Dr Stephen Teo (1 April 2004)
Business
5DN Adelaide
It is said that in South Australia five per cent of the workforce is off on sick leave on any given day. Human resources expert Dr Stephen Teo says a lot of bosses are not aware of human emotions at work and this can create an unhappy work environment. He says there is also the mentality that people have sick leave so they might as well use it.

Professor Christine Duffield (1 April 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Hospital and Healthcare
Professor Duffield, Director of the UTS Centre for Health Services Management, has been working on a six-nation study of the costs of nursing turnover and the effect this is having on staff and patient care. She is also heading up the first Australian study into the relationship between nursing skillmix and patient outcomes. "The casualisation of the workforce is beginning to become an issue, particularly when it results in a lack of continuity in patient care," she says.

Professor Hung Nguyen (1 April 2004)
Engineering
Australasian Science
Technology designed for an instrument of death could end up saving lives with the application of radar-avoidance technology to the early detection of breast cancer. Professor Hung Nguyen of the UTS Faculty of Engineering described the approach as "using methods involved in designing stealthy aircraft structures but in reverse." "The mathematics and physics used in stealth aim to hide objects from electronic detection - we are turning that around to reveal hard-to-find objects in difficult backgrounds," he said.

Dr Colleen Chesterman, Director, Women's Executive Development Program (3 April 2004)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Women bosses are more caring and sharing, but only if there's no queen bee.
Dr Colleen Chesterman of UTS said "there are instances when even a strong woman can have an impact, but it's hard."

George Wilkie (4 April 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sunday Telegraph
Finding the right man for the job is a daunting prospect for the home renovator but some basic homework can help you make a wise choice. Architect and UTS academic, George Wilkie, says extremely low prices often turn out to be miscalculations. "It can be false economy to chase the lowest price," he said. "Some builders lure you with a cheap price."

Professor Liz Jacka (5 April 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
AAP, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, West Australian, Canberra Times, Ballarat Courier,Central Coast Herald, Daily Advertiser, Illawarra Mercury, Newcastle Herald
A report produced by Liz Jacka of UTS found arts coverage on radio, television and the Internet fell in the 10 years to 2002. She believes that the ABC has failed in it's traditional role as a cultural programmer.

Anne Dwyer, Executive Director Organisational Support (5 April 2004)
Executive and Admin
Computerworld Australia
Faced with a disparate IT landscape, increasing expectations for service delivery, and capacity-lagging infrastructure, Anne Dwyer, UTS CIO, believes increased corporate governance will ensure the demands for a changing business climate could be met through technology. "We are facing a very different financial situation now compared to the time of the IT peak when it was hard to find staff," Dwyer said. "As fees go up, expectations go up, and as a result demands on services go up."

Associate Professor David Wilson (5 April 2004)
Information Technology
CRN
Figures from the Australian National Training Authority indicate that 60,000 degree holders are enrolling in vocational education at TAFE. Associate Dean of the UTS Faculty of Information Technology, Associate Professor David Wilson, thinks that the numbers of students leaving universities are higher than they would prefer. He attributes this to the "lack of education about education." "Any inference that large numbers of graduates are going to TAFE because they are unskilled is erroneous," he said.

Alex Byrne, UTS Librarian (6 April 2004)
Executive and Admin
Bulletin with Newsweek
UTS Librarian Alex Byrne reviews two "books about books" that celebrate the pleasures of reading: "Book Lust" by Nancy Pearl and "So Many Books, So Little Time" by Sara Nelson.

Associate Professor Anne Ross-Smith, Head, School of Management (6 April 2004)
Business
Radio 2GB
Jones says an article by Adele Horin on women and the culture of management reported some interesting results. It was based on a report co-authored by Dr Anne Ross-Smith of the School, of Management at UTS who said the researchers were sick of hearing about the glass ceiling and wanted to focus on the positives. He says perhaps women aren't in senior levels of politics because they can't cop all the name-calling and silliness when they want to get on with policy making.

Dr Tony Kidman (6 April 2004)
Science
Channel 9
Psychologist Dr Tony Kidman talks about being a teenager these days. Dr Kidman says teenagers face quite a lot of peer pressure with the globalisation of American culture, the Internet and mobile phones. He says his colleagues at the University of Technology, Sydney have written a book called "Taking Charge" to help teenagers deal with typical problems they may face.

Associate Professor David Wilson (7 April 2004)
Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald
Prospects have been bleak in IT, but there are signs that things are picking up again says Associate Professor David Wilson of the UTS IT Faculty. "We're getting a lot more inquiries about graduates and taking students into industry training than last year or in 2002."

Keri Spooner (7 April 2004)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Office greenies are invading offices more and more. Keri Spooner, a human resources expert from UTS says, "I see in my own workplace some very committed staff who get very upset at paper wastage. They even get upset if paper is used on one side and gets put in recycling - they pull it out and say: 'no, you should be using the other side too'."

Tim Laurence, Associate Dean. (8 April 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Laurence, Associate Dean in the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building comments on the history of the dining table and the proposal that Jesus invented it. "I doubt it , otherwise I guess the Vatican would have the copyright and would be very happily reaping the rewards," he said. "Most historical records come from paintings or inscriptions at places such as the pyramids or ancient Greek temples. There was very sophisticated furniture in both Egypt and Greece."

Dr Graham Barnsley (10 April 2004)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
The President of the Board of Studies has warned students and parents to change entrenched attitudes that maths is a must-do for the HSC. Dr Graham Barnsley from the Faculty of Education at UTS says maths is important in "all walks of life" - for cognitive skills ranging from the understanding of logic to problem solving. "There are a lot of kids who do the HSC who don't have any particular strenghts and they may still want to do maths, even if it's at a low level." he said.

Judy Lancaster (12 April 2004)
Law
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Cigarette manufacturers, not smokers, should bear responsibility for the costs of health care offered to smokers, a UTS legal academic said. Senior UTS law lecturer Judy Lancaster said responsibility should rest with tobacco companies. "If a product is proven to kill people and put extra costs on the health system, there is no reason why cigarette companies shouldn't subsidise the health system."

Peter James, Manager, Technical Services (13 April 2004)
Information Technology Division
Australian Financial Review
Intel is quietly reaping the benefits of the much hyped war between Microsoft and the Linux open source operating system, in a trend that could have worrying implications for Unix hardware makers. UTS is one organisation that has already begun to reap the benefits of shedding some of it's Unix hardware through a recent move to Linux on a number of mission critical systems.

Professor Brett Bondfield (13 April 2004)
Law
Australian Financial Review
The federal government faces renewed criticism over small business red tape. "Tax reform has recklessly injured small business through the imposition of greater compliance costs," said the study by UTS Law Professor Brett Bondfield and Taxation Institute director Michael Dirkis.

Professor Derek Eamus (14 April 2004)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Soaring carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to economic ruin for Australian farmers and spiralling malnutrition for developing countries, says Derek Eamus, Professor of Environmental Science at UTS. Eamus points out that as atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, the levels of vital nutrients in plants decline.

Professor Jim Athanasou (14 April 2004)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Professor Jim Athanasou, of the Education Faculty at UTS comments on how to change your job into a career. "Specialisation, finding a niche, is what distinguishes an employee from others in terms of expertise. You need to ask yourself 'what am I best at doing?' and 'what are people going to pay me to do?'."

Chris Caines (16 April 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
www.abc.net.au
Internet diaries, known as 'blogs' are on the rise says Chris Caines, lecturer in film, TV and new media at UTS. "You can write without having to go through the process of designing a page and going through all of those filters that will make you edit yourself. So there's a sense you're writing straight from the heart and it's going straight out online."

Eva Cox, senior lecturer (18 April 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sunday Age
Eva Cox comments on the sex scandal engulfing soccer star David Beckham. "Being a bullying thug on a consistent basis may be worse than having a fling. If you are still enjoying your relationship what he does when he's out of sight maybe doesn't matter as much as what he does when he is around."

Dr David Eager (19 April 2004)
Engineering
The Australian
A recent study shows that up to 100,000 children are injured in playgrounds each year. David Eager form the UTS Faculty of Engineering says not enough is being done to prevent fall-related injuries. "You see it all: big concrete slabs, buried pipes, bits of steel and tree roots, and those things are inevitably right where the kids will fall."

Anne Dwyer (19 April 2004)
Executive and Admin
ComputerWorld Australia
For IT managers the debate about whether best -of-breed products are better than an enterprise suite mostly comes down to cost. UTS IT Division Director Anne Dwyer says, " If you choose to go with best-of-breed you'll find you will have to figure out how to integrate the system. Then again, some of the enterprise suites are no good at integrating the system anyway, so it's not always as simple as saying one is better than the other."

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (20 April 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
The city's new Lord Mayor has promised to reinvent Sydney as a series of urban villages. Professor Andrew Jakubowicz says cafes are where social capital and village life are likely to flourish. "The key in a lot of contemporary community relationships is the coffee shop or the gyms... they are intense centres of social contact and formation and they have become integral in people's lives."

Professor Peter Booth, Deputy Vice-Chancellor. (22 April 2004)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Some postgraduate subjects have become hot and are generating a great deal of demand for places. Professor Peter Booth, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UTS, points to law as generating strong demand and says writing courses are also popular.

Keri Spooner (22 April 2004)
Business
Business Review Weekly
Corporate Australia is beginning to deal with the delicate issue of depression in the workplace. Employment relations expert Keri Spooner says companies must deal with depression in the workplace as a workers' compensation issue and many organisations are "running scared" because of the threat of litigation. "Employees will, and can, prove that their workplace contributed to their depression, that organisations failed in their duty of care, that workload was too high," she said.

Dr Michael Hill (22 April 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Trends in the workplace and student demands are the driving forces behind many new fields of study. Dr Michael Hill, senior lecturer at UTS, says UTS has picked up on the increasing amount of film production in Sydney in putting together a Master of Animation course for 2005. He sees Fox Studios as a satellite for Hollywood. "Lots of our graduates have ended up working there, and not just on design, but also IT people on such films as 'The Matrix'."

Professor Jill White, Dean (24 April 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC 891 (Adelaide)
Senior nurses from South East Asia and the Western Pacific have joined those in Australia to develop a strategy to fight the SARS virus. The conference has been organised by the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Gillian Cowlishaw (24 April 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
A review of Gillian Cowlishaw's book 'Blackfellas Whitefellas'. Cowlishaw is a Senior Research Fellow at UTS. Her book presents the black -white relations in the western NSW town of Bourke with accuracy. Her techniques include good old fashioned interviewing and observation.

Ruth Thompson (27 April 2004)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
No university in NSW has yet received any of the Federal Government's promised equity scholarships. Universities have not received the final guidelines for scholarships allocation. Ruth Thompson of the UTS Equity and Diversity Unit says it's been "a mad scramble" to work out guidelines, advertise and find staff to assess applications.

Dr Cameron Tonkinwise (27 April 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Radio Adelaide
A design exhibition in Sydney addressed issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, social equity and community. Dr Cameron Tonkinwise says this is the age of small and reducing Government and sustainable design is not going to come from this sector. He says designers have much more power than legislators. He says students are becoming more and more cynical and believe big business is the problem and nothing can be done.

Cathy Lockhart, Director of Industrial Design Program. (27 April 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC 702 Sydney, ABC 666 Canberra
A walking stick has won first place in the student design category of the Australian Design Awards in Sydney. Cathy Lockhart, director of the Industrial Design program at UTS describes the new walking stick, which comes with interchangeable grips, an alarm if the user falls, an inbuilt torch and is height adjustable.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams (29 April 2004)
Information Technology
The Glebe
The Australian Robot Soccer Open was held at UTS recently. The ultimate aim of the world-wide RoboCup competition is to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can defeat the human world soccer championship team by 2050 says UTS professor Mary-Anne Williams.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams (30 April 2004)
Information Technology
Channel 9
Professor Mary-Anne Williams of the University of Technology, Sydney demonstrates robot puppy soccer. Professor Williams says the robot puppies are programmed to try to score a goal. She says essentially it is a computer that receives input from its camera sensor and the output is information it sends to its motors. Professor Williams says it is furthering research in robotics. She says Japan is trying to develop a humanoid robot that can look after aged people.

Adjunct Professor Peter Manning (30 April 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Jewish News
UTS Adjunct Professor of Journalism, Peter Manning, claims that The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald coverage of the Middle Eastern crisis has helped foster "a new kind of racism" that has contaminated the Australian psyche.