Diane Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Works in Readmissions Reduction
BACKGROUND: Hospitals across the United States are pursuing strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions but the evidence on how best to accomplish this goal is mixed, with no specific clinical practice shown to reduce readmissions consistently. Changes to hospital organizational practices, a key component of context, also may be critical to improving performance on readmissions, but this has not been studied. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was …
Northern Lyrebird
The “voice” of nature? Kookaburras, culture and Australian sound
Linking auditory and animal history, this article examines the kookaburra's transformation from a “bird of evil” to a symbol of and way of hearing nation. From the early colonial period, responses to the bird's aurality and behaviour were highly ambivalent and negative discourses in relation to the kookaburra continued well into the twentieth century. Yet the interwar years became the “heyday” of the kookaburra as a symbol. The analysis focuses n…
Henri Verbrugghen’s Auditory Utopianism
This article explores aspects of modernity, reform and the senses in early twentieth century Australia using, as a case study, Henri Verbrugghen, the foundation director of the first state-supported Conservatorium in the British Empire. Verbrugghen saw his appointment as an opportunity to initiate a bold sensory experiment that could contribute to redefining Australian nationhood and, ultimately, the destiny of the world. The article explores Ver…
Acoustic journeys
Until recently, aural history received scant attention from historians. The exploration of Australia, conventionally understood as an overwhelmingly visual experience, exemplifies this oversight. This paper argues that Australia's explorers were also crucially engaged in acoustic journeys. Auditory assumptions formed part of the explorers’ cultural baggage, and in important ways sound sustained expeditions. Simultaneously, the encounter with the …
Heroes & Lovers. A Question of National Identity
Acoustic journeys
Until recently, aural history received scant attention from historians. The exploration of Australia, conventionally understood as an overwhelmingly visual experience, exemplifies this oversight. This paper argues that Australia's explorers were also crucially engaged in acoustic journeys. Auditory assumptions formed part of the explorers’ cultural baggage, and in important ways sound sustained expeditions. Simultaneously, the encounter with the …
Heroes & Lovers. A Question of National Identity
Acoustic journeys
Until recently, aural history received scant attention from historians. The exploration of Australia, conventionally understood as an overwhelmingly visual experience, exemplifies this oversight. This paper argues that Australia's explorers were also crucially engaged in acoustic journeys. Auditory assumptions formed part of the explorers’ cultural baggage, and in important ways sound sustained expeditions. Simultaneously, the encounter with the …
Henri Verbrugghen’s Auditory Utopianism
This article explores aspects of modernity, reform and the senses in early twentieth century Australia using, as a case study, Henri Verbrugghen, the foundation director of the first state-supported Conservatorium in the British Empire. Verbrugghen saw his appointment as an opportunity to initiate a bold sensory experiment that could contribute to redefining Australian nationhood and, ultimately, the destiny of the world. The article explores Ver…
The “voice” of nature? Kookaburras, culture and Australian sound
Linking auditory and animal history, this article examines the kookaburra's transformation from a “bird of evil” to a symbol of and way of hearing nation. From the early colonial period, responses to the bird's aurality and behaviour were highly ambivalent and negative discourses in relation to the kookaburra continued well into the twentieth century. Yet the interwar years became the “heyday” of the kookaburra as a symbol. The analysis focuses n…
Northern Lyrebird
What Works in Readmissions Reduction
BACKGROUND: Hospitals across the United States are pursuing strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions but the evidence on how best to accomplish this goal is mixed, with no specific clinical practice shown to reduce readmissions consistently. Changes to hospital organizational practices, a key component of context, also may be critical to improving performance on readmissions, but this has not been studied. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was …
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)