Finding answers to save lives with Darren Delaney

05/09/21 • 20 min

How to Change a Life by CQUniversity Podcasts

Former truckie Darren Delaney wants answers.

Too often, the Brisbane transport stalwart has seen his workmates die on the job – and too often, investigators can’t say what caused the death.

Darren’s channelling his trauma, frustration and passion for trucking into action, as he pursues a PhD on truck accidents and safety.

The CQUniversity Associate Lecturer and PhD student hopes to create a national framework to standardise truck accident investigation.

If you drive trucks in Australia, you can complete Darren’s driver survey here.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.

Former truckie Darren Delaney wants answers.

Too often, the Brisbane transport stalwart has seen his workmates die on the job – and too often, investigators can’t say what caused the death.

Darren’s channelling his trauma, frustration and passion for trucking into action, as he pursues a PhD on truck accidents and safety.

The CQUniversity Associate Lecturer and PhD student hopes to create a national framework to standardise truck accident investigation.

If you drive trucks in Australia, you can complete Darren’s driver survey here.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.

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Cultural caring and connecting with Sam Cooms

Noonukul Quandamooka woman Sam Cooms started on her career path determined to help her Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) community.

Becoming a mum to children with disabilities upended her world, and shifted her priorities.

This episode, Sam explains how her Indigenous values inform both her carer role, and her vision for a more inclusive society for people with disabilities – in Minjerribah, and nationally.

Sam is part of CQUniversity's First Nations Research Higher Degree Academy, the first of its kind in Australia.

How to Change a Life is hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

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Getting a voice with Sabi Kaphle

Sabi Kaphle didn’t want to be a midwife.

Forced into nursing school by her family as a teenager, the young Nepali woman felt powerless.

But when she saw how the health system was failing pregnant women, and the risk to lives of mums and babies, Sabi found her passion in giving them a voice.

First working for UNICEF and now as a Public Health lecturer at CQUniversity, Dr Kaphle shares her steps for tackling power imbalance, through purpose and persistence.

She also previews her debut book, Socio-cultural Insights of Childbirth in South Asia – Stories of Women in the Himalayas, available from July 2021.

This is the final episode for this launch season of How to Change a Life, hosted by Mary Bolling from CQUni Communications. Music by CQUni alumnus Tristan Barton.

Subscribe to How to Change a Life on your podcast app to listen back to all the season one episodes, and follow CQUniversity on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for more life-changing stories.