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Official launch of Indigenous Learning Circles, 2024
No full textCelebrations were held to mark the opening of Swinburne's Indigenous Learning Circles at Hawthorn, Croydon and Wantirna campuses, March 2024. The project is a collaboration between Swinburne's Indigenous students, Swinburne's Moondani Toombadool Centre, Wurundjeri Elders, and Indigenous architect Jefa Greenaway. The Circles revitalise key outdoor spaces and elevate Swinburne's connection to Country by paying tribute to the traditional owners of the lands, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
At Croydon, Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Colin Hunter Jr spoke about the collaboration with Traditional Elders to design Swinburne's new Indigenous Learning Circles.
At Wantirna, the launch included a smoking ceremony performed by Elder Uncle Colin Hunter Jr, a didgeridoo performance by proud Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri, Gunggari and Bidjara man Robert Bamblett and addresses by Vice-Chancellor and President Pascale Quester and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Vocational Education Madelyn Bolch.
Images originally appeared in Swinburne News, 21 March 2024
Celebrating the Construction of Indigenous Learning Circles, 2023
No full textA celebration was held to mark the beginning of construction on Indigeous Learning Circles (Hawthorn Campus), November 2023. Swinburne was honoured to host Indigenous Architect Jefa Greenaway and Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Colin Hunter Jr, who lead a Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country.
The Indigenous Learning Circles is the first project of Swinburne's next gen campus transformation. The project is a collabration Swinburne's Indigenous students, Swinburne's Moondani Toombadool Centre, Wurundjeri elders, and Jefa.
The Indigenous Learning Circles will revitalise key outdoor spaces across all three of Swinburne's campuses and will elevate Swinburne's connection to conuntry by paying tribute to the traditional owners of the lands on which our Australian campuses are located, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
Images originally appeared on Swinburne social media channels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
2019 Swinburne Annual Barak Wonga Oration
No full text2019 Swinburne Annual Barak Wonga Oration - My life journey in Aboriginal Affairs. Swinburne University of Technology and the Moondani Toombadool Centre were proud to have Dr Jackie Huggins AM deliver the 2019 Annual Barak Wonga Oration. Dr Huggins discusses her extraordinary journey in Aboriginal Affairs as an author, academic, historian and Aboriginal rights activist, including her work with National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, Reconciliation Australia, the Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal Children, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Dr Huggins discusses key areas of Indigenous rights and self-determination, the milestones she has seen in her lifetime, including the Mabo and Wik High Court decisions, the reconciliation movement, native title, Indigenous education, and gender representation, and the successes, disappointments and challenges.
Lecture held at the Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre, Level 3 Lecture Theatre on 1 August 2019
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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