Associate Professor David Wilson (October 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Technology and Business
The IT sector is grappling with rapidly changing supply and demand for skills that are becoming increasingly specialised and diverse. Associate Dean of Education at UTS David Wilson said, "I think that many in the industry associations don't really understand what we do at university." Wilson acknowledges that universities are facing numerous challenges, not least that meeting rapidly emerging demand for new skills is like "turning an oil tanker".

Professor Sharon McKinley (October 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
A trial has begun in Sydney and Brisbane of a home-based physical rehabilitation program it is hoped will help survivors of critical illness get back on their feet a lot faster. Led by a team of investigators including Sharon McKinley, Professor of Critical Care Nursing at UTS, the study will evaluate whether a program of individual tailored exercises and follow-up can improve the physical and psychological recovery of people just out of ICU.

Professor Jackie Crisp (October 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
A UTS nursing professor has won a prize in the Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing for her adaptation of a standard university text for undergraduate nurses. Jackie Crisp, Professor of Child and Adolescent Nursing at UTS, won the award for "Crisp and Taylor: Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing" second edition.

Professor Archie Johnston (October 2005)
Engineering
Executive Engineer
Professor Archie Johnston, Dean of Engineering at UTS and president of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans, moved into management after having been challenged to rewrite one of his major research projects so that its findings could be used as a basis for new legislation. "It is no longer good enough to produce technical experts. Graduates also need other skills such as communication and commercial understanding," said Professor Johnston.

Professor Anne Ross-Smith and Keri Spooner (1 October 2005)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
The attitudes of other women employees can be a stumbling block for women in charge. Keri Spooner, a human resources management expert from UTS, believes this stems from
females having been socialised to accept unequal power distribution between men and women. "You will hear many women say that 'the worst boss I ever had was a woman'," she said. Associate Professor Anne Ross-Smith from UTS said the widely accepted culture of being wholly devoted to the office is an issue for women in senior roles.

Dr Antony Kidman (4 October 2005)
Science
ABC New England North West (Tamworth)
It is a very stressful time for students gearing up for the HSC. Dr Antony Kidman from UTS believes that it is imperative that parents reassure their children there are many other options other than going to university.

Francine Garlin (5 October 2005)
Business
Australian Associated Press
A survey on Australian spending habits revealed Aussies are making savvy financial choices so they can hold onto life's little luxuries. All consumer transactions were driven by thoughts of how the consumer could best maintain or enhance their lifestyle in some small way, according to marketing lecturer at UTS Francine Garlin.

Tony Sweeney (7 October 2005)
Science
Central Coast Express-Advocate
Angry Forresters Beach residents have vowed to fight plans to build a $60 million retirement development. Tony Sweeney, a biology academic at UTS, said he was concerned also about the impact the development would have on the lagoon and endangered wetland and heathland habitats.

Louise Remond (8 October 2005)
Science
New Idea
According to clinical psychologist Louise Remond of the Health Psychology Unit at UTS, the pressure is on for teenagers to make important decisions, but they don't always have the capacity to make them. "Individual choice is not necessarily a bad thing, providing we remember that as a teenager our ability to rationalise is still developing," she said.

Dr Sarah Edelman (8 October 2005)
Science
New Idea
Short breaks create productive people. Dr Sarah Edelman, who is a psychologist and lecturer at UTS, says engaging in leisure activities is important for maintaining quality of life. We hear a lot about stress and potential consequences for our physical and mental health, and there is no doubt living with ongoing stress is potentially harmful.

Eva Cox (8 October 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on rise of "raunch culture" among young women. It seems many women, particularly under 30, have a far more laid-back and liberal attitude to things like porn and strip clubs. Eva Cox, a feminist academic and senior lecturer at UTS, says aspects of raunch culture such as binge drinking and casual sex suggest women are imitating men and there is an assumption that "if men do it, we want to do it too". "It is not something to be deeply distressed about, it is not the end of feminism, it is about young women asserting themselves."

Dr Viviana Wuthrich (8 October 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
A study of 320 students in this year's HSC has uncovered deep despair, with may describing the exams as the "be all and end all" moment in their lives. The Health Psychology unit at UTS, which conducted the survey, has taught stress management techniques to 2200 year 12 students this year. Viviana Wuthrich, a clinical psychologist, said many students were "really freaking out" but had been helped with cognitive therapy so they could recognise and challenge stressful thought patterns.

Associate Dean Tim Laurence (8 October 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
New York industrial designer Karim Rashid's work ethic matches his towering ambition - to redesign the world. Tim Laurence, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at UTS, acknowledges the appeal and affordability of Rashid's designs, but is concerned by the proliferation.

Dr David Eager (9 October 2005)
Engineering
Sun Herald
Most Sydney playgrounds have safety problems, a senior university lecturer in engineering says. Dr David Eager from UTS will help teach a safety course designed to assist in slowing the high rate of playground injuries. The Accredited Outdoor Playground Inspection and Maintenance Course is designed for childcare workers, council employees and school professionals. Australia's playground injury rate was up to 700 per cent higher than that of Britain he said.

Dr Suzanne Benn (10 October 2005)
Business
Australian Financial Review
UTS is unique in offering a sub-major in responsible business with a separate course in sustainability. Dr Suzanne Benn who runs the course, said the sub-major was created three years ago in response to a trend detected through the school's link with businesses and increased student interest in ethics after the corporate scandals of the 1990s.

Professor Mark Lyons (10 October 2005)
Business
ABC 891Adelaide
It seems Australians are becoming more generous in their support of charity organisations. Professor Mark Lyons from UTS said individuals and businesses gave $11 billion last year to various forms of non profit organisations, compared to $3 billion in 1997.

Professor Sam Blay (10 October 2005)
Law
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Interview with Professor Sam Blay, from the UTS Faculty of Law. He was born in Ghana in West Africa and talks about the situation in his country and the use and misuse of aid. He said it is good to give aid but good management and good governance are needed as well. He said a lot of the aid that was given was through the UN and spent on paying UN staff, so it would be preferable to use local people to deliver the aid.

Dr Tanja Dreher (11 October 2005)
UTS Shopfront
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Australian Muslims are being targeted for the actions of overseas terrorists. According to a report based on the records of a NSW hotline set up after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there were 248 reported acts of violence, abuse, harassment, discrimination and vilification against Muslims in the days after the attacks on New York and Washington. Report author Dr Tanja Dreher, Research Manager of Shopfront at UTS, said there was evidence of a serious gulf between the myth of a "fair go" Australia and the reality.

Professor David Goodman (12 October 2005)
Executive and Admin
ABC Radio National
Communist party leaders have met in Beijing to discuss the country's future. Chinese specialist, Professor David Goodman of UTS, says outbreaks of violence in the country are a result of flawed Government regulation. He believes the Government needs to address the distribution of wealth under past reform practices. He says political equity and corruption are ongoing problems for the Government.

Sandy Symons (13 October 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC New England North West
According to Australia Post people don't send letters anymore. E-mailing is still about chatting said Sandy Symons from UTS, who is an avid letter writer and believes there is a place for both mediums. She said the writing in e-mails is often careless and instant, as opposed to letter writing where the style depicts insight into the soul.

Dr Martin Kornberger (13 October 2005)
Business
Australian Financial Review
Article by Martin Kornberger who is co-director of the brand consultancy PLAY and a management researcher in UTS's School of Management. "Some 75 per cent of all commercial innovations fail, yet we stick to the traditional ways of R&D. Is it time for new models of innovation?"

Sheilagh Kelly (13 October 2005)
Education
Mosman Daily
Sheilagh Kelly has been awarded a human rights/social justice award by the Vice-Chancellor from UTS. Ms Kelly has been teaching for 40 years, 15 of them at UTS, from where she retired in July. The citation on her award said, "There is barely a teacher, and consequently a learner, in adult basic education in NSW who has not gained from, or been touched by, Sheilagh's significant skill as a teacher educator."

Professor Michael Adams (14 October 2005)
Law
The Australian
Professor Michael Adams from UTS believes more judges should refer the conduct of solicitors for investigation. "If a judge feels an expert witness's behaviour is wrong because of a solicitor's input, then the judge should refer it to the regulators from the bench, then and there. Actually, getting a judge to say it's grounds for investigation would keep solicitors honest and the process more transparent," he said.

Dr Michael Hill and Dr Vicki Karaminas (15 October 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Radio National
Dr Michael Hill, Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Master of Animation Course at UTS, and Dr Vicki Karaminas, Director of Research in the UTS School of Design, discuss fashions and domestic environments in comics and animation and how these creations of imaginary worlds have fed back to the design practice of the what we like to call the real world.

Professor Shirley Alexander (17 October 2005)
Education
The Australian
Flexible learning involves more than just the use of e-mail and the Internet and has revolutionised turnaround time between the student and the academic. Professor Shirley Alexander, Dean of Education at UTS, said, "In the old days a lot was written about the loneliness and isolation of distance learning, now we have to take into account the complexity of students lives."

Michelle Zeibots (18 October 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Daily Telegraph
Secret traffic forecasts show the Cross City Tunnel was sold to the State Government and the tunnel's own financial backers on fanciful estimates that were wrong by up to 90,000 cars a day.
Traffic expert at UTS Michelle Zeibots said, "Capacity manuals used across the world limited any motorway to 2000 cars per lane per day, that gives an absolute ceiling of 96,000 cars a day - assuming the tunnel was at full capacity between 10pm and 5am."

Andrew Taylor (18 October 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
The focus will be on the future masters of the film industry at Thursday night's UTS Golden Eye Awards. Media Arts and Production lecturer Andrew Taylor said the event put industry professionals in touch with those just beginning their careers - the writers, producers, directors, cinematographers, sound designers, animators, production designers and documentary makers of the future.

Dr Katrina Schlunke (19 October 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio Adelaide (National Australia)
Talking about the authenticity of the brutal colonial wars, Dr Katrina Schlunke from UTS said looking at the diaries, letters and writings from the people in the New England area in the 1800s it was clear settlers were desperately trying to kill Aborigines because they were afraid of them. Yet in letters just a year later, Aborigines were being employed on properties - it was a complex situation.

Professor John Ellis (20 October 2005)
Science
The Land
A survey of NSW dairy cattle has found 22 per cent of the State's herd is carrying the protozoan parasite Neospora caninum, one of the most common causes of abortion in dairy cattle. The survey was carried out by UTS PhD student Craig Hall, who presented his data this week at the conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology in Christchurch New Zealand. Researchers at UTS, under the leadership of Professor John Ellis, have developed a vaccine for the parasite and are negotiating with major global animal healthcare companies for its commercialisation.

Professor Vicki Sara (26 October 2005)
Executive and Admin
Campus Review Weekly
The role of Chancellor is changing as universities become more driven by a competitive agenda. Fitting in with this new style of Chancellor is Vicki Sara who became Chancellor of UTS earlier this year. "Gone are the days of the ceremonial chancellor, where he or she shook hands and gave out degrees," Professor Sara said. "Chancellors of Australian universities are becoming more accountable and responsible for a well-functioning council and the running of a half-billion to billion-dollar businesses.

Dr Ian Cornford (26 October 2005)
Education
Campus Review Weekly
A federal policy on lifelong learning? Quite simply, there isn't one, according to vocational learning expert Ian Cornford from UTS. "The value of the accumulate capital of older workers is now being recognised, but attempts by the Federal Government to retain them in the workforce are likely to be met by a one-finger salute by those who have catered for a comfortable retirement," Dr Cornford said.

Associate Professor Andrew Cashin (27 October 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Providing health care in the criminal justice system comes with unique challenges and rewards. "The whole philosophy behind justice health care - and this is a UN demand - is that people in prisons get the same level of health care as people in the general population," said Andrew Cashin, the recently appointed Associate Professor of Nursing in Justice Health at UTS.

Associate Professor Guang Hong (27 October 2005)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
Air travel is never a drag for Associate Professor Guang Hong from UTS. The aerodynamics expert regularly jets to international conferences, reporting on how to improve fuel efficiency and reduce toxic emissions from aircraft engines. Her latest project involves reducing the drag force of a moving aircraft, which in turn would save fuel.