September 24, 2009 – 12:06pm
An audio recording of the McCaughey Centre’s recent public lecture, “The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better”, is now available on the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Knowledge Transfer website. This lecture was presented by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham and [...]
The McCaughey Centre hosted a visit by Professor Angie Hart, Academic Director of the University of Brighton’s award winning Community University Partnership Program (CUPP), from the 29-30th July 2009. Angie visited a number of universities and community organizations across Australia to explore partnership and engagement strategies and initiatives.
A renewed focus on localised and networked water systems could increase water supply capacity and improve the resilience of critical water delivery systems, a new briefing paper has suggested.
The paper Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach for sustainable water services describes how, instead of just relying on water services from large centralised, energy [...]
Audio recordings of selected McCaughey Centre semester one seminars are now available. They can be found on the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Science website, or at the links below.
A new McCaughey Centre publication is now available on our website, at http://www.mccaugheycentre.unimelb.edu.au/publications/searchpublications. This report, entitled Something to Take Notice of: Exploring the value and challenges of peer-interviewing as a participatory research method was authored by Dr Rosemary Mann and Dr Deb Warr of the McCaughey Centre.
Professor Elizabeth Waters of the McCaughey Centre was appointed the Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health at an event held on Monday 23 March at the University.
Members of the Brockhoff Foundation, the University of Melbourne and community partners gathered to celebrate the appointment of Professor Waters, who joined the McCaughey Centre in 2007 [...]
The Communities in a Changing Climate forum was hosted by VCOSS in conjunction with the McCaughey Centre and took place on February 25 2009. The event was attended by over 100 community sector, local and state government, academic and business representatives. Through presentations, workshops and discussions the forum delved into the social and equity implications [...]
Researchers at the McCaughey Centre have recently completed a report commissioned by the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development entitled Climate Change and Community Engagement: Benefits, Challenges and Strategies.
The report was prepared by Professor John Wiseman, Lara Williamson, and Jess Fritze and was based on a series of roundtable discussions with representatives of state [...]
The McCaughey Centre is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Research Fellow to coordinate and participate in priority Cochrane systematic reviews and contribute more broadly to the activities of the Cochrane Public Health Review Group. The successful applicant will demonstrate expertise and experience in understanding the principles of public health and processes involved in evidence-informed public [...]
The McCaughey Centre is seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Research Fellow to coordinate final data collection for fun ‘n healthy in Moreland!, an innovative randomised controlled trial of a school community-based child health promotion and obesity prevention intervention study. The Research Fellow will need to be highly organised to manage the coordination, collection, data management [...]