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Newsletter

October 2015

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Welcome!

This edition of The Cairns Institute newsletter reports on a number of highly

successful public events. Readers who weren’t able to attend the Early Years

or Tropics of the Imagination conferences may be happy to learn we are

discussing follow-up events with our collaborators. Stay tuned! Readers who

weren’t able to attend TEDxJCUCairns will be able to watch each of the

presentations on YouTube as they become available over the next month or

so. Presentations were variously inspiring, fascinating and challenging. A huge

vote of thanks is due the speakers, volunteers and staff who made all these

events possible! An extra huge vote of thanks is due our Events Officer, Jenni

McHugh, who consistently pulls together outstanding conferences and

seminars.

© Vernon Gabriel

Contact details The Cairns Institute—Building D3 Phone: +61 7 4232 1888

James Cook University Smithfield QLD 4870 Email: cairnsinstitute@jcu.edu.au

PO Box 6811 Cairns QLD 4870 Australia Twitter: @CairnsInstitute

Web: www.jcu.edu.au/cairnsinstitute

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Contents

Welcome 1

From the Director 2

International Day of the Tropics 2

Research translating into benefits 3

World Environmental Congress 4

Visiting scholar: Li Yan 5

How can you measure ‘empowerment’? 6

Vietnam Human Rights Program 6

Comparative constructions 7

ALTAR: film and ethnography 8

Period of PURPLE Crying 10

TEDxJCUCairns BuildUp 11

TEDX design winner 12

Regional natural resource planning 13

International Day of the Tropics 13

Tropics of the Imagination 14

Women and design in the tropics 15

Early Years Conference 16

Workshopping major risks 17

Great Eastern Japan Earthquake 2011 18

Native Title and the White Paper 19

Innovation Healthcare Masterclass 20

CQI Healthcare Masterclass 21

Crack Falling book launch 22

AVLab 23

What’s happening at the Institute 24

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Why does The Cairns Institute support such a lively schedule

of public events?

Evidence-based policy is an attractive idea for researchers

and academics. We spend most of our work time generating

evidence relevant to all sorts of public policy issues. It would

be nice to think that evidence, even some of it, is taken

seriously.

Of course, academics are not the only members of our

community with policy-relevant experience and knowledge.

And decision-making is a far messier process, in any case,

than the idea of ‘evidence-based policy’ implies. Policy isn’t

just about making the ‘right’ decisions based on the ‘right’

information. Policy is about the management of competing

aspirations and needs, negotiating compromises, dealing

constructively with uncertainty, balancing caution and

experimentation, and so on.

Supporting policy with good evidence thus depends both on

high quality research and on equally high quality processes of

knowledge dissemination and stakeholder involvement. This

is a two-way process. Dialogue over the meaning and

implications of research is as important to the integrity of

research results as it is to the possibility research might be

picked up and used by policy-makers and community

leaders.

The Institute’s events schedule is designed to create

opportunities for such dialogue. It is not designed to

promote evidence-based policy per se, but to support active

citizenship and inclusive governance in a manner that both

reflects, and guides, the Institute’s research agenda.

Your feedback on opportunities for dialogue provided by the

Institute, and on the types of events you would like to see,

are always welcome.

From the Director

Professor Stewart Lockie Director The Cairns Institute

On the 28 September, 2015 the Hon Julie Bishop MP, Minister

for Foreign Affairs and the Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, Minister

for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia announced that

Australia will lead efforts to establish the 29th of June as the

International Day of the Tropics.

The initiative is designed to build on the Australian

Government’s commitment to develop Northern Australia and

unlock the potential outlined in the white paper released

earlier this year Our North, Our Future.

A joint media release stated that “An International Day of the

Tropics will highlight the challenges and opportunities facing

the world’s tropical regions and promote greater collaboration

between countries to secure a more prosperous future.”

The release also acknowledged JCU as the driving force behind

the State of the Tropics report.

International Day of the Tropics

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JCU’s Dr Roxanne Bainbridge (The Cairns

Institute), along with colleagues Professor

Bronwyn Fredericks, Associate Professor

Angela Barney-Leitch and Dr (Uncle) Mick

Adams participated as representatives of the

Australian Research Council’s National

Indigenous Researchers and Knowledges

Network led by Professor Aileen Moreton-

Robinson. Professor Yvonne Cadet-James

and Dr Felecia Watkin Lui from JCU also

attended. They were part of a national

convention of some 40 Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander health researchers invited

from across Australia to focus on visioning

and proposing principles for Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander health research

excellence. The leadership role of the Lowitja

Institute in engaging the Indigenous health

research community—globally and

nationally—to improve Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander health research practice was

also explored.

Two key questions were posed and work-

shopped across the course of the day:

1. What does it mean to be an Aboriginal

and/or Torres Strait Islander health

researcher?

2. What does research excellence mean for

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

health researchers?

1Bainbridge, R., Tsey, K., McCalman, J.,

Kinchin, I., Saunders, V., Watkin Lui, F., Cadet-James, Y.,

Miller, A., Lawson, K. (2015). No one’s discussing the

elephant in the room: Contemplating questions of re-

search impact and benefit in Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander health research. BMC Public Health. 15:696. doi:

10.1186/s12889-015-2052-3

A perennial question in Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander research discourse is whether

the abundance of research conducted;

purportedly to improve health, is justified

and benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander people in ways that are meaningful

and valued by them1. Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander health research needs to be

led and driven by priorities set by Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander people, be of

practical use to the Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander health sector and benefit

those they serve, and develop research

capacity within these contexts. Despite

research developments and methodological

improvements in recent years to guide

research conducted with Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander people, what we are

doing is not working well—research is not

translating into benefits in terms of resolving

real life problems for Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander people on the ground. In

partnership, the Lowitja Institute and a JCU

research team led by Professor Komla Tsey

and comprised of colleagues from The Cairns

Institute, Felecia Watkin Lui, Roxanne

Bainbridge, Yvonne Cadet-James, Janya

McCalman, Irina Kinchin and Kenny Lawson,

are continuing to progress this research

reform agenda. The team is also funded by

the Australian Research Council and JCU for

different project phrases of the development

and evaluation a research impact framework

developed from an Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander perspective.

A related workshop was facilitated by

Professor Adrian Miller and convened by

Australia’s national Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander health research institution, the

Lowitja Institute on 21 July 2015.

Research translating into benefits

“A perennial question in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research discourse is whether the abundance of research conducted; purportedly to improve health, is justified and benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in ways that are meaningful and valued by them”

Roxanne Bainbridge The Cairns Institute

Background: Patron of Lowitja Institute, Dr Lowitja 'Donoghue. L-R: Professor Bronwyn Fredericks (PVC CQU), Associate Professor

Angela Barney-Leitch (QUT), Dr Roxanne Bainbridge (JCU) and Dr (Uncle) Mick Adams (ECU) at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander health research workforce workshop

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environmental and sustainability research field to talk, meet, seek common ground and synergies in research and plan possible next steps for collaboration and networking.

The second part of the symposium culminated in launching the #EEER network (Emerging Environmental Education Researchers) on Google+. The online platform is designed to continue conversations that began at WEEC and include researchers from around the world who were not able to attend. The aim is to facilitate an online community of practice for research, writing, and academic collaboration. Since its launch in early July the network has grown to 56 early career researchers from 16 different countries. Currently research interests are being discussed, job opportunities, research resources and events are shared.

Jenn, Ellen, and their colleagues have taken what they have learned from an Australian-New Zealand online community of practice they helped develop and applied the design and facilitation principles to the global #EEER group. In the regional network, the collective engaged in online collaboration self-research to develop a paper that explored areas of research that emerging researchers deemed important and worthwhile. For many of the early career researchers in the regional and global network, having an online community of researchers has been very important for combating PhD students’ feelings of isolation and for having a “safe” space to discuss their ideas or learn new methods together.

If you are an Emerging Environmental Education Researcher, please feel free to join the online group on Google+ (search EEER in Google+ at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104135313132010622147

Jenn Nicholls and Ellen Field, two PhD students affiliated with the Centre for Research and Innovation in Sustainability Education (CRISE), in The Cairns Institute, both attended the World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC http://weec2015.org/) in Gothenburg, Sweden in July 2015. The Congress is hosted in different international cities every two years and brings together researchers, practitioners, and environmental organisations from around the world. Gothenburg is considered an international model for sustainability and was an inspiring urban landscape for the conference.

Jenn presented a paper, Teachers' positioning and understandings of climate change and climate change education and their influence on practice. This presentation provided a broad summary of her doctoral research which investigated Queensland teachers’ understandings of climate change and climate change education.

Ellen’s paper, Arising activism or situating slacktavism: youth usage of social media & conceptualizations of environmental activism explored various ways that youth respondents from Ellen’s dissertation project use their Facebook profiles for environmental activism as well as a discussion on youth reflections on social media activism in general.

Both Jenn and Ellen used a crowd-funding platform to help subsidise their attendance at WEEC. Thank you to the colleagues, friends, and family who supported them!

Ellen and Jenn alongside other early career researchers—Mark Boulet, Sherridan Emery, Claudio Aguayo (remotely) and Blanche Higgins (remotely)—facilitated a two part symposium for early career researchers. The symposium was featured in the New perspectives on research in environmental and sustainability education theme and aimed to give space and opportunity for emerging (graduate and early career) researchers in the

World Environmental Education Congress in Sweden

Ellen Field (Cairns Institute, JCU) presenting at WEEC

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Visiting scholar: Li Yan

3. Mental health evaluation with Dr Irina Kinchin, Dr

Narayan Gopalkrishnan, Dr Vinnitta Mosby and Komla

Tsey

4. Marketing teaching at JCU with Dr Janelle Rose.

Li Yan said: “The experience at JCU has changed my life. I am

learning to write in English. I am also meeting many new and

exciting people. My colleague, Associate Professor Yang

Yinghong, and our university has successfully obtained “A

recruitment program of high end foreign expert of state

administration of foreign expert affairs” funding for Komla

Tsey. This will allow him to visit Shenyang University of

Technology for up to 1 month every year for the next 3

years. I hope this new partnership with Yang and myself from

Shenyang University of Technology and Komla and other JCU

colleagues will grow into something bigger to involve many

more partners from the two universities in the years to

come.”

Li Yan at the Cairns Campus entrance

Li Yan is Associate Professor in the International Trade

Department at Shenyang University of Chemistry Technology

in China where she teaches international trade, marketing,

international marketing, transnational corporations and

international development. Li Yan’s visit to the Cairns

Institute was supported by the China Scholarship Council.

Li Yan’s research interest is sustainable county (rural)

development. From August 2014—August 2015 she lived in

Cairns with her 11 year old daughter, Liu Xinlian, and worked

with Professor Komla Tsey and his research network. Her

main project during this time was a systematic review of the

literature on sustainable county economic development in

China. Her stay also enabled her to develop many research

and teaching partnerships at JCU, including:

1. Application of IT for education in sustainable enterprise

development with Dr Carrie Lui and Professor Komla Tsey

2. Family wellbeing leadership training with Komla Tsey

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Empowerment programs have been shown to contribute to

increased empowerment of individuals and build capacity

within the community or workplace, as shown in Figure 1.

However, to date, the impact of empowerment programs has

proved difficult to measure. A study by Irina Kinchin,

Susan Jacups, Janya McCalman and Komla Tsey assessed

outcomes of the empowerment program, Family Wellbeing

(FWB), developed by and for Indigenous people through

measuring effect sizes.

A three-day FWB workshop designed to promote

empowerment and workplace engagement among child

protection staff was held across five remote north

Queensland Indigenous communities. Staff were assessed

before and after (three months) attending the FWB

workshops. The analysis revealed positive changes in

communication, conflict resolution, decision making and life

skill development. One measurement tool indicated a 17%

positive change. The study has extended qualitative research

and identified tools for measuring outcomes of

empowerment programs.

How can you measure ‘empowerment’?

A full version of this recently published work is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/2050-7283/3/29

Figure 1: Empowerment program outcomes (Figure source: courtesy of

Mary Whiteside)

Professor Chris Cunneen, Tropical Leader, Justice & Social

Inclusion, will be visiting Vietnam for two weeks in October

2015 as part of the Vietnam Human Rights Technical

Cooperation Program (HRTC). The HRTC program is funded

by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

and managed by the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The program consists of a series of three Vietnam Ministry

of Public Security (MPS) managed workshops on the topic

of Ensuring and Protecting Human Rights in Prison

Management – experiences from Vietnam and Australia.

The three workshops will be held in the South, centre and

North of Vietnam in October 2015. The first workshop to

be held in Ho Chi Minh City will also involve a visit to a

Vietnam prison.

The workshops will seek to build knowledge and capacity of

MPS regarding the rights of prisoners, and enhance the

capacity of prison officials to implement these rights. Each

workshop will be attended by approximately 50 MPS

officials with responsibilities for prison management,

administration and policy development in Vietnam.

Vietnam Human Rights Technical Cooperation Program

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PHOTO TOP LEFT

Workshop attendees (L-R): Kasia Wojtylak (LCRC, JCU, Australia), Yvonne Treis (CNRS-

LLACAN, France), Lourens de Vries (VU University, the Netherlands), Marine

Vuillermet (Radboud University, the Netherlands), Felix Ameka (Leiden University, the

Netherlands), Hüner Kaşıkara and Sumru Özsoy (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Astrid

Alexander-Bakkerus (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Alain Fabre

(Kangasala, Finland), Siri Tuttle (University of Alaska Fairbanks, Canada), René van den

Berg (SIL International)

PHOTO ABOVE

Kasia Wojtylak at the workshop

International workshop on comparative constructions

In June 2015, the Language and Culture Research Centre

(LCRC) and VU University organised a special workshop on

Comparative and Superlative Constructions held at the VU

University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The workshop, organised by Professor Lourens de Vries

(VU University (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam) and PhD

student, Kasia Wojtylak (LCRC), included ten presentations

by local and international scholars who work with various

lesser-studied languages and language families.

The workshop included presentations on languages of the

Americas (Murui, Nivacle, Esse’eja, Amuesha, Cholón,

Jebero, Quechua and Alaskan Athabascan), Africa (Ewe,

Kambaata), Indonesia (Muna), as well as three

comparative papers on Tibetan and Papuan languages and

the languages of Timor. It also included the first-ever

analysis of comparative constructions in a sign language,

i.e., the Turkish sign language.

The workshop examined comparative constructions from a

cross-linguistic perspective, focusing primarily on those

constructions that diverge from the prototypical ones,

such as “John is more handsome than Felix”.

Many languages have comparative constructions unlike

those in English. Papuan languages for instance, have no

‘dedicated’ comparative construction. They express

comparison by ‘comparative strategies’, such as “John is

handsome. Felix is not.” Murui, a language spoken in the

Amazonian parts of Colombia, expresses comparison by

employing a construction which can be roughly translated

into English as “Harry is handsome, beyond Felix”. Quite a

few languages include more than one means of expressing

comparison.

The workshop sparked a series of vibrant conversations

among specialists comparing intricacies of the grammatical

systems of the languages of their expertise. It will result in

the publication of a volume of high-quality papers, edited by

Dr Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) and Ms Kasia

Wojtylak.

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and unnatural world. Harnessing perspectives drawn from

the arts, the social and natural sciences, and the humanities,

the SEL encourages attention to the many

dimensions of the world, both animate and inanimate, that

may only with difficulty, if it all, be rendered with

propositional prose” (sel.fas.harvard.edu ). In May we

showed Manakamana (2013), and Leviathan (2012) was

screened in September.

The former was made in Nepal about pilgrims making an

ancient journey by cable car to worship the wish-fulfilling

goddess, Manakamana. The latter is a ground-breaking,

immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing

industry (www.leviathanfilm.org).

In July 2015 we hosted one of the classic Australian outback

productions, The Fringe Dwellers (1986) and another classic

of the successful ‘Disappearing World’ TV series, War of The

Gods (1971). The cyberTribe and Jennifer Fraser hosted the

first film. You can read more about it at

www.worldscreenculture.tv/events.html. The Language and

Culture Research Centre (LCRC), namely Distinguished

Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, specialist in Amazonian

and Papua New Guinean languages and her PhD student

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The ALTAR monthly film screenings continue to reflect upon

the methods of ethnographic filmmaking and

anthropological theories. In 2015 our focus has been on

indigenous production and experimental filmmaking. We

visited Amazonia, India, and Australia in the first half of the

year, and we will move to North America, Vanuatu, and

finish in France in the second half of 2015.

Created in 1986, Vídeo nas Aldeias (VNA – Video in the

villages) is a pioneer project in the field of indigenous

audiovisual production in Brazil. We were able to show two

films, The Master and Divino (2013) and The Hyperwomen

(2011). More info: www.videonasaldeias.org.br

We were also privileged to obtain two films from SEL. “The

Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory

at Harvard University that promotes innovative combinations

of aesthetics and ethnography. It uses analog and digital

media to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural

ALTAR: film and ethnography

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Kasia I. Wojtylak, who is doing research in Columbia,

presented the War of The Gods in August 2015.

In October we will visit Vanuatu, screening Vanuatu

Women’s Water Music (2014) and we will welcome the film

makers to the event. The closing film of this year will be

French documentary, The Gleaners and I (2000). This film

was made by a photographer, film director and a Paris-based

key figure in modern film history, Agnes Varda. The Gleaners

and I was named the best French film of 2000 by the French

Union of Film Critics. The film closes our theme of 2015: A

Way of Looking.

In July 2015 for the first time ALTAR offered an intensive two

-day workshop , Researching with a Video Camera, as an

introduction to audio-visual production methods for social

science researchers, and it is likely to be offered again in

2016. We had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Peter I.

Crawford and Professor Ton Otto from Aarhus University in

Denmark for a few months. Beside doing their field research

in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands, they

also shared with us their most recent project, Camera as

Cultural Critique, at one of our seminars.

The film about marriage, modernity, and tradition in the PNG

Highlands, An Extraordinary Wedding, made by Professor

Rosita Henry and edited by Daniela Vávrová continued to be

a work in progress. The collaborative editing takes time

because it involves the complexity of social relationships and

languages spoken in the film. There will be an article

published about the film in online journal, AnthroVision,

soon.

Daniela Vávrová is making her PhD thesis, Skin has Eyes and

Ears: Audio-visual Ethnography in a Sepik Society into a book

which will be accompanied by film having the same title.

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ALTAR: film and ethnography cont.

Jennifer Deger’s collaborative work with Miyarrka Media

continues with the installation of their exhibition, Gapuwiyak

Calling: Phone-Made Media from Aboriginal Australia, at the

Institute from 18 September to 16 October 2015. Their film,

Ringtone, is on the festival circuit and has screened in recent

months in Poland, the US, and the UK where the Royal

Anthropological Association awarded the film a commendation

in the Material Culture category. In November 2015, Jennifer

will fly to the American Anthropological Association Annual

Meeting to receive a prize from the Society for Visual

Anthropology for Best Short Film at this year's festival.

The Murui Oral Literature Collection Project

In June 2014, the ALTAR members Kasia Wojtylak (PhD student

at the LCRC) and Kristian Lupinski (a BA student of the Creative

Industries) were awarded a Firebird Foundation for

Anthropological Research Fellowship for the documentation of

oral literature among the Murui people in Colombian parts of

the Amazon. Currently, they are preparing for the fieldwork in

Colombia, which will commence in November 2015.

This audiovisual project focuses on collecting oral literature of

the Murui people. Its aim is to ensure preservation of

knowledge and experiences unique to this indigenous group. It

concerns mainly the recording of songs, chants, folk tales,

myths, spells, epic poems, legends, life story narratives,

historical accounts, ecological nomenclature, and narratives of

traditional customs and practices. The project incorporates the

element of skill development so that the Murui youth can carry

on with the documentation of their oral traditions in the

future. The Murui Oral Literature Collection Project will be

completed by early December 2016.

Gapuwiyak Calling, Grand Gallery, American

Museum of Natural History, October 2014

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With support from the research team local

champions are taking the prevention

programme, The Period of PURPLE Crying,

and implementing it in their health setting.

Midwifery services, community health,

Indigenous controlled services, and hospitals

both in Queensland and other Australian

states and territories, are implementing or

looking seriously at the programme.

The research team has grown to include JCU

medical student, Hannah Royster. Her

literature review on responses to IAHT was

recently conditionally accepted by the

Australian Medical Student Journal.

“We are applying for ethical approval to

begin qualitative evaluations of the

experience of new parents having received

the programme in their health service,” said

Dr Anne Stephens.

“As it is originally a Canadian programme, we

are interested to learn what factors support

or impede the programme when

implemented in Australia, and how well new

parents regard its core messages.”

New research in the United States, where

the programme has been in place in some

states for over eight years, is showing that

the programme may be a factor in reduced

child-abuse and assault presentations for

children up to four years of age.

“This is an important programme in our suite

of responses to community and domestic

violence. We think that learning how to cope

with inconsolable crying from day dot, equips

parents with better parenting skills for a life

time.”

It is an oddly named project title, but the

Period of PURPLE Crying programme is

generating some serious attention around

the country.

Project leaders, Dr William Liley from the

Cooktown Medial Centre and Hope Vale

clinic, and Dr Anne Stephens, Senior

Researcher at The Cairns Institute, presented

epidemiological work done for Queensland

on the incidence of Infant Abusive Head

Trauma (IAHT), at the Early Years Conference

in Cairns in September 2015.

The incidence in Queensland is on a par with

the road toll, it was revealed, and

subsequently reported in The Australian and

ABC local radio.

Work undertaken by Dr Melissa Kaltner, now

with the NSW Department of Health, found

that over 28 babies under the age of two

presented out of every 100,000 in

Queensland Emergency Departments, had

been excessively shaken. Of these, six

children died.

“Children that survive this normally incur a

lifetime of high-care need,” said Dr Liley, a

General Practitioner in Cooktown and lead

researcher.

“For severe cases the life-time cost can be up

to $25 million dollars, according to figures

provided by Brain Injury Australia.

“Yet our back of the envelope costing shows

that we could roll out the Period of PURPLE

prevention programme nation-wide for

under $2 million dollars a year” said Dr Liley .

Period of PURPLE Crying

"Children that survive this normally incur a lifetime of high-care need.

For severe cases the life-time cost can be up to $25 million dollars, according to figures provided by Brain Injury Australia”

Dr William Liley Cooktown Medical Centre

Image above courtesy http://www.purplecrying.info/

The full version of the

researchers’ recently

published work is

available at

www.rrh.org.au/

publishedarticles/

article_print_2603.pdf

Drs Liley and Stephens will

present details of the

Period of PURPLE Crying

programme at the

upcoming 2015 Australian

STOP Domestic Violence

Conference hosted by the

Australian & New Zealand

Mental Health Association

in Canberra, 7–9

December 2015

www.stopdomesticviolen

ce.com.au

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Aboriginal architect, Andrew Lane; performance poet,

Helen Ramoutsaki; turtle rescuer, Jennie Gilbert;

musician, Chris Ah Gee; and nursing student, Nepalese

performer and disability support worker, Tulsa Gautam.

Under the TED guidelines, the live audience is limited to

100 people, but organiser Jennifer McHugh says all the

presentations were recorded and will be available online,

hopefully in November.

“It’s certainly great to be part of the buzz on the day, but

one of the great appeals of hosting a TEDx event is that

we can also showcase local ideas and achievements to the

global online audience,” she said.

“Last year’s presenters have attracted more than 113,000

views between them, sharing great ideas from the tropics

with people around the world.”

TEDxJCUCairns also creates a unique integrated learning

outcome for creative media students under the tutelage

of Russell Milledge.

(Continued on page 12)

Following the success of 2014’s sold-out event,

TEDxJCUCairns was held again on Friday 2 October 2015.

This year’s TEDxJCUCairns theme was Build Up and

featured short presentations by James Cook University

researchers and community members.

This year’s speakers included the founder of the Streets

Movement, Jesse T Martin; musician, Naomi Wenitong;

and regional development expert, Professor Allan Dale,

who explained why, if you’ve got a pulse, you’re a

politician.

Horse trainer, Georgia Bruce, discussed her work,

including her collaboration with Rumba the Wonder

Horse; artist, Sue Ryan, showcased ghost nets and her

work with Aboriginal communities.

Geek-about-Town, Robert Rutten, and NAIDOC scholar of

the year, Michelle Deshong, joined chemist, Rosalie

Hocking, who explained how small molecules can change

the world.

The live audience also heard from exercise science

researcher, Klaus Gebel; algae researcher, Nicholas Paul;

TEDxJCUCairns 2015—Build Up

Georgia Bruce and Rumba the Wonder Horse

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About TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program

of local, self-organized events that bring people together

to share a TED-like experience. These are branded TEDx,

where x = independently organised TED event.

We will bring you more details in our January 2016

newsletter.

(Continued from page 11)

TEDxJCUCairns 2015—Build Up TEDxJCUCairns design winner

Kimberley Morrison

Kimberley Morrison is a second year student studying at

James Cook University. She joins many other students and

aims to receive a Bachelor of Creative Industries. Although she

began the bachelor with a major in Visual Arts, Kimberley

discovered her passion for design and is now majoring in

Media Design.

Recently, students in a class called CV2420 – Media Designs

and Concepts, were given the opportunity to design the

branding materials for this year’s TEDxJCUCairns event. The

design Kimberley submitted appealed to the organiser and she

was able to meet with Cameron LeBherz, the graphic designer

at James Cook University in Cairns.

“I remember checking through my emails. There was nothing

too special, just promotional emails and stuff. Then I saw one

from my lecturer, Russell Milledge, saying that they’d had a

positive response to my designs. I was so happy about the

great opportunity that I started ringing my family, telling them

about my success.”

Kimberley had two mentoring sessions with Cameron LeBherz,

in which they discussed how to use her designs to construct a

logo for the event’s theme, Build Up. Jennifer McHugh, the

organiser of this year’s event, suggested that she wanted to

combine lettering and graphical elements. Kimberley’s design

was transformed into a successful logo within these two

meetings and she is very happy with the final product.

“The fact that my design is being used on t-shirts, programs

and on the website is so surreal. It makes me so happy!”

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Some key themes that ran through the presentations:

The pace of change in NRM is fast and this is problematic

Loss of the bilateral arrangements has been significant

Plans are disconnected from other arrangements and

across scales

Numerous problems in implementation, monitoring and

evaluation.

The workshop discussion highlighted some key issues:

Regions and other actors are responding to change in

diverse ways, i.e., new partnerships, new enterprise

models, restructuring, more monitoring and

communication with government—there is no one sized

fits all approach because issues and capacities vary so

widely

Competition for the same dollars in the same regions is a

concern—regional bodies don’t want to take dollars or

capacity away from other community based environment

groups but this is the risk

There is more work to be done to identify the policy

windows of change for evidence-based decision making.

Opportunities for reform within government are not clear

There was a clear sense that the broader public needed

to be involved but few strategies were identified and

The research team from the Australian Research Council

(ARC) Linkage project “The impact of governance on regional

natural resource planning” held a workshop from 31 August

– 2 September 2015. The workshop dovetailed the Reef,

Range and Red Dust Conference at Caloundra, and the aim

was to present the results of the project for broader

discussion.

Presentations were made by Rachael Eberhard, QUT, on

International Comparative Analysis; Karen Vella, QUT, on

Review of NRM Policy; Rachael Eberhard, QUT, on

Governance Risks to NRM Delivery (including Allan Dale’s

work); and Jayne Thorpe, Condamine Alliance, on Regional

Approaches to NRM Delivery.

Workshop discussion centred around three questions:

1. How are people responding to change?

2. If we want to influence change, what are the windows of

opportunity?

3. How do we have conversations with NRM outside the

room?

Regional natural resource planning

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papers which all studied cyclones as events

of cultural significance, entering into the

tropical imaginations through associations

with destruction and renewal, sublimity, or

apocalypse. Similarly, the quality of tropical

‘lushness’ was analysed and theorised as a

central defining experience of tropicality,

whether in landscape, biodiversity, or culture

and art.

The conference concluded with drinks and

canapés preceding the opening of the

Gapuwiyak Calling: Phone-Made Media from

Arnhem Land exhibition in the foyer of The

Cairns Institute.

The fourth biennial Tropics of the

Imagination conference was held at The

Cairns Institute on 17 September 2015.

Delegates were welcomed by Dr David

Hudson who in his acknowledgement of

country endorsed the conference focus on

the diversity of region—from reef to leaf—

and the part played by indigenous people in

creating imaginative visions of the culture of

our tropical region. Professor Stewart Lockie,

Director of The Cairns Institute, also

welcomed delegates and spoke of his

enthusiasm for tropical life and culture.

Professor Peter Murphy’s keynote address

convincingly analysed the complex and

essential interactions between social,

political and economic policy and cultural

and artistic creativity and well-being, making

a case for the vibrancy of the imagination in

tropical regions.

A further 27 papers on a variety of subjects

were presented, including the reciprocity of

self and place in tropical contexts; literature,

poetry, drama and visual arts as mediators of

embodiment/emplacement; the

interconnections of imagination, ecology and

the bio-regional; and narratives of travel,

personal journeying, and identity formation,

into and through tropical regions.

Convenor of the conference, Professor

Stephen Torre, said that many of the papers

this year had a common theme centred on

the definition of a genuine original aesthetic

of the tropics. This was evident in several

"Convenor of the conference, Professor Stephen Torre, said that many of the papers this year had a common theme centred on the definition of a genuine original aesthetic of the tropics”

Stephen Torre Conference convenor

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Conference attendees at the Gapuwiyak Calling opening

L-R: Stephen Torre, Conference Convenor; Gavin Singleton, Dawul Wuru Aboriginal

Corporation; Dr Michael Davis, University of Sydney

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ideas on feminism in design and how they relate to the

tropics and gave examples of tropical urbanism from

Singapore that resonate for Far North Queensland. Jane

Hanan gave a personal perspective of more than 30 years in

practice as a female architect in Australia and New Zealand.

And, Gisela Jung defined the importance of understanding

context (social, cultural, geographical and historical) in

successful urban design.

Preparing and organising Women in Design in the Tropics

was a fortifying and joyful experience for the speakers and

coordinators.

“As busy, professional women, we don’t often take time to

engage with other women on big issues and ideas, or talk

openly about equity in our professions.”

The panel enabled everyone to give an insight into their

experiences, ways of working, and their visions for our cities

and places in Far North Queensland. It also allowed women

to share personal anecdotes from their life experience. This

provided funny and poignant stories illustrating the

uniqueness of everyone’s experiences.

“By participating in Women in Design in the Tropics I found

the themes of collaboration, context and multi-faceted

problem solving. These characteristics are often the

strengths of good designers and lateral creative thinkers,

but I also think they are often the strengths of women. It

was a pleasure to be able to highlight the talent and breadth

of women in design in our region.”

To celebrate World Architecture Week two free events were

also offered:

National award-winning local architect, Charles Wright,

presenting a Designed in Cairns seminar on Resilience

and Innovation in the Tropics held on 15 October 2015.

Cairns Open House – Free Public Walk of Cairns CBD held

on 11 October 2015, 2pm – 6pm.

Story by Dr Shaneen Fantin

The Designed in Cairns seminar series is an initiative

between The Cairns Institute and the Far North Queensland

committee of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA).

On 6 August 2015 a forum of esteemed Women in Design in

the Tropics from the Cairns region presented their ideas and

experiences in architecture, urban design, planning and

environment, interiors and communications. This was

inspired by Parlour (http://archiparlour.org/)—a forum and

platform for discussing women, equity and architecture

which originated in Melbourne and Brisbane, and by the

success of the Designed in Cairns Landscape Panel. The

panel for Women in Design in the Tropics included women

with diverse experiences and interests in the architectural

and urban design community including:

Kelly Reaston

General Manager for Planning and Environment at

Cairns Regional Council

Gisela Jung

Senior Architect and Urban Designer at CA Architects

Dr Lisa Law

Senior Lecturer at James Cook University, in Urban

Geography and Design

Jane Hanan

Director of Clarke and Prince Architects

Anne-Marie Campagnolo

Director of Jesse Bennett Architects.

Each speaker presented for 10-15mins, followed by a Q & A

session chaired by Dr Shaneen Fantin, Adjunct Associate

Professor at JCU and chair of the local committee of the AIA.

The seminar was very well supported with more than sixty

people attending. Kelly Reaston gave an overview of the

current direction of the Cairns Planning Scheme on our city.

Anne-Marie Campagnolo spoke passionately about

communication and advocacy in design and how designers

need to be stronger at marketing and rallying others to

appreciate good design for the tropics. Lisa Law presented

Women in design in the tropics

L-R: Kelly Reaston, Anne-Marie Campagnolo, Shaneen Fantin,

Lisa Law, Gisela Jung and Jane Hannan

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This year’s Early Years Conference was a collaboration

between The Cairns Institute, JCU; Mission Australia; the

Benevolent Society; Queensland Department of Education

and Training – Early Childhood Education and Care; and

the Department of Communities, Child Safety & Disability

Services, Queensland Health. The Conference was held at

The Cairns Institute 10–11 September 2015.

This unique collaboration between government, non-

government and education organisations aimed to review

the latest research and best strategies for creating the

strong foundation that Australia’s children need in order to

build healthy brains and bodies, and how this contributes

to flourishing communities.

Research indicates that children who get the right support

in the early years do much better in school and in life than

their peers who missed out, especially children dealing

with adversity and disadvantage.

Keynote speaker, Professor Collette Tayler, Chair of Early

Childhood Education at the University of Melbourne and a

Chief Investigator in the Science of Learning Research

Centre in Melbourne, said “This conference brings togeth-

er professionals and educators who are passionate about

the importance for our whole society of getting the right

building blocks in place in early childhood.”

Professor Tayler shared her analysis of studies by her team

showing how young Australian children aged 3–5 years are

tracking as they move into school, and the difference that

can be made by working effectively with infants, toddlers

and preschoolers.

International keynote speaker, Brian Bumbarger from the

Prevention Research Center at Penn State University, is an

internationally recognised leader in the development, and

evaluation of programs designed to improve the lives of

disadvantaged children across multiple domains. Brian is

Early Years conference

also the Principal Investigator and Founding Director of the

Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support

Center (www.EPISCenter.org). At the conference, Brian

spoke about how those working in early childhood services

can incorporate the latest research and evidence informed

practice into their work.

Other keynote speakers included Dr Mark Wenitong,

Public Health Medical Advisor, Apunipima Cape York

Health Council (www.apunipima.org.au/) who gave a

keynote presentation about the critical importance of early

childhood in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

outcomes.

“The family and extended family supporting our women to

have a healthy pregnancy will transform later health

outcomes and decreasing adverse childhood experiences

will produce healthier adults,” Dr Wenitong said. “One of

the keys to generational change for our Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander communities is supporting a safe

loving family environment.”

Dr Yasmin Harman-Smith from the Fraser Mustard Centre

(www.frasermustardcentre.sa.edu.au) in South Australia

discussed how the results of the Australian Early

Development Census (www.aedc.gov.au) can be used to

plan supports and services that meet the needs of

communities so that interventions have the best chance to

improve children’s ability to do well in school and in life.

The conference was a sold-out event, and attracted over

200 local and national delegates. Apart from the keynotes,

there was a number of short papers and workshops

highlighting best practice for the Early Years.

The organising committee are extremely pleased with the

success of the conference and are already in discussions

for next year.

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stressed the importance of collaboration in

securing a more resilient and sustainable

future for the region and beyond.

Introducing the Risk Landscape to Visiting

Professor Ortwin Renn

On his first ever visit to Cairns, Professor

Ortwin Renn was taken on an annotated tour

of Cairns by way of introduction to some of

the key risk issues facing the region. From

the Lake Morris Lookout, Ortwin was given a

bird’s eye view of key vulnerabilities to

natural disasters such as cyclones, storm

surges and floods. Major water and energy

security concerns were also presented in a

short tour of the Copperlode Dam.

The interactive workshop on risk governance

held by The Cairns Institute on 14 July 2015

was a great success. Organised by Senior

Research Officer, Dr Catherine Wong, the

invitation-only event brought together 20

representatives from key government,

industry and civil society organisations in the

Cairns region, as well as researchers from

across different disciplines at JCU.

The former President of the Society for Risk

Analysis (International), Professor Ortwin

Renn, from the University of Stuttgart in

Germany, was invited as the risk expert. He

responded to the major risks facing the

region raised by workshop participants and

proposed some tools and concepts that they

may find relevant and applicable to their

respective fields of work.

Moderated by Professor Allan Dale, the key

challenges of identifying known and

unknown risks; making difficult trade-offs;

and engaging with the public were discussed

in an open and frank manner.

In closing the half-day workshop, Professor

Stewart Lockie emphasised the need to

continue engaging with each other on the

key risk issues facing the region. He also

Workshopping major risks in the region at The Cairns Institute

L-R: Allan Dale, Ortwin Renn, Stewart Lockie

Stewart Lockie

Allan Dale

Workshop participants

View from Lake Morris Road, Cairns

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This example was given to demonstrate the power of 'soft'

controls, as opposed to 'hard' controls, which had largely

failed. Illustrating the failure of breakwaters, sea walls and

'hazard maps' that fatally underestimated the height and

power of the tsunami, Professor Ueda showed images of

'before' and 'after' photos of areas in which 10 metre high,

and 10 kilometre long sea walls were washed away by the

power of the tsunami. The tsunami itself was measured at

more than 20 metres in height.

Employing another case study of a sake manufacturer

whose factory was destroyed in the tsunami, Professor

Ueda then switched his focus to 'resilience' and the need

for communities to 'bounce back' from disasters. This

focus was on cooperation between the company and

another, larger competing company, which loaned

facilities, money and personnel to the damaged

manufacturer. These loans enabled it to get back to

production within 18 months of the disaster (sake is

arguably an 'essential' industry!).

Professor Ueda concluded by arguing that resilience

requires a number of discrete elements, but that they are

all related to risk assessment and management. That is,

recognition of risk of disasters must exist, and

corporations, educators, and governments must be

appraised of regular changes in how risk shifts. He argued

that social capital—the links between individuals,

companies and governments—need to be developed so

that contingency planning can be incorporated into

developing 'soft' controls that enhance and support 'hard'

controls. Most importantly, he argued that 'hard' controls

alone are not adequate for surviving disasters of this

magnitude.

The talk was well attended, and the audience included

many from emergency services.

Lessons learned from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, March 3, 2011

On Friday 11 September 2015, Professor Kazuo Ueda, the

former Dean of the Graduate School at Senshu University,

Tokyo, and the Chairman of the Japanese Risk Management

and Insurance Organisation, gave a lecture at The Cairns

Institute, and video conferenced to the Townsville campus.

His talk highlighted the difficulties associated with dealing

with a major disaster, and the triple disaster (earthquake,

tsunami, nuclear radiation fallout) Japan experienced in

March 2011 was certainly a major disaster. Some of the

statistics he used to illustrate the scale of the disaster were

shocking: 20,000 people dead or missing; 200,000 people

relocated to other parts of Japan; and a cost that exceeded

17 trillion yen (approximately $AUD200 billion). Some of the

more detailed data were revealing: 92% of those who died,

drowned, and more than 90% of those people were over 65

years of age.

Using data received firsthand from a primary school in which

his university was engaged to teach risk management,

Professor Ueda contrasted this school's response to the

disaster with a nearby school. All the students of Sumida

Primary School survived by taking immediate action to

mitigate some of the risk involved with the earthquake and

tsunami. When they felt the earthquake, all children

evacuated the buildings and with an older child holding the

hand of a younger child, they ran from the school grounds to

a hill that lay behind the school, where they watched the

water inundate the school. This was because they had been

trained to respond in such a manner to disasters. In the

other school in which students had not been trained in risk

management, the teachers required all the children to wait

in the main hall for parents to come to pick them up after

the initial earthquake. Before any parents arrived the school

was inundated, and 74 of 108 students and teachers lost

their lives.

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These Native Title forums aim to:

Build awareness and understanding of the issues, op-

portunities and risks raised by tenure reform for Indige-

nous communities.

Encourage dialogue within and between Indigenous

and other stakeholder groups of the implications of

tenure reform.

Share experiences of economic development on Indige-

nous land under various tenure arrangements.

Future forums will be advertised on our What’s Happening

webpage jcu.edu.au/cairnsinstitute/events/ and will be

followed by tea, coffee and informal discussion.

The Commonwealth Government's recent White Paper on

Developing Northern Australia identifies simplification of

land tenure arrangements as a priority action to support

investment and unlock economic development on both

Indigenous and pastoral land. There is no doubt that the

complexity of existing tenures can act as a barrier to

investment. Nonetheless, the complexity of legal, cultural

and environmental issues surrounding tenure demands

widespread community participation in any reform

process. In support of such participation, The Cairns

Institute is hosting a series of open forums on the theme of

Native Title and Economic Opportunity for Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander Communities.

On 15 September 2015 the Institute hosted a conversation

on this topic led by David Yarrow. David is a member of the

Victorian Bar. Prior going to the bar, he was an academic in

the Faculty of Law at Monash University lecturing in

equity, trusts and property law. David has extensive native

title practice, and has been counsel in a number of major

Indigenous land disputes including those concerning the

Muckaty radioactive waste dump and wild river

declarations in Cape York.

Native Title and the White Paper

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Facilitating Innovation and Improvement in Healthcare: An Introductory Masterclass

by

Professor Gill Harvey

The University of Adelaide

Co-Author of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare: A Facilitation Guide

Date: Tuesday 20 October 2015

Time: 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Place: James Cook University, McGregor Road, Smithfield, Building D3, Room 063

This workshop will provide an overview of how facilitator roles and facilitation processes can be

applied to support the implementation of change and improvement initiatives in healthcare. This

will include:

Exploring the characteristics, roles and skills of effective facilitation

Identifying the different factors that facilitators need to consider during the process of

implementation

Considering the preparation, development and support needs of facilitators

Building a facilitation network.

Email Perri.Hull@menzies.edu.au or phone (07) 3169 4208

Outline agenda

1330-1400 Arrival and welcome Introduction and workshop aims

1400-1510 What is facilitation and what does a good facilitator look like?

1510-1600 BREAK

1600-1630 Applying the facilitation role in practice: what does the facilitator need to consider and what skills do they need?

1630-1700 Identifying, preparing and supporting facilitators Building a facilitation network

1700 Workshop evaluation and close

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by

Professor Komla Tsey & Dr Janya McCalman

James Cook University

Date: Friday 23 October 2015

Time: 9:00am to 12:30pm

Place: James Cook University, McGregor Road, Smithfield, Building D3, Room 063

In more than 270 primary healthcare services across Australia, continuous quality improvement

(CQI) approaches have been applied to improve service delivery and outcomes for Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander health. Benefits have included a trend for improved quality of health care,

insight into the variations in quality of care between health centres and health issues, and the

development of CQI team capacity, tools and processes.

CQI and its benefits can also be applied beyond primary healthcare to improve education, child

protection, employment, housing and other services. This workshop will address the questions:

What is CQI and how do we do it?

How is CQI related to the principles of Indigenous research?

How can we apply the learnings from CQI in primary healthcare organisations to the work

of other sectors?

What are the benefits?

Email Perri.Hull@menzies.edu.au or phone (07) 3169 4208

Applying Continuous Quality Improvement beyond Primary Health Care: An Introductory Masterclass

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Outline agenda

0900-0915 Arrival and welcome Introduction and workshop aims

0915-0945 What is CQI and what has it achieved?

0945-1015 What are the tools of CQI and how does it work?

1015-1030 BREAK

1030-1130 How does CQI apply to the practice of other sectors: what do we need to consider and what skills do we need?

1130-1200 Preparing and supporting intersectoral CQI

1200 Workshop evaluation and close

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About the book

Crack Falling’s themes of perseverance,

identity and place are pivotal to the narrative

that follows the young lives of the central

characters, Flint and Gwennie. Both struggle

with memories of domestic violence and

abuse, both aim and struggle to deal with

their consequent drug addictions and seek to

find their place. Flint and Gwennie try to

vindicate themselves, actively seeking out

those wishing them harm.

Flint fights his own inner-turmoil, Gwennie

surrounds herself in mystery and they both

become pawns in a much larger drug

conspiracy. Crack Falling will have you on the

edge of your seat, turning pages in a race to

match the pace and find out whether justice

will be served.

To find out more

www.crackfalling.com

For further enquiries

contact@crackfalling.com

On Friday 27 November 2015 at 4pm The

Cairns Institute will host a public book launch

of T J Clark’s book, Crack Falling. Many

people will remember TJ from 2014’s

TEDxJCUCairns presentation on Creative

recovery from madness. Crack Falling’s

publication is testament to the power of

creativity as an artistic therapy.

The launch will be opened by Professor

Ernest Hunter who wrote the foreword in the

novel.

“Crack Falling draws on lived experience by

grappling with and exploring the fragile net

of shared ‘reality’. But it is about someone

else—Flint—a confected, liminal identity

journeying through fluid realities in which

there is no discernible destination and where

the present moment is past and future—

groundhog day.”

Those who attend will also be treated to

beautiful music by the talented Chris

Wighton. Everyone is welcome to attend and

the event starts at 4pm.

"Crack Falling draws on lived experience by grappling with and exploring the fragile net of shared ‘reality’”

Ernest Hunter From Crack Falling Foreword

Crack Falling book launch

L-R: Ernest Hunter, TJ Clark

TJ Clark at 2014 TEDxJCUCairns

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The AudioVisual Lab

The AudioVisual Lab offers a unique range of audiovisual services to the University

and wider community. With expertise developed from various research situations–

from small-scale community projects, to on-campus workshops and documentary

production—The AudioVisual Lab provides an array of skills and services necessary

for the production of audiovisual research outputs.

Bringing high quality production values to projects, small and large, we aim to make

audiovisual presentations come alive with clear sound, multiple camera angles and

framing, and dynamic editing. The AudioVisual Lab services include:

Participatory/Community Based Research Consultancy

Photography

Online Services

Packages can be put together according to the scope of events and the

requirements of specific clients.

For more details please contact:

Dr Daniela Vávrová

Daniela.Vavrova@my.jcu.edu.au Mobile: 04 205 93 462

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Details for these events can be found at: jcu.edu.au/cairnsinstitute/events/

Event Date & location

Gapuwiyak Calling: phone made media from Arnhem Land

Exhibition

17 September–16 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Designed in Cairns Seminar 9

Seminar by Award Winning Architect, Charles Wright

15 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Family Wellbeing Workshop Stage 3 15-17 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Native title & the White Paper: Clarifying the proposal and questions they raise.

Free Public Forum presented by David Saylor

20 October 2015

The Cairns Institute (Townsville)

Facilitating innovation and improvement in healthcare: An introductory masterclass by

Professor Gill Harvey

20 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Understanding the Value of the Great Barrier Reef

Seminar by Donna-marie Audas, GBRMPA

22 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Applying continuous quality improvement beyond primary health care: An

introductory masterclass by Professor Komla Tsey and Dr Janya McCalman

23 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

ALTAR film: Vanuatu Women's Water Music is the result of a collaborating project

between the Leweton village and Further Arts, a Vanuatu-based NGO

28 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Non-spatial setting in Jarawara

LCRC Global Workshop by Bob Dixon

28 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Soap operas, cenotaphs and sacred cows

Courtenay Lecture by Dr Linda Courtenay Botterill

alumni.jcu.edu.au/Courtenay2015

29 October 2015

The Cairns Institute

Non-spatial setting in Deni

LCRC Global Workshop by Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho

4 November 2015

The Cairns Institute

Swahili ‘reversed’ address terms: usage patterns, cognitive motivation and cultural

factors

LCRC Seminar by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

11 November 2015

The Cairns Institute

Language contact and word structure: a case study from north-west Amazonia

LCRC Seminar by Alexandra Aikhenvald

18 November 2015

The Cairns Institute

TASA (The Australian Sociological Association) Conference:

Neoliberalism and contemporary challenges for the Asia-Pacific

www.tasa.org.au/tasa-conference/

23-26 November 2015

Cairns

Culture, Creative Economy and Tropical Places: A Masterclass with Professor Susan

Luckman

27 November 2015

The Cairns Institute

Crack Falling book launch

Public book launch of TJ Clark’s book

27 November 2015

The Cairns Institute

OCTOBER 2015