A free half day, virtual conference where we will examine key issues about why we need to re-think care and self-care, what that might look like and how the work of the Caring Futures Institute (CFI) is focused on enabling the voiceless to be heard and the invisible to be seen in our society.

Hosted by Professor Alison Kitson, the Foundation Director of CFI and Vice-President/Executive Director of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. We have four internationally renowned speakers and thought leaders to hear from:-

• Professor  Tom Shakespeare – Professor of Disability Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Sociologist and disability researcher
• Professor Trish Greenhalgh – UK GP and Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research In Health Sciences (IRIHS) unit and expert in Translational Health Sciences.
• Professor Debra Jackson AO, Professor of Nursing, University of Technology Sydney, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Clinical Nursing.
• Dr Lynore Geia – Academic Lead and Practitioner, Indigenous Health, James Cook University.

Plus hear from both the leading and next generation researchers at the CFI who are exploring the critical health and societal issues we currently face, and how redefining care and self-care can positively impact health outcomes, quality of life and social/economic prosperity across the lifespan.

Question and answer time will be scheduled and encouraged in each session.

The agenda and timings for the morning will be:

• 9:30 – 9.50 am Welcome – ‘Are we beyond Caring?’ Introducing the Flinders Caring Futures Institute and the Caring Life Course Theory

• 9.50-11.10 am Provoking perspectives on care from our invited speakers

• 11.15 – 11.40 am Co-design – realising the potential for transformation

• 11.45 – 12.15 pm CFI Next Generation Researchers Leaders – making the invisible visible

• 12.20 -12.50 pm CFI Leading Edge Research – changing the way we thinking about care

• 12.55pm Summary and conference close

Note – all timings above are Australian Central Daylight Time

All are welcome to join us for what will be an inspiring and impactful half day of thought and action provoking discussion. Register now.

Richard Dolan (BIntSt ’04), Joint Managing Director at Bec Hardy Wines

Richard was a mature aged international student studying full-time at Flinders where he acquired a Bachelor of International Studies. He studied to gain permanent residency, citizenship in 2007 and to make Adelaide his home.
Since then he has lived and worked here in various roles including the last nine years for his wife’s parents business as CEO, taking their premium South Australian wines to the world and enjoying success in exporting including being named the Optus/My Business National Export Company of the Year 2017 and Regional Export Company of the Year at the Business SA Awards in 2019. He has also worked to support international student engagement and recruitment with Study Adelaide.

Richard Dolan believes that strong leadership is about people and being flexible and agile, particularly in response to opportunities and changes. He will share how he makes difficult decisions, especially under pressure, and how he leads a team.

The link to the live event will be sent to registrants closer to the event.

Young Adelaide-born pianist, James Huon George, is concluding his Honours degree in piano performance under the tutelage of Prof. Stefan Ammer, and Dr. Konstantin Shamray at University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. James has performed widely in Adelaide as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician. He plans on furthering his studies in Europe.

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach – Italian Concerto BWV. 971

Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata No. 13 D. 664

Sergei Prokofeiv – Sarcasms Op. 17

Welcome to bring in a packed lunch, but sharing will not be allowed due to COVID restrictions.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, bookings are essential and are limited to maintain 1.5m physical distancing where possible.

Please arrive 10 mins prior (no earlier)

Important: If you are unwell or have any symptoms of a cold or flu, do not attend. Please stay at home.

Directions – Campus Map Car parking in car park 5. Oasis Building is J7 on the campus map.

An exceptional cello player, Catherine Finnis won the Elder Overseas Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London. She played with Menuhin’s Festival Orchestra, and also with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. In addition to this, she also graduated with a First Class Degree in Fine Art from Coventry University, while continuing a career focusing on baroque music.

Graham Strahle plays the Viola da Gamba in various ensembles including Adelaide Baroque. He is Music Australia’s Senior Writer and Editor of Music Journal. He is an experienced music journalist, he writes regularly for The Australian and The Adelaide Review, and has contributed to Limelight and Artstate Magazines, UK publications The Works and Managing the Arts Worldwide.

Welcome to bring in a packed lunch, but sharing will not be allowed due to COVID restrictions.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, bookings are essential and are limited to maintain 1.5m physical distancing where possible.

Please arrive 10 mins prior (no earlier)

Important: If you are unwell or have any symptoms of a cold or flu, do not attend. Please stay at home.

Directions – Campus Map Car parking in car park 5. Oasis Building is J7 on campus map.

A longstanding fixture of the Flinders University Lunchtime Concerts, the Flinders University Chamber Ensemble comprises mainly Flinders staff and students who are amateur but enthusiastic musicians. Their programs feature baroque and classical items and occasionally more modern works. This year the Ensemble will include a work by Beethoven in acknowledgement of his 250th anniversary.

Please note – in a departure from the usual Wednesday timing, this concert will be held on a Monday.

Welcome to bring in a packed lunch, but sharing will not be allowed due to COVID restrictions.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, bookings are essential and are limited to maintain 1.5m physical distancing where possible.

Please arrive 10 mins prior (no earlier)

Important: If you are unwell or have any symptoms of a cold or flu, do not attend. Please stay at home.

Directions – Campus Map Car parking in car park 5. Oasis Building is J7 on campus map.

Keynote Speaker: Chris Howie ASM

Join us for this special 20th Anniversary of Paramedic Science Lecture with Chris Howie ASM,  COVID-19 incident Commander , at SA Ambulance Service, who will present perspectives on resilience and peer support from his distinguished career of service as a paramedic and a leader.

Australia’s paramedics attend more than 1.3 million callouts each year. Not only do they witness trauma, but it’s often in uncontrolled and unpredictable environments. Yet many say they chose the profession because it’s a chance to be there for people, as one paramedic put it, in “intimate moments of crisis”.

The culture of teamwork, of looking out for each other, is a trait of emergency service workers. For Flinders-trained paramedics, this starts early in their undergraduate student journey, and the expression, ‘Flinders Family’ is often heard.

The lecture will be followed by audience Q&A and accompanied by the presentation of the inaugural Tom Sutherland Engagement Prize and launching the Stafford Wulff Opportunity Scholarship.

This livestreamed event is hosted by Professor Jonathan Craig, Vice President and Executive Dean, College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University.

 About the speaker 

Chris Howie ASM has worked for SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) since 1998, holding various operational roles before moving into the Operations Manager role in the Executive Operations Support unit, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed SAAS COVID-19 Incident Commander earlier this year.

Since 2013 Chris has been managing the SAAS Wellness and Assistance Programs, including the well-respected Peer Support program. Chris’ team provides an interface between SAAS and SA Health, the emergency services in SA and other government and non-government agencies in a range of areas. He provides the operational interface into WH&S within SAAS. Chris and his team are entrusted to deliver major organisation-wide projects and play a significant role in the operational elements of emergency management within SAAS. In 2018 Chris was awarded the Ambulance Service Medal in the Australia Day Honours list. He has a Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Management from Flinders University.

Celebrating 20 Years of Paramedic Science at Flinders

Flinders University has been educating and training career-ready paramedics for more than 20 years. At this lecture we will celebrate the work and achievements of the 1,300 Flinders University Paramedic Science graduates since 2000, along with our current paramedic science students

Online leadership summit featuring four high performing leaders.
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November 2020
9:45AM – 12:00PM on both days

The end of year summit themed around storytelling features keynote speakers and Flinders Alumni:

Kim Cheater (BEc ’18): Partner and Co-Chair National Reconciliation Governance Committee at PwC.

Lewis Hatchett: Former Pro Cricketer, Podcast Host, Performance and Wellbeing Coach, Sport Yogi Founder.

Rikki Cooke (BBehavSc(Psych) ’14, MSW ’17): Founder of Treasure Boxes and 2020 Citizen of the Year – Port Adelaide Enfield.

Leaders will share their career journey, their perspectives on leadership including examples of how they lead and the challenges they’ve faced. Participants can engage in Q&A with leaders.

The link to the live event will be sent to registrants closer to the event.

Established in 1966 for education and research, Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) collections comprise more than 8,000 works today.  These span the 15th – 21st centuries and represent various currents in western art history as well as diverse indigenous visual art practices including by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

Join us for an exclusive alumni tour of our current exhibition, Robyn Stacey: as still as life | A Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) travelling exhibition. This exhibition, curated by MGA Director Anouska Phizacklea, leads audiences into the tantalising world of the still life tradition.

Stacey is one of Australia’s leading photographic artists whose fascination with the still life genre inspired the selection of works for this exhibition. Through the contemporary medium of photography Stacey brings historical collections to life on a monumental scale, interrogating what these collections may have meant for their original owners and interweaving personal historical narratives.

Each tour will be followed by Morning Tea at FUMA.

Bookings are essential as FUMA is continuing to follow Government advice regarding physical distancing and hygiene measures. Please note that a maximum of 25 visitors can be accommodated for the alumni tours on each occasion to ensure a 1.5m minimum distance between people.

Hand sanitizer will be available at the door.