Director
Sally Farrington
BSc MHPD Ed (UNSW), Grad Dip Physiotherapy (USYD)
As Director of Yooroang Garang: Indigenous Student Support Unit, Sally Farrington co-ordinates the academic, personal and administrative support for Indigenous students at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Sally also co-ordinates and teaches in the Aboriginal Health Sciences Support Program.
Her teaching areas include Anatomy, Neurobiology and Biological Sciences.
Her research areas are:
- retention of Indigenous students
- first year student's expectations
Publications
Rose, D, Rose, M, Farrington, S & Page, S. (2008) Scaffolding Academic Literacy with Indigenous Health Sciences students: an evaluative study. Australian Journal of Education. In press.
Page, S, Farrington, S & Daniel-DiGregorio, K. (2007) 'The Student Experiences Study: Using research to transform curriculum for Indigenous health science students', Brew, A & Sachs, J (Eds) In The Transformed University: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Practice, Sydney, Sydney University Press.
Farrington, S ., Page, S.,& Daniel DiGregorio,K. (2001) 'The Things that Matter: Understanding The Factors That Affect The Participation And Retention Of Indigenous Students in the Cadigal Program at the Faculty Of Health Sciences, University of Sydney' . Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association, 18, October pp. 40-55
Daniel DiGregorio, K., Farrington, S. & Page, S. (2000) 'Listening to our Students: Understanding the factors that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students' academic success', Higher Education Research and Development 19(3) pp 297-309.
Conference Papers & Presentations
Farrington, S & Page, S (2003) ' The NSW Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Strategy: Providing Educational Pathways for Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Workers'. 4 thNational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Conference, Adelaide, South Australia.
Farrington, S, Page, S & Daniel DiGregorio, K (2002) ' Listening to our students: Facilitation of academic access'. The 2 nd National Australian Indigenous Education Conference. Townsville, QLD, 2-4, July.
Farrington, S., Page, S. & Daniel DiGregorio, K. (2002) ' The Student Experiences Study: Voices Guiding Curriculum Development'. Workshop presented at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education. Calgary, Canada
Page, S., Daniel DiGregorio, K. & Farrington, S (2001) ' Exploring the Off Campus Experiences of Indigenous Block Mode Health Sciences Students: Making Sense of the Competing Demands of Community and Study'. Presentation at the Australian Association of Research in Education Conference, Fremantle, 2-6th December.
Daniel DiGregorio, K., Page, S. & Farrington, S. (2001) ' Doing Something for my People: Developing effective programs for Indigenous Australian students'. Workshop presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Seattle, Washington.
Page, S, Daniel Digregorio, K & Farrington, S (2000) Three Women and a Research Project: An experiential approach to cooperative research and partnerships in educational research. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Sydney 2000 Conference, 4-7 December.
Other Articles/Papers
Farrington, S ., Daniel DiGregorio, K., Page, S. (1999) 'Yooroang Garang Issues in Aboriginal Health Worker Training: Listening to Students', Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol 23 pp 17 - 20.