STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS Rosslyn Almond wrote an article for The Conversation in July about children’s literature and feminism. It was entitled ‘Friday Essay: Need a Sitter? Revisiting Girlhood, Feminism and Diversity in the BabySitters Club’. She was subsequently interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney about influential children’s book series. Peter Campbell, JP is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. He continued as a member of the editorial committee for Context: A Journal of Music Research, as treasurer of the Victorian Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), and as Treasurer of Ensemble Gombert Inc. He also performs with the MSO Chorus. In December, he appeared in two concerts with the vocal quartet ‘Clarion’ at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. His published research included a book chapter, ‘“Thou Shall Not Chant”: Prayer Book, Musical Authority and Parish Practice’, When we Pray: The Future of Common Prayer, ed. Stephen Burns and Robert Gribben (Bayswater, Vic.: Coventry Press, 2020), 303–32, and he gave a conference presentation, “‘An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman Walk into a Bar …’: Philanthropy and the Promotion of Musical Activity at Australia’s Early Universities”, at the 43rd National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 3–5 December 2020. At the University of Divinity, Peter is Chair of the Student Services Committee. Dr David Collis and his colleagues were awarded the 2020 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching – Response to COVID-19 for their work in the University of Melbourne’s Bachelor of Science (Extended) program, providing a
pathway for Australian Indigenous students into the Faculty of Science. Sara Evans completed the Master of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) at the University of Melbourne in December 2020. Subjects included English Phonetics and Phonology; Discourse and Interaction; Language Testing; Language Curriculum Design; Sociolinguistics and Language Learning; Research in Applied Linguistics; Technology and Language Learning; Second Language Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition. Dr Rita George’s research was presented in a webinar at the Advances in Autism Research and Care Lecture series held at the Harvard University’s Autism Intervention Research on Physical Health group at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. The paper presented was titled Stokes, M.A. & George, R. (2019), The mental health of sexual and gender minorities in autism. Invited presentation to Advances in Autism Research and Care (AARC) Webinar Lecture series. Clinical Coordinating Centre for the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network/Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health. Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard University. Crystal Gordon was elected as the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Young Professionals Co-Chair for Victoria for 2020–21. The IEAA Young Professionals Network supports up and coming staff in international education. The group provides a forum for career development and networking for new professionals who are seeking work in Australia’s international education sector. Crystal was involved in hosting a range of inperson and virtual networking and professional development events throughout 2020 and pioneered
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the first nationwide IEAA Young Professionals virtual event, where all state co-chairs came together to reflect on 2020. Prof Ken Hinchcliff continued as a member of the Board of Zoos Victoria, where he chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee, and as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine and as a member of the Listing Committee of the Federation Equéstre International (FEI). He is a non-voting member of the Board of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Ken is a member of the Steering Committee of the Equine Limb Injury Program of the University of Melbourne and Racing Victoria. He continues to deliver a limited number of lectures to students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and provides a limited number of continuing education lectures and webinars for practicing veterinarians. Ken was an author of several scientific publications including: Studdert VP, Gay CC, Hinchcliff KW, ‘Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary’, 5th edition, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2020, 1319; Davis MS, Hinchcliff KW, Williamson KK, McKenzie EC and Royer CM. ‘Effect of multiday exercise on serum hormones and metabolic substrate concentrations in racing sled dogs’, J. Comp. Exer. Physiol, 16 (3), 197205; and PA Wilkins, KM Lascola, AR Woolums, D Bedenice, S Giguère, AG Boyle, Hinchcliff KW, ‘Diseases of the respiratory system’, Large animal internal medicine, Eds: B.P. Smith et al., 2020, 515-701. Fergus King was a member of a panel that discussed Christos Tsiolkas’ novel, Damascus, with the author at Ridley College. He presented the paper Hit or Myth: Methodological Considerations in Comparing Dionysos with the Johannine Jesus to the Fellowship for Biblical Studies in June. Mohr
