April 2012

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DeakinPrime - corporate education
in this issue
  It’s not an office, it’s a playing field
  Linking needless disability to neuroscience
  Social media, love or loathe it?
  DeakinPrime & Worksafe - it just works!
Features

It’s not an office, it’s a playing field

by Kate Mitchell
Marketing Co-ordinator at DeakinPrime

If you are part of the 70 per cent of large companies who use one form of gaming technique for at least one business process, what type of games are you playing? If your company is yet to venture onto this playing field maybe you could be the one who brings the nostalgia of your school days back?

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Linking needless disability to neuroscience

By Robert Aurbach
Director—Stakeholder Collaboration, Deakin’s Industry
Engagement Centre for Personal Injury


Robert Aurbach is the Director of Stakeholder Collaboration of Deakin University's Industry Engagement Centre for Personal Injury. Here he talks about his latest research on the topic of Needless Disability.

Watch Robert's interview >>


Social media, love or loathe it?

By Ross Monaghan
Lecturer in Public Relations at Deakin University


Ross Monaghan is a business communication and issues management specialist with more than 17 years experience in public relations, and journalism. Here he talks about the changes in the social media landscape.

Watch Ross Monaghan's interview >>


DeakinPrime & Worksafe - it just works!

by Mike Lagastes
Senior Communications Advisor at WorkSafe Victoria

In February, WorkSafe formally acknowledged a three-year extension to its partnership with DeakinPrime, the corporate education arm of Deakin University, to provide WorkSafe Agent employees with nationally recognised vocational education training (VET) qualifications.

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Inside DeakinPrime

Five minutes with Griz Thomson

Griz Thomson is an Alliance Director at DeakinPrime. Griz has over 16 years’ experience in the learning and development field. During her career, she has worked as a facilitator, training manager and state manager of various training organisations.

Watch Griz's interview »


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Deakin University

Facebook becomes the new medium so the dead can live on

By Dr. Patrick Stokes
Lecturer in Philosophy at Deakin University

Deakin University’s newest researcher and philosopher Dr Patrick Stokes found it a little weird when ‘friends’ he knew had died started contacting him via their Facebook pages.

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