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Research partners with lived experience : stories from patients and survivors

- Stranieri, Andrew, Meredith, Grant, Firmin, Sally

Authors: Stranieri, Andrew , Meredith, Grant , Firmin, Sally
Date: 2024
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Description: This book aims to foster collaborations between patients who have intense lived experience with a medical condition or family violence and researchers investigating them. Inviting patients or survivors into the research team is found to have significant advantages, and chapters review the literature on the benefits they can bring to investigative research teams. The collaboration can take place at multiple stages of research from helping to research design, participating in co-investigators, contributing to the interpretation of results, etc. The conditions addressed in this book include medical conditions from anxiety, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, lupus, asthma, chronic kidney disease, etc. The authors are higher degree students, academics, and active research team members who share their experiences. This is be instrumental in helping patients and survivors decide whether to transition to research. It will also support research team leaders in determining how to benefit from the new perspectives researchers with lived experience bring. The personal narratives provide insight into the challenges and rewards of having lived experience while conducting research.

Model predictive control for microgrids : from power electronic converters to energy management

- Hu, Jiefeng, Guerrero, Josep, Islam, Syed

Authors: Hu, Jiefeng , Guerrero, Josep , Islam, Syed
Date: 2021
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Relation: IET Energy Engineering Series, Vol. 199
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Description: Microgrids have emerged as a promising solution for accommodating the integration of renewable energy resources. But the intermittency of renewable generation is posing challenges such as voltage/frequency fluctuations, and grid stability issues in grid-connected modes. Model predictive control (MPC) is a method for controlling a process while satisfying a set of constraints. It has been in use for chemical plants and in oil refineries since the 1980s, but in recent years has been deployed for power systems and electronics as well. This concise work for researchers, engineers and graduate students focuses on the use of MPC for distributed renewable power generation in microgrids. Fluctuating outputs from renewable energy sources and variable load demands are covered, as are control design concepts. The authors provide examples and case studies to validate the theory with both simulation and experimental results and review the shortcomings and future developments. Chapters treat power electronic converters and control; modelling and hierarchical control of microgrids; use of MPC for PV and wind power; voltage support; parallel PV-ESS microgrids; secondary restoration capability; and tertiary power flow optimization. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2021.

Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement

- Golding, Barry

Authors: Golding, Barry
Date: 2021
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Description: "Men's - and now Women's and Community - Sheds are meeting many people's acute, unmet needs arising, largely, out of a lack of paid work and retirement, and the void of meaninglessness that can arise as a result. Offering its readers an informative and insightful view of a growing grassroots movement, this timely book shows how the Shed movement, far from contracting, is nimbly and rapidly responding to the needs of communities during the global crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. From the humblest of beginnings in Australia, the movement today has evolved to total almost 3,000 Sheds worldwide"

Aradale : the making of a haunted asylum

- Waldron, David, Waldron, Sharn, Buchanan, Nathaniel

Authors: Waldron, David , Waldron, Sharn , Buchanan, Nathaniel
Date: 2020
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Description: First built in 1867, the remarkable Gothic structure of the former Ararat Lunatic Asylum, colloquially known as Aradale, has overlooked the regional town of Ararat for over 150 years. Throughout its history it has seen remarkable transformations in the history of Australian psychiatry and western society's treatment of the mentally ill, and it has participated in some of their darkest scandals. Today in popular press, the labyrinthine complex is commonly acclaimed as 'Australia's most haunted building' and is home to a flourishing dark tourism industry boasting tens of thousands of visitors a year. This book explores the history of the former asylum, and examines what is it that makes a place 'haunted' in the popular imagination, and what it is about hauntings that so invariably connects them with problematic histories.

Bravo Brown!: The correspondence of Charles Henry Brown - aeronaut

- FitzSimons, Terence

Authors: FitzSimons, Terence
Date: 2020
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Description: As an aeronaut, Brown's lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with only limited success he was, however, determined to record his contribution to the science, and from an early stage established a vital correspondence with a number of leading figures in the world of ballooning. The letters provide insights into the developing field of aeronautics, and reveal the tensions, rivalries and downright underhand conduct of some of the pioneers of aviation. Brown's intention was to publish his collected correspondence, but his failure to fully realise his own lifelong ambition as an aeronaut of note led him in despair to take his life before he achieved his objective of bringing the compiled correspondence to print. The manuscript was later recovered by a relative and deposited at the State Library of Victoria where it sat receiving but scant attention until now. © Peter Lang AG 2020. All rights reserved.

Colonialism, tourism and place global transformations in tourist destinations

- Linehan, Denis, Clark, Ian, Xie, Phillip

Authors: Linehan, Denis , Clark, Ian , Xie, Phillip
Date: 2020
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Description: This unique book examines the vital and contested connections between colonialism and tourism, which are as lively and charged today as ever before. Demonstrating how much of the marketing of these destinations represents the constant renewal of colonialism in the tourism business, this book illustrates how actors in the worldwide tourism industry continue to benefit from the colonial roots of globalisation.

Cross-cultural design for healthy ageing

- Scharoun, Lisa, Hills, Danny, Montana-Hoyos, Carlos, Peng, Fanke, Sung, Vivien

Authors: Scharoun, Lisa , Hills, Danny , Montana-Hoyos, Carlos , Peng, Fanke , Sung, Vivien
Date: 2020
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Description: We wrote this book as a compilation of many years of research and pedagogical experiences around cross-cultural and multidisciplinary design for healthy ageing. In it, we combine different voices and perspectives, including descriptions of several cross-cultural design for healthy ageing workshops conducted with students from design and nursing disciplines in different Australasian locations. These experiences are described in detail, offering a roadmap and many ideas for readers to build upon. Literature reviews and background research inform these practical experiences, which were then used to develop new theory and insights around the topics, mainly from academic and pedagogic points of view. The multiplicity of voices of student participants in the workshops provides a more personalised account of these experiences, while our reflections highlight the pedagogic and life-changing value of these experiences. We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers based mainly in Australia. Initially, a majority of the team members met while working at the University of Canberra (UC), with specialties in nursing, graphic design, industrial design, and fashion design, all from different cultural backgrounds and with interests in health and healthy ageing. Building on research undertaken with several study tours of Australian students from design and nursing to various Asian countries, mainly China and Singapore, and through collaborations with numerous partners including higher education institutions in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the research team explored the multi-layered relationships between design and healthy ageing. "From Introduction"

Feminist institutionalism and gendered bureaucracies : forestry governance in Nepal

- Wagle, Radha, Pillay, Soma, Wright, Wendy

Authors: Wagle, Radha , Pillay, Soma , Wright, Wendy
Date: 2020
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Relation: Feminist Institutionalism and Gendered Bureaucracies: Forestry Governance in Nepal
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Description: This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal’s forestry bureaucracy. The book adopts a “gender lens” drawn from feminist institutionalism and is framed around the following four objectives: evaluating the effectiveness of current legislative and policy frameworks for the inclusion of women in the Nepalese forest bureaucracy; examining the dynamics of organizational culture, formal and informal institutions, and structure and agency in and around forest bureaucracy in Nepal; assessing power relations in forestry institutions focusing on influential participation of women forestry professionals in the bureaucratic structure; and gaining insights about the alternative space of feminist institutionalism in connection with women inclusive forest bureaucracy. Findings in the book inform and extend feminist institutionalism perspectives by applying it to a context which remains under explored, providing insights on the efficacy of public sector cultural change, especially as it relates to those areas within bureaucracies less in a position to adopt the changes mandated by society and principles of good governance. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.

First language Bidialectism in second language interface acquisition: Difference and disorder

- Han, Weifang

Authors: Han, Weifang
Date: 2020
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Description: This book explores the relationship between language difference and disorder, with particular consideration of multidialectal L1 speakers learning English as an L2. It provides the reader with ready-to-use data on child L2 acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface, and offers both empirical and theoretical support for educational and clinical linguists in order to separate language differences from disorders. It provides researchers and students in applied and educational linguistics and speech-language pathology with a comprehensive understanding of L2 development in previously unidentified groups of bilingual-bidialectal children with different performance in the target language. Developmental linguists, applied linguists and speech-language pathologists will find accessible information on the role of L1 bidialectism in L2 acquisition, as well as valuable implications to language teaching and learning practices and speech-language pathology services in multilingual and multicultural contexts. This volume will be key reading for researchers interested in typical and atypical multilingual development and assessment in educational and clinical linguistics, cognitive sciences, and psychology. It will also appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in conducting mixed-method research in language education, linguistics and health sciences.

Sahara : Piercing the thatch Ceiling

- Watts, Mimmie

Authors: Watts, Mimmie
Date: 2020
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Description: Sahara, Piercing the Thatch Ceiling' narrates the story and journey of Sahara, a composite character through an intersectional gender lens. It is an intercultural, African, intergenerational, migrant, refugee and an Australian story. The characters in this book have to navigate trials and obstacles experienced across the whole spectrum of the African diaspora from skilled migrants to refugees.Yet it is a story of ultimate triumph, thanks to the collective power of this group of women, the strength of their relationships, the will to persist through any hardship, and the determination to succeed. Cultural elements are woven through the stories in a way that gleans understanding while letting the narrative flow. In the humanweaknesses and strengths that it reveals, Sahara and her friends and other characters in the book embrace the migrant dream.

Universal grammar and the initial state of second language learning : Evidence of chinese multidialectal children's acquisition of english at the syntax-semantics interface

- Han, Weifeng

Authors: Han, Weifeng
Date: 2020
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Description: Under the Universal Grammar (UG) framework, this book discusses the latest research on the role of L1 bidialectism in L2 acquisition, with a particular focus on early Chinese(L1)-English(L2) learners. Responding to the long-standing concern of whether L2 learners have access to UG in the target language, it provides evidence of the positive role of L1 multidialectism in L2 learning and confirms the role of UG in L2 acquisition. This book is essential reading for postgraduates and researchers in language education, linguistics, applied linguistics, speech-language pathology and psychology. The clarification of Chinese as L1 is also of interest to language educators in multilingual contexts.

Using integrated experience-based co-design to promote mental health service design improvements with informal/family carers of adults from LGBTQ communities

- Martin, Jennifer, Butler, Meredith, Muldowney, Anne, Aleksandrs, Gabriel

Authors: Martin, Jennifer , Butler, Meredith , Muldowney, Anne , Aleksandrs, Gabriel
Date: 2020
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Relation: SAGE Research Methods Cases Medicine and Health
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Description: Co-design research and evaluation methodologies are being increasingly adopted as a preferred approach for mental health research. However, research on the effectiveness and impacts of co-design involving carers is scarce. This article discusses how to conduct research using an integrated experience-based co-design method. It includes issues considered during the formation of the research team and during the study design and implementation. We found integrated experience-based co-design useful throughout the conceptualization and implementation phases of the research moving beyond reporting of carers’ experiences of services to actual engagement in mental health service design. Key factors contributing the success of this process were the inclusion of members of some of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex, and queer communities on the research team as well as having researchers with personal and/or practical experience, of mental health services, and as carers and consumers of mental health services. Integrated experience-based co-design allowed for flexibility and adaptability. Taking time early on and a focus on shared values and understandings with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex, and queer networks was important for collective ownership of the co-design process. The integrated experience-based co-design approach recognized the varied and multiple characteristics and contributions of members of the research team and study participants.

"My Country all gone the white men have stolen it" : The invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870

- Cahir, David (Fred)

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred)
Date: 2019
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Description: "The Wadawurrung are the Aboriginal people whose Country includes the cities now known as Ballarat and Geelong. Fred Cahir examines the contact history in the period 1800-1870 of the Wadawurrung and the ngamadjidj (generally translated as white stranger belonging to the sea). Divided into chronological and thematic section, the book chronicles three waves of invasion: the early invasion period incorporating trespassers predominately from the sea, the sheepherders or squatters who followed in their wake and usurped the Wadawurrung of all their Country for sheep runs, and the third wave of invaders - the gold seekers. This historical study is transformative as it presents a compelling argument of how the Wadawurrung were active agents of change and sought cultural enrichment in the midst of the frontier war on their Country." --back cover.

A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf : adapted for the stage by Peta Hanrahan

- Hanrahan, Peta

Authors: Hanrahan, Peta
Date: 2019
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Description: A Room of one's own by Virginia Woolf is a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf?s classic essay of the same name, first delivered as a series of lectures in 1928, then published as an essay in 1929. In Peta Hanrahan?s dynamic version, four actors (three women and one man) play aspects of Virginia Woolf?s mind in conversation with herself and the audience. It's playful and energetic, as well as gentle and questioning. The piece both debates and reflects on the history of gender disparity, while keeping Woolf?s striking use of metaphor and charming humour alive.

Australian war graves workers and World War One; Devoted labour for the lost the unknown but not forgotten dead

- Cahir, David (Fred), Weuffen, Sara, Smith, Matt, Bakker, Peter, Caminiti, Jo

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Weuffen, Sara , Smith, Matt , Bakker, Peter , Caminiti, Jo
Date: 2019
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Description: This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachment and the Australian Graves Service who worked in the period 1919 to 1922 to ensure that grieving families in Australia had a physical grave which they could mourn the loss of their loved ones. By presenting biographical vignettes of eight men who undertook this work, the book examines the mechanics of the commemoration of the Great War and extends our understanding of the individual toll this onerous task took on the workers themselves.

Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations

- Plowright, Susan, Green, Monica, Johnson, Nicola

Authors: Plowright, Susan , Green, Monica , Johnson, Nicola
Date: 2019
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Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations
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Description: This book showcases a compilation of research partnerships produced by the Federation University Gippsland School of Education. Through this book, readers will gain valuable insights into how education research initiatives can help adapt to an age characterized by massive regional/global economic, environmental, identity, cultural and social shifts. The respective chapters address the universal human and researcher condition in a regional setting, highlighting how individuals and groups are seeking to achieve transformation with their regional, educational research. On the whole, the compilation showcases a specific university in a regional context that is now responding to change by rejuvenating, reinventing, re-envisioning and rethinking its research, its identity and its relationality. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved. All rights are reserved.

Effect of faults on stability of partially saturated rock slope

- You, Greg, Jaggi, Nav, Al Mandalawi, Maged, Dowling, Kim, Dahlhaus, Peter

Authors: You, Greg , Jaggi, Nav , Al Mandalawi, Maged , Dowling, Kim , Dahlhaus, Peter
Date: 2019
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Relation: Deep Rock Mechanics : From Research to Engineering
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Description: The effect of three faults on the slope stability was studied for the Stage 1 open pit in an open cut mine in Australia. The faults were treated as joints using Barton's method, and the slope was under dry and partially saturated conditions. A finite element program in RocScience was used in the study, where the generalized Hoek-Brown criterion was employed for rock mass and the Mohr-coulomb criterion for the faults. It is found that the factor of safety of the slope decreased with the introduction of the fault structures. Furthermore, the fault structures created higher stress concentrations zones at the ends of the faults.

Governance and multiculturalism; The White elephant of social construction and cultural identities

- Koerner, Catherine, Pillay, Soma

Authors: Koerner, Catherine , Pillay, Soma
Date: 2019
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Description: A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness. Informed by insights from white Australians in rural contexts, Koerner and Pillay attempt to answer how race shapes those who identify as white Australian; how those who self-identify thusly relate to the nation, multiculturalism, and Indigenous Sovereignties; and how white Australians understand and experience their own racialized position and its privilege. This “insider perspective” on the continuing construction of whiteness in Australia is analyzed and challenged through Indigenous Sovereign theoretical standpoints and voices. Ultimately, this investigation of the social construction of race not only extends conceptualizations of multiculturalism, but also informs governance policy in the light of changing national identity.

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