THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ALUMNI AND COMMUNITY MAGAZINE CONTACTwinter 2018

MEET THE UQ WOMEN INSPIRING FUTURE GENERATIONS GLOVES OFF for change

Not if, when UNCHAINED MELODY Smiles to the jungle HISTORIC GIFT TO BUILD Talking music with HOW A DENTIST BECAME FUTURE WORLD LEADERS Tim Munro A HERO IN TIMOR “I can see Features

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We also endorsed a PAGES OF HISTORY NOT IF, WHEN set of key performance indicators and Poet and PhD student Shastra How your support can help UQ targets, which will be regularly reviewed. It is the conceit of members of every generation to think the times they Deo celebrates 70 years of the improve lives and create hope live in are extraordinary, unprecedented and unpredictable. I recall The metrics will reflect progress in a University of Queensland Press. for a better world. © The University of Queensland 2018 that my generation had that conceit, as we gave wide-eyed witness to wide range of areas, including graduate CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B Watergate, the Vietnam War, the emergence of punk, the Cold War, and full-time employment rates, the extent the Cultural Revolution. to which researchers collaborate with UPDATE YOUR DETAILS non-academic partners, greater source- Telephone: +61 7 3346 3900 country diversity among international Email: [email protected] Nonetheless, for the generation now society, continue learning, segue into students, participation and success studying at or considering university, the new careers, or found enterprises? Regulars rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait COVER IMAGE conceit aligns very closely with the facts. How will UQ simultaneously generate Islander students, representation of School of Veterinary Science Senior Lecturer Dr Rebecca Dunlop. Young people are learning, maturing, outstanding research and innovation, women at senior academic levels, the THE BIG QUESTION and sizing up their futures in an age establish a sustainable and resilient percentage of research publications UQ researchers discuss whether Australia should sometimes called the Fourth Industrial financial base, and remain an with an international co-author, and the GET MORE ONLINE 4 become a smoke-free society. Revolution, when global geopolitics institution in which alumni of all percentage of domestic students from Connect with your UQ peers on the new-look Contact website. are at a tipping point and disruption is generations take pride? regional or remote areas. becoming the norm. With more online content than ever before – These complexities, and others, are faced I can see abundant opportunities TRAVEL DIARY including news, features, polls, galleries, and for the involvement of alumni who PhD student James Allan is on a mission to protect the quizzes – we encourage you to have your For a university conceived at a time in the UQ Strategic Plan 2018–2021. As a wish to continue fuelling the success 24 world’s last great wilderness areas. say on the stories that matter to you. when a degree was a rarity and a headline document it looks beyond 2021, of their alma mater, particularly the Visit contact-magazine.uq.edu.au. professor’s biggest concern was a lack articulating the long-term objectives of blackboard chalk, this age is both of transforming students into game- experiences of students and recent The Contact app can be read on your smartphone, iPad or other tablet device. To exciting and challenging. changing graduates, delivering globally graduates. 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THE BIG QUESTION Should Australia become a smoke-free society? REUNITE WITH

YOUR MATES nicoolay Associate Professor Coral Gartner Professor Stephen Birch August Research Fellow, Director, UQ Centre for the Business and Class of 1972 Pharmacy School of Public Health Economics of Health Class of 1973 Pharmacy Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Business, Economics and Law “Burning tobacco and inhaling it is the most “Effective smoking control and reduction Image: © iStock.com/ September harmful way to use nicotine. Cigarettes requires careful understanding of the Class of 1968 Agricultural Science need to go the way of asbestos. They are an reasons why people smoke. For some Class of 1968 Physiotherapy unacceptably harmful, defective drug- people, smoking provides an Class of 1968 Pharmacy delivery system. No other product important coping mechanism Class of 1973 Dentistry that kills two-thirds of its users for dealing with life situations. In this age of online personal President Donald Trump in mid-2017, Class of 1998 Dentistry would be allowed to be sold as a Simply outlawing smoking “Young people coming general consumer item. Lower- would drive smoking branding, how we communicate immediately launching a series of October risk alternatives are available ‘underground’ unless we may be even more important out of university may internet memes, comedy sketches and articles of ridicule. Class of 1963 Engineering (vaping nicotine, Swedish could provide people than what we communicate. have all the right Class of 1967–69 Metallurgy snus, nicotine lozenges), with alternative and “If Trump’s intention was to enhance his According to communication researcher and Mining Engineering so it’s time to reconsider acceptable coping interpersonal skills, reputation, it certainly missed the mark.” Class of 1971 Dentistry how we regulate all nicotine mechanisms. Tobacco Associate Professor Roslyn Petelin from the School of Communication and Arts, Petelin’s analysis of popular literature Class of 1978 Dentistry products, including how long control policies need to but if they can’t write combustible cigarettes can be be part of broader public everyone’s a writer now and words has revealed that, with the rise of Class of 1978 Mechanical sold by general retailers. There health strategies aimed at matter more than ever. coherently, they will social media and the internet, and Engineering are regulatory models in-between dealing with factors that cause with everyone writing more than ever, Class of 1988 Mechanical Reputations can be made or slayed simply prohibition and general retailing people to smoke.” find this to be a big situations like this will inevitably become Engineering by the way writers present their words to that Australia should explore to more commonplace, eroding personal the world – sometimes at huge cost. disadvantage in their Class of 1983 Social Work achieve a smoke- branding in the process. Class of 1988 Dentistry free society.” “Several court cases revolving around job search.” Her solution? Join the more than 540,000 Class of 1988 Occupational Therapy grammatical issues have hit the news of people who have already enrolled in her Class of 1988 Human Movement late,” Petelin said. “Young people coming out of university free MOOC (massive open online course) November “For example, a multimillion-pound may have all the right interpersonal skills, WRITE101x English Grammar and Style Class of 2008 Dentistry legal battle was waged over a mistake but if they can’t write coherently, they will and pick up some useful tips. involving a single missing letter, and find this to be a big disadvantage in their For more information about these “I want the learnings from my research an absent serial comma led to a job search. Nothing can make you lose reunions, or for RSVP details, to help everyone respond confidently US$5 million underpayment to credibility more quickly than a spelling please visit alumni.uq.edu.au to the unprecedented and accelerating dairy-truck drivers in the US.” mistake,” she said. or contact Alumni Engagement demand of writing in the 21st digital Officer Prue Roche on But on a personal level, bad grammar “Think covfefe [for ‘coverage’], the century: a knowledge of grammar will +61 7 3346 3166 or email can halt a career before it even begins. media attack that backfired on US provide you with a wonderful toolkit.” ©Getty Images/Craig Oddy Images/Craig Image: ©Getty [email protected]. Professor Peter Sly Professor Graeme Orr Director, World Health Organization TC Beirne School of Law RESEARCH IMPACT: highlighting some of the groundbreaking research being produced at UQ. JOIN THE Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health Faculty of Business, Economics and Law and Environment “There is currently no power to make CONVERSATION Faculty of Medicine national laws on such issues, aside from Fuelling Muscle Antivenom’s “There is no justification for smoking banning imported products. Enforcing the future memory fatal flaw uqalumni tobacco. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine prohibition didn’t turn out well with and other addictive substances and class 1 alcohol in the US – think criminogenic Professor Ben UQ neuroscientists A UQ researcher @uqalumni human carcinogens. Second-hand (so-called incentives to bootleg, unsafe black-market Hankamer are conducting clinical is working to passive) smoke is similarly dangerous. UQ is products and social schisms. As a non- envisages that trials to prove that change toxic showing leadership by not allowing smoking smoker, I’d love to see all public spaces tiny green algae exercise can prevent attitudes towards @uqalumni anywhere on campus from 1 July 2018, not become smoke-free, but people have to be powered by sunlight may replace and reverse cognitive decline, antivenom manufacturing in parts of allowing any research to be done funded by free to smoke privately.” the finite fossil fuels we use today. such as dementia. Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The University of the tobacco industry in its broadest sense, Queensland Alumni and by actively advocating against the group continued sale of tobacco products.” web Learn more about UQ’s research impact online at uq.edu.au/research/impact.

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“I seek anything that Life in surround grabs ears and eyeballs, and doesn’t let go.” SOUND Three-time Grammy-award-winning flautist Tim Munro (Bachelor of Music (Honours) ’99) is driven by a single goal: to draw audiences into an engrossing and whimsical musical world. The Chicago-based UQ alumnus spoke to Contact and shared a sneak peek into his melodic life.

You’re passionate about church. Or it might mean that the musicians creating immersive and are spread throughout a building, and the top 5 audience can take their own journey. dynamic musical experiences. INFLUENTIAL So what does music mean What has been the highlight MUSICIANS to you? of your career so far? Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Years ago, when I first joined Facebook, Oh gosh. That is such a hard one. I’ve been 1. The violinist ‘PatKop’ has my profile asked me to name my religion. I lucky to play in quite prominent music venues consummate technique, but wrote ‘JS Bach’, and then I’m sure I laughed in several countries, but I have to say that my she throws it to the wind quietly and nerd-ily to myself. But that answer favorite performances are whenever my mum in favour of blistering, wild has felt more real every year. I believe in an is in the audience. My mum is my number one interpretations. ephemeral thing, for whose existence there fan, and no matter if I’m playing in Sydney,

is no objective evidence, a thing that has the Miami or Liverpool, I do love the feeling of David Lang: having the home-team advantage! 2. power to move people to tears, a thing whose The Philadelphia School beauty is understood differently by people all How has the music District owns more than 1000 across the globe. landscape changed since broken instruments, and David composed a musical work for How would you describe you first started in the music 100 of these instruments. your music? profession? I seek anything that grabs ears and eyeballs, In some ways it is unrecognisable. We’ve 3. The Kilroys: This theatre and doesn’t let go. Sometimes that thing is seen the explosion of streaming services, the organisation started a list of old old old music by dead European blokes. continued descent of classical music from its recommended un- and under- Sometimes that thing was written yesterday ‘sacred cow’ status, the falling away of arts produced plays by female and and has relevance to us now. But one thing coverage, the drying up of paid freelance work trans authors of colour. I’ve never liked is the idea that there are some across the globe. But in some ways it refuses musical genres that are ‘better’ or ‘more to budge. Huge music organisations still hold Julius Eastman: worthy’. There are no guilty pleasures. All of my 4. sway, be they orchestras, opera companies The African-American artistic pleasures add up to who I am as an artist, or even universities. Young musicians still composer, pianist and singer whether it is a terrifying horror film, or a stand- spend hours practising for few orchestral jobs. died in 1990, but Eastman’s up set, or the work of an electronic musician. But the music world is artistically healthier in raw, mesmerising music is When you are performing a many wonderful ways. Women and people screaming back into the of colour are starting to have more of a voice public eye. piece, what do you want to in the classical music world, as composers, impart upon the listener? conductors and administrators. There is an 5. Julie Ritchey: Julie is the explosion of young, energetic groups that It’s quite simple: I want to tell a story. But artistic director of the Chicago- bring zero snobbery and hugely open minds that’s quite complicated: there are often not based Filament Theatre. She to the presentation of music. words with which to tell this story, just notes. believes the best audiences are So I’m always looking to find the perfect young audiences. Now, when venue, the perfect lighting set-up and the To read the full interview and to listen I make work for grown-ups, I perfect physical presentation to tell that story. web to Munro’s music, view this article do my best to create work for That might mean that the musicians physically online at contact-magazine.uq.edu.au the child within. Oh, and Julie surround the audience in a very dimly lit or download the Contact app.

Image: Joe Mazza happens to be my wife.

6 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 7 To watch videos and read UQ women create stories about the many amazing women at UQ, visit CHANGE contact-magazine.uq.edu.au.

From designing safer cities, to helping fight world hunger – UQ women are creating change every day.

“Although I have much For more than a century, UQ has the Faculty of Humanities and Social Professor Cynthia Riginos (pictured), less time for snorkelling educated and worked with outstanding Sciences Professor Heather Zwicker. from UQ’s School of Biological Sciences. people to deliver unparalleled teaching Originally from Washington DC, Riginos and diving nowadays, UQ is also excited to be part of the and research. joined UQ 11 years ago and researches national SAGE Pilot of Athena SWAN early morning swims ecological and evolutionary genetics. Now, more than half of UQ’s community program this year. Forty-five Australian of students and staff are women who organisations, including universities She co-founded the Diversity of the off UQ’s Heron Island lead the way in their industries and and medical research and government Indo-Pacific Network (DIPnet), a group Research Station inspire the next generation. research institutions, are involved in of more than 50 scientists from various the program, which aims to address countries who research genetic-based are highlights of my Significant senior staff appointments and improve gender equity in the marine biodiversity and are committed this year include Deputy Vice- year – there is always science, technology, engineering, to principles of open data and Chancellor (Research) Professor mathematics and medicine (STEMM) mentoring young scientists. something new and Bronwyn Harch, Pro-Vice-Chancellor disciplines. (Indigenous Engagement) Bronwyn Read on to meet more outstanding surprising to see.” Fredericks, Executive Dean of the In this photo essay, Contact is UQ women working to create equality, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture highlighting just some of the many UQ while saving threatened species, finding Associate Professor Cynthia Riginos and Information Technology Professor women who are excelling in STEMM cures for diseases, and leading the way School of Biological Sciences Vicki Chen, and Executive Dean of disciplines. Women like Associate in engineering and construction.

8 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 9 “I really hope I can realise my childhood “I started tutoring at dream and develop a age 14 and, by 15, I new drug.” was tutoring students older than me in Associate Professor Irina Vetter Deputy Director, subjects I hadn’t yet Centre for Pain Research taken myself.” Institute for Molecular Bioscience

One of Vetter’s earliest memories Carmen Gorska Putynska is reading about the discovery of PhD student, School of Civil penicillin. She has wanted to achieve Engineering something similiar ever since. Gorska Putynska is a PhD student Vetter’s research interests lie in the studying self-extinguishment of fields of peripheral pain mechanisms, cross-laminated timber and its potential target identification and analgesic uses in large structures. drug discovery. She excelled at high school – particularly in mathematics, physics and chemistry – and gained a better understanding of the subjects through “I want to use my her mother, who has a mathematics degree and encouraged her to look for experience of being different ways to solve problems. This a member of both influence led her to tutor older students in those subjects.

the queer community Gorska Putynska obtained a bachelor’s and a woman to degree in civil engineering and was subsequently accepted into the help make science International Master of Fire Safety a better and more Engineering program on a fully funded European Union Scholarship, giving inclusive place.” her the opportunity to study in the UK, Belgium and Sweden in the discipline of Fire Safety Engineering. Natasha Taylor PhD student, School of Mathematics and Physics

Taylor is nearing the end of her PhD on quantum effects inside biological systems. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Australian National University with a double-major in theoretical physics and physics, followed by honours in quantum coherent control, researching how to use lasers to control chemical reactions.

10 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 12 UQCONTACT WINTER 2018 “Dermatology had Queensland before program.” to trainpart-time or job-sharein not allowedanyone flexible training advantage ofamore five whohavetaken me. Sincethen,there have beenatleast swimming, runningandcycling. and enjoys sportslike rowing, of ahealthy work-life balance Erin believes intheimportance associations ofmultipleprimarymelanoma. Faculty ofMedicineat UQ, studying genetic completing herPhDpart-time withinthe the Princess Alexandra Hospital.Sheisalso dermatologist andavisitingspecialist at McMeniman isaprivate-practice Senior Lecturer, SchoolofMedicine Princess Alexandra Hospital Deputy Director, Dermatology Department, Dr ErinMcMeniman

teaching at UQ. up research and roles before taking drug discovery chemistry andsenior working inindustrial excelled. Shespent 10years a passion for chemistry and due to missed days, Avril found After initiallystruggling at school discovery andteaching. as thereasons shepursued acareer indrug the desire to improve thehealthofothers, difference therapeutics made to herlife, and experiences anaphylaxis. Sheattributes the had severe asthma asachildandalso Originally from Scotland, Robertson of Chemistry andMolecular Biosciences Biotechnology Program Director, School Professor Avril Robertson “I canclearlyrecallthefirsttimeItook Ventolin andhowmuchthisdrugbenefited teaching couldultimatelyimprovethehealth of othersisonemyprimarymotivations.” my life.Thethoughtthatresearchand on socialmedia. promoting science to awider audience poverty. Sheis alsopassionate about people fighting to end extreme a volunteer organisation of young degree, Stone was involved inOaktree, While completing herundergraduate and Molecular Biosciences PhD candidate, SchoolofChemistry Isobella Stone “I’ve hadgreat encouraged meto strive formygoals.” mentors atUQ who havealways UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 13

© iStock.com/Getty Images “Sometimes someone has to “I had to decide shake the tree to keep science whether I would moving forward.” miss out on the field work or fight the Dr Rochelle Soo system and take Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and my five-week old Molecular Biosciences daughter with me.” Soo studies the microorganisms that live in the gut of marsupials. Originally from Dr Rebecca Dunlop New Zealand, she studied Biomedical Senior Lecturer, School of Veterinary Science, Commerce and Administration at Science Victoria University in Wellington. Originally from Ireland, Dunlop When Soo was looking for a supervisor obtained her Bachelor of Science for her master’s degree, a professor at the (Honours) degree in Environmental University of Waikato was recommended Biology and, by 25, had completed to her. Despite not having funding to study her PhD in fish neuroethology at hot spring microbiology, which Soo was Queen’s University Belfast. She most interested in, he had funding to study moved to Australia in 2003 and thermophilic soils in Mt Erebus, Antarctica. completed a postdoctoral research So, she packed up her life and moved for project on humpback whale social what she describes as one of the most communication. amazing experiences of her career. Outside of academia, Dunlop trains in boxing, and began competing in bouts in 2017.

She has a young daughter who joined her on a large field project in 2014 when she was five weeks old.

“I was the first engineer in the office to have a baby, so a colleague and I had to write the maternity leave policy.”

Dr Liza O’Moore Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering

O’Moore came to UQ from an all-girls high school in 1983 to find herself one of 12 women in a cohort of 260. She completed her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and later returned to UQ to undertake a PhD in high-performance concrete. O’Moore accepted an academic position at UQ 17 years ago and teaches Engineering and Civil Engineering while researching concrete design and structures.

14 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 15 Malcolm Campbell opens a folder on his Campbell’s reputation in mobile dentistry is still finding fresh inspiration to help laptop, scrolling through photographs caught the attention of Timor Children’s communities in need. as he talks. His train of thought is often Foundation Director Reverend John Ruhle Last year, he and his team travelled for interrupted by the passing images. in 2013. The foundation runs the Samaria the first time to the remote village of Los Children’s Home in Dili and also provides “Little babies with decayed teeth,” he Palos. A seven-hour drive from Dili and scholarships for students to attend school, says as he pauses on one of the photos. almost impossible to access during the university and technical colleges. wet season, the village is home to 17,000 “It’s just heartbreaking.” “John believed the mobile dentistry people and one dental health nurse. Another photograph shows the back of approach could work in Timor-Leste The nurse is able to undertake a Toyota Landcruiser loaded with all the and encouraged me to come and have a extractions if necessary, but these are equipment that three dentists need to look,” Campbell said. BRINGING performed without anaesthetic – there extract 230 teeth and give check-ups “I didn’t want to go in on my big white simply isn’t any. to 600 children in Timor-Leste over the charger and pretend that I was going to course of a week. “Los Palos would benefit greatly from do everything. But my heart was ripped a fixed dental clinic, but building one is For the past five years, Campbell open and I thought, ‘We can do this’.” years away,” Campbell said. SMILES (Bachelor of Dental Science ’84) has According to the World Health been travelling to Timor-Leste annually, “Try telling someone in pain that a dental Organization (WHO), the young nation of implementing a slowly evolving program clinic will be built in a few years.” Timor-Leste has made steady progress to the jungle of dental aid for the Timor Children’s in the health sector in the last decade Campbell is now a co-director of the Timor Foundation Dental Project. The project by constructing health facilities and Children’s Foundation and a primary isn’t a slick charity – it is something that expanding community-based services. source of fundraising for the dental project. happened accidentally and is expanding From a single reconnaissance trip to Dili in 2013, a Brisbane organically and out of sheer need. He said that for every $1 donated, the dentist has become an accidental hero to hundreds of children project provides $10 of dental services. in Timor-Leste. Once a year, he loads up a Landcruiser and Each year, Campbell and a small team of “Try telling someone volunteers have expanded the number “Companies such as Colgate, Southern heads into the jungle to rebuild smiles and take away pain. of sites they visit and the number of in pain that a dental Dental Industries and Henry Schein patients they treat. clinic will be built in Halas have provided in-kind support, while a number of dental practices “You don’t have to start big to a few years.” around Brisbane have donated supplies get involved in aid work. With and money. $15,000–20,000 you can get a mobile unit with enough equipment that you However, the country only has 10 dentists “Our hope is that the project can become can take anywhere,” he said. for a population of 1.25 million people. self-sustaining with small teams of That’s a ratio of 1:125,000. In Australia, the volunteers being able to use the mobile “That’s the point of difference with what ratio of dentists to population is 1:1000. equipment that is now stored in Dili.” we do – it’s mobile. There are other dental charities in Timor-Leste. But, with Another challenge is that Timor-Leste Still flicking through the images on his the exception of some work by Rotary, has one of the highest malnutrition rates laptop, Campbell stops at one showing they are at fixed clinics.” in the world, and poor nutrition is a his interpreter holding the hand of a leading risk factor for poor oral health. small boy in a dental chair who is seeing Access to health services such as fixed a dentist for the first time. dental clinics is a major issue in Timor- WHO uses the decay-missing-filled Leste because about 70 per cent of (DMF) index for assessing the prevalence “We have lots of the population lives in rural areas in of tooth decay, as well as dental special moments small, dispersed villages isolated by treatment needs among populations, like this.” mountainous terrain and poor roads. and has set a target for children under 12 years of age to have a DMF score of A Timor-Leste child “Our equipment is lightweight, so we can under three. is happy with his pack it up and drop in anywhere.” dental treatment “In the 600 kids that we saw in Timor- (main image) and Campbell started his career in mobile Dr Malcolm Campbell Leste last year, their average DMF was 5.2. school dentistry, but it was his later roles (right). Images supplied Some children had a score of 20. That’s working out of The Townsville Hospital absolutely shocking,” Campbell said. and serving in the Army Reserve that opened his eyes to the potential of Despite having travelled to Timor- mobile dentistry. Leste on many occasions, Campbell As well as running a dental practice in Brisbane’s CBD, Campbell has a mobile To find out how you can support the Timor web dentistry business that visits nursing Children’s Foundation Dental Project, view this homes and aged-care facilities. He is also article online at contact-magazine.uq.edu.au a guest lecturer at UQ on mobile dentistry. or download the Contact app.

16 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2017 19 Then & now BROWSE THE BACKLIST

Did you know that these works were all published by UQP?

Johnno (1975) David Malouf Oscar and Lucinda (1988) Peter Carey Steam Pigs (1995) Melissa Lucashenko Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) Doris Pilkington WRITING After January (2010) Nick Earls Three Crooked Kings (2013) Matthew Condon Heat and Light (2014) Ellen van Neerven the next chapter Common People (2017) Tony Birch

To mark its 70th anniversary, UQP As the University of Queensland “Society has typically separated science “Finding and nurturing the writers who has commissioned new work from Press celebrates its 70th and the arts, but I think we’re now doing will lead the way in decades to come has 25 of its authors to form the dynamic anniversary this year, emerging more to integrate the two fields. Even been a highlight for all of us at UQP.” collection Reading the Landscape: if you don’t know the meaning of the A Celebration of Australian Writing, poet and UQ PhD student Deo (Bachelor of Creative Arts ’14, scientific words, there’s something about available at The Co-op Bookshop Shastra Deo pays tribute to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) ’15, Master the music of them that resonates.” at UQ’s St Lucia campus. the publisher’s influence on of Arts (Writing, Editing and Publishing) Australia’s cultural landscape and UQP was established in 1948 and, for the ’16) is currently completing her PhD in looks forward to adding her own past 70 years, has played a crucial role creative writing at UQ and said she has pages to its history. in giving voice to emerging writers who valued the welcoming environment at now contribute so much to mainstream UQP, as well as the care it has shown Australian cultural life. in publishing the poems that mean so Whether it’s her childhood stories much to her. about mermaids or her poetry about UQP Publishing Director Madonna Duffy physical trauma and its connection to said celebrating 70 years of independent “I’m the first poet of South Asian memory, Shastra Deo has always had Australian publishing was a monumental descent to be published by UQP, a voice. achievement. and the fact that UQP continues to embrace young writers from It’s a voice that called to the editors “It demonstrates longevity in the a range of backgrounds and of the University of Queensland Press competitive world of publishing and ethnicities is exciting,” Deo said. (UQP), and it’s a voice that reflects both reaffirms our role as a major contributor the publishing house’s history and vision to arts and culture in Australia,” she said. “They’re doing what’s right, for the future. and they’re doing what’s “We have maintained our conviction to important right now for the Deo, the winner of the 2016 Thomas publish enduring and important books literary community.” Shapcott Poetry Prize, is one of UQP’s that have impact.” brightest up-and-coming authors. Her Deo follows in the footsteps of a UQP’s first two decades were largely debut book The Agonist has received long list of poets and novelists spent producing academic books rave reviews. who have appeared under the and scholarly journals, but a dramatic UQP banner, including David The Agonist, published last August, transformation occurred in the 1960s Malouf (Bachelor of Arts ’55, combines Deo’s love of writing with under the stewardship of Frank Doctor of Letters honoris causa academic interests in biology to explore Thompson, who began to publish literary ’91), Peter Carey AO (Doctor the languages of anatomy, etymology fiction and poetry. of Letters honoris causa ’89), and incantation, while sparking “We were one of the first mainstream Kate Grenville, Rodney Hall conversations about fracture and repair, publishers to introduce an Indigenous AM (Doctor of Letters honoris energy, love and danger. writing list and create the David Unaipon causa ’03), Olga Masters, Roger “I’m really interested in the words we Award for unpublished Indigenous McDonald, Murray Bail and use to describe parts of the body and writers,” Duffy said. Marion Halligan AM. I’m intrigued with the idea that bodies “Championing diverse voices remains “I believe UQP is the best are not just the sum of physical parts,” important to us and we have evolved publisher of Australian poetry. Deo said. into a substantial and reputable cultural Hopefully great poets like “I think it’s incredibly fascinating and arm of UQ, responsible for publishing David Malouf are okay with me baffling that we hold memory within our dynamic work and taking artistic standing somewhere in their entire physical being. chances with new and emerging talent. shadows,” Deo said.

18 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 19 Image: Swimming Australia/Delly Carr Australia/Delly Image: Swimming GOLD on the Gold Coast

UQ athletes starred at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, combining to win 12 medals in front of a proud Queensland crowd.

UQ swimming sensation Lakeisha The success of the para-sports was just Patterson hopes her two gold medals one of the great stories from this year’s at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Commonwealth Games, with Australia’s Games can continue to boost the profile para-athletes winning 15 gold medals. of para-athletes in Australia and around “I believe the Commonwealth Games the world. were a great insight into the incredible Patterson took out the Women’s S9 talents of para-athletes in Australia, 100m Freestyle event, touching ahead and the feedback I have received from of England’s Alice Tai and Australia’s Australians has been overwhelming,” Ellie Cole. Patterson said.

She also claimed victory in the Women’s “It just shows that inclusion is slowly S8 50m Freestyle, edging out Canadian getting better. I am a proud Paralympian, duo Morgan Bird and Abigail Tripp. and hope that I can inspire the next generation, and anyone else, to work The Bachelor of Architectural Design hard and follow their dreams.” student’s performance adds to the bronze medal she won at the Glasgow Patterson said it was always an honour to Commonwealth Games in 2014 and a represent Australia, but to do it on home swag of medals at the Rio de Janeiro soil was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Paralympics in 2016. “The gold medals represent hard work and The swimmer known as ‘Lucky’ won sacrifice, as well as the support I received Australia’s first gold medal of the Rio from everyone around me,” she said. Paralympics, setting a new world record in “UQ has been understanding of my the Women’s S8 400m Freestyle. She was sporting commitments and has allowed also a member of the team that won gold me to study part-time, ensuring I succeed in the Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay in the pool and in the classroom.” and won three silver medals (Women’s S8 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, Women’s Fellow para-swimmer and UQ graduate 4x100m Medley) and a bronze (Women’s Brenden Hall (Bachelor of Exercise and Lakeisha Patterson celebrates winning S8 200m Individual Medley). Sports Science ’17) continued Australia’s u a gold medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

20 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 21 “I knew the Aussie support was waiting in the final straight. Image: Athletics Australia Image: Athletics It definitely helped give me a final burst

of speed.” Carr Australia/Delly Image: Swimming

Sevens. Cherry scored a try in Australia’s 17-12 loss to New Zealand in the gold- medal match.

Diver and UQ graduate Maddison Keeney (Bachelor of Science ’17) also won a silver medal in the Women’s 3m Springboard event, while para-swimmer and 2009 UQ Blue recipient Blake Cochrane won silver and bronze in the pool in the Men’s SM8 200m Individual Medley and the Men’s SB8 100m Breaststroke events respectively.

Bachelor of Business Management student Danielle Prince won her second Commonwealth Games medal, taking bronze in the Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Team event. Competing at her third Commonwealth Games – the most by a female Australian gymnast – Prince also contested the Ball final, finishing in eighth position. The Clem Jones Sporting Scholarship holder won a gold medal in the Team competition at Delhi in 2010. Race walker Dane Bird-Smith on his way to a gold medal in the Men’s 20km event and, right, Brenden Hall celebrates winning a gold medal in the Men’s S9 100m Backstroke. Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) student and fellow gymnast Michael success in the pool, winning a gold medal “It’s great when Australia gets behind Mercieca represented Australia in the with a thrilling finish in the Men’s S9 us when we race, but it has been UQ Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Team event, 100m Backstroke. backing me since day one and that is with the squad finishing fifth. Mercieca, genuinely appreciated.” a UQ Sports Achievement Scholarship The three-time Paralympic champion recipient, also finished in fifth place in the also claimed a bronze medal in the Men’s The 2016 and 2017 UQ Sport Sportsman Men’s Individual All-Around competition, S9 100m Freestyle. of the Year said the gold medal was now missing a bronze medal by just 2.4 points. On the track, race walker and Bachelor on proud display alongside the Olympic UQ graduate Caitlin Sargent-Jones of Health, Sport and Physical Education bronze he won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. (Bachelor of Physiotherapy ’13) (Honours) student Dane Bird-Smith Netball star and 2016 UQ Sportswoman represented Australia in the Women’s capped a remarkable two-year period of the Year Gabi Simpson was part of 4x400m Relay, finishing fifth in the final, by winning a gold medal in the Men’s Australia’s silver medal-winning team while Brittany McGowan (Bachelor of 20km event. on the Gold Coast. The Bachelor of Journalism ’13) missed the final of the Fuelled by the support of the Queensland Physiotherapy (Honours) student played Women’s 800m, finishing fourth in her crowd, Bird-Smith won the event in a in all seven of Australia’s matches, heat and 13th overall. Commonwealth Games record time of including the thrilling 52-51 loss to 1:19.34, finishing four seconds ahead of England in the final. To see more pictures of UQ’s English silver medalist Tom Bosworth. web In another team event, UQ rugby Commonwealth Games athletes, “I knew the Aussie support was waiting in teammates Emilee Cherry and Emma view this article online at the final straight. It definitely helped give Sykes were part of the Australian team contact-magazine.uq.edu.au me a final burst of speed,” Bird-Smith said. that claimed silver in the Women’s Rugby or download the Contact app.

22 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 23 Travel diary

SPOTLIGHT ON MOZAMBIQUE 11 Students from Mozambique enrolled in UQ programs 38 Co-publications between UQ and Mozambique institutions (Clockwise from left) A pack of wild dogs between 2012 and 2017 in the Niassa National Reserve (NNR), the sprawling forests of the NNR, PhD student James Allan wading through the 69 Lugenda River in Mozambique, plains of the NNR, James Allan (third from right) UQ alumni born in Mozambique WILD working in consultation with key stakeholders to draft a sustainable management plan for the NNR, and a at heart pride of lions resting in the NNR. Images: James Allan and Jean-Baptist Deffontaines

James Allan grew up on the feeling of seeing an animal that big 108 square kilometres between which have been decimated by rampant sweeping plains of Kenya, near you on foot.” 2001 and 2014 due to agriculture and poaching for meat and ivory,” he said. human settlement. Allan said the study East Africa, and spent his While at UQ, Allan’s PhD supervisor found that Niassa’s protected area “There are not many habitats this childhood on safari with Professor James Watson recommended status had helped save it from large- big that are still intact and have large elephants and lions. He is now that he get involved with the Wildlife scale land clearing that had occurred in charismatic animals. on a mission to protect the Conservation Society on a three-month Mozambique. The land could potentially fieldwork study in Mozambique. Allan “The importance of that goes beyond world’s last great wilderness support up to 50,000 elephants and leapt at the opportunity to use applied northern Mozambique, beyond Africa. I areas for the next generation. 1000 lions. science to help conserve Niassa for the think it’s the responsibility of the world next generation. to save these areas.” The Niassa National Reserve (NNR) is “With proper investment, Niassa could Allan embarked upon two six-week Mozambique’s largest protected area The study looked at patterns of forest once again support large assemblages fieldwork trips to Mozambique in and is home to large populations of loss and found the reserve had lost of megafauna like elephants and lions, July 2015 and again in July 2016, and is megafauna. Despite this, the NNR is one now working to protect wild spaces of the least biologically explored places around the world through applied on Earth. conservation projects with his lab Inspired by his father, who runs safari group, Green Fire Science. tours through the jungles and savannahs “PhDs are what you make of it. UQ of Kenya, James Allan travelled to opens doors to amazing opportunities – Brisbane in 2014 to pursue a PhD travel, meet new people, learn, grow at the UQ School of Earth and and do some important work that can Environmental Studies. make a difference.” “I spent my childhood on safari taking photos of animals, walking in some To see more photos from the of Kenya’s wildest and most beautiful web Niassa National Reserve, regions – it’s just so inspiring,” Allan said. view this article online at “There’s nothing like being next to an contact-magazine.uq.edu.au or elephant, you just can’t describe the download the Contact app.

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Opinion

By Timothy Seng

ABOUT THE AUTHOR SETTING STUDENTS Timothy Seng graduated from UQ in 2014 with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting. Seng works as an accountant on path to success at EnVision Partners in the small Queensland country town of Chinchilla. He aspires to continue his development in this field and has recently taken on a Accountant and Bachelor of Commerce alumnus Timothy Seng admits he manager’s role at the firm. wouldn’t be who he is today without the UQ Young Achievers Program. Seng was a member of the program’s first student cohort in 2009 and reflects on the positive impact it has had on his life and career.

The UQ Young Achievers Program (UQYAP) As a participant of the program in Year 11, is celebrating its 10th year of supporting I was encouraged to attend the UQ Open Day Queensland state high school students to meet with my mentors and fellow Young from disadvantaged backgrounds to reach Achievers. This was an important turning tertiary education. point. I attended information sessions on architecture, which I had been considering, but In that time, more than 900 Young Achievers found it wasn’t what I imagined it to be. have participated in the program, which broadens tertiary education aspirations and I thought about what I enjoyed and excelled at career options by actively engaging and in school, which was business and accounting. mentoring them throughout their academic Had I not attended an open day until Year 12, journey and beyond. I wouldn’t have done the necessary senior subjects to get into my degree of choice. The inception of the program was made possible and continues through ongoing I studied a Bachelor of Commerce with a major support from a variety of donors. in Accounting, which has led to my career as an accountant. The program also has a strong focus on community mindedness, and this is a value I When I began my studies at UQ, I applied have taken with me as I forge a career as an to become a UQYAP mentor myself to give accountant in my home town of Chinchilla, in back to the program. It was one of the most Queensland’s Western Downs region. rewarding things I have ever done. Watching the students I mentored grow through the My journey with the UQYAP began during program and do what they truly believed in the program’s first year in 2009, when at the was something special. Laidley State High School awards night I was awarded a scholarship to UQ. Little did I know Being a mentor also pushed me out of my what an amazing adventure I was in for. comfort zone and led me to do things I wasn’t “I was able used to doing, in particular public speaking. As a The program provides assistance to students mentor, I had to step up and do presentations in to experience who wouldn’t normally consider tertiary study front of nearly 100 people. Developing this skill and is designed to give prospective students an was invaluable for presentations throughout my university life, and insight into life at UQ. degree, and I use it almost every day in my job. consider a future My experience with the program was fantastic A fellow mentor, Jessica Muller, is now my wife and is something I will never forget. that I never thought and we were married in April this year. She was The support I received throughout my senior also a member of the first UQYAP cohort. was possible.” years of school, both financially and through I know the level of work that happens behind my university student mentor, was very useful. the scenes and I am proud to see how the I was able to experience university life, and program has evolved in its 10th year. consider a future that I never thought was possible. I had never considered going to To learn more about the UQ Young web university as no one in my family had been Achievers Program, view this article before. Prior to UQYAP, my plan was to pursue online at contact-magazine.uq.edu.au a mechanic’s apprenticeship. or download the Contact app.

UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 27 THANK YOU for all gifts great and small

Welcome to Not If, When – the Campaign to Create Change. Since the historic launch of the University’s first philanthropic campaign, donors from Queensland and around the world have partnered with UQ to proactively create change in society.

While the causes donors have chosen to capacity generosity can have when vision is opened to the best and brightest help through the Not if, when campaign meets research and teaching excellence. journalism students, and the inaugural are as unique and diverse as our The first story highlights the generosity recipient has already been named. community of supporters, the positive of international business leader Andrew The final story discusses a landmark capacity of these partnerships is already Liveris and his wife, Paula, who have collaboration between UQ and global being realised. chosen to partner with UQ to support thought-leader Mark Hutchinson. Gifts have been directed to areas as innovation and leadership in engineering Hutchinson is aiming to drive meaningful diverse as reef and wildlife conservation, and science. This gift – the largest single change in business education and music and the arts, medical research, and contribution to the campaign to date – build a generation of ethical business supporting in-need students. will ultimately address major challenges practitioners, who are fit to lead us into in sustainability, and will have an impact the future. As a result of this support, students have throughout the world. been empowered to succeed, teaching These initiatives are just a sample of what We also tell how a journalism alumnus and learning has been transformed, has been achieved in the short life of our has partnered with UQ to establish a and impact and discovery have excelled campaign so far. memorial scholarship named after one of rapidly. his fellow graduates and closest friends. To learn more about how In the following pages, we feature three The scholarship will ensure the door to web you can make a difference, stories that illustrate the transformative an increasingly competitive industry visit uq.edu.au/giving.

28 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 29 GIFT TO BUILD FUTURE LEADERS

As a child, Andrew Liveris AO “Paula and I hope the Liveris Academy used to play on the dirt roads will attract, support and develop of Darwin. As a man, he has many of the planet’s smartest young advised world leaders and people and finest minds in engineering and science, enabling them to reach brokered some of the most their full potential while addressing significant business deals of major challenges facing society the 21st century. The lessons today,” he said. of a simple country upbringing have stuck with him and have After graduating from UQ, Liveris led to an extraordinary UQ gift moved to Melbourne to begin his career as an engineer with the Dow Chemical to teach and develop future Company. He quickly rose through the generations of leaders. ranks and has held the position of CEO Andrew Liveris at the announcement of the for more than a decade. Liveris family gift to UQ and, right, an artist’s A childhood spent in Darwin with Based in the US, he has overseen impression of the Andrew N. Liveris Building. children of different social, cultural, and the US$130 billion Dow Chemical economic backgrounds gave Andrew and DuPont merger – one of the Liveris and his wife, Paula, are now Liveris AO an appreciation for diversity most significant mergers in modern spearheading an extraordinary effort to in the company he kept. As he grew, history – and has also advised several support UQ innovation and leadership building makeshift forts turned into US presidents on business strategy by donating A$13.5 million to help building global businesses. and policy. establish the Liveris Academy in UQ’s Despite his international career success, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture His career success is built on a mantra the Dow Chemical Company Chief and Information Technology (EAIT). of being willing to work with anyone, Executive Officer’s path to education regardless of their background. The academy will be housed in the wasn’t always clear. Andrew N. Liveris Building, an 11-storey Now planning his retirement from In his teenage years, Cyclone Tracey engineering education and research the top position at Dow, Liveris will ripped through Darwin and destroyed hub to be built at UQ’s St Lucia return to Australia this year, where his family’s home and business, and with campus. It will teach and develop future he will continue to use his expertise it, his hopes of attending university. generations of leaders, equipping them and influence to drive change in the to discover and implement technology- Australian economy. A government scholarship provided driven innovations that address Liveris (Bachelor of Engineering “We must train our students to be sustainability challenges. (Honours) ’75, Doctor of Science technically adept at specific skills, and to honoris causa ’05) with the opportunity A rigorous selection process for the be adaptable, critical thinkers,” he said. to pursue his passion for science and academy will identify promising “For too long, our country has allowed mathematics at UQ, where he went on students with leadership potential and our prosperity to be driven by the to win an array of merit-based prizes a passion to address sustainability resources underneath the ground, and scholarships, including a University issues involving clean water, safe food rather than the brainpower of the Medal in Chemical Engineering. and modern energy services. people above it. “I started university in 1972 and I still The academy will allow students to “I would like the next innovators who draw on the knowledge and the skills I collaborate with industry and leading lead this change to set up shop right learned at UQ,” he said. researchers to create positive change in here in Australia.” society by addressing global challenges “I took courses outside my comfort that require large-scale innovation. zone, like liberal arts and psychology. These were the courses that broadened The Liveris family gift is the largest To help support the next web my perspective and helped me learn donation from an individual to UQ’s generation of Australian how to learn.” Not if, when campaign. leaders, visit giving.uq.edu.au.

30 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT SUMMER 2017 31 In a time when the capability lost jobs and pensions; and families lost Hutchinson (pictured) is partnering vital as learning how to read and write,” workplaces and communities, we “Ethical leadership is vital to securing and ethics of our leaders are homes and futures. with UQ to build a generation of ethical Hutchinson said. need to engage them in an ongoing stable economic growth for Australia business practitioners, fit to lead society conversation as they encounter and and the world. regularly questioned, alumnus The primary contributor to the global “To truly prepare students to become into the future. His support in creating resolve issues in real time.” Mark Hutchinson is looking to financial crisis (GFC) was a lack of ethical advocates in their future “That’s why it’s so important that we the new position of Professional Chair avoid a second global financial global regulation in the banking and Hutchinson recently returned to his alma teach ethics in ways that are practical in Ethics forms part of a $1 million crisis through a landmark finance sector. Lapses in judgement mater to provide a series of informative and relevant to our future leaders and partnership to drive meaningful change partnership with UQ. and leadership led to investment in lectures throughout Australia on ethics the situations they will face in their by making ethics a foundation in the products (and people) that were in business and finance, aiming to careers.” education of young professionals. The year was 2007, and a toxic bubble of likely, and in some cases even stimulate better awareness about good While this generous gift has gone a poor credit and ‘sub-prime’ mortgages expected, to default. Hutchinson has also been named ethical practice. long way towards realising the goal of in the US burst, toppling a system based Executive-in-Residence to UQ’s Faculty As a leading global business figure “When you talk to young professionals, a Chair in Ethics, there is still further precariously on unsustainable and of Business, Economics and Law, and the former Chief Executive Officer they care about what an organisation support needed to make the creation of unscrupulous finance practices. a voluntary role which will see him and President of General Electric values, how it behaves and if it has a this teaching position a reality. guide students and staff through the The fallout sent ripples through the Europe, Mark Hutchinson (Bachelor good culture,” Hutchinson said. complexities of ethical decision-making, global economy, and scenes not seen of Commerce ’86, Doctor of Business If you would like to help training and leadership. web since the Great Depression played out honoris causa ’14) saw the devastation “These aspects are now seen in support the ethical around the world – businesses closed the GFC caused and has decided to take “For me, learning how to act with equal measure to salary, which progression of Australia, visit or, at best, posted record losses; people action to prevent a similar crisis. integrity and do the right thing is as is fantastic.” uq.edu.au/giving/contactBEL.

ETHICS KEY TO AVOIDING MISTAKES OF THE PAST

“Learning how to act with integrity and do the right thing is as vital as learning how to read and write.”

32 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 33 “She was a born storyteller, a fantastic journalist, and a mentor to young women who were coming through JOURNALIST’S MEMORY LIVES ON the newsrooms she worked in. The scholarship honours all of that, and An increasingly heavy door “It’s harder than ever to pursue a Multi-award-winning investigative the things she was passionate about.” stands between journalism career in journalism,” Shannon Molloy journalist and UQ graduate Marian graduates and the competitive (Bachelor of Journalism ’08) said. Wilkinson (Bachelor of Arts ’76) was one of many journalists at the event, industry they hope to work in. “But many of those who are studying and said the scholarship would help give Journalist and UQ graduate journalism have no choice. Because, like students an advantage in an increasingly Shannon Molloy is determined Clare and me, being a journalist is their competitive field. to help push that door open dream, their passion. “I think it’s a brilliant initiative that gives for worthy but disadvantaged “I wanted to provide someone else the a young, enthusiastic journalism student students, with a scholarship opportunity to pursue this dream, in what they really need: it gets them established in honour of his Clare’s memory. through the front door,” Wilkinson said. lost friend. “There are many people who have heard “This is so important because, frankly, in Clare’s story and are inspired or touched journalism, so much can be determined Looking in from the sun-soaked by it, and who have come together to by your connections. footpaths of Sydney’s Paddington on a support this initiative.” Sunday afternoon, it might have looked “This is a way of taking the best and the Born of friendship and admiration, like an ordinary event – music playing brightest, and saying you don’t have to Molloy established the scholarship in softly to complement the weekend get there on favours and friendship, you 2017 to honour the memory and life of afternoon vibe as friends came together can get there on merit.” his close friend and fellow UQ graduate to share stories over food and drinks. (Bachelor of Arts (Music and German) Merit was something Atkinson had in However, the cordiality of the celebration ’06, Bachelor of Journalism ’06), who spades, alongside a genuine passion for was metered by the sorrow and hope passed away from cancer in 2016 at just her career and the journalism industry. that had brought this group of media 31 years of age. professionals together as they marked Molloy said the scholarship supports “Clare’s death had a profound impact on the launch of the Clare Atkinson students who demonstrate the me, as it did all of her loved ones. This Memorial Scholarship. They gathered not commitment to journalism that Atkinson scholarship is a tribute to her, her career simply to provide financial support, but displayed throughout her life, and allows and her zest for life,” Molloy said. to commit to sharing their experience future UQ journalism students the chance at an extraordinary career. and expertise in honour of a bright and “She was incredibly tenacious and took generous soul taken too soon. every opportunity that life gave her The first Clare Atkinson Memorial with both hands. She was smart, a born Scholarship was awarded in April storyteller, a fantastic journalist, and this year to UQ journalism and arts a mentor to young women who were student Chantelle Bringas, who shares coming through the newsrooms she Atkinson’s passion for journalism and worked in. storytelling. Bringas is majoring in International Relations and Peace and “The scholarship honours all of that, and Conflict Studies and aspires to become a the things she was passionate about.” war correspondent. She is also an active Molloy believes the most beneficial member of the club for UQ Journalism part of the scholarship is the and Communication Students (JACS), opportunities and experiences it offers a group that Atkinson and Molloy through internships at national media originally founded. organisations in Sydney.

Students will spend time in newsrooms To help support Clare where Atkinson worked, including the web Atkinson’s legacy, the careers ABC and SBS, and be introduced to her of UQ students, and the future Clare Atkinson, who passed away in 2016. network of colleagues and peers. of journalism, visit giving.uq.edu.au.

Award-winning journalist Marian Wilkinson with fellow journalist and UQ alumnus Shannon Molloy at the launch of the Clare Atkinson Memorial Scholarship. 34 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT SUMMER 2017 35 12:00pm 24 hours on campus

DAILY DOSE OF life at Herston 2:00pm

From the classrooms and research laboratories to the dental clinics and hospital wards, students and staff at UQ’s Herston campus cover all aspects of the healthcare industry on a daily basis.

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6am Old and new worlds combine as the Mayne Medical School building is reflected in the sleek windows of the UQ Oral Health Centre. 8am Second-year Doctor of Medicine student Kevin Tian prepares for the day ahead in the locker rooms of the Health Sciences building. 10am School of Public Health students study and socialise in the Herston Student Hub. 12pm Master of Public Health students Ummay Salma Rahman and Beryl Onyango in the corridors of the Mayne Medical School building. 2pm Students take part in a Public Health Practice tutorial. 4pm Dental Science students Sereke Lau and Cheilyn Tesh prepare for a practical lesson at the UQ Oral Health Centre. 4:00pm 6pm Rakesh Jaikaran performs brain imaging at the Herston Imaging Research Facility. 8pm PhD student Goutham Narayanan Subramanian fertilises To see more images of everyday life at Herston, visit web mice eggs as part of his research into reproduction and contact-magazine.uq.edu.au or download the Contact app. IVF treatment at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research.

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36 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 Culture Sport

A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME

The Australian University Games each sport in Div 1 will be relegated into hard to support us and improve will be transformed in 2018 Div 2 the following year. the experience, so I hope that we are able to match their efforts and as part of a plan to boost the Div 2 will involve 14 sports, and standard of competition and come home with some fantastic universities can enter teams if they have results.” profile of UniSport Australia’s not already qualified for Div 1 in that flagship event. sport. The top two ranked teams in each Volleyball star Michaela Shuttleworth sport in Div 2 will be promoted into Div 1 will captain UQ’s Div 1 women’s The event has been rebranded as the following year. beach volleyball team, as well as UniSport Nationals, where more than UQ’s Div 2 women’s indoor volleyball 10,000 students from 42 Australian Image: UQ Art Museum UQ’s Div 1 athletics team captain and team, this year. universities will compete in national- 400-metre and 800-metre runner standard sporting competitions. Daniel Parnell applauded the changes. Shuttleworth said the Nationals’ new structure would help improve team The UniSport Nationals will comprise “Uni Games has always been a great morale as the competition becomes two major events, known as Div 1 event and there’s a strong sense of more serious. Dr Nicholas Carah from the School of Communication and Arts with arts journalist Bec Mac discussing The dust never settles exhibition at the UQ Art Museum. and Div 2, and will be held on the camaraderie and mateship,” the three- Gold Coast in September and July time University Games competitor said. “There’s already a sense of pride when this year respectively. we wear our UQ team colours. But being “On the track, however, it’s cut-throat. able to lead these teams into a more Div 1 consists of 33 sports contested HANGING ON EVERY WORD Everyone has their own goals – some prestigious event motivates me more to across men’s, women’s, mixed and are seeking selection in the prestigious perform well and inspire others. open categories. World University Games – and it’s If a picture paints a thousand conversations inspired by what they see and six Hangs podcasts each year to incredible to run beside such esteemed “This year is the first time in four years words, then the UQ Art Museum’s on the gallery walls. coincide with major exhibitions. Only the top 10 teams from the previous athletes. that UQ has entered a women’s indoor latest venture, Hangs, is set for a University Games rankings will qualify “We just thought we’d take it one To listen to the Hangs podcasts, volleyball team, so I’m hoping we web for competition in each sport. The “Both UQ Sport and UniSport long conversation. And not just step further.” visit artmuseum.uq.edu.au. can get the team into Div 1 for two lowest-placed teams in about art. Australia have been working next year’s competition.” The pair worked with UQ Hangs is a podcast series with a communication and journalism difference. It’s not a lecture about art; What’s on interns to match up some chatty To learn more about it’s not a guide to an exhibition of art; it’s web types – mostly comedians and media in site: process, performance, UniSport Nationals, not even a musical accompaniment to personalities – and set them off around documentation (UQ Art Museum, visit unisport.com.au. art. It’s a cleverly recorded conversation the gallery with headphones and until 5 August 2018) between two people who happen to be microphones attached. Responding thematically to looking at a UQ Art Museum exhibition Smithson, this exhibition explores – and where that conversation leads is “The results have been hilarious, and artwork that engages with the UQ athletics team anyone’s guess. diverse,” Moody said. captain Daniel Parnell landscape through documented with UQ beach interventions that connect to volleyball and indoor According to UQ Art Museum’s Digital “I have always thought that the UQ Art environmental, political or artistic volleyball captain Communications Officer Sebastian Museum is a ‘safe space for unsafe ideas’ Michaela Shuttleworth. concerns. For more information, Moody, who came up with the idea for and that’s certainly been the case here. Image: Emily Davies visit artmuseum.uq.edu.au. Hangs with Senior Education Manager “We’ve had conversations about Dr Holly Arden, art should be talked Defying Empire: 3rd National about, thought about and assessed. selfies, wildebeest and tooth-brushing etiquette, and that’s just the start. I Indigenous Art Triennial (UQ Art “Some people think they have to have can’t wait to see what the coming year Museum, until 11 November 2018) Bringing together works by an art degree to be able to appreciate brings – particularly with our major 30 contemporary Aboriginal and art, but this is simply not true. Anyone retrospective on Robert Smithson, one Torres Strait Islander artists, this can have an opinion and admire – or not of the most influential artists of the exhibition commemorates the 50th – the pieces on display,” he said. 20th century.” anniversary of the 1967 Referendum “In fact, what inspired us to create this Produced by students from the School that recognised Aboriginal people as series of podcasts was our observation of Journalism and the School of Australians for the first time. that people at our exhibition openings Communication and Arts, the UQ Art For more information, visit have the most fascinating and random Museum plans to launch between four artmuseum.uq.edu.au.

38 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 UQ CONTACT WINTER 2018 39 Through support of the Not if, when campaign, UQ scientists are working to save the Great Barrier Reef from the destructive crown-of-thorns starfish. Image: Getty Images/Tarasovs Image: Getty

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