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Dr Ian Cornford (January 2005)
Education
Instyle
According to psychologists and educators, learning throughout your adult life is good for the mind, body and soul. Learning is not just for kids - it may be the fountain of youth. Ian Cornford, Senior Education Lecturer at UTS says, "research suggests that as we age we lose both mental and physical capacities if we don't use them".
Dr Nong Zhang (January 2005)
Engineering
Engineers Australia
Researchers at UTS have developed a powertrain test rig - a simulator that allows for newly-designed transmissions to be tested without the need for a car body, road or driver.
James Arvanitakis (January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Internet.au
How modern social networks are evolving - through technology and smart thinking - to reclaim power for the people. UTS based counter-globalisation movement researcher James Arvanitakis relates a local example. 'The day before the celebration of John Howard's time in parliament, text messages went out to let people know there was going to be a peaceful protest to remind him that while he was sitting around celebrating, refugees are still being locked up."
Dr Devleena Ghosh and Professor Stephen Muecke (1 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Devleena Ghosh and Professor Stephen Muecke of UTS are working on a Australian Research Council project on culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean. In the wake of the tsunami disaster, they discuss why Australia must promote links with its neighbours in the Indian Ocean.
Dr Mike Minehan, Head of Communication, (1 January 2005)
Insearch UTS
Sydney Morning Herald
Live footage of the tsunami disaster has the greatest impact on our interest in it according to Dr Mike Minehan. "There were so many people with handicams and without them we wouldn't have the same sense of the power, the noise, the terror," he said. "It's not the biggest catastrophe of the last 100 years, but with images we can see what actually happened and feel almost like we were there."
Associate Professor Douglas Tomkin (4 January 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
In a material age, everything has a use-by date. Planned obsolescence has long been a staple conspiracy theorists. Nowadays, many mass-market consumer products are built to a budget and therefore don't last so long. Douglas Tomkin, head of industrial design at UTS says, "if you say a certain product only has a certain length of life, then you can usually engineer it in a cheaper way."
Professor Claude Roux, Director, Centre for Forensic Science (6 January 2005)
Science
Radio 2UE
Professor Claude Roux explains the process of DNA testing bodies of people killed in the Tsunami disaster.
Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (8 January 2005)
Jumbunna
SBS TV
Forum discussion on the future of indigenous affairs in Australia. Reconciliation Australia Co-chair Jackie Huggins outlines why she is disappointed with the state of indigenous affairs in Australia, speaking against government action such as mainstreaming. UTS Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies Larissa Behrendt agrees with Ms Huggins.
Chris Reidy (11 January 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Reducing Australia's greenhouse gas pollution by trapping carbon dioxide underground is a complex, expensive proposition that will be a long time coming, according to Chris Reidy a senior research principal for the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures. Reidy says, "geosequestration should not be ruled out as an option, but even if the technology proves workable, it can never be the sole solution to greenhouse gas abatement."
Jennifer Burn (12 January 2005)
Law
The Australian
Sex slaves are being shown the same disregard by authorities as is dished out by their traffickers. Jennifer Burn, a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UTS says, "the problem is that the authorities are taking a far too rigid and narrow view of the government action plan. The anti-trafficking package promised women protection if they came forward to help authorities but the visa system is too complicated."
Dr David McKnight (12 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
David McKnight replies to an opinion piece by Louis Nowra in which the playwright asserted that communism and fascism were equal in giving rise to brutal regimes. McKnight argues that whatever the failures of the regimes that claimed to be Marxist, the ideology itself had been based on rationalism, science and progress. "Hope and optimism were associated with Marxism in a way that was impossible with fascism," he said.
Sally Campbell (15 January 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
ABC Radio National
Discussion about our current transport system with Sally Campbell, Senior Research Consultant at UTS.
Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (16 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio 2GB
Discussion with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald about how people are different from suburb to suburb. She says people construct themselves to be like their immediate neighbours because "it feels safe when you get up in the morning and you know who you have to be all day."
Eva Cox (17 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Newcastle
Chairperson of the Women's Electoral Lobby and Senior Lecturer at UTS, Eva Cox, discusses the outcome of a recent poll into women leaders in politics, describing some of the successful women of the recent past and the problems they experienced. "Women get judged differently from men - the same fuss is not made when men make the same mistakes as women."
Peter James (18 January 2005)
Information Technology
Computerworld
With support for Window's NT 4.0 servers ending on December 31 2004, Microsoft's offer of a flat fee for a two-year custom support program has failed to win over Australian IT managers.
Peter James, Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations at UTS, said that while the university still has NT installations for non-critical applications, the end of free support "has no great impact". "We are not too perturbed. It's not a serious issue for us. If we ever needed support, Microsoft would help us," he said.
Dr Jeff Fitzgerald (19 January 2005)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
There are encouraging signs for undergraduate hopefuls as the slump in university applications and the injection of new places is expected to relax entrance scores across the nation, in all but the most sought-after courses. UTS Registrar Jeff Fitzgerald said meeting course targets and setting cut-offs was "always a challenge". "Cut-offs are a serious consideration for any university and we are certainly very conscious of it," he said. "It sends a signal to the market, for better or for worse."
Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (20 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Discussion with Professor of Sociology Andrew Jakubowicz from UTS about the unthinking use of symbols and images, like the swastika, identified with brutal regimes. Jakubowicz finds it extraordinary that Telstra has used an image of Lenin in its advertising. He feels that too much baggage is carried by an image of a person such as Lenin, and so it is not as 'cool' or 'funky' as the advertising agency presumably thought it should be.
Rebekka Sommer (21 January 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
The Pentecostal style of worship is a hit with young people and now other churches are getting into the spirit. Adolescent psychologist Rebekka Sommer from UTS says the new churches are tapping a demand for guidance and belonging. "By and large we live in isolation; the music, the support and the community provided by churches can make young people feel enormously better about themselves."
Alison Gwilt (22 January 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Channel 10
Alison Gwilt, Head of Fashion and Textile Design at UTS, says that education is essential to pursuing a career in fashion design, but there are a few things to consider before starting a course, like being prepared financially and having family support. UTS design graduate Katia Spies talks about her plans to plans to become a film and TV stylist.
Dr Melanie Kan, Research Fellow, (25 January 2005)
Institute for Information and Communication Technologies
The Australian
UTS researchers are examining how workers in large multi-site organisations use technology with a view to improving communications. Researcher Melanie Kan says the project is designed to foster collaboration between agency sites. "We want to understand the national network and look at ways workers can feel comfortable communicating with each other," she said.
Associate Professor David Wilson (25 January 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
UTS's IT Faculty made more offers this year as it was required to take 50 per cent more students than last year - "a tough ask in the current IT market " according to Associate Dean of IT David Wilson. UTS made a total of 295 offers but dropped the entry score in its main Bachelor of Science in IT from 85.3 to 83.2. "We think in the current climate that's a pretty good result ," he said.
Dr Antony Kidman (26 January 2005)
Science
AAP, ABC Radio News, The Courier-Mail, Sunshine Coast Daily, North Shore Times
Dr Antony Kidman, Director of the Health Psychology Unit at UTS, has been honoured for his research with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his service to health, primarily in the field of cognitive behaviour therapy. The author of more than 140 publications and eight books, Dr Kidman has for three years been using the therapy with troubled teenagers.
Dr Catherine Cole (28 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC 720 Perth
Writing lecturer at UTS Cathy Cole discusses her book "Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks", an interrogation of crime fiction. She talks about the attraction of crime fiction and its enduring popularity, discussing Sherlock Holmes and authors including Patricia Cornwell and Agatha Christie.
Associate Professor David Wilson (28 January 2005)
Information Technology
The Australian Higher Education
Universities are going to new lengths to promote computer courses as the hip subject for school leavers to study in response to several years of diminishing interest in the discipline. The Associate Dean of IT at UTS, David Wilson, said IT faculty heads in NSW were "coming round to the view that to hit target markets we have to get into television advertising". The idea had yet to get off the ground because of the high costs.
Debra Adelaide (29 January 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Weekend Australian
Debra Adelaide, the author of two novels and a UTS writing program lecturer, gives a personal view on the pleasures of reading. She says, " ...that is the feeling I get from any so-called good read, that its author wrote it for me alone, that she or he somehow looked into my heart and understood exactly what I desired."
Dr Christopher Bajada (30 January 2005)
Business
Sunday Telegraph
Four years after the introduction of the GST the amount of undeclared cash payments now totals at least $4.6 billion. The size of the cash economy is almost impossible to monitor, but UTS's Dr Christopher Bajada calculated it as 14.1 per cent of gross domestic product in 2003.
Professor Mike Ford (30 January 2005)
Institute for Nanoscale Technology, Science
ABC Radio National
Professor Mike Ford from UTS talks about some popular applications of nanotechnology, such as sunscreen.
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