Dr Ken Hudson (1 May 2004)
Business
The Age, Sydney Morning Herald
Those at the top are increasingly seeking innovative ideas and input from those lower on the ladder, so now is the time to speak up. "It's the next big opportunity for sales and marketing people to take leadership role in innovation," says Dr Ken Hudson, a lecturer in creative marketing at UTS.

Professor Jane Hall (1 May 2004)
Business, Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Weekend Australian
Most people depend on our general practitioner to recommend a specialist when there is the need to seek further medical advice. Jane Hall, Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at UTS says "GP referrals tend to have more to do with the specialists they trained with rather than performance."

Eva Cox (1 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Good Taste
Australian-born Eva Cox and her daughter Rebecca ( Australian Good Taste's editor) may share the same genes, but they rarely share the kitchen. While Eva is a great cook, much to her daughter's frustration, she doesn't do things by the book. Eva is currently a senior lecturer at UTS's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Alison Gwilt (2 May 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sun Herald
Sweat and hard grind in the rag trade often overtake the glamour you might expect from the industry. UTS Director of Fashion and Textile Design Alison Gwilt said most graduates started their career as an assistant fashion designer. "It's hard to get a foot in the door and most students do it through work experience, by volunteering for Fashion Week, volunteering for fashion shows and helping the labels wherever they can," Gwilt said.

Sonya Pearce, School Of Management (3 May 2004)
Business
3CR
The Government has proposed to wind down ATSIC, a decision widely opposed by Aboriginal leaders. Sonya Pearce sees the attack on ATSIC as a collective attack on Aboriginal people. She says that there will be 1800 people who will lose their jobs at the demise of ATSIC.

Associate Professor Chris Nash (3 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Associate Professor Chris Nash of UTS speaks about the freedom of the press. Professor Nash says the media has an assumed Anglo-Christian perspective rather than a diverse perspective. He says journalists have a central role in the politics of knowledge and that journalists and the public should act together to ensure accurate news reporting.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams (4 May 2004)
Information Technology
Radio Adelaide
Teams of Sony AIBO robot puppies battled it out for supremacy at the Australian Robot Soccer Open at UTS last month. The Australian Open is the first in a series of competitions leading up to the Robot Soccer World Cup - or RoboCup. Professor Mary-Anne Williams talks about the robots and the technology.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Booth (5 May 2004)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
During the past few years it has been getting tougher for undergraduates to get a midyear offer to a NSW or ACT university. UTS looks like making more offers this year than last. Deputy Vice-Chancellor Peter Booth says the University has over-enrolments under control, therefore there is more need for a mid-year top-up.

Chris Hepperlin, Director, Student Services Unit (6 May 2004)
Executive and Admin
City Weekly
Once a degraded industrial area, Gumal Ngurang is now the home to students from all over the world. The 253 bedroom apartment complex, representing a significant boost in student accommodation at UTS, has been opened. UTS Student Services Director Chris Hepperlin says it offers solo and share self-catered living, with a fit-out to meet the special needs of students.

Professor Michael Adams. (6 May 2004)
Law
Business Review Weekly
Directors of failing companies who try to jump the queue of creditors had better watch out. Michael Adams, Professor of Corporate Law at UTS comments on ASICS's investigation of the Charles Abbott matter. He says it was easier than most cases because the HIH Royal Commission had uncovered so much information.

Professor Warren Hogan (7 May 2004)
Business
AAP
Following the leak which revealed nursing home fees were to increase, Labor's acting spokesman for ageing Stephen Smith urged the government to release the Hogan report on aged care to coincide with Tuesday's Budget. Complied by UTS academic Professor Warren Hogan, the report examined aged care funding and canvassed a range of associated issues, including controversial nursing home bonds.

Ruth Spence-Stone (7 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Ad News
Without a proper framework to develop and implement advertising ideas, creative strategists are in danger of drowning in an ocean of conformity according to Ruth Spence-Stone, a lecturer in advertising at UTS.

Professor Michael Adams (7 May 2004)
Law
Australian Financial Review
Teleconferencing is efficient, but users miss out on body language cues.
Michael Adams, from the UTS Centre for Corporate Governance and a lecturer in corporate law for more than 17 years, says body language and "the unsaid things" are very important in business deals and can be lost when using high-tech communications.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (8 May 2004)
Law, Jumbunna
The Age
Larissa Behrendt's first novel is a heartfelt, personal response to the government policy of removing Aboriginal children from their families.

Professor Andrew Gonczi and Associate Professor Geoff Riordan (10 May 2004)
Education
The Australian
It is claimed that private schools typically have more money and staff to manage difficult students and the leeway to expel troublemakers, whereas Government schools are required to take students without regard to behaviour problems. A recent report by UTS academics Geoff Riordan and Andrew Gonczi has challenged this view, finding that the majority of students expelled from non-government schools subsequently enrolled in another non-government school or TAFE, or gained employment.

Professor Warren Hogan (10 May 2004)
Business
Daily Liberal (Dubbo)
Next week's federal Budget will include significant extra spending on aged care.
The Government will release it's response to a report into aged care funding compiled by Professor Warren Hogan of UTS.

Dr Sarah Edelman and Louise Remond (10 May 2004)
Science
Daily Telegraph
A new book seeks to help young people through the potentially emotional upheaval of being a teenager. 'Taking Charge' is written by Sarah Edelman and Louise Remond, psychologists from UTS. The book is written in teenage-friendly language and is a practical guide to managing emotional problems that arise during adolescence.

Debra Hayes (10 May 2004)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Boys are leaving school early at double the rate of their female peers in some areas of Sydney.
Debra Hayes, a lecturer at UTS's Faculty of Education, said the gender imbalance in school retention rates was not necessarily a cause for alarm. "If you look at women's overall performance in the labour market, the higher-paying jobs are not necessarily going to girls who finish school," she said.

Murray Pratt (10 May 2004)
Institute for International Studies
Sydney Morning Herald
Study abroad remains a rarity for Australian university students. Few courses have mandatory requirements for overseas study and the opportunities for external placements are limited.
Murray Pratt, Acting Director of the Institute for International Studies at UTS said "It is now quite common in Europe for students to have second languages and exchange experiences as part of an undergraduate degree." UTS offers a Bachelor of International Studies, with a focus on language, culture and in-country study, as a combined degree with most other degrees at the university.

Louise Remond (10 May 2004)
Science
ABC Radio National
Louise Remond discusses her new book ' Taking Charge; Practical Ways to Overcome Stress, Hassles and Upsetting Emotions', a book which has been written for teenagers. Ms Remond says cognitive behaviour therapy can be used with teenagers who have high stress levels to allow them to release some of that anxiety and participate more fully in life.

Dr Sara Lal (10 May 2004)

ABC Northern Tasmania
Dr Sara Lal of UTS is researching computer software technology to detect brain activity that indicates fatigue in drivers.

Associate Professor Heather Goodall (12 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
National Indigenous Times
When Indigenous activist and human rights advocate Isabel Flick began the process of telling her life story, she didn't know she wouldn't see it's completion. 'Isabel Flick: the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman' was co-authored by Associate Professor Heather Goodall of the UTS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, who was asked by Flick to help record her memories.

Ajoy Gosh, lecturer. (13 May 2004)
Law
Sydney Morning Herald
The thrill of releasing a computer virus has outweighed the threat of small penalties, but the latest arrest might have vandal programmers turning on each other. Ajoy Ghosh, a lecturer in the faculty of law at UTS, states that there are two primary motives for most virus writers: malice and "masturbatory gratification".

Professor Sharon McKinley. (13 May 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
There have been many studies and reports into nursing shortages both in Australia and overseas. A professor of critical nursing at UTS, Sharon McKinley, says nursing shortages are a global phenomenon. "Despite many inquiries, task forces and arising recommendations, there are still issues about being 'overworked and underpaid'."

Professor Lesley Barclay (13 May 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
The director of the UTS Centre for Family Health and Midwifery, Professor Lesley Barclay, says overuse of baby bottles is widespread in Australia and is having serious nutritional consequences.

Professor Christine Duffield (13 May 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC Illawarra
Professor Christine Duffield discusses the difficulties facing nurses on International Nurses' Day. Professor Duffield says a three-year study is underway to determine if the workload for nurses is heavier now because patients stay for a shorter period and come into hospital in a more serious condition.

Jann Mehmet (13 May 2004)
Science
AAP
Acupuncture and Chinese herbs are to be scientifically tested as a treatment for male infertility in Australia's first trial of traditional Chinese medicine as a fertility enhancer. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and researcher Jann Mehmet has begun recruiting subjects for her study at UTS, to begin on 3 July.

Professor Peter Manning (14 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC 720 Perth, ABC New England North West
Peter Manning discusses the images of torture of Iraqi prisoners. He says the media considers who makes up the audience before deciding on what images to broadcast. The implication of violence can be just as bad as the image of violence which Pulp Fiction and all of Hitchcock's movies were based on. The big question is how far up the line did instructions to torture of Iraqi prisoners go.

Jann Mehmet (14 May 2004)
Science
Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier-Mail, Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga), Burnie Advocate
Researcher Jann Mehmet will use herbs and acupuncture in Australia's first scientific trial of traditional Chinese medicine as a fertility enhancer. "I found that on many occasions in as little as six weeks after acupuncture and herbal medicine, significant improvements could be verified by analysis," she says.

Professor Dexter Dunphy (14 May 2004)
Business
Australian Financial Review
Professor Dexter Dunphy of UTS discusses the book 'A Bias For Action: How effective managers harness their willpower, achieve results and stop wasting time.'

Professor Larissa Behrendt (15 May 2004)
Law, Jumbunna
Weekend Australian
Larissa Behrendt talks about her first novel, based on a family tragedy with society-wide implications. "One of the reasons I wrote 'Home' is because these are stories that have humanity in them. And the Government's attitude just meant that I felt a stronger commitment to make sure those stories do get the recognition and the space that they deserve."

Keri Spooner (15 May 2004)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Cyberblogging has become common as office staff sneak online to shop, trade shares or scan for porn. But bosses often keep tabs. Keri Spooner,a senior lecturer in employment relations and human resource management at UTS says the law in advanced economies generally recognises the right of individuals to 'reasonable' communications with family and friends during working hours. In this respect, the internet is no different from access to a newspaper or to a telephone during working hours.

Dr Glen Searle (17 May 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney faces a challenge to place jobs in areas close to new population centres and reliable transport. A senior lecturer in urban planning at UTS, Dr Glen Searle, said Sydney will continue to lose it's share of industry to the Gold Coast and south-east Queensland if traffic volumes grow to a point that freight movements are strangled.

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (17 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald has been appointed to head UTS's Trans/forming Cultures Communication Research Centre, which explores the impact of globalisation on community communication.

Dr Glen Searle (17 May 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Councils are studying proposed changes to State planning laws, claiming the current law allows developers to build massively oversized buildings. Glen Searle, a senior lecturer in urban planning at UTS, said when councillors did not grant leeway under State Environmental Planning Policy 1, developers appealed to the Land and Environment Court.

Associate Professor Stephen Wearing (18 May 2004)
Business
Daily Telegraph
Associate Professor Stephen Wearing, from the School of leisure, Sport and Tourism at UTS, said people were increasingly looking for open space and demanding better amenities in parks. "With urban density increasing more and more people are looking for open space, particularly families with young children," he said. Parks are becoming overcrowded, with children waiting in line for swings and the grass getting thinner from overuse.

Thomas Chiu and Ian Dobinson (18 May 2004)
Law
Radio Adelaide
The mistranslation of 'playing mah-jong' in Chinese as 'collecting money' in English could have sent a man to jail for a crime he did not commit. Chinese speaking lawyer and UTS academic Thomas Chiu heard the tape of the recorded interview and corrected the translation. The magistrate eventually discharged the man and no conviction was recorded. This case drove Chiu and his colleague Ian Dobinson to advocate for an overhaul of the system for translation in New South Wales criminal courts.

Associate Professor Heather Goodall (18 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio Adelaide
A new biography of Aboriginal Activist Isabel Flick gives a rare insight into a dark chapter of Australia's indigenous history. Flick grew up in a camp in Northern New South Wales and challenged the oppressive racism of rural Australia, demanding desegregation and justice in education, work, health and in the legal system. Heather Goodall has documented the struggle for Aboriginal Rights for many years and is an Associate Professor in the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS.

Chris Hepperlin, Director, UTS Student Services (19 May 2004)
Executive and Admin
Koori Mail
New accommodation at UTS is officially opened. The 253-bedroom apartment complex named Gumal Ngurang, or 'friendly place', was completed last year and was named in the Cadigal Aboriginal language. UTS director of student services Chris Hepperlin says the University is particularly proud that it is able to support a significant number of it's full-time Indigenous students in it's accommodation - more than 20 - who come from isolated rural areas.

Dr Devleena Ghosh (19 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
SBS Ethnic Radio
Discussion about Sonia Gandhi stepping down from politics in India. The history of Indian politics is discussed and the perception that Indian voters have been betrayed by the move. Dr Devleena Ghosh talks about the influence Sonia Gandhi will continue to have over the party.

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (19 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Campus Review Weekly
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS has appointed Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald to head Trans/forming Cultures, the key UTS Research Centre in Communication and Culture.

Professor Derek Eamus (19 May 2004)
Science
Molong Express
Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could threaten world food supplies in another hundred years. Professor Derek Eamus from UTS said carbon dioxide levels have risen from 280 parts per million in the 18th century to 370 parts per million at the present time. Continuation of this trend would affect nutrition in wheat and the quality of feed for livestock . Plants would become more prone to frost damage and would be poorer in nitrogen.

Hank Chiu (20 May 2004)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
One day, microwaving the heart may become the routine procedure for treating irregular heartbeat disorders. At least that's the hope of Hank Chiu from UTS where he and other researchers are developing a device that will "cook" areas of the heart to produce a lesion that blocks abnormal electrical signals. The UTS research was reported in the journal "Chemistry and Industry".

Caitlin McGee (20 May 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
For those who admit to feeling the chill, there are smarter ways to operate this winter. Domestic heaters and their efficiency are discussed and Caitlin McGee, an architect and senior researcher with the Institute of Sustainable Futures at UTS warns that "every degree you increase the thermostat setting adds 10 per cent to your heating costs."

Associate Professor Heather Goodall (20 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Wentworth Courier Central
Indigenous activist and matriarch Isabel Flick challenged the suffocating racism of rural Australia, demanding desegregation and justice in education, work, health and law.
Associate Professor Heather Goodall, from UTS 's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences collaborated with Isabel on the book about Isabel's life, recently launched at UTS.

Dr Ronald Wood (20 May 2004)
Science
Daily Mirror (UK)
Brighten your home with leafy house plants and you could banish allergies, boost your immune system and even improve your sex life. New research shows that house plants can make you healthy and happy. Dr Ronald Wood, an indoor air scientist from UTS says indoor plants stabilise humidity by evaporating water through their leaves. They damp down dust - a trigger for allergies - filtering airborne dust.

Dr Michael Hill (22 May 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Weekend Australian
Dr Michael Hill, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Design at UTS, was an observer at SupaNova, a pop culture expo in Sydney. Hill, who has a doctorate in Australian comics, says kids who attend these shows often don't relate to the usual role models. "If you look at the Japanese comics that a lot of girls now like, their male heroes are fairly inarticulate - they just stand there and look good; they're not at all macho. It's an alternative to mainstream culture, mainstream heroes."

Dr David McKnight (22 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Mark Mordue talks about the risk journalists and media professionals are taking when reporting in war zones in an attempt to get a breaking story and remain competitive with other networks.
Former journalist and media historian David McKnight from UTS says any war still allows for a very old fashioned style of journalism: eyewitness reporting of what happens in front of you without any filters.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (23 May 2004)
Law, Jumbunna
Sunday Telegraph
Larissa Behrendt was the first Aboriginal student to be accepted into Harvard's prestigious law school at 24. Since then she has become a Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS. She says she doesn't really see herself as the serious academic type. "I'm more a thirty-something who loves shoes! I guess you could say I'm pretty much a girlie girl."

Dr Sarah Edelman (24 May 2004)
Science
ABC 702
Tony Delroy is joined by Dr Sarah Edelman for a discussion on the topic of confidence and shyness. Edelman says she usually urges people to 'fake it until they make it'. Edelman says the reality is that most people are not paying as much attention to us as we assume and social anxiety tends to be caused by 'an over focus on ourselves'.

Lyn Shoemark, Director , Institute for International Studies (24 May 2004)
Institute for International Studies
ABC Radio National
Lyn Shoemark agrees that Australia will be left behind if nothing is done about allowing students to travel. She says there are community and individual benefits in working in different cultures and that students who travel appreciate Australia an awful lot when they return. Ms Shoemark calls for greater government support to make living costs easier. She suggests grants which students don't have to repay - also current grants are not enough.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (25 May 2004)
Law
Bulletin with Newsweek
Book review of Larissa Behrendt's first novel 'Home'. "This is a tale of how Aboriginal Australians figure in, or disguise themselves, or are despised within the national history in the 20th century" comments Peter Pierce. "It is a confident and challenging debut."

Professor Jane Hall, Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (25 May 2004)
Business, Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC Radio National
Dr Richard Madden says that in 2001-2, Australia spent $66.6 billion on health, which was up by 8.1 per cent from the previous five years. Professor Jane Hall says that people are prepared to pay more, but want value for money.

Professor Stuart White (25 May 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
New benchmarks for kerbside recycling systems have been created following two studies recently completed by the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation. Professor Stuart White of UTS says more economically efficient kerbside collection systems almost certainly increase the contamination rate of the material collected. "Kerbside recycling is very efficient for paper but is less so for mixed containers," he said.

Dr Devleena Ghosh (26 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Dr Devleena Ghosh of the UTS Centre for Transforming Cultures speaks about dissent. Dr Ghosh says she was wrong when she thought protests would stop Australia's participation in the war on Iraq. She says in the world's most effective democracies governments who don't deliver are rejected. Ms Ghosh believes US world leadership is finished. She says most people in poor countries experience every day the type of fear the US has experienced since September 11.

Alana Clifton-Cunningham and Alison Gwilt (27 May 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Daily Telegraph
Miss Australia, Jennifer Hawkins, sashayed in a steel grey ball gown featuring maps of the Sydney CBD and Harbour. UTS Fashion lecturer Alana Clifton-Cunningham said swimwear "was a distinct Australian style." UTS Director of Fashion and Textile Design Alison Gwilt said the national costumes should be respectful.

Professor David Goodman, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) (29 May 2004)

Sydney Morning Herald
Wealthier, rapidly modernising Asian economies are connecting hundreds of millions more to globalised communication networks. It is what China specialist David Goodman calls an increase in the speed of daily life. "People meet more, they communicate more, they are busier and all kinds of things change. it is a cultural change."

Eva Cox (30 May 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Channel 9
Discussion of the crisis in child care in Australia, including the extent of child care waiting lists and the wages and conditions for child care workers. Eva Cox comments.

Jann Mehmet (31 May 2004)
Science
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Jann Mehmet knows how successful Chinese medicine can be in treating male fertility and now she's planning to put it to the test in a world-first scientific trial. "One of the great myths of Chinese medicine is that it's not scientific," she says. "There's more to this than fertility. Sperm analysis is a good way of showing a man's general health."