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The latest news from the School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities.

PhD Scholarship 2009
Applications are being invited for a PhD Scholarship commencing early 2009 in the School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat. The scholarship is funded through an Australian Research Council Linkage grant for a project titled ‘The Impact of the Introduction of Electronic Gaming Machines on Communities: Health and Wellbeing Consequences’. The Victoria Local Governance Association, supported by five local councils, is the industry partner for this project. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2008.

Mental Health Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme: Clinical Psychology.
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is administering scholarships funded by the Department of Health and Ageing for part-time and full-time students applying to commence an APAC-accredited Masters or Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2009. Scholarships are valued at $15,000 per annum for full-time students and $7,500 per annum for part-time students.
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BSSH Courses 2009 

Staff Departures
Two colleagues have announced their departure from the University. After five and half years of service to the School, Dr Candice Boyd has indicated that she has taken up employment with the Origen Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Dr Helen Aucote will also be leaving after nearly seven years at UB to take up a position at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. Both colleagues have been outstanding in their contributions to the School and I am sure that you will join me in wishing both Candice and Helen all the best in their future endeavours.

Do you like to talk?
Are you a good listener?
Would you like to travel the world without leaving the campus?
If the answer is Yes, the we need you at English Corner!
Wednesdays from 2.30 - 3.30 in the ISP lounge  

Web Forums
Check out the following BSSH Web Forums
Postgraduate Student Web Forum  A forum for postgraduate students to share information and ideas
Psychology Undergraduate Forum  A forum for APS Psychology Major students to share information
Philosophy Forum  The Agora
Research within the School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities is conducted by staff and students within the various discipline areas and also by specialist centres that allow for a cross pollination of ideas across the university and the broader community. The BSSH Staff Research Forum is a place for staff to share research ideas and techniques.

Mentoring for First Year Students
A reminder that the first year mentoring program is running. Contact Lesley Speed (ext 9759) or Katrina Franc (ext 9610)
Janice Newton (ext 9623) is the mentor for Post Graduate students and the Higher Degrees Research Coordination

Scholarships
General BSSH Scholarship Information
The School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities is also offering 3 Education Costs Scholarships valued at $2,000 each. 
Application Form
Further Information

Fee Assistance for International Students in Adversity
The School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Ballarat has limited funds available to support a student from another country to undertake an undergraduate degree level course of study in the School. The School will provide funding for a Fee Assistance Award for one international student each year.
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Psychology Clinic
The School of Behavioural & Social Sciences & Humanities of the University of Ballarat has established a psychology clinic, called the University of Ballarat (UB) Psychology Clinic. The UB Psychology Clinic provides psychological services mainly for children and adolescents. In most instances psychological services will be provided by postgraduate psychology students of the University of Ballarat, who are currently undertaking the Master of Psychology and Doctor of Psychology training programmes in clinical psychology. These students are registered probationary psychologists. All services provided by these students are closely supervised by a team of highly experienced registered psychologists, who have doctoral level professional qualifications in clinical psychology, including child and adolescent clinical and educational psychology. For further information please visit the Psychology Clinic website

Reports

• Indigenous Oral Health Project
  CHRP has been commissioned by the Wimmera Primary Care Partnership to undertake the first phase of the "Smiles 4 Miles" Program examining Indigenous Oral Health in the Wimmera Region. The overall objective of this project is to undertake research to identify the issues associated with poor oral health in the indigenous population in the Wimmera. This research will be addressed through a search of the available literature, examining and documenting other opportunities for agencies in the Wimmera region to be involved in oral health initiatives and developing a report, focusing on strategies for implementing evidence-based practice, to address indigenous oral health issues and provide reasonable and realistic recommendations for the PCP to address these oral health concerns.

Book News

• Congratulations to Lorraine Sim who has been offered a contract by Ashgate for her book on Virginia Woolf.
• Congratulations to David Waldron, who has had his book 'The Sign of the Witch' accepted for publication by Carolina Academic Press.

• Jeremy Smith's new book is 'Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity'  by Dutch publisher Brill Academic Publishers.  The world renowned sociologist Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt  has written a short preface. This volume takes up current debates in comparative and historical sociology that deal with multiple modernities and civilizations. It does so through an examination of patterns of state formation, civilization and the development of capitalism in the interaction of European and American worlds over three centuries.

• Congratulations to Alice on the launch of her new book titled: Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake published by the Amsterdam/New York publishing house, Rodopi. A book version of Alice's Ph D thesis which is the first full length study of all of Peake's fiction, and takes a variety of psychoanalytic and Jungian approaches to the books and their illustrations. Alice aims to wear her scholarship lightly and elegantly and to render psychoanalytic theory accessible to the non-expert reader. Mervyn Peake was an English artist and fantasy author. He is best known for his Gormenghast trilogy of very strange novels. Alice first read these books as a child when she was given access to her father's library, although she did not understand much of them at the time. It was partly to fulfil a childhood promise to herself that she returned to Peake for her Ph D project, which offers interpretations of just about everything in these odd and haunting books.

• Congratulations to Dr. Jane Mummery on the publishing of her book "The Post to Come - An Outline of Post-Metaphysical Ethics". The book, a development from her doctoral thesis, is both an analysis of the twentieth century European philosophical project of post-metaphysics, and the development of an ethical system that is not problematised either by the collapse of traditional metaphysical ethical grounds or by the paradoxes and impasses typically faced by post-metaphysical philosophy.

School Research Scheme
The School Research Scheme is intended to provide recognition of the research outputs of BSSH staff.

Funds allocated for research outputs may be expended on any research related activities, such as employing a casual research assistant to conduct some data analysis or supplementing funds to attend an international conference.

Information on School Research Scheme