User:U891419

Acknowledgement of Country
I acknowledge that I live and work on Aboriginal land.

Land which was taken from them without consent, treaty or compensation.

I pay my respect to Elders past and present.

Hi there & welcome :)
I'm a student at the University of Canberra (UC), Australia, currently completing my Bachelor of Science in Psychology.

But first, before psychology...
My initial academic training (also UC) was in natural resource management, particularly parks & recreation - the type of training you would do if you wanted a career as a national parks and wildlife ranger or an ecologist. This famous Australian television character influenced that early decision... or maybe it was just my deep love of the Australian bush :)

The link via environmental education...
After finishing my initial training I completed a graduate diploma in environmental education (also at UC - you'd think I like studying here :) ) as that enabled me to explore more deeply the relationship that people, and their communities, have with the environment.

The environmental education program of study was developed with multiple schools/areas of UC involved (sadly a rare thing!). It included subjects on learning and memory from the field of psychology.

So here I am and loving it...
I was hooked. From then onwards, I was always destined to do a deeper dive into the field of psychology.

Why Wikiversity?
As a learning experience created by Dr James Neill (UC) for the unit Motivation and Emotion, this is my first adventure into using a 'wiki' format of web presentation.

While initial impressions of the 'wiki' format left me a little hungry for being able to format web pages with a little more flair, it is a challenge I have enjoyed greatly.

What am I working on for Wikiversity at the moment?
I will be having a closer look at the 2023 book chapter relating to Environmental volunteering motivation and the question - What motivates environmental volunteering?

Social contribution
A summary and links to direct evidence of the social contributions that I have made are included below.


 * 1) Started the discussion topic: Stuff (articles, videos, etc) related to Motivation and Emotion - post them here :)
 * 2) Posted on X (Twitter): in relation to ACT Landcare’s Wellbeing Through Nature Program using #emot23
 * 3) Fixed a spelling error in a chapter from the 2022 book.
 * 4) Created in MS PowerPoint and uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons the figure: Motivations categories Adapted from West et al (2021).jpg
 * 5) Created in MS PowerPoint and uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons the figure: Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) and environmental volunteering.jpg
 * 6) Created in MS PowerPoint and uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons the figure: Theory of Planned Behavior.jpg
 * 7) Created in MS PowerPoint and uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons the figure: The Organismic Integration Theory taxonomy of motivation regulation.jpg
 * 8) Created in MS PowerPoint and uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons the figure: Adapted from Ganzevoort, W., & van den Born, R. J. G. (2023).jpg
 * 9) Multiple posts made under the discussion topic: Stuff (articles, videos, etc) related to Motivation and Emotion - post them here :)
 * 10) Fixed a typo in a chapter from the 2022 book
 * 11) Fixed a spelling error in a chapter from the 2022 book
 * 12) Posted to the discussion topic 'To-do-lists' noting a related ABC News article that may be of interest to the chapter's author.
 * 13) Liked Jorja's discussion topic and post 'Customised Images for your book chapter' - sharing her work in AI produced images was awesome.