Professor Jill White, Dean (July 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
UTS offered direct entry to a midwifery bachelor course this year. UTS Dean of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Professor Jill White, said the university had been waiting for the necessary legislative reform to enable it to happen. "We have been very clear from watching the experiences of maternity services in the UK and New Zealand that it was not necessary for someone to be a nurse first before they made a fine and appropriate midwife."

Professor Mark Lyons (July 2005)
Business
Charter
There is a misconception that not-for-profit organisations do not make money. The fact is, many do, and there are accounting implications. Mark Lyons, a professor of social economy at UTS, said NFPs nevertheless behave very differently from for-profit organisations as their goal is to provide some benefit to others.

Dr Catherine Cole (July 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Monthly
Article on the significance of Vietnam in Australia's postcolonial history and prominence in our literary culture. Catherine Cole teaches teaches writing at UTS where she researches and writes about Australia's Vietnamese writers.

Rick Best (1 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Courier Mail
Brisbane is one of the most expensive cities in the world in which to build a five-star hotel. Professor Craig Langston from Deakin University and Rick Best from UTS are working on a more effective cost analysis tool called Building Blocs, which will allow a better comparison of construction-specific costs between countries.

Dr Suzanne Benn (2 July 2005)
Business
The Age
Companies with good environmental and social records have a better chance of attracting talented employees, delegates were told at the Australian Human Resource Institute national convention in Sydney. Dr Suzanne Benn, a researcher at UTS,says there a direct link between the environmental and social behaviour of organisations and their capacity to attract talented employees. She says surveys show that many students rank corporate social responsibility as a priority when choosing where to work.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (3 July 2005)
Jumbunna
ABC 774 Melbourne
Former Senator Aden Ridgeway is becoming a researcher at UTS. Professor Larissa Behrendt said Mr Ridgeway has a strong business acumen and cites the success of the Bangarra dance company and positive outcomes for Aboriginal people through his work.

Alexia Bannikoff (4 July 2005)
International Office
Australian Financial Review
The Government has been criticised for ignoring calls to make health cover for overseas students compulsory for the entire period of study in Australia. Alexia Bannikoff, International Director at UTS, said that despite sound arguments for compulsory cover for the whole period of study, universities had to remain vigilant about imposing extra costs on students.

Associate Professor Wendy Bacon (4 July 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Predictions that mainstream journalism has passed it heyday have not stopped thousands of would-be-scribes applying to the nation's 20 journalism schools. A doyenne of investigative journalists, Wendy Bacon, who teaches at UTS, said the real challenge for journalists is to find an audience with young people who are turning away from print media. "We have to think of more creative ways of using multimedia to bring real depth rather than duplicate what's in the papers."

Associate Professor Nick Smith (6 July 2005)
Science
The Australian
Parasites cost the Australian economy hundreds of millions of dollars a year and represent a threat as a weapon of terrorism. About 300 specialists from across the country will come together for the first conference of the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council Network for Parasitology this week. Associate Professor Nick Smith, chief investigator at the UTS Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, said parasites cost the Australian sheep industry alone about $220 million a year in treatment and production losses.

Vince Mangioni (6 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Article on taking advantage of a softer real estate market and the consequent drop in building costs by upgrading your property. Vince Mangioni, a lecturer in property and valuation studies at UTS says it is important to look around the streets in which you live and determine if what you propose to do will be totally out of character, or could in fact be the beginning of a trend for that street or suburb.

Jim Irish (6 July 2005)
Engineering
ABC Coast FM
Following the torrential downpour last week many people have found, to their misery, that their insurance policies did not cover slippage and landslides. Jim Irish from UTS is a specialist in risk and uncertainty, environmental risk assessment, disaster insurance, flood and drought acceptability. He explains the insurance definition of flood, which varies from company to company.

Dr Robert Steele (6 July 2005)
Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald
The test version of the Google Earth satellite map that was quietly rolled out last week is an interactive tool designed to fly you "from space to street-level views to find geographic information and explore places around the world." While the service is free to consumers, Google retains the right to put advertising on the maps in the future. According to Dr Robert Steele, a senior lecturer in computer systems at UTS, such location-based marketing is likely to have a large impact on future search engine revenues.

Dr Catherine Cole (6 July 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on princesses - the favourite fantasy of Australian women. Academic and author Dr Catherine Cole from UTS likens shows such as 'The Nanny' to a fairy godmother transforming hyperactive kids into obedient children, and believes plastic surgeons and renovators transforming your face or home can be equated to handsome princes. "I wonder what people really think happens when those programs end. You have transformed the external but what you think motivates your unhappiness - will that change?"

Associate Professor Marion Haas (7 July 2005)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
A landmark Australian study is being formulated to help the health food industry get its message across. "We would like to point marketers towards a more scientifically rigorous idea of what encourages people to take up healthier lifestyles," says Associate Professor Marion Haas from UTS. The study, which is being launched today comes under the auspices of the Australian Technology Network of universities' new Centre for Metabolic Fitness.

Professor Richard Cashman (7 July 2005)
Business
ABC 666 Canberra
London overnight won the right to host the 2012 Olympics. Professor Richard Cashman from UTS says England is spending a lot of money on sports and sporting infrastructure and in 2012 they could be quite competitive. Professor Cashman says there has been a sports "brain drain" of Australians to England.

Associate Professor Nick Smith (7 July 2005)
Science
ABC Channel 2 Sydney. Brisbane & Hobart, ABC Channel 6 Darwin
Associate Professor Nick Smith from UTS is interviewed about Australian scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute winning a $28 million research grant from Microsoft founder Bill Gates to produce a malaria vaccine. They are also working on a vaccine for tape worm.

Francine Garlin (8 July 2005)
Business
AAP
The contamination threat against Snickers and Mars chocolate bars has raised questions about the vulnerability of food manufacturers to extortion. UTS Marketing Lecturer Francine Garlin says consumers were likely to stay away from chocolate bars for some time. "There can also be a flow-on effect to other brands within the group - consumers simply react by not buying the product until they are aware the crisis is over."

Dr Martin Kornberger (8 July 2005)
Business
Australian Financial Review
Article on the failure of marketing by Martin Kornberger of UTS. In the early days of mass production, Kornberger says, customers were happy to get decent quality products for a decent price. But the more demanding consumers got, and the more industry players promoted more and more diverse products through the same channels with the same message, the harder it became to bridge the gap between product and customers.

Professor Bijan Samali (9 July 2005)
Engineering
New Scientist, The Australian
When an earthquake strikes, it is not just modern concrete or brick buildings that are damaged or destroyed. Traditional adobe houses, which shelter around a third of the world's population, are just as vulnerable. Now a team led by Bijan Samali, Director of the Centre for Built Infrastructure Research at UTS, has developed a cheap, simple way of reinforcing existing adobe houses to help them withstand quakes.

Dr David McKnight (11 July 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
AAP
To sell its "exclusive" TV story on lax airport security to the public, the Seven Network had to convince viewers a young woman had smuggled a box-cutter on board a regional NSW flight. Senior journalism lecturer at UTS David McKnight, said the idea behind the report was legitimate but it obviously ran the risk of legal action right from the beginning. "There seemed to be strange contradiction - they told the public that they took a box-cutter on a plane, but their legal defence was that this did not necessarily happen," Dr McKnight said.

Jennifer Burn (12 July 2005)
Law
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Despite recent legislative amendments, visas remain an issue for victims of human trafficking. UTS law lecturer and director of the Community Law Centre, Jennifer Burn, said further reform was urgently required to address the right of victims of trafficking to Australian visas. "We currently require victims of trafficking to give evidence in sex crime trials and for that evidence to be useful before they get a visa. This is like saying to a rape victim you are not going to get any help unless you give evidence."

Professor Claude Roux (12 July 2005)
Science
ABC Radio News
Professor Claude Roux from the Centre for Forensic Science at UTS discusses how evidence is found and used amid the destruction of the London bomb attacks. The management of the scenes of the attacks is crucial and must be investigated systematically, and it is amazing what can sometimes be found in situations like these.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (12 July 2005)
Jumbunna
Radio JJJ
A new study has looked into how the Federal and State Governments are handling health issues for Indigenous people. Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS, explains the report done by the Productivity Commission and how it can help provide information for Government.

Pat Brodie (13 July 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Liverpool Champion, Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser, Camden Advertiser,
Leading midwifery activist Professor Pat Brodie has been appointed to a clinical chair in midwifery practice development and research - a joint appointment between UTS and the Sydney South West Area Health Service. The new chair has been established to support research on innovative models of maternity care and clinical practice development in midwifery. Brodie completed her professional doctorate in midwifery at UTS last year.

Professor Angelo Karantonis (14 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
BASIX the new environmental standard builders must attain for single and dual occupancy dwellings across NSW to reduce water consumption and energy emissions is still voluntary in multiunit buildings until October. Angelo Karantonis, head of construction, property and property management at UTS argues green buildings produce long-term economic benefits. "Based on a Californian sustainable building report an initial payment of $100,000 to incorporate green building features into a $5 million project would result in savings of $1 million over the life of a building."

Dr Carolyn Currie (15 July 2005)
Business
Channel 2
The long term aim of the Federal Government's future fund is to help cover the superannuation costs of public servants through the sale of Telstra. Some, like Dr Carolyn Currie from UTS, think the money would be better spent on infrastructure.

Associate Professor Lynette Schaverien (16 July 2005)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
How much electronic gaming should you allow your children. Pervasive technology coupled with kids pester power is only adding more challenges to our already complex lives. Associate Professor Lynette Schaverien from the Faculty of Education at UTS says sometimes education can be a very single track proposition that teachers set and expect from children. "But in technological contexts there can be multilevel narratives so they can learn to develop solutions to multi-factor situations."

Dr Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (17 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Campus Review Weekly, Australian Financial Review
Dr Sandra Kaji-O'Grady has joined UTS as its head of the School of Architecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. One of only two women currently heading architecture schools at Australian universities, Kaji-O'Grady is renowned for her research on the transfer of ideas and techniques from other disciplines and industries to architecture.

Dr Michael Hill (20 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Forget the cartoon laughs, fantasy characters and even porn, the new comics are deep, dark and intricate works of art. Michael Hill, Director of the Master of Animation Course at UTS says, "When talking about comics or graphic novels, we will often use the term sequential art. The phrase has helped advance an appreciation of comics, their intricacy and their role within the culture".

Associate Professor Nick Smith (21 July 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Associate Professor Nick Smith from UTS is surrounded by parasites. Smith and his team are developing a vaccine for eimeria, a parasite that lives within chickens and affects their growth. They are also investigating toxoplasma, a parasite which can lead to congenital defects or cause spontaneous abortion in pregnant women.

Dr Sara Lal (21 July 2005)
Science
The Glebe, The Australian
Researchers at UTS have teamed with software developer Forge Group to design a centralised safety monitoring system for the aviation and heavy transport industries. Dr Sara Lal said the SmartData application will have the capabilities of detecting and warning of potentially hazardous changes in operator environment and dips in human performance and so reduce the likelihood of accident and error.

Professor Michael Adams (21 July 2005)
Law
SKY2 (National Australia)
Segment on Steve Vizard's insider trading case. Professor Michael Adams, corporate law expert from UTS, explains why ASIC sought civil action rather than criminal action against Mr Vizard. Professor Adams says a civil action is in front of a single judge rather than a judge and jury.

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (22 July 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Age
Article by Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at UTS. Multiculturalism is a two-way street. To work, it requires a high degree of mutual respect.

Professor Richard Cashman (22 July 2005)
Business
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Interview with Richard Cashman, Professor at UTS and sport historian, about who Gertrude Moran was. Richard says she was not a great tennis player or particularly attractive but wore decorative lacy panties at Wimbledon in 1949 creating a sensation.

Hugh Morris (25 July 2005)
Business
Australian Financial Review
Financial planners are putting the final touches to a comprehensive makeover they hope will transform a motley crew of unregulated practitioners into a group of smartly polished professionals. Hugh Morris, the Director of Graduate Financial Services Studies at UTS, pointed out that the door had been left open for lesser qualified planners to do a basic diploma course with a registered training provider and still receive a licence to practise from the corporate regulator. "Why do three years of purgatory when you can do 18 months of TAFE," he said.

Dr Sara Lal (27 July 2005)
Science
Daily Advertiser
Australian software developer Forge Group is working with researchers at UTS to design a centralised safety monitoring system for the aviation and heavy transport industries in relation to fatigue. UTS researcher Sara Lal is an internationally recognised expert in the area of driver fatigue and transport safety and her work is already contributing to the development of vigilance monitoring for the railways.

Professor Angelo Karantonis (27 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Jimboomba Times
Sustainable or "green" construction makes commercial sense, but the property market does not yet attach the premium value that resource-efficient developments deserve according to Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis, who is the head of the School of Construction, Property and Project Management at UTS. "Highly rated sustainable buildings should be worth more money," he said.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (28 July 2005)
Jumbunna
ABC Radio National
Interview with Professor Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies and Director of Jumbunna at UTS on the topic of boys. Professor Behrendt introduces the problems of gender and aboriginality. She takes the position of the underdog on the issue. She says men are feeling "objectified".

Sue Halbwirth (28 July 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Over the next decade a host of baby boomers with perhaps 30 years and more experience will be leaving the workforce. Persuading employees to participate in knowledge sharing is important but can be very difficult. Sue Halbwirth, a senior lecturer in knowledge management in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS, said one idea is to develop a network of alumni - retirees with valuable knowledge about how the company works who may be given an honorary role to help out those now trying to do their job.

Dr Jules Harnett (30 July 2005)
Engineering
Manly Daily
Dr Jules Harnett was the first Australian woman to "winter over" at the South Pole, spending 12 months in temperatures as low as minus 77 degrees, having two-minute showers twice a week and no fresh food for months. She is currently a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at UTS but her passion is astronomy. Her year-long observations on the Milky Way and star formation has earned her a research fellowship at Harvard University. She is moving to Boston shortly.

Dr Cameron Tonkinwise (30 July 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Article about overconsumption written by Dr Cameron Tonkinwise, Director of Design Studies at UTS. Tonkinwise says "Affluenza", the latest publication from the Australian Institute, claims that Australia is a society of pathological shoppers. He says the research in the book does not prove this, but it does document that a majority of Australians believe that Australians are too materialistic.