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Category Archives: Family Action Centre
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
“Course optimisation” and the end of my time at the Family Action Centre
From January 2021 I will be working two-days per week, and then my position will finish at the end of October. Continue reading
The challenge of how to describe program participants
How do we describe participants in research that capture some of their challenges but also recognises their strengths and potential? Continue reading
Uni4You: A case study of a community-based University widening participation program promoting lifelong learning
Uni4You is an innovative, pre-access and widening participation strategy based at the Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle (UON). Since 2013, Uni4You has supported students who often have a lived experience of educational disadvantage and are often the first in their families, and their neighbourhoods, to enrol in higher education. Continue reading
My current projects (February 2020)
My focus is slowing shifting and, in some ways, I’m returning to my roots in the peace movement. Here’s a brief overview of some of the projects I’m involved in. Continue reading
Posted in Being an academic, Family Action Centre
Tagged Family Action Centre, My work, Nonviolence, Teaching
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SNUG: retreats connecting families
A brief video and a bit of an overview of SNUG: retreats connection families caring for a child with a rare health condition. Continue reading
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