Videos by Hamish L Robertson
The final seminar in a series of 4 I presented in 2021 on various aspects of health geography. Th... more The final seminar in a series of 4 I presented in 2021 on various aspects of health geography. The focus is not a geographical audience but interested social and related scientists for whom the addition of geography might be useful and/or of interest. 22 views
Papers by Hamish L Robertson
Tertiary Mathematics Education
Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2012-2015, 2016
Mathematical and statistical education research relevant to students in tertiary settings is revi... more Mathematical and statistical education research relevant to students in tertiary settings is reviewed. This is an expanding field and is evolving as researchers shift their attention from the reporting of innovations in lecturing practice and course design to include a deeper consideration of the experiences of educators and learners in this space. The purposeful inclusion of group work and discussion, focus on concepts, authentic problem solving, interactions in lectures with student response systems and online learning are all changing the way mathematics and statistics are taught at this level. The authors note that traditional measures of achievement in the form of exam marks are still relied upon, and call for theory-based and theory-building research including investigations of depth of understanding, and of transfer of knowledge and skills to new situations. An emphasis on the learner’s experience and the employment of cross-disciplinary teams of researchers are further suggestions.
Contested Deaths and the Public Inquiry in Healthcare: Where the Norm Becomes the Exception
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death, 2024
The challenge of responding to iatrogenic or ‘healthcare-related’ deaths has been the subject of ... more The challenge of responding to iatrogenic or ‘healthcare-related’ deaths has been the subject of regular independent public inquiries across the globe. These deaths are highly contested, with decades of tensions and debate questioning their existence, their number and nature. Such independent public inquiries have featured heavily in working through this contestation. They include so-called ‘landmark’ inquiries that have arisen in the English-speaking world, such as: the Institute of Medicine (IoM) inquiry that produced the ‘To Err is Human’ report; public inquiries into Mid-Staffordshire in the United Kingdom; and the Australian Garling Inquiry. These inquiries are often perceived as major ‘turning points’ and yet the deaths they examine remain a continued feature of contemporary healthcare, with no material change in the incidence of deaths caused by the application of healthcare in the past fifty years. We examine these public inquiries and their role in the governance of contested healthcare-related deaths. We argue that public inquiries of this nature have an important biopolitical role, operating as a biopolitical tactic primarily through their production a view of healthcare-related death as exceptional rather than the norm. In doing so, they re-inscribe a medical jurisdiction over these contested deaths, even when medicine or medical power is the very cause of the healthcare harm and death that these inquiries investigated and the profession that most contests their nature and extent. We conclude by examining how public inquiries into healthcare-related deaths operate in this manner, generating a cycle which contributes and sustains the harm and death they are called upon to prevent.
Recent Trends in Demographic Data [Working Title]
We examine immigration, population ageing and the aged care workforce, as well as making suggesti... more We examine immigration, population ageing and the aged care workforce, as well as making suggestions for their effects on health, aged and social care including more localised implications. While there is now a push to reopen borders, and while numbers are rising, it is as yet unclear if the ‘old order’ will resurge or if the situation has changed for the foreseeable future. We draw on data from a variety of official sources in a developmental discussion of the current and likely future effects of labour migration patterns, workforce supply and demand issues in Australia, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. For a variety of reasons, the data used here are emergent and the effects on current and future workforce requirements will be varied at several levels. Australia’s ageing population and associated health and social care needs are dynamic in themselves, but they are also situated within a broader international context. There is a need for ongoing monitoring and ev...
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