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Beyond generic support: Contextual influences on careers of gender and sexuality diverse groups in higher education
Full text linkDespite the emerging attention to career development for gender and/or sexuality diverse (GSD) students, the literature is largely limited to generic support, missing a specific focus on either careers or being GSD. Such a generic view about contextual influences makes it difficult to guide the design and implementation of concrete, feasible practices for supporting GSD students' careers. Extending the existing body of work, this study employed qualitative methods to explore more specific, nuanced contextual factors within the university setting that influence GSD students' career development. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 Australian university students who self-identified as GSD. Our findings report seven major themes that could explain the influence of university contexts on the career development and experiences of GSD students. These themes include generic mentoring not always being useful, the negative effects of framing diversity as a “risk,” small things that can foster a sense of safety, the importance of designated areas and resources, the importance of advice on safe workplaces and being authentic at work, the importance of the visibility of key people, and the need for intersectional support. In addition to unpacking the influence of unique contextual features, these findings contribute to the extension of existing career frameworks such as the career self-management model into GSD contexts. Our results also shed light on detailed, implementable practical solutions for universities, career counselors, and psychologists to support the career development of GSD students
Interprofessional Collaboration to Develop and Deliver Domestic Violence Curriculum to Dental Students
Full text linkDomestic violence (DV) is a serious social problem that impacts significantly on communities globally. While dentists are uniquely positioned to identify patients who experience DV, there is limited content specifically addressing the issue in their undergraduate training. James Cook University (JCU) dental students revealed this gap, and, in response, an interprofessional collaboration between JCU Social Work, JCU Dentistry and the Cairns Regional Domestic Violence Service was established to codesign and deliver the Dentists and Domestic Violence—Recognise, Respond and Refer program, evaluated through Participatory Action Research (PAR) cycles. The program is informed by critical and feminist social work theory with a gendered analysis of DV. The authors present the program’s evolution and examine the four elements identified as central to its success: interprofessional collaboration, critical and feminist theory and gendered analysis, scaffolded content, and skills-based activities. This article will provide a guide for others starting work in this space.
IMPLICATIONS
- Designing and implementing an interprofessional domestic violence curriculum informed by critical theory and tailored for dental students’ can help meet their learning needs.
- Collaboratively educating dental students to recognise and respond to domestic violence cases will enable appropriate clinical interactions with patients who are victim-survivors of domestic violence and improve the quality of referrals and interactions with community support services.
- Undertaking evaluation research that guides effective domestic violence training for students across disciplines contributes to addressing domestic violence
Special issue editorial: Advanced partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) applications in business research
Full text linkThis special issue comprises a series of advanced applications of and methodological developments concerning PLS-SEM in business research. PLS-SEM,1 introduced by Wold, 1975, Wold, 1982 and Lohmöller (1989), models the structural relationships between constructs (i.e., the latent variables) as empirical approximations of theoretical concepts. Each construct is operationalized by a measurement model with a set of indicators (i.e., observed variables). The PLS-SEM method estimates the entire model with the aim of maximizing the explained variance of the dependent constructs in the structural model and of the indicators in the constructs’ measurement models (Lohmöller, 1989, Wold, 1982).
A bird’s-eye view: Industrial technology in eco-writing research
Full text linkCreative writers exploring environmental issues and human relationships with the more-than-human often employ methods for immersion in nature such as critical walking and ‘forest bathing’ or may seek to mirror what anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose describes as the ‘footwalk epistemology’ inherent in Aboriginal Australian worldviews. This article offers a new method of using industrial technology, in the form of a canopy crane, for eco-writing. Canopy cranes are typically used for scientific research. This article details my use of James Cook University's canopy crane in applied phenomenological research in comparison with walking on the Madja Boardwalk and with ‘forest bathing’. All these methods were employed in lowland rainforest at Cape Tribulation, Australia, which is within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. This highly biodiverse Area covers only 0.12 per cent of the Australian land area yet is home to 30 per cent of Australia’s marsupials, 58 per cent of bats, 60 per cent of butterflies, and over 5000 species of plants. The JCU canopy crane is one of only fifteen worldwide and therefore offers a rare opportunity to use this technology for creative writing research. In this article, I also present an extract of eco-fiction written as part of this project
Writing Across a Cultural Interface: A Guide for Non-Indigenous Writers
No full textIn recent years non-Indigenous writers have grappled with inclusion and representation of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples in creative works. Historically, and at times in contemporary fiction, writers have misrepresented, marginalized, or omitted Indigenous people as characters. Writers who craft regional and rural settings perhaps bear a greater onus than their metropolitan peers to characterize Indigenous people due to an expectation of a greater extent of unbroken connections to Country beyond the dense infrastructure of cityscapes. With the rise of First Nations authorship and authority, non-Indigenous writers are often advised to either avoid writing Indigenous characters or to get to know traditional owners and refine their writing skills to achieve authenticity. In this article, I offer my experience as a non-Indigenous writer crafting a farm novel that situates Aboriginal characters at the centre of the farm and the narrative. My writing process required constant awareness of a literary cultural interface and an approach that I hoped would recognize yet not impinge on Indigenous knowledge, beliefs, and authorship. My experience led to the development of guidelines that may be useful to other writers crafting Australian settings
Book Review of "Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia" by Jayne Persian. Abingdon, United Kingdom, Routledge, 2024. ISBN 9780367696962
No full text[Extract] One of the most remarkable feats accomplished by Jayne Persian in Fascists in Exile, her account of the ‘war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists . . . resettled in Australia by the IRO [International Refugee Organisation] between 1947 and 1952’ (Persian 3), is her marked degree of impartiality, even by the standards of academic history writing. Persian makes it clear from the outset that her intention with this book is ‘to move away from both ignorance and polemic’ (4). This book is neither a Nazi-hunting expedition nor an apologia for the ideological shortcomings of a few bad apples. Persian is quick to point out that ‘the problematic politics of post-war migrants to Australia has largely been ignored by non-Jewish academics and deliberately omitted by DP ethnic historians’ (3). Nevertheless, the degree to which she succeeds in her task of providing an objective assessment of Australia’s post-war resettlement policies can, at times, be unnerving for an ideologically engaged reader. Persian’s is an account of moral and political failures which manages to restrain itself from levelling obvious—and justified—condemnations
Correlating the abdominal drawing in manoeuvre between ultrasound imaging, pressure biofeedback and manual palpation measurements in participants with low back pain: an observational cross-sectional study
No full textBackground:
Physiotherapists have several options to measure lateral abdominal muscle (LAM) activity clinically, including ultrasound imaging (USI), pressure biofeedback units (PBU) and manual palpation scales. However, the concurrent validity of these tools is yet to be examined. Understanding how these tools correlate will help physiotherapists make informed choices about tool selection.
Objectives:
To determine the correlation between the prone PBU test, manual palpation and USI measures (preferential activation, preferential activation modified and transversus abdominis muscle ratios and transversus abdominis slide) for examining the ADIM.
Design:
Observational cross-sectional study.
Method:
58 participants with LBP underwent measurement of LAM activation using the three measurement tools across two sessions (7-14 days apart). Results were analysed using correlation coefficients and tested for statistical significance.
Results/findings: Reliability of activation measures ranged from moderate to good. Correlations were found between manual palpation, PBU and USI, however, were non-significant after a Holm-Bonferroni correction.
Conclusions:
The findings question the concurrent validity of these tools, suggesting one cannot be used in place of another for measuring LAM activation during the ADIM
Colourblindness in/of place: Memory, colonial place, and education’s ignorance of the blue
No full textThis chapter takes up the nexus of place and anti-colonial thought to prompt a consideration of how educational theory and scholarship, in making efforts to critically engage place, often does so with a rather terrestrial focus, failing to account for the placial colonisation of blue spaces. This chapter looks to how public memory is written into both blue and green spaces, doing so in support of a demonstration of how colonial logics are written into both terrestrial and aqueous spaces. Through such an exploration, I call for more attention to be paid in critical educational work to the ‘cyan’ making of settler-colonial place, that is, the complex intersection of blue and green places in the white settler-colonial project
Advancing inclusive practices in higher education: possibilities and limitations of a social justice professional development course
Full text linkResearch on widening the participation of historically underrepresented university students tends to focus on student preparation and the structural adjustments needed to attract and retain them. Few studies have examined how to prepare university staff for the diversity of students that comes with such widening participation programmes. This paper contributes to this gap by discussing the impact that a professional development course on practising inclusion in higher education had on academic and professional staff participants’ understanding of equitable and inclusive practices. Using interview data, we found that participants developed a more nuanced and sensitive practice and greater confidence to act for change as they acquired new skills and knowledge associated with social inclusion practices, reflected on their professional identity changes, and gained critical insights into their roles. These findings support the need for this type of professional development to prepare all higher education staff to genuinely support university students from underrepresented groups. They also highlight the need for these professional development offerings to foster greater reflexivity about taken-for-granted assumptions, a deeper understanding of structural power and inequity in higher education, and higher education staff members’ capacity to enact change within these structures
Integrating ecological roles and trophic diversification on coral reefs: multiple lines of evidence identify parrotfishes as microphages
No full textCoral reef ecosystems are remarkable for their high productivity in nutrient-poor waters. A high proportion of primary production is consumed by the dominant herbivore assemblage, teleost fishes, many of which are the product of recent and rapid diversification. Our review and synthesis of the trophodynamics of herbivorous reef fishes suggests that current models underestimate the level of resource partitioning, and thus trophic innovation, in this diverse assemblage. We examine several lines of evidence including feeding observations, trophic anatomy, and biochemical analyses of diet, tissue composition and digestive processes to show that the prevailing view (including explicit models) of parrotfishes as primary consumers of macroscopic algae is incompatible with available data. Instead, the data are consistent with the hypothesis that most parrotfishes are microphages that target cyanobacteria and other protein-rich autotrophic microorganisms that live on (epilithic) or within (endolithic) calcareous substrata, are epiphytic on algae or seagrasses, or endosymbiotic within sessile invertebrates. This novel view of parrotfish feeding biology provides a unified explanation for the apparently disparate range of feeding substrata used by parrotfishes, and integrates parrotfish nutrition with their ecological roles in reef bioerosion and sediment transport. Accelerated evolution in parrotfishes can now be explained as the result of (1) the ability to utilize a novel food resource for reef fishes, i.e. microscopic autotrophs; and (2) the partitioning of this resource by habitat and successional stage