Dr Kirstin Ross

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 72218584

kirstin.ross@flinders.edu.au

Health Sciences Building (5.24)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Kirstin is currently the course coordinator for the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health and Master of Environmental Health. She is an active member of Environmental Health Australia, the professional body representing environmental health practitioners in Australia. She is interested in engaging with communities in environmental health issues, particularly with remote indigenous communities.

Qualifications

Grad. Dip. (Environmental Health Practice). Flinders University, Adelaide, SA (2009)
Ph.D. (Health Sciences). University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (2001)
B.Sc. (Hons) (Environmental Toxicology) University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (1997)
B.Sc. (Environmental Science) Murdoch University of Western Australia, Perth, WA (1996)

Honours, awards and grants

Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2017

Vice President and Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2017

Vice Chancellor's Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant 2013 "Online authentic learning: teaching students involved in emergency response to use social media tools effectively" with Michael Taylor and Mitchell Fitzgerald

Faculty of Science and Engineering Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2014

ALTC Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning 2010 "For embracing, exploring and evaluating an 'authentic-experiences' approach to teaching Indigenous and non-Indigenous students in public health"

Key responsibilities

Course coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health
Course coordinator of the Master of Environmental Health

Research interests

Environmental health, Indigenous environmental health issues, community engagement in environmental health, environmental toxicology

Teaching interests

I am interested in exploring and evaluating novel teaching approaches such as developing online teaching tools that make use of emerging technologies, particularly for distance teaching.

Topic coordinator

ENVS7720 Research Project Design and Conduct

ENVH9721 Human Systems in Environmental Health

ENVH9712 Environmental Health Policy, Management and Adminstration

ENVS2741 Zombie Apocalypse: Microbes and Toxins

ENVH7711 Environmental Health Concepts

Topic lecturer

ENVH7722 Food Safety

ENVH9704 Risk Assessment and Management

ENVH7742 Microbiology and Communicable Diseases

Supervisory interests

Education, environmental health

Engaging with communities

Environmental health

Environmental health education and workforce

Indigenous communities

Parasites

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Solid waste management in a rapidly urbanising area in Thailand (1), Public health aspects of using rainwater for drinking water (1), Environmental control of Strongyloides (2)

Associate supervisor: Salmonella and eggs (1), Pathogens in lizards (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Indonesian and Australian farmworkers' exposure to organophosphate pesticides (1)

Associate supervisor: Mercury and fatty acids in farmed Southern bluefin tuna (1), Analysis of biofilms containing Legionella (1), Legionella and MAC in drinking and reuse water (1)

Publications