Professor Kirstin Ross

Professor

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 72218584

kirstin.ross@flinders.edu.au

Health Sciences (5.24)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Kirstin is currently the course coordinator for the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health Practice 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 First Nations 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

2021 STEMM Educator of the Year (University or Registered Training Organisation) Finalist 2021

Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning "Engaging students with Environmental Health through creative curricula and accessible, industry informed, authentic learning experiences” 2021

National Institute of Forensic Science Best Case Study Award 2020 for: Wright, J., Kenneally, M., Ross, K. and Walker, S., 2020. Environmental methamphetamine exposures and health effects in 25 case studies. Toxics, 8(3), p.61

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 "Online authentic learning: teaching students involved in emergency response to use social media tools effectively" with Michael Taylor and Mitchell Fitzgerald 2013

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

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

Key responsibilities

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

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

ENVH9712 Environmental Health Policy, Management and Adminstration

ENVS2741 Zombie Apocalypse: Microbes and Toxins

ENVH7711 Environmental Health Concepts

ENVH9721 Public Health Toxicology

Topic lecturer

ENVH9704 Risk Assessment and Management

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: Methamphetamine contamination of property and public health risks (1), Giardia: environmental sources and control (1), Phytophthora - environmental sources and control (1), Food safety (1), Aquifer materials and their role in pollutant removal (1)

Associate supervisor: Toxicity of tattoo inks and their metabolic products (1), Legionella and amoeba (1), Healthcare associated infections and the role of water and biofilms (1), Passive sampling devices for wastewater-based epidemiology (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Indonesian and Australian farmworkers' exposure to organophosphate pesticides (1), 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 (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), Control of Salmonella risk from eggs (1), Pathogens in lizards (1)

Professional engagement

Environmental Health Australia (SA Branch) Branch Councillor

Environmental Health Australia National Board Director

Strongyloides Australia Inc (previously the National Strongyloides Working Group) member

Australasian College of Tropical Medicine member

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