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Working the night shift can be fraught and experienced as demanding and, yet, is often dismissed as babysitting. Few researchers have explored the social and cultural meanings of night nursing, including storytelling rituals. In 2019, a narrative study was undertaken. The aim was to explore the stories recalled by nurses about working night shifts. Thirteen Australian nurses participated. Data were gathered using the Biographical Narrative Interview Method, and narrative analysis produced forty stories and three themes: strange and challenging experiences; colleagues can be mentors (or not); and textbook knowledge is only part of what is needed on night shift. Nursing students who engage with these stories may come to understand the challenges of the night shift, and the valuable work that nurses engage in throughout a 24‐hr period, work that involves adept psychosocial and interpersonal skills alongside technical and physical competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While biographies are generally understood to narrate the lives of people, the biographical form can also be used to write the life histories of objects of material culture. This article investigates the object biography (sometimes referred to as the 'artefact biography') and proposes that this is a form with rich potential for creative writing practitioners and researchers. As well as defining the object biography and its use in various disciplinary contexts, the article also profiles how this form of life writing has been utilised by creative writers, in order to consider its capacity to contribute to practice and research in the discipline of creative writing. Contemporary writers discussed include Edmund de Waal, Bambi Ward and Marele Day, with reference also made to the work of Hans Christian Andersen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliza Cook, Elizabeth Gaskell and Anna Sewell. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the contribution of women to culinary practice in Australia in the post-war era. Focusing on Melbourne and Sydney, it begins with a brief history of the influence of the French on restaurants and ideas of haute cuisine in those cities, before profiling a number of prominent women cookery teachers and food writers. We explore the part women played in promoting French cookery in Australia in the post-war period by considering the role of women as instructors in cookery demonstrations and classes as well as their contribution to food writing. Although researchers have 'reclaimed' the working lives of many forgotten creative women artists and fiction writers, women as teachers, food writers, chefs and cooks have received much less attention. Yet, many women in the postwar period maintained viable, lengthy and influential careers in the culinary field in Australia, and thereby influenced Australian foodways, both inside and outside of the home. This preliminary survey is intended to form part of what Rosemary Ferguson Webb has called 'the ongoing feminist historical project of understanding the feminine contribution to the idea of Australia'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the role of peer-to-peer mentoring approach in the Graduate Certificate of Creative Industries (Creative Practice) program at Central Queensland University, Australia. The program offers a blended learning environment, with internal students also likely to engage with online materials. All the students in the program's courses utilize, and contribute to, a single online Moodle site each term.