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Our Award Winners:

Best Student Poster: Fleas - a potential vector of a blood parasite in Rattus Fuscipes: Chloe McAuley

Best Overall Poster: Wireframes to WoWs & From concept to reality (2 part poster): Amy Barnett, Pauletta Irwin & Paul Bristow

People's Choice Award: Interactive Oral Assessment: Amita Krautloher

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Amita Krautloher is an Educational Designer in the Division of Learning and Teaching at Charles Sturt University.  She has been with CSU since the start of the Port Macquarie campus in 2012 and has worked in various roles including being an academic, project officer, Academic Coordinator prior to being an ED. In her current role, she works with academics from all the faculties.

She has been responsible for the introduction and promotion of Interactive Oral Assessments at CS and was leading the Community of Practice on IOAs to help academics design and embed IOAs in their subjects. She has published and presented her research at conferences in Australia and overseas.

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Cherie is a physiotherapist with over 19 years’ experience as a clinician working across multiple settings including acute hospital, private practice, community health, not-for profit charitable organisations and for undergraduate physiotherapy programs. She works within the Bachelor of Physiotherapy program at Charles Sturt University and has previously worked within the Doctor of Physiotherapy Program at Bond University. Cherie has been teaching and developing curriculum as a lecturer in Physiotherapy across paediatric and neurological areas of practice for the past 14 years. She has a particular interest in paediatrics, working with infants, children, and adults with disabilities. Cherie is also interested in applying innovative practices to physiotherapy provision and student education and is currently completing her PhD investigating access to paediatric physiotherapy services for children and their families across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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10am: Commencement of event - poster wandering, grazing board

11am: Sausage sizzle begins

12pm: Formalities - Short Talks and Awards

1pm(ish): Wrap Up

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Vodcast with a Veterinarian - Astrid Van Aggelen 

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Vodcast with a Veterinarian - Astrid Van Aggelen 

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Interactive Oral Assessment: What does the data tell us?

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Interactive Oral Assessment: What does the data tell us?

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Sebastian recently completed a Bachelor of Environmental Science and Management degree, specialising in Aquatic ecosystems and conservation in mid-2023. Currently completing a Bachelor of Science 'Honours' degree Sebastians, honours research project is a comparative study of two fish sampling methods, Environmental DNA (eDNA) and Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUVs), looking at how these methods compare detecting fish assemblages in estuarine environments throughout NSW. This has seen Sebastian travel throughout NSW for lab training and field work, and recently, presented in Auckland NZ at the PFC-ASFB Conference 2023. His research interests lie in working in the field of fisheries research, looking at fish surveys, fish movement and migration, barriers to migration, and invasive species management.

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Thomas is a fourth year medical student based in the Port Macquarie area, who is currently conducting a scoping review on rural clinical reasoning education. Thomas has previously presented this poster at the 2023 Australia and New Zealand Health Professional Educators Conference at the Gold Coast.

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This is the wall to meet the researchers behind the magnificent work that is happening around us. We all lead busy lives, so the idea of the Poster Muster is to give us time to take a step back and see the wonderful work that everyone is doing around us - with perhaps the chance to connect with someone new!
Dive in to meet more!

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Melissa’s nursing career spans over 40years in both acute and community-based settings having worked extensively within oncology, radiation-oncology, haematology and palliative care. Melissa is a Nurse Practitioner within these disciplines.

Awarded in 2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Melissa’s PhD explored the lived experience of venous access.

Melissa continues her career path as a nurse academic and nurse practitioner, mentoring others to achieve their goals. Melissa’s philosophy is grounded in attaining skills, “continue to learn to enable quality care”.

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Karen is a registered occupational therapist, and a passionate educator who worked clinically in hospitals and community health, before turning to health professional development. For the last 6 years she has worked at Charles Sturt University. Working in a regional university allows her the privilege of working with many rural and regional occupational therapists and undergraduate occupational therapy students. Her mission is to increase access to excellent occupational therapy services for people living in regional, rural, and remote areas of Australia. She is also committed to dispelling stereotypes of rural spaces, people, and employment, promoting the diversity and value of rural communities, and the reciprocity between rural and urban health and wellbeing. She is currently enrolled in PhD research examining the regional, rural, and remote occupational therapy practice.

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AUSTRALIA: AN APPROACH TO SELF

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Stephanie is currently a fourth-year occupational therapy student, studying at the Albury/Wodonga campus and completing her integrated honours. Originally from Broken Hill, Steph is an Allied Health Assistant within the Far West Local Health District, which she says has provided her with insight to allied health care in rural and remote Australia. Completing this honours research has allowed Steph the opportunity to delve into the equitable provision of allied health care and therefore contribute to meaningful conversation surrounding the topic.

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Altered physiology and tissue damage in disease processes-v5

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Linda teaches physiology, pharmacology, neurology, and anatomy on Port Macquarie campus to allied health students. Starting her research career at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney investigating oxidative damage caused by our immune cells to proteins and lipids and the effectiveness of antioxidants in protecting our tissues. Linda's current research focus is around stress and non-invasive methods to monitor stress via physiological parameters or biomarkers. In the future she hopes to be able to provide evidence of the effectiveness of particular interventions to manage stress in a health workplace.

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Hannah is an animal science student who just completed her honours and will graduate next year. Hannah is passionate about wildlife conservation and the environment. She moved from Sydney to study at Charles Sturt in Wagga Wagga and believes it was the best decision she ever made. Hannah considers having been blessed with amazing friends, experiences and lessons from her time studying that she will take out into the world upon graduation. She endeavours to work for an organisation that helps rehabilitate endangered species.

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Jess is a marine molecular ecologist with expertise in applying molecular tools to better understand climate change and the impacts extreme weather events have on the ecology of aquatic systems. Jess works with corals, sponges, algae, naturally occurring communities of marine microbes, pathogenic bacteria and is extending her work to include vertebrates such as fish and turtles. Her current work focuses on designing molecular tools to detect endangered and endemic turtles, investigating the impacts of consecutive extreme events like drought, fire and flood on estuarine fish communities and figuring out what parasite is causing the flesh of Yellowtail Kingfish caught in the waters off the mid north coast to turn mushy once cooked.

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Keep it penciled in your calendar's people - it's back for another year of fun. Keeping in theme with last year's event, it will be another morning hosted by FOSH/SDMS to facilitate showcasing research, networking, collaboration and of course... food! Reach out if you know you have something to showcase - We already can't wait to see you there!

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Let us know your thoughts on the event by filling out this short survey, so we can improve it moving forward. Thanks for supporting it ! :)

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Last year we awarded 'Best Overall Poster', 'Best Student Poster', and 'People's Choice Award', each with a $100 value prize.

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I technically belong to a different school/faculty, can I still participate?

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I technically belong to a different school/faculty, can I still participate?

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Although this is a FOSH/SDMS event, everyone is welcome to participate.

Whether it is to come to the BBQ and to view the posters, look for project collaborations or Honours/HDR opportunities, or to submit your own poster presentation, everyone is welcome!

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How are the posters printed and presented?

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How are the posters printed and presented?

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We will have wall partitions installed on the day. You are welcome to bring a poster that you may have used for a recent conference, or print your own (A1/A0 is ideal).

Local printers include: Officeworks Port Macquarie (Short St), Snap Printing (Horton St), MBE Printing (William St).

Also, please contact your school representatives as there may be funds provided by your school to pay/subsidise printing costs.

SDMS - Boris Budiono/Tarni Nelson

SAHESS - Karen Hayes

SNPHS - Sam Sheridan/Brian Sengstock

SAEVS - Cathy Garbuio

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Please click on this short form link as your RSVP to the event, so that we can cater to your needs and have an idea of numbers in attendance.