Dr Tim O'Neill (July 2006)
Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology
Australian Technology & Business
Article about industry and academia coming head to head this month to discuss the future and present of enterprise architecture and the profession behind it with Dr Tim O'Neill from UTS and Brad McCusker, Enterprise Architect from IBM.

Bronwyn Holland (July 2006)
Engineering
Engineers Australia
The UTS's Women in Engineering (WiE) program celebrated 25 years of advocacy with a gala dinner in June. More than 200 people gathered for the event that showcased the achievements of the program and highlighted the importance of its continued growth. Program Director of WiE Bronwyn Holland said there was still much work to be done in a profession where only eight per cent of the workforce is female.

Dr Vicki Karaminas (1 July 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on celebrity Photographer Lewis Morley. Dr Vicki Karaminas, lecturer in fashion theory and design studies at UTS says that , "now we have celebrity nobodies en masse and in transit, who carry with them the values of the society. This is why we have celebrity chefs."

Anne Bartlett-Bragg (3 July 2006)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Distance Learning - novel software opens up broad possibilities for online education. At UTS, Anne Bartlett -Bragg is researching the effectiveness of "blogs" or "web journals", as she calls them, as tools for her students studying units in the bachelors of eduction, adult education and arts in organisational learning. "All my students took to the blogs like ducks to water," she said.

Johanna Vescio (3 July 2006)
Business
SBS Ethnic Radio (Melbourne)
Report on Egyptian-Australian weightlifter Nadeene Latif who won bronze in the Commonwealth Games. She gave up gymnastics to take up weightlifting but her attempts to promote the sport to teenagers and young women has not been very successful. Johanna Vescio, Lecturer in Sport Management at UTS, traced sport participation rates of women from culturally diverse backgrounds, finding lack of time and fear of injury. She also believes women of all backgrounds are discouraged from participating in sport.

Dr Garry Glazebrook (4 July 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures, Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
A city-wide tolling system that charges motorists for using main roads at the busiest times of day has been proposed as a radical solution to Sydney's traffic nightmare. Dr Garry Glazebrook, a transport consultant and academic at UTS said the first step towards such a scheme could to be introduce a CBD cordon whereby motorists passing one of 18 entry points are charged $6. This could be followed by a GPS-based tolling system covering all roads.

Professor Archie Johnston, Dean (4 July 2006)
Engineering
Northern Daily Leader
Australia's future could be threatened unless there's greater emphasis on engineering education and an overhaul of how engineering education is designed and delivered. Engineering is not a popular choice for young people despite attractive career prospects. Professor Archie Johnston, Dean of Engineering at UTS, agrees engineering has an image problem.

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (4 July 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney is a global metropolis sliding into chaos, a beautiful city with a declining infrastructure that was once characterised by its concerns for social justice, says Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at UTS. He believes the city is now harder to live in, unhealthier, more dangerous and less equitable. The university is holding a series of six twilight symposia to draw attention to the future of Sydney.

Associate Professor Geoff Riordan, Associate Dean (6 July 2006)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Article by Geoff Riordan, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education at UTS, on the crisis in our schools. From unhygienic and inadequate toilets to leaky roofs, rooms with threadbare carpet and walls unpainted for years. He says NSW governments have neglected their responsibility for maintaining schools to reasonable standards.

Matthew Byrne (6 July 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Newcastle
UTS lecturer in Communications and Branding Matthew Byrne talks about the cruise industry and the PR disaster following the death of Dianne Brimble on a P&O liner. Describes the background to the changing nature of cruising which was formerly quite exclusive and how P&O could rebrand itself.

Dr Bronwen Dalton (6 July 2006)
Business
Radio 2GB
Discussion with Dr Bronwen Dalton from UTS who has spent her academic career studying the society of North Korea and has visited the country. Talking about the North Korean missile situation is a "storm in a tea cup" from an Australian point of view. Dalton says that the Chinese and South Koreans need to stop "filling the gaps" with aid to North Korea as they are undermining the US's attempts to "starve North Korea back to negotiations".

Associate Professor David Wilson, Associate Dean (11 July 2006)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Academics and technology industry leaders have warned that the economy will suffer if a crisis of confidence in the sector is not overcome. Fresh concerns about the shortage of skilled technology workers have surfaced. David Wilson, Associate Dean of the Faculty of IT at UTS said, "We need to see a change of trend in IT applications and enrolments in 2007 or there may be further pressure."

Dr Mike Minehan (14 July 2006)
Insearch
ABC Mid North Coast (Kempsey)
A rundown of the new media reforms announced yesterday. The impact of them and what digital TV means are discussed. Dr Mike Minehan from UTS does not think the reforms will have much of an impact on regional viewers.

Dr Gordon Menzies (17 July 2006)
Business
SBS Ethnic Radio (Melbourne)
Interview with Gordon Menzies, a senior lecturer in economics at UTS. Menzies says it is too early to tell what long term impact the conflict will have. He says the conflict's direct impact on the Australian economy is very small because Israel and Lebanon are not important trading partners for Australia.

Dr James Goodman (18 July 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio Adelaide (National Australia)
In St Petersburg the 2006 G8 summit came to a close today. Dr James Goodman from UTS explains the situation facing the G8, G20 and the WTO, outlining the roots of the dispute. He says the Doha Dev Round was never about developing nations but the survival of the WTO and its ability to open up markets.

Dr Clive Chappell (19 July 2006)
Education
Campus Review Weekly
A research team is developing a survey tool to help organisations evaluate and better understand the effectiveness of their internal learning environment, a conference heard last week. Associate Professor Clive Chappell from UTS is exploring how registered training organisations can facilitate learning as a natural part of their internal culture. "We're looking at strategies where there are no direct educational interventions occurring, just the environment in which people are operating," Chappell said.

Dr Antony Kidman and Louise Remond (19 July 2006)
Science
Manly Daily & North Shore Times
UTS is offering free courses to help students take charge of the problems associated with school stress. The "Taking Charge for Teenagers" program is headed by Health Psychology Unit Director Antony Kidman and Senior Clinical Psychologist Louise Remond. Dr Kidman said there was a great need for the treatment of anxiety caused by schooling especially the HSC.

Professor Ross Gibson (20 July 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building, Humanities and Social Sciences
Australian Financial Review
Inspired by the phenomenal growth of so-called new media companies, technology and media executives gathered simultaneously in Sydney and San Francisco yesterday to understand the trends reshaping their industries. UTS Research Professor in New Media and Digital Culture, Ross Gibson, said newspapers would not die, rather the media would continue to diversify in the digital age. "None of us subscribes to any one community exclusively," he said.

Francine Garlin (26 July 2006)
Business
ABC Radio News
Discussion about the two main supermarket chains, and how we do not have a lot of choice as far as where we shop. Francine Garlin, lecturer in marketing at UTS, says we are seeing a lot of moves into new categories such as alcohol, tyres, computers and IT. She believes the change has a lot to do with growth and the competition.

Malcolm McKenzie (26 July 2006)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm McKenzie the Manager of the Careers Service at UTS says good career guidance at school age is important and should be available at every secondary school. He recommends students begin thinking about their options by organising work experience, seeking counselling, researching work and study options using the internet and attending university open days from year 10 onwards.

Professor Jill White, Dean (26 July 2006)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
High demand for nurses means it's an employees market, says Professor Jill White, Dean of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at UTS. "Nurses are spoilt for choice. In every major hospital there are vacancies in just about every area of nursing."

Professor Larissa Behrendt (27 July 2006)
Jumbunna
Radio JJJ
There is a push for Tasmania to follow the lead of the ACT and adopt a Bill of Rights. Professor Larissa Behrendt addressed a meeting on the issue in Hobart and claimed basic rights should be enshrined in law to protect them from the whim of politicians.

Keri Spooner (28 July 2006)
Business, Engineering
ABC Newcastle
UTS human resource lecturer Keri Spooner explains the roles and duties of an organisation's human resource management, which include recruitment and the welfare of staff. Spooner describes the background to the development of human resources.

Professor David Booth (28 July 2006)
Science
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
A public lecture was held last night warning that the tradition of eating fish on Friday nights could be on the decline due to falling fish stocks and higher prices. It discussed the health of global fish stocks and the extinction rates of fish and marine habitats. Professor David Booth from UTS said, "Australia is one of the luckier countries because we have quite a few fish, a small population and some good management practices in place."

Johanna Vescio (28 July 2006)
Business
ABC South East NSW (Bega), ABC Gippsland (Sale)
The Matildas won a match against Japan last night to make it into the women's World Cup finals in China. Johanna Vescio, a senior lecturer at UTS and Co-Chair of the International Working Group on Women and Sport, spoke about the lack of media coverage of the win and the amount of women's sports that are covered by the media.

Professor David Goodman, PVC (International) (30 July 2006)
Executive and Admin
ABC Radio National
Interview with Professor David Goodman from UTS talking about China. It's estimated that in the next 20 years China will move the equivalent of the population of the US into urban areas, with new developments springing up across the country. Among them is Thames Town - an amalgam of old-style British buildings combined with more modern infrastructure.