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FNQ Connect: Connecting people connecting care
FNQ Connect: connecting people, connecting care is a proposed model for disability, rehabilitation and lifestyle services for children, young people, adults and older people in Far North Queensland (FNQ). FNQ Connect will drive a reform agenda to integrate and strengthen existing services in the 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs) which make up FNQ. Integration of services will reduce preventable hospitalisations and increase social return on investment. FNQ Connect will provide quality care for FNQ people, in the right place and at the right time.
Exploring Parental Experiences Navigating Autism Diagnostic Services in Regional North Queensland.
This research examined the lived experience of parents navigating the autism diagnostic process for their child in regional North Queensland. The study adopted an interpretative phenomenological analysis research methodology.
The Social Work Journey: Supporting Families and/or Caregivers Through Anticipatory Grief in Voluntary Assisted Dying
This survey based study aims to describe the social work experience in supporting family members/caregivers through anticipatory grief while their loved one’s access voluntary assisted dying.
An Exploratory Study: The Presence of Imposter Syndrome in New Graduate Allied Health Professionals and its Relationship to Location of Practice
This research explores the presence of imposter syndrome in new graduate allied health professionals. Additionally, it examines whether there is a relationship between the rates of imposter syndrome and where an allied health professional works geographically.
Findings may help to establish a foundational research focus on imposter syndrome in new allied health professionals.
Parasitic Disease Wastewater Surveillance to Inform Public Health Action in Remote Northern Queensland
Intestinal parasites are chronic preventable infectious disease of poverty which disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in northern Australia. Public Health Surveillance for these diseases is time consuming costly, difficult and intrusive, requiring faecal and blood testing of community members. This project will validate and pilot the use of wastewater testing for the surveillance of important intestinal parasites, including strongyloidiasis, whipworm, giardiasis, and amoebic dysentery infecting people in north Queensland. The use of wastewater sampling will augment the capacity for public health surveillance by facilitating time and cost-efficient parasitic disease surveillance simultaneously in multiple communities.
Introduction to Speech Pathology Practice: Foundational Concepts for Australian First-year Students
James Cook University Library Textbook Affordability Project Grant for the development of an Open Educational Resource for first year speech pathology students.
Weed impacts on ten of the most threatened plant species of the Australian wet tropics
One commonly stated threat to plant species conservation is displacement by invasive plants. However, very little quantitative information is available about the actual presence, abundance, and impact of invasives on individual threatened plant species. We have selected ten of the most threatened plant species of the wet tropics for which there are anecdotal reports of threats by invasives, as reported by the Species Profile and Threats Database. This project will remove or minimise immediate weed threats for ten of the most threatened species in the wet tropics, it will also establish a baseline for measuring impacts of invasive plants on plant conservation, for which there is currently a dearth of quantitative information, and it will develop a weed risk assessment tool to prioritize management interventions for weed threats.
Decoding the genomic basis underpinning Southern Ocean ecosystem resilience to change
This project applies traditional and latest genome sequencing technologies to advance the knowledge of nature's natural evolutionary solutions against climate changes. Expected outcomes of this project include uncovering novel genome structures and gene functions that underpin Southern Ocean species’ adaptation capabilities to climate changes.
Extend coordinated whole of institution retention strategies to enhance learning, teaching and the student experience
Higher Education Participation Program: Improve participation, retention, completion and success; and extend coordinated whole of institution retention strategies to enhance learning, teaching and the student experience
Support for enhanced teaching and learning/Support for enhancing the student experience
James Cook University Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program