Tales from Miltonville : some technological discourses within a rural university

The contextual pressures associated with globalisation (and the impact of globalisation on perceptions of rurality) coupled with the masculine traditions of universities produce an interesting environment within which issues of women's work with technoloogy in universities can be considered. With more emphasis being placed on technology based teaching and learning, it is now perceived as a requirement for academics to use various forms of technology in their daily work practices. In this paper therefore I will be looking at specific dominant discourses associated with technology that circulate within a rural university and the multiple readings of these discourses by a small group of academic women located within that university

Performing data with notions of responsibility

"Ethnodrama is a utilitarian concept used in understanding experiences of others and has wider impetus than health education (Saldana, 2003). Ethnodrama for us is a method and methodology synthesizing health and education fields where we combine qualitative research processes with action research, grounded theory and narrative (Denzin, 1997, Gray and Sinding, 2002) to provide data from which a script can be written that, in turn, becomes the basis of health theatre."--p. 451

The low risk research ethics application process at CQUniversity Australia

The CQUniversity Australia Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) is a human ethics research committee registered under the auspices of the National Health and Medical Research Council. In 2009 an external review of CQUniversity Australia’s HREC policies and procedures recommended that a low risk research process be available to the institution’s researchers. Subsequently, in 2010 the Human Research Ethics Committee Low Risk Application Procedure came into operation. This paper examines the applications made under the Human Research Ethics Committee Low Risk Application Procedure during the course of 2010 and 2011. The paper contributes to the literature analyzing the decision-making processes of research review committees through an analysis of the quantitative data relating to the low risk research applications made and through discourse analysis of the qualitative data represented by the assessment comments of the members of the Committee