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 December edition of the College of Business, Government and Law newsletter for 2022.

Our final newsletter for 2022 features some major research successes: an ARC Centre for Excellence on Plants 4 Space, 4 ARC grants (3 based at Flinders) and 4 new research funding awards from public and private agencies. It also features stories on major educational initiatives, including our undergraduate criminology degree, new articulation arrangements into our Health Care Administration courses, and the development of a new suite of applications by our law students to enhance access to legal support and justice. Congratulations to the teams responsible for these successes.

As the year comes to an end, the College can take satisfaction in some outstanding achievements in 2022. Our research income has more than doubled, from $2.8M in 2021 to $6.2M in 2022. Our international commencing student load (EFTSL) has almost tripled, from 57 to 161. Our commencing student load (EFTSL) for the relaunched MBA suite has increased sixfold, from 11 to 75. We have also developed a comprehensive suite of new educational offerings, which are mission-led and ready to launch. Congratulations to everyone responsible for these significant achievements, which provide a mighty platform for 2023.

Kind regards,
Michael

Michael Gilding
Vice-President and Executive Dean
 

Flinders researchers reap funding awards

$4.1 million in project funding has been awarded to Flinders researchers

Flinders University researchers have been awarded eleven new Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects funded projects worth $4.1 million, selected for the quality of the proposals and the excellence of the team leading the research.

The College of Business, Government and Law was awarded three projects and one with an affiliation to Macquarie University.

Well done to the Lead Chief Investigators and teams from BGL!

Young People with Disability & Young Carers: Opportunities & Contributions
CIs: Professor Gerry Redmond; Professor Sally Robinson (CNHS); Professor Joanne Arciuli (CNHS); Professor Eric Emerson (Lancaster University)
Award Amount: $386,000

Hiding in Plain Sight: 'Associated Entities' and Australian Democracy
CIs: Dr Rob Manwaring; Dr Narelle Miragliotta (Monash University)
Award Amount: $366,509

Tackling Crystal Methamphetamine Supply in Rural and Regional Australia
CIs: Associate Professor Caitlin Hughes; Professor Mark Halsey; Professor Andrew Goldsmith; Professor Jacqueline Bowden
Award Amount: $374,586

Supporting dynamic multidimensional entrepreneurial resilience in Australia
CIs: Associate Professor Kompal Sinha; Professor Elisabetta Magnani; Professor Francesco Chirico; Dr Yuanyuan Gu; Dr Rong Zhu; Professor Roy Green
Award Amount: $173,936
 

Plants for Space

The ARC Centre for Excellence in Plants for Space will grow space food expertise - and Flinders is hosting its own node

What food will space explorers of the future have access to? And what might a Mars living environment look like? Those are some of the questions that a new research centre, the ARC Centre for Excellence in Plants in Space, will explore.

Flinders will host its own node, and BGL's Professor Melissa de Zwart is the Plants for Space Deputy Director and Processes program lead.

“By training more than 400 researchers, P4S will produce the next generation of internationally connected and industry-focused experts," says Melissa. "[It will also] accelerate the growth of the burgeoning national and international CEA and biomanufacturing industries."
 

Welcome to the BGL community

A warm welcome to Sandra, our new staff member joining the college.

Sandra Robinson — Senior Lecturer in Social Impact

Sandra is our first dedicated academic in Social Impact.
 

A memorable night celebrating 30 years of Law ✨

On Saturday evening, former Flinders Law students, staff members and friends gathered together on campus to take a trip down memory lane, and to celebrate the many successes of our law program and graduates over its now 30-year history.
 

Share news with us in 2023

Can you believe 2022 is (almost) over already? Take a trip down BGL memory lane at our dedicated newsletter site, where you can find current and past editions alike, as well as information on how to share content with us for future newsletters.
 

Watch Flinders at Festival Plaza come to life

A brand-new time lapse video of Flinders at Festival Plaza has arrived. Check it out to see the progress the construction team has made so far - it's impressive!
 

TIERS Program Credit Arrangement

It's official! We've signed the SA Health-Flinders University TIERS Program credit arrangement

On behalf of CBGL, the SA Health-Flinders University TIERS Program credit arrangement was signed on Tuesday 18 October 2022, by Adjunct Associate Professor Jennifer Hurley, Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, SA Health and Dr Angie Shafei, Director of Health Administration Programs, Flinders University.

This arrangement provides students of the SA Health TIERS (Transform, Inspire, Engage and Redesign Systems) six-month Leadership Program with one topic credit towards the our Health Administration courses, upon successful completion of the TIERS Program.
 

Congratulations on Living the College Mission, Melissa!

Dr Melissa de Vel-Palumbo has been awarded this month for 'Living the College Mission'

With her Criminology colleagues, Melissa is redesigning the Bachelor of Criminology - introducing two new specialisations that allow for social impact both within and beyond the crime-technology nexus 

“One key change was to introduce two new specialisations to the program – one in cybersecurity and one in innovation," she says.

"These specialisations involve students taking additional topics in computer science or innovation to fill their electives in the course. These specialisations will provide students with key industry-relevant knowledge and skills that they will need to address the emerging threat of cybercrime as well as helping them develop flexible and adaptable skills so that they can respond to old problems in new ways - or respond to problems we don’t even know exist yet."
 

Tell us how you're living the College Mission and you could be the next winner of a Flinders shirt or hoodie! Enter now.
 

Global respect for People with Disability

The 2023-2026 Disability Action Plan is on the way

Flinders University is committed to upholding the values and ethos outlined in the 2025 Agenda, to embrace diversity and promote equity, inclusion and social responsibility. Flinders also recognises that people are at the heart of our University and that we will champion diversity and equality of opportunity.

In 2023, Flinders will commence consultation on drafting a 2023-2026 Disability Action Plan, providing an opportunity for students and staff to provide input and feedback on the plan. Further information about this consultation process will be provided in 2023.
 

Holiday Dates

Our last day of business is Friday 23 December

Find out more details about the end of year University closure here.
 

New year, new homepage

Visit the BGL page on our staff website

Start the new year with a new homepage: the staff website. It contains the staff directory, information about systems and services, workplace support, teaching resources and benefits - like our free news subscription offer. 

The BGL page on the staff portal is the place to go if you're looking to solve a problem but aren't sure who to contact, it's here that you can find organisational charts for college governance, college support, and college committees (see documents and forms), as well as our comprehensive contacts page.
 

Research

A conference on crime and justice in Seoul

Last month, Associate Professor Caitlin Hughes gave an invited presentation to the 6th International Conference on Crime and Justice Statistics in Seoul, South Korea.

This conference was organised by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Statistics Korea and National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) in the name of improving crime statistics and building more effective policy responses.

In November, Hughes also convened and presented at two international drug policy conferences in Lisbon Portugal: the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy Conference and the Lisbon Addictions Conference. These brought together people from over 100 countries to discuss and debate drug policy issues.
 

*Based on notification of contract emailed to CBGL.research@flinders.edu.au from 24 Oct to 15 Nov

Co-designing disability employment strategies with people with disability, industry mentors, and disability employment experts to diversify the workforce for people with disability in fashion and hospitality nationwide
CIs: Goodwin-Smith, I., Manoharan, A., Jones, J., Hutchinson, C. & Yoon, J.
Funder: Australian Government, Department of Social Services
Award Amount: $524,000

Developing a Bedford social impact measurement framework
CIs: Goodwin-Smith, I., Flatau, P., Tually, S. & Coram, V.
Funder: Bedford Inc
Award Amount: $128,400

Enterprise Scholarship with Activated OSHC/UniSA
CIs: Bogomolova, S. & Simmonds, L.
Funder: Flinders University, Activate OSHC
Award Amount: $100,989

International status of decriminalisation of drug use
CIs: Hughes, C., Pardal, M., Hoorens, S., Kilmer, B., d’Auria, S., Agnew-Pauley, W., & Stevens, A.
Funder: Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Award Amount: $96,835

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

Virtual sovereignty? Private internet capital, digital platforms and infrastructural power in the United States
Kelton, M., Sullivan, M., Rogers, Z., Bienvenue, E., Troath, S. (2022). 
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 98(6), 1977-1999.
 Scimago: Top 10% (17/597) in Political Science and International Relations

Dental diaspora: oral health care attitudes and experiences in culturally and linguistically diverse mothers in Australia
Marcus, K., Balasubramanian, M., Short, S. D., Sohn, W. (2022).
BMC Health Services Research, 22, [1314].
 Scimago: Q1 (44/273) in Health Policy

The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities
O'Donnell, A. W., Redmond, G., Skattebol, J., Allen, J., Thomson, C.,  MacDougall, C. (2022).
Youth and Society.  
Scimago: Q1 (80/643) in Social Sciences (misc.)

A Systematic Approach in Developing Management Workforce Readiness for Digital Health Transformation in Healthcare
Brommeyer, M., Liang Z. (2022). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21):13843.
Scimago: Q1 (34/136) in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Building health service management workforce capacity in the era of health informatics and digital health–a scoping review
Brommeyer, M., Whittaker M, Mackay M, Ng F, Liang Z. (2022)
 International Journal of Medical Informatics, 1:104909.
 Scimago: Q1 (17/104) in Health Informatics
 

If you are an academic staff member who is yet to update your research outputs in ResearchNow, now is the time. An up-to-date research profile is a vital tool for promoting you and your research, and the data it provides is essential for internal reporting at both the college and university levels, including for workload.

If you need any assistance in updating your ResearchNow profile and publications list, please visit the ResearchNow support page or contact the CBGL Research Support Team.
 

Education 📚

Employability Roadmap

The Employability Roadmap is designed for Flinders Business students to develop their employability skills along the learning journey, to ensure Flinders Business graduates are work-ready and equipped with skills that industry expect. This guide is aligned to a three-year undergraduate Business timeline and includes curriculum based topics, careers workshops, online resources and activities within the Flinders Horizon Award.  

Encourage your students to use it to boost their employability, participate in experiences that improve their resumes, build networks that will help them in the future and to gain genuine industry experience to draw from in graduate interviews.

This guide was created in collaboration with the College of Business, Government & Law, Work Integrated Learning Support and the Flinders Careers & Employability Service. 
 

What's On 📅

Free Professional Development

Join the Executive Education team for a free workshop on Monday 12 December. Choose from Leading Yourself and Others Through Change (a Neuroscience Approach) (9.00am-12.30pm) or Agile Problem Solving (1.30pm-5.00pm).

Both programs are presented by Sonya Hughes, who has earned national awards and multiple finalist nominations for her work. Places are limited. Email your interest to sarah.knapper@flinders.edu.au by Thursday 8 December.

12 December | 9am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 5pm
Flinders University at Bedford Park
 

Did you know? 💭

Professional Mentoring Program

Your professional development is important. That’s why Flinders University is once again offering you the opportunity to participate in the Professional Mentoring Program.

Mentoring programs are a widely established part of professional development in the higher education sector. The Professional Mentoring Program at Flinders is an opportunity for you to broaden your networks, increase your engagement in the workplace and strengthen your professional practice.

We are currently seeking nominations for both mentees and mentors.
Nominations close at 5pm, 9 December 2022.

For more information, and to access the nomination forms, please click here or contact Professional Development for more information.
 

Alumni

Alumni and Industry Networking Event

Last month, the second BGL Alumni and Industry Networking event was held at Mismatch Brewpub (formerly Sparkke at the Whitmore).

Alumni and Industry who had supported the college through 2022 were invited to enjoy the event, re-connect over a drink and make new connections with Industry.

BGL Industry Advisory Board member Greg Pattinson, CEO of Foodbank, talked to guests about Foodbank's business model and connection to the College.
 

Important Dates 📅

10 December – Human Rights Day
16 December – BGL Christmas Party 🎄
25 December – Christmas Day
31 December – New Year's Eve

See you next year, and happy holidays.