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Dr. Catherine Fargher is an AWGIE award-winning scriptwriter, leader and creative focused on combining storyworlds, and characters with interactivity.

Catherine is passionate about harnessing the power of storytelling to deliver educational content, including STEM, English, and more, through innovative methodologies and interactive media.

Catherine founded Dr Egg Adventures in February 2012. The Dr. Egg Adventures Laboratory creates engaging Education Technology (EduTech) products and content to solve problems faced by primary school teachers and educators in STEM and AI driven futures.
Working with teachers, students and their parents to engage in Science and STEM learning, to assist the teachers who struggle to teach in areas of     science, digital technology and machine-based learning. This is how The Dr. Egg Adventures came to exist.

Catherine works closely with advisory board members and the Macquarie University Incubator to re-invent the world of the Dr. Egg Adventures brand and business into what it is today.

Email: info@dreggadventures.com
Website: https://www.dreggadventures.com/
CV: https://mq.academia.edu/CatherineFargher/CurriculumVitae

Twitter: @DrEggAdventures    | Facebook: @dreggadventures | Instagram: @dreggadventures

Kim is a professional archivist and historian and is the Head of Historical Services for Westpac Group. She contributed to the book produced for the Bank’s 200th Anniversary, and also arranged for the listing of the Bank’s earliest records – dating from 1816 – on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Kim’s 25-year career has been spent principally in the private sector, with community-based organisations, businesses, religious orders and independent schools.

Kim holds a Bachelor degree in Communications from UTS, and a Master of Information Management from UNSW. She is currently working towards her doctorate at ACU, focussing recordkeeping in the private sector, particularly in relation to the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. A former President of the Australian Society of Archivists (2006 -2008) and member of the Executive Board of the International Council on Archives (2009 – 2012), Kim was one of the authors of the Universal Declaration on Archives, which was adopted by UNESCO in 2011. A passionate advocate of records, archives and the stories they hold, Kim has also written a number of award-winning publications, including the centenary history of North Sydney Boys’ High School, and In Good Faith: Waverley College and the Great War. She also writes for the profession, with a number of journal articles and industry-standard text books to her credit.

Kim is also proud mother of a 17 year old, and the only daughter of accidental migrants from Germany.

Malene Ahern is a physiotherapist with 20 years of experience in clinical practice working with clients neurological, orthopaedic and geriatric rehabilitation. She graduated from the University of Sydney (Bachelor of Applied Science, Physiotherapy Honours) and has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has worked in Australia and UK in clinical roles in hospitals, community, aged care and private practice. She has previously worked as a national clinical education consultant in the assistive technology industry to improve access to adequate supports for clients with a range of chronic and complex health conditions. Malene has recently been awarded her PhD at Macquarie University in the development and testing of an individualised primary care program for acute low back pain. Her research interests include research translation, implementation of evidence-based practice into complex healthcare systems and improving person centred care. Malene recently started working as the Improvement Facilitator, Aged Care in the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) team within the Australian Health Services Research Institute.

Dr Melanie Zeppel is a Data Scientist and Researcher. Melanie's multi-disciplinary research spans experimental design and modelling impacts of customer user experience, climate change, as well as genomic medicine, including childhood cancer and other conditions.

Melanie was awarded 2019 Scopus Researcher of the year, in sustainability. She has been awarded over $1.9 million in competitive funding, including an ARC DECRA and ARC Discovery grants, and has over 55 peer-reviewed publications. Experience over the previous 15 years includes measuring and modelling impacts of drought, elevated CO2 and heat waves on plant physiology, at National and Global scales.

Melanie has recently made the transition from academia to a role as a Data Analyst in the corporate sector and couldn't be happier!

My guest this month on the ResourcefulHDR podcast is Dr. Alison Rice, Deputy Director of the Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform at CSIRO.  I met Alison through the magic of Twitter and she kindly agreed to share her story.

After completing a Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Adelaide, Alison worked as a Research Assistant … at this stage, Alison said she could not have imagined doing a PhD. Alison went to the UK and Europe as part of a fact-finding mission and only decided to undertake a PhD when she received encouragement from several people. Alison competed her PhD in Biological Sciences in French and English at the University of Bordeaux II in France.

When Alison returned to Australia her career led her into roles working as a Senior Research Scientist leading research groups. Alison’s work focused on new therapeutic options for the complications of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Medical Research Institutes in Sydney and Brisbane respectively.

In 2012, Alison made the successful transition to a career in Research Development, incorporating research policy, research management and business development at Griffith University. In 2018, Alison took up a role as a Principal Policy Officer in Queensland Health focusing on bringing content specific knowledge about research to Government to enhance import and export opportunities for Queensland’s health and medical research sector. In 2019, Alison was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform at CSIRO. This strategic position aims to help build a vibrant synthetic biology research and development community to drive the bio-based industries of the future.

The story of how Alison ended up in her current role illustrates the value of networks and that, through good relationships, unexpected opportunities can arise.

My guest on the ResourcefulHDR podcast his month is Dr. Rebecca Gelding. Rebecca recently started a new job as Project Officer (ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Familes over the Life Course)

Rebecca speaks about her research, her career choices and how important it is to stay true to herself.

Rebecca’s award-winning PhD thesis investigated what is going on in the brain as people imagine musical pitch and rhythm. Her research has featured on ABC's All in the Mind Podcast, ABC Classic and ABC Science, and in 2019 she presented at the sold-out TEDx Macquarie University,  and had the audience on their feet singing. Earlier this year she even played Chopsticks on the Steinway & Sons piano in City Recital Hall in front of a live lunchtime audience all in the name of science communication.

I began following Rebecca when she was still doing her PhD and as a result saw that she was going to be ia guest on the ABC Radio Sydney and so I tuned in to hear about her fascinating research. I was then lucky enough to be in the audience for her talk at TEDx Macquarie University in September last year.  Rebecca’s TEDx talk has now had over 540000 views!

You can also read Rebecca's posts Music on the Mind blog created during her PhD and listen to the PioneeringMinds podcast