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Community and Public Health Nutrition Workforce
The training of a specialised community and public health nutrition (CPHN) workforce assumes they are optimally placed to address food and nutrition issues at a population and community level. However, concomitant with the rise of diet as the leading risk factor contributing to the burden of disease in Australia, has been a dramatic disinvestment in this workforcePermanent, full time nutritionist positions embedded in communities or population settings are few. If an organisation invests in a nutrition intervention it is increasingly …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Data-driven and process-aware workforce analytics
Modern information systems in today’s organisations record massive amount of event log data capturing the execution of day-to-day core processes within and across organisations. Mining these event log data to drive process analytics and knowledge discovery is known as process mining. To date various process mining techniques have been developed to help extract insights about the actual processes with the ultimate goal to organisations' workforce capability and capacity building.As an important sub-field of process mining, organisational mining focuses on discovering …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Information Systems
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Enhancing sonographer work-integrated learning: balancing quality training with workforce demands and student well-being
Sonographers, highly skilled healthcare professionals responsible for essential diagnostic ultrasound services, are currently facing a severe nationwide shortage. The Australasian Sonographers Association reported a deficit of at least 3,000 sonographers in 2019. Training new sonographers involves comprehensive work-integrated learning (WIL), which blends academic knowledge with structured real-world experiences to develop vital clinical skills. However, due to escalating workforce demands, concerns have arisen about potential exploitation of students within workplaces. This exploitation could involve assigning tasks exceeding their capabilities or subjecting …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- School
- School of Clinical Sciences
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