Judy Nagy

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The University of Queensland, Australia

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Tribhuvan University

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Universidade Paulista

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Deakin University

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Papers by Judy Nagy

Identifying, building and sustaining leadership capacity for communities of practice in higher education

by Cassandra Star, Judy Nagy, and Milton Cox

CoPs are increasingly established in higher education to provide opportunities for staff to form ... more CoPs are increasingly established in higher education to provide opportunities for staff to form a peer learning community and to allocate dedicated time to build knowledge of learning and teaching and to share their practice, ultimately leading to improvement and innovation. An analysis of the academic literature identified confusion around the understanding of CoPs, a dearth of literature specifically on higher education, and a gap regarding the leadership role within CoPs.

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Can universities be good corporate citizens?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2008

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Communities of Practice in Academe (CoP‐iA): understanding academic work practices to enable knowledge building capacities in corporate universities

Oxford Review of Education, 2009

... Griffith University has a policy document supporting the develop-ment of communities of pract... more

Can universities be good corporate citizens?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2008

As universities respond to a prolonged period of economic rationalism there appears to be resigna... more As universities respond to a prolonged period of economic rationalism there appears to be resignation, for the most part, that the role of a university is not what it once was. By adopting the operational strictures of economy, efficiency and performance, many universities are behaving like and being run as though they were a business. The term 'corporate university' now carries much meaning and has been the subject of significant discourse over the last decade. Resource limitations, political influences and competitive pressures are commonplace with implications for the way in which a university can fulfil a role in society, however that is defined. In this paper we consider the notion of corporate citizenship and ask whether this concept is relevant to the role of a university in Australia and New Zealand. In these countries universities are substantially (although progressively less so) funded by the government and are public service entities. The application of corporate citizenship to universities serves to highlight the duality of these institutions, which operate like corporations, and yet have more obvious historically based obligations to society. The comparison also suggests that as corporations are becoming more aware of the long-term benefits of a societal role for business entities that universities appear to be moving in the opposite direction. With a few exceptions academics have been reluctant to engage in public debates. They have progressively lost control of their working environment. The risk is that the public interest will have no place in the corporatised university of the 21st century unless academics increase their critic and conscience activities.

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Commentary on Lynn E. Turner’s response to Mary Morrison’s Andersen as Road-kill

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2005

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New models for learning flexibility: Negotiated choices for both academics and students

… for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education: …, 2007

Flexible learning' represents a need associated with 'lifelong learning' and the equipping of gra... more Flexible learning' represents a need associated with 'lifelong learning' and the equipping of graduates to actively engage in a 'knowledge society'. While the precise meaning of each of these terms is not easy to discern, notions of flexible learning have progressed an evolutionary path that concentrates on students as though they are the only stakeholder group in the higher education environment that would benefit from choice. Academic discourse also presumes that all cultural groups making up the increasingly diverse student population aspire to engage in student-centred learning as a precursor to involvement in a knowledge economy. In this environment academics have been encouraged to embrace online teaching and promote a more student-centred learning approach when the natural inclination and talent of many academics may make this style of pedagogy so challenging that learning outcomes are compromised. We question this 'one size fits all' mentality and suggest a model that empowers both the students and academics by allowing them the ability to choose the approach that suits their educational philosophy and preferred learning/teaching approach. The model represents an innovation in flexibility that recognises initial embedded learning foundation abilities and reaches both teachers and learners by utilising their own frames of reference.

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Food, Nutrition and Older People Living in Rural Communities

by Julie Reis and Judy Nagy

As is the case with many western countries, the Australian population is becoming increasingly ag... more As is the case with many western countries, the Australian population is becoming increasingly aged, with research indicating this situation as being more pronounced in rural areas. In rural communities, older people have been identified as being at a higher nutritional risk than their city counterparts. Nutrition is affected by physiological, psychological, socioeconomic and social factors. For older rural people, socioeconomic disadvantages are exacerbated not only due to factors associated with ageing, but also due to “determinants of health” such as disengagement from the workforce, reduced income, lack of transport, and more limited access to services such as health and aged care services. In addition, changes in family and community relationships (for example loss of a spouse, children leaving to work in cities and retirement) impact upon the ability of individuals to cope with day to day tasks. These issues contribute to the context for considering how socialisation around food consumption and preparation impact well-being for rural older adults.

Whilst literature recognises the importance of social factors in the nutrition of older people, particularly in aged-care facilities, there has been little focus on the social context of food on the nutritional status and general wellbeing of older people in rural communities. This paper will discuss preliminary findings from research that explores the food habits of older people living in rural and regional areas of Australia. Participants in the study reside in retirement villages in the regional township of Mount Gambier where residents make their own choices about food preparation and consumption.

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Books by Judy Nagy

Relationships Between Food, Nutrition and Well Being for People Living in Regional Retirement Villages

by Julie Reis and Judy Nagy

In Western economies, advances in health and medicine have extended human life expectancies at th... more In Western economies, advances in health and medicine have extended human life expectancies at the same time as birth rates have declined. The emerging skewed older population demographic has many consequences for housing, health care and economic development. These issues are global concerns with different impacts across city and regional locations as older citizens often become removed from increasingly mobile extended families. This chapter reports on outcomes from a study of the relationships between food, nutrition, and well being for citizens living in two regional Australian retirement villages. Research initially focussed on the presumed importance for older adults of socialisation opportunities that food and food preparation provide for nutritional wellbeing. This presumption was dispelled by the combination of traditional research methodologies with a guided narrative inquiry, auto-ethnographic approach that recognises the importance of time, personal contexts, and space. Described is how the survey collection process and subsequent focus groups provided temporal and personal insights to assist with reflective data interpretation. The 'culture' and social mores of the retirement village community allowed data to be considered in ways that have proved more meaningful. Beginning with perspectives derived from broad-based literature about nutritional intake, food socialisation, and well-being for older adults, a narrative about the experience or 'stories' of data collection embedded within time and place is revealed.

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Identifying, building and sustaining leadership capacity for communities of practice in higher education

by Cassandra Star, Judy Nagy, and Milton Cox

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Can universities be good corporate citizens?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2008

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Communities of Practice in Academe (CoP‐iA): understanding academic work practices to enable knowledge building capacities in corporate universities

Oxford Review of Education, 2009

... Griffith University has a policy document supporting the develop-ment of communities of pract... more

Can universities be good corporate citizens?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2008