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PAGE 8 GRIFFITH INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH NEWSLETTER In the spotlight: profiling our staff Professor Stephen Billett Above: Professor Stephen Billett, PHD, M Education, B Arts, Dip Teaching (TAFE), Professor of Education and GIER Member. Dr Julie Ballantyne Dr Julie Ballantyne completed her PhD in music teacher education in 2005 and has been a lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies at the Gold Coast campus since July last year. Julie is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Music Education, and is the editor of a forthcoming book to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing entitled Navigating Music and Sound Education. Julie is the Lead Chief Investigator of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly Carrick) Competitive Grant, that aims to bridge the gap between research and teaching in music teacher education and decrease isolation between academics, teachers and pre-service teachers.This project will hopefully be extended in 2009-2010 with a Leadership Grant funded by the ALTC to further build a community of educators dedicated to collaboratively developing improved structures, networks and practices in the discipline of music teacher education. The Griffith University Research Infrastructure Grant ‘eMERGe’ was funded last year and involves the building of a ‘hub’ in music education research, enabling academics worldwide to collaborate on research, and discuss their emerging ideas with the wider community. Julie is presenting five workshops and papers at the International Society of Music Education Conference and Commission seminars in Rome and Bologna, Italy. Julie plans to extend her research into exploring the nexus between musical engagement, identity, and its impact on social and psychological well-being. Professor Stephen Billett has researched learning through and for work since 1992 and has published widely in the fields of vocational learning, workplace learning and conceptual accounts of learning. These include publications in Culture and Psychology, Learning and Instruction and Mind, Culture and Activity, Studies in Continuing Education and as well as sole authored books (Learning through work: Strategies for effective practice (Allen and Unwin 2001); Work, change and workers (Springer 2006); and edited volume (Work, Subjectivity and Learning; Emerging perspectives of workplace learning) secured over $1.5 million in competitively funded grants from Australian Research Council, National Vocational Educational and Training Research funds, Fulbright Foundation, state and private sector. He also holds a Fellowship of the Australian Teaching and Learning Council (formerly Carrick Institute). Professor Billett is currently on the editorial boards of 7 refereed journals, including the American Education Research Journal, the second most cited journal in the field, and he reviews articles for many other journals. He is the Founding and Executive Editor of Vocations and Learning, a journal of professional and vocational education published by Springer. Below: Dr Julie Ballantyne, B Music, B Education, A.Mus.A. PhD, Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies and GIER Associate Member.
Winter 2008 PAGE 9 Profiling our students Shawn Lourigan recently completed his PhD confirmation Above: PhD student, Shawn Lourigan BA (Hons) PGDipED MVA. Dr Wayne Usher recently graduated with his PhD Dr Wayne Usher has a Diploma of Teaching, Graduate Diploma in Health Science, Master of Health Science, and recently completed his PhD on Empire and the ‘Internet Prescription’: Influences that motivate general practitioners to recommend health websites to the health consumer. In the first Australian study of its kind, Wayne surveyed 108 Gold Coast general practitioners as part of his PhD research to determine the extent to which health websites are being recommended by general practitioners to the health consumer. Wayne is now an Associate Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies (Gold Coast). His research interests include school and community health, physical education, medical education, general practitioners and the internet. Current studies include online health information and the impacts of health websites on general practitioners and the health consumer. Wayne’s future research interests will be to undertake a nationwide survey to determine the extent to which health websites are being recommended by general practitioners to the health consumer. Similarly, he is interested in investigating the online health information seeking behaviours of school aged children. Shawn Lourigan completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995, majoring in English Literature and Modern History. In 1996 he obtained his secondary teacher qualifications from the University of Queensland. Shawn completed his Honours degree at Queensland University of Technology in 1997 with an examination of the causality of the troubles in Northern Ireland. He has also completed a Masters in Visual Arts (Documentary) from Griffith Film School. For the past ten years Shawn has worked as a secondary school teacher for Education Queensland, teaching in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences. Under the supervision of Associate Professor Rod Gardner (Griffith Institute for Education Research) and Professor Mohammed Abdalla (Griffith Islamic Research Unit) Shawn is currently undertaking research for his PhD on “Political Statements And Their Impact On Islamic Representations In The Australian Media Post 9/11”. Shawn’s research will examine the role that political commentary, combined with the tabloid print media, have had in inflaming anti-Islamic sentiment in Australia and what future consequences these policies will have on the Muslim community in Australia. Below: Dr Wayne Usher, Dip Teaching, GDip Health Science, M Health Science, PhD, Associate Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies. “Many health professionals would be willing to undertake certified web-based continuing medical education courses,” he said. “The inclusion of programs in medical schools is a possible strategy for preparing future GPs for internet prescribing. “These are important initiatives towards creating a more reliable and safer e-health environment for all.”
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