Associate Professor Graham Nicholson (1 February 2006)
Science
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Associate Professor Graham Nicholson discusses research on whether the red-back anti-venom can be used to treat widow spider bites overseas. Nicholson explains the similarities between red-backs and widows and discusses the differences between red-backs and funnel webs.

Dr Cameron Tonkinwise (1 February 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Radio JJJ
Dr Cameron Tonkinwise from UTS agrees that recycling is a psychological success. He says plastics should be tossed into power stations and explains that plastics are more valuable as energy than as product, unless it is pure plastic. He promotes reusing glass and plastic. Tonkinwise says the Carr Government squashed a drink container deposit legislation review by UTS.

Associate Professor Michael Dawson (1 February 2006)
Science
ABC
Nicole Anastos, an Australian researcher has developed a new test for mushrooms that produces a glowing light if they contain the hallucinogenic ingredients that make them 'magic'. Associate Professor Michael Dawson, Head of Chemistry, Materials and Forensic Sciences at UTS, says Anastos's work is interesting chemistry, but he doesn't think it offers any real advantage over existing tests.

Professor Caroline Homer (2 February 2006)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on giving birth at home. Professor Caroline Homer, Director of the Centre for Midwifery and Family Health at UTS, says women are carefully screened before they are admitted to the home birth program to make sure they are low-risk patients, according to guidelines developed by the Australian College of Midwives. Each birth is attended by two midwives equipped to deal with medical emergencies and there are protocols for transferring to a hospital if necessary.

Associate Professor Geoffrey Riordan, Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning (3 February 2006)
Education
Adelaide Advertiser
Article on State and Federal funding for Government and non Government schools. Would it be fairer if public funding to private schools was based on their assets and fees rather than their students' home addresses? "On the basis of delivering even greater equity in terms of school funding - probably,'' says Associate Professor Geoffrey Riordan, Associate Dean at UTS and a specialist in private and public school funding. "On the basis of the complexity of administering it - I just don't know. It opens up so many other issues to examine as well.''

Bryce Peters (7 February 2006)
Science
Vega 95.3 FM
Bryce Peters from UTS talks about fleas. He says fleas do well under the correct temperature and high humidity. He says these days we can rely more on prevention of fleas than treatment. He details some of the methods to prevent fleas on animals.

Mike Minehan (7 February 2006)
Insearch
ABC Gippsland
Mike Minehan from UTS talks about Eddy McGuire and the expected announcement of his confirmation as Chief Executive of Channel 9. He talks about the challenges McGuire will be facing if he gets the top job. He sees channel 9 losing its ratings dominance in news and losing it because it does not have enough popular drama.

Professor Steve Burdon (7 February 2006)
Business
ZDNet Australia
Australian information technology managers will struggle to become good chief information officers unless they learn the skills to manage the role's increasingly strategic influence on businesses, according to to Professor Steve Burdon a visiting Professor of Management at UTS. Professor Burdon said the role of CIO was 'evolving' in line with the increased pervasiveness and importance of technology.

Professor Stuart White, Director (8 February 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Radio 2UE
Compere discusses the planned desalination plant and says it looks like plans for the plant have been shelved because of the discovery of two underground water sources. Bob Debus says they are acting on the advice of Professor Stuart White from UTS.

Dr Noel Merrick (8 February 2006)
Engineering
Radio 2GB, Vega 95.3
The discovery of groundwater acquifers has provided an emergency supply of water for the city of Sydney. Discussions with Dr Noel Merrick, Director of the National Centre for Groundwater Management at UTS, who says we have never gone looking in those locations at those depths for aquifers. Drilling through sandstone is very expensive but the rock they have been drilling is yielding around 30 times the expected amount. It's a good insurance policy.

Johanna Vescio (8 February 2006)
Business
North Shore Times, Mosman Daily
Australia is stepping into a leadership role in women's sport development following a successful bid by UTS to host the 2010 World Conference on Women and Sport. With the support of the NSW Government, UTS has been chosen by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) as the base for the IWG Secretariat for the next four years, culminating in the 2010 World Conference to be held at Sydney Olympic Park. The successful bid was led by Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism in the UTS Faculty of Business Johanna Vescio.

Professor Paul Redmond (11 February 2006)
Law
Australian Financial Review
Paul Redmond is the inaugural Brennan Research Professor of Law at UTS. The position was established to honour former UTS Chancellor, Gerard Brennan. Professor Redmond was Dean of the University of NSW Faculty of Law from 1996 to 2002.

Professor Jock Collins (11 February 2006)
Business
Daily Telegraph
A new breed of thug is roaming our streets - vicious, aggressive and female. The unprecedented rise in the number of female offenders is confronting society's ideas abut the 'fairer sex' and chipping away at the stereotype that an attacker is inevitably male. Jock Collins, a professor of economics at UTS, who has written books about crime gangs, says girls are in danger of becoming the possessions of male gang members. "There is a sense of belonging but also a contradiction as the males often regard the girls as sexual possessions," he said.

Associate Professor Stephen Wearing (13 February 2006)
Business
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Associate Professor Stephen Wearing from UTS is helping craft an eco-trekking strategy for Papua New Guinea's Kokoda Track. Once subsistence farmers, villagers on the track have a growing interest in the trekkers, mostly Australians who follow in the footsteps of the soldiers. "It's the increase in numbers that has been the problem," Wearing said. He sees an environmental impact in terms of toilet facilities near waterways, and buildings made out of material not appropriate to the area.

Louise Remond (13 February 2006)
Science
Manly Daily
Historically the teenage years have been painted as a time of turmoil and family stress as children inevitably rebel against parental control and push out into a risky world. Psychologist Louise Remond from UTS said 10-15 per cent of teenagers might have significant problems but a number of studies had shown most teens were happy and got on well with their parents.

Associate Professor Robert Steele (14 February 2006)
Information Technology
The Australian
Researchers at UTS will use ontology-based technology to develop software that can overcome information barriers between buyers and sellers in a marketplace. Lead researcher Robert Steele said "Ontology refers to a dictionary of the basic concepts in any particular domain put into a data format."

Associate Professor Chris Nash (14 February 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Australian Higher Education
The media has played it both ways on free speech and are now in a precarious situation over cartoons of Allah. The Director of the UTS Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, Chris Nash, says the Government's assault on free speech goes well beyond sedition and to the practice of journalism itself.

Professor Denise Dignam, Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) (15 February 2006)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Campus Review Weekly
Professor Denise Dignam, a nursing academic and advocate for the expansion of the role of nurses in health care delivery, is the new Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at UTS.

Jennifer Thornley (16 February 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Gippsland
Jenni Thornley, a Lecturer in Film at UTS, talks about the war on terror reaching a new front with a new comic novel with Batman taking on Osama bin Laden. The author of the graphic novel Frank Miller concedes the book is a piece of propaganda.

Associate Professor Wendy Bacon (18 February 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Age
The court of public opinion has sided with the Indonesians in the Bali nine sentences. In the words of media academic from UTS, Associate Professor Wendy Bacon, the two condemned, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were as remorseless as "mini Mr Bigs" and they had probably done similar smuggling operations before. Perhaps too Schapelle Corby might not have done their causes any good. Especially when other drug links to her family might have soured public sympathy for the nine.

Marie Flood (20 February 2006)
Executive and Admin
ABC Online
Article about rural communities worried by the Telstra plan to remove thousands of phone boxes. Marie Flood, who is the Manager of Financial Assistance at UTS, says it is wrong to assume everyone has a mobile phone and therefore public phones are not needed. Students use public phones, even those who do have a mobile, as a large proportion are on low incomes.

Marilyn Scott (24 February 2006)
Law
Australian Financial Review
A handful of Australian lawyers has begun revolutionising the practice of family law, requiring warring couples to sign contracts promising they will not go to court and refusing to act for them if they do. Marilyn Scott, a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UTS, organised the first collaborative law training course in Sydney last year. Ms Scott said, "The burn-up rate for family lawyers is really quite high."

Eva Cox (24 February 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Reflecting on John Howard's 10 year rule. Eva Cox, a senior academic in the UTS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences says Howard's most striking legacy has been to popularise the term "un-Australian". "The year before Howard came in there were only a handful of mentions of the term on the internet, now there are hundreds and hundreds of mentions."

Jennifer Cornwall (24 February 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Area News
A project known as "Fruit of our Labour: Italian Stories of the Griffith Area: Thematic History" saw locals bring precious items along in an attempt to conserve the proud Italian history of the region. Project consultant from UTS, Jennifer Cornwall, was on hand for the first round of community consultations for the project, to document the lives and experiences of the Italian community.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (27 February 2006)
Jumbunna
98.9FM Brisbane
Talking to Professor Larissa Behrendt from UTS about her new position as Director of Research at Jumbunna. Behrendt states that she has always sought to attract young Indigenous researchers to work on Indigenous policy issues.

Dr Hugh Pattinson (28 February 2006)
Business
The Australian
DIY net business booms. Dr Hugh Pattinson from the School of Marketing at UTS says people starting an online business need a good idea and to be able to put together a good mix of online and offline resources. A successful online business requires pooling of all the right resources to make it look good online and to be able to deliver. The biggest thing, especially if it's a physical product, is fulfillment.