Associate ProfessorShea X FAN

Social Isolation and Loneliness in Return-to-Work Experiences of Workers with Mental Injury and Secondary Mental Injury arising from Physical Injy - $99,658.00

Ian Potter Foundation - Community Wellbeing Program - 29219 - $300,000.00

Are-Able - $3,000.00

Warrnambool City Council - $15,000.00

Corangamite Shire council - $1,500.00

Moyne shire council - $1,500.00

South West Community Foundation - $3,000.00

$50,000 International students working in Australia face widespread underpayment and exploitation. This project uses Talespin – a 3D immersive learning content creation tool – to develop an interactive scenario-based online game that will help international students in Victoria improve their knowledge of employment rights, enhance their ability to detect noncompliance by employers, and empower them with a toolkit of appropriate options and resources.

$38,208 Australia-Japan local governments have established a foundation of collaboration, especially in cultural and education exchanges to promote peace over the last 50 years (e.g., through sister cities). Our project aims to rejuvenate the collaboration between Australia-Japan local governments by improving the visibility of Australia-Japan city-level international collaborations, identifying new directions and forms of collaborative efforts to build sustainable and resilient communities, such as practices in disaster response and public health management (e.g. COVID-19), supporting vulnerable communities, and building smart cities.

$25,000 This project aims to showcase how Australian cities and regions can derive economic, cultural and educational benefits from ‘sister-city’ relationships with China through a survey and six in-depth case studies. Australian local governments have played a pivotal role in establishing 83 sister-city relationships with China over the last 40 years. Despite the potential benefits of such relationships to their local communities and businesses, little is known about the benefits and level of exchange these relationships have generated. To foster long-term sister-city relationships, it is important to identify current challenges, best practice strategies and capability development of city councils through systematic investigation. The first stage of this project will survey Australian city councils that have Chinese sister-city agreements to gauge the challenges, engagement and benefits of these relationships. In the second stage, we will undertake six case studies of successful relationships to identify best practice approaches of city councils.