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Closing The Gaps? The Politics Of Maori Inequality., Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Closing The Gaps? The Politics Of Maori Inequality., Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Challenges And Opportunities In Hosting Mid-Career International Scholars, Edward Roslof, Dolgormaa Jamiyan, Evan Poata-Smith, Sudha Shetty Sep 2012

Challenges And Opportunities In Hosting Mid-Career International Scholars, Edward Roslof, Dolgormaa Jamiyan, Evan Poata-Smith, Sudha Shetty

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

This session will explore challenges and opportunities in hosting mid-career international scholars by examining two Fulbright programs (Humphrey Fellowships and Scholars-in- Residence) that are unique in requiring U.S. institutions to initiate the application process. Panelists will discuss how these programs: foster a mutual exchange of knowledge and understanding; help U.S. institutions of higher education advance their international presence; assist in faculty and curriculum development; and diversify and enrich their campus and the surrounding host community.


Voices From The Margins? Some Thoughts About The Critical Role Of Maori Sociologists, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Voices From The Margins? Some Thoughts About The Critical Role Of Maori Sociologists, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


The Hidden Face Of Disparity: Exploring Inequalities Within Maori Communities, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

The Hidden Face Of Disparity: Exploring Inequalities Within Maori Communities, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Ma Tau Rourou, Ma Taku Rourou - Working With Maori Communities, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Ma Tau Rourou, Ma Taku Rourou - Working With Maori Communities, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Insights Into Teaching About Race, Class And Gender: Pedagogy And Curriculum, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Insights Into Teaching About Race, Class And Gender: Pedagogy And Curriculum, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Contemporary Maori Identities, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Contemporary Maori Identities, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Maori Identities, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Maori Identities, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Maori Sociology?, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Maori Sociology?, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of A Low Glycemic Index Diet During Pregnancy On Obstetric Outcomes, Robert G. Moses, M J. Luebcke, Warren S. Davis, K J. Coleman, Linda C. Tapsell, Peter Petocz, Jennie C. Brand-Miller Jul 2012

The Effect Of A Low Glycemic Index Diet During Pregnancy On Obstetric Outcomes, Robert G. Moses, M J. Luebcke, Warren S. Davis, K J. Coleman, Linda C. Tapsell, Peter Petocz, Jennie C. Brand-Miller

L. C. Tapsell

Abstract presented at The 2006 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of Australia, 29 November - 2 December, Sydney, Australia


Profiles Of Underreporting In Healthy Adults And Adults With Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Participating In A Dietary Intervention Trial, Gina Martin, Linda C. Tapsell, Marijka Batterham Jul 2012

Profiles Of Underreporting In Healthy Adults And Adults With Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Participating In A Dietary Intervention Trial, Gina Martin, Linda C. Tapsell, Marijka Batterham

L. C. Tapsell

Abstract from The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of Australia, 2002.


Comparison Of Computerised Dietary Assessments With Diet History And Food Record Data At Baseline In An Australian Food-Based Clinical Trial, Yasmine Probst, Virva Sarmas, Linda C. Tapsell Jul 2012

Comparison Of Computerised Dietary Assessments With Diet History And Food Record Data At Baseline In An Australian Food-Based Clinical Trial, Yasmine Probst, Virva Sarmas, Linda C. Tapsell

L. C. Tapsell

Background: Food-based clinical trials are vital to advance the scientific evidence for the impact of food on health. These trials reqUire stringent dietary assessment to substantiate effects. We are evaluating the use of a self-administered computerised dietary assessment (DietAdvice) in a current food based weight loss trial. Objective: This cross sectional study aims to compare data from DietAdvice with diet history (DH) and food record (FR) dietary assessments measured at baseline. Materials and Methods: Baseline data for n=71 overweight (23-60 years, BMI 25-37 kg/m2) participants was utilised. Macronutrient data for matched dietary assessments from n=32 participants was obtained for the …


Variation Of The Omega-3 Content Of Australian Food Products, Yasmine Probst, Rebecca L. Thorne, Jane E. O'Shea, Holley-Anne Jones, Riikka Karkkainen, Sophie Guenon, Linda C. Tapsell Jul 2012

Variation Of The Omega-3 Content Of Australian Food Products, Yasmine Probst, Rebecca L. Thorne, Jane E. O'Shea, Holley-Anne Jones, Riikka Karkkainen, Sophie Guenon, Linda C. Tapsell

L. C. Tapsell

Abstract from the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of Australia, 30 November - 3 December 2008, Glenelg, Australia.


Dietary Methodology In Clinical Trials: Changing Dietary Fat Profiles, Linda C. Tapsell, Jane E. O'Shea, Marijka Batterham, Karen E. Charlton Jul 2012

Dietary Methodology In Clinical Trials: Changing Dietary Fat Profiles, Linda C. Tapsell, Jane E. O'Shea, Marijka Batterham, Karen E. Charlton

L. C. Tapsell

No abstract provided.


Marketing Experts' Assessment Of Healthy Eating Messages In Australian Food Advertising, Sandra C. Jones, Peter G. Williams, Linda C. Tapsell Jul 2012

Marketing Experts' Assessment Of Healthy Eating Messages In Australian Food Advertising, Sandra C. Jones, Peter G. Williams, Linda C. Tapsell

L. C. Tapsell

The social world can be described in terms of experts and consumers, identified by their roles and responsibilities towards each other. The advertising and marketing of products based on nutritional value is widespread, and attended to by consumers, yet research in the marketing and nutrition domains suggests that consumers may lack the requisite knowledge and skills to evaluate and use this information appropriately. This concern can be viewed from a sociological perspective, and a theoretical framework for studying this context can be provided by ethnomethodology which describes how people make sense of their social world. This study was the second …


Start Date May Predict Attrition 6 Months Into A 12mth Dietary Intervention Weight Loss Trial, Jane O'Shea, Linda C. Tapsell, Marijka Batterham, Karen Charlton, Yasmine Probst, Rebecca Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, Holley Jones Jul 2012

Start Date May Predict Attrition 6 Months Into A 12mth Dietary Intervention Weight Loss Trial, Jane O'Shea, Linda C. Tapsell, Marijka Batterham, Karen Charlton, Yasmine Probst, Rebecca Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, Holley Jones

L. C. Tapsell

Participant recruitment is a difficult and time consuming aspect of clinical trials, often resulting in delays and budget overruns. Having reached recruitment targets the next challenge is participant retention. Some weight-loss studies have attrition rates around 60% which may introduce bias in the results. It may be possible to reduce attrition rates if known predictors can be found but to date few studies produced consistent results. The aim of this exploratory study was to determine whether start date could be a predictor of attrition for participants involved in the SMART weight loss clinical trial (ACTRN12608000425392). Recruitment for the trial occurred …


Providing Language And Academic Skills Support In A Multi-Media And Distributed Learning Environment, Jeannette Stirling, L. Celeste Rossetto Jun 2012

Providing Language And Academic Skills Support In A Multi-Media And Distributed Learning Environment, Jeannette Stirling, L. Celeste Rossetto

Jeannette Stirling

[extract] This paper examines the role of the language and academic skills (LAS) lecturer in a multi-media and geographically distributed learning environment at the University of Wollongong. By this we mean providing language and academic skills support where subjects comprising various degree programs are taught simultaneously across a range of networked satellite campuses including, at times, the central campus: hence the idea of a ‘distributed learning environment’. Subject delivery to this network of campuses is variously achieved through the use of multi-media teaching and learning technologies such as videoconferencing, web-based resources, online discussion spaces, pod-cast lectures, and face-to-face tutorials. We …


Truth Games/Truth Claims : Resisting Institutional Notions Of Las As Remediation, Jeannette Stirling, Alisa Percy Jun 2012

Truth Games/Truth Claims : Resisting Institutional Notions Of Las As Remediation, Jeannette Stirling, Alisa Percy

Jeannette Stirling

Michel Foucault argues that the technologies of identity – whether professional or institutional – rely on what he calls ‘games of truth’. He argues that these truth games comprise ‘an ensemble of rules for the production of truth . . . which can be considered in function of its principles and its rules of procedure as valid or not’ (cited in Gauthier, 1988, p. 15). Moreover, we can only become subjects by ‘subjecting’ ourselves to selected truth games because there is neither selfhood nor truth outside of these games. For Foucault, the subject’s power in this process is to decide …


Representation For (Re)Invention, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling Jun 2012

Representation For (Re)Invention, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling

Jeannette Stirling

In her plenary address to the 2001 Australian Language and Academic Skills Conference, Carolyn Webb (2002, p. 7) suggested that in comparison to other educational developers in the university context, Language and Academic Skills (LAS) practitioners had been less strategic in addressing their identity and practice ‘to secure their place in the landscape of university work, [and] to reinvent themselves for securing future places’. She concluded with the suggestion that LAS practitioners might wish to see themselves as ‘facilitators of organisational learning’ (Webb, 2002, p. 17). Both of these points will be addressed in the following discussion. This paper argues …


Weaving The Academic And Social: Working In Higher Education On Rural And Remote Australian Campuses, Jeannette Stirling, Celeste Rossetto Jun 2012

Weaving The Academic And Social: Working In Higher Education On Rural And Remote Australian Campuses, Jeannette Stirling, Celeste Rossetto

Jeannette Stirling

Our paper examines the complexities of providing academic learning support for students studying at small rural and regional Australian university campuses. As educators who live and work in regional campus communities, we have come to understand that the academic advice provided on campus has the potential to resonate through the social, and vice versa. We argue that, despite these complexities, this weaving of the social and academic can result in a teaching process more akin to a co-production of knowledge rather than the traditional didactic models of teaching employed at larger campuses where, in this type of populous environment, the …


Coming Of Age: Developing A Genealogy Of Knowledge In The Las Field, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling Jun 2012

Coming Of Age: Developing A Genealogy Of Knowledge In The Las Field, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling

Jeannette Stirling

Quality teaching and learning in higher education has become a mantra in the rhetoric of university policies, and, increasingly, assuring successful student learning is seen asthe core business of the modern university. Ironically, this comes at a time when academic staff are faced with unprecedented demands on their teaching repertoire while being expected to function with fewer resources. Not surprisingly then, many LAS staff find themselves, their knowledge and their skills central to ensuring the university's aspirations, yet in many ways still under threat of intellectual erasure. A contributing factor to this threat, it is argued, is the lack of …


Colonial Companies, Indentured Labour And Imperialism 1860-1940, Robert Castle, James Hagan, Andrew Wells Jun 2012

Colonial Companies, Indentured Labour And Imperialism 1860-1940, Robert Castle, James Hagan, Andrew Wells

Robert G. Castle

The literature on modem imperialism is both immense and inconclusive. The defInition, central facts, archival sources, methods, theories and implications of 'imperialism' are subject to endless contestation. The doyen of Australian liberal historiography, WK Hancock, was moved to warn nearly half a century ago, 'Imperialism is no word for scholars'. Despite his assertion the scholarly and polemical debates continued unabated.


Internationalisation: A Whole-Of-Institution Approach, R. G. Castle, Diana J. Kelly Jun 2012

Internationalisation: A Whole-Of-Institution Approach, R. G. Castle, Diana J. Kelly

Robert G. Castle

In this paper we first clarify and analyse notions of what internationalisation is and the ways in which it has become an important strategic goal for higher education institutions in Australia. In particular, this paper seeks to demonstrate the attributes of a whole-of-institution conception of internationalisation, which requires defining and analysing what is meant by whole-of-institution. This is followed by a discussion on the means of achieving a whole-of-institution approach, focusing in particular on the broad pressures on, and underlying potential of, tertiary education in Australia. The basis for, and nature of, the mechanisms and systems for assuring quality in …


Do Australian Primary School Environments Affect Children's Playground Physical Activity Levels?, Anne-Maree Parrish, Donald Iverson, Kenneth Russell, Heather Yeatman Jun 2012

Do Australian Primary School Environments Affect Children's Playground Physical Activity Levels?, Anne-Maree Parrish, Donald Iverson, Kenneth Russell, Heather Yeatman

Don C. Iverson

No abstract provided.


But I Already Wash My Hands! The Importance Of Consumer Orientation In Developing A Social Marketing Strategy For A Potential Pandemic, Sandra Jones, Louise Waters, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

But I Already Wash My Hands! The Importance Of Consumer Orientation In Developing A Social Marketing Strategy For A Potential Pandemic, Sandra Jones, Louise Waters, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

The influenza A (H5N1) virus is currently the focus of the worlds attention and, while avian flu viruses are not known to infect humans, there have been recent cases where the H5N1 has spread from human to human (Butler 2006; Ungchusak et al. 2005; Wulandari and Lyn 2006). Concern about a possible pandemic is based on a number of factors including the potential of the virus to be transmitted from migratory birds to domestic poultry; the absence of demonstrated effective treatment options or an available vaccine; and lack of collaboration in the planning of responses between neighbouring countries. This research …


Dementia And Driving Retirement: Making Decisions, Catherine Andrew, Victoria Traynor, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Dementia And Driving Retirement: Making Decisions, Catherine Andrew, Victoria Traynor, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

To identify appropriate elements to include in a decisional support resource which may enhance acceptance of potential driving retirement for drivers with dementia.


Mechanomyography; Lasers For Non-Invasive Quantification Of Muscle Recovery From Exercise Induced Fatigue, Nicholas Rosser, Darryl Mcandrew, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Mechanomyography; Lasers For Non-Invasive Quantification Of Muscle Recovery From Exercise Induced Fatigue, Nicholas Rosser, Darryl Mcandrew, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

Muscle fatigue is a common clinical sign and possible precursor to musculoskeletal injury. Existing methods of detecting muscle fatigue qualify changes within muscle or across joints, but are expensive, invasive or difficult to use. A technique of mechanomyography utilising maximal percutaneous stimulation (known as the Muscle Displacement Laser {MDL}) is an easy non-invasive assessment tool, which may have considerable application in measuring muscle fatigue and determining recovery. Specifically, this study attempted to validate the MDL as a tool to measure muscle fatigue and determine the time-course of recovery from Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness in human biceps brachii muscle. Methods: …


Driving And Dementia: Can Acceptance Of The Potential Need To Retire From Driving Be Enhanced?, Catherine Andrew, Victoria Traynor, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Driving And Dementia: Can Acceptance Of The Potential Need To Retire From Driving Be Enhanced?, Catherine Andrew, Victoria Traynor, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

No abstract provided.


Personal Empowerment: Strategies To Develop And Evaluate Interventions, Donald Iverson, T Sahay, F Ashbury Jun 2012

Personal Empowerment: Strategies To Develop And Evaluate Interventions, Donald Iverson, T Sahay, F Ashbury

Don C. Iverson

No abstract provided.


Dementia And Retirement From Driving: People With Dementia And Their Carers Critique Available Tools, Catherine Andrew, Victoria Traynor, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Dementia And Retirement From Driving: People With Dementia And Their Carers Critique Available Tools, Catherine Andrew, Victoria Traynor, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

Introduction: - Discuss current thinking about the role of practitioners in supporting a person with dementia to consider retirement from driving - Highlight findings from a research project involving drivers over 55 and people with dementia about what support they consider helpful in considering retirement from driving