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Families, community engagement and environmental sustainability – for parents, students, practitioners and anyone who wants to make a difference. By Graeme Stuart from Newcastle Australia.
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Category Archives: Being an academic
Changing focus of the blog
I started blogging around August 2010 (and moved to WordPress in 2011) as a way of sharing interesting resources with students studying online subjects I taught on community engagement and community capacity building. A few years later (around 2014), I … Continue reading
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Post-Separation Counselling and Mediation Services (Part 6): References
Part 6 (the last) of a series of posts about best practice in post-separation counselling and mediation services: a research project with Uniting counselling and mediation services only has the references. Continue reading
Post-Separation Counselling and Mediation Services (Part 5): summary and conclusion
Part 5 of a series of posts about best practice in post-separation counselling and mediation services: a research project with Uniting counselling and mediation services. Continue reading
Post-Separation Counselling and Mediation Services (Part 4): Synthesis of findings (continued)
Part 4 of a series of posts about best practice in post-separation counselling and mediation services: a research project with Uniting counselling and mediation services. Continue reading
Post-Separation Counselling and Mediation Services (Part 3): Synthesis of findings
Part 3 of a series of posts about best practice in post-separation counselling and mediation services: a research project with Uniting counselling and mediation services. Continue reading
Post-Separation Counselling and Mediation Services (Part 2): Staff interviews, client survey and document review
Part 2 of a series of posts about best practice in post-separation counselling and mediation services: a research project with Uniting counselling and mediation services. Continue reading
Post-Separation Counselling and Mediation Services (Part 1): Introduction to research and literature review
Part 1 of a series of posts about best practice in post-separation counselling and mediation services: a research project with Uniting counselling and mediation services. Continue reading
University of Newcastle improving student experience???
A number of decisions and actions by the University of Newcastle (UON) leadership over the 12 months or so, have left me disillusioned and angry. I’m sick of their rhetoric that they are making changes to improve the experience of students, I cannot support some of their decisions, and I am angry when they have shown little empathy and compassion. Continue reading
Best practice in counselling and mediation services: A collaborative case study of Uniting
A summary of a recently published report by Tamara Blakemore and me: Best practice and trends in counselling and mediation services in NSW: A collaborative case study of Uniting. Continue reading