Professor Michael Adams (January 2006)
Law
CFO
The life of a a senior finance executive used to be just about numbers - cash flow, profit and loss, assets and liabilities and forward budgeting. Professor Michael Adams of the Centre for Corporate Governance at UTS says, "Without a doubt, we are seeing a convergence of what various parliaments around the world and also the courts are thinking, raising standards is expected of senior executives within the corporate world and in particular financial executives."

John Petty (January 2006)
Business
Retailer
Article on leasing retail premises. Too often, not enough importance is placed on negotiation and the lease ends up a one-sided affair that results in dissatisfaction and despair. Written by John Petty a lecturer in small business management at UTS.

Professor Pat Brodie (January 2006)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
Professor Pat Brodie from UTS has been appointed National President of the Australian College of Midwives. Professor Brodie was last year appointed to a clinical chair in midwifery practice development and research, a joint appointment between Sydney South West Area Health Service and the UTS Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health.

Carolyn Briggs (January 2006)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
UTS is joining with leading NSW family health organisation, Tresillian Family Care Centres, to provide a new graduate certificate in child and family health nursing from next year. Course coordinator Carolyn Briggs from the UTS Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health said Tresillian was recognised around Australia as a leader in child and family health.

Professor Stuart White, Director (January 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Engineers Australia
Article on the nuclear energy debate in Australia and how other countries are responding to the nuclear challenge. According to Professor Stuart White of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS, the cheapest greenhouse gas reduction options would include improved energy efficiency, combined-cycle gas turbine generation and renewable energy.

Marie Flood (2 January 2006)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Working while you study. Marie Flood, Manager of the Financial Assistance Service at UTS, advises students to look for a job related to their course, where possible. Pharmacy students can work at the local chemist, law students can do casual work for law firms for instance. Apart from establishing career contacts, you may find course-related jobs reinforce your learning.

Professor Geoff Smith (4 January 2006)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Professor Geoff Smith and his team from UTS have invented a concept where natural light gets to inaccessible parts of buildings, such as the ground floors of houses and deep into office blocks. A small solar collector on the roof is attached to a flexible ribbon that, in effect, "pipes" heat and glare free light to any point in a building.

Dr Kevin Broady (6 January 2006)
Science
Radio Adelaide
Slice of Science segment. Associate Professor Kevin Broady from UTS talks about a traditional oil extracted from the neem tree that acts as an anti-fungal agent. He explains the European Patents Office reversed a patent awarded to a US company because neem oil was traditional medicine.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (7 January 2006)
Jumbunna, Law
Sunday Age
The law is being forced to face the competing versions of history as it handles native title claims. Three universities are now involved in an Australian Research Council funded study with the Federal Court. Judges, lawyers, historians and Indigenous people are being asked about their perceptions and experiences of historical material. Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS, will be managing the interviews with Indigenous people.

Michelle Zeibots (7 January 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Daily Telegraph
The new Westlink M7 motorway is easing the bottleneck on the M4. Figures released yesterday show Sydney's newest tollway has drawn cars away from the M4. UTS traffic expert Michelle Zeibots said it was normal for a new toll road to have a ripple effect on the whole network and it was possible the choke point of Parramatta Road could be shifted.

Associate Professor Stephen Wearing (11 January 2006)
Business
The Australian
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," he said. He sees an environmental impact in terms of toilet facilities near water ways, and buildings made out of material not appropriate to the area.

Johanna Vescio (11 January 2006)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
It's difficult for women to compete at the top level in sport and still remain "ladylike". Johanna Vescio, a Senior Lecturer at UTS says it's all to do with stereotypes. "Heroes are strong, aggressive, can-do types - a perfect fit for sport. On the other hand, heroines are Florence Nightingale figures - nurturing and caring." Tennis is the biggest women's sport in the world.

Dr Michael Hill (12 January 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC 720 Perth
Dr Michael Hill, from UTS talks about Batman being first screened on TV 40 years ago. Its popularity led to Batman movies. He does not think the creators thought they would have such success. He talks about what appeals to people about Batman.

Dr Antony Kidman, Director, Health Psychology Unit (12 January 2006)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on resolving to live better. Dr Antony Kidman from UTS says one of the most important buffers against stress is social support. It is easy to spend time processing messages and reviewing and trashing emails but you could be doing something more important like cultivating relationships. Difficult life events occur all the time, but we know that sharing them appears to reduce the impact on our lives.

Leena Thomas (12 January 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Article about air conditioning not being the only answer. Leena Thomas, a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UTS has looked at housing styles throughout India and the Middle East as part of her research into environmentally sustainable design. "There is that rich tradition of vernacular architecture which has been about using the local materials and construction practices to address the climate of the region," she says.

Dr Garry Glazebrook (13 January 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Light rail is streets ahead in the fight to clear the streets. Studies have shown the most appropriate answer for increased capacity and a better environment is the extension of the light rail system. Input into this article by Garry Glazebrook, an urban transport consultant and urban planning lecturer at UTS.

Associate Professor David Wilson (16 January 2006)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review, Australian
Universities struggle to fill IT courses. UTS is one NSW university which will fall significantly short of its student quota this year, having made far fewer offers to students following a low number of applications. The Associate Dean of Education at the IT Faculty at UTS, David Wilson, said the department was "in crisis mode" as local students continued to shun computer courses in the wake of the dotcom bust.

Jennifer Burn (16 January 2006)
Law
The Australian, Catholic Leader
Women caught in sex slavery rackets who are unable to co-operate with police to prosecute human traffickers are abandoned by the Australian Government and forced to rely on the support of nuns, according to a report to be presented to the UN today. Senior Lecturer at UTS Jennifer Burn and Melbourne barrister Georgina Costello will present a submission to a committee hearing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which begins in New York today. Fifteen religious congregations of nuns were also involved in preparing the report.

Sue Burgess (16 January 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC
Internet users can take just one-twentieth of a second to decide whether they like the look of a website, new research has found. The finding comes as bad news to anyone hoping to convey information, says Sue Burgess a Senior Lecturer in Information Management at UTS and an Australian researcher who evaluates websites' useability.

Dr Kate Barclay (17 January 2006)
Institute for International Studies
Channel 2
Whaling causes trouble on the high seas. Dr Kate Barclay of UTS says the political landscapes and the groups of people who are influential within both bureaucracy and politics in Japan would have to change substantially for the Japanese Government to decide that it was a good idea to abandon whaling and that, environmentally, whaling is a bad thing.

Associate Professor David McKnight (20 January 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Article written by Associate Professor David McKnight from UTS. There are close links between green politics and conservative ideals despite Greens supporters seeing their party as the rebirth of a defeated left. They emphasise it is not just an environmental party but one which stands for human rights, trade union rights and radical egalitarianism. In this mixture the genuinely new and profound ideas on the environment are sometimes in danger of being lost.

Richard Cashman (21 January 2006)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians have an almost insatiable appetite for sport, and live television has turned us into gluttons. Sport historian Richard Cashman from UTS says the central place of sport in Australian culture sits uneasily with those Australians alarmed to see aspirations of being a clever, culturally rich nation sacrificed on the altar of something as ephemeral, as expensive, as sporting success.

Jamila Hussain (30 January 2006)
Law
The Australian
The nation's most senior Islamic woman has attacked Muslim religious leaders who condone "wife beating" and other forms of domestic violence. Sister Abdel-Halim's comments about cruelty towards Muslim women were backed by Jamila Hussain, a lecturer in Islamic Law at UTS, who said many imams were out of touch with issues concerning Muslim women.

Professor Stephen Muecke (31 January 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
The smouldering embers of the culture wars have been stirred again. John Howard has hit out at the teaching of history in schools, decrying the claimed influence of postmodern relativism and calling for a return to factual learning. UTS Professor of Cultural Studies Stephen Muecke writes that the basic facts, like the date of the Battle of Hastings, remain the same, but it is innovative thinking that allows us to ask the big "what if" questions that take the study of history forward.