Francine Garlin (December 2005)
Business
Australian House and Garden
Australians love to shop, even in tough times. But our spending habits have changed and so have our stores. According to Francine Garlin a marketing lecturer at UTS, people buy something so they have a reason to go shopping. Malls have replaced the traditional town square as a place to gather. Experts describe shopping as a means of building our self-esteem, by keeping up with the latest brands. "People will consume conspicuously, as if to say 'Look at me, look what I have achieved'," says Garlin.

Bernard Yam (December 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
The UTS's new graduate certificate in cancer nursing is aimed at filling a gap: until now there was only one other course, offered by the College of Nursing in NSW. "There are so many people with cancer," course coordinator Bernard Yam said. "The latest statistics show one in three men and one in four women will die of cancer before the age of 75. We want nurses to be au fait with all the cancer nursing background and how to look after cancer patients and their families."

Dr Sarah Edelman (1 December 2005)
Science
Life etc.
Article on stress by Dr Sarah Edelman, a psychologist at UTS and author of Change Your Thinking. Headaches, lack of focus, heart palpitations: holding onto anger can feel like stress. "Problem solving and communication can sometimes provide solutions, yet not every situation is resolvable," Edelman says. "At times we need to accept that being let down by others is part of the human experience and when we are unable to change the situation, to choose to let it go."

Sue Halbwirth (1 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Image & Data Manager
Knowledge management is a way of capturing, storing and disseminating the vital information that drives a company forward. To help facilitate this, the new Australian standard provides a flexible approach to knowledge management. It recognises the diversity of companies and their document management requirements. Sue Halbwirth, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS says, "This new Standard gives senior executives, business and government leaders a flexible and iterative approach to ensure the knowledge in their organisation is created, shared and applied to strengthen the organisation."

Dr Ray Gordon (2 December 2005)
Business
Australian Financial Review
Dr Ray Gordon, Senior Lecturer from the School of Management at UTS, writes about companies introducing new forms of organising that are characterised by flatter structures, the use of teams, empowerment strategies and democratic control systems. "What is often overlooked about these new forms is that they reflect a fundamental shift in the nature of power."

Associate Professor David McKnight (3 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Article by David McKnight, author of Beyond Right and Left and a senior lecturer at UTS, on Australian Labor: the new conservatives. "The classical Labor view of the world revolves around the economy and the workplace relationship. The battle was thus over the distribution of the economic product between capitalist and worker."

Sonya Voumard (3 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Sonya Voumard, an academic who teaches nonfiction writing at UTS, glimpses the boys' own world of surfing with its daredevil thrill seekers and awestruck adventurers. Comments on various books and articles.

Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer (6 December 2005)
Law
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
UTS Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer says proposed anti-terrorism legislation is riddled with legal and constitutional pitfalls and the freedoms that the public has taken for granted are now under threat. "We have not yet had a proper debate about whether these principles should be sacrificed. Australia has no constitutional bill of rights, which means Parliament can whittle back common law civil liberties with impunity."

Dr Katrina Schlunke (6 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Discussion about Bluff Rock near Tenterfield in NSW which is an historic location near the New England Highway where a group of Aboriginals were reportedly thrown to their deaths in the 1840s. Compere speaks with Dr Katrina Schlunke, a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at UTS who wrote Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre. Her research discovered a series of massacres that took place in the region. There is strong acceptance of the Aboriginal people in the region now.

Associate Professor Sally Tracy (7 December 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Women who do not have medical complications can give birth just as safely in small country hospitals as in large specialist centres, according to a national audit which goes against the trend of small birth-unit closures. Sally Tracy, an Associate Professor of Midwifery at UTS said the results showed that if women gave birth in high-tech hospitals they could end up with medical interventions they did not need. "The technological imperative is hard to resist and has a natural tendency to spill over into the care of low-risk women."

Dr Cameron Tonkinwise (8 December 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Radio National
Dr Cameron Tonkinwise from design studies at UTS talks about sustainable designs. He nominates 'designing for sharing' as the top issue for the future. He says we need to get people off things, and make sharing more convenient than ownership. He gives tools as an example. He promotes swapping, borrowing and lending facilitated by the internet.

Associate Professor Geoff Monahan (9 December 2005)
Law
Channel 7
The presenters talk about equal parenting with Geoff Monahan, Associate Professor of Law at UTS. Monahan says there will be changes to the process of the way custody cases are handled and a change to the law governing it. He says the law will be that the child spends equal time with each parent unless the court rules otherwise. The courts will have a tougher job.

Dr Aaron Coutts (11 December 2005)
Business
Sunday Telegraph
A scientific approach to "clone" Rugby League star Nathan Hindmarsh. It's all down to a secret training machine. The revolutionary machine is designed to program every player at the Parramatta club to replicate the ironman-like performances of Hindmarsh. The yet to-be-named machine is the brainchild of leading University of Technology scientists Dr Aaron Coutts and Anita Sirotic. The pair have spent three years on the project and claim the machine could revolutionise they way athletes train.

Malcolm McKenzie (12 December 2005)
Executive and Admin
Australian Financial Review
Universities are getting better at providing vocationally oriented degrees. The demand for graduates from the finance sector is confirmed by Malcolm McKenzie, manager of the UTS careers service. "Here in Sydney we have noticed jobs growth in the financial services, with a high demand for accountants and financial planning," he said.

Dr Peter Miller and Bryce Peters (12 December 2005)
Science
Daily Telegraph
Newcastle has been invaded by unwelcome American cockroaches. In a report to NSW Public Health last year, Dr Peter Miller and Bryce Peters from the Department of Health Sciences at UTS said there were health implications. Cockroaches may feed on sewage, garbage and rotting food which all support pathogens, which are disease producing organisms.

Associate Professor Heather Goodall (13 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Compere talks with Associate Professor Heather Goodall from UTS about her research project into the use of public areas in the southern shires of Sydney. She says there are large differences between the development of communities of the north and south sides of the Georges River. She says there have been trends of subdivision and ethnic diversity - beaches are symbolic locations in Australia.

Professor Jock Collins (13 December 2005)
Business
ABC Goulburn Murray, ABC North Coast
Professor Jock Collins from UTS speaks on the riots that have continued in Sydney. There is an undercurrent of racism in Australia stemming from the first settlers' intolerance of indigenous people to the arrival of migrants. The Police response should have been bigger and quicker, but he has sympathy for the police.

Tom O'Sullivan (14 December 2005)
UTS Union
The Australian
The passage of Voluntary Student Union legislation plunges universities into a fresh crisis. Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee Chief Executive John Mullarvey said there was too much uncertainty to expect universities to give details of their plans before the first quarter of next year. His conclusion that universities could collect fees for the second semester as long as they levied them before 1 July is challenged by Tom O'Sullivan, anti-VSU campaigner for the Australasian Campus Union Managers Association and CEO of UTS Union. "We have fees for the first semester and thereafter zilch," he said. "Some universities, including UTS, levy semester by semester."

Chris Caines (14 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio 2GB
Chris Caines, lecturer at UTS and text messaging expert, says the Cronulla disturbances are the first time he has heard of mass mobilisation by SMS in Australia, though there has been mass political mobilisation in the Philippines and Spain recently. He says that text messaging is a "personal" method of communication and people will be more likely to respond than to an email.

Associate Professor Stephen Wearing (15 December 2005)
Business
Manly Daily
A local academic is helping to establish self-sustaining eco-tourism along Papua New Guinea's Kokoda Track that won't adversely affect the lives of the indigenous population. Associate Professor Stephen Wearing from UTS is completing a draft eco-trekking strategy for the area in conjunction with the Kokoda Track Foundation and Paul Chatterton of the World Fund for Nature.

Associate Professor Chris Nash (15 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Interview with Chris Nash from UTS and Mark Day from The Australian. The riots in Cronulla are due to "yobbo, frustrated young men's culture" rather than conflicts between Muslims and Christians. The media did not start the riots, but have contributed commentary and ongoing coverage. Nash says right-wing columnists and radio journalists have played a major role in fuelling tensions and should be made accountable.

Professor Archie Johnston (17 December 2005)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's engineering sector is calling on school leavers to enrol in engineering courses to address growing skills shortages in the industry. Archie Johnston, Dean of Engineering at UTS and President of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans said, "The demand for places in engineering courses is fairly flat, whereas the need for industry has escalated dramatically in the last few years." Natasha Connolly who graduated from UTS with a bachelor of civil and environmental engineering, says the industry is much broader than she realised when she began studying.

Ruth Thompson (17 December 2005)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Universities are struggling to enrol more students from low income backgrounds. According to Ruth Thompson, Deputy Director of the Equity and Diversity Unit at UTS, students from lower income backgrounds are deterred from enrolling in university because of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme and the rising cost of living.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (19 December 2005)
Law
The Age
Article on "Why go to University". Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS says, "Tertiary education should equip graduates to analyse and think innovatively within their discipline. They should not only be able to understand the current environment of their chosen profession but be able to lead and adapt to changes in that environment."

Sandra Symons (19 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age
Flashmobbing - the use of text messages to create an instant crowd - is fuelling civic unrest and racial disharmony. SMS technology allows hundreds, even thousands, of mobile phone users to converge on a nominated place. Sandra Symons, Senior Lecturer in Social Communication at UTS says, "We are being flashmobbed by hatred - it is an instantaneous, hateful call to arms. The infamous lynch mobs of America were rallied by word of mouth and were contained; the thugs rioting at Cronulla use mobile communication to marshal the collective hatred of thousands."

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (25 December 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
New Sunday Times (Malaysia)
Sociologist Professor Andrew Jakubowicz is among those who holds to the prospect that cultures in collision could produce creativity rather than conflict. "But the conditions for the positive versus the negative are very specific," says Jakubowicz, Head of the Social Inquiry Program at UTS. He is an advocate of an Australian multiculturalism that includes economic participation, governance and a strong public education system - all privileging inclusiveness and multicultural citizenship.