Project Updates
21st July 2008 - Conference at the Royal Children's Hospital
The conference is a one-day event designed to provide professional development for teachers and other education and health professionals working with young people who have experienced disruption to their schooling following illness or accident. It will profile research in progress for the Australian Research Council (ARC) "Keeping Connected" project. The conference will advance understandings of the educational issues faced by young people with a health condition. The event will provide an opportunity to engage with other professionals working with students in similar situations and to learn more about the support provided to students by the RCH Education Institute.
For more information, please email the project officer, Dr Ria Hanewald
24th May 2007 - Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute Scholarship
At the recent Education Faculty awards night, Brenda Tait was announced as the recipient of the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) Education Institute scholarship. Brenda has a BA (Hons) from La Trobe University majoring in Sociology. Her Honours research examined constructions of identity for young people in the absence of traditional pathways for work. She has worked in the Intellectual Disability field, primarily supporting school aged children. Over the last five years she has been involved the human rights organization, Amnesty International, in a variety of voluntary and unpaid roles. Brenda is the parent of two adult sons. She strongly believes that the ethnographic study of the RCH Education Institute is an important opportunity to document and reflect upon the history, culture and workings of a unique institution within the field of education and health.
