Jess Jiang, Administration Officer: jess.jiang@unisa.edu.au
Associate Professor Kath Baldock (she/they) is a leader in higher education and academic practice, and is currently the Dean of Programs (Human Performance). In her leadership roles, Kath leads strategic approaches to academic development, including reimagining structural and cultural facilitators, to support the transformative education of graduates who are socially just, anti-racist, culturally responsive and who will contribute to creating a better world. Her current roles provide Kath the ideal platform to drive change in higher education structures and practices to that end.
Kath has a background in public health practice, research and teaching, and has led numerous initiatives in curriculum renewal at... Read more
About me
Associate Professor Kath Baldock (she/they) is a leader in higher education and academic practice, and is currently the Dean of Programs (Human Performance). In her leadership roles, Kath leads strategic approaches to academic development, including reimagining structural and cultural facilitators, to support the transformative education of graduates who are socially just, anti-racist, culturally responsive and who will contribute to creating a better world. Her current roles provide Kath the ideal platform to drive change in higher education structures and practices to that end.
Kath has a background in public health practice, research and teaching, and has led numerous initiatives in curriculum renewal at institutional and national levels. In recent years, Kath has moved into strategic teaching and learning leadership roles within higher education. She has led numerous local and strategic initiatives to support the development of academics who are culturally responsive in their teaching practice and equipped to embed Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing within curricula and pedagogy. She co-created the Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogy mapping & decolonisation process (ACP) for UniSA with Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell and Michael Watkins. Kath currently leads, in close collaboration with a team of Aboriginal academics, an institution-wide strategic, relational approach to decolonising higher education and in developing systems and practices for the sustainable and transformative weaving of Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing within curricula and pedagogy across disciplines. She is also co-lead of the Aboriginal Knowledges Curriculum portfolio, alongside Professor Steve Larkin (University of Adelaide), which takes a ground-up First Nations centred approach to supporting the weaving of Aboriginal Knowledges across teaching and learning practices for the new Adelaide University.
Alongside academic leadership, Kath is an active researcher in educational initiatives as well as public health projects. She is an Associate Investigator on the NHMRC funded special initiative on human health and environmental change, Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL). Kath collaborates nationally in research on: 1) teaching advocacy in public health curricula across Australia; 2) evaluating racial segregation in learning objectives within First Nations health courses; 3) development of academic capacity and responsiveness to decolonise curricula; 4) co-creation of a suite of online modules in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research methods and approaches. She is also principal/co-supervisor for several PhD and Masters by Research candidates, and has supervised 9 Higher Degree Research students to completion.
Kath is actively engaged in the public health agenda nationally. She is currently a Board Member on the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia. Kath is also an Executive Committee member of the South Australian Branch of the Public Health Association of Australia, providing senior advice and leadership in advocacy and other public health initiatives.
About me
Public Health Association of Australia
Australasian Epidemiological Association
International Epidemiological Association
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Health Sciences The University of Adelaide
Graduate Diploma in Public Health The University of Adelaide
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Citizen Science, Health and Wellbeing Project, Office for Ageing Well, 01/02/2020 - 18/03/2022
Identifying the impact of and outcomes from outdoor play amongst children in South Australia, SA Dept for Education and Children's Services, 01/01/2018 - 14/12/2018
Identifying the impact of and outcomes from outdoor play amongst children in South Australia, Department for Education, 2018-19
Activating Citizen Scientists, Office for Ageing Well, SA Health, 2018-19
Mozzie Monitors: mosquito traps in the home to improve health surveillance, UniSA Crowdfunding Scheme, 2018
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
5
5
16
|
2022 |
Open access
7
5
10
|
2021 |
Open access
2
3
7
|
Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
1
|
2024 |
Open access
|
2024 |
Open access
|
2024 |
Open access
1
|
2024 |
Open access
2
1
182
|
2024 |
|
2024 |
Open access
3
|
2024 |
Open access
|
2024 |
Open access
15
|
2023 |
|
2023 |
1
16
|
2023 |
Open access
3
3
117
|
2023 |
6
|
2023 |
Open access
1
1
|
2023 |
Open access
|
2022 |
Open access
5
5
16
|
2022 |
Open access
23
18
|
2022 |
Open access
9
8
68
|
2022 |
Open access
2
2
3
|
2022 |
Open access
7
5
10
|
2022 |
Open access
3
2
7
|
2022 |
4
5
56
|
2022 |
Open access
4
4
5
|
2022 |
Open access
13
11
25
|
2022 |
Open access
30
29
1134
|
2022 |
Open access
7
7
43
|
2021 |
Open access
1
1
4
|
2021 |
18
18
80
|
2021 |
Open access
2
3
7
|
2021 |
Open access
1
4
16
|
2020 |
50
43
92
|
2020 |
2
3
4
|
2020 |
Open access
122
100
297
|
2019 |
Open access
4
4
1
|
2019 |
Open access
3
3
|
2019 |
Open access
19
20
7
|
2019 |
13
12
|
2019 |
Open access
16
15
2
|
2019 |
Open access
4
3
1
|
2019 |
Open access
6
|
2018 |
Open access
20
19
3
|
2018 |
Open access
14
11
4
|
2012 |
Open access
33
20
|
2010 |
3
2
|
2010 |
26
25
|
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Ashford Hospital | UNITED STATES |
Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives | AUSTRALIA |
Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Institute for Medical Research | MALAYSIA |
James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network | AUSTRALIA |
National Cancer Institute | UNITED STATES |
Operation PTSD Support Group | AUSTRALIA |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
South Australian Department of Health | AUSTRALIA |
South Australian Health and Medical and Research Institute (SAHMRI) | AUSTRALIA |
St Pius X School | AUSTRALIA |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
University of Iowa | UNITED STATES |
University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Carolina - Columbia | UNITED STATES |
University of Southern Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
University of Utah | UNITED STATES |
University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
Women's and Children's Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Executive Committee MemberCouncil of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia |
2021 |
Vice President (SA Branch)Public Health Association of Australia |
2020 |
Crowdfunded ResearchMozzie Monitors: mosquito traps in the home to improve health surveillance, Australian citizens, Government of South Australia, Government of Western Australia |
2018 |
Industry Funded ResearchActivating Citizen Scientists, Office of Ageing Well, SA Health |
2018 |
Senior Fellow (SFHEA)Higher Education Academy/Advance HE, United Kingdom |
2018 |
Associate FellowHigher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2017 |
MemberAustralasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) |
2017 |
MemberInternational Epidemiological Association |
2017 |
MemberPublic Health Association of Australia |
2017 |
My teaching interests are broad, and cover a range of population health concepts and methods. I am particularly interested in:
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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How do dietary patterns and adiposity influence chronic musculoskeletal pain? | Current |
Nature play in early childhood settings: integrating child play behaviours and stakeholder perspectives to inform consensus-based recommendations for best practice | Current |
Through their voices: An exploration of factors which influence mammography screening attendance amongst a population of Australian women at higher risk of breast cancer | Current |
`Weight-ing to Live¿: investigating the association between resistance training and all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and cancer mortality | Completed |
A mechanistic dengue simulation model for southern China: model calibration and economic evaluation of a control strategy | Completed |
Citizen science and public health: integrating this partnership into mosquito surveillance programs | Completed |
Exploring the links between chronic stress, allostatic load, and osteoarthritis | Completed |
Factors that contribute to high quality clinical supervision of allied health professionals | Completed |
Get outside, play and grow: exploring the impacts of nature play on early childhood development and the reliability of play observations | Completed |
Helicobacter pylori infection over time in Australia: an investigation of prevalence, persistence and eradication | Completed |
Nature-based play and learning in South Australian public primary schools | Completed |