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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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The 'masked educator' unmasked as an identical twin 

Published on 08 April, 2011 

CQUniversity academic Kerry Reid-Searl has gained renown for using Hollywood-standard silicone masks as an educational tool, through a process now known as MASK ED TM(KRS Simulation)*.

Her University colleagues are used to seeing the innovative Associate Professor take on the guise of elderly hospital patients while helping Nursing students to understand clinical procedures.

PhotoID:10685, Twins Kerry (left) and Jo had the chance to mingle during our Research Higher Degree Orientation and Confirmation Week
Twins Kerry (left) and Jo had the chance to mingle during our Research Higher Degree Orientation and Confirmation Week

This week, Rockhampton Campus academics thought they were seeing double as Kerry's twin sister Jo Reid-Speirs visited for a Research Higher Degree Orientation and Confirmation Week program.

Jo, who is the younger twin by several minutes, says the sisters are so similar they have the "same fillings in the same teeth".

"I used to be in the Rockhampton region as a school principal and now I'm based in Brisbane as a teacher," Jo says.

"I'm doing my Masters in the area of drama."

* MASK ED TM(KRS Simulation) involves not only masks but also wearable body parts including torsos (with workable appendages), arms (with veins for injection of intravenous fluid and cannula drainage), hands with radial pulse and feet with excreting wounds. Kerry has been working recently to refine these props to a degree that they now function in the most realistic way. Work is in progress to build props for Midwifery, Medical Imaging and Sonography. MASK-ED simply means masking of the educator and masking of the educational process, whilst KRS is about knowledgeable, realistic and spontaneous simulation.