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.
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 [...]
December 9, 2008 – 10:50am
The Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG) has been successful in leveraging funding to support the production of the review, Flexible working conditions for improving employee health and well being. Clare Bambra, from Durham University, will receive £5,000 from the UK Department of Health to support her and her team to complete this very important [...]
September 15, 2008 – 5:41pm
The McCaughey Centre and VicHealth jointly hosted a visit to Melbourne by Karma Tshiteem, Secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission of Bhutan in early September. Mr Tshiteem spoke at and participated in a number of events organised by VicHealth, the Australia Bhutan Friendship Association (ABFA) and the McCaughey Centre during his time in Melbourne. [...]