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Health Expectations, 2019

BackgroundA Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Aus... more BackgroundA Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Australia, after it was identified as having a high prevalence of dementia. A Dementia Support Kit was produced with service user engagement to provide useful information to people with dementia and their families.ObjectiveTo evaluate the Dementia Health Literacy Project using a realist evaluation framework.Setting and participantsThe setting was the region of the north coast of New South Wales. Eight people diagnosed with dementia and their carers, 13 members of social groups of older people in the local area, and 22 local GPs and other health‐care and service providers participated in this study.ResultsTwo context‐mechanism‐outcome configurations were identified: (a) co‐design workshops where the stakeholders’ opinions were equally valued (context) led service users to feel listened to and prompted them to provide feedback (mechanism) to develop a practical resource that they would use (o...

The Australian Universities' review, 2019

The aim of this investigation was to test the influence of temporal orientation on student engage... more The aim of this investigation was to test the influence of temporal orientation on student engagement for first year university students at an Australian multicampus university. The study adopted a repeated correlational method to identify the relationships between temporal orientation factors and student engagement variables in the first phase and to confirm these relationships in the second phase. Survey data from two distinct cohorts of commencing students, who completed a university-wide on-line first year experience survey, were examined. To ensure that the relationships and influences that were identified were not merely characteristics of a particular first year cohort, this investigation ran two separate studies, one in 2003 and the other in 2005. In this way, the relationships between the temporal orientation factors and the student engagement variables, and the influence exerted by the temporal orientation factors on the student engagement variables could be tested, retested, and confirmed. Over the decades, several psychological theories have been proposed as influencing students' engagement with their studies and on their approaches to study. This study proposed that the five factors of Zimbardo and Boyd's (1999) Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) would provide a quick and efficient means of assessing psychological concepts that have been considered instrumental in promoting student engagement. Specifically, it was hypothesised that these five factors (Past-Positive, Past-Negative, Present-Hedonistic, Present-Fatalistic, and Future) would act as useful predictors of students' adoption of deep, conceptual approaches to study, academic application, academic orientation, and satisfaction with their first year university experience. This hypothesis was supported by the study's findings.

The Australian Universities' review, 2013

We write in response to Eva Bendix Petersen's commentary on 'Australian early career rese... more We write in response to Eva Bendix Petersen's commentary on 'Australian early career researchers' narratives of academic work, exit options and coping strategies', published in Australian Universities' Review (AUR) 53(2). While the professoriate is, perhaps, unable to directly tackle the malaise that Petersen ascribes to what she sees as an unsustainable staffing condition in the universities, we argue that the professoriate has a duty of care to early career academics, a duty of care that can be articulated through active mentoring. Acknowledging the growing group of academics recruited from the professions and/or specifically for teaching, but now increasingly required to meet scholarly research performance targets, we describe an approach to guided and mentored team-based, multi-authored research. By aligning experienced and inexperienced researchers into small project teams, often with a scholarship of teaching and learning focus, we demonstrate how early career academics can be better inducted into the world of academe, start to be research-productive, and thus be acknowledged, validated and rewarded.

This paper provides data about the way that deaf people use of SMS (short message service), TTYs,... more This paper provides data about the way that deaf people use of SMS (short message service), TTYs, the National Relay Service and Computers to communicate with both deaf and hearing friends, family and work associates. The paper builds on the work of Horstmanshof and Power (2004) and Power and Power (2004) by examining data from a survey of deaf people on their use of these technologies.

The journal of occupational health and safety : Australia and New Zealand, 2002

... Training for the role of workplace health and safety officers in Queensland. Louise Horstmans... more ... Training for the role of workplace health and safety officers in Queensland. Louise Horstmanshof, Bond University Emma Hassall, H30 Solutions Stacy Hassall, H30 SolutionsCherie O&amp;#x27;Connor, H30 Solutions Ian Glendon, Griffith University. Abstract. ...

Advances in Simulation, 2016

The Australian Journal of Communication, 2005

ABSTRACT Text messaging, or SMS (Short-Message-Service), allows users to send and receive short m... more ABSTRACT Text messaging, or SMS (Short-Message-Service), allows users to send and receive short messages from handheld digital mobile phones or from a computer to a mobile phone, giving almost instant access to others so connected. The privacy and immediacy of SMS and its widespread use have implications for human behaviour and social intercourse. The focus-group research with SMS users reported in this paper provides rich details and nuances of how text messaging affects young adults' patterns of communication and social behaviour. The paper goes beyond documenting commonly held beliefs about young adults' use of SMS- that it is prevalent and used for coordination - to probe issues of privacy, control of access, the dilemma of availability, and gender differences in use. The paper examines the way SMS messages are used not only for the content of the messages per se, but for the sense of being in social (phatic) contact with others.

Geriatric Nursing, Sep 1, 2011

Higher education research and development, May 24, 2023

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Dec 12, 2022

This paper summarises data on attitudes and use of SMS from an on-line interactive group session ... more This paper summarises data on attitudes and use of SMS from an on-line interactive group session with 150 students who had read an academic paper and a magazine article on SMS and who were located in five separate classrooms equipped with Blackboard chat. After each question set by the authors, thirty students in each classroom posted individual responses in an instant message format to their own classroom forum viewed on their individual screens. At the end of two to five minutes a student representative in each room summarised the general trends of discussion in that room. These were then posted to all 5 rooms. With these responses in view, the authors constructed further questions designed to explore knowledge, behaviours and attitudes towards SMS in the groups. Analysis of transcripts showed that there was a gender divide in the way that both men and women viewed the way that the other sex constructed messages. In this interactive method, through comparison with other’s views, subjects became aware of how their own behaviours using this technology affected and influenced receivers. In addition, rules for the use of SMS were proposed, discussed and refined. This paper reports on the development of new research techniques in gathering qualitative data from a large number of subjects simultaneously