Anglicare SA and Flinders University collaboration
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Flinders University and Anglicare SA have formed a partnership that aims to deliver education and research outcomes to benefit a broad spectrum of the community.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in 2009 by Flinders Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Barber and Anglicare SA CEO Dr Lynn Arnold. The MOU allows for student placements, learning opportunities and employment pathways, as well as staff professional development in a range of areas. It also envisages the development of a collaborative research agenda that includes contributing to policy development in the social policy domain.
The organisations will establish, maintain, and extend cooperation among themselves in the following areas of collaboration:
- public awareness
- professional development
- research
- student placement, learning and employment pathways
- service/practice and policy development.
Steering Committee
The organisations maintain a Steering Committee that meets quarterly. It's role is to initiate, develop and recommend specific programs and projects and to coordinate, monitor, review and report on the implementation of the MOU.
The membership includes a representative of the senior management of each Organisation (the Responsible Officers).
The Steering Committee develops an annual plan of activities and projects which the Organisations have agreed to undertake in the following year.
Responsible Officers
As part of the MOU, each organisation has designated Responsible Officers:
Professor Andrew Parkin,
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Ms Belinda McCullogh,
Manager, Strategic Alliances & External Relations, Anglicare SA
Other members of the Steering Committee
- Professor Fiona Verity, Flinders University
- Dr Nicole Beaumont, Flinders University
- Mr Anthony Hails, Flinders University
- Mr Stephen Fox, Executive General Manager, People & Organisational Development Department, Anglicare SA
- Mr Sageran Naidoo, Manager, Strategy, Policy, Advocacy, Research & Knowledge, Anglicare SA
- Mr Albert Barelds, General Manager, Children, Youth & Family Wellbeing, Operations Department, Anglicare SA
- Dr Ian Goodwin-Smith, Research Fellow, Strategy, Policy, Advocacy, Research & Knowledge, Anglicare SA
