Staff Awards

USQ Community Engagement Staff Awards

2007 Recipients

Congratulations goes to the following for their excellence in community engagement:

Group Awards:

• Creative Communities Project in partnership with the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee in the lower Balonne region of southwest Queensland: St George, Dirranbandi and Surat for the promotion and mapping of intergenerational public memory communities along the Balonne River.

Group participants:

• Janet McDonald, Senior Lecturer (Theatre) & Manager Creative Communities
• Robyn Stewart, Associate Professor, Visual Arts 
• Scott Alderdice, Head of Program (Theatre)
• Damien Kamholz, Lecturer, Faculty of Education 
• Christie Tickell, Research Assistant, School of Creative Arts

• The GraniteNet Phoenix Project in partnership with Community Development Services Inc, Stanthorpe Shire Council and Department of Communities for the compilation of an evidence based proposal for the development of a community owned and managed, sustainable virtual community portal.

• Catherine Arden, Lecturer and Program Co-ordinator, Further Education and Training
• Brian Kissell, Chief Technology Officer, ICT Services
• Stuart Thorp, Lecturer, Media and Multimedia
• Daniel Maddock, Student, Media Production
• Jason Myatt ,Senior Audio Production Officer, Division of Academic Information Services
• Donna Tilley, Project Officer,  Division of Academic Information Services
• Sandra Adams, Audio Visual Producer, Division of Academic Information Services
• Jeff Black, Manager Audio Visual Services, Division of Academic Information Services
• Pat Lehane, Business Analyst, ICT Services
• Peter Evans, Research Assistant, ICT Services

Individual Awards:

• The Better Living Diabetics project was developed and managed by Goondir Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Health Services in partnership with Don Gorman from USQ. The primary aim of the project was to reduce the health impact of type 2 Diabetes in Aboriginal people from Dalby, Toowoomba, Miles, Tara, Dirranbandi and St George by improving self-management skills, educating toward improvements in healthy lifestyle behaviours and facilitating access to allied health services not previously available.

Recipient: Don Gorman, Director, Centre for Rural & Remote Area Health

• The Hervey Bay Business Information Centre project is a cross sector business community partnership involving USQ, Hervey Bay Chamber of Commerce, Hervey Bay City Council and the Queensland Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry. The aim of the project was the development and establishment of a web based information portal within the Hervey Bay region with the capacity to ensure that the business community capacity of Hervey Bay, both new and existing, grows in line with one of the fastest growing populations (currently growing at 4.9%) in Queensland.

Recipient: Wayne Pease, Associate Dean, Faculty of Business Fraser Coast

• The Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS) Regional Athlete Coach Education (RACE) project provides basic sport science and sports medicine training to 200 pre-elite adolescent athletes and their families in Glenn Innes, Inverell, Moree, Narrabri, Armidale, Tamworth and Gunnedah. The project re-developed sport psychology to make it accessible to rural and remote athletes with low cost Mental Equipment Packs making sport psychology relevant and the only one developed to meet the needs of rural and remote, athletes, coaches and athlete-families. The program builds sports science and sports medicine knowledge and skills, increases personal and athlete development and sports participation.

Recipient: Steven Christensen, Lecturer, Psychology

Criteria for USQ Community Engagement Staff Awards