While living in East Gippsland, Helen was inspired by the Rural Women’s Program introduced by Helenè Brophy. This led to her enrolment in Adult Education at the University of South Australia, to teach Diploma of Community Development at TAFE, and later to research and design a post-graduate program for Regional Community Development facilitators at Monash […]
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.
Communities, government and professionals are all seeking more effective tools to assist positive change in rural communities. The Centre for Rural Communities has produced two publications that distill 15 years of community work into a process for working effectively and positively to enable communities to achieve their own goals and dreams. Growing and Learning in […]
April 2005 – The dream of having a Centre where rural communities are the primary focus of activity, and where resourcing, research and learning bought together interested people from regional educational institutions across Gippsland in Victoria came to fruition as the Centre for Rural Communities Inc. at Monash University Churchill Campus in 1995. The teapot […]
Spring/Summer 2004 MONASH Magazine, Page 26, Community – Robyn Anns reports. As head of the Centre for Rural Communities’ at Monash’s Gippsland campus, Dr Helen Sheil is a passionate advocate for the local area, its people and their potential. She believes the work of the centre is helping rural communities establish their place in a […]
The Graduate Certificate in Regional Community Development is an innovative one year part-time program (not currently available) which was offered by Monash University in collaboration with the Centre for Rural Communities Inc. More information is available here (PDF 382 Kb)