Peta Salter (Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2011
Title: Bachelor of Social Work , James Cook University
Reseracher: Jemma Hamley (Lecturer, Social Work)
End Date: 01 Jan 2010
Title: Doctor of Philosophy , James Cook University
Reseracher: Jemma Hamley (Lecturer, Social Work)
End Date: 01 Jan 2023
Title: Masters, University of British Columbia
Reseracher: Victoria Kuttainen (Centre Head, The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1999
End Date: 01 Jan 2002