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Field Based Forest Carbon Assessment Griffith University, Nathan Campus
No full textThe native forests of Griffith University contribute a range of important ecosystem services and functions including sequestering carbon, and hence are an important component of Griffith University’s Sustainability Goals including in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDG13: Climate Action as well as SDG15: Life on Land. To estimate the carbon currently stored within the native forests on the Nathan campus of Griffith University, and potential for future carbon sequestration, field estimation of the carbon in the forests was undertaken along 14 transects across 7 of the 12 Regional Ecosystems (RE) on the campus in 2023. Specifically, Above Ground Biomass was estimated by converting measurements of the height and width of all wood plants and standing dead trees with a Diameter at Breast Height of 5cm along 14 10m * 50m transects (two per RE, randomly located) using standard allometric calculations. These field values were then converted to tons of Above Ground Carbon per ha (12.5.3a = 98.1, 12.9‐10.17c = 155.2, 12.9‐10.26 = 168.2, 12.9‐10.4 = 141.3 12.11.24 = 177.2, 12.11.25 = 106.8, 12.11.26 = 94.4, weighted average across RE = 150 t C ha‐1 ) which when combined with the area of each sampled RE and other RE on campus (144.6 ha) to give a final estimate of the amount of Above Ground Carbon (21,749 t carbon) (living and standing dead) as well as both Above and Below (in roots) Carbon in woody plants (living and standing dead) (27,186 t carbon). There were lots of dead standing trees in the forest (20.9% of wood plants). When they were removed from the calculations the carbon values were slightly lower per RE (12.5.3a = 85.1, 12.9‐10.17c = 144.2, 12.9‐10.26 = 161.3, 12.9‐10.4 = 132.3 12.11.24 = 158.5, 12.11.25 = 102.4, 12.11.26 = 64.0, weighted average across RE = 139.4 t C ha‐1 ) while the total Above Ground Carbon in living wood plants was estimated as 20,193 t carbon and both Above and Below (in roots) Carbon in living woody plants was estimated as 25,241 t carbon. These values are broadly similar to those for a range of wet open forests in subtropical Queensland and reflect the generally high BioCondition of the forests at Nathan. It is also possible to estimate carbon flux for the forests on campus based on a rate of 2.92 t ha‐1 y‐1 given for similar forests in the region. Using this value, the Nathan forests may be sequestering carbon from the atmosphere at the rate of 423 t ha‐1 y‐1 . However, too frequent/hot bushfires, further clearing, drought conditions and the spread of weeds will reduce biodiversity in the forests and their capacity as carbon stores and carbon sinks.Full Tex
A Prospective Evaluation of Interprofessional Team-Based Clinical Education at the School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University
No full textStudents in diverse health programs taught separately from each other with a focus on profession ‘specific’ content rather than comprehensive collaborative patient care promotes a limited understanding of and respect for the collaborative role of different health professionals when undertaking treatment planning and patient-centred care. This may result in oral health graduates educated within a uniprofessional context becoming ill-prepared to manage patients with complex conditions that require collaboration with different oral health professionals (OHPs) through a team-based patient-centred approach.
As the potential value of interprofessional education (IPE) is strongly advocated in the literature, the Griffith University School of Dentistry and Oral Health (DOH) introduced the interprofessional teams-based treatment planning (TBTP) process in 2009 to address these educational challenges and facilitate IPE. The TBTP process incorporated student practice teams and an expansion of peer learning through collaboration between students enrolled in three different oral health programs, namely dentistry, dental technology and oral health therapy. It was perceived that shared learning, understanding of complementary knowledge, collaborative participation in managing patient care, and having knowledge/respect for each professions’ role were all necessary to improve communication and teamwork skills in a pre-qualification context in readiness for collaborative oral health practice.
However, a systematic evaluation of the TBTP process, its contribution to student clinical learning and experiences, and whether those experiences contributed to advancing interprofessional competencies and capabilities at DOH has not been conducted since its commencement. This thesis documents an evaluation that researched the attitudes, perceptions and experiences of students, clinical teaching staff, patients and newly graduated OHPs involved with the TBTP process at DOH between 2012 and 2015. The evaluation framework proposed in this research uses the first three levels of Kirkpatrick’s expanded typology of learner outcomes for educational interventions as a feedback process. The levels include student reaction to the learning experience such as a change in attitude towards interprofessional practice, acquisition of knowledge/skills which incorporates collaborative oral health learning experiences and behavioural change.
This study employed a mixed methodology, primarily quantitative supplemented by a qualitative approach where data were collected prospectively and annually at similar points in time between 2012 and mid-2015. The first phase of this study developed, and pilot tested instruments to collect relevant information from the cohorts included in the study and conducted a psychometric evaluation of the student survey to establish its validity and reliability. The second phase prospectively collected data utilising instruments specific for each of these cohorts. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of collected data and an interpretation of the results were then employed to answer the research question: ‘What is the impact of interprofessional student team-based processes, based on best practice principles, on attitudes, perceptions and experiences of students, clinical teaching staff, patients and newly graduated OHPs affiliated with DOH?’
A triangulation of data determined the amount of convergence in the study results thereby enhancing confidence in the findings and the research methodology as being well developed, comprehensive and robust. The results suggest that students had positive attitudes towards shared learning as indicated by their willingness to share information about patients with students in other oral health programs and engage in collaborative discussions to arrive at mutually agreed decisions about treatment plans within a team environment. The TBTP process was identified as a supportive environment where interprofessional clinical learning and experience was gained. It was perceived that effective supervision in this context facilitated collaborative treatment planning and teamwork skills, positive opinions of other OHPs, enhanced communication with colleagues and an improved understanding of clinical problems where students engaged in patient-centred collaborative care. New graduates noted that their behaviour became more respectful towards other OHPs as indicated through improved communication and by effectively contributing as part of a patient’s interprofessional team-based care.
Interprofessional shared learning alone had a large predictive effect and correlated strongly and significantly with students’ interprofessional clinical learning and experiences. The effect that chance, selection bias, measurement bias and confounding may have had on findings were considered and outcomes attributed to students were found to possess internal validity. Findings from clinical teaching staff were deemed valid and reliable within DOH, and information collected from other cohorts was considered innovative and provided meaning to help answer the research question. Through the TBTP process students acquired several interprofessional competencies and capabilities that included an understanding of roles and interprofessional values; interprofessional communication including collaborative decision-making and an ability to recognise and resolve conflict, and teamwork abilities relevant towards providing team-based patient-centred care.
This research provides valuable information for accrediting authorities and oral health educational providers seeking to incorporate interprofessional team-based clinical oral health education within their curricula to improve program outcomes. Strategies to guide a more efficient and effective interprofessional model of clinical oral health education at DOH have been proposed in this thesis. Recommendations have also been made for further research opportunities, both nationally and internationally, to improve an understanding of the educational needs of oral health students and graduates to better equip educational facilities to expedite students’ interprofessional clinical learning and experience reflective of best practice clinical oral health education.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Dentistry&Oral HlthGriffith HealthFull Tex
Griffith review 58: Storied Lives – The Novella Project V
No full textEvery life offers a unique story – but some lives stand out so distinctly they leave their mark on the world. How do some people make such a difference – and trigger change both at large and close to home?
Griffith Review 58: Storied Lives – The Novella Project V focuses on people who have effected a change in the world. It looks at the lives of others – real and imagined – that have created a narrative that resonates.
Their stories, personal, political, scientific or cultural, help map change, and illustrate how an individual life can coalesce with history to leave an enduring mark. For the first time, Griffith Review's Novella Project combines both fiction and non-fiction in order to highlight the rich diversity of writing talent in Australia.
Contributors include Kristina Olsson, Laura Elvery, Chris Somerville, Frank Moorhouse, Cassandra Pybus, Biff Ward, Krissy Kneen and Heather Taylor Johnson.No Full Tex
Portrait of Griffith J. Griffith, ca.1903
No full textPhotographic portrait of Griffith J. Griffith, ca.1903. Griffith is shown from his shoulders to his head and is looking slightly to the left with his shoulders turned all the way to the left. He is wearing a dark jacket and a light shirt. He has a thick dark mustache that curls up at the ends, and his short dark hair is neatly combed. He is a slightly heavyset man. He donated the three thousand fifteen acre Griffith Park to the City of Los Angeles in 1896. He was born in Glenmorganshire on January 4, 1852
Griffith, J, VX23476
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/389158Surname: GRIFFITH. Given Name(s) or Initials: J. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX23476. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 33317.212853
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J. A. G. Griffith's normative positivism
No full textThis thesis provides a reinterpretation of J. A. G. Griffith’s lecture ‘The Political
Constitution’—a reinterpretation that stresses the commitment Griffith expressed in that
lecture to the normative dimension of legal positivism. I call this normative dimension
‘normative positivism’. Identifying Griffith as a normative positivist serves to clarify a
number of debates surrounding Griffith’s arguments in ‘The Political Constitution’ and
serves to clarify our understanding of the concept that has come to be known in UK
public law scholarship in recent years as ‘political constitutionalism’, of which Griffith
is regarded as a leading exemplar. The thesis argues that Griffith’s political
constitutionalism is best understood as a form of normative positivism and is very
different from some more recent defences of political constitutionalism available in the
scholarly literature. The thesis also considers how the big constitutional questions of the
age in the UK—questions relating, for example, to bills of rights and devolution—play
out in the light of our discovery and appreciation of Griffith’s normative positivism
Sayegh: United Nations 1950-1954: Lucille Griffith, March 12, 1952
No full textLetter from Lucille Griffith, Recruitment Section of the United Nations, to Fayez Sayegh, March 12, 1952, offering him a two year appointment to the Secretariat as Social Affairs Officer and providing details of his duties and salary; includes Annex I: Staff Rules; Annex II: Important Instructions; United Nations Medical Examination form (blank)
Griffith, W H J, 401760
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/389154Surname: GRIFFITH. Given Name(s) or Initials: W H J. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 401760. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 57923.212841
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Griffith, J B D, 429375
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/389156Surname: GRIFFITH. Given Name(s) or Initials: J B D. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 429375. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 54594.212847
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S.W. Griffith: A Suitable Case for Indictment?
No full textIn his 2021 book ‘Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement’, Henry Reynolds called for an inquiry into the historical record of Samuel Walker Griffith, Federation ‘father’ and first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Reynolds’ iconoclasm targeted a historical figure whose name is memorialised in a Riverina town, a Canberra suburb and a Queensland university. Reynolds charged that Griffith was morally and politically responsible for the violence carried out by an agency of the Queensland government, the Native Police. This historically grounded allegation relates to Griffith\u27s pre-Federation Queensland political career, 1874–93, when he served intermittently as Premier, Attorney-General and Colonial Secretary. In this article we consider the historical record of S.W. Griffith as law-maker and ministerial decision-maker, asking what elements of fact and context may be brought to the important work of reckoning with a violent colonial past and its memorialisation in the present
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