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ARCSHS Annual Report 2024
No full text2024 Annual Report of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University</p
A manual for girlhood – the embodied mechanical intertext in Exploded View
No full textAbstract:This paper interrogates my 2019 novel Exploded View, which uses a Holden workshop manual as its central scientific intertext and narrates a closely observed road trip from the west to the east coast of Australia. I reflect on the traumatic girlhood of the novel’s narrator and examine how she subverts the phallogocentric text of an automotive repair manual to question her silent place within the machinery of family and society. I look at how a motif like a car engine can function metaphorically and allegorically within a novel and unpick my use of the vocabulary of the workshop manual, its processes and its visual structures (the exploded view) and reflect on how they are used to represent the violent constraint of life for an Australian girl. I conclude with a reflection on myobsession with scientific intertexts and their subversion through situated, embodied or somatic knowledge. This is something I trace back to my status as a migrant searching to ground myself in this country and perhaps even before that as I attempted to situate the alphabet in its landscape. </p
Understanding the Neurodivergent superordinate identity: Identity endorsement and language preference
No full textThis poster shows research findings that explore how four commonly included neurodivergent minority groups identify with the neurodivergent superordinate identity, and the terminology they prefer and find offensive.</p
The importance of evidence in shaping the National Autism Strategy
No full textBlog post: The National Autism Strategy is a landmark step in recognising and valuing Autistic people in Australia. Informed by evidence, including research from the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, it lays the groundwork for a more inclusive society and lasting change.</p
Using artificial intelligence to improve healthcare delivery in select allied health disciplines: a scoping review protocol
No full textINTRODUCTION: Methods to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare clinical practice remain unclear. The potential for rapid integration of AI-enabled technologies across healthcare settings coupled with the growing digital divide in the health sector highlights the need to examine AI use by health professionals, especially in allied health disciplines with emerging AI use such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, podiatry and dietetics. This protocol details the methodology for a scoping review on the use of AI-enabled technology in sectors of the allied health workforce. The research question is 'How is AI used by sectors of the allied health workforce to improve patient safety, quality of care and outcomes, and what is the quality of evidence supporting this use?' METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review guidelines. Databases will be searched from 17 to 24 March 2025 and will include PubMed/Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature databases. Dual screening against inclusion criteria will be applied for study selection. Peer-reviewed articles reporting primary research in allied healthcare published in English within the last 10 years will be included. Studies will be evaluated using the Quality Assessment with Diverse Studies tool. The review will map the existing literature and identify key themes related to the use of AI in the disciplines of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, podiatry and dietetics. </p
Factors influencing participation in clinical supervision: a qualitative study reflecting physiotherapist and manager perspectives
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Outcome trajectories after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
No full textSubmitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Non-stationarity of annual minimum streamflows in Victoria, Australia
No full textFrequency analysis is crucial in low flow statistics, helping estimate the probability of water availability during low flow seasons and droughts. Low flow frequency analysis typically assumes stationarity, which has been challenged by climate change and variability. Therefore, non-stationary frequency analysis is essential when trends and non-stationarity exist in low streamflow data. This study developed a methodology that includes trend, change point, non-stationarity detection, and stationary and non-stationary low flow frequency analysis for annual minimum streamflow series of 7-day (Q7), 14-day (Q14), 30-day (Q30) and 90-day (Q90) periods, applied to selected river basins in Victoria, Australia. Significant decreasing trends were detected in several basins, with the strongest trends observed in the East Gippsland Basin, where the trend slopes were − 1.02, − 0.989, − 1.035 and − 1.534 for Q7, Q14, Q30, and Q90, respectively. Similarly, significant change points were found with year 2002 being the most common change point year, followed by year 1996, 2000 and 2001. Non-stationary frequency analysis proved superior in capturing the changing characteristics of low flow series. Moreover, the non-stationary models that included physical covariates outperformed those with only time covariates, highlighting the benefit of using covariates related to the physical mechanisms of low flow events. This study emphasizes the importance of non-stationary frequency analysis to prevent misleading conclusions in low flow-based water management, thereby enhancing the reliability and effectiveness of water management strategies.</p
For pleasure’s sake: Dance Hall & Picture Palace 20 years on
No full textFrom the late 1980s, Jill Julius Matthews embarked on a quest to uncover the neglected histories of women’s pleasure. This research agenda reached its apotheosis in Dance Hall & Picture Palace: Sydney’s Romance with Modernity (2005), a book that told ‘the story of modern Sydney as a romance’ and painted the harbour city as ‘a cosmopolitan centre of modern pleasure’. Twenty years on, Dance Hall & Picture Palace has become a classic of Australian historiography, an agenda-setting book that anticipated numerous scholarly preoccupations of the 2010s and beyond–from modernity studies and transnational history to sensory history and the new histories of capitalism. Yet the book’s underlying impetus has found few disciples. For all its myriad fans and historiographical influence, Dance Hall & Picture Palace’s methodological concern with pleasure has been little emulated within Australian history, where we continue to give scant attention to the things that made life worth living.</p