Downloads and Resources

Presentations, abstracts, streaming video and links

• 'Communities & Change' Conference powerpoint presentation pdfs
• CoCo Learning Technology Research Symposium virtual poster display
• 'Researching China' Postgraduate Student Forum abstracts, and subsequent radio interviews
• 'Resilience & Youth' Oxford-Sydney web-link panel discussion streaming video

'Communities & Change' Conference

Download the Conference Program and Abstracts (PDF - 46 pages)

Many of the PowerPoint presentations from the conference are available for download here as PDF files. They are listed by day and running order.

Monday 22 – Day 1 presentations:

• Tony Vinson (Keynote)
  'The distribution of disadvantage in Australia and the role of education in remedying it'
• Phillip Jones
  'Educational research and the challenge of world (dis)order'
• Tony Welch
  'Governing Higher Education in SE Asia: State Capacity, Devolution and Transparency in the Global Era'
• Jude Irwin, Lesley Laing, Lindsey Napier & Cherie Toivonen
  'Towards Better Practice: Enhancing collaboration between domestic violence services and mental health services'

Tuesday 23 – Day 2 presentations:

• Jacqui Roberts, Susan Colmar & Libby Maher
  'Sharing information (referencing and commenting) in young children with autism: Can targeted intervention designed to change caregiver interaction style positively change the quality and quantity of referencing and commenting in young children with autism?'
• Linda Graham
  'Drugs, labels & (p)ill-fitting boxes: ADHD and children who are hard to teach'
• Richard Walker
  'Sociocultural Issues in Motivation'
• Susan Colmar
  'Language intervention using book reading: An investigation of pausing and open questioning'

Open Strand

• Tim Marchant & Peter Howard
  'Catalyst-Clemente - Enhancing participation: New possibilities for disadvantaged Australians'
• Ebeny Wood
  'From 'Lads' to 'Losers': The new discourses surrounding 'anti-school' young people and their impact on school outcomes'
• Kerry Russo
  'Communities@work - Engaging Gen Y in community work studies through blended distributed delivery'
• Michelle Nicholson, Cara Pullen & Joselynn Sweeney
  'Colouring the Rainbow. Social Health Action Research with Disadvantaged Communities'
• Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian & Denise Tomlin
  'Bringing It Home: An Indigenous Research Model that Supports Indigenous Researcher’s Aspirations'
• Frank Tesoriero
  'Change and resistance to change – community development in a rural caste community in South India'
• Leigh Burrows
  'The knight with the magic sword: how a therapeutic story provided a connection point for child, family, school, human service agencies and the community: an integral approach'
• Sue Nichols & Lana Zannettino
  'Integrated early childhood services: towards an interdisciplinary perspective on the 'double partnership' move'

Policy & Professional Practice Strand

• Lesley Scanlon
  '"The theories make you pay more attention to how things happen": the impact of theory on the practice of pre-service teachers'
• Angela Fenton
  'Caution Children Crossing Ahead: Child Protection Education with Pre-service teachers using a Strengths-Based Framework. Findings to date'
• Janette Bobis
  'Learning to Teach: Teaching to Learn'
• Kay Munyard & Lyndall Sullivan
  'Engaging and Empowering Students with Learning Disabilities'
• Susan Groundwater-Smith
  'Practitioner Researchers: Today's Children of Mother Courage - What Can We Learn from Them?'
• Nattavud Pimpa
  'Transformation in Education Policy and Teacher Performance Appraisal in Thailand'

Social Policy – Confronting Disadvantage Strand

• Fran Waugh
  'Children and Violence'
• Margot Rawsthorne
  'Working collaboratively? The community sector and universities'
• Suzanne Egan
  'Research for practice in small human service organizations: doing and disseminating small scale research'
• Rob Simons
  'Schools at the Centre – innovation for improved dual generational learning and social outcomes'

TESOL Strand

• Brian Paltridge. 'Academic literacies and changing university communities'
• David Hirsh
  'English and international students: What the IELTS can (and cannot) tell us'
• Wei Wang
  'Academic writing practices of Chinese ESL graduate students in Australia: A textography'
• Lindy Woodrow
  'Students researching the academy: An ethnography of academic writing'

Researching China Postgraduate Student Forum

Researching China: Postgraduate students from China discuss their current investigations in education and society | Download abstracts (PDF - 4 pages)

Following this event, these students were interviewed by SBS Radio. Please visit the Postgraduate Research Activity page for links to these podcasts.