Jennifer Burn (August 2006)
Law
Madison
Article on the slave trade in Australia. There are an estimated 1,000 trafficked women in Australia. Jennifer Burn, a law academic at UTS and Director of the Anti-Slavery Project said although Sydney and Melbourne are the main hubs, Brisbane, North Queensland, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin are emerging destinations for trafficking. It is about commerce, profit and exploitation. We are a destination because we are a market. Someone in the industry said that the profit from one enslaved woman can be as much as $20,000.

Maureen Henninger (August 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Practical Parenting
Article on using the internet, especially for medical advice in relation to children. A growing number of parents use the internet to find medical advice about their children's ailments - but there are many traps for the unwary. Maureen Henninger, a senior lecturer in information and knowledge management at UTS believes everyone should approach internet research with scepticism - ask yourself why you should trust what you are reading. Some sites are more credible than others, those with .edu or .org tend to carry more authority as they are educational or not-for-profit organisations.

Guy Callender (August 2006)
Business
CIO
Article on supply chains. "Alliances have been forged between competitors in circumstances once regarded as unthinkable, the formation of the General Motors, Daimler-Chrysler and Ford e-commerce procurement empire being an outstanding and challenging example," said Guy Callender from the School of Management at UTS at the Smart 2001 conference in Sydney.

Professor Jock Collins (2 August 2006)
Business
SBS Ethnic Radio
Research by Monash University has found that only 16 per cent of male migrant graduates from non-English speaking backgrounds have secured a professional job in the five years to 2001, compared to 35 per cent of male graduates from countries including Britain, the USA, Canada and New Zealand. Professor Jock Collins from UTS says the gap could be attributed to the difficulties in recognising overseas qualifications. Also there is evidence of racial discrimination in the labour market.

Michelle Zeibots (3 August 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
ABC Radio 702 Sydney, 2GB
Light rail seems to be back on the agenda with the Liberal Opposition embracing the idea. Peter Debnam said he will build a loop line from Central to Circular Quay if he wins the next election. They want to attract people back to public transport. Michelle Zeibots from UTS's Institute for Sustainable Futures says that the proposed extension would be a waste of money.

Andrew Benjamin, Associate Dean, Research (4 August 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Article written by Andrew Benjamin, "Israel does not act or speak for every Jew". Benjamin is a Professor at UTS and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He says what endures for many as an outrage is Israel hijacking the Holocaust for its political ends.

Professor Archie Johnston, Dean (7 August 2006)
Engineering
2TM (Tamworth)
Students across the north west interested in engineering have the opportunity to win one of 20 scholarships being offered by the Roads and Traffic Authority. The bursaries will pay for an engineering degree at UTS. Interview with Professor Archie Johnston, Dean of Engineering at UTS.

Dr Murray Pratt (10 August 2006)
Institute for International Studies
Sydney Morning Herald
Doing part of your degree overseas as an exchange student has many benefits. UTS is one of the few Australian universities whose international studies program requires students to spend a year overseas. Murray Pratt from the Institute for International Studies says students can combine "almost any degree offered" with an international studies degree.

Professor Shirley Alexander (11 August 2006)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Podcasting has emerged as the latest innovation in university classroom teaching. Various disciplines are using it at UTS and other universities. The Dean of Education at UTS, Professor Shirley Alexander, opposed a systematic rollout of podcasting on the grounds that lecturers may limit interactive activities in class that cannot be recorded.

Professor David Booth (11 August 2006)
Science
ABC North Coast NSW (Lismore)
Interview with Professor David Booth, UTS marine ecologist. Speakers at a recent conference have called for adequate funding of marine research and greater consumer awareness of sustainably caught seafoods to ensure that many fish species avoid extinction in the future.

Professor Ross Gibson (12 August 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Australian Financial Review
Article on online advertising. Ross Gibson, a research Professor of new media and digital culture at UTS says the new generation of online media consumers is unlike those that underpinned the growth of newspaper radio and TV media. The generation known as "Y" has never known life without the internet. "They learn by a process of self-discovery, unlike previous generations that learn by following instructions."

Dr Colleen Chesterman (12 August 2006)
WEXDEV
The Age
Article on female bosses. According to a study by Dr Colleen Chesterman from UTS, staff said they found their working environments more congenial, collaborative, goal-focused and people-oriented when women made up at least 30 per cent of the top three ranks of management.

Professor Stuart White, Director (14 August 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Courier Mail
Eight mayors opposed to the construction of Traveston Dam will pay for a study seeking other water solutions. One of Australia's leading water resource planners, Professor Stuart White from UTS, has been recruited to propose options.

Dr Chloe Mason (15 August 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on cycling. Chloe Mason, a visiting fellow at UTS, and a sustainable transport consultant, works with companies to develop transport access guides - maps on business cards or brochures that explain how to get to places by public transport, walking or cycling.

Jennifer Thornley (16 August 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
SBS Ethnic Radio (Melbourne)
Discussion about what is propaganda - false or misleading information to support a particular agenda. UTS Lecturer in Documentary Film Making Jenni Thornley has traced the evolution of propaganda since WWII.

Professor Martin Nakata (16 August 2006)
Jumbunna
Koori Mail
Article by Stephen Hagan about how we need to foster a generation of Indigenous Australians who recognise and reap the benefits of a good education and pass them on to future generations. He mentions a conference he attended on the Gold Coast, how inspirational and challenging papers were presented, one of which was Professor Martin Nakata from UTS.

Professor Stephanie Donald, Director (17 August 2006)
Institute for International Studies
ABC Radio National, BBC World News
China is continuing its crackdown on foreign media and entertainment, this time turning its focus to cartoons. Professor Stephanie Donald, Professor of International Relations from UTS, says China is looking at protecting children and there are concerns with sexualisation of girl figures in Japanese animation.

Dr Catherine Cole (17 August 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Catherine Cole, author and researcher at UTS, talks about Beyond Khe Sahn, a literary tour of Vietnam, and the people who have written about the Vietnam War in Australia and Vietnam. Cole talks about the new feelings in Vietnam and the new generation.

Dr Delveena Ghosh (17 August 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Interview with Dr Devleena Ghosh from UTS about a documentary called Outsourced, focusing on the social shifts in India from call centres. Ghosh says there is now a class of young people in India who are for the first time independent of their families financially at a very young age.
Working in call centres has changed their lives.

Garry Glazebrook (19 August 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on the car, urban sprawl and the light rail system. Garry Glazebrook, an urban transport consultant and urban planning lecturer at UTS, argues that in Sydney $10 billion has been spent on freeways and tunnels in recent decades and despite this traffic has grown more than twice as fast as the population. Glazebrook has written a light rail proposal for the City of Sydney and supports it in heavily used road corridors, not just in the city but possibly elsewhere such as between Parramatta and Epping.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (22 August 2006)
Jumbunna
3CR Melbourne
Interview with Professor Larissa Behrendt from UTS to discuss violence in Aboriginal communities and the recent media coverage of it. Behrendt says she is an Indigenous Australian and a lawyer. She says often in Aboriginal communities it is the women who take the initiative to deal with social problems such as alcohol abuse and violence.

Professor Richard Cashman (22 August 2006)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
The great cricket scandal. The first thing to understand is that international cricket teams are not like other sporting teams. Professor Richard Cashman from the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at UTS says cricket teams hold a unique place in a country's psyche. "They are connected into the national culture much more than other teams."

Dr Michael Hill (23 August 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Darwin
Discussion with Michael Hill from UTS about the censoring of the depiction of bad habits such as smoking and violence from old cartoons such as Tom and Jerry. Hill says in the time the cartoons were made, smoking was more acceptable. He says MGM, which made Tom and Jerry, was renowned for being "wholesome" and compares the cartoon to the contemporary program the Simpsons.

Associate Professor Noel Merrick (24 August 2006)
Engineering
Radio 2UE
Discussion with Associate Professor Noel Merrick of the National Centre for Groundwater Management at UTS about water bores and the aquifer under Sydney. Merrick says the water tends to concentrate in more permeable formations such as sands. In sandy soil there could be 25 to 30 per cent of rain water reaching the water table.

Professor Peter McNeil (27 August 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Launceston Examiner
Shoes are not just for feet, they are objects of power and communicate our personality. Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History at UTS, has examined the importance of shoes in all cultures and the connotations associated with specific shoes. This also applies to men, particularly young men in the US and Japan.

Associate Professor David Wilson (28 August 2006)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Universities are sprucing up their IT degrees by adding majors in computer games and animation. Associate Dean at UTS, David Wilson, said taking high numbers of students into games courses could create more problems. "Kids play computer games and think 'this could be a cool job', we don't want to create false expectations of where you might go with this qualification," he said.

Dr Debra Adelaide (29 August 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Courier Mail, Hobart Mercury
Books should inspire great expectations. The consequences of not offering children Australian classics is well captured by Debra Adelaide, a lecturer in writing at UTS who grew up in a home with few books. In the current edition of Australian Author she reflected, "when I was younger It never occurred to me to seek out titles in the Australian section, where I might have discovered Eleanor Dark or Miles Franklin or Katharine Susannah Pritchard or any number of authors."