Our People
Connect42 Board
Expression of Interest
FOR BOARD MEMBERS
Our Patron
Our Founder
Rosalie Martin
Speech Pathologist, Criminologist, 2017 Tasmanian of the Year
Speech pathologist Rosalie Martin is the founder of Connect42 and was awarded Tasmanian Australian of the Year for 2017 for her work in helping prisoners crack the code of reading.
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With specialist knowledge in the acquisition of language, and in the processing and production of speech sounds, Rosie has been working with Tasmania’s Risdon Prison inmates to uncover hidden literacy problems and tackle them head on. As a result, many of the people in her programs learn to read in a matter of months, showing how many lives, currently on hold in prison, can be transformed. Her work with inmates led Rosie to complete Criminology Honours in 2016; and she has current plans to complete a PhD in Criminology.
Rosie also runs her own private practice, specialising in services for children with autism spectrum disorder and language-literacy disorders. She keenly feels the privilege of having been trusted, for nearly 35 years, in therapy by vulnerable children, their families, and other individuals over many years; but who has lamented inequity in access to service.In 2015, Rosie completed accreditation as a Facilitator for the Centre for Courage & Renewal. She runs retreats and other events to bring this wholehearted work of courage development to leaders and others.
Our Board
Simon Barnsley
Chair
Simon joined the Connect42 as Chair in September 2022.
Lyn Amy
Board Member
Lyn joined the Connect42 Board in September 2022.
Christine Lane
Board Member
Christine joined the Connect42 Board in September 2022 as a Special Adviser and Observer, joining us fully as a Board Member in November 2022.
Isabelle Bartkowiak – Theron
Research Adviser to Connect42 Board
Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron specialises in socio-legal studies, with a particular interest in police interaction with vulnerable people. She is the lead senior researcher on the vulnerability, police education, and law enforcement and public health research themes at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania.
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Isabelle sits on various international and Australian professional and research governance boards, such as the Australian Institute of Police Management Ethical Review and Research Governance Advisory Committee. She sits on the Australian Crime Prevention Council as the executive member for Tasmania, and on the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council.
Isabelle is passionate about issues of social justice, particularly how vulnerabilities should be better addressed in policing and criminal justice. Specifically, she is looking at the intersection of health, justice and policing in policy matters, for the purpose of facilitating access to justice for those who need it the most.
Isabelle dedicates most of her work to her children, for whom she wants to create a better, kinder world, even in some small capacity. She is a vibrant, fun, clear- and wide-thinking academic with a contagious abundance of joie de vivre (to borrow a beautiful phrase from her mother tongue)!