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 AutismTreatment 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 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

Siebeck published Fergus’s monograph Epicureanism and the Gospel of John: A Study of their Compatibility (WUNT 2/537) in November. He has presented weekly online sermons and worship materials for the parish of St Alban the Martyr, St Albans. Dorothy Lee published Creation, Matter and the Image of God: Essays on John (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2020); ‘Natural World Imagery and the Sublime in the Gospel of Matthew’ Australian Biblical Review 67 (2019), 16-31; and ‘The Parable of the Sheepfold: A Narrative Reading of John 10’ in A.D. Myers & L.S. Jodrey (eds.), Come and Read: Interpretive Approaches to the Gospel of John (Lanham: Fortress Academic, 2020), 81-96. Her book with Baker Academic The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021) was completed and advertised in their catalogue. Dorothy also wrote an article for The Conversation with Dr Muriel Porter, an honorary researcher with the Theological School: ‘Is the Anglican Church about to split?’ and gave a paper at the University of Divinity research conference on the Prologue of John’s Gospel. She gave a paper on Mary Magdalene as part of St Peter’s Eastern Hill’s Winter Webinar series and two Bible studies for the annual Deans’ Conference which was held virtually in August. She also attended a meeting of the Anglican Church’s national Doctrine Commission in September.

The Revd Prof Mark Lindsay

was re-elected President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (ANZATS). In July, he was elected President of the World Council of Associations of Theological Institutions (WOCATI).

Mark’s publications included: God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History (Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Academic, 2020); ‘Barth and the Jews’, in G. Hunsinger & K. Johnson (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth (Chichester / Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2020); and ‘JewishChristian Dialogue in Review: Markus Barth’s Correspondence with Emil Fackenheim (1965–80)’, in Journal of Reformed Theology 14 (2020), 246–262.

In May, Mark was interviewed by Edward Kessler MBE as part of the COVID-19 Chronicles video series for the Woolf Institute, in Cambridge.

Mark continued his Sunday ministry through the year as an associate priest of St Mary’s North Melbourne.

Emily McAuliffe had feature articles published in a range of domestic and international publications, including Lonely Planet, BBC News, Australian Traveller, Rethink.Travel, The Telegraph (UK), the Embraer magazine and Vacations & Travel. Paulo E M F Mendonça completed a Master of Teaching (Secondary) at the University of Melbourne. Dr Michael Pickering published Tom Kehoe and Michael Pickering (eds.) Fear in the German-Speaking World, 1600-2000 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), and Michael Pickering, ‘Succour for a Fallen World: Magic and the Powers of Spirit in Johann Nikolaus Martius’s Unterricht von der Magia Naturali (1717)’ Cromohs 22 (2019): 42-60. [Published early 2020.] Olivia Tasevski’s articles regarding her research interests: historical and contemporary human rights issues in Indonesia, US politics and foreign relations and Japanese history and politics were published by a variety of international and Australian publications. Her publications included: ‘What does the future of America’s nuclear briefcase look like?’, Foreign Policy, (December 2020), ‘The Dutch are uncomfortable with being history’s villains, not victims’, Foreign Policy, (August 2020), ‘‘Hey, let’s forget that’: no US apology for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’, The Diplomat, (August 2020), ‘From RBG to ACB: Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court appointment and the future of abortion rights’, SBS Dateline, (November 2020) and ‘Islands of ire: the South Korea-Japan dispute’, The Interpreter, (April 2020). Jen Walsh conducted a project on building positive homestay experiences for international students. The research aimed to study, document and critically analyse the homestay experiences of international students in the higher education (HE), vocational education and training (VET) and English language sectors. The report can be accessed on the ISANA website.