All posts by: Dr. Helen Sheil

About Dr. Helen Sheil
Helen Sheil is Director of the Centre for Rural Communities.

Growing and learning in rural communities – a 2024 revised edition

A professional development manual for facilitators on the front-line of community engagement and management. An introduction to theory, practice and evaluation of a model of Collaborative engagement for transformation.

Publication Date: 19th July 2024.

Community Engagement, Professional Development, Publications, Stories of Influence 2023

Memories and memorabilia of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, Nowa Nowa football & netball – legendary players, games and histories.

July 21st, 22nd, 23rd 2023 Sharing memories of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust Football legendary players, games and histories has been emotional. Everyone had stories. Some elicited smiles in telling of the early days. In 1901 players walked from the Trust to Cunninghame (Lakes Entrance) to catch a boat to Bairnsdale to play, coming home […]

Stories of Influence 2023

Transformation: from despair to opimism

Recent events in Victoria highlight the importance of politicians paying attention to the rural voice and the issue of rural well being. The substance of this paper demonstrates the capacity of rural communities to contribute a missing link in the chain of decision making in regard to the future well being of regional Australia. To […]

Publications

Fishing interviews by Rachael Lucas with Brian Bolding and John Barrett – a lifetimes reflection.

Lakes Entrance fishing:  Whenever we listen to local fishing, farming or forestry folk the message is clear, bigger is not better for the region: not access to the product or for the environment.  The corporate ownership of these finite natural community resources changes the agenda from long term use to short term extraction detrimental to […]

Stories of Influence 2021

Never Say Die

An inability to travel due to COVID meant that the authors of Never Say Die: Hundred year overnight success of women’s football, Lee McGowan and Fiona Crawford (2019) couldn’t make it to Lake Tyers Beach, Stories of Influence in 2021 to present in person.  Plan B was to link then up by zoom being interviewed […]

Stories of Influence 2021