Category Archives: McCaughey Centre

VEIL/McCaughey Centre Conference 30-Nov-09: Localised Solutions: Building capacity and resilience with distributed production systems

8:30am – 6.00pm, Monday, 30 November 2009
Flagstaff Bowls Club, West Melbourne
Are we on the edge of a ‘re-localisation’ revolution?
With large, centralised infrastructure appearing vulnerable to climate change and ‘peak oil’, alternative models are emerging everywhere.

McCaughey Centre Seminar 27-Oct-09: Growing Community: the social impacts of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 27 October, 2009
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Karen Block, Research Fellow, The McCaughey Centre, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
A research team from the McCaughey Centre and Deakin University has recently completed a two and a half year, mixed method evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen [...]

McCaughey Centre Seminar 6-Oct-09: Coming Forward: The underreporting of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Victorians

When: 1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 6 October, 2009
Where: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by William Leonard, Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, and Associate Professor Anne Mitchell, Director, Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria

PhD Completion Seminar 8-Oct-09: Top Down/Bottom Up: Exploring the capacity of place-based initiatives to reduce disadvantage

When: 12.00 – 1.00pm, Thursday 8 October, 2009
Where: Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Theonie Tacticos, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, and Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
Australia, like other [...]

McCaughey Centre Seminar 22-Sep-09: The Developmental Systems Framework for Preventative Practice in Disadvantaged Communities

When: 1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 22 September, 2009
Where: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Professor Ross Homel AO, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director, Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research, Griffith University

McCaughey Centre/CHS/VCOSS Seminar 27-Aug-09: Equity in Victoria

1.00 – 3.30pm, Thursday 27 August 2009
RACV Club Conference Centre, 501 Bourke St, Melbourne
Prof. Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham

McCaughey Centre Seminar 25-Aug-09: Science, Magic, Skills and the Art of Success with NHMRC and ARC

1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 25 August, 2009
Basement Lecture Theatre, 221 Bouverie Street
Professor Elizabeth Waters, Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, the McCaughey Centre
Professor Anthony Scott, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Professor John Matthews, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Dr Tania Bezzobs, Manager Research Development, Melbourne Research Office
Professor Janet [...]

McCaughey Centre 10-Oct-09: Cochrane Public Health Review Group workshop

Saturday 10th October 9:30am-4:00pm
Suntec Singapore, International Convention & Exhibition
Centre. 1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City, Singapore 039593
Conducting reviews of public health interventions on The Cochrane Library: an introduction to the Cochrane Public Health [...]

McCaughey Centre Public Lecture 26-Aug-09: The Spirit Level, presented by Prof Richard Wilkinson

The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better
Presented by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
6.00 – 7.00pm, Wednesday 26 August, 2009
Sunderland Theatre, Corner Grattan St and Royal Parade, Medical Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville

McCaughey Centre Seminar 30-Jul-09: Community University Partnerships in Practice

10am – 12pm, Thursday 30 July, 2009
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
This seminar will introduce participants to the work of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) at the University of Brighton. CUPP’s university staff, students and local communities develop real solutions to real problems, using University resources to tackle disadvantage and [...]

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