Staff notices

Gabrielle Gardiner
Investigative Journalism – Firepower
The fuel conspiracy that fooled the world
A UTS:Library Markets Forum with

Gerard Ryle
News Editor, Sydney Morning Herald

Gerard Ryle is a four-time Walkley winner, and 11-time Walkley finalist. He worked at ’The Age Insight’ team before moving to Sydney. He is the founder of the Sydney Morning Herald’s investigative team, and is now the Sydney Morning Herald’s News Editor.

The stories that Gerard has written about Firepower have won him the George Munster Award 2008. The George Munster Award recognises excellence in independent journalism. In addition, he has been a guest lecturer at UTS teaching Investigative Reporting.

Firepower was a company that claimed to have invented a miracle pill that would make fuel last 20% longer and at the same time eliminate all greenhouse gases. What made Firepower so spectacular was that at its height, they were the biggest sponsor in the country, the biggest sponsor Australian had ever seen.

Gerard Ryle will present an informative and controversial talk on the number of investors that were deceived and the conspiracy that is believed to have stretched from the Kremlin to the White House and was aided by the Australian Government and other prominent government organisations across the world. It is believed that many high profile people world wide either unknowingly aided or invested in Firepower.

Date: Thursday, 6th August 2009
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Venue: Blake Library (City Campus)
Lecture room 4g, Level 4
Cnr Quay St and Ultimo Road
Haymarket

This is a free event.

All are Welcome. No RSVP or booking is required.

You are welcome to bring your lunch with you.
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Greg Hampshire
UTS CPSU EB6 Log of Claims Endorsement Meeting
The UTS CPSU EB6 Log of Claims endorsement meeting is scheduled for Wednesday July 8th 2009 from 1:00 pm in Lecture Theatre CB02.04.29 @ the City Campus.
Kind regards,
Greg Hampshire
Branch Secretary
UTS CPSU Branch Secretary
Community and Public Sector Union
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Derretta Branche
Sleep Workshops - City and Kuring Gai
Sleep Workshops - City Campus and Kuring Gai Campus
Toss and turn through the night? Busy mind? Feeling tired all day?
Want to find out how to experience better sleep at night and feel refreshed and alert for the day?
The quality of your sleep can make an enormous difference to how well you feel and how productive you can be.
With this in mind Safety and Wellbeing, HRU is organising a free SleepEasy TM Workshop for UTS staff.
This half-day workshop will run
CITY
DATE: Wednesday 12 August 2009
LOCATION: Training Room 1 (room 06.440), Building 10, Level 6
TIMES: 9am – 1pm

KURING GAI
DATE: Tuesday 22 September 2009
LOCATION: Room KG05.04.11a&b
TIMES: 9am – 1pm

To book your place on this workshop please email Jann.Joy@uts.edu.au
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Carole Jackson
ATEM Professional Development Session
Strategic Thinking and Planning for Tertiary Education
Date: Friday 17 July 2009:
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Time: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
(A light lunch will be provided)
Cost: Members $297 or Non members $330

This one day workshop is split into two distinct stages. The morning session will focus on strategic thinking, the step before strategic planning. The afternoon session shifts gear to look at strategic planning in its various forms, where the intent is to move towards a preferred strategy for the future. The practice of strategic planning will be explored from the perspectives of institutional strategic planning, student load planning and planning around student transition and retention. Another topic explored will be the development of a performance measurement framework to help track implementation of an institutional strategic plan.

This workshop is aimed at managers and administrators who are involved in planning and/or strategy development at the unit, faculty or institutional level, or who are interested in learning more about using futures approaches in their strategy and planning processes.

The workshop presenters are: Maree Conway who runs Thinking Futures a collaborative futures practice that helps people to think long term and to use that thinking to build stronger strategy, Martin Hanlon the Director of the Planning and Quality Unit at UTS, Ivan Skaines who is Project Officer, Transition and Retention, at the University of Newcastle and past President of AAIR and Michael Rothery who is the Reporting & Analysis Coordinator within the Planning & Quality Unit at UTS.

For details and registration forms see the brochure attached and on the ATEM website at:
http://www.atem.org.au/region-hub.cfm?r=NSWACT&p=education
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Jann Joy
Yellow internal envelopes
For all Faculties/Units who require Internal envelopes please contact the reception at FSU.
We have plenty to share.

Email: Jann Joy or Lorna de Jesus
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Paul Ashton
The Great British Cat & Dog Massacre of WWII
Australian Centre for Public History seminar with Dr Hilda Kean, Ruskin College, Oxford, Tuesday 28 July 5pm for 5.30pm, Bon Marche level 2 room 210, RSVP Paul.Ashton@uts.edu.au.

In the first week of the war before any bombs had fallen, in London alone some 750,000 cats and dogs were killed at their owners’ behest. Why did this happen? How might an exploration of this event raise different questions about the human-animal relationship? How can a grand narrative of war be seen differently through an approach that privileges the role of animals?
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Robert Button
UTSpeaks: Australia’s Knowledge-Based Future
How innovation policy can create long-term growth and jobs.

Will Australia be able to take advantage of recovery from the world economic downturn?
So far, adroit public policy and short-term fiscal stimulus measures have ensured ’less bad’ performance than most developed economies. But for how long can this be sustained? Over the past decade windfall gains from the commodities boom have disguised structural deterioration in our economy. From being a world leader in productivity growth in the 1990s, we are now a laggard.

In this public lecture, Professor Roy Green shows that chronic underinvestment in knowledge and innovation is limiting Australia’s prospects of longer term, sustainable growth. Responding to the Government’s innovation white paper, Powering Ideas: An Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century , the lecture will explore some of the challenges for policy-makers in building the capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship that will enable organisations themselves to lead recovery through sustainable value creation.

Roy Green
Professor Green is UTS Dean of Business and formerly Dean of Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the National University of Ireland. Professor Green is widely published in the areas of innovation, industry policy, regional development and workplace analysis. He also chairs the Australian Government’s Innovative Regions Centre, the CSIRO Manufacturing Sector Advisory Council and the NSW Manufacturing Council.

When
Tuesday 14 July 2009
6.00pm drinks for 6.30pm start
Concludes 7.45pm

Where
The Great Hall
Level 5, UTS Tower Broadway

RSVP Monday 13 July 2009
Register attendance with Robert Button
Email: robert.button@uts.edu.au
Tel: 02 9514 1734
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Georgia Markakis
How Australians Discovered the Universe
The History of Australian Astronomy

Presenter: Dr Nick Lomb - Curator of Astronomy, Sydney Observatory and the Powerhouse Museum

To the early European settlers the southern sky was uncharted territory although it had been observed by the Indigenous people for tens of thousands of years. 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy marking the 400th anniversary of the Italian scientist Galileo turning a telescope to the sky.

The UTS Library Markets Forum is a program of innovative, challenging and controversial presentations. In this illustrated talk Nick Lomb will outline the history of Australian astronomy, highlighting the 150 years of achievement at Sydney Observatory and discussing the present and future of Australian astronomy, a future that is simultaneously helped and hindered by a Government that supports the crucial SKA radio telescope and yet stopped Australia from joining the Giant Magellan Telescope consortium.

Dr Nick Lomb has been at the Observatory for over 30 years in which time he has had the opportunity to develop numerous exciting and educational exhibitions ranging from the Halley’s Comet exhibition of 1985 to his recent "Observing the weather" exhibition in 2008.

Date: Thursday, 23rd July 2009
1pm - 2pm

Venue: Blake Library (City Campus)
Lecture room 4.g, Level 4

This is a free event.
All are welcome. No RSVP or booking is required.
You are welcome to bring your lunch with you.
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Deborah Edwards
Disposal Authority for Financial Records (GDA7)
The "General Retention and Disposal Authority for Financial Records" (GDA7) was superseded on 22nd June 2009. Please note that references and retention time frames taken from this document are no longer valid.

The requirements for retention of financial records have been amalgamated into the "General Retention and Disposal Authority for Administrative Records" (GA28). An updated version of GA28 and the consolidated index covering GA28 have been issued. They can be located on the State Records website at: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/recordkeeping/government-recordkeeping-manual/rules/general-retention-and-disposal-authorities

Any pending destruction authorisation forms referencing GDA7 will be updated before approval is provided. Additionally, any records already archived with University Records that reference GDA7 will be updated over time by University Records.

For further advice on this matter, contact Sharron Baker in University Records on #1221, or Sharron.Baker@uts.edu.au.
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Paul Holt
Secondment Opportunity - Academic Services Manager
We have an exciting 12 month opportunity to lead and manage the Academic Services Team and to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources and provision of administrative support for teaching, learning and research activities of academic staff.

This key role in the faculty has responsibility for planning and implementation of teaching and research support to the faculty’s academic staff; managing responses to escalated student administration matters; and developing and implementing faculty operational guidelines.

This role will allow you to draw on your experience in: leading staff, managing projects, developing, implementing and reviewing administrative processes and procedures, effective client relationship management and providing high level informed advice academic managers.

The position description is available from Natalie Kulakovska, Executive Assistant, Faculty of Law (Natalie.Kulakovska@uts.edu.au or extn 3487).

To apply please submit your resume with a covering letter to Natalie Kulakovska, Faculty of Law via email to Natalie.Kulakovska@uts.edu.au. Contact Paul Holt, the Faculty Manager, on extn 3489 if you have any questions about the role.

Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 8 July 2009.
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Sharon Burton
Senior Administrative Officer (Academic Programs)
Senior Administrative Officer (Academic Programs) x two

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences currently has two opportunities for experienced Senior Administrative Officers to work with our Academic Programs Office based at the City Campus, providing high level admin support for of courses and programs within the faculty.

With previous experience in a similar environment, you will be a vital support for the faculty as you contribute to the administrative management of courses and programs including enrolments, results management and graduations, timetabling, practical experience placements and reporting.

Your in-depth knowledge of academic processes will be complemented by your ability to analyse and improve existing processes and policy. Using your excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you will liaise directly with internal and external stakeholders, including schools, government departments, university student administration and academic staff.

For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.hru.uts.edu.au/jobs/.

Closing Date: 10 July 2009

Ref No. R110609
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Yusuf Pisan
Animation Seminar: Chris Landreth
Psychorealism and 3D Animation : Moving Beyond the Uncanny Valley

Oscar-winning animation director, Chris Landreth is one of the true legends of the contemporary creative animation scene. Landreth has been at the absolute forefront of computer animation development for a decade. His films – The End, Bingo and Ryan – represented groundbreaking leaps in pushing technology to its limits to show the breadth of what animation was capable of depicting on the screen. Landreth was nominated for an Academy Award for The End, with Ryan winning the Oscar for Best Short Animation in 2005.

Date: 2 July 2009, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location: City - Broadway, CB06 Peter Johnson, Room 322, 702-730 Harris St

http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/news-events/event-detail.cfm?ItemId=15804detail.cfm?ItemId=15804
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Sarah Peroni
Spring Official Welcomes - Academic Procession
You are invited to take part in the academic procession for the UTS Spring Semester Official Welcomes for commencing students on Monday 20 July 2009 in the Great Hall, Level 5, City Campus.

Undergraduate students
Time: 10.00am

Postgraduate Students
Time: 6.00pm

To register to attend either or both ceremonies, and to order your academic dress, please RSVP to sarah.peroni@uts.edu.au by Tuesday 14 July 2009.

If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Peroni on 9514 1250.

For more information on the Official Welcomes: http://www.orientation.uts.edu.au/
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Georgia Markakis
Digitisation Workshop
Nearly everything you wanted to know about digitisation but were afraid to ask?

Mal Booth (Director of Education and Research Services at the University Library), will be running a workshop on digitisation and its pitfalls. He will be generously sharing his expertise and experience in this subject from his former life at the War Memorial where he managed several large digitisation projects.

Date: Thursday 16 July
Time: 9.00am to 1.00pm
Venue: Blake Library (City Campus) Lecture Room (4g)
Cost: Free

RSVP: Judy.VanDenBroek@uts.edu.au by 9 July
Light refreshments will be served.

In this workshop Mal will cover the process of digitisation which is much more complex than just scanning documents.
Questions such as what to digitise and why bother digitising will be thoroughly addressed, answered and explained.

A workshop outline is available on the Library website.
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/articles/7979
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Dilum Dassanayake
NAIDOC Week Celebration - Morning Tea
Theme · HONOURING OUR ELDERS · NURTURING OUR YOUTH ·

Morning Tea, 10:00-11:30am, Thursday, July 9

The Equity and Diversity Unit would like to invite you to attend the Morning Tea as a part of this year’s NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week celebrations.

To ensure that Koori Kids can maintain its community initiatives, we invite you to show your support by purchasing $2 RESPECT Koori Kids Wristband/s.

WHEN: Thursday, July 9
TIME: 10:00 – 11:30am
WHERE: Level 3 Concourse, Tower Building
BRING: $2 or more to buy Koori Kids Wristbands

Your purchase of RESPECT wristbands will assist with the cultural development of Indigenous and non-Indigenous kids, in terms of reconciliation, cultural diversity and friendship.

RSVP: by Tuesday, July 7 for catering purposes to d.dassanayake@uts.edu.au
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Gloria Blonde
Calling all Bicycle Riders......
If you ride a bike to work, or, for fun or exercise, why not sign up to the UTS Cyclists listserv?

Just send and an email to
cyclists-request@listserv.uts.edu.au
with the word ’subscribe’ in the subject line.

We are proposing to make available UTS cycling jerseys - so we need to know if you are interested.

And one more item - put Ride to Work Day in your calendar for Wednesday 14 October. More info to follow.
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Jim Griffiths
Oscar winning animator Chris Landreth at UTS
Chris Landreth: Psychorealism and 3D Animation : Moving Beyond the Uncanny Valley

Chris Landreth - Psychorealism and 3D Animation

Oscar-winning animation director, Chris Landreth is one of the true legends of the contemporary creative animation scene. Landreth has been at the absolute forefront of computer animation development for a decade. His films – The End, Bingo and Ryan – represented groundbreaking leaps in pushing technology to its limits to show the breadth of what animation was capable of depicting on the screen. Landreth was nominated for an Academy Award for The End, with Ryan winning the Oscar for Best Short Animation in 2005.

This seminar presentation will go beyond Landreth’s films and provide insight into his successful marriage of creativity and technology. Landreth will talk about "Psychorealism", the use of art and animation to depict the realism of one’s emotional and spiritual state. He explores the "Uncanny Valley" (the "creepy" effect experienced when CGI characters are too realistic, leading to a feeling of revulsion in the viewer) and how his latest film The Spine attempts to avoid this problem. He also shows how his animators used a Method-acting approach to nick subtle gestures, ticks, and micro-expressions in their characters’ faces and bodies, and explains how his crew balanced realism and stylization to create characters who are Uncanny in a positive way. Landreth’s talk will be followed by a Q&A.

5pm, Thursday 2 July
CB06.3.22

More information: dab.uts.edu.au
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Paul Holt
Internal Vacancy/Secondment Opportunity
Academic Services Manager, Faculty of Law

We have an exciting 12 month opportunity to lead and manage the Academic Services Team and to ensure the effective and efficient use of resources and provision of administrative support for teaching, learning and research activities of academic staff.

This key role in the faculty has responsibility for planning and implementation of teaching and research support to the faculty’s academic staff; managing responses to escalated student administration matters; and developing and implementing faculty operational guidelines.

This role will allow you to draw on your experience in: leading staff, managing projects, developing, implementing and reviewing administrative processes and procedures, effective client relationship management and providing high level informed advice academic managers.

The position description is available from Natalie Kulakovska, Executive Assistant, Faculty of Law, (Natalie.Kulakovska@uts.edu.au or extn 3487).

To apply please submit your resume with a covering letter to Natalie Kulakovska, Faculty of Law via email to Natalie.Kulakovska@uts.edu.au. Contact Paul Holt, the Faculty Manager, on extn 3489 if you have any questions about the role.

Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 8 July 2009.
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Jann Joy
Business Intelligence (BI) Portal Training
The UTS Business Intelligence Portal provides staff with management information in the form of models, cubes and reports. There are training session for staff who require access to this Portal.
Details of two session are outlined below:

Date: Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Time: 9.30 - 12.30
OR
Date: Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Time: 9.30 - 12.30
Venue: Building 10, level 6, IT Training Room 431

Please note: there are limited places available, for registration please email Jann.Joy@uts.edu.au.

Staff who register are required to apply for access to the Portal before the session, details of this process will be advised in the confirmation email.
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Derretta Branche
H1N1 Influenza 09 update - Info from NSW Health
NSW Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant has stated (28/6/09) that the level of community transmission of H1N1 09 Influenza in NSW is increasing, particularly in metropolitan Sydney.
"In most cases H1N1 09 Influenza will be a mild illness, but for some people the infection can be severe. Pregnant women, people with underlying health conditions like diabetes, respiratory, heart and renal disease, and Indigenous Australians are considered at a higher risk should they develop influenza infection".

"Pregnant women and people with underlying health conditions who develop flu symptoms should immediately contact their GP for advice".
"People with no underlying medical conditions who experience only mild flu-like symptoms should stay at home and minimise contact with others until they are well. People who develop moderate symptoms should see their GP where available, or if not available, should contact their local flu clinic or emergency department. People with severe symptoms should seek urgent care".

"It is particularly important that people who are unwell with influenza do not visit sick, elderly or pregnant women or young children and avoid visiting hospitals unless requiring treatment for their own illness," Dr Chant said.

Dr Chant said an important way to reduce the spread H1N1 09 Influenza and seasonal influenza is by washing hands regularly with soap, covering coughs and sneezes, and staying at home minimising contact with other people if you have influenza-like symptoms.
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Lindi Todd
TfC Public Lecture: Grant Farred, 23rd July
TfC is pleased to announce a Public Lecture with Prof. Grant Farred (Cornell University)
Maghrebi Intellectual: Thinking Jacques Derrida as African Philosopher.

Thursday, 23rd July, 6:00-8:00, UTS Building 2, Lecture room 4.11

Lecture Abstract

It was not "the Nazis, but Vichy France," Jacques Derrida insists in "Monolingualism and the Other," that disenfranchised him. This is the voice of the "young" Jacques Derrida, articulating his relationship, from north Africa, to Europe (and European fascism). Derrida’s relationship, or, more properly speaking, his thinking himself back into the Maghreb, that region from which his family came and where he grew up, to Africa can only, it seems, be thought philosophically. In relation to thought, to the thought of other philosophers, to his own too long delayed understanding of himself as something other than a French philosopher. This is the work that Derrida undertakes in "Monolingualism:" it is his engagement with Khatebi, another Maghrebian philosopher. Here is Derrida, trying to think the Other, but in the process locating himself, for the first time at length, in the place of violent origin: war time Algeria: that place where fascism, Jewish disenfranchisement, the question of language (why is it that Derrida does not, he asks, know Arabic, why is it the language denied him? This, the language of Khatebi.) and the act of writing the Self back into something that is not only forgotten but, it would appear, hardly known.

Please RSVP to Lindi.Todd@uts.edu.au
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David Hughes
Weekend work in Alumni Green
This weekend (27 and 28 June) there will be trucks on Alumni Green taking core soil and rock samples. Two trucks on Saturday, and one on Sunday. This activity will not cause excessive noise but the use of parts of Alumni Green will be restricted, predominantly at the end of the green closest to the Science building.
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Chivonne Watt
Matching project type and leadership style
The interaction of the project manager’s leadership style with project type, and their combined impact on project success, will be presented by Professor Rodney Turner with an aim to show that different leadership styles are more likely to lead to a successful outcome on different types of projects. A recently developed integrated model of intellectual, emotional and managerial competence (IQ, EQ, MQ, respectively) is used to identify project manager’s leadership styles. A web-based questionnaire was used to determine the leadership style of project managers and relate that to the success of their most recent projects. These are related to project types, using a recently developed categorisation system for projects.
Rodney Turner is Professor of Project Management at the Lille School of Management and the Kemmy Business School of the University of Limerick. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Educatis University, Zurich, and Visiting Professor at Henley Management College and George Washington University.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday 22 July from 6-8pm in CB03.05.10.
AIPM members $66.00 inc GST
Non-members $82.50 inc GST
RSVP: www.aipm.com.au/events/calendar
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Meg Schauer
FASS deadline for ECR grants
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ internal deadline for the Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme is Monday 6 July 2009. The Faculty Research Office (room 340, Building 10) needs to have a complete copy of the application by this date.

Further application details can be found at:
www.research.uts.edu.au/funding/utsgrants/ecrg2008.html
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Jann Joy
Getting started with UTSOnline training
UTSOnline is a web-based learning tool used in many UTS subjects. It can be accessed from inside and outside UTS via most web browsers. This session is a ’getting started’ resource giving an overview of administration, support and some ’how to’ practice using the tool.

Staff who are interested in discussing the learning and teaching side of using UTSOnline are advised to visit the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning website.

Session dates:

Date: Tuesday 7 July 2009
Time: 10am-12.30pm
or
Date: Thursday 16 July 2009
Time: 2-4.30pm

Venue: IT training room, CB10.06.431
Contact: Jann.Joy@uts.edu.au
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Vanessa Morrissey
Enquiry Management System vendor presentations
There has been a change of schedule for the Enquiry Management System (EMS) Project Vendor presentations. The new schedule is:

June 29 Room CB01.04.06

11.15 – 1.00 Vendor 1
2.00 – 3.30 Vendor 2

June 30 Room CB01.04.06

9.30 – 11.00 Vendor 3
11.30 – 1.00 Vendor 4

The EMS Project relates to the broader CRM initiative at UTS, and is aimed at enhancing student administration service delivery across the University.

An Expression of Interest process has been completed and five potential vendors have been short-listed. Each vendor will be doing a 90 minute presentation responding to a set of workplace scenarios prepared by the project team. These sessions will provide University staff with an opportunity to see a vendor, system and related workflow in action.

All University staff are invited to attend one or more of the presentations. For catering purposes please RSVP to Vanessa.Morrissey@uts.edu.au

Further information on the EMS Project can be found on the project website
http://www.sau.uts.edu.au/staff/special/ems/index.html
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Cajetan Mula
Language & Culture Classes - Staff & Res. Students
As part of the UTS Internationalisation Strategy, UTS: International Studies enables members of the UTS community to access Language and Culture subjects currently taught without formal enrolment in the subject at no charge.

These places are only available to UTS staff on continuing contracts and research students. Staff and research students across UTS may apply to attend classes at a range of levels in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

Please note: there are no beginners levels being taught in Spring 2009.

Places are subject to availability and at the discretion of UTS: International Studies. Priority for places in a class will be given to enrolling students.

Do read the application carefully as it will explain the conditions under which you may access these classes. No application will be considered after the deadline.

An application form may be obtained from this site:
http://www.internationalstudies.uts.edu.au/admin_data/iis_admin.html
(Application Form - Staff and Research students only)
Apply directly to the Coordinator of the Language and Culture program.

Language Classes are 4 hours per week, over two days, Seminar 1 & Seminar 2. You must attend both days in each block of classes; Sem 1 and Sem 2.

Timetable information can be obtained at: http://timetable.uts.edu.au/
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Jim Franklin
Accurate Measurement in Science & Industry
The Royal Society of NSW invites you to a talk by Dr Laurie Besley, Chief Executive of the National Measurement Institute and Australia’s Chief Metrologist.

Accurate Measurement: the vital backbone of Australian science and industry

Measurement pervades all aspects of modern society: from the sale of food by weight in the supermarket, to the management of data transfer systems, to sub-nanosecond precision for telecommunications.

The National Measurement Institute (NMI) is the core of Australia’s expertise in measurement and has the responsibility to address this entire spectrum of needs. It not only maintains, develops and disseminates Australia’s primary measurement standards in physics, chemistry and biology, but also operates multiple specialist laboratories based on these measurement skills. These include a forensic laboratory, Australia’s only WADA-accredited sports drugs laboratory, and a high-voltage laboratory for the electrical utilities.

Dr Besley will discuss how NMI addresses this myriad of challenges, and outline its impact on Australian science and industry.

Date: Wednesday 1 July 2009.
Time: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm.
Location: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, Sydney University. (City Road, side entrance to the Forum Restaurant. Parking Available).
Audience: All welcome. FREE.

For further information see
http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/talks_2009/talk_July2009.html
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Gary Lobb
Vacancy: Project Officer, Finance Operation UTSI
UTS International is seeking expressions of interest from UTS staff to fill the role of Project Officer, Finance Operation.

For further information please refer to:
http://www.jobs.uts.edu.au/job/job_details.cfm?id=390234&from=

Please note this position is available to UTS staff only.
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Peter Kandlbinder
Ethics and scholarship of teaching research
Date: 25 June 2009
Time: 1pm-2pm
Location: room 27.15, CB01 (Tower)

Investigating teaching and learning practices presents some specific ethics challenges, particularly when data about students is collected. In this seminar Susanna Gorman, Research Ethics Manager in the Research and Innovation Office, will answer many of the questions commonly asked by academics planning a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research project.

The IML hosts the Scholarly Teaching and Learning Seminars to help staff of UTS to plan, undertake and publish the results of projects focusing on teaching and learning in higher education. To attend, simply bring along your lunch and an idea for a project. Tea and coffee will be provided.

Contact Enza Mirabella on ext. 1669 if you would like to talk with a project adviser after the seminar.
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Georgia Markakis
SMS Library Notices
A new Library SMS reminder notices system has been implemented. You can find out sooner that the book you are waiting for is ready for pickup or you can avoid fines by receiving an additional reminder. If you subscribe to this service, you will receive SMS messages as an additional reminder to the standard email notices, alerting you to:

- Requests awaiting pickup
- Recall notices
- Overdue notices

These messages will then direct you to check your email where you will be provided with more details about the book.

If your mobile phone number is not already in Library records, you can subscribe to or opt out of this service by simply filling out the electronic forms.
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/borrowing-and-membership/email-notices

This is a completely free service and we encourage all Library clients to subscribe and take advantage of this great new service.
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Gary Lobb
Vacancy Equity & Diversity Project Officer
The Equity and Diversity Unit are currently recruiting for an Equity and Diversity Project Officer (Women/People with Disability)
For further information please refer to:
http://www.jobs.uts.edu.au/job/job_details.cfm?id=391588&from=

Please note this position is for a six month fixed-term appointment, commencing in July 2009.
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Jaine Fleetwood
UTS is a Banksia Environmental Awards Finalist!
UTS has been advised that we have reached the final stage of the 2009 Banksia Environmental Awards. UTS entered under the Large Business Sustainability Award for the Environmental Sustainability Initiative (ESI), ’Think. Green. Do: UTS Leads by Example’.

Selection as a finalist means that UTS is able to use the 2009 Banksia Awards Finalist logo in all relevant literature and may be selected as the category winner at the Banksia Awards on 24th July.

If you wish to use the Banksia Finalists logo please contact Jaine Fleetwood: Jaine.Fleetwood@uts.edu.au

For more information on the Banksia Awards please go to http://www.banksiafdn.com/ where you will find more details on the UTS submission.
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Mark Robinson
UTS Radio Station 2SER-FM
UTS radio station 2SER-FM now has 13 programs and segments available as podcasts.

Listen online or download programs as MP3s.

http://www.2ser.com/podcasts

Some of the programs on offer include:

- Jailbreak – Radio for Prisoners and their families.

- Neighbourhood Watch - Students’ eye view of world events.

- Radio Atticus - Law in the name of social justice.

- Panacea - Alternative health ideas.

- The Fourth Estate - Media and communications.

- Final Draft - Books, publishing and writing.

- The Wire - National current affairs.
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Peter Brady
Free Hydrogeology Lecture
In a first, the Darcy Lecture for 2009 will be given by an Australian presenter: Dr Peter Cooke who is with CSIRO Land and Water. The presentation will be given on Environmental Tracers in Modern Hydrogeology: Reducing Uncertainty in Groundwater Estimation. Full details are available on the flier at:

http://www.sydneywaterpanel.org.au/pdfs/Darcy-2009.pdf

The presentation is scheduled for CB02.04.29 6pm to 8pm and drinks and nibbles will be available before hand.

The Darcy Lecture is the flagship presentation of the IAH Australia and is supported by the Sydney Division Water Engineering Panel of Engineers Australia. The lecture series provides for a distinguished scholar to travel and present their work to a wide audience. This is the first time that an Australian researcher has been chosen to present and follows in a distinguished line of US based traveling scholars.
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Carly Halliday
City 2 Surf is filling fast - Register now
To be part of the UTS Team on Sunday 9 August.

1) Call 9514 1454 and pay with credit card or pop in to the Sports Office (Building 4, Lvl 1 - next to Fitness Centre)

2) Registration costs $53

3) Get the UTS Race Pack which includes:
- UTS running singlet or t-shirt
- Exclusive entry to UTS marquee on Bondi Beach.
- Post race food and drink
- Ticket in the huge Rebel Prize Draw

All this for $25 AP members and $30 others

Don’t miss out!
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Sarah Peroni
Official Welcomes - Academic Procession
You are invited to take part in the Academic Procession for the UTS Spring Semester Official Welcomes for commencing students on Monday 20 July 2009 in the Great Hall, Level 5, City Campus.

Undergraduate students
Time: 10.00am

Postgraduate Students
Time: 6.00pm

To register to attend either or both ceremonies, and to order your academic dress, please RSVP to sarah.peroni@uts.edu.au by Tuesday 14 July 2009.

If you have any queries, please contact Sarah Peroni on 9514 1250.

For more information on the Official Welcomes visit: http://www.orientation.uts.edu.au/
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Carly Halliday
C2S warm up walk 2
Spit Bridge to Manly Cove

Date: Sunday 28th June
Time: 10am
Distance: Approx 9km

Meeting Point: North end of the Spit Bridge (Spit Road) on the eastern side – descend to small clearing.

Walk Description: This walk offers a backstage view of Sydney Harbour’s foreshores, and it’s packed with surprises. The walk takes you through some of Sydney’s most glamorous harbour side real estate, past gun emplacements, hidden beaches, subtropical rainforest, Aboriginal middens and tracts of wild coastal heath. The walk ends at Manly, from where there are buses back to Spit Bridge and ferries to the city, and another world of beaches and great cafes waiting to be explored.

Please RSVP by tomorrow 24th June for catering purposes by email carly.halliday@uts.edu.au or calling 9514 1454.
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Jessica Webber
CCS Seminar: Self-Organising Community Networks
The third seminar in the CCS Seminar Series 2009 will be held on Wednesday 24 June from 4.00 to 5.30pm at the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, Level 3, MaryAnn House, 645 Harris Street, Ultimo.

The topic of Seminar 3 is "Self-Organising Community Networks: Strengthening Civil Society", with speakers Professor Jenny Onyx, Melissa Edwards and Dr Nina Burridge.

Extended details on the CCS website at http://www.cosmopolitancivilsocieties.com

Visit this website regularly to keep up-to-date with news and more upcoming events like this one.

This is a free, public event. All are welcome.

Refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to secure a place and allow for adequate catering to be provided on the day.

Please send RSVP to ccs@uts.edu.au along with name, group or organisational affiliation & e-mail address.
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Peter Meier
In Memoriam - Adjunct Professor Carole Rogers
It is with great regret that I announce the passing of Adjunct Professor Carole Rogers. She passed peacefully at 9.45am on Saturday 20th.

Carole was associated with UTS since 1994 and was instrumental in introducing Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine degree programs and clinical services at UTS. She worked tirelessly in promoting professional standards over a 30 year period and thanks largely to her, TCM will be a nationally registered profession as of 2012.

Carole was a leader in teaching having developed such projects as the Virtual TCM Clinic in the late 90s, years before electronic learning became fashionable. She was also a strong proponent of research, co-supervising a number of students and actively engaging in research activities until the very recent onset of her illness.

A memorial service will be held this coming Friday in Mittagong, where she recently moved and any staff member wishing to attend or pass on their condolences can contact me for details. peter.meier@uts.edu.au

She will be sorely missed.
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Julia Tompkins
VC Staff Forums Reminder
I invite you to attend one of the forums for all staff this week to discuss matters of strategic importance including the Federal Budget and its implications for the sector and for UTS. I hope to see as many of you there as possible.

City Campus: Tuesday 23 June, 10:00am to 11:30am (University Hall)

Kuring-gai Campus: Thursday 25 June, 2:00pm to 3.30pm (Large Lecture Theatre)

Ross Milbourne
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Anne Marie Monaghan
Procurement Webpage
As of Wednesday the 23rd of June there will be an addition to the current FSU website, where we will be launching a procurement webpage.
This is designed to assist UTS staff in the process of purchasing within the University. The site provides guidelines on purchasing,
Suppliers and tendering. It lists current available suppliers with an existing UTS relationship, relevant forms and processes, as well as
regular updates on what is happening in the world of UTS procurement.
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Georgia Markakis
Digitisation Workshop
Nearly everything you wanted to know about digitisation but were afraid to ask?

Mal Booth (Director of Education and Research Services at the University Library), will be running a workshop on digitisation and its pitfalls. He will be generously sharing his expertise and experience in this subject from his former life at the War Memorial where he managed several large digitisation projects.

Date: Thursday 16th July
Time: 9.00am to 1.00pm
Venue: Blake Library (City Campus) Lecture Room (4g)
Cost: Free

RSVP: Judy.VanDenBroek@uts.edu.au by 9th July
Light refreshments will be served.

In this workshop Mal will cover the process of digitisation which is much more complex than just scanning documents.
Questions such as what to digitise and why bother digitising will be thoroughly addressed, answered and explained.

A workshop outline is available on the Library website.
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/articles/7979

Everybody welcome.
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