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Schneider has compiled three resource booklets on local birds, plants, and fish for the Apma-speaking community. The booklets contain drawings, accompanied by word-level descriptions. The drawings were sourced from the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila. The words accompanying each drawing, and decisions about appropriate spellings for each word, are based on Schneider's ongoing research on the Apma language. To produce these books, research into Apma's morphology (word structure) and phonology (sound system) was particularly necessary.

Schneider has created three resources for elementary school children to facilitate their acquisition of literacy in the Apma language: an alphabet book, an alphabet poster, and a poster about Apma's vowel and consonant combinations. Both book and poster present each letter of the Apma alphabet one by one, with an accompanying photograph or drawing, and a word beginning with the sound represented by each letter. The book also includes translations into Bislama (Vanuatu's lingua franca). The vowel and consonant poster presents the possible combinations of these sounds. These resources are based on Schneider's ongoing work on the Apma language. To produce them, research into Apma's phonology (sound system) and phonotactic structure (possible combinations of sounds) was particularly necessary.

A Bestiary of Wild Flowers is a poetic response to Australian artist Sidney Nolan's Paradise Garden series of paintings. Based on the idea and practice of ekphrasis, the project consists of the researcher's poetic interpretations of Nolan's work, as arranged into three parts: Word Seeds (a haiku series), Remembrance, and Technique

The aim of the editorial is to share research insights in with families and the community in a manner that is accessible. The impact of regionality is a key focus in this new interpretation of research as is interpretation of the impact of neoliberalism on education, educational policy development and ultimately on citizenship.

In the Family Matters editorials the author takes issues of interest to parents, families and community members and discusses them in accessible language to ensure that the latest research information is more easily understood.

In the Family Matters editorials the author takes issues of interest to parents, families and community members and discusses them in accessible language to ensure that the latest research information is more easily understood.

This portfolio contains 20 short videos commissioned by the Victorian Department of Education regarding the development and support of high-ability students in schools.

To date there has been minimal scholarly attention to analysing the lives and work of Australian actors, and their artistic contributions, to the massive expansion and development of our multi-million dollar culture industries, from 1950 to the present. This research answers the questions: what is the contribution of each of these Australian actors to the development of theatre, television and film in Australia over the last half century? What did they contribute individually to Australian acting, writing and production? How have the actors contributed to the transformation of acting and of drama, and to the professionalisation and internationalisation of the industries? What is the historical and contemporary significance of these actors to acting, drama, television and film?

As creative bioregional research, 'poetic enquiry' involves dialogue between the sciences and arts, between historical fact and immediate experience. Immersed in the Western Australian context, I wrote poetry about the endemic flora of the state. These six poems narrate the aesthetic features of plants and their diverse narratives, including my own experiential response. The portfolio weaves together multiple ways of knowing the natural world and points to the possibility of creative synergy between knowledge forms.

This portfolio of ten poems contributes to the areas of ecocriticism, nature writing and memory studies. Informed by cultural and ecopoetic theories, I applied creative, practice-led principles, including the use of sensory data and the keeping of a field journal, to the investigation of topographical memory in Australia and elsewhere.

This portfolio contributes to a growing body of research into walking and creativity. The six poems explore walking as an approach to place-attunement. Following the work of other perambulatory artists, I composed poetry about Western Australian landscapes perceived corporeally through walking. The poems express sensorial responses and, in particular, capture the nuances of my encounters with flora.