Griffith University

The work of digital inclusion: exposing the digital labour of community workers fostering digital participation

This article presents findings from a national-scale research project that worked with disadvantaged communities across Australia to examine digital inclusion in low-income families and the role of social infrastructure (e.g., schools, libraries, charities, government services) i...

From influence to empowerment: Unpacking capacity building and social learning in virtual communities

This study explores how independent travel empowers women travel influencers and how meanings of empowerment are negotiated through interactions with their followers by examining the empowerment process at both individual and social levels. Drawing on capacity building theory and...

Personal Narrative Assessment to Guide Clinical Practices in the Assessment and Support of Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Tutorial

Purpose: This tutorial demonstrates how personal narratives elicited using the Global TALES (Talking About Lived Experiences in Stories) protocol can be analyzed using the four components of the Linguistic Underpinnings of Narrative in Aphasia (LUNA) framework for discourse analy...

The Development and Validation of a Preliminary Model for Classifying Technology Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Men in the General Population

The current study aimed to develop and validate a preliminary model for classifying self-reported TF-CSEA perpetration in general population samples. Data were based on census-weighted samples of adult men from Australia ( n = 1,939), the U.K. (n = 1,506), and the U.S.A. ( n = 1,...

Short-form travel vlogs: The influence of parasocial interaction on viewers’ destination–self congruence and behavioural intention

Short-form travel vlogs posted on social media platforms such as YouTube Reels and TikTok are an increasingly popular tool for marketing tourism destinations. Understanding how to improve the quality and cut-through of short-form travel vlogs is therefore central to improving the...

Evaluating the potential impact of a vaccine on gonorrhoea prevalence in a remote Australian Indigenous setting: a mathematical modelling study

BACKGROUND: Neisseria gonorrhoeae has a significant impact on global sexual and reproductive health. Its notification rates are substantially higher among Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples compared with non-Indigenous people (1651 vs 79 per 100,000 population). The...

The chromosomal genome sequence of Pseudorhiza aurosa von Lendenfeld, 1882 (Rhizostomeae: Lychnorhizidae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences

We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Pseudorhiza aurosa (Cnidaria; Scyphozoa; Rhizostomeae; Lychnorhizidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 183.49 megabases. The whole assembly is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has a...

First documentation of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) post-mortem attendance of a stillborn

Cetaceans are some of the most charismatic marine species receiving regular widespread public attention. They display highly complex behaviour including post-mortem attentive behaviour sometimes referred to as grieving behaviour. Post-mortem attentive behaviour in cetaceans has b...

Effect of Piperacillin/Tazobactam Solution Concentration on the Infusion Rate of Portable Elastomeric Pumps (‘EMPs’) in (HITH): A Retrospective Review of Administered and Residual Volumes

Importance Piperacillin/tazobactam solutions are frequently administered as 24-hour continuous intravenous infusions to patients in Hospital in the Home (HITH) programs and the accuracy of administration from elastomeric pumps (‘EMPs’) is important. Objective This study aimed to...

Lebanese faunal legacy collections uncover 400,000 years of woodland resilience and distinct hominin ecological strategies

Abstract The Levant is a key biogeographic corridor, yet historical instability has limited research creating a polarization toward its southern region. To address this geographical bias, we reassessed three legacy faunal collections from Lebanon: Naame, Nahr Ibrahim, and Ras el-...

Preventing a groundwater divide: Ensuring quality hydrogeology education for all in the age of online coursework following the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic forced an almost overnight rethink of traditional hydrogeology education, elevating online delivery as the primary means of teaching hydrogeology during 2020–2021. This change has had far-reaching effects, some of which persist in the form of greate...

The National Health and Medical Research Council Research Impact Indicators: Unveiling Omissions and Blind Spots, and Positioning for Change

ABSTRACT Issue Addressed This study assesses how the concept of (health) research impact has been operationalised in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Impact Case Studies, and if and how lived experience research priorities have been considered, to ascertain im...

Risk-aware battery arbitrage optimization using quantile-based price forecast error adjustment

Battery operators participating in electricity markets face uncertain price forecasts that materially affect arbitrage performance, particularly under volatile conditions. This study introduces a risk-aware optimization framework that adjusts pre-dispatch price signals using quan...

Caring for Our Healthcare Workers: Advancing Human Resource Management Research in Healthcare Contexts

ABSTRACT In this special issue introduction paper, we seek to advance HRM scholarship by examining how HRM can support the health and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce amid profound economic, socio‐cultural and technological change affecting healthcare systems globally. First...

A phase II trial of chemotherapy-free neoadjuvant camrelizumab plus apatinib for resectable HNSCC: pathological response and vascular-immune crosstalk

Abstract Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tumour microenvironment remodelling of neoadjuvant camrelizumab plus apatinib in resectable head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC; stage II–IVA). Materials and Methods: In this single-arm, exploratory phase II trial (...

LLM-Based Chatbots and the Suicidal Crisis: A Bi-Logical Account of Relational Hallucination

A series of documented deaths by suicide following prolonged interactions with chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) has exposed the clinical risks of delegating emotional support to conversational artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a psychodynamic account of t...

Betel nut sucking is the earliest recorded evidence for the habitual use of a neuroactive plant drug

The modern custom of chewing betel nuts is practiced by around 1 in 10 people worldwide, yet the earliest beginnings of this widespread drug use habit are unknown. We report rare skeletal remains of two preagricultural foragers from Sulawesi (Indonesia), both displaying a dental...

Quality and concordance of international paediatric sepsis guidelines: a cross-sectional appraisal from the SENTINEL International study

Objectives To evaluate the methodological quality of hospital-specific paediatric sepsis clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) from sites participating in an international study using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) tool and to assess the consi...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and overlapping post-acute infection syndromes: international expert consensus framework for diagnostic standardization

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) lacks validated objective diagnostic criteria, leading to delayed diagnosis and inconsistent management. We aimed to establish an international expert consensus framework integrating measurable, risk-stratified assessmen...

Unsafe after dark? Women's travel experiences while walking, cycling and using public transport in Australia and New Zealand

Women experience distinct safety challenges when walking, cycling, and using public transport, particularly after dark and in relation to unwanted behaviours. Contemporary evidence integrating multiple transport modes and whole-journey stages across Australia and New Zealand rema...