15- 10 - 2021
Join us for this week's roundup of inspiring Scholar news...
Comparisons of Indigenous health care
The Hospital + Healthcare Magazine is a trusted publication for over 40,000 healthcare professionals across Australia and New Zealand. They recently interviewed Dr Brett Shannon, 2021 Australian Universities’ John Monash Scholar, in a feature-length article that explains how Dr Shannon’s PhD research supported by the John Monash Scholarship at The University of Illinois will provide him with the insights he needs to conduct comparative research projects between Australia and North America. He intends to learn how to best incorporate Indigenous occupational health into national research agendas in Australia.
Featured Podcast: Dr Garang Dut
Dr Garang Dut is the 2017 Roth/Segal John Monash Harvard Scholar who resettled in Australia from South Sudan as a refugee in 2005. He has since studied at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University, and the University of Oxford. In this episode of The Scholars Podcast, Garang speaks of his journey to Australia as a refugee and his hardships while proving himself to his teachers in Melbourne when entering the school system from year 10. He also shares his passion for medicine and how his recent research aims to help refugee communities across Australia through the current COVID-19 pandemic.
An environment destabilised
Across Cambodia, poor and vulnerable land workers are either facing eviction or being coerced into selling their land. In a grab for this land, forests and fisheries are being destroyed. Dr Sarah Milne, 2005 John Monash Scholar has been interviewed by Mongabay which is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. “If all of the forest is cleared, this is going to be disastrous for the environment: biodiversity, water quality, coastal systems, and Indigenous people too.” Dr Milne expresses her concern in the article.
The Exchange to launch a second co-working space in rural NSW
Jillian Kilby, 2013 BHP John Monash Scholar recently announced that The Exchange will be opening a new co-working space in Narrabri, a town in NSW strategically placed between Sydney and Brisbane. An earlier announcement this week revealed the purchase of the original Faulkner's Cordial Factory and Ice Works, a 106-year-old red-brick heritage precinct. Ms Kilby said, “It will be incredible to see this disused red brick icon brought back to life.” The Exchange reports hundreds of business workers are using the Dubbo working space each year, so the new co-working space at Narrabri is sure to be a promising venture. The full article can be accessed by subscribers of Daily Liberal News.
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Date: Wednesday, 3 November 2021
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