Some of Our Parts

Team Monash – Women in Sport Leadership Retreat!

On Thursday 8 – Friday 9 February 2024, Team Monash is proud to be hosting the Women in Sport Leadership Retreat!

Applications are now open for the event, which aims to empower female-identifying student leaders who are engaged in sporting communities, external to or within the University.

A total of 30 female-identifying student leaders will be selected to attend the event that will consist of 2 days of workshops, networking, self-development, guest speakers and more!

This even will be held at the Pullman in East Melbourne. All accommodation, meals and session expenses are covered.

• Applications close on December 1 and can be made via the event website.

Participants Needed for Study Interviews – Designing Wayfinding Systems

• Are you a carer/support worker of individuals with cognitive impairment/intellectual disability/neurodiversity?
• OR are you a Health professional providing healthcare to individuals with cognitive impairment/intellectual disability/neurodiversity?

We are conducting a user study to design better maps for people with cognitive impairments (PwCI) /intellectual disabilities/neurodiversity.

In this study, we are eager to engage with caregivers, support workers, psychologists, and therapists who play pivotal roles in assisting these groups and possess invaluable firsthand knowledge regarding their unique needs and challenges.

• The study will involve attending interview sessions for insights and experiences related to PwCI’s navigation challenges and needs.
• The sessions can be conducted online (Zoom).
• The duration of each interview session will last for 45-60 minutes.
• The in-person sessions will be held in a Monash University meeting room.

Are You Interested in Participating?

• The Interview Registration Form can be assessed HERE.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to Wei Wang (wei.wang5@monash.edu).

• Thank you for considering this opportunity to participate in our research study.

ATTN: Monash Students Only!

IT Service Centre Support Officer Position

• Expression of Interest sought for: IT Service Centre Support Officer
• Remuneration: $78,255 – $89,888 pa HEW Level 05 plus 11% employer superannuation
• Duration: 1/12/2023 to 22/03/2024 (Fixed term full time)
• Location: Clayton Campus

We have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Service Centre group, providing excellent front-line IT support.

As a Support Officer (SO), you will provide remote and deskside technical support to users regarding ICT issues. This includes following procedures and protocols.

• Incident Triage: Initial assessment, categorisation, and prioritisation of incidents reported to the team. Analysis of incidents to ensure appropriate resources are allocated for resolution.
• Responding to Inquiries: Addressing IT-related queries and issues from users with professionalism and efficiency.
• Customer Service Excellence: Delivering outstanding customer service to build positive user relationships.
• Collaboration: Working closely with the team to resolve and escalate issues.

At the Service Centre, we are proud of our service excellence and collaboration with staff. We’re working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve.

To be successful, you will possess strong customer focus, time management and communication skills with the ability to solve problems creatively.

• Please get in touch with the hiring manager, Tash Murray, at 0428 934 337 for a confidential discussion about this role.
• Please apply by emailing your latest resume to tash.murray@monash.edu no later than 24 November at 5 pm.

Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Lunch and Learn

The Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Lunch and Learn session is being held on Wednesday 22 November from 12.30 – 13.30. You can register here.

During the session Professor Kim Marriott will guide you through the latest innovations in technology designed to empower people with disabilities.

Get ready for an eye-opening journey into the future of assistive technology.

• Location: IT building, 25 Exhibition Walk on the ground floor in the Monash Assistive Technology (MATS) centre area.

Employment Opportunity with Monash Assistive Technology and Society Centre (MATS)

MATS Education Officer (Casual)

• Location: Clayton campus
• Employment Type: Casual 0.2 FTE
• Level & Remuneration: HEW 6 (Loaded Casual Hourly Rate $59.17)

The Opportunity

This position is funded as part of an establishment grant for the Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Centre.

The MATS Centre helps people living with disabilities to lead self-directed lives.

Emerging assistive technologies have the potential to break down many of the barriers that people with disabilities face at school, university, work and in the social sphere.

Our work is guided by on-the-ground partnerships with the community to ensure we’re addressing real problems faced by real people and creating a lasting impact.

Join us and help to create a world that is more inclusive and equitable.

The successful candidate will support the Management Team of MATS in education-related activities. They will be expected to work closely with other parts of Monash including Monash Disability Support Services (DSS) and eSolutions. Projects include:

• Evaluating the accessibility of Monash educational software such as Moodle and developing guidelines on accessible teaching practices for Monash staff. This may involve organising and running focus groups with Monash students who identify as having a disability
• Conducting an audit of Monash educational offerings that incorporate disability and inclusion and developing best practice guidelines and materials for use by Monash teaching staff.
• Creating and running a national disability support network for university students with disabilities studying STEM disciplines.
• Contributing to the MATS Education Strategy.

The appointee will be based in the Faculty of Information Technology of Monash University at the Clayton campus in Melbourne.

Key Selection Criteria

The appointee must have:

• Extensive experience in the Australian education sector (as a student and/or teacher)
• High-level time-, self- and project-management skills, including the ability to plan, implement and execute new initiatives to deadline, with the demonstrated ability to think creatively
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, including a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
• Familiarity with established and developing educational software including LMS such as Moodle, Google Apps for Education, video management systems, tools for interactive learning content, and polling systems

It is desirable for the appointee to have:

• Strong links to disability communities through lived experience of disability and/or track record of successful work/co-research with people with disabilities.

Enquiries

Professor Kim Marriott, Director of MATS, Faculty of IT, Kim.Marriott@monash.edu

Expression of Interest (EOI)

Once you have discussed your application with Professor Kim Marriott please email an Expression of Interest (EOI) to Kim.Marriott@monash.edu. This should comprise:

• A cover letter addressing the selection criteria
• A curriculum vitae, including a list of any published works, conference presentations and relevant work experience
• Contact details of two referees

Closing Date

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:55pm AEDT

Public Consultation – draft National Road Transport Tech Strategy and 2024-27 Action Plan

The Commonwealth and state and territory transport agencies have worked together to develop a draft National Road Transport Technology Strategy and draft 2024-27 National Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Action Plan, on which they are now seeking your views and inputs.

The consultation is available on the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts website: Draft National Road Transport Technology Strategy and 2024–27 National Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Action Plan | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

• Submissions can be made to NRTTStrategyandCAVActionPlan@infrastructure.gov.au and close on Wednesday 6 December 2023.

They are also offering stakeholders the option of a bilateral meeting with the review team, in addition to providing a written submission. If you would like to take up this option, please email at: NRTTStrategyandCAVActionPlan@infrastructure.gov.au   

New Technologies Can Make Road Transport Safer

New technologies like connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can help make road transport safer, less congested, more accessible and convenient, and better for the environment.

The draft Strategy and Action Plan set out how Commonwealth, state and territory governments will work together to support new road transport technologies and roll them out in nationally consistent ways. Australian governments want to be ready for these technologies so that they are deployed in a way that achieves their benefits for everyone.

Your views on the consultation drafts of the Strategy and Action Plan are welcome, and we would appreciate you bringing the consultation to the attention of your friends and others who may have an interest.

Your input will help shape the final Strategy and 2024-27 Action Plan that will be put to Australia’s Infrastructure and Transport Ministers, so that they meet industry and community needs.

The final Strategy and Action Plan (once approved by Infrastructure and Transport Ministers) would replace the National Policy Framework for Land Transport Technology and 2020-2023 National Land Transport Technology Action Plan.

• The aim is to have the new Strategy and Action Plan in place by mid-2024.

FIT Funded MATS PhD Scholarship

A PhD scholarship funded by FIT has been announced, to support the Monash Assistive Technology & Society Centre (MATS).

The PhD project is designed with the aim of making a positive difference to the life experience of people with disabilities.

Projects that fall into one (or more) of the following themes are encouraged:

• Innovative Assistive Technology: The co-design and evaluation of new assistive technologies that address the real-world needs of people with disability. These might, for instance, utilise conversational agents, computer vision, mixed reality, wearables etc.
• Disability, Technology, and Society: Research with a sociological or anthropological focus on the use of bespoke and/or mainstream technology for disability inclusion and/ or barriers to access.
• STEM Participation: Research addressing barriers and increasing participation in STEM education and STEM careers by people with a disability.
  Community and Workplace Participation: Research investigating the use of assistive technologies to increase participation in cultural, sporting and other community activities and technologies that address barriers currently restricting employment.

The proposed project may focus on the experience of people with disability in Australia or other parts of the world where the student and/ or supervisory team have strong links to relevant disability communities.

Please note that this scholarship is for domestic students only.

• The candidate must be an Australian citizen, Australian Permanent Resident, NZ Citizen and a person entitled to stay in Australia, or to enter and stay in Australia, without any limitation as to time.

The candidate should also have strong links to disability communities through lived experience of disability and/ or track record of successful work/ co-research with people with disabilities.

• Candidates who identify as having a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications are due by Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:55pm AEDT.

• See this website for more information.

Free Visual Art Workshops for Young Deaf and Disabled Artists

Arts Access Victoria are holding free workshops for young Deaf and Disabled artists.

They are being led by an established Deaf and Disabled artist and have an online alternative.

These workshops were co-designed by Deaf and Disabled artists and have access at their core.

• Who: Young Deaf and Disabled people aged 18 – 25. (If you’re a little over 25 that won’t be a problem!)
• What: a series of free workshops that have an online version.
• Where: Signal, The channel and online.
• When: In person Saturday October 7, 14 and 21 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm & Online Wednesday October 11 (11:30am – 1:30pm), 18 and 25 from 6pm – 8pm.

There is an air-dry clay workshop with Pey Chi; an Illustration/drawing workshop with Chelle Destefano; and an Ableton workshop with Geryon.

• Price: Free!
• Access: Auslan interpretation, live captioning, wheelchair access, accessible bathroom, gender neutral bathroom, accessible public transport, support animals welcome and support workers

Click here for more information and go to the Arts Access website.

• Arts Access Victoria
• Office: 222 Bank St, South Melbourne Victoria 3205
• Reception phone: 03 9699 8299
• artsaccess.com.au

End of Semester Workshops from Student Academic Success

Get Ready for Your Final Assessments with These Fantastic Free Workshops!

Make sure you are prepared for your end-of-semester assessments by attending one of the online workshops from Student Academic Success.

Prepare your brain’s pathways for revision success

• How do you make the most of the “empty” weeks leading up to the exams and study smarter, rather than harder?
• Train your brain to make the most of the weeks leading up to the exams so that your revision is flexible, purposeful and active.

Register Now

Beat Procrastination! Conquer time!

• Learn how to crush procrastination and create an efficient and effective study and revision schedule.
• Unpack some of the reasons for falling into procrastination and learn effective time management tools like the Pomodoro time management technique.

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Effective strategies for sitting a timed assessment

• Discover how to anticipate what will be on your exams, how to respond effectively to different question types, and how to manage your time during timed assessments.

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Meeting your personal study challenges

• Find out all about common challenges faced during the final assessment period, and how to develop tailored strategies for succeeding in your studies.

Register Now

Need something a little more personalised?

• Enrol in this self-paced Moodle site
• For access to more resources and workshop materials self-enrol in this Moodle site. Perform at your peak in final assessments.

Get personalised support

• Book in with one of the learning advisers from Student Academic Success for a one-on-one consultation over Zoom to receive personalised language and learning support.

Try Out VR for Research Study

• Do you identify has having a disability?
• Would you like to try out VR (Virtual Reality)?

You can try VR at home for two weeks with a new study being conducted about the immediate and long-term issues, challenges, and opportunities for disabled users in VR, and how VR developers and platforms can ensure an inclusive and equitable digital future.

Researchers from the University of Sydney are seeking people with a disability who have no (or limited) experience with Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality technologies to use VR and/or AR and report back on their experience.

You will be provided a VR device for two weeks to try at home.

• Please contact Research Fellow Kate Clark if you would like to participate in this study at: kate.clark@sydney.edu.au.

A detailed participant information statement will be emailed to you upon your inquiry.

• This study has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) of The University of Sydney [2023/352]