News from the College of Business, Government & Law 

We acknowledge the traditional owners, both past and present, of the various locations Flinders University operates on, and recognise their continued relationship and responsibility to these lands and waters. We recognise that Flinders was established on the lands of the Kaurna nation, with the main Flinders campus located near Warriparinga.

Welcome to the September edition of the College of Business, Government and Law newsletter.

Our lead story this month is the 2022 Elliott Johnston AO QC Oration, delivered by Flinders Law graduate and Director of the NT Aboriginal Justice Unit Leanne Liddle. It was an inspiring presentation and a timely reminder of our responsibility to contribute towards the Reconciliation Action Plan across the University.

Other stories include profiles of James Scheibner, Selina Tually and Daniel Padovan; new marketing campaigns for Law and Flinders; awards for Rong Zhu (SA Young Tall Poppy), Di Thompson (3 minute thesis competition), and Tania Leiman and Madi McCarthy (Law Society Bulletin Article of the Year Award); and one new book and 8 new articles in top journals by staff across the College, including an article by Andrew Groves on criminalisation of contract cheating services in Australia.

We also get to witness the extraordinary baking skills of some of our staff for a good cause – raising more than $1800 for the RSPCA. Congratulations to Trish Wescombe, Renee Cannon and Sam Kontra for making it happen! I understand that planning for the 2023 sequel is already in train.

Kind regards,
Michael

Michael Gilding
Vice-President and Executive Dean
 

Welcome to the BGL community

L-R: Daniel Padovan, Peter McDonald, Melissa Dowling, Joel Lisk

A warm welcome to our new staff members joining the college.

Daniel Padovan — Associate Lecturer (Business)
Peter McDonald — Project Lead, Centre for Social Impact
Melissa Dowling — Senior Research Fellow, Jeff Bleich Centre
Joel Lisk — Research Associate (Space Law)
 

Red Silk, Black Voices

 Last week, NT Australian of the Year 2022 and Director of the Aboriginal Justice Unit (NT) Leanne Liddle delivered a moving 2022 Elliott Johnston AO QC Oration: "Red Silk, Black Voices"

"How does one ignore such an important and integral human right with an ad hoc dismissal when we knew what was at stake?" asked Liddle, about how two of the most critical recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - of arrest and secondly imprisonment as a last resort for Aboriginal people - were not spoken about in any training or deliverable or arrest in her time at SAPOL.

"One wonders where we would be today if police and all those engaged in the justice system had placed as much effort in undoing police culture as they had the physical infrastructure."

Born and raised in Alice Springs, Leanne Liddle (LLB/LP (GradEntry) '04) is the driving force behind the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Agreement - which, in partnership with Aboriginal people, aims to reduce imprisonment rates, increase Aboriginal leadership, and improve justice outcomes for Aboriginal Territorians.

The Oration honoured Elliott Johnston AO QC, who was an inaugural Flinders staff member and founding partner of Johnston Withers Lawyers. He was a fearless campaigner for the working class person, champion of the human rights movement and passionate advocate for Indigenous Australians, the disadvantaged and the oppressed.
 

The results of the Your Voice Survey are in

The reports for the Your Voice Survey 2022 for the College of BGL can now be accessed on the College webpage

There are three reports: All College of BGL, and also all College broken down by Academic staff and Professional staff separately.

These reports are FAN protected and are not available outside the University (if you are logged in already you will not be asked for your FAN, but you will if logging in from outside). Please use/circulate them within your Flinders team only.

As Professor Gilding indicated at the briefing last week, the next steps for reviewing the report outcomes and identifying actions are:

- Results to be made available to ongoing and casual staff
- Dedicated consideration at staff meetings for disciplines, centres/institute, professional staff: What should we prioritise? What can we do?
- Special Meeting of College Leadership Advisory Committee
- Identify priority areas for action and monitoring
- Incorporate into strategic plan for rest of the year and 2023
 

Congratulations on Living the College Mission, James!

Dr James Scheibner has been awarded this month for 'Living the College Mission'

James teaches the topic 'Law in a Digital Age' - a unique offering in Australian undergraduate law degrees, and one which directly relates to the BGL mission.

"I teach LLAW3301 Law in a Digital Age, a unique offering in Australian undergraduate law degrees. In this topic, students use the open source document assembly platform Docassemble to construct legal chatbots for real world industry clients," Scheibner says.

"LLAW3301 not only gives our students the opportunity to use technology to think about the law differently, but also provides our students with a taste of what it is like to work in access to justice. Further, because Docassemble is an open source platform, there is an option for our industry partners to commission their applications without paying any licensing fees. Therefore, LLAW3301 relates directly to two of the College’s teaching and research specialisations; technology and social impact."
 

Tell us how you're living the College Mission and you could be the next winner of a Flinders hoodie - perfect for these wintry months! Enter now.
 

Expect More of Law

A brand-new advertising campaign for Law

At Flinders, you can Expect More of Law: that is the message at the heart of our new campaign for Flinders Law. Student Madison Millward is at the centre of the campaign, for which a new suite of videos and photographs have been created.

New campaigns are also in progress for the other study areas in BGL, including one that we'll be able to share more information about soon for Business. 
 

Celebrate 30 years of Law with a new Teams background

BGL in the 2023 Flinders advertising campaign

Dr Simone Deegan (Lecturer) and Heath Wingard (B. Business Sports Management current student) are featured in Flinders University's Semester 1 2023 central university campaign, currently in market.

The new TV commercial went live on Sunday August 7 and ran until the end of the month, and the advertising presence will continue to ramp up on social media, outdoor billboards, bus backs, radio and more as per the standard higher education advertising cycle.

The campaign encapsulates that being fearless can mean many different things to different people – no matter what stage of life you’re in. 
 

Flinders at Festival Plaza continues to grow

Photo of Flinders at Festival Plaza by Brenton Edwards.

Flinders at Festival Plaza is on the way up!

Photographer Brenton Edwards recently visited the site of our future city campus - and as can be seen in the picture above, the construction team are making excellent progress. 
 

Research

SA Governor Frances Adamson and Dr Rong Zhu

Dr Rong Zhu won the 2022 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award

Our very own Rong Zhu was awarded the 2022 “SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award” last month. Created in 1998, this award recognises young scholars' contributions to research and communication and community engagement.

This is a well-deserved achievement for Rong. Congratulations!
 

L: Di Thompson, R: PJ Tan and supervisors Svetlana Bogomolova and Lucy Simmonds. Di and PJ were the winner and runner up in the CBGL Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Flinders University Finalist for 3MT Competition

A huge congratulations to Di Thompson for being one of the winners in the Three Minute Thesis Semi-Final. As such she will be one of 7 PhD students taking part in the Flinders University 3MT Final today, competing for the top spot in the University Final and a chance to represent Flinders at the Asia-Pacific Final. Good luck, Di!

CBGL students and staff, and members of the public are encouraged to attend the University Final, and support Di and other PhD students as their speak about their ground-breaking research. You can join either in person or online at the details below.

Flinders University 3MT Final
Friday 9 September 2022
9:30am – 11am
HSLTC 1.01 or stream online
 

Congratulations to Profesor Tania Leiman and Madi McCarthy for winning The Law Society's Bulletin Article of the Year Award!

Madi McCarthy and Professor Tania Leiman’s article, Sex with Robots: How should the law respond? examines the development of technology that facilitates new forms of intimate connection, surveys the moral and ethical landscape surrounding the technology, and looks how the law is starting to grapple with this issue and how it might deal with it as it becomes more integrated into modern life.
 

Since the last edition of the newsletter until 16 August, BGL researchers had eight articles included in top 10% / A* / A / Q1 ranked journals.​​​​​

Evaluation of national work-related psychosocial risk management policies: An international review of the literature
Potter, R., Jamieson, S., Jain, A., Leka, S., Dollard, M., O'Keeffe, V. (2022).
Safety Science
Scimago: Top 10% (53/585) in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Morally excused but socially excluded: Denying agency through the defense of mental impairment
De Vel-Palumbo, M., Ferguson, R., Schein, C., Chang, M. X. L., Bastian, B. (2022).
PLoS One
Scimago: Q1 (16/138) in Multidisciplinary

“I Know a Guy and He’s Got Guns Galore”: Accessing Crime Guns in the Australian Illicit Firearms Market
Bright, D., Halsey, M., Goldsmith, A.,  Goudie, S. (2022).
Deviant Behavior
Scimago: Q1 (108/818) in Law

An ethico-legal assessment of intellectual property rights and their effect on COVID-19 vaccine distribution: an Australian case study
Scheibner, J., Nielsen, J.,  Nicol, D. (2022).
Journal of Law and the Biosciences
Scimago: Q1 (55/274) in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)

Older Adults’ Perspectives of Smart Technologies to Support Aging at Home: Insights from Five World Café Forums
Street, J., Barrie, H., Eliott, J., Carolan, L., McCorry, F., Cebulla, A., Phillipson, L., Prokopovich, K., Hanson-Easey, S., Burgess, T., Smart Ageing Research Group (2022).
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Scimago: Q1 (34/136) in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The future of work for young people – early occupational pathways and the risk of automation in Australia
Cebulla, A. (2022).
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Scimago: Q1 (34/136) in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Lobbying, political competition and the welfare effect of campaign contribution tax
Le, T. & Yalcin, E. (2022).
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
ABDC List: A ranked

Meaningful crime prevention or just an 'Act': Analysis of the criminalisation of contract cheating services in Australia
Groves, A., Nagy, V. (2022).
Crime, Law and Social Change
Scimago: Q1 (156/818) in Law
 

Education 📚

VISTA is part of the CBGL Learning and Teaching Academy

VISTA stands for 'Versatile Innovation in Scholarly Teaching Approaches' and provides an opportunity for discussions and research about teaching. The VISTA Team is Jak Kakhkharov, Jessica Genauer, Rajesh Johnsam, Roger Howley and Samantha Kontra. You can access VISTA on the Learning and Teaching Academy FLO Page.
 

Alumni

Read about 30 years of Law, and MBA and Accounting alumni in this year's edition of Encounter 

Understanding ancient truths, making an indelible mark on public health and steering a company in the right direction - Encounter magazine celebrates our amazing alumni and highlights the work of our trailblazing researchers. 
 

Did you know? 💭

This is a brand-new section where we'll share places to find information, as well as information about college services available, academic services available and other items that should be widely shared but are not widely known.

This month, we're spotlighting the Student Prizes web page. This is where you can find a list of prizes, current and past recipients, and prize sponsors.

RSPCA Cupcake Day

BGL staff showcased their excellent baking skills this month, for a good cause - to fight animal cruelty. Want to donate? You can still do so here.
 

Important Dates 📅

Keep the dates of these celebration or recognition times in mind for thought leadership throughout the month. You can use these days as a way to have a voice externally through earned or social media, or to better engage with students on trending issues.

1 – 30 September – Save the Koala Month
5 – 11 September – Women's Health Week 
15 September – International Day of Democracy 
21 September – World Alzheimer's Day 
 

Do you have news to share?

The deadline for our next newsletter is 16 September.

If you have news about achievements, awards, upcoming events in the College (including online events), new research, media articles or anything else that may be of interest to your fellow colleagues, we want to hear from you by EOD Friday, 16 September.

Please view the guidelines and timetable before submitting your content, then email Nicole at cbgl.newsletter@flinders.edu.au with your news.