Associate Professor Wendy Bacon (1 June 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Journalism lecturer and investigative journalist Wendy Bacon discusses if there is room for investigative journalism these days given there are less resources in terms of money and time, especially for something like the great media story of the 20th century - the Watergate scandal.

Megan Davis (2 June 2005)
Law
ABC Radio National
Interview with Megan Davis, a lecturer in international law at UTS, who is leading a delegation to Geneva to present an alternative non-government report on how Australia fulfils its obligations under the UN convention on the rights of the child. Part of the focus will be on Indigenous children in Australia.

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (2 June 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Western Queensland (Longreach), ABC Southern Queensland (Toowoomba)
Professor Andrew Jakubowicz from UTS, a lecturer in sociology, comments on fears that Australia is becoming increasingly racist and xenophobic in light of the reaction to the verdict in the Schapelle Corby case.

Professor Andrew Gonczi (4 June 2005)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Students should be surveyed about their teachers' strengths and weaknesses and allowed to study subjects outside the set curriculum, according to the federal Minister for Education, Brendan Nelson. Professor Andrew Gonczi, former Dean of Education at UTS, said students clearly wanted to study subjects linked to the "real world". This presented educators with a challenge because the curriculum was already crowded by mandatory subjects, many of which had been ordered by politicians.

Nicky Leap (5 June 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sun Herald
Statistics show that more women are turning away from a midwife-managed natural birth and opting for specialist-led intervention. Midwifery researcher Nicky Leap argues that if more women are educated in the midwife philosophy - which promotes an acceptance of the idea of surrender, of giving in to the body's natural rhythms and using and respecting mothers' innate wisdom - they may see that there is a point to all the pain and pushing.

Professor Shirley Alexander, Dean (8 June 2005)
Education
The Australian
While online courses are expanding rapidly, Australian universities still post out traditional print study packages to tens of thousands of students who are studying by more conventional distance education methods. Shirley Alexander, Dean of the Faculty of Education at UTS, says, "The big fear in the 1990's was that students would flock en masse to online learning. But the fears were unfounded. Students are not used to learning entirely online. What has happened instead has been an exponential growth in blended learning which combines face-to-face teaching with online."

Dr Sarah Edelman (11 June 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Celebrity anger management and Russell Crowe's 'phone throwing incident'. Sarah Edelman, a psychologist at UTS says, "Some people may have learnt from a very early age that when they have a tantrum or when they are aggressive, people give in to them - it does give people power."

Susan Sherringham (11 June 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Weekend Australian
From the disappearing dining room and shrinking back yard to our love affairs with bathrooms, Swedish furniture and bush architecture, the way we live has changed. Susan Sherringham, lecturer in interior design at UTS says, "It's the era of 'I can have everything, we will have it because we can'."

Jennifer Gilmore (12 June 2005)
Executive and Admin
Sunday Herald Sun
The phrase 'use if or lose it' does not only apply to your body but also your mind. Article on 'The Mind Gym workouts. One client is Jennifer Gilmore Director of HR at UTS. Together with senior staff she went through a series of workouts last year.

Professor Stuart White (13 June 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
The nuclear power option is expensive, ineffective and unnecessary according to Professor Stuart White, the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS. "There are more than two choices in the debate on how to meet future energy needs," he says.

Dr David McKnight (13 June 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC 666 Canberra, Radio National
China's Chairman Mao died almost three decades ago but there is still a boom in "propaganda art" among western countries. Dr David McKnight, lecturer at UTS, says the symbols of Communism have thus been emptied of their content.

David Grant (15 June 2005)
Business
North Shore Times
David Grant, a lecturer in Event Management at UTS, has been honoured as a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to business and commerce to the community through promoting sport, business and charitable events and support for education and training programs.

Associate Professor David Wilson (15 June 2005)
Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald
Careers in IT looked anything but glamorous after the 2000 dotcom crash. But now the gloom is lifting the industry faces a shortage of skills and students. Associate Professor David Wilson from UTS said applications for IT courses have fallen dramatically in the last three years. "Despite the news that the job market is picking up, IT is not yet returning to the radar of as many students as we had hoped," he says.

Professor Claude Roux (16 June 2005)
Science
Cairns Post, Daily Mercury, Kalgoorlie Miner, Morning Bulletin, Illawarra Mercury and Gladstone Observer, Adelaide Advertiser, Daily News, Maitland Mercury. Daily Advertiser, Sunday Canberra Times, News Mail
Television crime shows are giving Australians an unrealistic understanding of forensic science, a Sydney academic says. Director of the UTS Centre for Forensic Science Professor Claude Roux said Australians needed to remember that TV crime shows such as CSI are not real life. Believing the shows reflected reality could have serious complications when it came to justice.

Associate Professor Michael Dawson (17 June 2005)
Science
Channel 10 (National Australia), Channel 10 Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
The number of forensic students has skyrocketed, reflecting the popularity of crime scene TV shows. In university labs, students are learning how to solve crimes. Professor Michael Dawson from UTS says there is an enormous focus on forensic science with new concerns about terrorism. Upcoming graduates will work with police as experts. UTS was the first to run the forensic science course in 1994 with 22 students and now around Australia there are 2,000.

Francine Garlin (17 June 2005)
Business
Australian Doctor
GPs have an 85 per cent loyalty rate that many businesses would be over the moon about, says Francine Garlin, an expert in consumer behaviour and a lecturer at the school of marketing at UTS.

Professor Theo van Leeuwen, Dean (20 June 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Professor Theo van Leeuwen has taken up his new role as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS. He was previously Director of the Centre for Language and Communication at the University of Cardiff.

Professor Eng Chew (21 June 2005)
Business, Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Professor Eng Chew has recently been appointed foundation professor of the research chair in business and IT strategy at UTS. Some of his aims while at UTS are to attract PhD students whose work has the potential to be commercialised and also to research how enterprises can use IT to create new business and increase profits.

Professor Margaret Burchett (22 June 2005)
Science
Northern Star, Ballina Shire Advocate, Tablelands Advertiser Western Sun, Shoalhaven & Nowra News Chronicle, Walcha News, Townsville Sun, East Gippsland News, Post - Albury, Bendigo Advertiser, Area News, Mildura Midweek
With research showing the air inside buildings can be more polluted than the air outside, an experimental study was done on the role of plants in improving the quality of indoor air. Margaret Burchett from UTS, who headed the research team, said micro-organisms in the soil proved to be just as important as the plant in the air cleansing process. "Plant and soil together could reduce total pollutants by up to 75 per cent."

Professor Claude Roux (22 June 2005)
Science
ABC Online
Scientists have developed a new way of detecting whether celebrity photos are the real thing. The technique, which uses computer generated holograms, could also be used to prevent hackers from tampering with sensitive legal images, including fingerprint records and medical scans used as evidence in court. Professor Claude Roux, Director of the Centre for Forensic Science at UTS, believes the main advantage of this technology is not that it detects digital fraud, but that it makes it possible to identify where the primary image came from, which will be useful for verifying the image.

Associate Professor Len Perry (22 June 2005)
Business
ABC Southern Queensland (Toowoomba) & ABC Western Queensland (Longreach)
A Hervey Bay whale watch operator has called for trade sanctions to be imposed against Japan if they flout the International Whaling Commission's decision not to allow the resumption of commercial whaling. Len Perry from the School of Finance and Economics at UTS says Australia would lose a lot from imposing trade sanctions. Perry believes that continued diplomacy would be more productive.

Jennifer Stanger (23 June 2005)
Law
Ballarat Courier, Fraser Coast Chronicle, North West Star and AAP Newswire
More than 1000 women are living in slavery in Australia after falling victim to human trafficking rings, a human rights advocacy group says. Jennifer Stanger, a co-director of the Anti-Slavery Project based at UTS, said an alarming number of women who wanted to migrate to Australia fell victim to the false promises of human traffickers.

Associate Professor Patrick Keyser (23 June 2005)
Law
Australian Financial Review
The states will have to rely on the political process, not the High Court, if they want to preserve their industrial relations powers writes Patrick Keyzer, an Associate Professor in Law at UTS.

Mike Minehan (25 June 2005)
Insearch
The Courier-Mail
The news that Douglas Wood has made a $400,000 deal for an exclusive interview with Channel 10 has raised the issue of disparity between images of Wood the humanitarian and Wood the mercenary. Mike Minehan, the Head of Communications at Insearch UTS, says, "Where chequebook journalism is associated with a story it is almost invariably a soft story without the hard questions being asked."

John Allen (25 June 2005)
Business
Weekend Australian
Event management is about vision and planning to make things look effortless. "Festivals and special events bring people together to celebrate, to remember, to support and to identify as a community or nation," says John Allen, foundation director and current business development manager of the Australian Centre for Event Management, a centre devoted to training and research in event management at UTS.

Francine Garlin (25 June 2005)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on the 10 silliest things we can do with Technology. UTS marketing lecturer Francine Garlin puts our mistakes down to complacency. "Communication technology can sometimes give us a sense of anonymity and perhaps a false sense of security in terms of the consequences of what we are doing," says Garlin.

Dr Sarah Edelman (26 June 2005)
Science
Sun Herald, Sunday Age
Happiness is like a muscle, and positive thinking is the exercise that boosts it. These include having enough money for necessities and being engaged in work or another rewarding activity as well as close relationships and religion says Dr Sarah Edelman, psychologist and lecturer at UTS.

Kaye Remington (27 June 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Australian Financial Review
Universities must equip project managers with an ever wider range of skills. Kaye Remington, course director of the postgraduate management program at UTS, says that at its most basic, project management is about 'the management of change'. Project management is experiencing its best-ever growth, with the Australian Institute of Project Management being inundated with membership applications.

Simon Walsh (27 June 2005)
Science
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Interview with Simon Walsh, lecturer in forensic biology at UTS. Walsh discusses how TV shows like CSI have made forensic biology look glamorous. He says the job is rewarding, but not glamorous. He says the hardest jobs are working with degraded or decomposed tissue.

Professor Bijan Samili (28 June 2005)
Engineering
Australian Financial Review
Sydney Water has given the private sector just 26 months to build and commission a $2 billion desalination plant. According to Bijan Samili, a Professor of Structural Engineering at UTS, a desalination project of this type should take three to four years to complete not 26 months.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (28 June 2005)
Jumbunna
Radio Adelaide
The Government appointed body that replaced ATSIC released a draft set of principles this month which has some observers concerned about the future direction of land rights. There are concerns the principles could lead to economic development of Aboriginal land by non-Indigenous people. Larissa Behrendt, Director of Jumbunna at UTS, says she is concerned the National Indigenous Council is not a body truly representative of Indigenous interests.