ISSUE 15 12 August 2011 OTAGO BULLETIN FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER FOR UNIVERSITY STAFF AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS University makes history at new Stadium Photos: Sharron Bennett Photos: Two teams from the University of Otago had the honour of becoming the first to play at Dunedin’s INSIDE: new Forsyth Barr Stadium last week. Just hours after the official opening on Friday, teams from Knox and Selwyn Colleges took to the field. The game was part of the 80th Cameron Shield sporting We speak to Otago’s new Vice-Chancellor competition between the two colleges. Selwyn second five-eighth Francis Leilua earned the honour Harlene Hayne (page 6-7). of scoring the first try at the Stadium. Perhaps a harbinger of things to come, Selwyn went on to convincingly take the Shield 32-13. The game, in true college spirit, was both competitive and Christchurch campus gains significant collegial. Selwyn Warden Rev Dr David Clark says the game is keenly fought every year, but this year funding from the HRC (page 11). was even more special. “It is fitting that we (Selwyn and Knox) are the first to play. The University campus is co-located with the stadium, and Selwyn and Knox have been a part of sporting competition on that campus for over a hundred years.” ABOUT THE BULLETIN

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Next Issue: Friday 26 August. The deadline Photo: Sharron Bennett Photo: for notices and advertisements is University Chancellor John Ward (left) with Prime Minister John Key and Library Information Services Manager midday, Friday 19 August. The Cate Bardwell at the official opening of the University’s upgraded Robertson Library last week. Bulletin is published fortnightly. Advertising: PM opens re-designed Robertson Library Go to www.otago.ac.nz/news/ The Prime Minister John Key officially opened The development is a joint University-Crown bulletin/ fill in the details in the the University of Otago’s Robertson Library funded project, which has resulted in a second template and submit. last week, following the completion of a $10 storey of library space and a thoroughly re- Advertising in classifieds is free to million re-design and refurbishment. designed modern and landscaped building staff and postgraduate students only. He toured the library, speaking to students frontage on Union Street. The design is by To Electronically and staff and said he was impressed with the Dunedin architectural firm McCoy and Wixon. Subscribe: facilities. “Staff and students say the new facility is a Go to: http://lists.otago.ac.nz/list- University Chancellor Mr John Ward says the delight to study and work in. It is a design I info/otago-bulletin, enter email ad- am sure Mr Robertson would have been proud dress and then click on subscribe. re-developed library, which has been in use since the start of the academic year, ushers in of,” Mr Ward says. “The Government is also Website: a new era for the Robertson Library, named in to be congratulated for having the foresight to The Bulletin can be viewed at recognition of the outstanding contribution of part fund the project and contribute towards www.otago.ac.nz/news/bulletin/ Mr William (Bill) Robertson. this fine new facility.” Copyright: We welcome reprinting if permission is sought. Contact The academic audit and you the Editor. Do you want to know how you will be affected and students, but does not yet know who. Printed By: by the upcoming ‘whole of institution’ “Just in case it’s you, this Forum provides Taieri Print. academic audit and what it is all about? If information about what to expect.” so, then get along to the ‘Academic Audit The Forum will include an outline of the Unwrapped’ Quality Forum on Tuesday 16 audit’s purpose and principles and all the steps August, 3.30pm to 5pm in the Main Seminar The Bulletin is produced by: in the process. Marketing and Communications, Room at St Margaret’s College. The forum will also be live streamed at www. University of Otago, The University has not had an academic audit otago.ac.nz/its/mediaproduction/streaming/ Scott/Shand House, since 2006. 90 St David Street, Dunedin mobile2.html Quality Advancement Director Margaret Please RSVP via Email: karen.culpeper@otago. Morgan says the audit panel will be visiting in ac.nz or Ph: 479 5784. October to meet with various groups of staff iTunes U – pick of the month Life at Otago: Introducing College Life For many students there are two important choices when thinking about attending university for the first time: which papers do I take, and which residential college do I go to? All our residential colleges offer excellent accommodation, academic support and pastoral care, as well as, of course, an extensive social experience. However, no two colleges are the same. Contact details The colleges that are highlighted in these four- to five-minute podcasts are Arana, Carrington, City College, Cumberland, Hayward and Salmond. They would be a great source of information Editor: Lisa Dick Ph: 03 479 4378 for parents and for prospective students who are considering one of these colleges. Email: [email protected] ITS Teaching and Learning Facilities Manager Emerson Pratt Address: PO Box 56, Dunedin www.otago.ac.nz/itunesu

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Campus The Rugby World Cup 2011kicks off access during next month, and with four pool matches rugby cup being hosted at the new Otago Stadium, the Dunedin campus will be affected by road closures. The Dunedin City Council in consultation with landowners in the area has developed a Rugby World Cup Traffic Management Plan: www.dunedin. govt.nz/events/rugby-world-cup-2011. The area of North Dunedin bordered by Cumberland Street, Frederick Street,

Photo: Louise Goossens Photo: Dundas Street, State Highway 88 and Associate Minister of Health and co-leader of the Mäori Party, the Hon Butts Road will be largely closed to Tariana Turia speaks at the launch of ASPIRE 2025 in Wellington. all traffic three hours before and two hours after each match on 10, 18 and Anti-smoking initiative launched 24 September and 2 October. The University of Otago, together with Massey University and Property Services will make available partners Whakauae Research and Tala Pasifika, has launched a temporary car park at Union Place ASPIRE 2025, a new research collaboration designed to help West for those staff who need to come achieve a tobacco-free New Zealand. into work on those dates. Vehicle access to the Hocken Library, the Robertson ASPIRE 2025 will collaborate with all researchers and health Library and the ISB will also be affected. groups in New Zealand to conduct world-class original research. It is expected this research will help achieve the New Zealand For any questions on accessing the campus during those dates, contact Property Government’s goal of minimising tobacco use by 2025. Services , Ph: 479 8015, Email: parking@ Director Professor Richard Edwards says ASPIRE 2025 comprises otago.ac.nz. a team of innovative and exceptional public health researchers. “We believe this collaboration will contribute to a rapid reduction in New schools A new dental clinic for preschoolers and smoking prevalence in New Zealand, and bring about the tupeka kore dental clinic primary school students will open next Aotearoa, or tobacco-free New Zealand, that so many people want.” month in Otago’s School of Dentistry. Speaking at the launch of ASPIRE 2025 on the Wellington campus The two-chair clinic, located on the Associate Minister of Health and co-leader of the Mäori Party, second floor of the School, is a joint the Hon Tariana Turia, said she fully supported the new research venture between the University and the collaboration. Southern District Health Board. The ASPIRE 2025 team includes Professor Richard Edwards of the It is part of a complete overhaul of University’s Wellington campus, Professor Janet Hoek of Marketing dental services for young children, which and Professor Rob McGee of Preventive and Social Medicine. was prompted by a 2004 nation-wide review of school dental clinics. Southern District Health Board School Dental Service Unit Manager Mirren Peterson says the old school clinics had become out of date, and were no longer fit for purpose. This clinic is a hub clinic for Dunedin’s North End. Dental Therapist Mary Sayer (pictured left) will be one of the first therapists to work from the new clinic.

Food drive The University’s annual food drive has success again helped bolster the supplies at two of Dunedin’s food banks. Photo: Otago Daily Times Otago Daily Photo: The University under snow last month. The food drive, organised by a team from the Human Resources Division, Snow day at Otago was first held in 2009. Spokesperson Steve Hawkins says goods The University was blanketed in white last month, when a major were collected from departments and snowfall hit the South Island. During adverse weather conditions, divisions across the University at the end such as snow, ice and flooding, the University remains open. If in of July and 60 full cartons were delivered doubt about whether to come to work, check out Otago’s Adverse to the food banks at the Salvation Army Weather Conditions Guidelines, which are available on: www. and Presbyterian Support last week. otago.ac.nz/humanresources/policies/adverseweather.php.

3 postgraduate news Hugh Kearns, a guest of the University’s Graduate Research Month, talks to the Bulletin about procrastination, self-sabotage and turbo- charging your research writing. Tackling postgraduate research problems It may seem a long way from himself, that bright, capable – He introduced the idea of the an undergraduate degree in even driven – people struggled “two golden hours” to refer to agricultural science to an with basic stuff like deadlines? an immensely productive but international career in cognitive relatively short period of time Mr Kearns figured this question behavioural coaching, but it is not equal or superior in terms of could be answered by psychology, really that far if you travel along output to eight hours of “fantasy hence his decision to tackle a the path taken by Hugh Kearns. writing” for which there is little Master of Mental Health degree. to show. The man who has become an It was in the course of doing this international expert on self- that he discovered that “knowing Mr Kearns also explained management for academics things isn’t enough” – people the concept of the “imposter recently brought his highly had to re-programme their syndrome”, where a candidate’s sought-after insights to Otago, minds to ultimately change their internal voice tells them they where he offered workshops for behaviour. are just pretending to be good postgraduate students facing the Cognitive Behavioural enough to get a PhD but are not Telling someone how to better Coach Hugh Kearns who daunting prospect – even if it is really up to the task. manage their time, for example, had plenty of advice for in soft copy – of a blank piece students during Graduate will not result in any lasting Research Month. He introduced strategies for of paper. change to their time management helping to deal with these and “Turbocharge your writing” skills. The trick is to get people many other acts of self-sabotage and “The seven secrets of highly to recognise what is going on in order to keep a candidate successful research students” are in their head – the subliminal positive and productive. just two of the many workshops conversation they are having with Universities as illustrious as Mr Kearns and his colleague themselves which is contributing Stanford, Oxford and Columbia Maria Gardiner have developed to their sense of powerlessness invite Mr Kearns to give his to assist students and academics in the face of a full diary – and “Predictors workshops there, which proves to better manage their workloads combat it. for research that top scholars everywhere face and constructively deal with These kind of skills are success the same internal challenges. It is the many barriers our minds important for research students no surprise then that Mr Kearns subconsciously construct. are more (as well as academics generally), lobbies for universities to provide He explains that his approach Mr Kearns explains, because their than just cognitive behavioural support uses cognitive behavioural work is strongly self-directed intelligence.” for both academic staff and coaching techniques – and therefore requires a lot of postgraduate students. traditionally utilised for people self-discipline. There is also a “Predictors for research success with clinical problems – to help lot of emotional investment in are more than just intelligence,” high performing people identify their work when it is their sole he points out, “and while there is the issues holding them back and focus, so feelings of inadequacy usually support for the logistics develop strategies for dealing can quickly snowball into an of being a researcher, such as with them. overwhelming sense of defeat. writing or research skills, not a Mr Kearns’ initial discipline In the workshops Mr Kearns lot of effort goes into this type of agricultural science led him offered on-campus in Dunedin of support. Yet it’s beneficial for into teaching where he became he explained the difference everyone, because the students interested in adult education between a “snack writer” – will have a better research – hence his Master’s degree in someone who writes for short experience and go on to be better Education. But when he stepped blocks of time whenever they can researchers and supervisors. from there into executive training – and a “binge writer” – someone They’ll also speak positively he began to wonder why courses who convinces themselves about their experience with other which were so in demand on they need a clear run of several potential students, which reflects subjects like time management hours and total isolation in well on the university. It’s a win- tended nonetheless to fail in their order to write, and therefore win situation.” purpose. Why was it, he asked seldom manages to achieve this.

For more information about other Graduate Research Month events, check out the calendar of events at www.otago.ac.nz/gradresearchmonth

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Science Academy proving a success “Gardies” Study Centre The second residential camp for the Academy Director Steve Broni says the University’s new Advanced School calibre of the initial intake has been Sciences Academy has proved a great impressive and the students’ science success, organisers say, despite some initial knowledge and confidence has clearly disruption caused by July’s heavy snowfall grown since they first gathered in January. in Dunedin. Also among the Academy’s goals is to The innovative programme is supported create a ‘community of like-minds’, so that with Government funding and aims the students can spin their own web of to help talented Year 13 students from self-belief amongst themselves, he says. provincial or rural, small and low-decile Alongside other web- schools reach their based support for full potential in their “We’d particularly like The former Gardens Tavern in Castle Street students such as a will become a study and social centre, with science studies. to pull in more maths resource-filled blog study spaces for up to 250 students. The Academy’s first ... next year.” and collaborative The proposal was approved by the University residential camp “Knowledge Forum” Council last month, and will help the University meet a need for more study and was held in January. The second camp software, Academy teaching fellows social spaces with an increasing student roll. took place at the end of July, bringing will also use the “Otago Connect” web The current building on the property will be 49 students back to the University conferencing system to run small-group modified and upgraded. As well as the study for a full week of activities including tutorials on curriculum areas that are spaces, it will also incorporate an audio-visual suite and a small café. The area around the seminars, research projects, tutorials and proving tricky. building will also be landscaped to provide presentations. In between camps, and In 2012, the Academy hopes to broaden courtyard areas for study and relaxation. from now until final exams at end of the subject areas which it covers. “We’d The new facility will be called the Marsh Study October, the Academy provides ongoing Centre, in recognition of a significant donation particularly like to pull in more maths, to the project by the Marsh family of Dunedin. support and resources over the internet. calculus and statistics for next year,” he says.

In Brief ... Reducing health inequities Teacher wins national award Associate Professor Alison Cree says the The Wellington campus recently hosted Biochemistry Senior Teaching Fellow two skinks, which are surplus to DOC’s a half-day symposium on health equity Tony Zaharic (pictured below) has been captive breeding programme, are not for and the social determinants of health recognised once again for his teaching, public display. in conjunction with the New Zealand this time with a sustained excellence “They are being held at the University so Medical Association. award at the national Tertiary Teaching that members of DOC’s skink recovery The Marmot Symposium was opened Excellence Awards held in Wellington team can continue to use the skinks for by the Minister of Health the Hon earlier this month. advocacy purposes.” Tony Ryall and featured renowned UK Mr Zaharic was one of 10 teachers from The function was also to mark the epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot who tertiary institutions around New Zealand to placement of a memorial poster in the presented the keynote address, along with receive the award, which is worth $20,000. Zoology Department to recognise the a range of other speakers. contribution of the late Nicola Grimmond, Coordinator Professor Tony Blakely of who was a popular Zoology lecturer. Wellington’s Department of Public Health Mäori Research Symposium says that although progress has been made in reducing inequities in health, such as The University’s Mäori research will be under the seven year gap between Mäori and the spotlight at the end of this month, at a Mäori Research Symposium. non-Mäori life expectancy, much still needs to be done. The Hui Poutama will be held on Wednesday 31 August in Castle 1 Lecture Theatre starting Progress can only be achieved by at 9.00am. It will be led by the University’s redeploying funding to programmes Skinks welcomed Mäori academic staff, highlighting their which actually work rather than those research, teaching innovations or community that do not; improving early childcare, The University is now proud host to two engagement. The Keynote Speaker will be Dr improving access to healthcare for rare Otago skinks – at the request of the Catherine Savage, Kaihautu, Te Tapuae o Rehua. low income groups, and perhaps most Department of Conservation. It is open to all staff, postgraduate students, importantly, making New Zealand The skinks were officially welcomed into and members of the wider community. smokefree by 2025, he says. their new display enclosure at a Zoology For more information Email: poutama@otago. function in June. ac.nz or visit: http://maori.otago.ac.nz/maori- at-otago/maori-staff

5 getting to know harlene hayne Otago welcomes its new Vice-Chancellor Otago’s new Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne will take over the leadership of the University on 15 August, replacing Professor David Skegg who ended his seven-year tenure at the end of July. The Bulletin spoke to the energetic, ambitious and warm psychology researcher last month as she prepared to step into the University’s top governance position. With trademark enthusiasm, Professor Harlene Hayne views the position of Vice-Chancellor as a “big present” which she has “not yet had the chance to unwrap”. She comes to the role from three years as Otago’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), and is the first woman to become Vice- Chancellor in the University’s 142 year history. When she was named to the role in early February, there was a sense of pride and achievement among many women in the University, but Professor Hayne herself says she was taken aback at the attention her gender drew. Otago’s incoming Vice-Chancellor “My career progression at Otago Professor has been gender blind,” she says. Harlene Hayne. “I have never been given special privileges or confronted a glass ... there has Princeton University. This to the British Psychological ceiling at Otago, so the emphasis followed an undergraduate degree Society in the development of on my gender caught me by been a whole from Colorado College and guidelines on memory and law, surprise. Although there has generation postgraduate qualifications from and a recent appointment to the been considerable interest in my of pioneering Rutgers University in New Jersey. newly-established Innovation gender since the announcement Her research into the field Board of the Ministry of Science of my appointment, I guess the women at of memory development in and Innovation. She is also key is that there has been a whole Otago who infants, children, adolescents the Co-Chair of the Office of generation of pioneering women have paved and adults is outstanding. She the Prime Minister’s Science at Otago who have paved the way is the author or co-author of Advisory Committee Working for me.” the way for over 90 refereed journal articles, Party on Reducing Social and Professor Hayne began her own me.” 20 book chapters, a book on Psychological Morbidity During academic career at Otago in 1992, memory development, and is Adolescence. coming to the University from the the editor of six other academic Alongside all this, she and United States with her husband, titles pertaining primarily to Professor Colombo have raised fellow psychology researcher infancy research. Her other two daughters, Marea (now 20) Professor Michael Colombo, to academic achievements include and Sara (now 17). But when take up a position as Lecturer in being a Fellow of the American they first came to Otago, they did the Department of Psychology. Psychological Society, A Fellow not plan to stay long-term. She had just completed a of the Royal Society of New “We had every intention of postdoctoral fellowship at Zealand, an international advisor coming here for three years,

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facilities, or meet on the sidelines Her lab is still full on, with three of children’s soccer fields. It is PhD students, three Masters’ easy to socialise with workmates, students, a research fellow, because nearly everyone lives a postdoctoral fellow and a within a 20 minute drive from research assistant. She continues one another. to write papers, publish results Otago has certainly proved to be and make time for her students. a good environment for Professor “As long as you have your hand Hayne. In 1995 she became a in, you can understand the day- Senior Lecturer, in 1999 Associate to-day struggles of academia. Professor, in 2002 full Professor It is hard to think of research with a Personal Chair and in ideas; it is hard to get funding; it 2006 Head of the Department is hard to give good lectures. But of Psychology. In 2008 she you can forget that really quickly. became Deputy Vice-Chancellor You only know what you know. (Research and Enterprise), and is When I’m getting on a plane at now Vice-Chancellor. dawn to fly to Wellington for a But back in 1992, this climb to Vice-Chancellors’ meeting, it the top was certainly not part of would be easy to think that this is the plan. the hardest job, but all aspects of academia are difficult.” “No way,” she laughs. “Like most academics I was deeply Any changes under her leadership suspicious of academics who will be gradual, although she wanted to be administrators.” concedes her style will be different from Professor Skegg’s. In fact, she says her initial response when approached to “Whether by virtue of my gender apply for the position of Head or nationality, it will be louder of Psychology in 2006 was ‘are and less formal,” she says. you out of your mind? Why But the underlying principles of would I want to do that?’, but she scholarship and maintenance of began to see it as an opportunity Otago’s student experience will to move from being ambitious remain unchanged. for herself, to being ambitious “Professor Skegg has been a for other people. As Head of remarkable Vice-Chancellor, Psychology she was ambitious for and has left the University in

Photo: Sharron Bennett Photo: the department, as Deputy Vice- great heart. Compared to other Chancellor she was ambitious institutions we are in a great then going back,” she says. “But for Otago’s researchers, and now space.” “It is about as Vice-Chancellor, she “has the nowhere in the world could we There will be challenges: “We privilege” of being ambitious for have had more productive careers Otago. must ensure that we continue the whole University. or a better lifestyle. This place This is an to attract and retain the fosters high levels of performance opportunity Like Professor Skegg before her, world-class scholars that are while also allowing people to be she would never want to be Vice- necessary to maintain our high- humane and nice. for me to Chancellor of another university. calibre teaching and research “Otago has an amazing collegial give back “It is about Otago. This is an programmes. We must also spirit. It is rare in academia to to the opportunity for me to give back continue to attract the best and find an institution that has high to the institution that has given brightest students from New aspirations, but that continues institution me a career that I never ever Zealand and from around to maintain such a collegial that has dreamed of.” the globe.” environment. Ambition often given me a Also like Professor Skegg, she will But: “It will be evolution not gets in the way of personal continue with her own research, revolution at the University of relationships, but it doesn’t seem career that something she believes is vital for Otago.” to here.” I never ever a research-led institution. With The position of Vice-Chancellor She says the size of the city means dreamed of.” the assistance of her Research is not always going to be the the lines between work and life Fellow, Dr Julien Gross, Professor easiest gift, but as Professor are blurred; the people you work Hayne has been able to maintain Harlene Hayne begins to unwrap with are often the same people her research while also working it, the University can be confident with whom you share childcare in the Clocktower. it is in good hands.

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Awards and UNSUNG HEROES Achievements Professor Allan Herbison Maintaining the information flow in Wellington of Physiology has been Maxine Schutte is a somewhat reluctant, but selected as the 2011 according to colleagues, true unsung hero. recipient of the Triennial Medal of the Physiological As the Lending Services Librarian she is a vital part of the clinical and research information Society of New Zealand. The Medal is awarded flow for the Wellington campus and staff with the Capital and Coast District Health Board. in recognition of Ms Schutte is the ‘face’ of the campus library, in distinguished physiological many significant ways. As she says, she is always research for the previous ‘hovering’ around the lending area, making sure five years by a member of things run smoothly for staff and students alike. the Society. “It’s important that people get a good first Dr Clinton Golding of impression when they arrive at our lovely light the University’s Higher and airy new library,” she says. “I want to make Education Development sure that they’re welcomed and we can help Centre will receive an everyone locate the material they need, whether Award for Teaching it be an academic journal or a vital text.” Excellence in the 2011 Ms Schutte has been working for the campus Australian Awards for library for 22 years and says she has enjoyed it, University Teaching this and learnt a great deal. She started out part- month. Dr Golding joined time, but has worked in most areas and has the University of Otago consequently built up an in-depth knowledge this year. He earned the of how the library works, the material it holds, award, which is worth and the best approaches to take in dealing with AUD$25,000, for his work borrowers. based at the University of “Maxine’s support and vast knowledge ensures Melbourne. The citation the library continues to run smoothly even if it for his honour noted that means staying through the late shift, working during a 16-year career through the weekend or working while she is he has developed and under the weather,” colleague Michael Fauchelle implemented thought- says. provoking curricula, One of the biggest changes over the last resources and assessment two decades has been the development of techniques which result computerisation. Now with e-journal access in critical, creative and and inter-loans facilitated through computer insightful students.

desktops fewer people actually come into the Michael Roberts Photo:

library. This month’s Unsung Hero, Wellington campus Lending Services Librarian Maxine Schutte. The University of Otago Nevertheless Ms Schutte and the front desk will confer the honorary team are still busy dealing with the many phone If you know someone who makes a difference on degree of Doctor of and email inquiries, as well as face-to-face campus and should be celebrated in our Unsung Literature on leading contact, keeping a vital part of the Wellington Heroes series, please contact Bulletin Editor Lisa New Zealand poet and campus running like a well-oiled machine. writer Brian Turner at a Dick, Email: [email protected] graduation ceremony at the end of this month. Mr Turner is one of the Otago appoints Professor of Global Health country’s most gifted An outstanding specialist on infectious diseases Mercy. This new chair in Global Health has been poets and is a former has been appointed to a second endowed established through the generosity of a Dunedin Burns Fellow. Best known professorial chair in the Centre for International couple, Stuart and Marylyn McKinlay. for celebrating the stark Health at the University. He is Associate Dr Crump says he is delighted that the beauty of the South Professor John Crump, who currently heads McKinlay family and the University of Otago Island’s hinterland, and a research centre in Tanzania for the Duke have combined efforts to further expand the that of Central Otago in University Medical Center and the Duke Global University’s focus on the health needs of people particular, his poetry more Health Institute. broadly explores universal living in resource-poor areas. Otago’s Centre for International Health was themes such as love, Dr Crump will take up his appointment in launched in 2008, with the appointment of Dr longing and loss, overlaid December. with a love of place. Philip Hill to a Chair endowed by the Sisters of

8 This year’s University of Otago Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance Lyne Pringle has taken a poem and turned it into a community event. The Bulletin has a look. Ocean wave Caroline Plummer has literally provided the inspiration for this year’s recipient of the University of Otago Fellowship in her name. While preparing her application for the Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance, Wellington-based dancer Lyne Pringle found a poem by Miss Plummer about a walk along Dunedin’s St Kilda and St Clair beaches. The poem, which describes the strength and solace Miss Plummer gained from the ocean as she neared the end of her life, touched Mrs Pringle and provided a starting point for her

project. D Scene Wilma McCorkindale, Photo: “The poem captures well a Working with pupils at theatre artist in New Zealand, particular feeling,” Mrs Pringle Forbury School has been Australia and New York. Meet the Fellows says. “It really sprang out to me. the most rewarding aspect of Lyne Pringle’s For her the most rewarding aspect Come and meet Lyne Pringle Everyone has a response to the time as the University’s of this project has been working and the University’s four ocean, and I am interested in what Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance. with the Forbury pupils. This other Arts Fellows at the that is. This project explores that.” is a school where many pupils Dunedin Public Art Gallery Remaining true to the poem, are from low socioeconomic this weekend. Mrs Pringle has taken her backgrounds. It was also told On Sunday (14 August) Burns six-month residency out this year that it will merge with Fellow Fiona Farrell, Mozart into the St Clair and St Kilda Macandrew Intermediate, part Fellow Chris Adams, Frances communities. For the past five of a major review of schools in Hodgkins Fellow Kushana months she has spent three the South Dunedin area by the Bush, University of Otago days a week at Forbury School, Ministry of Education. College of Education/Creative working on dance with the For the school itself, Ms Pringle’s New Zealand Children’s school’s 145 pupils and their “Everyone presence has been wonderful. Writer in Residence Kyle teachers. Alongside this she has has a Mewburn and Caroline collaborated with the St Kilda Principal Janice Tofia says while Plummer Community Dance Brass Band and the St Clair Surf response to dancing was a good way to lighten Fellow Lyne Pringle will Life Saving Club among others. the ocean, the mood of the school during such a stressful time, it also went participate in a forum from The resulting performance Ocean and I am much deeper than that. The 1pm to 2.30pm. Wave will be held next month, school has spent successive years They will talk about bringing together the various interested in working on writing development, themselves and their threads of her project. what that is.” reading and then numeracy. This experiences, then answer Mrs Pringle has over 30 years of year’s dance helped consolidate questions from the audience. experience working as a dance/ these elements. The event will be chaired “The arts are the magical binding by Music Professor John things that help light the fires Drummond, with tea and St Kilda St Clair in the kids’ eyes; they help them cupcakes to follow. St Kilda and St Clair let forth their waves, become engaged in what they do.” pounding a rhythmic battle song The Fellowship was created that now sings in my heart. in 2003 to honour Caroline See if for yourself: When I stood Plummer, an Otago student Ocean Wave energised and exhilarated who was diagnosed and treated Friday 2 September on a sand hill and saluted my leave for cancer during her study. It I knew that I was ready. acknowledges her outstanding Kings and Queens scholarship at Otago, her passion Performing Arts Centre An excerpt from the poem by Caroline Plummer for dance and her vision for (270 Bayview Road) which inspired Lyne Pringle. community dance in New Zealand.

9 HRC results Health research funding successes for Otago Otago researchers have been awarded $27.5M and Wellington, and include new funding for “Otago is for 22 research proposals in the Health Research three major programmes, 16 projects, and three Council’s (HRC) latest annual funding round. feasibility studies. producing Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research One of the programmes involves the long- world-class and Enterprise) Professor Helen Nicholson running and highly successful Christchurch health research welcomed the new funding saying it is further Health and Development Study (CHDS) which recognition of the quality, breadth and depth of has been closely tracking a group of 1265 in a variety of research being carried out at the University. people born in the city in 1977 (see story areas. All of it “Otago is producing world-class health research page 11). has the potential to in a variety of areas. All of it has the potential Another successful group was Otago’s Centre to bring significant health benefits, not only in for Neuroendocrinology, which received bring significant New Zealand, but further afield.” funding for one programme extension ($2.2M) health benefits ... ” The 22 research proposals range across the and three new projects ($2.5M). University’s campuses in Dunedin, Christchurch

Otago’s new HRC contracts Associate Professor Marie Crowe Dr Louise Signal (Public Health, Please note that only the principal (Psychological Medicine, Christchurch Wellington campus) investigator is listed. campus) C3 - Cancer care journeys and clinical A randomised clinical effectiveness trial of a decision making HRC Programmes: New bipolar disorder clinic 36 months, $1,198,742 36 months, $1,189,961 Professor David Fergusson (Psychological Professor Allan Herbison (Physiology) Medicine, Christchurch campus) Associate Professor Patrick Manning Understanding kisspeptin neurons The Christchurch Health and Development (Medicine) 36 months, $1,002, 385 Study - Birth to 35 Years Does Cabergoline prevent weight regain in 60 months, $3,914,157 people with obesity? Associate Professor Lisa Stamp (Medicine, 48 months, $1,192,020 Christchurch campus) HRC Programme Extensions Safety and efficacy of high dose allopurinol Associate Professor Tony Merriman Dr Anna Ranta (Dean’s Office, Wellington in the management of gout: a randomised (Biochemistry) campus) interventional study Application of genetics to the pathogenesis Efficacy and Safety of TIA Electronic 36 months, $1,199,225 of common chronic conditions Support Tool (FASTEST) Trial 36 months, $4,765,885 24 months, $624,846 Associate Professor Margreet Vissers (Pathology, Christchurch campus) Professor Mark Richards (Medicine, Associate Professor Parry Guilford Ascorbate-mediated regulation of HIF-1 Christchurch campus) (Biochemistry) (pictured below) controlled tumour growth and angiogenesis Neurohumoral and genetic prediction and Synthetic lethal targeting of the tumour 36 months, $812,985 protection in heart disease suppression gene CDH1 in common cancers 36 months, $3,430,492 36 months, $1,080,001, Single cell RNA Dr Kristin Wickens (Medicine, Wellington profiling for the early detection of urological campus) HRC Projects cancers 36 months, $820,303 A maternal probiotic intervention for infant Dr Tristram Ingham (Medicine, allergic disease prevention Wellington campus) 36 months, $1,181,991 Whiti Te Ra: The contribution of housing HRC Feasibility Study Grants conditions to bronchiolitis disparities 36 months, $1,157,725 Dr Lyndie Foster Page (Oral Rehabilitation) Dr Istvan Abraham (Physiology) A novel approach to caries management in ANGELS as a potential treatment for New Zealand children Alzheimer’s disease 36 months, $146,826 36 months, $782,886 Associate Professor Leigh Hale Dr Rebecca Campbell (Physiology) (Physiotherapy) Understanding the neuroendocrine Prevention of falls for adults with abnormalities of polycystic ovarian Associate Professor Kate Scott intellectual disability (PROFAID) syndrome (Psychological Medicine) 36 months, $143,026 36 months, $650,735 The association of mental disorders with Associate Professor Susan Dovey (General Associate Professor Brian Cox (Preventive subsequent physical condition onsets Practice and Rural Health) and Social Medicine) 36 months, $643,944 Patient safety in New Zealand general Comparative effectiveness research: one-off Professor Roger Mulder (Psychological practices: Records review study sigmoidoscopy or iFOBT screening Medicine, Christchurch campus) 36 months, $149,276 20 months, $666,038 Health Anxiety CBT vs TAU for patients with non-cardiac chest pain 36 months, $726,684

10 Christchurch campus researchers achieved exceptional success in the latest Health Research Council (HRC) funding round. The funding is a particular boost for the researchers, who are still living and working in difficult circumstances following the series of devastating earthquakes in the region. The Bulletin takes a closer look at the projects. Christchurch campus celebrates HRC funding Six Christchurch researchers or research groups received funding from the HRC, including a major project which will measure the psychological toll of the Canterbury earthquakes. Professor David Fergusson and his team have been granted almost $4M to continue work on their world-renowned longitudinal study, which will now include an examination of how the earthquakes affect those living in the area. Professor Fergusson’s Health and Development Study has been running for more than 30 years. Its findings have shaped Government policy and enlightened New Zealanders about the exact impact of childhood disadvantages on later life outcomes. Professor David Fergusson, Professor Fergusson says he will The funding boost for The HRC funding will allow whose longitudinal Health and Development Study look at the consequences of the Christchurch has been welcomed, Professor Fergusson and his has received funding from 2010 Canterbury earthquake for Christchurch campus Dean team to study participants to age the HRC. those study participants who Professor Peter Joyce says. 35, across a range of measures. experienced it. He will be able to “These results reflect a strong Information was first collected compare outcomes for them with research tradition in Christchurch about participants, and their participants who were not in across clinical, biomedical and families, when they were infants. Canterbury at that time. public health research.”

Other Christchurch research teams funded by the HRC include: ~ Head of the Christchurch campus’ Psychological Medicine ~ Associate Professor Lisa Stamp of Medicine was granted Department, Professor Roger Mulder was granted $726,684 $1,199,225 to study the safety and efficacy of increasing for a study using modified cognitive behavioural treatment the recommended dose of the most commonly prescribed for non-cardiac chest pain. Chest pain is one of the most gout medication. There is evidence many patients fail to common reasons for presenting to emergency departments. achieve adequate reduction in required blood urate levels, at But the majority of chest pain is not cardiac in origin. Current recommended doses. Preliminary evidence shows increasing ways of dealing with this, such as reassurance, are not very the dose is safe and effective. effective. Professor Mulder will evaluate a brief psychosocial ~ Professor Mark Richards, head of the Christchurch intervention to reduce distress, and teach coping skills, stress Cardioendocrine Research Group, had his research funding management and cardiac risk factor reduction to see if the extended ($3,430,492) so his team can continue work on the intervention results in less use of health resources and better Hauora Manawa/Community Heart Study, a study into the quality of life for patients. prediction of onset and outcomes in coronary heart disease ~ Associate Professor Marie Crowe from the Psychological and research to develop a range of specific tests for acute Medicine Department has been granted $1,189,961 to research cardiac injury. the effectiveness of a Biopolar Disorder Clinic. The trial ~ Associate Professor Margreet Vissers of Pathology will receive addresses a gap in mental health care for this group after they $812,985 to study the impact of vitamin-C on cancerous are released from specialist mental health services. tumour growth in an animal model.

11 IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Reducing repeat abortions Wellington campus researchers have found that repeat abortions are significantly reduced if women use long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs), after an abortion. The study, carried out by the Women’s Health Research Centre, followed 510 women aged from 13 to 44 after they had an abortion in a public clinic in Wellington Binge drinkers are twice as likely to be aggressors towards their intimate partners. and chose either a free long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) method or a non-LARC method. Alcohol and partner aggression LARC methods included a A study by Preventive and Social Medicine as violence in partnerships commonly multiload or Mirena IUD or a researchers that examined the link between escalates from less severe aggression. Depoprovera (DMPA) injection. binge drinking and intimate partner Drinkers who reported having five or Women were then followed up at aggression gained attention last month. more drinks on an occasion at least once two years to determine whether The research appeared in the international a month were found to be twice as likely they had another abortion. journal BMJ Open, and is the first study of to be an aggressor and three times as The findings, which were partner aggression and drinking in a sample likely to be a victim of partner aggression, published in the American Journal of the general population in New Zealand. compared with people who did not binge. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lead author Professor Jennie Connor However, it appeared that this was not due showed only 6.45 percent of said although it is well established that to heavy drinkers being more aggressive women who used LARC methods alcohol increases aggressiveness, it had in general, but being more likely to be had a repeat abortion, whereas not been clear before whether this was a involved in aggressive acts when they were those who used some other major influence on patterns of aggression drinking. method of contraception had a 14.5 percent return rate. between partners in this country. 5 to 6 Jul New Zealand’s Rhema, Otago The study included all forms of physical Daily Times, The Press, Southland Times, Lead author Dr Sally Rose said the aggression, not just the most serious, NZPA results indicated that if women who have an abortion then use a long- acting contraceptive, particularly an IUD, they are far less likely to Antibiotic gap for rural Mäori have a repeat abortion within two School of Pharmacy research suggesting and received smaller quantities on average. years than women who use the pill, condoms or some other method. that rural Mäori are much less likely to Rural Mäori in particular received fewer receive antibiotics than other groups prescriptions. Among children six years Co-author and Research Centre recently made the news. or under, only 43 percent of rural Mäori director, Dr Beverley Lawton, said The study, carried out in the Tairawhiti children received antibiotics during the use of LARCs in New Zealand has (East Cape) district, found that rural year, whereas 68 percent of rural non- historically been relatively low Mäori living there had lower levels of Mäori, and over 80 percent of urban compared to other methods. antibiotic use in spite of them needing children, did receive them. “We’re very excited about the these medicines more owing to far higher Professor Norris said the findings are very potential public health impact rates of rheumatic fever. worrying, because of the high rates of of these findings. By improving Professor Pauline Norris and Dr Simon acute rheumatic fever in this area. access to long-acting contraception, women will not only have better Horsburgh obtained information on all Dr Horsburgh said the lower levels of choices to control their fertility, but medicines dispensed in Te Tairawhiti for a antibiotic use could be the result of Mäori we now know they will also reduce year and then matched it with information not visiting the doctor as often, being their chance of a further unplanned on patient age, gender, ethnicity and prescribed antibiotics less frequently pregnancy,” Dr Rose said. whether they lived in a rural area. when they do visit, or not having their Over a year, 51 percent of the population prescriptions filled. Further research was 26 Jul Taranaki Daily News, Timaru received a prescription for one or more planned, he said. Herald, Manawatu Standard, The News-Westport, NZPA antibiotics. Mäori were less likely to 28 Jul to 1 Aug Sunday Star-Times, Waatea receive a prescription (48 percent of the News, RNZ Morning Report, Checkpoint, Te population) than non-Mäori (55 percent), Karere, NZPA, Newstalk ZB News

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Venue: Room 314, Science Biochemistry Departmental Seminar. Speaker: Botany Departmental Seminar. Speaker: III Building. Dr Grant Pearce (School of Biological Sciences, Professor Shri Mohan Jain (Department of University of Canterbury). Venue: Room 228, There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, 2nd floor, Biochemistry Building. Finland). Venue: Union Street Lecture Theatre. Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia – 3pm Dissident Daughters: Apostolic Women Dunedin’s ‘Puspawarna Gamelan’ Ensemble Economics Seminar. Speaker: Mathias Sinning Speak on Their Departure from Christian – 1pm (Australian National University). Venue: Room Fundamentalism – 1pm Lunchtime Concert. A variety of original CO5.20, level 5, Commerce Building. Gender Studies Seminar. Speaker: Sherrema percussion pieces performed on the Bower. Venue: Castle C Seminar Room. University’s Central Javanese gamelan. Venue: Material Culture Traditions of Prehistoric Marama Hall. Murihiku – 3pm Go With the Flow - Get Organised with Web Anthropology Seminar. Speaker: Andy Brown 2.0 Tools – 1pm Providing Housing Assistance to Criminal (Anthropology and Archaeology). Venue: Moot A workshop for thesis students wanting to Offenders: Does it Decrease Recidivism? – 4pm Court, Richardson Building. utilize Web 2.0 tools in their research. Venue: Sociology, Gender and Social Work Seminar. Committee Room 2, 1st floor, Central Library. Speaker: Moises Prospero (a visiting lecturer Michael Mann and Postclassical Cinema – 4pm from Utah). Venue: Room 1 (Practice Suite), Media, Film and Communication Seminar. Ovarian Development and PCOS, where does 530 Castle Street. Venue: Media Film and Communication it all start? – 9am Department Seminar Room, 6th floor, Anatomy and Structural Biology Departmental Thursday 18 August Richardson Building. Seminar. Speaker: Mr Peter Smith Do University teachers think about (AgResearch). Venue: D’Ath Lecture, Hercus ‘Education for Sustainability’ and if they do, Saturday 20 August Building. what do they think about it? – 1pm Talking of Michelangelo... – 9am HEDC Seminar. Speaker: Professor Kerry A symposium on the ongoing status of Wednesday 24 August Shephard and Mary Furnari. Venue: HEDC European high culture in New Zealand Positioning Your Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar Room. Aotearoa. Venue: Moot Court, 10th floor, Research – 9am Quality Forum: Journeys of Discovery – PhD Richardson Building. A workshop to help thesis students navigate the pitfalls of interdisciplinary research. Graduates Reflect on Their Experiences – 3pm Monday 22 August This is a forum where recent PhD students Speaker: Dr Clinton Golding. Venue: GW3, Commerce-Related Postgraduate Research will share their experiences of their journey Student Learning Centre, Ground Floor West, Resources: An Update – 1pm of discovery. Venue: Gazebo Lounge, 1st floor, Information Services Building. A library workshop for Commerce University Union Building. postgraduate students. Venue: Room 2.07, More Limited Peacekeeping? – 10.30am Biostatistics: A historical look – 4pm Commerce Building. A National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Preventive and Social Medicine 125th poster presentation by doctoral candidate Ellen Celebrations Historical Seminar. Speaker: The new generation of New Zealanders – Furnari. Venue: 117 Albany Street. Professor Peter Herbison (Preventive and evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand – 1pm Moderating the National Standards: Teacher Social Medicine). Venue: Room 033, ground Learning and Assessment Outcomes – 12noon floor, Adams Building. Psychology Seminar. Speaker: Dr Susan Morton (Research Director, University of College of Education Open Seminar. Speaker: Auckland). Venue: Archway 2 Lecture Theatre. Esther Smail (PhD Student). Venue: EG1 - Education Centre, Union Street East.

15 Heleen DuPlessis (cello) and Terence Dennis Monday 29 August Lecturing (piano) – 1pm Navigating Your Ethics Committee – 10am Professor Kerry Shephard (HEDC) Lunchtime Concert. Beethoven: Sonata in G This is a workshop for thesis students and minor, op.5 no.2; Britten: Sonata for Cello and Tue 6 Sep, 2pm to 5pm, HEDC Seminar Room, supervisors wanting to know more about 65 Union Place West Piano, op.65. Venue: Marama Hall. human ethics approval at Otago. Speaker: This workshop will use individual and small Claire Gallop. Venue: Seminar Room, Hocken Community-based Development in the Pacific: group activities to identify elements of Library, Anzac Ave (Next to Unipol). The WIBDI case study in Samoa – 2pm successful lecturing and use these features to Te Tumu Research Seminar. Speaker: Suzanne Tuesday 30 August collectively summarise positive aspects of this Duncan (Te Tumu, School of Mäori, Pacific approach to support student learning. and Indigenous Studies). Venue: Te Wänanga, Reconstructing ancient human diet isn’t a 1st floor, Richardson South Tower. piece of cake – 1.10pm Selecting examiners and examining Anatomy and Structural Biology Departmental theses Thursday 25 August Seminar. Speaker: Dr Nancy Beavan. Venue: Dr Carol Bond (HEDC) Mastering Your Thesis: An Orientation D’Ath Lecture, Hercus Building. Thu 8 Sep, 11am to 1pm, HEDC Seminar Workshop for Masters’ Thesis Students 9am Wednesday 31 August A workshop to help you enjoy, not just survive, Room, 65 Union Place West your master’s thesis! Speaker: Claire Gallop. Key Processes for Supervisors of PhD In this workshop we look at the literature on Venue: GW3, Student Learning Centre, Candidates – 9am selecting examiners and the processes that Ground Floor West, Information Services The purpose of this workshop is to enhance are used at Otago. We also explore our own Building. supervisors’ knowledge about important PhD practices in relation to examining theses. processes at the University of Otago. Speaker: Children and electricity usage – 4pm Dr Charles Tustin. Venue: HEDC Seminar Using technology wisely in teaching Seminars at CSAFE. Speaker: Ikerne Aguirre- Room, level 1, HEDC, 65/75 Union Place West. Swee Kin Loke and Jenny McDonald (HEDC) Bielschowsky. Venue: CSAFE Seminar Room, 12 Sep, 10am to 12noon, HEDC Seminar 547 Castle Street. Nonviolent Conflict: Results of a Pilot Study on Two Countries – 10.30am Room Asylum: Inside the Closed World of American A National Centre for Peace and Conflict Implications of Powerpoint for teaching State Mental Hospitals – 6pm Studies poster presentation by Masters’ Student Art and Medicine Symposium Open Jonathan Sutton. Venue: 117 Albany Street. Ayelet Cohen and Jenny McDonald (HEDC) Lecture. Speaker: Chris Payne (New York Mon 19 Sep, 10am to 12noon, HEDC Seminar Photographer). Venue: Burns 2 Lecture Three Minute Thesis Final - 3pm Room, 65 Union Place West Theatre, Arts Building. The final of the 3MT is an exciting event filled with fast and fantastic presentations by In this workshop we will explore how teachers The Mysterious Maya: An ancient American doctoral students. Sponsored by Office Max. at Otago use presentations, and address civilisation – 6pm Venue: College of Education Auditorium. elements of design and presentation styles. 2011 NZ Aronui Lecture Series. Speaker: Mäori Culture Professor Norman Hammond (Archaeology McCully Lecture: Tragedy and Miracle - using Correspondent for The Times, London and anatomy to alleviate tetraplegia – 5.30pm Mark Brunton (Facilitator Research Mäori) Fellow the British Academy). Venue: Hutton Anatomy and Structural Biology Public Tue 20 Sep, 1pm to 3pm, HEDC Seminar Theatre, Otago Museum. Lecture. Speaker: Mr Khalid Mohammed Room, 65 Union Place West (Orthopaedic Surgeon and Senior Clinical This workshop will provide an introduction to Friday 26 August Lecturer, Christchurch Hospital, Upper Limb the basic principles which underlie etiquette in Surgeon, Burwood Spinal Unit). Venue: Information Science Postgrad Day – a Mäori setting, with special consideration on Barnett Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Dunedin Information Science Department – 9am how this should be applied in the University. An event for Information Science research Public Hospital. students to share their research. Venue: TBC Hui Poutama: Mäori Research Symposium – Introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi Modelling data from different sites, times All-day event Mark Brunton (Facilitator Research Mäori) or studies: weighted versus unweighted University of Otago Mäori Academic Staff Wed 21 Sep, 12noon to 2pm, HEDC Seminar regression – 12noon share their mahi in this hui for University of Room, 65 Union Place West Zoology Seminar. Speaker: Associate Professor Otago staff, postgraduate students and the This seminar focuses on gaining a better David Fletcher (Mathematics and Statistics). community. Venue: Castle 1 Lecture Theatre. understanding and acceptance of the Treaty of Venue: Benham Seminar Room, 2nd floor, Waitangi. Benham Building. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Advanced Treaty of Waitangi Challenges Facing the Biological and Higher Education Mark Brunton (Facilitator Research Mäori) Chemical Weapons Regimes – 12noon Development Centre (HEDC) National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies 2011 PROFESSIONAL Thu 22 Sep, 12noon to 2pm, HEDC Seminar Public Seminar. Speaker: Angela Woodward DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR Room, 65 Union Place West Venue: Quad 3 Lecture Theatre. ACADEMIC STAFF This seminar examines the Treaty in contemporary New Zealand and provides In China’s Wake: Has Asia Gained from Upcoming Workshops practical steps to integrate the principles into a China’s Growth? – 3pm Please register through the web if you wish working environment. Economics Seminar. Speaker: Peter Robertson to attend the Professional Development (University of Western Australia). Venue: Programme or to check upcoming HEDC Learning via web conferencing Room CO5.20, Commerce Building. events. To register please go to: Swee Kin Loke and Jenny McDonald (HEDC) OUSA Supervisors of the Year Award – 5pm http://hedc.otago.ac.nz/workshops/ 29 Sep, 2pm to 4pm, Online An event to honour the 2011 Supervisor of listWorkshops.do the Year and the 2011 Best New Supervisor of Higher Education Key processes for supervisors of PhD Development Centre (HEDC) the Year. Sponsored by OUSA and Graduate candidates Research Services. Venue: Gazebo Lounge, 1st Dr Charles Tustin (Graduate Research Services) 2011 TUTOR AND DEMONSTRATOR floor, University Union Building. TRAINING AND SUPPORT Wed 31 Aug, 9am to 12.30pm, HEDC Seminar PROGRAMME Saturday 27 August Room, 65 Union Place West Semester Two The Soul Train – 5pm The purpose of this workshop is to enhance Dunedin to Middlemarch Return. Dust off supervisors’ knowledge about important PhD Please register through the web if you are your flares and get your groove on for a train processes at Otago. interested in attending a workshop by going to trip of the decade (the 1970s!). the HEDC registration page: http://hedc.otago.

16 ac.nz/hedc/asd/Professional-Development- www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ is recommended that a Refresher course be Programme/Tutor-training/workshop.html development/coursesPages/presentations.php undertaken every two years. Tutoring/Demonstrating this Mediation: I’m not a mediator but ... www.otago.ac.nz/healthandsafety/training/ refresher_firstaid.html Semester: A Lunchtime Discussion on Fri 2 Sep, 9am to 3pm, $80 (includes lunch) Experiences so far This course aims to give participants the skills Workplace First Aid Rob Wass (HEDC and Zoology) to intervene early in low level disputes and help Wed 9 and Thu 10 Nov, 9am to 3.30pm, $95 Thu 25 Aug 12noon to 1pm, HEDC Seminar those involved resolve them. The Workplace First Aid course is a Room www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ comprehensive 12-hour course and is the This lunchtime discussion session is an development/coursesPages/mediation.php minimum requirement for those appointed as opportunity for tutors and demonstrators to the Departmental First Aider. share experiences, swap ideas, get and give Career Development: your invisible resumé www.otago.ac.nz/healthandsafety/training/ advice and learn more about their role. workplace_firstaid.html Tue 6 Sep, 9am to 12noon, $35 HUMAN RESOURCES TRAINING Fire Warden Training AND PROFESSIONAL This course looks at how factors other than DEVELOPMENT work performance can impact on people’s Mon 17 Oct, 10am to 11.30am, $35 careers. Fire Wardens and Deputy Fire Wardens must A full list of courses and application forms www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ be appointed on every floor within every can be found on the web at: www.otago.ac.nz/ development/coursesPages/career_resume.php University building. All staff appointed as humanresources/hr/development/training.php Fire Wardens or Deputy Fire Wardens should or email [email protected]. For enrolment Mental Health: face to face with attend this course. This course will also enquiries please contact Katherine van der Vliet student issues provide valuable skills to those that may find on 479 4101, Human Resources Division. Tue 15 Sep, 9am to 12noon, $35 themselves in a fire situation. General Staff Orientation Programme This course aims to provide participants www.otago.ac.nz/healthandsafety/training/ Fri 9 Sep, 14 Oct and 2 Dec, 9am to 12noon with a set of tools to help them assess student firewardens.html interactions and how to cope with that Human Resources provides a regular responsibility. FINANCIAL SERVICES TRAINING orientation programme for members of the The full Financial Services Division’s (FSD) General staff. Attendance is compulsory for www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ 2011 training programme is on the FSD all staff who have a contract of 12 months or development/coursesPages/mentalhealth.php webpage www.otago.ac.nz/financialservices/ more, but staff who have shorter contracts are Negotiation: a problem solving training/index.html. For training module also welcome to attend provided they have the approach enquiries or registration contact: fsd.training@ support of their department. Thu 29 Sep, 9am to 3pm, $80 (includes lunch) otago.ac.nz. Upcoming sessions include: Supervisory Skills: working with casual This course will cover some of the key and fixed-term staff FN Intro - Introduction to Financial principles and skills of successful negotiation. Services Division, the University Ledger Wed 17 and 24 Aug, 9am to 12noon, $60 www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ and Financial Training modules. This course aims to familiarise participants development/coursesPages/negotiation.php Fri 26 Aug, 3pm to 4.15pm with some of the University’s basic policies and procedures relating to employing staff on these Career Development: taking the next This module is mandatory for University shorter contracts as well as to introduce them step staff with delegated financial responsibility. It includes an introduction to the Financial to some basic supervisory techniques. Tue 4 Oct, 9am to 12noon, $35 Services Division’s staff, sections and services, NB: This course will run in two sessions. This course is designed to assist staff to write a a look at the University structure viewed Participants will be required to attend both good job application and to present themselves through the Chart of Accounts, and it previews sessions. in the best possible light in an interview. other training modules available as part of www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ the Financial Services Division Training development/coursesPages/super_fixed.php development/coursesPages/career_step.php Programme. Writing Procedures: keeping it clear HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING FN ANA - Accounting for Non- and logical PROGRAMME Accountants Thu 18 Aug, 9am to 12noon, $35 A full list of courses and application forms Tue 23 Aug, 3pm to 4.15pm This course will offer some useful tips and can be found on the web at: www.otago.ac.nz/ This basic level module explains accounting practice for participants trying to write humanresources/hr/development/training- terminology and outlines the purpose of workplace procedures that are clear, logical and healthandsafety.php or email hrtraining@ commonly used financial statements as applied inviting to their audience. otago.ac.nz. For enrolment enquiries please in the University’s financial accounts. This www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ contact Katherine van der Vliet (Human module is aimed at people with no accounting development/coursesPages/writing_proc.php Resources Division), Ph: 479 4101. or limited accounting experience. PDR: helping your manager to help you Departmental Health and Safety FN 1.2 Finance One Enquiry and Tue 23 Aug, 9am to 11am, no charge Officer (DHSO) Training Reporting Overview This training is designed to provide the skills This session will assist you to make the most Wed 24 Aug, 2pm to 5pm and knowledge required for DHSOs to fulfil out of the PDR process for professional An introduction to Enquiry and Reporting their duties. development. You will be able to take an active for staff with ‘Enquiry Only’ access. This is a part in the process, rather than relying on your www.otago.ac.nz/healthandsafety/training/ hands-on course where staff will learn how manager to make good decisions for you. DHSO.html to navigate their way around Finance One, www.otago.ac.nz/humanresources/hr/ Modules 1, 2, 3 and 9 perform enquiries and run reports in Finance development/coursesPages/pdr_helping.php Tue 6 Sep, 1.30pm to 4.30pm, no charge One. This training will be performed on the Training environment using training logins. Presentations: projecting confidence Modules 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Thu 8 Sep, 1.30pm to 4.30pm, no charge Note: Staff must complete the Application for Wed 31 Aug and 7 Sep, 9am to 12noon, $35 Finance One User form (available on the FSD This course covers the skills required to deliver Refresher First Aid webpage: www.otago.ac.nz/financialservices/ material confidently but with effect. Fri 9 Sep, 9am to 3.30pm, $60 FSDForms/index.html) and attend FN 1.2 Note: This course will run in two sessions. This course is for holders of Standard/ training prior to gaining ‘Enquiry Only’ access Participants will be required to attend both Workplace First Aid certificates. As treatments to Finance One. sessions. and techniques are constantly updated, it

17 FN1.7 Finance One Enquiry and Blackboard - Anti-Plagiarism to the claims of the New Atheists from a Reporting For Researchers Tue 23 Aug, 9am to 11am, free for staff/$90 for Christian perspective. More information on Wed 17 Aug, 2pm to 5pm others, Web this conference is available on the conference website: www.events4you.co.nz/faraday2011. This course has been designed with The University has the SafeAssign system html Researchers in mind. This is a hands-on course available for checking student work for where Researchers will learn how to log on indications of plagiarism. This system is Keynote speaker: Professor Robert (Bob) and navigate around Finance One, enquire available via Blackboard, though you do not White (The Faraday Institute for Science and on their Research Accounts and perform a have to be using Blackboard as a teaching tool Religion, UK) range of ledger enquiries, and run Research to use SafeAssign. This course provides an Other speakers include: Dr Denis Alexander Reports. This training will be performed on overview in using SafeAssign. (The Faraday Institute for Science and the Training environment using training logon Religion, UK), Professor Peter Anstey access. Endnote - Referencing (Otago), Professor C (Stephen) Evans (Baylor Thu 25 Aug, 1pm to 4pm, free for staff/$125 University, USA), Dr Tim Meadowcroft FN 2.2 Procurement within the for others, Windows but the same on (Laidlaw College, Auckland), Professor Murray University of Otago Macintosh Rae (Otago). Wed 17 Aug, 9.30am to 11.30am Learn how to create and edit references, import For further information, please contact Sally An introduction and overview of Procurement Endnote libraries, import references via filters, Boult (Conference Organiser), Ph: 487 6622, within the University of Otago. This module and use in-text citations in Word to compile a Email: [email protected]. provides information on the University’s bibliography automatically. Travel Portfolio, tendering procedures, PILATES CLASSES purchasing options via the University systems, Excel 2007 - Introduction Are you spending too long in front of your and procurement guidance. This module is Fri 26 Aug, 9am to 11am, free for staff/$90 for computer and now have back, neck and aimed at assisting department staff with all others, Windows shoulder pain? Or do you just want better core procurement options and includes an update Learn the basics of Excel 2007 - adding data, control for the slopes? Then our clinical Pilates on the University’s preferred suppliers. The spreadsheet navigation, inserting and deleting classes are for you. Correct performance of Insurance Officer will present an overview of cells and saving data. the exercises is well monitored. Open to all the University’s insurance policies. Bookings University staff. Very reasonable rates. Small class sizes, highly experienced staff. Mon 5pm IT TRAINING For bookings, please complete the online to 6pm and Thu 1pm to 2pm booking form which is available by clicking on Blackboard - Journalling For further information please contact the the “Make Booking” button beside the course School of Physiotherapy Clinic Reception, Ph: Mon 15 Aug, 1pm to 2pm, free for staff/$45 for date on the web - www.otago.ac.nz/ITS/training 479 5757, Email: [email protected]. others, Web - click on the courses by date link on the left - Journals and Blogs with Blackboard are a way click on the month link - click the course link PLANNING FOR YOUR RETIREMENT a student or group of students can record and then the Make Booking button). Thu 1 Sep or Wed 16 Nov, 12noon to 2pm their activities over time. Learn to set up and For more information and other training dates, The key to a good retirement is careful manage Journals and Blogs. see www.otago.ac.nz/ITS/training/trainingdb/ planning. Whether it is two, 10 or 20 years subject.php Filemaker - Relationships away, it is never too early for you to start Tue 16 Aug, 1pm to 3pm, $90, Macintosh but GENERAL NOTICES planning for your retirement. Retirement needs the same on Windows are varied and issues such as finances, lifestyles, Recent versions of the Filemaker database have HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURE: and social networks play an important role. included the ability to define relations between ANTISEPTICS AND ANGST – PART 2 The University has policies and support to different tables in the database. This course Thu 25 Aug, 5.15pm assist you in planning for your retirement. works through the process of defining and Room 122-123, Hunter Centre The University also provides a subsidised using relationships. Speaker: Emeritus Professor Keith Jeffery Superannuation Scheme that can help you become financially independent in retirement. Excel 2011 - Charts and Graphs The talk describes some of the challenges facing the new medical school and its teaching This two-hour seminar with Brian Donnelly Wed 17 Aug, 9am to 11am, free for staff/$90 hospital in the latter half of the 19th Century. (Adviser, Superannuation and Staff Benefits) for others will assist you in planning yours. For further information, please contact WJ Learn how to create, modify and position Gillespie (History Meetings Convener), Ph: 467 For more information or to register for the charts - including printing charts and inserting 5174, Email: [email protected] following sessions please Email: hrtraining@ into Word. otago.ac.nz THE NEW ATHEISM - A CHRISTIAN Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) - “TALKING OF MICHELANGELO…” Demonstration RESPONSE (A FARADAY INSTITUTE CONFERENCE) SYMPOSIUM Thu 18 Aug, 11am to 12noon, free 2 to 3 Sep Sat 20 Aug, 9am to 5pm IT Training is a certified MOS testing centre. St Margaret’s College Moot Court, 10th floor, Richardson Building A MOS certificate is recognised world-wide. This conference is being organised by/run in A Symposium on the ongoing status of Learn about the MOS program and try a short European high culture in New Zealand test. conjunction with the Department of Theology and Religion. Aotearoa, organised by The Royal Society of Paint.net - Editing Pictures New Zealand and the University of Otago The New Atheists claim that believers in ‘the Centre for Research on National Identity Fri 19 Aug, 11am to 12noon, $45, Windows god hypothesis’ should not be tolerated, but In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917) Learn the preparation and basic tools for photo should be actively countered and the shoddy T.S.Eliot tells us that ‘In the room the women retouching, image editing and colour painting arguments supporting their beliefs should come and go talking of Michelangelo.’ But for the web and print. be exposed. Leaders among the New Atheists have launched a broadside against all religious do we talk of Michelangelo? Do we talk of Excel 2011 - Formatting and Filtering beliefs, but have given special attention to the T.S.Eliot? Are the products of European high Mon 22 Aug, 1pm to 3pm, free for staff/$90 for claims of Christianity. How should Christians culture still significant in the contemporary others, Macintosh respond to the New Atheism? Are the central world? What is the appropriate place for them in the mix that makes up our cultural scene, Learn how to format cells, rows and columns claims of Christianity reasonable? Do the New Atheists have a new case to be answered and in the education and cultural policies together with cell styles, managing lists and of Aotearoa New Zealand? How does their filtering. or are they dressing up old arguments? This conference aims to provide a response presence – or absence – affect the collective memory?

18 Guest presenters: function today. The Executive Residence can be *PREGNANCY PAIN STUDY Professor Brian Boyd Auckland) contacted by Ph: 479 9151 or Email: execres@ Are you pregnant? AND Do not suffer from Professor William Dominik (Otago) otago.ac.nz severe muscle and joint pain? Dr Jonathan Lecocq (Canterbury) CLAIRE BARTON FAREWELLS If so, you are invited to take part in a research Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Auckland) DUNEDIN study that investigates the experiences that Professor Tim Mehigan (Otago) some women have with pelvic joint pain during Professor Hilary Radner (Otago) Sat 20 Aug, 8pm Dunedin Town Hall pregnancy. The study involves an interview Chair: Professor Alistair Fox (Otago) in a small group with other pregnant women. If you wish to attend or require further Join the City of Dunedin Choir, RSA Choir, To compensate your time and travel costs, information please Email: john.drummond@ Dr Glam, soprano Emma Fraser and a host of each eligible participant will receive a grocery otago.ac.nz other performers in a concert at the Dunedin voucher. This study was approved by the Upper Town Hall to raise funds for mezzo-soprano South Area Regional Ethics Committee. A BIG THANK YOU, BUT MORE “KEY Claire Barton as she leaves Dunedin to study CONTACTS” NEEDED at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and For further information, please contact Natasha Dance in London. Flack (Postdoctoral Fellow), Ph: 479 6073, Results for energy consumption in June are Email: [email protected] now available, and it is promising to see Tickets $25-$35, available from Ticket Direct at a campus-wide reduction of four percent the Regent Theatre, Dunedin. Ph: 477 8597. OTAGO UNIVERSITY STAFF in electricity and an 11 percent reduction FAMILIES ASSOCIATION WELCOMES *OTAGO UNIVERSITY CHILDCARE in thermal energy consumption compared NEWCOMERS AND VISITORS to June last year, Energy Savings Campaign OSCAR PROGRAMME We run a varied social programme each Coordinator Mark Mason says. After School Care available for children from semester for university staff members, their George Street School and all schools in North Seventeen staff members have also so far partners and families. We particularly welcome East Valley. joined the Energy Challenge Campaign as newcomers and visitors to the University. For key contacts and are making “significant Email: [email protected] or Ph: 477 6098. more information contact Lesley Gillespie (Ph: contributions” to the campaign. Key contacts *KEEP NEW ZEALAND BEAUTIFUL 467 5174, Email: [email protected]) gather ideas about potential power savings in or Jennifer Angelo (Ph: 021 243 5813, Email: their buildings, and relay progress reports back WEEK [email protected]), or please just come to their colleagues. Keep Dunedin Beautiful and the Dunedin City along to any of the events listed below. Council are offering residents the opportunity However, Mr Mason says many more key Thu 18 Aug at 10.30am contacts are needed in University buildings, to beautify our city. including Arts, Richardson, ISB, Commerce, Between Sat 20 Aug and Sat 27 Aug we ask the Meet in the Croque-O-Dile Café in the lower Science 1 and 2, the Dental School, the School public to take some time to clean up an area Botanic Gardens for coffee, followed by a stroll of Medicine buildings, the Portobello Marine of your choice. It might be a park, the area round the gardens or glasshouses, depending Laboratory and the College of Education. between your fence and the street, a beach, on the weather! Anyone wanting to know more about being a favourite walkway – anywhere at all. The Thu 25 Aug at 10.30am a key contact can contact Mark, Email: mark. amount of time you spend is entirely up to you The Edinburgh Realty Arts Awards exhibition as every little bit counts. [email protected]. Gillian Pope will take us on a guided tour of Information about a semester one room usage Registered people/groups will receive gloves this major exhibition. Meet in the shop at the survey and a review of the room booking and specially marked bags which can be Art Station, the Otago Art Society’s gallery system to identify potential energy savings will put out with your regular kerbside rubbish on the first floor of Dunedin Railway Station. be released in next month’s Bulletin. collection between Mon 22 Aug and Fri 2 There will be a $2 entrance fee and morning Sep. Remember to put recyclables in your tea will be provided. PACIFIC ISLAND INAUGURAL own yellow wheelie bin or glass in your blue LEGAL ISSUES WEEK bin. This will save unnecessary waste going to THE UNIVERSITY CLUB (Inc) 12 to 16 Sep landfill. Mercure Leisure Lodge, Duke The Pacific Islands Law Students Association To register, Ph: 474 3401 or Email: dethomso@ Street in conjunction with the Faculty of Law and the dcc.govt.nz The University Club provides for its members Pacific Island Centre are pleased to announce Information required: speakers of good quality, a luncheon and that the Inaugural Pacific Island Legal Issues • Name (if group - number of participants friendly companionship on a weekly basis. Week will be held from 12 to 16 Sep. would be helpful) Temporary relocation, September only to Otago Golf Club, 125 Balmacewan Road, Ph: There are a number of issues of significant • number of bags/gloves required 467 2096. importance affecting the Pacific Island • address (so contractors know where to pick Community both here in New Zealand and up bags) Luncheon Speakers Aug and Sep abroad. A Pacific legal issues week provides a • area you will clean up 12.10pm for 12.30pm • day of your kerbside rubbish collection. platform for discussion and in depth analysis Fri 19 Aug of those legal issues. This week will be a *PUBIC SYMPHYSIS PAIN STUDY Hon Rodney Hide (Minister of Local cross-discipline event involving not only the Government) various academic departments but also the Are you pregnant or have you recently given Auckland Governance Reform - Why it was wider community. Our focus will ensure that birth? AND Do you suffer from pain in the needed and what it has delivered the University of Otago will strengthen its links joint at the front of your pelvis? with Pacific communities in New Zealand and If so, you are invited to take part in a research Fri 26 Aug the Pacific region. Further, the week will ensure study that investigates the experiences Jon Hall (Associate Professor Classics the continued development of research and that women have with pelvic pain during Department) education in the Pacific. pregnancy. The study involves an interview Politeness in Ancient Rome: How to Threaten For full programme details contact Devon in a small group with other pregnant women Someone Nicely Latoa, Email: [email protected] or women who have recently given birth. To compensate your time and travel costs, each Fri 2 Sep EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE eligible participant will receive a grocery Simon Cox (Geologist at GNS Science) Hosting a meeting, small conference or voucher. This study has been approved by the Musings of a geologist while the South Island looking for a dining option for your guests Upper South Area Regional Ethics Committee. shakes or colleagues. Call the Executive Residence For further information, please contact Natasha To come as a guest contact: Alan Jackson: to find out what we can offer you and your Flack (Postdoctoral Fellow), Ph: 471 6073, Secretary, 55 Evans Street, Opoho, Dunedin, guests. Christmas functions are already being Email: [email protected] 9010, or Ph: 473 6947, or Email: alanjackson@ booked, so to avoid disappointment book your xtra.co.nz

19 SITUATIONS VACANT date and applications will be considered Mäori Resources Portfolio Librarian individually on receipt. University Library ACADEMIC VACANCIES Reference Number: 1100401 Postdoctoral Fellow Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Closing Date: Tue 16 Aug 2011 in Psychological Medicine/Specialist (Organic Chemistry, Fixed-term) Psychiatrist Department of Chemistry Dental Technicians (Confirmation Path) Reference Number: 1100330 Technical Services Department of Psychological Medicine Closing Date: There is no formal closing School of Dentistry Dunedin School of Medicine date and applications will be considered Reference Number: 1100410 and individually on receipt. Closing Date: Mon 15 Aug 2011 Mental Health Services Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Divisional Web Developer Southern District Health Board (Fixed-term) (Health Sciences, Fixed-term) Reference Number: 1003260 Department of Chemistry Web Services, Marketing and Communications Closing Date: Fri 30 Oct 2011 Reference Number: 1100383 Division Skills Laboratory Clinical Director Closing Date: Wed 31 Aug 2011 Reference Number: 1100415 Closing Date: Sat 13 Aug 2011 (Part-time) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Statistics Dunedin School of Medicine (Confirmation Path) Departmental Administrator Reference Number: 1003272 Department of Mathematics and Statistics Department of Politics Closing Date: There is no formal closing Reference Number: 1100414 Division of Humanities date and applications will be considered Closing Date: There is no formal closing Reference Number: 1100420 individually on receipt. date and applications will be considered Closing Date: Mon 22 Aug 2011 individually on receipt. Colgate Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Administrative Assistant Periodontology and Oral Health Assistant Research Fellow (Part-time - 0.4 FTE, Fixed-term -12 months) (Confirmation Path) (Fixed-term, Full-time or Part-time) Department of General Practice and Rural Department of Oral Sciences Department of Anatomy Health Faculty of Dentistry Otago School of Medical Sciences Reference Number: 1100423 Reference Number: 1100117 Reference Number: 1100416 Closing Date: Wed 17 Aug 2011 Closing Date: There is no formal closing Closing Date: Mon 15 Aug 2011 date and applications will be considered International Student Support Co-ordinator individually on receipt. Assistant Research Fellow (Part-time, Fixed-term – one year) (Fixed-term) Student International Services Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Cardiovascular Department of Biochemistry Academic and International Division and Respiratory Physiology Otago School of Medical Sciences Reference Number: 1100424 and Membrane Physiology and Ion Transport Reference Number: 1100417 Closing Date: Wed 17 Aug 2011 (Confirmation Path Position) Closing Date: Fri 26 Aug 2011 Department of Physiology CAMPUS TEMPS Otago School of Medical Sciences Assistant Research Fellow Experienced general administrators required Reference Number: 1100228 (Fixed-term, Half-time) for temporary assignments. Wide variety of Closing Date: Fri 23 Sep 2011 Higher Education Development Centre Reference Number: 1100425 both roles and assignment duration available. Senior Lecturer in Orthodontics Closing Date: Fri 19 Aug 2011 If interested, please view further information (Confirmation Path) online and apply via – www.otago.ac.nz/ Department of Oral Sciences Assistant Research Fellow humanresources/campustemps/ Faculty of Dentistry (Fixed-term, Part-time 0.6FTE) Reference Number: 1100237 Centre for Hauora Maori Application Information Reference Number: 1100426 Closing Date: There is no formal closing To see a full job description and to apply online Closing Date: Thu 18 Aug 2011 date and applications will be considered go to: www.otago.ac.nz/jobs individually on receipt. GENERAL VACANCIES Equal opportunity in employment is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education University policy. General Practitioner (Confirmation Path) (Part-time, 30 hours per week) E tautoko ana Te Whare Wänanga o Otägo i Higher Education Development Centre te kaupapa whakaörite whiwhinga mahi. Student Health Services (HEDC) Reference Number: 1100203 Reference Number: 1100248 CLASSIFIED Closing Date: There is no formal closing Closing Date: There is no formal closing date and applications will be considered date and applications will be considered TO LET individually on receipt. individually on receipt. One br, $180 p/w, fully furn, avail: 1 Dec, Training Advisor area: Central City. One-bedroom, sunny, Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer and Recruitment, Development and Equity self-contained flat. Not studio. Amazing Consultant in Nephrology Human Resources views, five minutes’ walk to the University’s (Confirmation Path) Reference Number: 1100307 Central Library. Quiet, central area. Modern Department of Medicine Closing Date: Wed 17 Aug 2011 furnishings, insulated, double-glazed, heat Dunedin School of Medicine and Southern pump, whiteware. Available from Dec or earlier District Health Board Liaison Librarian – Music and AV by negotiation. Contact Alberto, Ph: 021 188 Reference Number: 1100318 University Library 4648, Email: [email protected] Closing Date: There is no formal closing Reference Number: 1100398 date and applications will be considered Closing Date: Tue 16 Aug 2011 Two br, $265 p/w, unfurn, avail: 28 Aug, area: individually on receipt. Wakari. Warm, sunny, recently renovated Liaison Librarian – Ephemera house. Lounge with wood burner and French Senior Lecturer (Gastroenterology) and University Library doors opening to large sunny deck. Two Consultant Gastroenterologist Reference Number: 1100399 double bedrooms, kitchen with fridge and (Confirmation Path) Closing Date: Tue 16 Aug 2011 eye-level oven, bathroom with both bath and Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences shower, laundry with washing machine. Heat Dunedin School of Medicine and Southern Publications Co-ordinator University Library pump. Contact Nick, Ph: 021 102 0310, Email: District Health Board [email protected] Reference Number: 1100319 Reference Number: 1100400 Closing Date: There is no formal closing Closing Date: Tue 16 Aug 2011

20 Two br, $350 p/w, OSP, fully furn, avail: Now Three br, $325 p/w, OSP, unfurn, avail: 17 Sep, p/w, +exp, OSP, part furn, avail: 1 Dec, area: (one or two people only), area: Maori Hill. area: Waverley. Open-plan living, warm, large Central City. Contact Emma, Ph: 027 345 7273, Cosy brick house, separate kitchen, dining, deck with sea views, large bathroom, internal Email: [email protected] lounge. Quality whiteware. Gas oven, Yunca access garage and OSP. Gas fire and heat pump. fire, nightstore heating, king/queen-sized Book a time to view this property. No dogs or HOUSE FOR SALE beds, linen, dining table, leather lounge suite, smokers. Contact Neena, Ph: 479 9025, Email: Two br, $145,000, OSP, Suburb: Seacliff. Idyllic decking/harbour views. Fifteen minutes’ walk to [email protected] country cottage, freshly decorated and set in University and Hospital. Contact Zoe, Ph: 482 the heart of Seacliff. Just 30 minutes’ drive Four br, neg over $600 p/w, fully furn, avail: 1000, Email: [email protected] from Dunedin, well worth a viewing. Contact mid-Jun. Superior fully furnished townhouse. Rebecca, Ph: 027 236 7760, Email: beth. Two br, $360 p/w, OSP, fully furn, avail: Now Two bathrooms. Close to University and [email protected] (two people only), area: Maori Hill. Brick Hospital. Gas fire, heat pump, sunny, stunning home with kitchen, dining, lounge, shower/ views from all rooms and deck. Available for Two br, $GV395,000, OSP, Suburb: Waverley. bath, gas stove/oven, fridge/freezer, microwave, short- or long-term. Email: goodday@xtra. Stunning views, second living area/TV room/ washing machine, dining table, chairs, leather co.nz study on mezzanine floor, log burner with lounge suite. Yunca, fireplace, nightstores, wetback, double-glazing throughout, low Four br, $370 p/w, OSP, part furn, avail: 21 king/queen-sized beds, other furniture. Fifteen maintenance exterior, established gardens, Aug, area: Belleknowes. New kitchen, open- minutes’ walk to University and Hospital. modern bathroom, separate toilet and en suite. plan to dining room, dishwasher, gas hob, Lawn. Well appointed. Contact Zoe, Ph: 482 Conservatory/balcony, security alarm, garage/ eye-level oven, front-loading washing machine. 1000, Email: [email protected] workshop. Contact Neil, Ph: 476 1638 or 479 Large lounge, shower and bath, three double 8958, Email: [email protected] Two br, $360 p/w avail: 5 Sept. Area: Roslyn. bedrooms, one single. Heat pump, open fire, Five minutes’ walk to Roslyn village, close to pellet fire and DVS. Sunroom, garage, lots of Three br, $230,000, OSP, Suburb: University and Hospital. Very quiet section, storage. Contact Nick, Ph: 021 102 0310, Email: Corstorphine. Well maintained, all-day sun, and very warm and sunny. Partially double- [email protected] quality décor, well insulated, heat pump, glazed, with a gas fire. Great indoor/outdoor conservatory, exposed rimu floors, separate flow from the lounge onto a sunny deck. WANTED TO RENT tiled bathroom and toilet, established garden, Fridge/freezer, washing machine, dishwasher, Two br, $350 p/w, OSP, fully furn, avail: 6 Oct sundecks, nice view, on bus route. Ten minute satellite for TV available. No dogs. Contact to 1 Jan 2012, area: Quiet location. Two visiting drive to University. Contact Geraldine, Ph: 479 Maree, Ph: 476 0492, Email: maree.thyne@ academics would like to rent a small house for 8660, Email: [email protected] otago.ac.nz three months. Would prefer a quiet location, 10 Five br, $neg near GV, OSP, Suburb: Halfway minutes’ walk to University. Contact Carla, Ph: Bush. Lifestyle on 1.8h block, 10 minutes’ drive Three br, $265 p/w, OSP, unfurn, avail: 26 Aug, 021 0252 7537, Email: cmeledandri@chemistry. from City Centre. Two living areas, double area: Waverley. Garage, studio room, separate otago.ac.nz toilet/bathroom. Close to bus stops, shops, garage, barn, four paddocks, two ponds. Heat primary school and high school. Short- or Two br, $300 to $350 p/w, fully furn, avail: pump and wood burner on wetback, very long-term tenancy. Contact Mark, Ph: 479 early Jan to mid-Mar, area: Central or suburbs warm house, all-day sun, double-glazed and 8005, Email: [email protected] close to City. Retired Toronto couple wishes insulated. Contact Joanne, Email: joanne. to rent house or apartment. Contact Jocelyn, [email protected] Three br, $280 p/w, OSP, unfurn, avail: 1 Sep, Email: [email protected] area: Opoho. Sunny, elevated house with Five bedroom, $850,000, area: City Centre. lovely valley views. Open-plan kitchen/dining, Three to four br, fully furn, avail: 10 Dec, Unique 1934 two storey brick home featuring flowing into living area with heat pump and area: Ideally close to the Medical School or wood panelling and Art Deco arches, designed log burner. All-day sun, and double-glazed University area. New Professor and family by architect Henry Mandeno (Dunedin Town living areas. Would suit postgraduate couple wanting to rent a three-to four-bedroom Hall). Perfectly situated for University of Otago or small family. Contact Caroline, Ph: 021 077 house with a garage. Fully furnished, including staff and within easy walking distance to city 8888, Email: [email protected] washing machine, drier and dishwasher amenities including Hospital. Separate outside preferred. Child friendly and warm, fenced studio/office space offers a private enclave, with Three br, $280 p/w, fully furn, avail: Oct to Jan garden preferred. Seeking minimum of six- access to the three off street parks. A basement 2012, area: Wakari. Three-bedroom house for months tenancy with possibility to extend. room houses the reticulated gas boiler that rent. Contact Megan. Ph: 467 2004 or 027 350 Contact John and Jennifer, Email: john. fuels cooking, water heating and radiators for 3322. [email protected] or [email protected] central heating. Contact Martin, Ph: 027 404 6951, Email: [email protected] Three br, $295 p/w furnished or $275 p/w FLATMATE WANTED unfurnished, OSP, avail: 1 Feb, area: Brockville. HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION Free standing burner and two heat pumps. New and warm two-bedroom flat. To share Sunny, insulated and great views. Basement with a female PhD student. Ideal place for Available. Area: Otematata, Waitaki Valley, garage. Fully fenced. Handy to shops and bus female postgraduates or visiting scholars. Rent avail: on enquiry. Three br, $90 per night, OSP. stops. Contact Rogelio, Ph: 476 6422, Email: includes internet, but excludes power. For Three bedrooms plus sleepout and portacot. [email protected] short-term stay. Short walk to the University. Sleeps 10. Five minutes from Benmore Dam Double br, $140 p/w, +exp, OSP, fully furn, and lakes. Approx 45 minutes from Ohau ski Three br, $310 p/w, OSP, unfurn, avail: 15 Aug, avail: 1 Sep to 30 Nov (negotiable), area: North field. Fully-equipped house. $110 per night area: Mornington. Tidy and clean brick house Dunedin. Contact Supattra, Ph: 021 208 5919, from 6 Oct. Discount for seven plus nights. with beautiful view. First time to let. Close to Email: [email protected] Contact Brita, Ph: 479 8794 or 021 105 1065, bus stop and Mornington School. Two-car Email: [email protected] tandem garage, heat pump and wood burner. Two bedrooms available in house in Anderson’s Ideal for academics/postgraduates. Contact Bay, for a single or a couple. Insulated, fully Available. Area: Andersons Bay, Dunedin. Hui, Ph: 021 254 3275, Email: Hui.Zhang@ furnished, lounge with open fireplace, kitchen Short-term holiday accommodation available otago.ac.nz with modern appliances, nice furniture, large Aug, Sep and Oct. Ideal for rugby viewers. TV. Peaceful, great ocean/rural views. On Quality two-bedroom, fully furnished home. Three br, $320 p/w, OSP, part furn, avail: five acres. No pets or smokers. Twelve month Ten minutes’ walk to shuttle bus to Stadium. 26 Sep, area: Maori Hill. Four month lease minimum lease.Two br, $200 p/w, +exp, fully Minimum stay one week. Perfect for visiting (extendable from the agent). Quiet, safe, clean, furn, avail: now, area: Andersons Bay overlooking family and friends. Responsible guests only. tidy and sunny. Heat pump, night store, two Tomahawk Beach. Email: [email protected] Contact: Leigh, Ph: 455 1024 or 021 176 8064, living rooms, built-in wardrobes, Freeview, Email: [email protected] fridge, washing machine, near schools, Two bedroom flat, approximately seven shopping centre, pool, 15-to 20-minute walk to minutes’ walk to Campus. Looking for Wanted. Area: Cromwell to Hawea or City and University through shortcut of Town postgraduate student or young professional to Omarama areas, avai: 24 to 29 Dec. We would Belt. Contact Wendy, Ph: 021 800 563, Email: live with female University staff. Very sunny, love to rent a large holiday house (for 10 to [email protected] warm flat with heat pump. Double br, $120 12 people) over the Christmas period. Must

21 be dog friendly. Contact Candi, Ph: 479 8492, MISCELLANEOUS Tuesday 23 August Email: [email protected] Architectural draughting service: Designs and Preparing a Literature Review – 11am HOUSESITTING detailed drawings for new homes, alterations This is a workshop for thesis students wanting and Building Consents. Licensed Building tips for their literature review. Speaker: Karen House sit wanted. Any br, avail: 2 Sep, area: Practitioner (Design) experienced in all aspects Johnson. Venue: D08, Level D, Wellington Any suburb considered. Mature postgraduate of residential design. No-obligation free initial campus. available for house sitting. Have been house consultation to discuss your specific building sitting since early Jul, looking for another needs. Contact Jeremy, Ph: 478 0848 or 027 481 Tuesday 30 August opportunity in Sep to Nov to finish off studies. 6428, Email: [email protected] Will take good care of your home/plants. Sorry, Planning and Writing a Chapter – 11am allergic to cats. Contact Rosanne, Ph: 0274 616 My boys are starting to collect the new All This is a workshop for thesis candidates to help 503, Email: [email protected] Black cards inside the black boxes of Weetbix. with planning and writing a chapter in their If you eat Weetbix but do not want the cards, thesis. Speaker: Karen Johnson. Venue: Level House sit wanted. Any br, avail: now, area: my boys would love them. Please send them D, D31, Wellington campus. Any within 50 km of Dunedin. Forty-year- through the internal mail to Lesley Reeves, old PhD student available for housesitting. Preventive and Social Medicine. Thanks! SITUATIONS VACANT Five years house minding background. Home Contact Lesley, Ph: 479 6537, Email: lesley. maintenance and veterinary experience, ACADEMIC VACANCIES [email protected] multiple local and faculty references. Reliable Professional Practice Fellow care for your home and pets. Available Do you require great live music? Then popular (Part-time – 0.3 FTE) throughout the greater Dunedin area. Contact Dunedin covers band Livewire are perhaps Department of Public Health John, Ph: 021 033 9049, Email: mcljo367@ the next choice for your ball, wedding or Reference Number: 1100428 student.otago.ac.nz social function. We play Classic Rock and Pop Closing Date: Mon 22 Aug 2011 hits from the 60s through to today’s current FOR SALE chart toppers. Totally professional and very Assistant Research Fellow Several kitchen items surplus to needs and for affordable so come and check us out at www. (Part-time or Full-time, Fixed-term) sale: juicer, breadmaker, blender and mixer, livewireband.co.nz and “live” on Friday nights Department of Public Health ice-cream maker, rice cooker, complete set of at The Bog Irish Bar, George Street, Dunedin Reference Number: 1100429 crockery, etc. Priced individually or make an from 10pm. Contact Adrian, Ph: 479 7709, Closing Date: Mon 22 Aug 2011 offer for the lot. $various. Contact Candida, Email: [email protected] GENERAL VACANCIES Ph: 479 8324, Email: candida.savage@otago. ac.nz Is your child keen on chess? Enter them Clinical Physiologist in the Otago/Southland age-group chess (Part-time, Variable hours) Cobolt television, 20 inch. $40. Three children’s championships in Dunedin in Sep. Under 13 on Wellsleep - Department of Medicine bicycles. One white toddler’s bike, free, some Sat 3 Sep. Under 20 on Sat 17 Sep. Download Reference Number: 1100430 rust. Two for five-to 10-year-olds, very reliable, entry forms at http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/ Closing Date: Fri 19 Aug 2011 one gold, one magenta, 12 gears. $30 each. otagochess/. Contact Quentin, Ph: 473 7853, Two cream Roman blinds. Never used. 60cm x Email: [email protected] Undergraduate Programme Co-ordinator 183cm. $15 each. Contact Catherine, Ph: 479 Department of Primary Health Care and 8615, Email: [email protected] Selwyn College. Five car parks available to General Practice let $20 per week for one-year terms. Contact School of Medicine and Health Sciences Fridge/Freezer. Fisher and Paykel E240B. Cynthia, Ph: 477 3326, Email: office.selwyn@ Reference Number: 1100431 In excellent condition, perfect for a small otago.ac.nz Closing Date: Fri 26 Aug 2011 household. White finish, bottom mount freezer, adjustable glass shelves. Dimensions are Available for rent. 50 Dundas Street. Across the Application Information height 1595cm, width 525cm, depth 575cm. road from the University, suitable for office or To see a full job description and to apply online $450, ONO. Contact Daryl, Ph: 479 8308, similar. Currently being used as a cinema. Ph: go to: www.otago.ac.nz/jobs 027 481 1009 or 481 1071. Email: [email protected] Equal opportunity in employment is Wooden rocking chair, high back. Very good Registered Feldenkrais practitioner available University policy. condition. $250. Single aluminium bed base for individual tuition. Improve your co- E tautoko ana Te Whare Wänanga o Otägo i would suit a young child. $30. Contact Angela, ordination, balance and efficiency in te kaupapa whakaörite whiwhinga mahi. Ph: 479 8492, Email: angela.french@otago. movement. Great for performers, athletes, ac.nz those doing repetitive tasks, or living with pain, injury or chronic conditions. Contact VEHICLES FOR SALE Catherine, Ph: 453 6043 or 021 122 1421. Christchurch 1995, Toyota , RAV4 JV, current wof, current Transformational Life Coaching and DIARY OF EVENTS registration, 101,000km. Regularly serviced. Supervision. Confidential, solution-focused Tuesday 16 August Careful lady owner. Genuine low mileage, sessions in person or by phone. Coaching is a Cracking the Finishing Code – 2pm four-door, large boot. Manual gearbox. creative process that focuses on maximising A workshop for PhD candidates in their final Petrol engine. Two new tyres in 2010. Very personal potential and quality of life. You might stages of the PhD. Speaker: Dr Charles Tustin. good condition. CD player with multi-CD explore goals, motivation, procrastinations, Venue: Terrace House, Christchurch. shuffle. Dark blue exterior with grey trim. professional challenges, relationships, work/ $neg. Contact Candida, Ph: 479 8324, Email: life balance, change management, life purpose. Thursday 18 August [email protected] Contact Te Ara Pathways Transformational Postgraduate Workshop Programme: Writing Life Coaching, Ph: 027 455 4575, Email: claire. a Literature Review – 2pm 1995, Toyota, Liteace GXL, current wof, current [email protected] registration, 115,000km. Excellent condition. This workshop is to help thesis students Great family van easily converted to camper. with their literature review and is part of the Luxury model. Eight seats. Regularly serviced. Learning Support: Postgraduate Workshop Roof racks, camperbox/bed, manual, 2000cc, Wellington Programme. Speaker: Carole Acheson. Venue: Room 2, 1st floor, 10 Oxford Terrace, air conditioning, central locking, power DIARY OF EVENTS steering, stereo. $6200, ONO. Contact Angela, Christchurch. Ph: 472 7171, Email: [email protected] Tuesday 16 August Friday 19 August Planning a Thesis – 11am Postgraduate Workshop Programme: This workshop is to help thesis candidates with Plagiarism and Paraphrase – 10am planning a thesis. Speaker: Karen Johnson. A practical workshop for thesis students Venue: Room D08, Wellington campus.

22 wanting to avoid plagiarism. Presented by POSTGRADUATE COFFEE HOUR 1 Oct The New Zealand Law Foundation Carole Acheson. Venue: Room 1, 1st floor, 10 Take a break from your busy schedule and Doctoral Scholarship (in Law) Oxford Terrace, Christchurch. join OUSA for their weekly Postgrad Coffee 1 Oct Pukehous Pouto Scholarship 1 Oct Road Safety Trust Research Tuesday 23 August Hour. The Postgrad Coffee Hour is an OUSA initiative to give postgrads a time to connect Scholarship Postgraduate Workshop Programme: with each other... and to get out of the office! 1 Oct Todd Foundation Awards for Presenting a Research Paper/Public Speaking Held every Wednesday from 3pm to 4pm in Excellence – 10am the Gazebo Lounge on the first floor of the 1 Oct Tertiary Education Union (TEC) A workshop for thesis candidates that focuses University Union. Coffee, tea, and biscuits are Crozier Scholarship on effective academic presentations. Speaker: provided. All you need to bring is yourself and 1 Oct Mai Te Kupenga Doctoral Scholarship Carole Acheson. Venue: Room 1, 1st floor, 10 the conversation. Hope to see you there! 1 Oct NZ Plant Protection Society Research Oxford Terrace, Christchurch. Scholarhsip Thursday 25 August DOCTORAL LOUNGE 1 Oct W and B Miller Scholarship 1 Oct Ryiochi Sasakawa Young Leader’s Postgraduate Workshop Programme: Located on the first floor of the University Union building, the Doctoral Lounge is Scholarship Punctuation! – 10am 1 Oct Freemasons Scholarship A workshop for thesis candidates about available for use by all Doctoral candidates. punctuation issues. Speaker: Carole Acheson. Facilities in the Lounge include free tea and For more information please contact the Venue: Room 1, 1st floor, 10 Oxford Terrace, coffee, a daily newspaper, a PC with internet Scholarships Office Email: scholarships@otago. Christchurch. access and Endnote, and comfortable furniture ac.nz for relaxing or studying. Access to the Friday 26 August Lounge is via your student ID card and can CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Postgraduate Workshop Programme: How To be arranged by contacting Susan Craig, Email: Gaining clarity about your next move needs a Improve Your Writing Style – All-day event [email protected] strategy. A session for thesis candidates on how to STUDENT LEARNING CENTRE Being mindful, paying attention to certain clues, with some time for reflection will help improve writing and avoid common mistakes NEWS in English. Speaker: Carole Acheson. Venue: to establish a degree of clarity. What subjects Room 1, 1st floor, 10 Oxford Terrace, Advice and Assistance for Students and activities attract your attention and can Christchurch. The Student Learning Centre (located on you make a list and order your preference? the ground floor of the Information Services What types of careers have you thought about Building) provides free and confidential in your life and can you identify the common Postgraduate consultations to all enrolled postgraduate themes? Do you know enough about the students. different career areas or should you try to learn GRADUATE RESEARCH MONTH IS more? Gaining clarity comes from effort, both To contact the Student Learning Centre for an HERE! independent as well as talking and listening appointment, please Ph: 479 8801 or Email: with people who support your quest. What is This year’s Graduate Research Month (August) [email protected] is going to be bigger than before! This is an your next step, what might your obstacles be? opportunity to celebrate Postgraduate students New Coordinator at the Student Learning Take some time to ensure you feel in control of who are an enormously important part of Centre your career. a world class research university such as the Dr Vijay Mallan has been appointed as the new Contact [email protected] or check University of Otago. Coordinator of the Student Learning Centre. out the resources in the Career Development This August will see the return of the Three He has wide experience in postgraduate Centre. Minute Thesis Competition, international support and development. Dr Mallan has also speaker Hugh Kearns, many popular workshops, more than 30 years of teaching experience in DIVISION OF SCIENCE the OUSA Supervisor of the Year Awards, the Malaysia. He conducts regular workshops on NOTICES first University Thesis Twitter Conference as publishing during candidature, preparing for Science Notes: an opportunity! well as a number of social events. the viva, presenting at academic conferences, thesis writing and managing research. He is Science Notes is an initiative from the SNAP To find out more about the Graduate Research (Science News and Promotion) committee. Month events, check out our web page at: also an invited member of the International Doctoral Education Research Network. Dr Postgraduate students from various www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/index. departments are being interviewed about html?category=Exhibitions Mallan can be contacted by Email: vijay. [email protected]. their research for a fortnightly programme There is still time to get included in our on Thursday evenings on Toroa Radio. The fantastic programme. If you are planning on SCHOLARSHIPS interviews are interspersed with the student’s doing something special for your graduate Scholarships for Postgraduate Students closing favourite music, and each programme is students please consider doing it in August and soon: repeated the following Thursday. It is also let me know. available as downloadable podcast from the 15 Aug NZFGW (Otago Branch) Travel Award Toroa Radio website. Contact: Claire Gallop (Manager, Graduate 26 Aug Ngarimu VC and 28th (Mäori) Research Services), Email: claire.gallop@otago. Battalion Memorial Scholarship If you would like to be involved in 2011, please ac.nz, Ph: 479 3447. 20 Sep Ministry of Fisheries NIWA contact Dr Dave McMorran (Head of the Postgraduate Scholarship SNAP Committee), Email: snap.committee@ POSTGRADUATES ON FRIDAYS – otago.ac.nz GAZEBO LOUNGE 30 Sep Harriette Jenkins Award 30 Sep P A Rolfes Scholarship Fund Each Friday from 4pm to 7pm Graduate 1 Oct Cambridge Commonwealth Trust ADVERTISERS Research Services hosts “Postgraduates on Prince of Wales Scholarship Fridays” at the Gazebo Lounge, on the top floor 1 Oct William Georgetti Scholarship The deadline for notices and of the University Union. Toasted sandwiches 1 Oct Bings Scholarship advertisements for the next issue of the are available for purchase at just $4 each with 1 Oct China New Zealand Doctoral Research Bulletin is 12noon, Friday 19 August. So a variety of fillings. These evenings are a great Scholarship (CNZDRS) if you are looking for flatmates or want to opportunity for you to have a break from your 1 Oct Dick and Mary Earle Scholarship in sell, buy, swap or rent, then please go to: studies and meet up with other students for Technology www.otago.ac.nz/news/bulletin a wind down at the end of the busy working 1 Oct Edward and Isabel Kidson Scholarship Advertising in classifieds is free to staff week. We look forward to seeing you there – 1 Oct Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and postgraduate students only. all postgraduate students welcome. 1 Oct Freyberg Scholarship 1 Oct Henry Kelsey Scholarship Advertisements are accepted at the discretion of the Editor.

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