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Dr Kerry Daniel, School of Marketing (1 August 2003)
Business
Professional Marketing
Dr Kerry Daniel examines how the Sydney Swans and the AFL took a corporate social leadership stance and played to win. The response to games at Telstra stadium which have been designed as major events around community-based themes has been incredible. These themes include the Indigenous Game, the Community Game and the Kokoda Memorial Game.
Associate Professor Sally Tracy (3 August 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sun Herald
Midwives at Sydney hospitals are working on a program to reduce the high rates of caesareans and other interventions during birth. The idea is to have the same midwife throughout pregnancy and birth and a doctor to be present only by request. "For the first time we can now actually cost up the sort of things we can prevent happening in child birth," said Professor Tracy.
Professor Stuart White, Director (4 August 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
2UE
Experts are warning of a severe water shortage unless Sydney's attitudes to water change. Professor Stuart White of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS says people do not appreciate the value of water because it is so easily accessible. He thinks people should be provided education to improve their habits, and adds that not all wastage is due to purposeful overuse.
Professor Stuart White, Director (4 August 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
According to a recent report on water use in NSW, the number of homes with more than one toilet,shower or bath almost doubled in the past 15 years. Expert Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS says the message has not gotten across that water should be used sparingly. "We need to learn to live within our limits. Australia has very cheap water and we tend to regard it as right."
Simon Beecham (5 August 2003)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
Simon Beecham, the director of water engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at UTS says most Australian cities waste more water than they use. "If rainfall falls in the pristine catchments to the south-west of Sydney it is carefully collected and pumped into Sydney as fresh drinking water. If that same rain falls in the Sydney metropolitan area it is allowed to freely pick up litter, sediments,nutrients, bacteria, oils and metals and is often discharged into rivers, lakes and oceans with little or no treatment."
Anne Dwyer, Director, ITD (5 August 2003)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
Staff computers at Queensland University of Technology are being scanned for MP3 music files because of a legal battle between universities and music companies. UTS IT division director Anne Dwyer said there was no policy of scanning, although students and staff were frequently reminded of copyright rules by means such as pop-up messages on computers. "It's not just because it's illegal, but it's using our resources in a wasteful way."
Dr Alex Pulkownik (7 August 2003)
Science
ABC 702
Specialist Dr Alex Pulkownik from the University of Technology worked at Homebush Bay on the issue of mangroves just before the Olympics. Catterns says Canada Bay might like to contact this person about growing mangroves.
Adjunct Professor Peter Manning (7 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Peter Manning, Adjunct Professor of Journalism at UTS and former head of ABC TV News and current affairs comments that the Government has tried almost everything to turn the ABC into a voice for it's own agenda. The Government seems preoccupied with censorship, shutting the ABC up. In Howard's new all-American Australia, the ABC will have as much impact as the Public Broadcasting Service has in the US: nil.
Simon Beecham (7 August 2003)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
Installing a 5000 litre rainwater tank in every Sydney home might put off the need for a new dam for up to 84 yrs, according to a study. Simon Beecham, director of water engineering at the Institute for Environmental Resource Management at UTS, said tanks were the most efficient way of harvesting Sydney's rainwater. "Rainwater is a wasted resource. If that water fell over the dams, Sydney water would grab it and pump it into our houses. We need people to accept they do not need drinking quality water for all their uses."
Caitlin McGee (7 August 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
A Newcastle home is being built that will be the most sustainable built in an Australian urban area. The simplest thing people can do is make their houses smaller and built to last longer - and to achieve maximum use from minimum resources. Caitlin McGee, an architect and senior research consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS, says "this is as far towards sustainable as anybody's gone in a house."
Professor Stephen Birch, Adjunct Professor, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (8 August 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health, Business
ABC Radio National
There is a serious shortage of nurses, both in Australia and internationally. Canadian Professor Stephen Birch is currently at the University of Technology in Sydney and looks at ways in which we can avoid a crisis in the future.
Professor Stuart White, Director (8 August 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable futures at UTS expresses concern that Sydney is exhausting it's rivers and needs to think about living within its means. One of the water industry's best kept secrets is that it is cheaper, faster and less environmentally damaging to pay customers to save water rather than to supply it.
Eva Cox (12 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian
Eva Cox, a senior lecturer at UTS comments on the recent study that those who drink socially are higher income earners. She says this has to do more with gaining social skills from social interaction than drinking.
Professor Tharam Dillon, Dean (12 August 2003)
Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Professor Tharam Dillon is the newly appointed Dean of Information Technology at UTS. He has written 8 books and published hundreds of academic papers but his main objective is to map out an ambitious vision for his new academic home. He has a grand plan to elevate the IT faculty to the status of the great technology universities in US and Europe.
Dr Patrick Keyzer (12 August 2003)
Law
3CR (Undercurrents)
The Federal Parliament resumes today, amid plans by John Howard to change the parliamentary process to pass legislation blocked by the Senate. The Democrats and the Greens have rejected the proposal. Dr Keyzer discusses the proposed plans to change the parliamentary process.
Professor Tharam Dillon, Dean (12 August 2003)
Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald
Quote of the Week, Professor Tharam Dillon: "During the dot com boom, a Singapore-based company offered me a three-year contract for pay of $US1 million a year. I actually felt very uncomfortable because I think they were getting close to my price."
Dr Kristine Toohey (13 August 2003)
Business
ABC Radio National
The Athens Olympics are due to begin one year from today, but there are concerns that the facilities will not be ready on time. Dr Kristine Toohey says that the preparations are progressing at a different rate than was the case ahead of the Sydney Olympics. Dr Toohey says that good progress has been made in the last few months after veiled threats were made by the IOC that it was considering moving the Games away from Athens.
Dr Sarah Edelman (13 August 2003)
Science
ABC 702
Caller Kim asks why teenagers are so easily angered. She says she does not know how to deal with it. Sarah Edelman says that anger management groups for teenagers are being run at UTS.
Sonya Pearce (13 August 2003)
Education, Business
Newcastle Star
Recently six students from Aboriginal communities around the country graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education and Community Management. The three year degree recognises the growing trend for Aboriginal people of accessing management type studies.
Sonya Pearce, UTS Business Indigenous Programs Director, says that "UTS maintains a cutting-edge approach to education for indigenous community managers.
Chris Reardon (14 August 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Seven Sunshine Coast
Houses that generate no bills are the way of the future as governments get serious about sustaining the environment. 300 building designers are meeting at Twin Waters this week committed to restructuring an industry that produces 40 per cent of the world's waste.
Andy Lloyd-James (14 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC 702
Valentine talks about the difference between SBS and ABC following a discussion with Liberal MP Christopher Pyne about advertising on SBS and whether the ABC should be commercialised. Andy Lloyd-James has been in senior management at both organisations and is now with the University of Technology. James believes that commercials would lead the ABC down the path of ratings and demographics. He says it absolutely needs to be funded.
Kirsten Edwards (14 August 2003)
Law
global.factiva.com
UTS law lecturer Kirsten Edwards co-ordinates the UTS Innocence Project, in which advanced law students review the cases of NSW prisoners. She comments that "DNA can prove someone was there, but it can't prove that somebody wasn't."
Professor Shirley Alexander, Director (14 August 2003)
Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
Sydney Morning Herald
More students are reaping the benefits of learning online. Professor Shirley Alexander, Director of the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at UTS, says she communicates better with her online students than those she faces in class. Her students also have greater access to her, particularly when she travels.
Professor Richard Johnstone (14 August 2003)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian students can choose from a broader range of courses than ever before. One product of this new found dynamism is seen in different faculties working together to produce new and innovative courses. Professor Richard Johnstone, Pro Vice-Chancellor at UTS, agrees interfaculty collaborations are a vital element of new course development. "Animation is a particularly hot new course for us and it crosses over three faculties."
Frances Morgan (14 August 2003)
MCU
Sydney Morning Herald
Frances Morgan, Course Promotions Officer at UTS, which caters for high numbers of students studying part-time, says there is a lot of emphasis on getting a high university entrance score, but there are other ways to get into uni. She says "UTS has recently introduced a Bachelor of Management in Tourism and Hospitality that's linked directly to the diploma in hospitality at TAFE NSW."
Frances Morgan (14 August 2003)
MCU
Sydney Morning Herald
Thousands of prospective students will attend university open days this month and next but not all will get the most out of them. Frances Morgan, Course Promotions Officer at UTS says the first thing a student should do before attending any open day is narrow down his or her course options.
Chris Reardon (15 August 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
ABC Western Queensland
At the inaugural Building Designers Association of Australia Conference the message for designers is that they need to develop sustainable building methods at every level. Interview with Chris Reardon, who explains the importance of energy efficiency and its relationship with design. Reardon says that designers are embracing the idea of innovation in the industry.
Antoine Hermens (16 August 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Antoine Hermens, the Director of the Executive MBA in the Faculty of Business at UTS comments that the large number of small business failures bears witness to the elusiveness of success. In small business, which is particularly reliant on managerial skills, errors and shortcomings are magnified.
Grant Hose (16 August 2003)
Science
Weekend Australian
The tap water in Australia's capital cities gets full marks for safety. Recent studies show that the drinking water is free of the worst contaminant - faecalcoliforms. This bacteria is an indicator of sewage contamination. Grant Hose, an ecotoxicologist at UTS, has seen only one test in the Melbourne CBD that suggested significant bacterial contamination. "It should be retested to determine what the bacteria are, but they are probably harmless environmental bacteria."
Beaver Hudson (16 August 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Daily Liberal, Dubbo
A Sydney hospital has introduced mental health nurses in emergency care teams. The initiative at St Vincent's Hospital is the brainchild of mental health nurse and UTS masters student Beaver Hudson.
Eva Cox, Writing Journalism and Social Inquiry. (17 August 2003)
Executive and Admin
Sun Herald
Social commentator Eva Cox of UTS comments on the high profile case of Shane Warne and his sexual advances to women. Cox is both bemused and appalled at Warne's "total inability to learn by his own mistakes." She says "We always have to question the adulation of sporting heroes. We encourage mug liars."
Kirsten Edwards (18 August 2003)
Law
Newcastle Herald, Central Coast Herald
Kirsten Edwards discusses the suspension of a NSW innocence panel. She co-ordinates the Innocence Project at UTS in which advanced law students work on behalf of prisoners who believe they have been wrongly accused. She says "I can't imagine why you would set up a panel to review cases involving DNA evidence, say you had to be serving at least 12 years to apply, then act with astonishment when somebody who's convicted of a murder applies."
Allison Gwilt, Director of Fashion and Textile Design (18 August 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
2SM
Discussion of the the revival of fashion from the 1980s with fashion designer Allison Gwilt. Gwilt says this is a global trend, and follows a revival of 1970s clothes. Many young people do not remember the clothing from the first time around, so it seems very different to them. Gwilt says men's fashion is becoming more relaxed.
Professor Lindsay Botten. (19 August 2003)
Science
electronicsnews.com.au
A consortium of five NSW universities has purchased Australia's most powerful computer to date, capable of over a trillion calculations per second. UTS Professor Lindsay Botten, who co-ordinated the purchase of the Dell supercomputer on behalf of the consortium, says "the machine will allow the partner universities to propel their research forward and produce results in computer modelling much faster."
Bruce Perrott (19 August 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
To survive, a business must find a way to stand out from the crowd. The good news is that the flexibility of smaller businesses is an advantage in creating points of difference, says Bruce Perrott, senior lecturer in marketing at UTS. "Little players should concentrate on things that big players can't do or can't do well."
Professor Derek Eamus (20 August 2003)
Science
ABC South East NSW
According to one environmental scientist Australians are too greedy in our use of resources - a critical issue if we are to come to terms with climate change and do something about it. Professor Derek Eamus of UTS discusses why Australians haven't embraced solar technologies, LP gas for our cars and some of the other alternative energy sources. His vision for the future involves having an agricultural sector that is sustainable in its use of soil and water.
Lyn Shoemark, Deputy Director (20 August 2003)
Institute for International Studies
Sydney Morning Herald
An increasing number of Australian university students are seeking to do a part of their degree course at an overseas institution for international experience, better career prospects and personal fulfilment. More than two-thirds of the UTS students studying overseas are attending a university where English is not the language of instruction. Lyn Shoemark, the Deputy Director of the Institute for International Studies at UTS says the students learn to negotiate another culture and to develop intercultural competence.
Professor Geoff Scott, Director, Planning and Quality Unit (20 August 2003)
Executive and Admin
The Australian Higher Education
Universities and Cambodia and South Africa are getting advice and some hands-on participation from the University of Technology, Sydney. UTS Planning and Quality Director Professor Geoff Scott says Australian universities' obligations for community service, or community engagement, should extend overseas, and internationalisation should be two-way.
Associate Professor Tony Veal (22 August 2003)
Business
Australian Financial Review
The R&R revolution hasn't turned out the way people imagined. Lack of time, not excess time, has been the driver. Tony Veal of UTS' School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism suspects that because people are increasingly time-poor, the planning that goes into R & R makes it look more like work.
Vince Mangioni (24 August 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sunday Telegraph
Vince Mangioni warns young prospective home buyers to think strategically about their purchase. "It's a matter of setting your target home, then working out how to buy in at the bottom and work your way slowly upwards."
Professor Derek Eamus (24 August 2003)
Science
ABC 702
At the end of Science Week, UTS Professor Derek Eamus explains what an ecological footprint is and says it's a way of quantifying how many resources we use to maintain our lifestyle. Professor Eamus suggests our lifestyle comes at the cost of someone else, and that we are using up resources faster than they can be replaced.
Eva Cox (25 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
A Roy Morgan poll in 1998 found that the vast majority of Australians had experienced 'road rage' at some time in their lives. The phenomenon has now spread to trolley rage, air rage and even pavement rage. Eva Cox says that there has been a decrease in the level of trust that people have in each other, which could be seen as a factor in the increase of road rage and associated phenomena.
Eva Cox (25 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The New Zealand Herald
Shane Warne is under the spotlight again due to allegations from a woman that he pestered her with sexually explicit text messages and phone calls. UTS social commentator Eva Cox says "he seems to be caught up in his own image, thinking that because he's famous he's more attractive. The way he acts is like an overgrown schoolboy."
Professor Steve Burdon (26 August 2003)
Business
ABC Radio National
Discussion of Australia's aspiration to be "the clever country". Professor Steve Burdon says that the medical and engineering professions are better connected because they have a link to university communities, which other professions do not. He says that Australia has the potential to be a clever country, but probably does not have the will.
Professor David Goodman, Director (26 August 2003)
Institute for International Studies
AAP
China moves beyond observer status and gets involved in North Korea nuclear talks. There are dangers, but being the venue for the talks goes over well not only internationally, but at home.
"They're as much playing to a domestic audience as to an international audience," said Professor David Goodman, Director of the Institute for International Studies at UTS. "If you're statesmanlike, that reinforces the message of a good group of people doing a good job."
Professor David Wilson (26 August 2003)
Information Technology
The Australian
A sharp drop in university IT enrolments is causing concern among academics and industry. T
Associate Dean in the IT Faculty at UTS, Professor Dean Wilson, suggests there is some doubt about the health of the industry and students are looking elsewhere. "Although people in the industry are starting to see improvement, the perception of that hasn't necessarily reached the target audience yet."
Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (26 August 2003)
Law
Sydney Morning Herald
Policy makers cannot afford to be reactive when dealing with a major problem in black communities says Professor Larissa Behrendt. The elevation of the issue of family violence in Aboriginal communities as a national priority is long overdue and there are no easy solutions she says.
Professor Stephen Muecke (28 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
2GB
Stephen Muecke, Professor of Cultural Studies at UTS, says Waltzing Matilda is an important part of Australian folklore and should be allowed to be sung at Rugby World Cup matches.
Professor Stephen Muecke (28 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
2SM
The International Rugby Board has ruled that only the national anthem can be sung at the beginning of matches. Goldman talks to Stephen Muecke, Professor of Cultural Studies, UTS. Muecke says that we might just have to make Waltzing Matilda the national anthem after all. Muecke says that the song is certainly is culturally important to Australia.
Professor Stephen Muecke (28 August 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Daily Telegraph
Waltzing Matilda will be outlawed at the Rugby World Cup as organisers believe the song is not an important part of Australian culture. The decision was met with derision from Stephen Muecke, Professor of Cultural Studies at UTS. He said the ballad has an enormous amount of cultural significance to Australians.
Dr Sarah Edelman. (28 August 2003)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
The decision to move in with a lover is taken with great care but we often give little thought to moving in with perfect strangers. Psychologist Sarah Edelman says people don't invest the same amount of time and energy into deciding to live with a flatmate because they can be dispensed with far easier than a lover.
Christopher Zaslawski (28 August 2003)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
More people are turning to acupuncture and non-pharmaceutical drugs - acupuncture is becoming mainstream in Australia. Seven colleges throughout Australia have four year accredited courses,including UTS. An important clinical trial was recently conducted at UTS measuring the impact of acupuncture on the most well -known acupoint for pain relief. "Our research confirmed that if the correct location is needled deeply and vigorously there is a 29 to 30 per cent increase in the pain threshold across the body," says Christopher Zaslawski, the Head of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the UTS Faculty of Science.
Andrew Lynch (30 August 2003)
Law
Weekend Australian
Despite murmurs in the legal profession, judges of the Gleeson High Court are not divided according to the political party that appointed them. Research by UTS academic Andrew Lynch found the court had a "solid core".
Professor Dexter Dunphy (30 August 2003)
Business
Manly Daily
A new study shows more Australians are working longer hours,unhappy in their work,and getting unhappier. Professor Dexter Dunphy of UTS has written a book called "Life and Work" that calls for transformation in the workforce.
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