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Happy holidays!

The team at Poche wish everyone a happy and safe holiday period!

Poche team at Christmas lunch

Standing up left to right: Jenn Johnston, Executive Assistant; Shawana Andrews, Director; Odette Mazel, Senior Research Fellow; Warwick Padgham, Manager Indigenous Student Programs; Pep (Peta) Phelan, former Manager Alumni Development.

Sitting down left to right: Professor Glenn Bowes, Chair; Janine Coombs, Poche Advisory Board Member; Shaun Ewen, Foundation Director; Emily Munro-Harrison, Indigenous Graduate Research Program Coordinator; Caitlin Ryan, former LIME Secretariat Manager; Jasmine Boys, LIME Secretariat Comms/Project Officer.

New  faces

Emily Munro-Harrison

We recently appointed Emily Munro-Harrison as the Indigenous Graduate Research Program Coordinator. Emily will work toward achieving our vision in supporting the academic growth of Indigenous PhD students within a culturally responsive context.

This position will provide nuanced academic support to the Faculty’s Indigenous PhD students, as well as build international engagement to foster a global scholarly context for our students throughout their candidature.

Hannah Fagan

We also appointed Hannah Fagan as the Communications and Projects Coordinator. Hannah will develop and deliver strategic communications and marketing solutions that support program delivery and build our profile.

This position will develop creative and engaging methods for ‘storying’ the Centre’s work, to capture our foundational principles of relationality and place.

Janine Coombs, Shaun Ewen and Uncle Kevin Coombs
Janine Coombs with Shaun Ewen & Uncle Kevin Coombs OAM

We welcomed Janine Coombs, Wotjobaluk woman, to the Board. Janine has taken on the role of Strategic Advisory Board member, as Uncle Kevin Coombs OAM, Wotjobaluk Elder and cultural advisor steps back.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Dr David Gallant, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and casual Researcher with the Poche team, on his PhD graduation!

Congratulations to Warwick Padgham for his secondment to the Melbourne Law School's Indigenous Law and Justice Hub as Program Manager!

Congratulations to Pep (Péta) Phelan for her appointment to the Victorian Yoo-rrook Justice Commission as Director – Social and Emotional Wellbeing!

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