Professor Stuart White, Director (1 May 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
ABC Central Australia (Alice Springs)
Discussing water saving technology with Stuart White from UTS. He says many utilities have realised it is cheaper and more effective to save water. He says it is a much lower cost to reduce water by investing in efficient washing machines, shower heads, taps. There is greater awareness of water use in regional towns. A horticultural industry in Central Australia depends on water saving technology.

Dr Nicolae Nicorovici (3 May 2006)
Science
The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph (London)
Mathematicians claim to have worked out how to make a cloaking device to render objects invisible. Objects placed close to a material called a superlens appear to vanish. Even in the world of science fiction, the technology is not perfect, and nor is the device proposed by Graeme Milton at Utah University and Nicolae-Alexandru Nicorovici at UTS. According to their calculations, the device would only work at certain frequencies of light and only if the object is within close range of the superlens.

Professor Jordan Louviere (4 May 2006)
Business
Business Review Weekly
The Australian Graduate School of Management, the Centre of the Study of Choice at UTS and the market research company AMR Interactive have combined to provide what they say is a new way to track brand equity. The new resource, Brandalytics, is the result of 15 years work by Jordan Louviere at UTS and the director of the AGSM's Centre for Corporate Change, Timothy Devinney. They say Brandalytics is "the first to combine consumer input through market research techniques with brand equity to identify the key drivers which impact on brand values".

Malcolm McKenzie (6 May 2006)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Employers rely heavily on personality tests in assessing job suitability, but how effective are they? Malcolm McKenzie, the Manager of the UTS Careers Service, vouches for their credibility. "Personality tests are designed to assess personal traits that may affect job performance and work behaviour in an objective way that allows comparisons to be made between individuals," he says.

Dr Sarah Edelman (7 May 2006)
Science
Sunday Telegraph
Article on the secret to staying young. Research says it comes down to good exercise, diet, lifestyle and intellectual outlook. UTS psychologist and author of "Change Your Thinking" Dr Sarah Edelman says exercise is also vital for psychological well-being. "There is really good evidence that exercise is protective of depression, a good way for managing the effects of stress, and helpful for self-esteem. It is also mood enhancing."

Associate Professor David Wilson (7 May 2006)
Information Technology
Campus Review Weekly
Interview with Associate Professor David Wilson, Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS, about the IT skills shortage. Student applications and acceptances into IT in NSW alone have dropped 40 per cent. "The golden glow the industry had in the mid-1990s is long gone," he said.

Margot Nash (7 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Central Courier, Wentworth Courier
When Margot Nash, a lecturer in screenwriting at UTS, read Katherine Mary Fallon's script of an Indigenous foster son reunited with his birth mother, Call Me Mum, she was moved to laughter and tears. "Her way of telling the story, I'd never come across anything quite like it. It's a very intense experience because the actors speak right down the barrel of a camera," Nash said.

Professor Archie Johnston, Dean (8 May 2006)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
Engineering has an image problem. Free-associate the word "engineer" and most people will think of smokestacks and technical drawings. That's part of the job, says Professor Archie Johnston, UTS Dean of Engineering, but engineering is also a people-oriented profession that can lead to careers in management, law or banking. It can also lead to good money and travel. And, with the industry screaming out for engineering graduates, it's time to start getting the message out to a new generation he says.

Associate Professor David McKnight (8 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Article about ASIO and it's history, and how it still needs to be watched, written by Associate Professor David McKnight, who is the author of two books on security and intelligence.

Associate Professor Patrick Keyser (8 May 2006)
Law
Radio Adelaide (National Australia)
Discussion about the High Court challenge to the new Industrial Relations laws. Patrick Keyser, an Associate Professor from UTS says the High Court is not bound by its own precedents. He says the Senate is no longer a state's house and is now dominated by party politics, citing the example of Barnaby Joyce.

Dr Suzanne Benn (8 May 2006)
Business
Hunter Valley Town & Country - insert
Dr Suzanne Benn is one of the researchers from UTS who are working with the Hunter Region Landcare Network in order to evaluate recent changes in the structure of Landcare and the effect of these changes on grassroots activities.

Associate Professor Wendy Bacon (12 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio Adelaide
National and International media giants are scrambling to get an exclusive interview with the rescued Beaconsfield miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb. Associate Professor Wendy Bacon from UTS says the two will probably sell the story - it would be extraordinary if they didn't. Richard Carleton's last question before he died, where he questioned the continued operation of the mine, might arguably have more substance but the story of the miners will take centre stage.

Adjunct Professor Warren Hogan (15 May 2006)
Business
ABC Radio National
The recent budget took a very short term approach to the future of Australia's senior citizens. Warren Hogan, Adjunct Professor at UTS in the School of Finance and Economics, says the focus needs to be on long term improvement of national facilities. The proposals to have accommodation bonds in care facilities will help challenge two-tier level aged care.

Eva Cox (15 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
The ABC has hotly denied 48 year old Anne Sargeant was sacked because of her age. But Eva Cox from UTS said, "it says we are not serious about sport and only want to attract viewers with sexy presenters". Netball Australia, which was as surprised as everyone else, has received a flood of emails protesting the decision.

James Arvanitakis (17 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
A group of people called the tribe have taken over an island paradise in Fiji. They are looking for 5000 others to join them with a recruitment drive in Australia this month. James Arvanitakis, an academic in sociology at UTS says, "the whole idea sounds a bit silly, but at the same time it's quite an impressive online community project. It's a cross-cultural experiment in a beautiful part of the world."

Professor Larissa Behrendt (18 May 2006)
Jumbunna, Law
ABC Channel 2 - Lateline
Interview about violence against Aboriginal women and children with Larissa Behrendt who is a Professor of Law and Director of Research at the UTS Jumbunna House of Indigenous Learning. Behrendt says she grew up in an Aboriginal community and the values she learnt were antithetical to violence against women and children. She says Aboriginal men have used arguments about traditional culture to defend rape and sexual abuse and judges have accepted this. Behrendt says that this actually goes against Aboriginal cultures. She thinks the Aboriginal community should reject clearly any belief that these incidents are part of Aboriginal culture.

Professor Stuart White, Director (22 May 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Record petrol prices are forcing motorists to drive less, buy fewer cars and switch away from four-wheel-drive vehicles. Traffic fell on the Eastern Distributor, M4 and M5 toll roads in the year to April, says Macquarie Infrastructure Group. Professor Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS says "this is potentially quite a large sideswipe on their profits."

Associate Professor Michael Dawson (22 May 2006)
Science
ABC Darwin
Michael Dawson, a forensic science expert from UTS said NT Police should know by now whether three Indigenous men whose bodies were pulled from the Katherine River three months ago were drunk. The police said toxicology tests take between three and four months.

Dr Chris Riedy (24 May 2006)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
ABC Radio National, Perth Independent Media Centre
Prime Minister John Howard appears to have put the question of nuclear power on the agenda. Dr Chris Riedy from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS says it is difficult to say what nuclear power stations would cost in Australia. He says wind power is more cost effective - it is difficult to see as strong an economic case being made for nuclear power. No private investor would take on the risk without huge government subsidies.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (24 May 2006)
Jumbunna, Law
Koori Mail
The Federal Budget revealed $40 million for five new broker services to link Aborigines with mainstream doctors and fund 40 new health care workers for rural and remote areas. Larissa Behrendt, an Indigenous affairs expert at UTS, asked why health services themselves could not be funded with the money.

Dr Catherine Cole (24 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Wentworth Courier, Sydney Central Courier
Making Tracks, an anthology of creative works written by students at UTS, will be launched on 27 May as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival. The collection contains short fiction, poetry, experimental narrative and scripts penned by 29 budding writers. Dr Catherine Cole, the supervisor overseeing the anthology, said the book had become increasingly professional and popular over its more than 20 year history.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (25 May 2006)
Jumbunna, Law
The Age
Changing the law to ban judges from taking Aboriginal customary law into account is racist and discriminatory, legal experts say. But acting Prime Minister Peter Costello said the Government would not be deterred by political correctness. Larissa Behrendt, Professor Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS cautioned against restricting judicial rights.

Penny Crofts (26 May 2006)
Law
Border Mail, AAP, Launceston Examiner, North West Star, Daily Advertiser
The sex industry needs greater public awareness to dispel its social taboo. Penny Crofts, a senior lecturer at UTS, said the regulation of brothels at a local and state level was hamstrung by a high level of disgust in the community. "Despite 10 years of brothels being able to operate as legitimate premises, they still get treated differently," Ms Crofts said.

Val Horridge (26 May 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
The Australian
Val Horridge, a senior lecturer in fashion and design at UTS agrees that too many young designers neglect logistics issues. "We try to give them the message that no matter how creative you are, you still need to be able to understand the bottom line. There is now an option to learn how to create a business plan and a major prize is offered by Australian Business Limited for the best business strategy and planned fashion range."

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (27 May 2006)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Daily Telegraph
Leading planners and academics are holding seminars to discuss Sydney's future. Sociology Professor Andrew Jakubowicz at UTS says Sydney is "growing quickly on a 20th century skeleton". He says transport and land use planning is "accidental rather than integrated" by "reactive" government more worried about appeasing people than addressing social and environmental goals.

Cecilia Heffer (28 May 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sun Herald, Sunday Telegraph
Textile designer Cecilia Heffer has made prints for famous fashion houses. She's now creating beautiful art by applying new technology to age-old techniques. She lectures in textiles at UTS and also has an exhibition in June of contemporary lacework inspired by 15th-century braiding.

Sonya Pearce (28 May 2006)
Business
Radio 2UE
Interview with Sonya Pearce from UTS who agrees that violent men should be removed from homes where their families are in immediate danger. Pearce has worked with Aboriginal women in the Redfern area. Domestic abuse is a big problem in Indigenous Australia. She believes in the principle of customary law, but does not agree with principles of law that support child abuse or rape.

Garry Glazebrook (29 May 2006)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Radio 702 Sydney, ABC Illawarra
Sydney motorists would think twice about using their car if they knew the real cost of each kilometre they drove was nearly six times higher than most people believe. Garry Glazebrook, a transport consultant who lectures on urban planning at UTS, says people's choices about travel are distorted because they never see the total cost of private transport. Trains are the cheapest transport at around 40 cents per kilometre.

Dr Simon Darcy (30 May 2006)
Business
ABC 720 Perth
Dr Simon Darcy from the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at UTS, talks about Virgin Blue being under fire for introducing a policy which disability groups say could mean that passengers in wheelchairs will have to pay for carers to accompany them on all flights. Darcy talks about his experience with Qantas, which has porters to assist passengers.