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width="3" height="220"></td> <td valign="top" class="style1">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><h1><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><br> </strong><strong>News</strong></font></h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="style26" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> New Case Study - ANU Law Student Wellbeing: Dialogue for Change </span></b> </h2> <p class="style27"> <span class="style25" lang="EN-US">In the context of a curriculum renewal process at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">ANU</st1:country-region> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Law,&nbsp; Molly Townes O Brien, Kath Hall and Stephen Tang undertook a pilot study in 2009-2010 to survey students at the College on various measures of wellbeing. <br /> </span> </p> <p class="style27"> <span class="style25" lang="EN-US">The results were consistent with a growing body of research in the US and Australia indicating that legal education may have a negative impact on law students wellbeing</span><!--[if supportFields]><span class="style25" lang="EN-US">.</span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US"><span class="style25" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span class="style25" lang="EN-US">These results were a challenge: What in the law school curriculum could be changed to improve the student experience and support student wellbeing? </span></span> </p> <p class="style27"> &nbsp;</p> <p class="style27"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span class="style25" lang="EN-US"> To find answers, the authors conducted an off-campus dialogue retreat for staff and students in March 2011. The case study is <a href="law%20Dialogue%20Case%20Study%20abstract%20.doc">here</a> and a more detailed and referenced paper is <a href="law%20Dialogue%20Case%20Study.doc"> here</a>.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2> The Australia Forum - &#39;An idea whose time has come&#39;&nbsp; <p> The results of a major scoping study into the proposed  Australia Forum , a world class meeting facility in the nation s capital, were announced on April 11 in Canberra by Professor Peter Shergold, AC, chairman of the Australia Forum Steering Committee.</p> <p> An initiative of the Canberra Business Council, supported by a group of prominent Australians, the Australia Forum will be the first world class meeting facility in the national capital, of a standard comparable to those in other regional capitals, including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.</p> <p> The complex would incorporate leading edge security features, state of the art multimedia communications, an international centre of dialogue, a plenary hall capable of holding 3,000 people and an on-site upscale hotel.</p> <p> Professor Shergold said the proposed complex would be designed to cater for large gatherings of national significance. Its advanced security features would allow the hosting of international Heads of Government meetings, currently not possible in Canberra, such as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, AUSMIN, G20 meetings and the Pacific Leaders Forum</p> <p> &nbsp; The Australia Forum is an idea whose time has come. Professor Shergold said.  In a world where our shared problems and challenges are becoming increasingly complex, people all over Australia are expressing a need to become more directly involved in exploring important issues and questions about our national life.&nbsp;</p> <p>  The Australia Forum would provide a national focus in Canberra, the nation s capital, for meaningful national conversations in which all Australians can come together to engage in the big issues that really affect them .&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p class="style3"> Tthe Centre for Dialogue was a member of the reference group associated with the scoping study and is pleased to continue involvement as a Partner in Dialogue with the Australia Forum.&nbsp; <p class="style3"> For more information see&nbsp; <a href="http://www.australiaforum.com.au/newsmedia/"> http://www.australiaforum.com.au</a></p> <p></a> <img alt="" longdesc="file:///L:/2010/page_banner.jpg" src="2010/page_banner.jpg" style="width: 338px; height: 140px" /></p> </a><i> <HTML> <HTML> <BODY DIR="LTR"> <BODY LINK="#0000ff" DIR="LTR"> <p>&nbsp;</p> </i> </body> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>National Dialogue - <i>Canada&#39;s World</i></h2> <p><i>Canada&#39;s World</i>&nbsp; was a collaborative project between 15 universities and over 40 organisations with one big goal - to engage citizens in an ongoing conversation about what they wanted their nation&#39;s role in the world to be. </p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><span style="COLOR: #333333">From 2007-2010 members of the <i>Canada&#39;s World</i> team travelled across the country holding deliberative citizens&#39; dialogue sessions and events in each province. In addition to facilitating&nbsp; face to face dialogue on the future of Canadian foreign policy, the project made great use of blogs, facebook, twitter, on-line video, etc, put together by a young team familiar with these more youth-oriented media. </span></span></p> <table class="style8"> <tr> <td class="style19"> <span id="span_see_all" class="SeeAll"><span class="photo_container pc_t"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreignpolicycamp/4115021741/in/pool-foreignpolicycamp" title="Live Chat YEAH! by FPC FPC FPC"> <img alt="Live Chat YEAH! by FPC FPC FPC" border="0" class="style15" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2695/4115021741_28b4f6540d_t.jpg" /></a></span></span></td> <td class="style20"> <i><b> <br /> <br /> </b> </i><span style="COLOR: #333333"><span class="style17" style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"> <b>&nbsp;I would highly recommend bringing younger people into this element [multi media communication], as they know how to make this work.&#39;&nbsp;</b><br /> <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> <span class="style18"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mark Winston, Academic Director and Fellow, Maurice J Wosk Centre for Dialogue, <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada<br /> </span></span> </td> <td class="style21"> </td> </tr> </table> <p> This ambitious project culminated in&nbsp; <i>Beyond Borders, A Citizens Vision for Canada in the 21st Century . </i>&nbsp;For more information&nbsp;see <a href="http://www.canadasworld.ca/">http://www.canadasworld.ca/</a></p> <p> <span style="COLOR: #333333"><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><strong> <span style="FONT-SIZE: small">&nbsp;</span></strong></span></span>&nbsp;</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <h2>An invitation to contribute <table class="style8"> <tr> <td class="style9"> <img alt="Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods" src="http://epress.anu.edu.au/images/titles/b-thumb-dialogue.jpg" style="height: 242px; width: 150px" /></td> <td class="style12"> <p class="style10"> &nbsp;</p> <p class="style10"> &nbsp;</p> <h4 class="style6"> <i>T<span class="style23">he Centre for Dialogue is pleased to be working <br /> with the authors of this book on the second stage of their project</span></h4> <p class="style10"> &nbsp;</p> <p> <em><strong class="style22">Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods</strong></em><strong class="style22"> (2009), </strong> </i><strong class="style22"> David McDonald, Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane, ANU E-Press, Canberra.</strong><i> (<a href="http://epress.anu.edu.au/dialogue_methods_citation.html" jquery1294372070591="31" target="_blank"><strong class="style22">View online or download book</strong></a> from ANU E-Press; or see <a href="http://i2s.anu.edu.au/i2s-publications/dialogue-book" jquery1294372070591="32"><strong class="style22">book overview, content and reviews</strong></a>)</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h3> Message from the authors</h3> <p> If you are involved in research using dialogue to bring together disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge to improve understanding and action on complex real-world problems, we would like to hear from you!</p> <p> The current book is intended to be a first step in developing a comprehensive compilation of dialogue methods for knowledge synthesis in a research context, incuding illustrative case studies. </p> <p> We are now looking for methods and cases that we may have missed in our&nbsp;review of the published literature, as well as those which are in the grey literature and unpublished. We are also interested in your ideas about how the methods can best be classified and differentiated.</p> <p> If there are enough contributors, our intention is to invite the most experienced contributors to decide on next steps. We anticipate that this will involve reviewing the contributions to develop a second edition of the book.</p> <p> At this stage we are not looking for lengthy contributions. Instead it is useful to think of the current process as an audit of what was missed in the&nbsp;book. We are very happy for you to refer to publications and other websites, where more information can be found. n be found. </p> <p> We welcome:</p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.<strong class="style22">&nbsp; Methods</strong>  Descriptions of dialogue methods for synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge which are not mentioned in the book&nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.<strong class="style22"> Cases</strong>  Examples of how the methods described in the book or other methods have been applied&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp; 3<strong class="style22">. Discussion of classification and differentiation of the methods</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp;&nbsp; 4.<strong class="style22"> General comments</strong> </p> <p> We&nbsp;are also keen&nbsp;to explore ways in which we may be able to help you add your expertise.</p> <p> You can contribute by using the Forums page, <a href="http://i2s.anu.edu.au/forum/"> http://i2s.anu.edu.au/forum// </a>&nbsp; or by email or telephone interview.</p> <p> For more information on this project see&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://"> http://i2s.anu.edu.au/projects/dialogue-methods</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; or contact Lyn Stephens -&nbsp; <br /> E: <a href="mailto:lyn.stephens@anu.edu.au">lyn.stephens@anu.edu.au</a> or P: 612 51395.</p> <p>&nbsp; </p> <p class="style6">&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <i> <HTML> <HTML> <BODY DIR="LTR"> <BODY LINK="#0000ff" DIR="LTR"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><BR> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><br> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <p align="justify"><font size="5" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong></strong></font></p> <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top" class="style1">&nbsp;</td> <td width="1087" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top" class="style5">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <br> </body> </html>