College of Arts, Society & Education
Karen Cavu
- Doctor of Philosophy (Education)
- karen.cavu@jcu.edu.au
Pascal Agbadi
- Lecturer, Social Work
- pascal.agbadi@jcu.edu.au
Leonard Freeman
- Senior Lecturer, English Education (Primary Education)
- leonard.freeman@jcu.edu.au
Kate Manlik
- Lecturer
- kate.manlik@jcu.edu.au
Subhashni Taylor
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- subhashni.taylor@jcu.edu.au
Peta Salter
- Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy
- peta.salter@jcu.edu.au
Ines Zuchowski
- Associate Dean, Research
- ines.zuchowski@jcu.edu.au
Jemma Hamley
- Lecturer, Social Work
- jemma.hamley@jcu.edu.au
Rosita Henry
- Adjunct Professor
- rosita.henry@jcu.edu.au
Michael Ackland
- Adjunct Professor
- michael.ackland@jcu.edu.au
Townsville's Timeline, our history and it's media (Old ID 22168)
We are seeking funding from the T150 scheme for our research time and the putting on of an exhibition at the Museum of Tropical Queensland. We have support in kind from James Cook University, the Museum of Tropical Queensland, and the Townsville Bulletin. We learn about our community and region partly through the local and community media. In addition history is recorded through the reports of our media. This project will be unique in documenting and drawing together numerous events to reflect on how our local media has shaped our community and identity. The project will complement the work of the T150 Townsville Bulletin projects.
Strengthening community-led partnerships to improve Indigenous health and well-being (Old ID 22466)
This project aims to strengthen community-led partnerships (CLPs) to improve Indigenous health and well-being using CQI processes. The seed funding will be utilised in bringing together leaders of existing community-led partnerships, and visits with leaders of other identified CLPs, with the aim of identifying and documenting the strengths of existing community-led partnerships, and exploring how CQI processes can improve, support or accelerate best practice in community-led partnerships.
Traditional Knowledge about Climate and Food Security in Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands (Old ID 27270)
This project will be implemented in conjunction with Baru Conservation Alliance in Malaita, Solomon Islands. Traditional Knowledge and experience of weather, the seasonal interaction of plants, animals and people will be explored and documented. The use of tradiitional 'disaster food' after natural disasters will also be documented. The local scale production of flour from locally grown fuits and vegetables will be piloted; usage and spoilage monitored, and dishes made from flour trialled for acceptability and feasibility with Kwaio tribal groups. The project links food security, health and ecological sustainability to inform local level disaster and climate resilience measures in Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Townsville's Prioneering Road: Objects, histories and stories from pasture to port and prosperity (Old ID 22179)
Townsville's success over Port Denison (Bowen) and Cardwell was due to the Townsville-Dalrymple road, constructed by Melton Black, connecting the port in Ross Creek to the interior. This project highlights the road and its role in Townsville's story through objects excavated from archaeological sites found along it including Stanton House (Flinders St East), the Range Hotel (Hervey's Range) and the Cape River goldfield. The objects will be presented in an online, 'virtual' museum with 3D images. The project will use the objects to stimulate a creative writing workshop and will also include electronic education packs for primary school students.
Enhancing District Delivery and Management of Agriculture Extension in Lao PDR (Old ID 20602)
The primary purpose of this project is to improve management of agricultural extension services in Lao PDR. A JCU team is partnering with the Government of Lao's Department of Agriculture Extension and Cooperatives to research and implement ways of strengthening extension. Organization development and participatory action research methodologies will be used to engage stakeholders from villages, Districts, Provinces and relevant government agencies in the co-creation and implementation of: (a) extension guidelines to match new extension interventions to local needs and opportunities; and (b) Extension Management System tools to assist District Agriculture and Forestry Offices to plan and manage services.
Educating diverse learners for local/global citizenship: Curriculum and pedagogical frameworks that bring global perspectives from the periphery to the core (Old ID 21948)
Securing enhanced student outcomes associated with global understandings and perspectives is this project's focus. It seek to ascertain how best to utilise and augment students' current service learning experiences in domestic and international settings to realise these outcomes through a process of identifying, analysing and evaluating existing curriculum and pedagogic practices.
Improving access to disability information and supports in Charters Towers and Hinchinbrook Shires (Old ID 26606)
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)
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)
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)
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.
The Sugarcane Novel: Questions of Genre and Region
- 2024
- Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- Researchers:Elizabeth Smyth
A Versatile Career: Ruth Park’s Novels in the American Marketplace.
- 2024
- University of Queensland Press
- Researchers:Roger Osborne
Civilisation or extinction: the destiny of the Aborigines in the white Australian imagination, c.1880-1939
- 1993
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
Reseracher:
Wili Suluma
(Lecturer, Education (Indigenous [Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander] Education))
Start Date:
01 Jan 2024
Title:
PhD, University of Ottawa
Start Date:
01 Jan 2010
End Date:
01 Jan 2015
Title:
PhD, James Cook University
Start Date:
01 Jan 2007
End Date:
01 Jan 2011
Start Date:
01 Jan 2002
End Date:
01 Jan 2006
Reseracher:
Wili Suluma
(Lecturer, Education (Indigenous [Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander] Education))
Start Date:
01 Jan 2025
Reseracher:
Wili Suluma
(Lecturer, Education (Indigenous [Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander] Education))
Start Date:
01 Jan 2025
Start Date:
01 Jan 1998
Start Date:
01 Jan 2020
Start Date:
01 Jan 2012
Start Date:
01 Jan 2012