The diversity of Avondale’s research profile and its impact on education, health, society, and culture is featured in a new video series that launched October 23rd.

The series features several two-minute video clips of academics and how they work in collaboration with the research centers of the college. The video clips describe how each academic area connects with Avondale’s ethos and mission.

The School of Humanities and Creative Arts Director, Lynnette Lounsbury, an author and film producer, explains why she continues to practice creative arts. “It’s important for students of creative arts to see their lecturers making something new and putting it out into the world.” Her colleague, Professor Daniel Reynaud, describes how he is “bringing a spiritual dimension to probably our most important national narrative, that is the Anzac story, a story which normally has lacked a spiritual dimension.”

In the series, Higher Degree Research Director and Professor, Maria Northcote, and Dean of Research Associate Professor, Peter Kilgour, talk about partnering with universities to study collaborative student learning. Also, Avondale Business School Leader, Lisa Barnes, speaks about bringing the results of her research into the classroom so “students know that I’m not just making these things up, that I haven’t just read it, that I’ve actually lived it.”

Beverly Christian (Perceptions of Seventh-day Adventist Education), Leader of the School of Education and Lifestyle Medicine and Health Research Centre Director and Associate Professor, Darren Morton (Lifestyle Interventions) are also featured in the series.

“The research is in areas that make a genuine difference and have a significant impact and that encourages me,” says Vice-Chancellor and President Professor, Kevin Petrie. “It’s fulfilling its purpose in being truly transformational, and that’s why we exist!”

The focus of this series is on projects connected to the Centre for Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Christian Education, Lifestyle Medicine and Health and Scripture, Spirituality and Society Research Centres. A previous series launched in May focused on people, particularly researchers connected with the Christian Education Research Centre.

Both are part of the Avondale Researchers | Here For Good brand, which aligns the mission of Avondale with its research agenda. “From our founding in 1897, we’ve served and made a positive impact on local, national, and global communities,” says Executive Producer and Associate Professor Carolyn Rickett, the former Associate Dean of Research. “The series continues this focus. Our researchers are committed to engaging with real-world issues and the ways in which people can be transformed through new knowledge and practice.”

All of the videos from the Avondale Researchers | Here For Good series are available on Avondale’s YouTube channel.

This article was originally published on the website of Adventist Record