2006 Stories
- Engaged teaching and learning
- Engaged research
- Keeping arts and culture strong
- Working together in Timor Leste
- Keeping courses relevant
- Working with secondary schools
- CDU’s national role in university-community engagement
- Sharing knowledge - public lectures, seminars and symposia
- Working together for a sustainable future
- Engaging Indigenous students
- Working together for a vibrant arts industry
- Making music together
- Working together for the tourism industry
- Working together for mining, transport and logistics industries
- Working together for improved health and well-being
- Working up the fashion industry
- Working together for education
- Community radio
Engaged teaching and learning
CDU’s national role in university-community engagement.
Maria leaves lasting memories at Alzheimers Australia NT
Maria Kambouris recently gave a presentation to staff at Alzheimers Australia NT about the Life Memories Album project she completed as part of her learning practicum for the Bachelor of Welfare Studies at Charles Darwin University (CDU). Read more >>
SIFE launches students into projects with business outcomes and community benefit
Professor Carole Kayrooz, dean of Education, Health and Science launched CDU SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) on 26 October on the auditorium lawns at Casuarina Campus. Read more >>
CDU students make a difference at SIFE National Competition in Brisbane
The CDU SIFE team recently competed in the National SIFE Australia competition held in Brisbane from July 6 to 9. Read more >>
New education course puts students in the classroom
Trainee teachers will spend more time in the classroom under CDU’s new education degree. Read more >>
Find out more about teaching and learning at CDU.
Engaged research
Partnerships through the arts for improved literacy and well-being
ArtStories, an exciting initiative in CDU's Learning Research Group, was officially launched on 13 September at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Read more >>
Wild Harvest
Wild Harvest is one of a suite of Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre research projects investigating the development and sale of natural resource products in desert Australia. Read more >>
Desert 4WD tourism on track with community
On Track is a world first study that is engaging communities across Australia to explore whether a competitive and sustainable desert 4WD tourism industry is viable and what is needed to make it work. Read more >>
Desert Knowledge Conference
CDU researchers, academic and community and access staff recently enjoyed an opportunity to come together and share information about the work being done to enhance desert livelihoods. Read more >>
Find out more about research at CDU.
Keeping arts and culture strong
Printmaking workshop: Ramingining women keeping culture strong
Ramingining paintings and weavings are sold all over the world from Brisbane to Sydney, Canada and France. Ramingining women have been producing lino prints and etchings in printmaking workshops at Bula’bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation in Ramingining and on campus at Northern Editions. Read more >>
Home is where the art is
Home has its own geography, its own poetry and its own art. In the Northern Territory, and in north Australia, we live in one of the most seductive—and in art terms—productive parts of the country. Home is not only where we were born, it is also where we choose to live and work creatively, whether as artists, writers, historians or curators. Read more >>
Indonesian dance performs at CDU
The Sasak Dance Group from Lombok, Indonesia attracted great interest with a recent preview of their highly anticipated Darwin Festival performance at CDU's Casuarina Campus. Read more >>
Working together in Timor Leste
Nusa Tenggara Timur cross-visit
A field visit in late September to Nusa Tenggara Timur province of eastern Indonesia formed the latest stage in CDU's land management project as part of the AusAID Public Sector Linkages program. Read more >>
AFUW-NT extends scholarship program to East Timor
AFUW-NT is a small women’s group of CDU staff, alumni members, current students and other women who have an interest in supporting education for women. AFUW-NT has extended its scholarship program to include women studying at Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosae. Read more >>
Keeping courses relevant
Indigenous perspectives in teacher education
The Northern Territory Teacher Education Reaccreditation Summit staged in March 2006 was a forum for wide stakeholder consultation regarding the direction of the future of the CDU teacher education degree. Read more >>
Working with secondary schools
Tennant Creek students launch CDs with CDU
The Tennant Creek High School and the town’s CDU centre have teamed up to help year 11 and 12 students write, perform and develop their own CD as part of their music studies. Read more >>
CDU’s national role in university-community engagement
CDU steps up to national community engagement conference
CDU is stepping up its active role in the national community engagement agenda. Don Zoellner, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Community and Access was recently elected Vice-President of the Australian University Community Engagement Alliance. Read more >>
CDU retains national leadership role in community engagement
CDU's leadership in community engagement has been acknowledged with the re-election of Don Zoellner, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Community and Access) to the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA) Committee of Management. Read more >>
AUCEA National Conference
CDU is hosting the national AUCEA community engagement conference in Alice Springs in July 2007. Visit the conference website.
Find out more about community and access at CDU.
Sharing knowledge – public lectures, seminars and symposia
Menzies School of Health Research
Dr Jeffrey Reading presented ‘Global indigenous health research’, on 24 November. Read more >>
The manufacture of crisis
Dr Gary Robinson, co-director of the School for Social and Policy Research, opened CDU’s free public lecture series on 3 October by exploring the crisis in Indigenous policy-making. Read more >>
Creative life of Alice Springs
Leading figures in the creative life of Alice Springs shared their experiences with national and international speakers in CDU’s Creative Citizenship symposium held at the Araluen Centre in September. Read more >>
Working together for a sustainable future
Fishy business – scientists and fishermen work together to maintain shark stocks
Sharks play a vital role in keeping our seas healthy, but how they are coping with legal and illegal harvests in northern Australia is not fully understood. Read more >>
Engaging Indigenous students
Trying the trades
A group of Indigenous students from Kormilda College recently attended CDU for the final week of the Automotive Taster Course for 2006. Read more >>
Indigenous students journey to Crab Claw
The Indigenous Academic Support Unit and the School of Engineering and Logistics (Maritime Studies) have combined their efforts to ensure that Indigenous students are provided with the support and assistance required when enrolling and preparing for their course. Read more >>
CDU welcomes Indigenous work experience students
CDU’s continual commitment to developing strategies for Indigenous participation has again been evidenced through a newly implemented Indigenous work experience initiative. Read more >>
Working together for a vibrant arts industry
Christmas comes early at Northern Editions
Works from a diverse range of artists are available in Northern Editions’ annual sale and exhibition from 23 November to 15 December. Read more >>
Images of the sublime in Alice Springs
CDU Master of Visual Arts student Caroline Rannersberger is exhibiting her work Sublime Territory at the Araluen Galleries at The Alice Springs Cultural Precinct from 18 November to 28 January. Read more >>
Visual arts students emerge into the world
Visual arts students at CDU signalled the end of their bachelor degree course with an exhibition of their work from 10-18 November. Read more >>
Making music together
Verdi’s requiem more like an opera
Darwin Symphony Orchestra artistic director Martin Jarvis believes Verdi’s famous Requiem should be considered more like an opera than music for a funeral mass. Read more >>
Working together for the tourism industry
Senator volunteers for new Kakadu course
Senator Nigel Scullion is the first to volunteer for the new e-learning training course for Kakadu guides. Read more >>
Working together for mining, transport and logistics industries
Company donations help expand heavy vehicle VET training opportunities
Territory companies Newmont, HWE Mining and Hastings Deering are helping to expand the training opportunities for VET students at CDU with their most recent donations of equipment. Read more >>
TOLL Virtual NT Practice Firm launched at CDU
A simulated business environment, mirroring the real business world of industry partner TOLL Group, was launched by David Tollner, Member for Solomon, on 25 October. Read more >>
Working together for improved health and well-being
Cancer checks reduce deaths
Increased screening for Territory Aboriginal women has contributed to halving the number of deaths due to cervical cancer, a new report has revealed. Read more >>
New mums will get vaccine to protect against ear infection
The health crisis among Aboriginal children with hearing problems is being tackled through a new vaccination program run by the Menzies School of Health Research. Read more >>
Working up the fashion industry
Followers of fashion on parade
VTE students with an eye for design organised their own fashion parade at CDU on 17 November. Read more >>
Working together for education
Teachers take on new roles as learning professionals
Principals, assistant-principals and senior teachers finalised preparations for their roles in the new Bachelor of Teaching and Learning degree in a seminar held at CDU on 20 October. Read more >>
Community radio
Territory FM leads the way
Community radio is gaining popularity among Australians according to recent survey results. Read more >>
