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DEAKIN ALUMNI MAGAZINE ISSUE 6 2019 CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF ALUMNI 02 DKIN CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF ALUMNI IMPACT 1978 04 Message from 08 Christopher Kelly 24 Pasan Muthumala our President and Alumnus Class of 1969 Alumnus Class of Vice-Chancellor 2005 and 2007 Professor 10 Wayne Eason Jane den Hollander AO Alumnus Class of 1978 26 Jyoti Shekar Alumna Class of 2008 06 Stay 12 Tony Arnel Connected Alumnus Class of 1979 28 Lauren Hewitt Alumna Class of 2010 14 John Stanhope AM Alumnus Class of 1982 30 Naqib Azha 16 Sharn Bedi Alumnus Class of 2013 Alumna Class of 1995 32 Bennett Merriman 18 Renuke Coswatte Alumnus Class of 2009 Alumnus Class of 2003 + 20 Sadie-Jane Nunis Shannan Gove Alumna Class of 2003 Alumnus Class of 2014 22 Lawrence Lau 34 Melanie Orvis Alumnus Class of 2004 Alumna Class of 2016 Deakin University Information in this publication CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B was correct at time of printing. DKIN 03 AND RESEARCH THAT WILL CHANGE OUR 2018 FUTURE 36 Prison 60 Robots to 78 Giving break the rescue to Deakin Professor Joe Graffam Doctor Mick Fielding 42 Saving the 66 Sensing 79 Deakin Baw Baw frog motion Advancement Professor Don Driscoll and Associate Professor PhD student Thomas Burns Pubudu Pathirana 48 The magic 72 The dark of realism side of emoji Associate Professor Doctor Elizabeth Kirley Maria Takolander and Associate Professor Marilyn McMahon 54 Recalibrating multiculturalism Professor Fethi Mansouri Creative direction and design: Writing: Photography: Studio Binocular Betty Vassiliadis Craig Newell unless otherwise credited 04 DKIN Welcome to dKin 2018. This will be my last time and a sustainable car industry, and the neoteric. Sustainability and writing for dKin Magazine, together with stories on ecotourism, diversity continue, with an article on so perhaps you’ll forgive a the problems of plastic waste and multiculturalism from our UNESCO the Millennium Development Goals. Chair Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi little introspection. The past Internationalisation and India were Mansouri, and one from Professor eight years have been a time a focus, with articles on Deakin’s Don Driscoll and Thomas Burns of great change for Deakin engagement in India, the value on the threat to the Baw Baw frog and in the world, and it’s of international study and the and importance of maintaining fascinating to reflect on importance of teaching Asian our biodiversity. There is an article languages. There were also articles on emoji by Dr Elizabeth Kirley what has been achieved. on inclusion, diversity and the and Associate Professor Marilyn Our alumni magazine gives us a importance of our cultural heritage, McMahon (we knew about emoji snapshot of the issues that interest all issues that continue to be in 2010 but only just), and one us at a moment in time, and I found important to us today. There was on robotics and Deakin’s Ozbots it interesting to look back at the even an article on mobile phone by Michael Fields. An article contents of Deakin University banking – quite remarkable when by Associate Professor Pubudu Magazine 2010, the year I arrived you think the first generation iPhone Pathirana on a wireless motion at Deakin as its Vice-Chancellor. only became available in 2007. capture device the size of a matchbox is a reminder of how far A look at what’s in store for the Sustainability was a major interest technologies have advanced. Our 2018 edition of dKin Magazine in the 2010 Alumni Magazine. Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor There were articles on biodiesel is a fascinating mix of the familiar DKIN 05 Message from our PRESIDENT AND VICE-CHANCELLOR Jane den Hollander AO Joe Graffam has contributed an the Geelong Future Economy Deakin entered the prestigious article on an innovative solution to Precinct on our Waurn Ponds Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic breaking the cycle of disadvantage Campus has led to the creation of ranking of World Universities top 500 for Australia’s prison population. almost 2000 jobs through industry for the first time in 2014 and in 2018 partnerships and co-location it was ranked 211 in the world, and These are important issues opportunities. We have made a top 10 in Australia! Of course you, for Australia, and a reminder significant contribution to assisting our alumni are the most important of how Deakin research is seeding the Geelong region’s transition to evidence of Deakin’s success, innovation and changing lives. advanced manufacturing and the and this year Deakin celebrates dKin Magazine is a very good knowledge economy. And in an 40 years of Deakin alumni. read indeed. Last year’s magazine increasingly complex market, Deakin competed against 52 universities I still have almost a year before has experienced strong growth in globally to be awarded gold in the I retire and I hope to meet some student numbers, now we have CASE Circle of Excellence Awards of you at the variety of functions 61,000 students (there were 39,600 for its design, photography and over this next period. Thank you in 2010). The best statistic? For all content – I think this year’s will for the significant role you continue eight years Deakin has ranked first be even better. to play in defining and shaping in Victoria for graduate satisfaction. the university Deakin is today. Reflecting back on my journey with Your University’s success is Deakin over the last eight-and-a-bit- Jane den Hollander AO reflected in its performance years, there are some successes that Vice-Chancellor in the international rankings. deserve mention. In just five years, Photography: Location: Scott McNaughton Morgan’s walk, Melbourne Burwood Campus 06 DKIN 40 1978 DEAKIN ALUMNI CELEBRATING 40 YEARS DKIN 07 2018 Stay Connected Keep in touch with the Alumni Community by updating your contact details online at engage.deakin.edu.au/alumni-home Our Alumni Community offers you a variety of benefits, including events, webinars, discounts and communications. To find out more visit deakin.edu.au/alumni 1969 08 40 YEARS OF ALUMNI Christopher Kelly Diploma of Commerce (Gordon Institute of Technology) Graduate Diploma of Financial Management (UNE) Master in Economics (UNE) Class of 1969 – Gordon Institute of Technology Alumni of the Year Award 2012 In 2018 Deakin University celebrates Can you tell us about the Why did you decide the 40th anniversary of the first early days at Deakin? to teach at Deakin? graduation ceremony of students. Deakin was very fortunate from its When I first graduated I pursued Christopher Kelly was at that first outset to inherit many longstanding a career in chartered accounting, graduation ceremony and attended academic programs from the during that time I was approached subsequent Deakin University Gordon Institute of Technology by a former head of department graduations until his retirement in and the State College of Victoria, to undertake sessional teaching 2014. During his 40-year academic Geelong. In 1990 and 1991, at the Gordon Institute, that career in the Faculty of Business the academic programs of the was in February 1970 and by May and Law he taught innumerable Warrnambool Institute of Advanced that year I was teaching full-time! commerce graduates, many of Education and Victoria College I subsequently undertook higher whom have gone on to stellar were also incorporated into degree studies at the University careers in accounting, finance, the existing suite of programs. of New England and upon my banking and law. He has been In relating the history of the return from those studies I was honoured with a teaching award University it is worth recalling that offered a teaching position at the and was Alumnus of the Year in in these early days these institutional newly-minted Deakin University. 2012. We spoke to Christopher mergers, while challenging, So it was the case of being in the about those early years at contributed significantly to the right place at the right time insofar Deakin and his reflections current success of the University. as pursuing a teaching career. from his decades-long career. DKIN 09 Is there anything you especially What was a highlight remember about that time? of your career? When I reflect on the myriad of The Faculty has achieved roles that I have undertaken at accreditation with two international Deakin, the role that I have enjoyed bodies – the US Association to the most, without a doubt, has been Advance Collegiate Schools of my teaching. Graduates continue Business (AACSB) and the European to approach me after all these Foundation for Management years with fond memories of our Development (EFMD). Looking teaching and learning associations. back over my career, I could not have imagined that I would have How would someone describe you? had a lead role in what was a Having taught for 40 years, I found rigorous process to meet both myself teaching the children of the US and European quality former students! That has happened assurance standards of both to me four times. I recall one student these accreditation programs. telling me his father spoke of me as ‘firm but fair’, and I think that Photography: Location: was an apt description. Craig Newell Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus 1978 10 40 YEARS OF ALUMNI Wayne Bachelor of Science (Information Technology) Eason Class of 1978 Wayne Eason recently retired after Why did you decide Can you tell us about your a distinguished 42-year career in to study at Deakin? time at Deakin? IT. He has been part of the Deakin I lived in Geelong and originally After I graduated I got a job at family since Deakin first opened studied at the Gordon Institute of BHP in Melbourne. When the its doors, being among the first Technology which later became job at Deakin came up I had been graduates and an employee for Deakin University.

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