EYE : End of year exhibition 2023
- Date: 2023
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- Description: SAT 11 NOV - SAT 25 NOV 2023 This important annual End of Year Exhibition (EYE) showcases work created by graduating students from Federation University’s Bachelor of Visual Arts, Diploma of Graphic Design and Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, Ballarat, and Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gippsland. For our emerging regional artists, EYE is the culmination of their studies; a showcase of the skills, concepts and level of understanding acquired throughout their degree course. Guided by staff, final year students also assist with the publicity, curation and installation of their work in the gallery environment as a form of art industry practice, professionally exhibiting their work to family, friends and the broader community. Outstanding student achievement awards, generously donated by special award sponsors, will be announced at the opening event at each campus. EYE (Post Office Gallery) Ballarat Formal opening: Fri 10 Nov @ 6pm Open: Wed to Sun 12 - 5pm EYE (Switchback Gallery) Gippsland 9 Nov to 23 Nov 2023 Formal opening: Wed 8 Nov @ 5pm Open: Tue to Thu 10am - 4pm, by appointment Contact: Julie Reed Henderson 03 5122 6050 Image: Sarah Mischker Creatures of Change, 2023 handbuilt glazed mid-fired stoneware H50 x W20 x D20 cm Courtesy the artist
Language and the built, natural, social, and symbolic environments during bad news conversations for people with a life-limiting illness : a case study methodology
- Authors: Miller, Elizabeth
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Background Bad news of a life-limiting illness is devastating to receive and remains a difficult conversation for healthcare professionals to undertake, despite education and training. Bad news conversations occur anywhere along an illness trajectory and often take place with the acute ward that is busy, sterile, and unfamiliar to patients and family members. Method A qualitative case study research methodology was used to explore the case, being the phenomenon of receiving bad news of a life-limiting illness for people living in regional Victoria, Australia. The literature was examined to understand the physical hospital environment and truth disclosure within bad news delivery. Data was collected between November 2021 and August 2022, through 14 semi-structured interviews with patients and family members, 13 semi-structured interviews with registered nurses, a three week observation period at a private regional hospital. The theoretical framework of Therapeutic Landscapes enabled the built, nature, social, and symbolic environments to be examined. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis and qualitative content analysis. Results A review of the literature resulted in the development of the "SSAFER place approach" concept model and found that patients need to feel safe in the hospital environment and that safety is equated with space for family and familiar notions of home. Nurses aimed to provide holistic person-centred through therapeutic relationships with patients and family members and create a home-life environment. It was found that a calm and quiet environment was essential for absorbing bad news, and patients and family members believed the way bad news was delivered, and the language used often needed to be improved. The audit of 17 family meeting s highlighted that death and dying language was rarely documented, and late referrals to palliative care services often occurred. The "Breaking bad news model," created from a second literature review supported the results of the thesis. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, patients, family members and nurses were negatively affected, creating a non-therapeutic social environment. Conclusion For patients and family members, a therapeutic landscape comprised of therapeutic relationship, open, honest and empathetic language delivered within holistic person-centred care. In addition, care needed to be provided within a calm and quiet environment to allow absorption and processing of bad news. Nurses providing palliative care aimed to meet patients and family needs holistically within an environment aesthetically tuned to be more home-like than clinical.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Practical and clinical approaches using pacing to improve self-regulation in special populations such as children and people with mental health or learning disabilities
- Authors: Edwards, Andrew , Abonie, Ulric , Hettinga, Florentina , Pyne, David , Oh, Tomasina , Polman, Remco
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of rehabilitation medicine. Clinical communications Vol. 4, no. 1 (2021), p. jrmcc00057
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- Description: For special populations such as people with a mental health issue or learning disability, a disconnect between the ability to accurately monitor and regulate exercise behaviour can lead to reduced levels of physical activity, which, in turn, is associated with additional physical or mental health problems. Activity pacing is a strategy used in clinical settings to address issues of pain amelioration, while self-pacing research is now well addressed in sport and exercise science literature. It has been proposed recently that these overlapping areas of investigation collectively support the development of self-regulatory, lifestyle exercise skills across broad population groups. Activity pacing appears to have substantial application in numerous development and rehabilitation settings and, therefore, the purpose of this short communication is to articulate how an activity pacing approach could be utilized among population groups in whom self-regulatory skills may require development. This paper provides specific examples of exercise practice across 2 discrete populations: children, and people with mental health and learning difficulties. In these cases, homeostatic regulatory processes may either be altered, or the individual may require extrinsic support to appropriately self-regulate exercise performance. A support-based exercise environment or approach such as programmatic activity (lifestyle) pacing would be beneficial to facilitate supervised and education-based self-regulation until such time as fully self-regulated exercise is feasible.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the ASEAN: A preliminary report on the spread, burden and medical capacities
- Authors: Hoang, Minh , Nguyen, Phuong , Tran, Thao , Khuong, Long , Nguyen, Huy
- Date: 2020
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- Relation: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine Vol. 13, no. 6 (2020), p. 247-251
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- Description: Objective: To provide preliminary descriptions of the spread, burden and related medical capacity characteristics of the ASEAN countries. Methods: We utilized the data from four main official databases, including WHO reports, the Statistics and Research of the Coronavirus Disease, and the Southeast Asia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Study. The spread of the COVID- 19 pandemic, current burden and the COVID-19 medical response capacities were extracted before April 11, 2020. Results: As of April 13, 2020, the ASEAN countries reported 19 547 COVID-19 positive cases with 817 deaths (case-facility rate of 4.2%). Thailand was the first country in the region that reported having the COVID-19 cases, while Laos was the last to report confirmed COVID-19 cases. Durations for the number of deaths to double were between 8-12 days. For the testing and treatment capacities, the number of PCR tests provided to the populations was the highest in Vietnam, followed by Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Meanwhile, the percentage of the population being tested was the highest in Brunei (2.31%), followed by Singapore (1.30%). Conclusions: A wide range of interventions were taken into practice in response to the outbreak with an effort of curbing the rise of this pandemic. However, special care should not be overlooked as the pandemic is placing a huge impact on the population and becomes increasingly unpredictable. To tackle the spread of the pandemic in the region, the ASEAN countries should work together as one community to provide better responses to future pandemics and other transboundary public health challenges. © 2020 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine Produced by Wolters Kluwer-Medknow. All rights reserved. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Huy Nguyen” is provided in this record**
Speaking Drawings : Works by Sally Miller
- Authors: Miller, Sally
- Date: 2016
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- Description: 9th March - 2nd April 2016 A compellingly beautiful yet tragic series of drawings make up this exhibition of nine works created by artist Sally Miller in the months before her death in mid 2015. Sally's life was prematurely cut short by a progressive neurological disorder called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) - a degenerative disease that steadily cripples movement and bodily function. These nine large graphite on paper drawings, each accompanied by a brief description dictated by Sally in the last weeks of her life, reflect the harsh and progressive assaults on her body - a beautiful, powerful and compelling last testament to Sally's courage and fierce commitment to her artistic practice and creative imagination. Image: Sally Miller, Unwinding, 2015 graphite on paper Courtesy the artist's estate
PAPERmade Exchange Exhibition
- Date: 2015
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- Description: This exhibition developed through a chance meeting of academic staff from the then University of Ballarat and Wake Forest University at an artist residency in Italy. Dr. Carole Wilson, Professor Page Laughlin and Professor David Finn were all working within the shared studios at La Macina di San Cresci in rural Tuscany during July 2012, where they discussed future collegiate projects. Dr. Carole Wilson (Federation University) then exhibited her body of work, Scala, created during the Italian residency, at Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University in September 2013, where she was hosted as a visiting artist. PAPERmade is the next stage in this international connection, and prior to its exhibition at START Gallery, this work showed at the Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. The WFU works submitted for this exchange show come from the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year. While some pieces were pulled from exercises in entry-level classes, there are submissions from upper-level classes as well. The Studio Art program offers courses in videography, sculpture, painting, drawing and design, printmaking and photography. Digital processes are incorporated throughout all areas, depending on the level of the course. While Federation University Australia has a number of campuses, the work in this exhibition is from the Arts Academy Campus, Ballarat. Students represented here are from second, third, and fourth years of the Bachelor of Visual Arts (Fine Arts) and Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honors), specializing in visual arts. Programs at Federation University Australia consist of complementary courses in Studio Art, Art History/ Theory, and at Honors level, Research Methods and Seminars. The Studio Art program offers courses in digital media, printmaking, ceramics, 3D, drawing and painting. The student body is from a wide variety of backgrounds including recent school leavers as well as mature age students, which results in a rich and lively studio atmosphere.
Benchmark 2014
- Authors: Pilven, Peter
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: On show during August at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Camp St Campus, Ballarat, is BENCHMARK 14, an exhibition of works by undergraduate visual arts students at the Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. The exhibition will be opened by Pete Pilven, BVA Programme Coordinator, Federation University Australia. Featuring works by students in the latter stages of their bachelor's degrees and Honours year, the exhibition showcases the work of Ballarat's emerging artists. The exhibition includes photography, painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing and will be on show at Federation University Australia's Open Day on Sunday August 31st.
- Description: On show during August at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Camp St Campus, Ballarat, is BENCHMARK 14, an exhibition of works by undergraduate visual arts students at the Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. The exhibition will be opened by Pete Pilven, BVA Programme Coordinator, Federation University Australia, on Thursday 14 August @ 5, for 5.30pm - all welcome! Featuring works by students in the latter stages of their bachelor's degrees and Honours year, the exhibition showcases the work of Ballarat's emerging artists. The exhibition includes photography, painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing and will be on show at Federation University Australia's Open Day on Sunday August 31st.
Cabaret
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Performed in the Deluxe Spiegeltent, corner of Sturt and Armstrong Streets, Ballarat - as part of the Ballarat Cabaret Fesival Cabaret revolves around English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Alongside Sally and Cliff’s hope of something better is the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Pulling the strings of the play is the enigmatic EmCee of the Kit Kat Klub, a dark and sometimes dangerous place. Written by Joe Masteroff based on the work of Christopher Isherwood with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and brought to you by the team that produced last year's spectacular42nd Street.
Ground condition as a risk factor in sports injury aetiology studies : the level of concordance between objective and subjective measures
- Authors: Twomey, Dara , Petrass, Lauren , Orchard, John , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Injury Epidemiology Vol. 1, no. 1 (2014), p.1-7
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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BACKGROUND:It is well known that the condition and type of sporting ground influences the risk of sports injury. However, the lack of evidence on the relationship between subjective and objective sporting ground condition assessments in sports injury aetiology studies has implications for the development of effective injury prevention strategies. This paper aims to examine concordance between subjectively rated and objective ground hardness and moisture measurements to inform data collection methods for future sports injury aetiology studies. METHODS:Subjective, observational assessments of ground hardness and soil moisture were recorded on 36 occasions during an Australian football season using two four-point scales of 'very soft' to 'very hard' and 'very wet' to 'very dry', respectively. Independent, objectively measured hardness and soil moisture were also undertaken at nine locations on the same grounds. The maximum and minimum ground values and the computed average of ground hardness and soil moisture were analysed. Somer's d statistic was calculated to measure the level of concordance between the subjective and objective measures. RESULTS:A significant, moderate to substantial level of agreement was found between the subjective ratings and the average objective hardness values (d = 0.467, p <0.001), but there was perfect agreement on just less than half of the occasions. The level of concordance between the subjective and objective moisture ratings was low to moderate or trivial for all moisture measures (0.002
0.05). CONCLUSIONS:Compared to objective measures, the subjective assessments were more accurate for ground hardness than for soil moisture levels and raters were just as likely to underestimate or overestimate the condition under review. This has implications for future sports injury aetiology studies that include ground condition assessments and particularly the use of subjective measures to underpin the development of future injury prevention strategies.
Object_Matter
- Authors: Jones, Rachel
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Peer Gynt
- Authors: Campbell, Justine , Wicks, David
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Justine Campbell’s wild and scatological version brings Peer Gynt crashing into our modern world. Translated by Colin Teevan and R. Farquharson Sharp. Cast:-Beckerleg, Amanda Billing, Andrew Brotz, Mitchell Foers, Sarah Gee, Elliott Gulinello, Salvatore Hancock, Sasha Knevett, Susannah Mason, Luke Masterman, Daisy Meyer, Cyril Somers, Madeleine Thiesz, Hannah Vagg, Tara Vettos, Eleni Wolff, Honor Yencken-Forde, Isabelle
Showcase 2014
- Authors: Durban, Kim
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Play
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- Description: Peformed 6-8 November, 2014 Post Office Box Theatre, Ballarat, Australia 12-13 November, 2014 MTC Southbank Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Music Theatre directed by Sara Grenfell Staging/Choreography by David Wynen Musically Directed by Robyn Womersley
The making of meaning: Rapture and rupture in the garden
- Authors: Bennett, Anne
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Urinetown
- Authors: Torbay, George
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Film or broadcast
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What would you like? Identifying the required characteristics of an industry-wide incident reporting and learning system for the led outdoor activity sector
- Authors: Goode, Natassia , Finch, Caroline , Cassell, Erin , Lenne, Michael , Salmon, Paul
- Date: 2014
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- Relation: Australian Journal of Outdoor Education Vol. 17, no. 2 (July 2014), p. 2-15
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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- Description: The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics that led outdoor activity providers agree are necessary for the development of a new industry-wide incident reporting and learning system (UPLOADS). The study involved: 1) a literature review to identify a set of characteristics that are considered to be hallmarks of successful reporting and learning systems in other safety-critical domains; and (2) the presentation of these characteristics to 25 Australian led outdoor activity providers using a two round modified-Delphi technique to obtain consensus views on their relative importance in this domain. Thirteen out of 30 characteristics were endorsed as "essential" for developing an incident reporting and learning system for the led outdoor activity sector, and a further 13 were endorsed as "required". "Essential" characteristics primarily related to operational or practical characteristics of the system, while "required" characteristics primarily related to system infrastructure, data quality and the basis for developing of countermeasures to address identified injury risks. The findings indicate that although led outdoor activity providers are primarily concerned that the demands of reporting do not adversely impact on their day to day operations, they also recognise that data collection methods and countermeasure development need to be of high quality. The paper concludes by highlighting some potential strategies for implementing the characteristics considered "essential" and "required".
When all the rivers run
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney , Heckenberg, Robyn
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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A functionalist perspective of environmental disclosure and accountability
- Authors: Faux, Jeffrey
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide greater insight into environmental accountability and disclosure from a functionalist perspective. Discussion of the utility of information supplied by corporations to discharge accountability is dependent on societal attitudes to the function of the corporation in society, corporate environmental responsibility and the issue of economic growth. Similarly, the usefulness of environmental information is predicated on perceptions of society as to the importance of environmental issues. The polarisation and politicisation of opinion regarding global warming denies scientific evidence and compounds issues of accountability and disclosure. A postal questionnaire was used to determine societal attitudes to key aspects of corporate functionality, accountability and disclosure. Questionnaire participants were drawn from three categories of society; shareholders, environmentalists and shareholder / environmentalists. Results indicate that the majority of respondents believe the function of the corporation in society is economic and social but there is a significant difference between shareholders and the other user groups. The preferred option of respondents regarding environmental accountability is for companies to be in advance of law and opinion. The sustainable development position, described a continuum, is supported by the shareholder and shareholder/environmentalist groups. The survey research method adopted in this paper suffers from the stated perceptions of respondents rather than attempting to reveal attitudes via alternative approaches. This study demonstrates that there is an attitudinal change towards corporate responsibility that will necessitate re-evaluation of corporate disclosure and accountability.
A theoretical framework to examine the judgement process of accountants
- Authors: Faux, Jeffrey
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 7th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference p. 1-18
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- Description: The cognitive concept of subjective user-orientated relevance is consistent with the description of accounting as a socio-technical information and communication system that is influenced by the mental processes and cognitive abilities of accountants. The purpose of this paper is the development of a theoretical framework to examine accountants’ judgment process as it relates to biological assets and to empirically test the attributes and constitution of useful information in the preparation of financial statements. A questionnaire is considered the most appropriate approach in this instance to collect data for this study as it is a more efficient means of obtaining responses from a large group of accountants located throughout Malaysia. The respondents generally believe that biological assets should be measured at current market value as it would provide relevant and useful information for investment decisions. However, there is a concern about the reliability of the information given the subjectivity involved in the measurement process. The survey elicits attitudes and opinions of the respondents encapsulated in the survey vignette and are therefore perceptions of respondents to a quasi-real situation. This study provides evidence supporting the conundrum facing the accounting profession concerning relevant information for decision purposes and the conflicting reliability of the information
Building workforce innovation capacity in Australia: A dynamic economic framework for evaluating two strategies
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Australian Conference of Economists p. 1-40
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- Description: Innovation in Australia has become the top national priority in strengthening competitiveness of firms and generating strong economic development. This paper investigates the building of workforce innovation capacity through human resource management (HRM) practices to foster innovation in Australia. Two HRM strategies are identified as having operated in Australia over 40 years. One is a ‘soft’ HRM strategy based on greater worker autonomy; a strategy which dominated in the 1970s and 1980s. The other is a ‘hard’ HRM strategy based on routine worker performance measurement which has increasingly become more relevant since the 1990s and into the 21st Century as the basis for stronger competitive advantage. A dynamic discrete choice model is developed to provide a method for capturing and explaining variations in the relationship between the two strategies and innovation. This approach reframes the economics of innovation using a unique ‘containment of structure and contingency of agency’ spectrum to explain innovation-successful HRM practices which can account for both internal firm management policies and external-to-the-firm effects of government economic policies. For this reason, this study provides a historical understanding that links effective HRM strategy to building innovation capacity from both firm and government levels. Such experience can assist building a stronger Australian Innovation System so often demanded.
Drift
- Authors: Atkins, Rosalind , Purdy, Susan
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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