ORCID Profile
0000-0003-0373-2269
Current Organisation
University of Tasmania
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2017
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2017.24
Abstract: Graduate students are often plagued by stress and anxiety in their journeys of becoming researchers. Concerned by the prevalence of poor graduate student wellbeing in Australia, we share our experiences of kin-making and collaboration within #aaeeer (Australasian Association for Environmental Education Emerging Researchers), a collective of graduate students and early career researchers formed in response to the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) conference in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2014. In this article, we begin to address the shortage of research into graduate student wellbeing, led by graduate students. Inspired by Donna Haraway's work on making kin in the Chthulucene, we present an exploration that draws together stories from the authors about the positive experiences our kin-making collective enables, and how it has supported our wellbeing and allowed us to work collaboratively. Specifically, we find that #aaeeer offers us a form of refuge from academic stressors, creating spaces for ‘composting together’ through processes of ‘decomposing’ and ‘recomposing’. Our rejection of neoliberal norms has gifted us experiences of joyful collective pleasures. We share our experiences here in the hope of supporting and inspiring other emerging and established researchers to ‘make kin’ and challenge the potentially isolating processes of becoming researchers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-12-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-11-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-03-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-01-2013
Abstract: The incidence of childhood obesity amongst preschool-aged children has increased dramatically in recent years and can be attributed, in part, to a lack of physical activity amongst children in this age group. This study explores the social factors that stand to limit and/or enable children’s physical activity opportunities in outdoor settings in child care centres. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 16 educators from four child care centres in Tasmania, Australia, to ascertain the educators’ perceptions of children’s physical activity and the child care centre policies and practices that stand to limit and/or enable physical opportunities on outdoor playgrounds in child care centres. The major finding of this study is that, despite educators’ positive perceptions of the importance of physical activity for preschool-aged children, child care centre policies and practices relating to children’s safety and supervision during outdoor times are limiting educators’ abilities to facilitate more structured physical activity opportunities for children in care. Educators also recognized that a lack of training limited their ability to provide physical activity opportunities. This article discusses the implications of these findings and concludes with a number of recommendations for future childhood obesity intervention strategies that can be implemented for preschool-aged children in child care centres.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-01-2020
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