UniSA Visiting Research Fellowships

Associate Professor Michelle Evans

Fellowship name: St Vincent de Paul Society Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 14 April 2024 – 27 April 2024
Academic Unit Contact: BIS-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

With an Associate Professorship in Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Michelle Evans is a specialist in Indigenous leadership and entrepreneurship. She is also co-Founder and Program Director of the award-winning MURRA Indigenous Business Masterclass Program, based at Melbourne Business School. 
 
Assoc Prof Evans has been awarded three Australian Research Council competitive grants as well as a Fulbright Scholarship. She teaches mostly at senior executive and postgraduate levels. Prior to academia, Assoc Prof Evans became Founder of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of Arts. This experience, coupled with her research, afforded her a unique combination of professional experience in management, community engagement and facilitation in Indigenous leadership and policy development. Fittingly, she has been consulted by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, OECD, APEC, and other public institutions. She has also led Australian organisations in the development of corporate Reconciliation Action Plans.   
 
Assoc Prof Evans believes that the path to Indigenous self-determination is carved through economic independence. So, in addition to launching MURRA, she has established other initiatives designed to support Indigenous entrepreneurship, including Walan Mayingu Indigenous entrepreneurship pop-up Hub and Indigenous Business Month. She has also collaborated on the Native Title Operations and Management Training Program with the National Native Title Council. 

Position

• Associate Professor in Leadership Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Australia 

Education

• PhD, Management, Melbourne Business School, Australia 

Research

Assoc Prof Evans’ research interests span a range of subject areas, from Indigenous business model and typologies; Indigenous business education; Indigenous leadership; Indigenous economy; Indigenous preferential procurement; Future of Indigenous work; and Indigenous social mobility. She currently heads up multiple research projects within public and private organisations while also leading academic publications, industry reports and organisational changes.

Professor Nicola Fear

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 1 March 2024 – 22 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: ALH-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Nicola Fear is an internationally recognised Professor of Epidemiology renowned for her groundbreaking research focusing on the health and well-being of the Armed Forces Community (serving personnel, Veterans and their families) and First Responders.

She joined the Academic Department of Military Mental Health (ADMMH) at King's College London in 2004 and since 2011, has been the Director of the King’s Centre of Military Health Research (KCMHR). In 2022, KCMHR and RAND Europe took over the leadership of the Forces in Mind Trust Research Centre – of which Nicola is a co-Director.  Previously she worked as an epidemiologist for the Leukaemia Research Fund at the University of Leeds and for the UK Ministry of Defence.

Currently, she is spearheading a significant cohort study delving into the comprehensive assessment of lifestyle choices, mental and physical health, and career consequences of military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. She leads several studies looking at the impact of military service on families.

Professor Fear’s recent accolades include receiving substantial grants from the Forces in Mind Trust. These funds support a number of projects under her guidance, including but not limited to the examination of the mental health of Gurkhas, understanding alcohol consumption and other lifestyle behaviours among spouses and partners of military personnel, and exploring the use of primary health care data to identify Veterans.

She is also a member of the Australian and International Military and Emergency First Responder Family Research Consortium and a member of the Senior Leaders Board for Emergency Responders (established by The Royal Foundation).

Position

• Professor of Epidemiology at KCMHR and ADMMH, King’s College London
• Co-Director of the Forces in Mind Trust Research Centre
• Director of KCMHR

Education

• Trained as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London) and the University of Oxford, UK
• DPhil, University of Oxford, UK
• Master of Science, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
• Bachelor of Science (Honours), Pharmacology, King's College London, UK

Research

Professor Fear has a Scopus H-index of 55 and a portfolio containing more than 340 publications. Her expertise spans epidemiology, Veterans and First Responders, military and occupational epidemiology, risk taking behaviour, suicide, and consequences of military deployment.

Dr Jilda Andrews

Fellowship name: Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 7 – 22 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: CTV-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Dr Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay First Nations cultural practitioner and museum ethnographer based at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her work investigates the cultural ecologies surrounding objects in museum collections.

In 2019, Dr Andrews completed her PhD titled Encountering cultural material in museum collections: An Indigenous perspective, where she explores the Concept of Custodianship in an era of increasing collaboration, co-creation, and curation by Indigenous cultural practitioners. In 2016, Dr Andrews spent time with the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of Natural History, researching the ways in which overseas museums care for and present anthropological collections, and in particular, Indigenous objects and ancestral remains. Her leadership in this sector has been recognised in her appointment by the British Council and Australia Council for the Arts’ Accelerate Program, her appointment to the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network as well as the Minister’s Creative Council in the ACT Government.

She is a member of the Australian Advisory Committee on Indigenous Repatriation and is an experienced performer as a member of the groups ‘Freshwater’ and ‘Biliirr’, where along with her sisters she celebrates her cultural heritage, language, and experiences through song.

Position

• Research Fellow, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University.  

Education

• PhD, Australian National University, Australia
• Grad Diploma, Digital Media, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Bachelor Media Communications (Hons1) & Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia

Research

Dr Andrews’ focus on material culture and the contextual lens of Country, pushes the concept of custodianship from one intent on the preservation of objects, to one that is active in maintaining connections between objects and the dynamic systems that produce them.

Her research brings a new lens to the fields of strategic foresight and futures studies, enabling the development of two-way minded approaches to futures inquiry, including language, tools, and methodologies.  

Barbara Fitzgerald

Fellowship name: Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 25 – 29 February 2024, 26 May – 4 June 2024, 10 – 16 August 2024, 11 – 15 November 2024
Academic Unit Contact: EDC-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

With a background as an actor, Barb’s career progressed from teaching drama through to becoming Principal of Korowal School, a K-12 secular, coeducational, independent School in Hazelbrook, Blue Mountains, NSW. Across the 10 years in her role as Principal, Barb led a comprehensive school-change project that focused on dialogic practices and was supported by colleagues from Oracy Cambridge from 2019-2022. This project redefined Korowal School’s direction and purpose. Four years into the new focus, staff and students proudly engage in dialogue, learning ‘through talk’ and ‘to talk’.

Since leaving Korowal school in 2023, Barb has written a book about Korowal’s journey over 45 years, given keynotes for the Association of Independent Schools on ‘The Role of Principal’ and ‘Authentic Leadership’, worked with school leaders in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Oracy and Dialogic Practices with Oracy Cambridge, and presented at the Inaugural South Australian Oracy Education Conference. Barb is passionate about promoting the development of voice and the right to be heard, making learning enjoyable and vibrant.

Position

• Principal and Leadership Consultant

Education

• Diploma of Primary Teaching, Catholic Teachers College, Sydney
• BA Hons, Visual and Performing Arts, University of Melbourne
• National Flagship Program (accredited towards Master of Educational Leadership, UNSW Sydney (yet to complete)), Association of Independent Schools NSW
• Beginning Principal’s Induction Program (Educational Leadership), Association of Independent Schools NSW

Research

Barb is a senior educational leader who is interested in how dialogic practices, including oracy, can transform the student learning environment. With an emphasis on relationships and experience leading the model developed and applied at Korowal School, Barb’s research will focus on generating direct evidence of the impact that adopting dialogic practices can have within schools, and identifying how change incubated in a small school can be transferred to larger schools and systems.

Mr Michael Radke

Fellowship name: SA Water Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 21 February 2024 – 20 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: CTV-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Michael Radke is globally recognised for his informal education initiatives that drive social change. With a Master’s in Cross-Cultural Psychology from Brunel University in 2006, he pioneered diversity recruitment strategies at Apple while working in the tech giant’s retail division. Just prior to, and then during, the launch of the first iPhone, Michael helped Apple develop a new hiring strategy for the recruitment of more diverse people across racial, age, gender, physical ability, and economic lines. Subsequently, Apple stores became more accessible to a new customer base.

Following his time at Apple, Michael embarked on a research appointment at UC Berkeley. There, he played a pivotal role in teaching education undergraduates on how to facilitate discussions on race with middle school students at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS). Concurrently, he assumed leadership roles as the Executive Director of the Coalition for Science After School, bridging science education and after-school programs nationwide. He was also Chief of Staff at LHS. Throughout his tenure, he spearheaded strategic initiatives to broaden stakeholder engagement, incorporate futures thinking, and enhance innovation and design processes.

Michael's lifelong passion for large-scale social change is rooted in his desire to foster community healing from past traumas and promote tolerant, peaceful societies. His Master’s dissertation delved into cultural values within non-violent political movements, forging connections with Nobel Peace Laureates and prominent social change figures. Mentored by luminaries such as Nelson Mandela, Senator John Lewis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Michael has spent decades studying their methods and translating them into actionable strategies for public and private sector organisational change.

Position

• Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Ubuntu Lab, Oakland, USA.

Education

• BSc Psychology, Michigan State University, USA, 2003.
• Masters of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Brunel University, UK, 2006.
• Creative Leadership Program, THNK School of Leadership, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015.

Research

In 2010, Michael's involvement in facilitating discussions on race inspired him to establish The Ubuntu Lab, a distributed museum of human experience that pioneers the exploration of crucial social and cultural issues, and thus fosters understanding of humanity. Over the past decade, the lab has developed innovative techniques for exhibit production, facilitation methods emphasising sense-making, and workshops that empower learners to drive meaningful change in their communities. These initiatives are informed by cutting-edge research in educational psychology, museum studies, and futures literacy.

Through the work of The Ubuntu Lab, Michael is interested in developing approaches that translate theories of futures and social change into actions for general audiences.

Professor Jürgen Hubbuch

Fellowship name: CSL Innovation Pty Ltd Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 24 February 2024 – 24 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Professor Jürgen Hubbuch is a professor in the Institute for Biotechnology and Food Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He is a pioneer in Biomolecular Separation Engineering.

His research centers on all aspects of digitalisation in the biopharmaceutical industry, formulation and stability of biologics and process engineering in the fields of gene and cell therapy. He concentrates on processing aspects and formulation of biologics for 3D printing applications. 

He previously held the position of Group Leader in the Institute of Enzyme Technology at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and the position of Department Leader in the Institute of Biotechnology in Jülich.  

He is named as inventor on several patents, has published over 240 peer-reviewed publications and has supervised more than 50 PhD students internally at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and externally with industry. 

Position

• Professor in the Institute for Biotechnology and Food Technology at University of Karlsruhe  
• Head of the Institute for Molecular Processing of Bioproducts at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 

Education

• PhD, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 
• Master of Philosophy, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland 
• Diplom Ingenieur (Dipl. Chem. Ing.), University of Karlsruhe, Germany 

Research

Protein analysis technologies, protein processing (purification, formulation, process monitoring), biophysical protein properties, high-throughput methods, biopharmaceutical formulations, 3D printing of hybrid materials.  

In the research area of biopharmaceutical formulations, the Institute for Molecular Processing of Bioproducts at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has successfully developed a high-throughput liquid formulation screening workflow that can be used to monitor protein stability in liquid biopharmaceutical formulations. 

Professor Ingrid Sketris

Fellowship name: CMAX Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 1 February 2024 – 29 February 2024
Academic Unit Contact: ALH-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Professor Ingrid Sketris is a professor in Dalhousie’s College of Pharmacy. She has a long background in drug-use management and policy research.

In 2001, Prof Sketris founded the Initiative for Medication Management, Policy Analysis, Research and Training (IMPART) research unit, which conducts research on professional, regulatory, financial and organisational factors affecting the medication management system. The goal of the unit is to improve the safety, effectiveness and affordability of the medication management system.  Her research involves identifying gaps in appropriate drug use and evaluating strategies to improve these.

She was previously a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (1996 – 1998) and of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (1999 – 2004 and 2018 – 2023). Prof Sketris was also a member of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (2003 – 2009 including Vice Chair), a non-governmental councillor of the Health Council of Canada (2010 – 2013), and a board member of Research Canada. From 2000 to 2011, she held a chair in drug use management and policy which was funded by CIHR/ Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, co-sponsored by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and established the research unit.

Position

• Professor, College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University 
• Fellow, Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Canadian Academy of Health
• Sciences, and the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology 
• Knowledge Translation team lead for the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) 

Education

• BSc (Phm), University of Toronto, Canada 
• PharmD, University of Minnesota, USA 
• Residency in Clinical Toxicology/Pharmacy Practice, University of Tennessee, USA 
• MPA/HAS, Dalhousie University, Canada 

Research

Prof Sketris has a focus on health services and policy along with pharmaceutical policy. She is also very experienced in the realm of knowledge translation and implementation science.

Professor Sebastien Chastin

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 23 January 2023 – 17 February 2023 & 12 February 2024 – 12 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: ALH-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Sebastien Chastin is a Professor of Health Behaviour Dynamics in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and in the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences at Ghent University. He is also an adjunct Professor at UniSA.

He received a BSc in Metrology and Applied Physics, a Master in Applied Physics, a Master in Rehabilitation Sciences and a PhD in Non-linear Physics. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Previously he had a post at the British Antarctic Survey, Oxford and Edinburgh University. He has a background in physics, data science and physiotherapy, and is described as a polymath over a wide range of subjects.

Currently Sebastien has as a large portfolio of projects on the determinants of movement behaviour in older adults and clinical populations, system science and co-creation. He leads the Data Science for Common Good research group at Glasgow Caledonian University that blends data science, citizen science, co-creation, and system science to develop socially innovative solutions to common societal problems.

He is President elect of the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity and chair of the Climate Action Committee.

Sebastien has advised on several public health guidelines: WHO global physical activity guidelines, Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines and the UK physical activity guidelines.

Position

• Professor of Health Behaviour Dynamics: People, Places, Systems at Glasgow Caledonian University
• Professor of Movement and Sport Sciences at Ghent University
• Adjunct Professor at UniSA

Education

• University of Sussex

Research

Sebastien’s research focusses on dynamics of health behaviour in relation to ageing, places and systems. Understanding why, when and how people decide to move or not is crucial to promoting healthy movement behaviour and ageing. He develops statistical and analytical techniques to extract information from body worn sensor such as accelerometers that enable researchers to understand how humans accumulate physical activity, sedentary time and sleep.

• Health Behaviour Dynamics, Rehabilitation Sciences, Non-Linear Physics, Data Science, Physiotherapy, Community and Individual Empowerment to engage in Physical Activity.

Associate Professor Ayesha Ahmed

Fellowship name: Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 10 February 2024 - 10 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: EDC-Research@unisa.edu.au  

Bio

Associate Professor Ayesha Ahmed works as an Associate Teaching Professor in the Psychology, Education and Learning Studies Group at the University of Cambridge. She most recently led a research project on Assessing Students Participating in Collaborative Group Work.

Associate Professor Ahmed has been working in the field of Educational Assessment since 1997, first at Cambridge Assessment, and then as a freelance consultant before joining the Faculty of Education at Cambridge in 2013. Her main areas of interest are in improving the quality of assessments and in the teaching and assessment of oracy skills.

Position

• Associate Teaching Professor, Faculty of Education and Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
• Executive Editor, Assessment in Education: Principles, policy and practice
• Fellow, Association for Educational Assessment: Europe
• Member, Research Advisory Group for Ofqual (UK qualifications regulator)
• Chair, Research Advisory Committee, AQA exam board
• Founding member, Oracy Cambridge, The Hughes Hall Centre for Effective Spoken Communication

Education

• PhD, Cognitive Developmental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK
• BA, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK

Research

Associate Professor Ahmed’s research focuses on assessment of collaborative group work, assessment of oracy, validity of assessment, and improving the quality of exam questions and marking schemes.

Professor Mary Naylor

Fellowship name: Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation SA & SA Health – Nursing & Midwifery Office Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 4 February – 2 March 2024
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au 

Bio

Professor Mary Naylor is the Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology. For more than two decades, she has led a multidisciplinary team of clinical scholars and health services researchers in generating and disseminating research findings designed to enhance the care and outcomes of chronically ill older adults and their family caregivers. 
 
Professor Naylor is the architect of the Transitional Care Model, a care management approach proven in multiple National Institute for Health clinical trials. Her translational efforts are focused on improving older adults’ experience with care and health outcomes, while decreasing use of costly health services. 
 
She is the recipient of Academy Health’s Distinguished Investigator Award, a recognition of significant and lasting contributions to the field of health services research. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005. Professor Naylor has completed a six-year term as a commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; a board member position of the National Quality Forum; and membership of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Advisory Council. She is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Consortium on Value & Science-Driven Health System and co-chairs the Consortium’s Culture Inclusion & Equity Action Collaborative. She also is a member of the RAND Health Advisory Board and the Institute for Health Improvement’s Scientific Advisory Group. 

Position

• Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology, University of Pennsylvania, US 
• Director, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania, US 

Education

• PhD, University of Pennsylvania, US, 1982 
• Master of Science in Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, US, 1973 
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Villanova University, US, 1971 

Research

Professor Naylor has worked tirelessly to advocate for evidence-based changes in health care practices and policies across the globe. A key example is her work as a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, where she advised the U.S. Congress on policies designed to offer a more promising future for beneficiaries. As a result, the use of evidence-based transitional care is now included in multiple policies designed to foster health care delivery and payment reforms, including several provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

Professor David James

Fellowship name: CSL Innovation Pty Ltd Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 23 January 2024 – 20 February 2024
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Professor David James graduated from King´s College London in 1989 with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, followed by postdoctoral research at Wye College, University of London. Prof James also conducted a joint project between the University College of London’s Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering and the University of Kent. Following his appointment to Lecturer at Kent, and then Senior Lecturer, Prof James moved to the University of Queensland in 2001 as an Associate Professor of Bioengineering, then Professorial Research Fellow in the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.  
 
He was appointed to a Chair in Bioprocess Engineering at Sheffield in 2006 with a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

Position

• Professor of Bioprocess Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
• Research Centre Director Advanced Biomanufacturing Centre, University of Sheffield, UK 

Education

• Postdoctoral Research, Wye College (University of London), then the University of Kent, UK
• Ph.D. in Biochemistry, King’s College London, UK 

Research

• Production of high-value therapeutic recombinant protein biopharmaceuticals 
• Systems Biotechnology for Rational Bioprocess Engineering 
• Cell Factory and Gene Vector Engineering 
• Process Analytical Technology 

Associate Professor Kristian Filion

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 8 January 2024 - 2 February 2024
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Associate Professor Kristian Filion is an epidemiologist leading an active research program in cardiovascular epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and drug safety.

Since 2011, he has actively participated in the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) – a pan-Canadian network that addresses drug safety and effectiveness for government. He is currently a CNODES Steering Committee Member, has previously led several CNODES studies, contributed to collaborations with the Methods Team, and is a member of the Training Team. Additionally, he has served as a Liaison and Co-Lead for the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Position

• Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, Department of Medicine and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University.
• Investigator, Center for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital.
• Steering Committee Member, Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies.
• Fellow, American Heart Association.

Education

• BSc, Physiology (Major) and Education (Minor), McGill University, 1999-2003.
• MSc, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, 2003-2005.
• MSc, Thesis (placed on Dean’s Honour List): The use and effectiveness of perioperative cardiac medical therapy among patients undergoing bypass surgery.
• PhD, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, 2005-2009.
• PhD, Thesis: The effects of glycemic control and thiazolidinediones on the incidence of congestive heart failure among patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Research: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 2009-2011.

Research

Professor Filion's research interests include knowledge synthesis, cardiovascular epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety.  He uses large population-based databases to study the utilisation, effectiveness, and safety of commonly prescribed medications, with a particular interest in cardiometabolic conditions (hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes), including studies of drugs used to treat these conditions and cardiometabolic outcomes.

Professor James Batchelor

Fellowship name: CMAX Visiting Research Fellowship 
Visiting dates:  3 December 2023 – 9 December 2023 & 12 March 2024 – 24 March 2024 
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au 

Bio

Professor James Batchelor is the Professorial Fellow of Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Innovation at the University of Southampton. He is also the Director of the Clinical Informatics Research Unit (CIRU) and the EDGE Programme, which is a collaborative group of NHS hospitals and research organisations working to support and improve the Research and Development process of EDGE Software.

As director of the EDGE Programme, he works to improve the delivery of health research though partnerships within the UK, Europe, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

His expertise is in systems engineering and architecture for clinical care delivery and clinical research. Professor Batchelor also has expertise in understanding data system security with respect to software meeting compliance standards for use in clinical settings.

Professor Batchelor is an international expert in working with health teams to map their workflows to better understand how software can optimise their internal processes. He leads a team of researchers who are working on clinical software product development and implementation, as well as researchers who are developing new solutions for application in low-income countries.

Position

• Associate Dean International, Research & Enterprise, University of Southampton 
• Director, Clinical Informatics Research Unit, University of Southampton  
• Professorial Fellow, Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Innovation, University of Southampton 
• Southampton Hub Director, Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health

Education

• BA hons Archaeology

Research

Professor Batchelor’s interests expand across digital health, informatics, research and clinical trials standards and interoperability, the Clinical User interface, and cloud-based platforms for health care and research.

The fundamental areas of his interest are the Protocol Representation Model (PRM) based on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), electronic delegation logs, research management terminology, and the clinical interface. Professor Batchelor’s research into the PRM is predominantly concerned with the challenges presented by the use of the Clinical Research Protocol and its integration with the Electronic Health Care Record (EHR) within a clinical setting. 

Gerald (Gerry) Turpin

Fellowship name: Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 22 November 2023 – 15 December 2023
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au 

Bio

Gerald (Gerry) Turpin is an Indigenous ethnobotanist leading the development of the Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre in the Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH) at James Cook University. The ATH is a joint venture between James Cook University, the CSIRO, and the Queensland Government.  
 
Born and bred in the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland, Gerry is a member of the Mbabaram Nation, and has familial links to Wadjanbarra Yidinjii and Nadjon on the Atherton Tablelands, and Kuku Thaypan on Cape York Peninsula. After leaving school, he worked in a variety of jobs including seasonal fruit picker, farm labourer, miner, sawmill worker, and on the local council.  
 
He started employment at the Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane in 1989 progressing from Scientific Assistant, Lab Technician, to Senior Ethnobotanist, having been employed by the Queensland Government for over 30 years. In 2005 Gerry acquired a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Botany at the University of Queensland and was immediately promoted to botanist with the Queensland Herbarium. In that capacity, he carried out a revision of the Regional Ecosystem and Vegetation Mapping Survey of the Channel Country of south-west Queensland over five years. In 2009 he transferred from the Queensland Herbarium to the ATH in Cairns, where he progressed to Senior Ethnobotanist. Whilst undertaking his degree, Gerry became interested in researching historical native plant practices and usages by Aboriginal peoples, eventually establishing his reputation as Australia’s foremost Indigenous Ethnobotanist.  
 
Gerry’s current work at the ATH entails travelling out to remote communities to engage and foster relationships. This work is not just about science. This connection to country and mob that Gerry performs reawakens song lines, remaps trade routes and connects tribes in the sharing of knowledge. Gerry also acts as a bridge between Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge and Western Science to bring research and other organisations to partner with traditional owner groups in collaborative research.  
 
The work that Gerry does is not just about the gathering of knowledge but also protecting it, ensuring that there is recognition and inclusion for the owners of the knowledge. In 2016, he played an important role as a member of the Indigenous Experts Roundtable in reviewing Queensland’s Biodiscovery Act (2004). The Roundtable recommended important changes which were adopted, allowing for the legal protections for the use of First Nations peoples’ traditional knowledge in biodiscovery to improve the alignment with international standards such as the Nagoya Protocol.  
 
In 2017, Gerry travelled to remote villages of northern India to meet with tribal Elders and Traditional Healers. This cultural exchange trip provided Gerry with insights into their traditional practices and highlighted the importance of recording traditional knowledge to ensure that the knowledge is not lost and is available for future generations.  
 
Highlights of his career include having a Mbabaram cultural plant named after him (Tephrosia turpinii) and winning a Deadly Award for Scientist or Science Project of the Year at the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, and Entertainment & Community Awards in 2013. 
 
Gerry has also just finished a six-year term on the board of the Ecological Society of Australia Organisation as Director of Indigenous Engagement. He recently accepted a position as an Expert Councillor on the Biodiversity Council, University of Melbourne.

Position

• Senior Ethnobotanist and Project Lead on the Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Queensland 

Education

• Bachelor of Science (Botany), University of Queensland, 2005 
• Currently studying for a Master of Philosophy (Medical and Molecular Sciences) 

Research

Indigenous Decision-Making about Plants and Plant Knowledge; Protection of Indigenous intellectual and Cultural Property Rights Over Plants; Continuance and Passing of Traditional and Cultural Knowledge; Building Trust with Traditional Owners Before Involving Other Agencies; Ethnobotany; Native Food and Botanical Industry; Aboriginal Historical Native Plant Practices and Uses; Connection to Country. 

Dr Véronique Richard

Fellowship name: South Australian Sports Institute Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 7 November 2023 – 1 December 2023
Academic Unit Contact: ALH-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Dr Véronique Richard is a research fellow at the University of Queensland, she is conducting applied research combining creativity and movement sciences to optimise performance, health and wellbeing.  
 
Her experience as a mental performance consultant with Olympic athletes and Cirque du Soleil artists led her to develop Creativity in Motion; an approach that aims to design enriched movement activities to build creativity supportive environments resulting in cognitive, affective, and social growth. The approach combines frameworks and theories from the field of psychology, skill acquisition, and creativity to optimise performance, wellbeing, and health. She is currently developing meaningful partnerships with various Australian sport organisations to co-design meaningful interventions and generate rigorous empirical evidence. 

Position

• Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland 

Education

• PhD Sport Sciences, University of Montreal, 2016  
• Post- doctoral Fellowship, Sport Psychology, Florida State University, 2017 

Research

Dr Richard’s focus is on creativity, performance and wellbeing. Balancing high-level performance and wellbeing can be challenging. Dr Richard’s research examines how designing creativity supportive environments in various contexts (sport, school, health, etc.) can contribute to performance while fostering cognitive, affective and socio-cultural factors associated with wellbeing. Specifically, she examines the impact of implementing enriched movement activities on performance and well-being variables. 

Professor Robert W. Lindeman

Fellowship name: Nova Systems Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 5 – 12 June 2022 & 23 October – 10 November 2023
Academic Unit Contact: STEM-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Prof Robert W. Lindeman is the director of the Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) at the University of Canterbury.

Rob is a world-leading virtual/augmented reality research scientist in interaction techniques for immersive virtual environments. His main research thrusts are supporting the long-term use of VR, providing multi-sensory feedback in VR, allowing people to get real work done using effective interaction techniques, and immersive applied gaming as a motivation for things like learning, training, behaviour change, and health.

He has published over 200 research papers and Google Scholar indicates over 4000 citations and an h-index of 34.

Rob is a long-time collaborator with members of the University of South Australia’s IVE: Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments.

His lab is a member of the Australasian Researchers in Interactive Virtual Environments (ARIVE) network, which is a cluster of the leading research groups and researchers in Augmented and Virtual Reality from eight institutions in Australia and New Zealand.

With over 250 faculty and students currently engaged in more than USD 40 million of research (over USD 10 million/year), ARIVE is one of the largest AR/VR academic research clusters in the world and includes some of the most prolific and highly cited researchers in the field.                                             

Position

• Director of the Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) at the University of Canterbury.

Education

• D. in Computer Science from The George Washington University

Research

Virtual and Augmented Reality applications are developed in the Lab for entertainment, training, and other applied research, with a core focus on user experience.

Researchers in this group are experts in three main areas: 3D user interaction (3DUI), multi-sensory feedback, and long-term immersion.

Representative projects from this group include aerial firefighter training simulation, MRI scan anxiety pre-screening, and the Māori Digital Marae project.

The group also researches effective design, engaging experiences, and evaluation of new techniques for creating applied immersive games and combines such games with vertical markets such as first-responder training, education, mental and physical therapy, health, and sports, as well as exploring new paradigms in interaction, media, and the arts.

Susan Cox-Smith

Fellowship name: SA Water Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 30 October 2023 – 24 November 2023
Academic Unit Contact: CTV-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Susan Cox-Smith is a co-founder of Changeist, an internationally respected foresight consultancy and research group. Founded with partner Scott Smith, the consultancy and research group has worked globally for the past 16 years with large organisations, governments, and educational and cultural institutions, helping them prepare for uncertainty and change. Susan is currently based in Barcelona, Spain, having also operated Changeist in both the Netherlands and the United States. As Changeist’s partner and director, experience, she manages the group’s learning and capacity-building activities.

Susan has consulted on futures projects for ADCB, BBC R&D, Comcast, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, National Lottery Fund UK, Nesta, and UNDP. She has contributed to trend research and scenario development, looking at the futures of personal transport, health and wellness, AI, entertainment, arts and culture, and emergency response practices. In 2021, she led the design and delivery of a public workshop platform exploring feminist futures in a post-Covid world for the International Women’s Development Agency. She has also provided research, story consulting, narrative development, storyboarding and scriptwriting for exhibitions and future immersive concepts for international clients. She is also a visiting lecturer for the Dubai Future Academy, and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development in Dubai.

Position

Susan currently manages Changeist from Barcelona, Spain. She, along with Scott Smith, is a visiting lecturer in several innovation and futures-related programs. In 2018, Susan co-founded Anaglyph, a content studio focused on future themes. 

Education

Susan is a graduate of the Miami Ad School at Portfolio Center in Atlanta and has a post-graduate certification in art history and appraisal studies from New York University. She has also worked in digital curriculum development and supported the University of Leiden’s respected online learning lab courses, as a consultant, community coordinator, and mentor. 

Research

As an organisation, Changeist has devoted much of the past decade to research around the development and creative delivery of capacity-building education and experiences across cultures and professional strata. The team has designed dozens of specialised workshops, led the way in digital and hybrid delivery of foresight education, and adapted approaches for multiple languages and cultural settings, as documented in their recent and upcoming books, How to Future (2020) and Future Cultures (2023). 

Most recently, through Changeist, Susan, along with Scott Smith, has worked on new approaches to embodied learning through strategic simulation and experiential futures, applying this approach initially to contexts around resource constraint and climate change with government and private sector leaders in the United Arab Emirates. This new capability draws from Changeist’s skills and experience—from trends research to artefact development to narrative design to strategic capacity building—to create action-oriented immersive learning experience that build participants’ strategic agility to lead through contexts of deep uncertainty and surprise. 

Scott Smith

Fellowship name: SA Water Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 30 October 2023 – 24 November 2023
Academic Unit Contact: CTV-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Scott Smith is joint-founder and partner of Changeist, an internationally respected foresight consultancy and research group. Founded with partner Susan Cox-Smith, the consultancy has worked globally for the past 16 years with large organisations, governments, and educational and cultural institutions, helping them to prepare for uncertainty and change. Scott is currently based in Barcelona, Spain, having also operated Changeist in both the Netherlands and the United States. As managing partner, Scott oversees research, strategy and partnerships for Changeist.

Scott has led engagements around the future with some of the largest and most respected global financial, retail, telecoms, technology and media brands, such as the BBC, The New York Times, ASOS, AXA, VF, and Comcast. He has designed and delivered futures projects, talks and workshops in over a dozen countries and facilitated projects and workshops in multiple languages. He helped create and lead the Strategic Foresight program for Dubai Future Academy, and lectures in the Innovation & Future Thinking program at IED Barcelona, a course he designed and launched. He is a visiting lecturer for the Dubai Future Academy, and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development in Dubai.

Position

Scott currently manages Changeist from its base in Barcelona, Spain. He is also a visiting lecturer in several innovation and futures-related programs, and in 2018 he also co-founded Anaglyph, a content studio focused on future themes. 

Education

Scott has a BA in History from Georgia State University and has completed one year of the Masters of Public Administration program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.  

Research

As an organisation, Changeist has devoted much of the past decade to research around the development and creative delivery of capacity-building education and experiences across cultures and professional strata. They have designed dozens of specialised workshops, led the way in digital and hybrid delivery of foresight education, and adapted approaches for multiple languages and cultural settings, as documented in their recent and upcoming books, How to Future (2020) and Future Cultures (2023).

Most recently, through Changeist, Scott has been working on new approaches to embodied learning through strategic simulation and experiential futures, applying this approach initially to contexts around resource constraint and climate change with government and private sector leaders in the United Arab Emirates. This new capability draws from Changeist’s skills and experience—from trends research to artefact development to narrative design to strategic capacity building—to create action-oriented immersive learning experience that build participants’ strategic agility to lead through contexts of deep uncertainty and surprise.

Professor Christine Edwards-Groves

Fellowship name: Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 9 October 2023 – 30 October 2023
Academic Unit Contact: EDC-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

Professor Christine Edwards-Groves is a Professor and ARC Fellow at Griffith University. She has over four decades of experience as an educator and researcher in rural and remote settings. Her work has involved students of all ages and diverse backgrounds, including those with disabilities.

Since 2006, she has been working in the university sector, focusing on literacy, numeracy, students with disabilities, and teacher professional development. Her educational philosophy emphasises inclusivity, equity, and achieving successful literacy outcomes for marginalised students. She is particularly known for her expertise in classroom interaction practices and has contributed to state and national policies on oral language in literacy.

Christine is recognised internationally as a leader in literacy, middle leadership, dialogic education, and practice theory; and is well published in these fields. She is involved in various research networks and collaborations, investigating education practices across different countries.

Position

• Professor and ARC Fellow at the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University

Education

• PhD, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 1999
• Master of Philosophy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 1994
• Graduate Diploma of Education Studies (Literacy), Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, 1988
• Diploma of Teaching, Institute of Catholic Education, Melbourne, Australia, 1981
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Research

Professor Christine Edwards-Groves is a renowned researcher in the fields of literacy practices, dialogic pedagogies, and middle leadership. Her expertise lies in practice theory, specifically the theory of practice architectures, and supporting teacher development through action research. She is currently collaborating with Professor Peter Grootenboer as a chief investigator on an ARC study investigating the impact of middle leadership on student learning.

Professor Lara Boyd

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 17 September 2023 – 30 September 2023
Academic Unit Contact: ALH-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio 

Professor Lara Boyd is an internationally recognised neuroscientist and physical therapist at the University of British Columbia. She is leading the effort to understand therapies that can positively alter patterns of brain activity in neurological conditions such as stroke. Prof Boyd’s studies are among the first to comprehensively examine the patterns of brain activation as they relate to motor learning and parameters of practice after stroke. She is an excellent communicator and can articulate complex neuroscience topics in a clear and engaging manner. Her TEDx talk has received 38 million views.

Position 

• Professor of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia
• Director of the Brain Behaviour Laboratory 
• Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Motor Learning  
• Peter Wall Scholar 

Education 

• Masters, Physical Therapy, University of Southern California, USA 
• PhD, Neuroscience and Kinesiology, University of Southern California, USA 

Research 

The Brain Behaviour Lab, led by Professor Boyd, conducts research integrating two fields of study: neurobiology of motor learning and neural science of stroke recovery. Through a combination of motor testing, cognitive testing, and neural imaging, her research can examine how the human brain recovers from various types of injury and illness. At the centre of her work is the question of what limits and what facilitates the brain’s ability to compensate for injury and enable recovery. 
 
Her research expertise expands neuroscience; physical therapy; brain activation and motor learning; neurobiology; neural imaging; brain Injury and illness Recovery. 

Dr Kirk Erickson

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 11 September 2023 – 4 October 2023
Academic Unit Contact: ALH-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

With vast contributions to translational neuroscience and cognition, Dr Kirk Erickson has amassed more than $58 million dollars in research support over the past 10 years. This support includes numerous grants from America’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Alzheimer’s Association. He is the Principal Investigator of the largest ever randomised clinical trial examining the impact of exercise on neurocognitive function in late adulthood. His research has resulted in the prestigious Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Erickson was named a Fellow of the Academy of Behavioural Medicine Research in 2016 and received a Distinguished Scientist Award by Murdoch University in 2018.   

Dr Erickson was a post-doctoral scholar at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and was a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the Principal Investigator of the Brain, Aging, and Cognitive Health Laboratory before starting his director role at AdventHealth.  

Dr Erickson was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to be an expert on America’s 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee and chaired the Brain Health subcommittee. His research has been featured in a long list of print, radio, and electronic media including the New York Times, CNN, BBC News, NPR, Time, and the Wall Street Journal. 

Position

• Director of Translational Neuroscience and Mardian J. Blair Endowed Chair of Neuroscience at the AdventHealth Research Institute 

Education

• PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 
• Undergraduate, Psychology, Marquette University, USA 

Research

Dr. Erickson’s research focuses on understanding the changes in various aspects of cognition, and the supporting brain structure and function, across the lifespan. His vast research program focuses on the effects of physical activity on brain health across the lifespan. This research has resulted in more than 270 published articles and 15 book chapters. With currently more than 48,000 citations for his work since 2003 he has been identified by the AD Scientific Index as among the world’s top 1% of most productive scientists. 

Professor Roianne West

Fellowship name: Lions Medical Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 31st of July – 11th of August 2023
Academic Unit Contact: CHS-Research@unisa.edu.au

Bio

A descendent of the Kalkadunga and Djkunde Peoples from Queensland, a mother, and a grandmother, Professor West’s pioneering work commenced as an Aboriginal Health worker more than 30 years ago. However, in many ways, it began generations before.  Her work builds on a family legacy, cultural and intellectual inheritance, and intergenerational knowledge that spans at least, four generations of Aboriginal nurses and a long line of healers.

Professor West uses Indigenist nursing and midwifery-led approaches, harnessing the power and knowledge of the world’s oldest living culture and the world’s largest healthcare workforce to address inequities in Aboriginal Health outcomes through education. 

Positions

Professor West is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Nations Nursing and Midwifery Consulting.  In 2020 she was appointed CEO of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) – the first CEO to be a full professor and hold a PhD.  Under her stewardship Professor West has:

• Established the Muliyan Indigenist Health and Cultural Safety Education Research Consortium
• Led a key nursing education initiative in the ‘gettin em n keepin em n growin em’ strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery education reform (GENKE II)
• Led the ‘In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses and Midwives Stories II National Exhibition (showcasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery excellence, and
• Designed and developed the Murra Mullangari: Introduction to Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility E-learning program for practising Nurses (endorsed by the NMBA)

Education

• PhD, James Cook University
• Masters of Mental Health Nursing, University of Southern Queensland
• Bachelor of Nursing, Deakin University, National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research Innovation Institute

Research

Professor West’s research promotes rigour in standards in First Peoples Health Nursing and Midwifery education and is grounded in the premise that increasing the completion rates of Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery students in Higher Education will make a significant and sustainable contribution to addressing inequities in Aboriginal Health.

Professor West sees being the first Aboriginal Nurse awarded the UniSA Visiting Research Fellowship with the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre as mutually beneficial and as the continuance of this work in nursing and midwifery. Importantly this involves the application of her newest directions in advancing Indigenist nursing and midwifery research and practice advocating for the recognition, protection, and maintenance of all aspects of Aboriginal Cultures in the disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery.

Dr Jan Hare

Fellowship name: SAPPA and SASPA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 1st of August – 24th of August 2023

Bio

Dr. Jan Hare is an Anishinaabe-kwe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation, located in northern Ontario, Canada. As an Indigenous scholar and educator, she has sought to transform education in ways that are more inclusive of Indigenous languages and ways of knowing. Her research is concerned with improving educational outcomes for Indigenous learners by centering Indigenous knowledge systems within educational reform of early childhood, high school, and university education. Her work has led to the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education. The online course has been taken by more than 70,000 people worldwide.

She has served in the roles of Director of NITEP (Indigenous Teacher Education Program) and Associate Dean for Indigenous Education. In 2014, Dr. Hare was awarded the Professorship of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education. One key goal of this professorship was to enrich teacher education with Indigenous perspectives, histories, and pedagogies through an integrated approach to teaching and research. Another goal was to engage in professional development for practicing teachers and inform them about the place of Indigenous peoples, histories, perspectives, and pedagogies in their current teaching practices.

Additionally, Dr. Hare currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Pedagogy, which examines the complex processes of learning by using Indigenous knowledge frameworks.

Positions

• Dean pro tem, Faculty of Education, Language & Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia, Canada.

Education

• PhD, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
• Master of Arts, University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Bachelor of Education, Nipissing University, Canada
• Bachelor of Applied Science, Child Studies, University of Guelph, Canada.

Research

Dr. Hare's current research explores the instructional practices of university educators by incorporating Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into the classroom. This knowledge and perspective is delivered via online, blended, and face-to-face instruction using collaborative inquiry. Additionally, she is engaged in theorizing Indigenous-led teacher education through programs where teachers narrate their own stories.

Dr. Hare and her research team are focusing on instructor knowledge, beliefs, and practices from across faculties and disciplines in higher education. The goal is to establish evidence-informed practices for improving how instructors teach Indigenous knowledge traditions, and how students learn from these knowledge traditions.

Dr Julie Gough

Fellowship name: Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 7 August – 1 September 2023

Bio

Dr Julie Gough is an artist, writer, and a curator of First Peoples Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.

Her research and art practice involves uncovering and re-presenting subsumed and conflicting histories, often referring to her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. She was born in Melbourne in 1965 and has mostly lived in Tasmania since the end of 1993. Julie’s paternal heritage is mostly Scottish and Irish. She is Trawlwoolway through her maternal family, and her Traditional homeland is Tebrikunna in far north-eastern Lutruwita / Tasmania. 

Dr Gough’s artwork is held in many private and public collections and since 1993 she has exhibited in more than 200 exhibitions. 

Position

• Curator of First Peoples Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
• Artist, writer, historian, researcher

Previous positions held

• Curator, National Gallery of Victoria
• Honorary Associate, School of Art, University of Tasmania
• Adjunct Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University
• Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, James Cook University
• Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, School of Creative Arts, James Cook University

Education

• PhD, Transforming histories: The visual disclosure of contentious pasts, University of Tasmania, 2001
• Masters, Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1998
• BA, Visual Arts, Curtin University, 1994
• BA Honours, Visual Arts, University of Tasmania, 1995
• BA, Prehistory / English Literature, University of West Australia, 1987

Research

Current work in installation, sound, and video, explores colonisation, Empire, First Peoples voice and perspective.   

Publications include Tense Past (2023, 2021, Tebrikunna Press. Awarded, AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing awards (2022) best artist-led publication, and, best Indigenous art writing), Fugitive History (2018, UWA Press) and Shale (2018, A Published Event).

Find out more about Julie here: www.juliegough.net.

Image of Julie Gough by Lucy Parakhina

Dr Tony McElligott

Fellowship name: Julie Brownell Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates:24 July – 18 of August

Bio

Dr Tony McElligott leads the research programme of the Discipline of Haematology in the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute at Trinity College Dublin, St James’s Hospital, and the Trinity St James Cancer Institute.

His research is focused on understanding the molecular basis of blood cancers and development of novel therapies, with a particular interest in chronic B-cell malignancies, including chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and multiple myeloma.

Positions

• Assistant Professor in Molecular Haematology, Haematology, Trinity College, Dublin.
• Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust Assistant Professor in Molecular Haematology.

Education

• PhD, Cancer Biology, University of Ulster at Coleraine, UK, 1998
• Bachelor of Science (Hons), Biochemistry, University College Cork, IE, 1990

Research

Assistant Professor McElligott’s research is patient-focused and multidisciplinary in nature. He established the Trinity St James’s Blood Cancer Biobank. His research programme encompasses the molecular profiling of blood cancer at diagnosis, and in response to therapy; molecular analysis of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers; the investigation of novel therapeutic strategies, including immunotherapy, cellular therapy, nanotherapeutics and small molecule therapeutics; and the molecular mediators of leukemic cell homing and trafficking.

Dr Debra Dank

Fellowship name: Pirku murititya UniSA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates:June 4 – June 30, 2023

Bio

Dr Debra Dank is Gudanji/Wakaja — the people from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory.

For almost 40 years Dr Dank has worked in various roles in primary, secondary and tertiary education including class teacher (primary and secondary), special education teacher, senior teacher, regional consultant, regional manager, lecturer, senior lecturer, and Head of School (tertiary). Dr Dank has worked in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and the Northern Territory in urban and remote settings.

Dr Dank’s first creative text We come with this place (Echo Publishing) was published in July 2022. It was selected by the Grattan Institute as one of the books for the Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List. In 2023, it was short-listed for three NSW Premier Literary Awards (winning four, including Book of the Year) and short-listed for the 2023 Stella Prize, the annual literary award for writing by Australian women.

On a more scholarly note, Dr Dank is particularly interested in how narrative is practiced in Aboriginal communities and why semiotics is critical to understanding the breadth of communicative mechanisms and functions in this practice.

Position

• Author.
• Lecturer, Indigenous Studies, University of Sunshine Coast.

Education

• PhD, Polyphony and Narrative systems in Gudanji communities (semiotics), Deakin University, Australia

Professor Hanspeter Schaub

Fellowship name: SmartSat CRC Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: June 5 – July 1, 2023

Bio

Dr. Schaub is a Professor and Glenn L. Murphy Chair of Engineering at the University of Colorado. He is also the University’s current graduate chair of the aerospace engineering sciences department. Dr. Schaub has over 25 years of research experience in aerospace dynamics and control applications, of which four years were spent at Sandia National Laboratories working on motion estimation, modelling, and control of autonomous systems.

Dr. Schaub’s research interests are in nonlinear dynamics and control, astrodynamics, relative motion dynamics, as well as relative motion sensing. This has led to about 195 journal and 300 conference publications, as well as a 4th edition textbook on analytical mechanics of space systems. In the last decade he has developed the emerging field of charged astrodynamics. He has more than 15 years’ experience with charged spacecraft concepts (free-flying networked nodes, tethered nodes, charged substructures, and charge Gossamer structures). Dr Schaub is a recognised leader in the field of charged spacecraft astrodynamics, and this speciality has culminated more than 100 journal and conferences on the subject. Dr. Schaub has also published extensively in the field of Attitude Dynamics and Control.

He has acted as the ADCS lead in the CICERO mission, the ADCS algorithm lead on a Mars mission, has been the supporting ADCS for a new asteroid mission. His work focuses on novel kinematic descriptions, as well as momentum-based control strategies. Further, his own research group is investigating space debris dynamics at GEO, as well as novel methods to move space debris using electrostatics or tethers.

The University of Colorado has honoured Dr. Schaub with the Murphy Chair currently and with the Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professorship and the H. Joseph Smead Fellow in the past. He has also received the Provosts Faculty Achievement Award, the faculty assembly award for excellence in teaching, as well as the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. Among other appointments, Dr. Schaub has served as an Associate Editor for the AIAA journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics and for IEEE Transactions of Aerospace and Electronic Systems and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He is a fellow of AIAA and fellow of AAS.

Position

Professor and Department Chair of Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

Education

• PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautics, and Astronautical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
• Masters, Aerospace, Aeronautics, and Astronautical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
• BA, Science, Aerospace, Aeronautics, and Astronautical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA

Research

Currently, Professor Schaub is looking to create collaborations between the University of South Australia and the University of Colorado in Space Systems Autonomy and Onboard AI.  The research collaboration will allow Dr. Schaub to introduce astrodynamics and spacecraft simulation expertise to the Artificial Intelligence work being conducted by UniSA Professor and SmartSat CRC Artificial Intelligence Chair Doctor Ryszard Kowalczy.

Dr Denise Chapman

Fellowship name: Mem Fox Visiting Fellowships in Children's Literature, supported by ALEA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 1 July 2023 - 31 July 2023

Bio

Dr Denise Chapman is a counternarrative storyteller, spoken word poet, academic, and critical autoethnographer who lectures in children’s literature, critical literacy, and inclusive creative media at Monash University. She uses oral stories, children’s literature, poetry, and digital images as counternarrative windows for social change.

She has served as a critical media literacy specialist in Australia, Fiji, Singapore, the UAE and the USA. Dr Chapman’s lived experiences as an African American woman, and Gullah heritage, fuels her counter-hegemonic cultural practice in research, teaching, and creative works. Her work continually explores  themes of immigration, home, belonging, environmental justice, Black motherhood and racial literacies.

Denise has been a repeat guest on ABC Radio National, was runner-up at Poetryspective’s 2019 Retro Slam, and has also presented her artistic work at The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne’s Emerging Writers Festival, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne’s Digital Studio, Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, and the Community Reading Room’s Black Tourmaline. In 2022, Dr Champan exhibited her poetry, images, and videos within an interactive digital story as a part of the Volume: Bodies of Knowledge project at Brisbane’s MetroArts.

Invitations to contribute to public discourse with the ABC, The Age, and the Sydney Morning Herald have allowed Dr Chapman to champion the importance of thinking critically about children’s literature.

Position

• Lecturer in the School of Education Culture & Society at Monash University

Education

• Doctor of Education, Early Childhood Education, Vanderbilt University, USA, 2008
• Master of Education, Early Childhood Special Education, Vanderbilt University, USA, 1997
• Bachelor of Science, Psychology/Chemistry, James Madison University, USA, 1994

Research

Critical media literacy, early childhood education, critical race studies, gender equality, gender inequity, inclusive education, culturally responsive digital learning spaces, technology use.

Professor Rupert Wimmer

Fellowship name: Green Triangle Forest Industries Hub Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 4 July 2023 - 4 August 2023

Bio

Professor Rupert Wimmer comes to UniSA from Austria, with a diverse research portfolio in environmental technology, zero-waste materials, and renewable materials. Professor Wimmer’s specialities include the wood industry, and wood technology, including tree ring analysis, wood quality, biomaterials, and sustainability.  He is the Full Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. He is also the Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science.

Professor Wimmer’s applied research capabilities have brought significant contribution to the wood and forestry industry. He has conducted bio-based product and process development and has accumulated an extensive list of patents and intellectual property rights. His contributions have been recognised through leadership appointments with peak industry bodies, including the International Union of Forest Research Organisations, the Society of Wood Science and Technology, and the Forest Products Society.

Position

Full Professor for Natural Materials Technology, Institute of Wood Technology and Renewable Materials, at the Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Science (BOKU), Austria.

Education

• Masters, Wood Science and Technology, BOKU, AUT
• PhD, Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, AUT
• Trained carpenter

Research

Professor Wimmer’s speciality in wood technology drives much of his research output. Most notably, Professor Wimmer has produced research into wood and waste residue composites —exploring underutilised wood species and natural fibres, like flax and hemp. This work provides industry with research-backed insight into wood application for sporting goods, vehicle components, and building materials.

This work is complemented by Professor Wimmer’s research on environmental technologies — including wood-dust reduction technologies and material emissions — and recyclability, with a focus on bioeconomy and carbon sequestration management.

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Professor Chris Pepper

Fellowship name: Julie Brownell Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: May 1 - May 26, 2023

Bio

Professor Chris Pepper is a cancer biology academic, who is internationally recognised for his research into chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).  His research is heavily patient-orientated and designed to improve patient care. His specialities cover disease progression, drug resistance, predictive biomarkers, and the development of novel therapeutic agents for cancer. Professor Pepper is an author of eight global patents and the co-founder of a Cardiff University spin-out company TeloNostiX, a diagnostics company that detects disease, conditions, and infections.

Position

Professor of Cancer Research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK

Education

• PhD, Medicinal Chemistry, Welsh School of Pharmacy, UK
• BSc (Hons), Biomedical Science, University of Wales College, UK

Research

Most of Professor Pepper’s work is based on primary CLL cells. His team were the first to demonstrate the clinical importance of certain protein types related to cell death, known as the BCL2 family of proteins. Additionally, His team has been prolific in its work with transcription factor NF-KB —proteins that relate to DNA, inflammation, and immunity. Dr Pepper’s team has also been able to demonstrate the clinic importance of NF-κB in disease progression and response to drugs.

Dr Pepper has published more than 120 primary research papers, as well as numerous reviews and editorials, including papers in Leukemia, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology; Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

Associate Professor Judy Duchscher

Fellowship name: Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation SA & SA Health – Nursing & Midwifery Office Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 24 April 2023 – 19 May 2023

Bio

Associate Professor Judy Duchscher is a thought leader and researcher into professional nursing practises. Her extensive body of work focuses on the challenges of intense clinical care environments, and how new nurses can become better assimilated into demanding and dynamic workplaces.

This research equips the health and medical industry with best practice for the successful transition of nursing graduates into working professionals. She has written several books and over 20 peer-reviewed publications on the topic of new graduate transition, which are used globally across Canada, USA, and Australia. These papers and publications have formed the framework for nursing residency and new nurse integration programs.

Associate Professor Duchscher’s current research portfolio is underpinned by a 44-year career in nursing and healthcare, which includes her position of Lead Clinician for several multidisciplinary organ transplant teams. This work includes a heart-lung transplant program at Canada’s Toronto General Hospital, Canada, and double lung transplant program at Washington University, USA.  

Position

Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Thompson Rivers University, CA

Education

• PhD, Nursing, University of Alberta, CA
• Master of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, CA
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, CA
• Diploma, Cardiovascular Nursing, Stanford University, USA
• Diploma, Intensive Care Nursing, University of Winnipeg, CA
• Diploma, Nursing, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, CA

Research

Associate Professor Duchscher has been the primary investigator for an extensive body of work, including research into bicultural immersion as a strategy to promote a healthy transition into the clinical care environment. She has also produced work that examines the integration of nursing graduates in emergency departments, and the nuances of male nurse assimilation. Associate Professor Duchscher has also researched the recruitment and retention of nurses, and manager leadership amongst nursing teams.

Professor Amber Mosewich

Fellowship name: South Australian Sport Institute Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 17 April 2023 – 15 May 2023

Bio

Dr Amber Mosewich is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research focuses on athlete psychological support and development, with an emphasis on stress, coping, emotion, and psychological skills and resources.

The sport context can present many challenges and ensuring that athletes have the skills and resources to effectively manage different issues in sport is essential to promote adaptive responses and foster successful, positive and healthy sport experiences. A key directive of Dr Mosewich’s work is to understand the psychological skills and resources necessary to facilitate and develop those responses and experiences.

One area of particular interest for Dr Mosewich is self-compassion as a potential coping resource for athletes. The premise is that promoting self-compassionate frames of mind might support acceptance, acknowledgement, and accurate evaluation of sporting situations, and lessen ruminative or avoidant approaches, better allowing an athlete to move forward in pursuit of their goals and highest possible level of performance.

Dr Mosewich is involved in a number of research and applied initiatives directed at providing psychological support for athletes to foster wellbeing alongside performance. She is a scientific advisor for the International Academy of Sports Science and Technology and serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, the International Review for Sport and Exercise Psychology, and the Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology journal.

Position

• Associate Professor in Sport Performance in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta

Education

• PhD, Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, 2013
• MSc, Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, 2008
• BSc (Honours with Great Distinction), Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, 2006

Research

Examination of stress, coping, emotion and resultant cognitive and behavioural responses within the sport domain, and the development of psychological skills and resources to support wellbeing and performance.

Professor Ravi Thiara

Fellowship name: Fay Fuller Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 10 April 2023 – 5 May 2023

Bio

Professor Ravi Thiara is a highly experienced and respected researcher. She is known for her ground-breaking intersectional research on domestic violence in culturally and linguistically diverse groups, which has led to important new directions for policy and practice.

She is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick in England and was previously Director of the Centre for the Study of Safety and Well-being (SWELL), a centre specialising in research on violence against women, children and marginalised communities. Central to her work is exploring and theorising the intersection of major social divisions.

Due to her expertise in gendered violence and racialised communities, she has worked with specialist organisations, providing much needed evidence for policy and practice development.

Ravi has conducted research commissioned by national and local government, children’s charities, third sector organisations, and research councils.

Position

• Professor of Sociology at University of Warwick

Education

• PhD, University of Warwick, UK

Research

Domestic and sexual violence, children and young people, racialised communities, disability, post-separation violence, mother-child relationships in context of abuse, child contact, links between mental health and wellbeing, abuse and vicarious trauma.

Professor Salih Tamer Cavusgil

Fellowship name: Seeley International Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 13 March 2023 – 24 March 2023 and September 25 – October 6, 2023

Bio

Professor Salih Tamer Cavusgil has been mentoring students, executives, and educators in international business for the past four decades.

He’s authored more than several dozen books and some 200 refereed journal articles. His work is among the most cited contributions in international business. Google Scholar lists him among the top scholars in the world in international business, international marketing, emerging markets, and export marketing.

Professor Tamer was awarded an honorary doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa, by The University of Hasselt, Belgium in May 2014, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark in October 2017. In April 2018, Professor Tamer was also honored as an Honorary Professor by Atilim University in Ankara, Turkey.

He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a distinction earned by a select group of intellectual leaders in international business.

Professor Tamer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business and economics from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He earned his MBA and PhD degrees in business from the University of Wisconsin.

Position

• Regents’ Professor, Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair, and Executive Director at the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, USA
• Trustee of Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey
• Visiting professor at Leeds University Business School, UK

Education

• MBA and PhD, University of Wisconsin, USA, 1976
• Bachelor of Science, Business and Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 1970

Research

International Business, International marketing, Emerging markets, Middle class in emerging markets, Global strategy, Social accountability of multinationals 

Brye Marshall

Fellowship name: Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 6 March 2023 – 31 March 2023

Bio

Brye Marshall is an expert Archaeologist and Heritage Consultant. He has worked in various archaeological sites across metropolitan Sydney, northern NSW and South Australia, undertaking site surface analysis, excavation/transport and forensic analysis of skeletal remains, stone tool analysis and classification, rock art documentation and reporting, excavation supervision, ArcGIS and ethno-archaeological surveying.

Brye also has over 15 years’ experience in Indigenous community engagement and Indigenous workforce reform. Plus, five years’ experience in Aboriginal cultural heritage and non-Aboriginal urban environments.

Brye has been involved in qualitative analysis, applying it to workforce reform strategies to Indigenous Teacher Education, Indigenous Higher Education and the NGO sectors. He has written numerous reports and presentations on Indigenous workforce retention and recruitment factors.         

Position

• Archaeologist
• Heritage Consultant

Education

• Bachelor of Archaeology (Hons) Flinders University

Research

Landscape Archaeology, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Archaeological Field Methods, Historical Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, Indigenous Standpoint Archaeology, Indigenous Pacific Archaeology.

Laureate Professor Jenny Gore

Fellowship name: Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 27 February 2023 – 17 March 2023

Bio

Jenny Gore is a Laureate Professor and Director of the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle. She took on the role of Dean of Education and Head of School during the period 2008–2013. Jenny has been awarded more than AUD$27 million in research funding, including grants from the Australian Research Council, the Paul Ramsay Foundation, and multiple State Departments of Education. Widely published and cited – with more than 120 publications and over 15,000 citations (including an h-index of 46 and i10-index of 105) – Jenny tackles persistent educational challenges through comprehensive programs of research on teacher development, pedagogical reform, enhancing student outcomes, and the formation of student aspirations. Jenny’s impactful research on improving the quality of teaching and student outcomes through Quality Teaching Rounds led to the launch of the social enterprise Quality Teaching Academy in 2020.

Jenny’s research has had significant impact, resulting in her providing substantial consultancy support across government, Catholic, and independent school systems. She has also consulted for a range of key stakeholders, such as the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, the Grattan Institute, and Social Ventures Australia.

Jenny has sat on advisory boards and expert panels for other studies and initiatives such as the Evidence for Learning Schools Expert Reference Council for Social Ventures Australia as well as the Education Research Funding Expert Panel and the International Research Review Panel for the National Institute of Education in Singapore.

Jenny was a member of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Panel for Engagement and Impact Assessment, and has assessed many grant applications across ARC funding schemes. She’s also worked on equivalent schemes in Portugal and the United States. She has reviewed more than 250 articles for a range of international journals and has supervised 25 PhDs, including two that have been awarded Best Thesis by the Australian Association for Research in Education.

As a leading academic in the areas of pedagogy and teacher education, she was appointed Associate Editor for Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies between 2003 to 2010 and Editor-in-Chief from 2015 to 2018. She is currently on the Editorial Boards of Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching Education, and Sport, Education and Society.

A recipient of the Paul Brock Memorial Medal in 2018 for outstanding contributions to social justice and evidence-informed policy, practice, and research, Jenny was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW in 2021 which recognises NSW residents who are leaders in their fields within the disciplines of science, art, literature, and philosophy. Jenny has also been recognised by the Australian Council for Deans of Education for outstanding contributions to education reform and, as elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, for her expertise across diverse research traditions. More recently, she was named in The Australian's 2022 research magazine as the leading Australian researcher in the field of teaching and teaching education. This is a measure that filters for both quality and impact and is determined by the number of an individual's citations for papers published in the top 20 journals in each field over the past five years.

Position

• Laureate Professor, School of Education, University of Newcastle
• Director, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre

Education

• PhD, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Master of Physical Education, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Bachelor of Education, Adelaide College of the Arts and Education
• Diploma of Teaching, Adelaide College of the Arts and Education

Research

Quality and equity, teacher socialisation, alternative pedagogy, power relations in teaching, reform in teacher education, pedagogical reform, teacher development.

Professor Enola Proctor

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 6 February 2023 – 6 March 2023

Bio

Dr. Proctor is Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Brown School and Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research strives to inform ways to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare, with a particular focus on behavioral health.

She works to advance the field of dissemination and implementation science, leading teams to distinguish, clearly define, develop taxonomies, and advance the conceptual, linguistic, and methodological clarity in the field. Her current projects address implementation outcomes, speed of implementation, and building the implementation science research workforce.

She directs the Implementation Research Institute, a training program in implementation science funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) which is now in its 14th year of funding. She served on the National Advisory Council of the NIMH and has advised the World Health Organization and the National Academies of Medicine, Engineering, and Science on implementation science projects in low and middle income countries, including work on COVID vaccine implementation, and accelerating response to public health emergencies.

She has also led the establishment of several university-wide centres and cores including the Center for Dissemination and Implementation for the Washington University Institute for Public Health and the Dissemination and Implementation Research Core for Washington University’s Clinical and Transitional Science Awards program.

Position

• Professor in the School of Social Work at Washington University
• Director of the Implementation Research Institute at Washington University

Education

• D., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1978
• S.S.A., The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, 1973
• A., Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1970

Research

Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Health, Mental Health and Social Services, Health Services Delivery, Evaluation of Clinical Social Work, Patient Care, Dissemination and Implementation Science.

Professor Christophe Stove

Fellowship name: The Hospital Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 23 January 2023 – 10 February 2023

Bio

Christophe Stove is associate professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium, where he is head of the Laboratory of Toxicology.

After having graduated in 1999 as a Pharmacist, he completed a PhD and a postdoc at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Sciences, respectively, all at Ghent University. Having worked for 8 years in the field of fundamental cancer research, his career took a bioanalytical turn when he returned to the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2007, to pursue a second postdoc, at the Laboratory of Toxicology, before being appointed professor in 2013.

He teaches several courses, provides service activities (forensic toxicology and reference measurement services) and is active in scientific research. He is a Board Member of several international and national associations, has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, has an H-index of 45 (Google Scholar), and his work has received several awards.

Christophe has published extensively on microsampling applications and the set-up and application of bio-assays (over 100 publications during the past 4 years) and has collaborated with groups from all over the globe, including Australia. He has been a recent collaborator on an invited review examining opportunities to improve the use of anticancer agents, specifically examining novel scientific methodologies to address the current system limitations and significantly enhance the use of anticancer medicines to improve patient health. His work on alternative sampling strategies has clear applications in many fields, including oncology, and directly complements work already being conducted under a Cancer Council SA Beat Cancer Project. This alignment of existing research being conducted within UniSA, and the world-leading expertise of Christophe, present an opportunity for SA to generate synergisms, which should ultimately lead to innovations in cancer care, with a particular emphasis on facilitating optimal treatment of patients within rural and remote settings.

Position

• Professor in Toxicology at the Department of Bioanalysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

Education

• Pharmacist (Master), Ghent University
• PhD in Medical Sciences, Ghent University

Research

Research fields of special interest are alternative sampling strategies, particularly dried blood microsampling, and the set-up and deployment of bio-assays.

The bio-analytical research line focuses on the determination of drugs, drugs of abuse, alcohol biomarkers and vitamins in dried blood microsamples, with special attention to the development and evaluation of new methodologies and the set-up of challenging applications and new concepts.

The bio-assay research line aims at studying various aspects of G-protein-coupled receptors and other biological targets of relevance for the forensic toxicology and doping fields. Examples include the set-up of universal activity-based screening procedures, as well as the application of bio-assays to characterize new psychoactive substances.

Professor My Mahoney

Fellowship name: Lions Medical Research Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 16 January - 16 February 2023

Bio

Prof. Mahoney is a leading scientist with over 24 years of independent, funded research studying the mechanisms that control skin homeostasis and regeneration during wound healing and carcinogenesis. The goal of her research is to understand at the molecular and cellular level, how signalling during normal tissue development is subverted during malignant transformation and disease progression. Her laboratory uses cutting-edge technology and multi-disciplinary approaches in cultured cells, animal models, and clinical trials to identify molecular targets for translational applications.

Prof. Mahoney’s leadership in her field is exemplified through various roles she holds including Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion and member of the esteemed Admissions Committee for the Sidney Kimmel Medical School. At the national and international level, Dr. Mahoney serves on the Peer Review Committees for the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DoD), Vice President (Elect) for the Society for Investigative Dermatology, and Board of Directors (Members at Large) for the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles.

During her career she has authored more than 62 peer-reviewed publications in high-profile scientific journals and has been invited to present her research to numerous International Conferences.

Position

• Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology and Otolaryngology Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

Education

• A. in Biology from Washington University, St. Louis
• MO and PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

Research

Dr. Mahoney’s work has identified the cadherin desmoglein 2 (Dsg2) as a novel marker for epithelial-derived malignancies and has shown that Dsg2 increases cell proliferation, migration, and malignant transformation. Dsg2 modulates multiple mitogenic signalling pathways and this synergy accelerates tumour development including those of the skin and head and neck. Profiling has shown that Dsg2 can induce profound changes in cellular transcriptome and secretome, critical for neoplasia. More recently her discovery that Dsg2 modulates the biogenesis of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and alters their mitogenic content including encapsulated miRNAs and corona-associated cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors, providing a mechanism by which cells can modulate their microenvironment. Due to their critical roles in cell-to-cell communication and cancer development, Dr. Mahoney’s lab is currently evaluating the use of EVs as potential cancer biomarkers and response to immune-checkpoint therapy.

Professor Barbara Fawcett

Fellowship name: Fay Fuller Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 2 - 17 November 2022 and 13 March - 24 March 2023

Bio

Barbara Fawcett is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde.

Previously she was Professor of Social Work and Head of the Department of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Birmingham. She was also Director of Internationalisation for the College of Social Sciences and for the School of Social Policy. Before joining the University of Birmingham in 2013, she was Professor of Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney Australia and the Head of School and Associate Dean (Research). Whilst at Sydney she was the co-director of the Social Policy Research Network.

She is an International member of the Hong Kong Social Work Registration Board and the New Zealand Social Work Registration Board. Prior to moving to Australia in 2004, Barbara was head of the large interdisciplinary School of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford. At the University of Bradford, she also co-founded and led the Social Care Research and Evaluation Partnership.

Barbara spent eight years in the field as a senior practitioner, manager, contract researcher and head of mental health services. Barbara has been an International member of the editorial boards of the journals Critical Social Policy, Child Care in Practice and the British Journal of Social Work. She has been an Executive Board Member of Barnardos, Australia and has worked extensively in the arena of health and social care. Her work has a strong International dimension and collaborations include Hong Kong, China,  South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. 

Position

• Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde

Education

• PhD University of Manchester
• MSc University of Oxford
• CQSW University of Oxford
• Sc (Hons) University of Bradford

Research

Her research interests focus on older age and end of life, mental health, gender violence, disability, participatory action research and postmodern feminism. Barbara is an expert in participatory social policy and social change. She has published on medicalisation, challenging current approaches to conceptualising and treating ‘mental illness,’ and highlighting the importance of non-medical alternatives and a person-centred approach.

Professor Alan Howe

Fellowship name: Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 7 November – 2 December 2022

Bio

Alan started work in 1974 as a secondary English teacher in Kent, followed by three years in north-west Victoria, before returning to the UK to teach at an upper school in Swindon, Wiltshire.  He has worked for nearly forty years at the forefront of educational change and improvement in the UK as a Local Authority Adviser and Inspector, and with the National Strategies (2000-2011) as a Senior Director, leading initiatives for both primary and secondary phases in literacy and English teaching, assessment, and teaching and learning.

As Director of the Wiltshire Oracy Project (1983-88) and National Oracy Project (1988-1992) he was part of the first significant movement in the UK to establish oracy as a major educational initiative. He has specialist expertise in supporting whole school approaches to improve teaching and learning, developing literacy across the curriculum, and English teaching, curriculum and assessment, and has written, published and presented widely about English, and language and learning in education.

Alan now works as an independent consultant, and is an Associate with ‘Oracy Cambridge’, the Hughes Hall Centre for Effective Spoken Communication at the University of Cambridge, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of effective spoken communication, and ways that it can be taught and learned, amongst policy makers and practitioners, within the UK and internationally.

In 2017-19, Alan worked with the Ministry of Education in Brunei Darassalam on the establishment of large-scale literacy and numeracy reform programme and also in Australia where he engaged in a month-long residency running an intensive coaching programme for oracy with a school in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.  He is currently working on a number of long-term oracy programmes, including a three-year project in north-east Scotland with 14 secondary schools. He has particular interests in promoting dialogic teaching and learning as a key component in oracy education; in exploring what ‘progression in oracy’ entails; and in using coaching as an effective approach when working with teachers on oracy-related professional learning.

Position

• Associate Oracy Cambridge, The Hughes Hall Centre for Effective Spoken Communication, University of Cambridge

Education

• PGCE, Swansea University
• BA English, Lancaster University

Research

Alan has worked to establish large-scale literacy and numeracy reform programmes and he is currently working on a number of long-term oracy programmes, including a three-year project in north-east Scotland with 14 secondary schools. He has particular interest in promoting dialogic teaching and learning as a key component in oracy education; in exploring what ‘progression in oracy’ entails; and in using coaching as an effective approach when working with teachers on oracy-related professional learning.

Dr Tess Ryan

Fellowship name: Pembroke School Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 29 August – 23 September 2022

Bio

Dr Tess Ryan is a Biripi woman originating from Taree, New South Wales.

Following an early career in government and community services, Tess completed a Communications and Media degree and was awarded the University of Canberra Medal in 2013 for her Honours thesis, studying the push/pull indicators of Aboriginal political engagement. She then completed a PhD at The University of Canberra focusing on Aboriginal women’s leadership in Australia.

Tess held a postdoctoral position with The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Melbourne, which involved the facilitation of a leadership program with Kings College, London, research collection, and data dissemination regarding Aboriginal health. Tess’s multi-disciplinary work involves Aboriginal women, media representation, Aboriginal research, leadership, and diversity.

Most recently, she has held a curriculum development role with The Australian Catholic University and is now working independently as a writer, commentator, agitator, and freelance consultant. She is also the former President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Association.

Position

Tess currently works as a freelance writer, academic, and consultant and is contributing editor of Croakey Health Media.

Education

• Communications and Media Honours Degree (University of Canberra Medal 2013)
• PhD on Indigenous women and leadership, Communication and Media Studies, Indigenous Studies, University of Canberra

Research

• Aboriginal women and leadership in Australia
• Identity processes and building capacity for Indigenous Australians
• Prioritising Leadership and Mentorship
• Aboriginal Australian women and representations in the media
• Changing the narrative for Indigenous people through education
• Creating change in people's lives

Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

Fellowship name: Pirku murititya UniSA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates:17 July - 5 August 2022

Bio

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an author, an arts critic, and a researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne.

Position

• Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Knowledges, Faculty of Art and Education, Deakin University

Education

• Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) – James Cook University
• Master’s Degree – Educational Leadership and Administration, General – Griffith University
• Master of Education (Med) – James Cook University
• Bachelor’s Degree – Secondary

Research

Environmental sustainability, public health, Aboriginal Knowledges, global systems from an Aboriginal perspective.

Professor Karen Coats

Fellowship name: Mem Fox Visiting Fellowships in Children's Literature, supported by ALEA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 20 June - 15 July 2022

Bio

Prof Karen Coats is the co-editor of five essay collections and author of three books on literature for young readers, the most recent being The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature, which offers a comprehensive introduction to the history, forms, genres, and theoretical concerns of youth literature.

She has also written over 40 journal articles and book chapters on diverse subjects ranging from psychoanalytic theory to alphabet books to cognitive poetics to the development of the neoliberal subject in American children’s books to visual conceptual metaphors.

Her work on children’s poetry has been translated into Chinese and Russian, and she has given invited keynote lectures in Sweden, Thailand, Russia, Taiwan, and China as well as here at Cambridge and in the US.

Prior to her appointment at Cambridge, she taught at Illinois State University for over twenty years, where she directed or served on the dissertation committees of some thirty doctoral students who now hold academic posts around the world. She is the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and has been a research fellow at two Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College. She holds a PhD in Human Sciences from George Washington University.  

Position

• Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature

Education

• 1998 PhD Human Sciences, The George Washington University
• 1996 MPhil Human Sciences, The George Washington University
• 1991 MA English, Virginia Tech
• 1985 BA English Education, Virginia Tech

Research

Karen has broad interests in children’s and young adult literature. She has published on the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and youth literature, Gothic children’s literature, multiliteracies in the developing reader, identity in YA literature, children’s poetry, metaphor theory, gender schemas in picturebooks, diversity in youth literature, and visual conceptual metaphors.  

Professor Frank Serafini

Fellowship name: Mem Fox Visiting Fellowships in Children's Literature, supported by ALEA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 6 June - 3 July 2022

Bio

Frank Serafini is a professor of literacy education and children's literature in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

He is an award-winning children's picturebook author and illustrator and recently received the Mayhill Arbuthnot Award from the International Literacy Association as the 2014 Distinguished Professor of Children's Literature.

Prof Serafini has published seven books with Heinemann, including: The Reading Workshop, Reading Aloud and Beyond, Lessons in Comprehension, Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days and Classroom Reading Assessments. He published Interactive Comprehension Strategies: Fostering Meaningful Talk About Texts with Scholastic, Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacies and Re-Imagining Multiliteracies with Teachers College Press. Prof Serafini's new book with Heinemann is entitled Reading Workshop 2.0: Teaching Reading in the Digital Age.

He has been conducting research on visual and multimodal literacy working with contemporary picturebooks to support young readers' comprehension. He is also developing a visual literacy curriculum and has been investigating digital and mobile applications in literacy education.

Position

• Professor, Literacy Education and Children's Literature, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

Education

• Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction: Reading Education, Arizona State University 2001
• M.Ed. Elementary Education, Arizona State University 1992
• B.A. Business Administration, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, 1984

Research

Visual and multimodal literacy; in particular, how picturebooks support young readers' comprehension.

Professor Jim Cavaye

Fellowship name: Regional Development Australia Murraylands & Riverland Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 9-13 May 2022 (first visit), 20-25 June 2022 (second visit)

Bio

As Pro Vice-Chancellor (Cradle Coast) of the University of Tasmania, Jim leads the university’s research, teaching and engagement across the Cradle Coast region.

He works closely with the university’s colleges and a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that the university is place-based, and its activities are regionally distinctive and aligned with the key issues and opportunities in the region.

Jim is an accomplished practitioner, educator, and researcher in community development with 40 years of experience working with rural and regional communities.

He has assisted over 140 local communities across Australia and internationally with community development, engagement processes, and economic development strategies. 

Jim was formerly a Professor and Program Manager at the Institute for Resilient Regions at the University of Southern Queensland. 

He was a well-known consultant in regional development and operated his own national consultancy business for 10 years.

Prior to that he was a Principal Rural Development Officer and Regional Manager with the Queensland Government. 

Jim began his career as an Agricultural Extension Officer in the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.

He chaired Regional Development Australia (Darling Downs and South-West) and was a long-term board member of the International Community Development Society chairing the International Committee of the Society. 

He has also been a board member of a range of regional and community organisations including Rural Immersion (a rural education initiative), Condamine Alliance, Southern Queensland Landscapes (a natural resource management organisation) and the Cradle Coast Regional Economic Development Steering Group. 

He is an International Fellow at the Rural Futures Institute in the United States, and an international speaker and author. 

In 2019, Jim was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the International Community Development Society.

Position

• Pro Vice-Chancellor (Cradle Coast) of the University of Tasmania
• Educator and researcher in community development
• Consultant in regional development
• International Fellow at the Rural Futures Institute in Nebraska (USA)
• International speaker and author

Education

• Bachelor of Agricultural Science (University of Queensland)
• Master of Rural Science (University of New England)
• PhD (Community Development) from the University of Wisconsin

Research

Prof Cavaye is an award-winning researcher in community development. He is particularly well-known for his applied approach and practical engagement with rural people, researching in ways that connects with community members and helping them develop practical outcomes. 

Dr Mark Carthew

Fellowship name: Irwin Ermidis Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 7 March 2022 - 1 April 2022

Bio

Dr Mark Carthew is an award-winning Australian children’s author, poet, musician and educator, well known for his books and series celebrating language, humour and wordplay.

He has extensive experience in trade and education editing and publishing with more than 100 books, as well as numerous anthologies, poems and songs published with Australian and international publishers.

Dr Carthew is a former Board Member of Australian Society of Authors and Adjunct Research Fellow with Swinburne University of Technology. He is a current 2020-2021 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellow. He has a PhD in Writing from Swinburne University and he is an Australia Reads Ambassador.

An accomplished children’s author, his illustrated play script series Voiceworks has sold over one million copies worldwide. Shortlisted nine times for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards; his book The Gobbling Tree, illustrated by Suzy Boyer, won the 2009 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award and his latest title The Thing That Goes Ping! Illustrated by Shane McG, won this year’s 2021 Book of the Year Award in the age five-to-eight-years category. His PhD artefact and anthology, Can You Keep a Secret? Timeless rhymes to share and treasure, was named a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book.

Dr Carthew was originally a primary school teacher, music teacher, arts consultant and librarian in the Victorian Education Department for 26 consecutive years with specific specialisations in literacy and numeracy; music education and physical education. Through a Victorian Government Teacher Release to Industry Program Award, Dr Carthew aslo worked for a seconded year as a development editor with Pearson Education, one of the world’s largest publishers.

Dr Carthew has had two stints working back in the Department in primary schools since, as well as independent primary school teaching contracts, interspersed by lecturing roles (at Monash, Swinburne and RMIT) and a project consultancy role at the Victorian Institute of Teaching. He was instrumental in the establishment of Swinburne University’s initial teacher education programs, where he was the Program Coordinator of Primary Education during the course accreditation and development phase.

Position

• Children’s author and editor
• Alumni – May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellow (2013, 2020-2021)
• Freelance teacher, consultant, author-in-schools, and conference and event presenter

Education

• Diploma of Teaching (Primary), Elementary Education and Teaching, State College of Victoria (Deakin University)
• Graduate Diploma in Music Education, Music Pedagogy, State College of Victoria (Deakin University)
• Diploma of Frontline Management, Project Management, Deakin University
• PhD (Writing), Swinburne University of Technology

Research

Dr Carthew writes picture books, poetry, songs, musicals and plays for children. He also compiles anthologies of poems, rhymes, stories and playground chants. His research interests include the poetics of children’s rhymes and verse; traditional and multi-cultural rhymes, finger plays and action songs; author/illustrator collaboration; the art of picture books; active practitioner research; kinesthetics, music, movement and language development; and education and multiliteracies.

Djon Mundine OAM FAHA

Fellowship name: Pirku murititya UniSA Visiting Research Fellowship
Visiting dates: 1 March 2022 – 31 March 2022

Bio

Djon Mundine OAM FAHA is a proud Bandjalung man from the Northern Rivers of New South Wales.

Mundine is a curator, writer, artist and activist and is celebrated as a foundational figure in the criticism and exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art. 

Mundine has held many senior curatorial positions in both national and international institutions, some of which include the National Museum of Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Campbelltown Art Centre. 

Between the years 1979 and 1995, Mundine was the Art Advisor at Milingimbi and curator at Bula-bula Arts in Ramingining, Arnhem Land for 16 years. Mundine was also the concept artist/producer of the ‘Aboriginal Memorial’, comprising 200 painted poles by 43 artists from Ramingining, each symbolising a year since the 1788 British invasion. The Memorial was central to the 1988 Biennale of Sydney and remains on permanent display at the National Gallery of Australia in the main entrance hall. 

In 1993, Mundine received the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the promotion and development of Aboriginal arts, crafts and culture. Between 2005 and 2006, Mundine was resident at the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, Japan as a Research Professor in the Department of Social Research and is a PhD candidate at National College of Art and Design, University of New South Wales. 

He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities as an Honorary Fellow in 2020 and also won The Australia Council’s Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement the same year. He is currently an independent curator of contemporary Indigenous art and cultural mentor.

‘All art is a conversation. Art is a social act – it is about the people of a society, not just what is fashionable at the time. Art is also about memory, remembering family.’ – Dion Mundine

Position

• Recipient of The Australia Council’s 2020 Red Ochre Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement
• Medal of the Order of Australia, 1993, for service to the promotion and development of Aboriginal arts, crafts and culture

Education

• Research Professor, Department of Social Research Minpaku National Museum of Ethnology

Research

The Aboriginal Memorial is an installation of 200 hollow log coffins from Central Arnhem Land, currently on permanent display at the National Gallery of Australia. It commemorates all the indigenous people who, since 1788, have lost their lives defending their land. The artists who created this installation intended that it be located in a public place where it could be preserved for future generations.

1988 marked the Bicentenary of Australia, a celebration of 200 years of European settlement, yet many indigenous Australians felt that there was little to celebrate. The Bicentenary elicited varied responses from both white and black Australia. Whilst it provoked widespread boycott and protest, the stage was set for indigenous people to demonstrate the resilience and vitality of their culture, and to invite the public to share in the celebration of that culture's endurance. The Aboriginal Memorial was inspired by this political climate.

At the time, Djon Mundine was Art Adviser in Ramingining in Central Arnhem Land. The idea for the project was triggered when Mundine saw a video of John Pilger's documentary 'The Secret Country', in which Pilger talks of the decimation of a tribal group who owned land on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, and who died 'to the last man, woman and child defending their country'. Pilger later says, 'Indeed, in a land strewn with cenotaphs which honour the memory of Australian servicemen who have died in almost every corner of the earth, not one stands for those [first Australians] who fought and fell in defence of their own country.'

'In the course of my work at Ramingining, the major role was to make the world more aware and appreciative of Aboriginal art and culture,' Djon Mundine has said. He initiated The Aboriginal Memorial project with its 200 hollow log coffins, one for each year of European settlement, representing a forest of souls, a war cemetery and the final rites for all indigenous Australians who have been denied a proper burial.