Queensland UniversityQueensland of Technology University Newspaper of Technology • Issue Newspaper 219 • October • 30,Issue 2001-February ... • 11,Month, 2002 1999 Goodwill Bridge opening draws 15,000

by Toni Chambers Praise for the bridge did not stop once people reached the QUT side of the river. A sea of 15,000 smiling faces made “I think it’s nice and it’s their way from South Bank to QUT something that’ll get well used,” one across Brisbane’s latest landmark, The woman commented. Goodwill Bridge, on October 21 and “I’ve really enjoyed the day. I’m a overwhelmingly hailed it a success. visitor from Scotland and I’m happy to The bridge construction has taken be here today,” a male visitor said. more than three years and cost around Guests were welcomed by street $23million, but there were no criticisms performers, the Three Singing as Premier Peter Beattie had a last- Mexicans, and escorted to the Kidney minute change of plans, allowing Lawn by English “bobbies”. members of the public to be the first to Once there, children enjoyed free pool cross it. admission, Humphrey B. Bear live on “This is the first time in the opening stage and bridge painting organised by of a bridge that we’ve made sure that early childhood education students, the people went before the politicians, while the QUT Big Band was a welcome and when we came out and saw what accompaniment for those enjoying the a beautiful day it was, there was no array of international food on offer. way we were going to make you stand The Cultural Precinct felt the positive The crowds streamed over the new Goodwill Bridge on opening day and hundreds of children made there in the heat and listen to our effects of the bridge on attendances, with the trip to the Kidney Lawn at Gardens Point to witness a special appearance by Humphrey B. Bear. speeches,” he told the waiting crowd. more than 1,000 people visiting the “We let you go first and that’s the QUT Art Museum’s exhibitions and way it ought to be, so you’ve already rehearsals in The Gardens Theatre for seen the bridge, do you like it?” the latest Creative Industries production, After a resounding “yes”, a two-gun The Merchant of Venice. salute and balloon release marked the Old Government House also official opening of The Goodwill Bridge. welcomed 1,000 visitors and served It was the signal for the Australian 400 “Governor’s teas”. Marching Band to come to life and for Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis thousands – including rollerbladers, Gibson praised The Goodwill Bridge, cyclists, families and politicians – to make saying the facelift given to the entry point the crossing. at the university end as well as the Mr Beattie stopped half-way across addition of stairs, a lift and pedestrian the bridge on one of its viewing walkways through the campus, would platforms to tell journalists that the improve access to QUT facilities. positive response from the public had “The bridge will be of great benefit to proven the project was worthwhile. students and staff, corporate neighbours “People are overwhelming in their and visitors, providing easy access to approval for the bridge. They are transport, as well as restaurants and enthusiastic about it – that, in a sense, cultural venues,” Professor Gibson said. has confirmed our faith in the project to “We estimate there will be millions make sure Brisbane remains one of the of journeys over the bridge in the first most livable cities in the world,” he said. year, and one-third of that traffic will “To build a bridge like this is very, be associated with QUT.” very cheap. It’s worth every dollar.” Bridge passes load test ... p3 University medallist named as State’s latest Rhodes Scholar by Toni Chambers picked me,” he said. “My parents were suffering caused by blindness in the happier than I was. I owe almost everything world,” Mr Layton said. A QUT university medallist who to them, so this is partly their success.” “The QUT Optometry Clinic is the wants to help people suffering from Mr Layton graduated from QUT’s best of its kind in the world. blindness in Third World nations has Bachelor of Applied Science (Optometry) “I saw a lot of people with been named as Queensland’s latest in 1998 with first-class honours, having irreversible blindness and the effect Rhodes Scholar. achieved a grade point average of 6.9. that a small change can make on their It was the second time 24-year-old He is now at the end of his third year of life and to them being an active Christopher Layton had been a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery member of society.” interviewed for the right to study at at the University of Queensland and wants Continued p5 England’s Oxford University. to pursue a career in ophthalmology. “Because it was my second time, I was “My decision was driven by my RIGHT: The newest Rhodes really surprised. I was stoked that they desire to reduce the burden of Scholar Christopher Layton

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Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Page 1 Complacency makes Australia ‘likely Carseldine’s terrorist target’ Ð international expert new clinic by Toni Chambers “This country has fallen asleep at the and to the criminal justice area to target The Australia Card was a proposal for opens for wheel and a fatal crash is just around organised crime, Australia has been slow a national identification scheme It’s time the Federal Government the corner,” he predicted. to follow. developed by the Federal Government business reconsidered introducing the Australia “A terrorist attack similar to those “Western governments by and large have in 1985 as a way of combating tax evasion. The new Psychology Clinic at Card as a way of preventing terrorist attacks which occurred recently in the United been apathetic and essentially reactive, and “There has been a lot of discussion Carseldine will become a valuable in the wake of recent events in the United States is not a matter of if but when.” as a consequence have been lulled into a about the ‘big brother’ nature of the resource in addressing community States, according to a QUT lecturer. Mr Craig said intelligence and false sense of security,” he said. Australia Card, however, it is a lot easier concerns surrounding conditions such Mark Craig is a graduate of the FBI security communities around the world “Terrorism, like organised crime, is to establish people’s bona fides if there is as depression and anxiety, according to National Academy and began his career have been battling to justify their pandemic within global society and a national registry and may be necessary the School of Psychology and in aviation security in New York City existence and defend their budgets since Australia is no exception.” in the times in which we live,” he said. Counselling’s Associate Professor in the mid-1970s. He also co-ordinates the end of the Cold War. Mr Craig said the government “Although it may provide some level Robert Schweitzer. QUT’s Security Studies program and While the US and UK agencies have needed to go back to the basics of of comfort to know sky marshals may Dr Schweitzer said the Federal said implementing measures such as tried to reinvent themselves by intelligence and security by fast- be part of the new security equation, Government was in the process of increasing security at airports and on redirecting resources to the corporate tracking the defunct Australia Card as greater emphasis is now required on developing its national strategy on planes was “too little too late”. sector to counter industrial espionage part of security proposals. predictive intelligence.” depression which would emphasise closer links between psychologists and medical practitioners. He said that, in line with the proposed Drug driving challenges road authorities national strategy, QUT’s Psychology by Toni Chambers Clinic would aim to foster greater co- operation between medical treatment Motor vehicles are now an integral part of and psychological prevention of the drug culture of the 21st Century, with depression in the community. almost one third of users injecting drugs “The initiative recognises that in their cars, according to QUT research. psychological treatments play both a The research follows a recent review treatment and preventative role,” Dr of Australian published data showing Schweitzer said. that between 10 and 40 per cent of To become fully operational in the people killed in road crashes tested new year, the clinic will be open to positive for drugs (excluding alcohol as the public and provide affordable the only drug). and professional psychological Researcher at QUT’s Centre for treatment of conditions including Accident Research and Road Safety – anxiety, depression, stress, grief, Queensland (CARRS-Q) Jeremy Davey sexual difficulties, addictions and has conducted face-to-face interviews with eating problems. more than 200 drug users in Queensland Dr Schweitzer said the clinic would and northern New South Wales. be a centre for training and research Mr Davey said police and other traffic for postgraduate students who held authorities were finding it difficult to conditional registration as detect drug-affected drivers due to the psychologists and who could practice absence of effective roadside tests for under supervision. drug impairment similar to those used Clinic co-ordinator Hanne Paust to detect drink drivers. The consequences of drug driving are dire, says CARRS-Q researcher Jeremy Davey. (Photo illustration) said the new clinic at Carseldine would “The fear of being caught is one of complement external placements for the key reasons for the success of drink- of the most obvious and safest places to Mr Davey said the injection and use He said cannabis, especially that students and equip them with skills driving campaigns – drug drivers think use drugs. of amphetamines had also risen grown hydroponically, was also in using recognised psychological they can’t be caught,” he said. For example, the heroin market had significantly in Australia and in increasing in strength and affected treatment methods. “One reason drug drivers are become decentralised, forcing users to Queensland, while the purity of moods, perceptions, judgements and The clinic is currently in a concerned about drug driving is because drive to suburban and regional areas to amphetamines had also increased. reactions – all essential for driving – development phase and will have a they could be found using drugs, not buy their drugs. “Again, with amphetamine use, the and was also frequently combined with limited capacity until the beginning of out of a concern for personal safety or Mr Davey said that, after purchase, car plays a central role. People take other drugs. next year. the safety of others.” users injected the drugs in their car, drugs at home before they go out, drive Mr Davey said better methods QUT students will continue to be Mr Davey said major changes to the which they considered a “safe place”. to a venue, often ‘topping up’ in the of detection and apprehension provided with services though the drug market since 1995 and the “The problem is that heroin is a safety of their car and then driving to a were needed, along with education Student Counselling Service, access to introduction of needle exchanges had depressant, and has a major effect on body number of clubs during the night,” Mr programs about the dangers of which is free of charge. changed usage patterns, making cars one functioning and driving skills,” he said. Davey said. drug driving. – Toni Chambers

From the Inside by David Hawke From the Vice-Chancellor

Welcome mat out for all

Many years ago, Robert Frost wrote the entry point to the campus, one which famous lines "Something there is, that is as attractive as that on Main Drive. does not love a wall". In just one weekend, the Gardens He may have been right about walls, Point campus has been transformed but it appears that there is nothing, or from a cul de sac into an attractive no one, that does not love a bridge, if and convenient alternative route to the opening of The Goodwill Bridge the city. on Sunday, October 21, is anything to This new bridge has effectively go by. joined South Bank and QUT and It was a fabulous day, not just for people who would probably have never QUT but for the whole of Brisbane – set foot on a university campus are now the Gardens Point campus was at discovering us. capacity, as many thousands of people For example, I overheard one flooded in from both sides of the river father saying to his child, as he to be among the first to walk across stepped off the bridge: "and now, the bridge. you are in the university". The sense of excitement was terrific The next few months will be and it was obvious that all of the fascinating to watch as we welcome negativity surrounding the building more people to this campus than ever of the bridge was overtaken by a sense before and as we discover the of celebration. difference that our new visitors will The QUT approach to the bridge make to the culture of our university. looks spectacular and it provides a third – Professor Dennis Gibson

Page 2 Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Visit www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/insidequt for more details when you see this symbol IQ University wins larger International summer school to tackle slice of ARC funds Indigenous health crisis QUT has had 28 of its proposed research Engineering (two), Science (two), Health applied research in partnership with Research into Aboriginal and Islander with workable processes for projects worth a total of $4.58m funded (one) and Information Technology (one). industry – we have maintained a top-10 health issues is not providing workable implementation,” Mr Adams said. in the recent round of grants awarded Amounts awarded to these Discovery position across all universities and we solutions to those communities’ most He said too much emphasis was placed by the Australian Research Council. grant projects range between $92,000 topped the ATN group,” Professor serious health problems, a conference at on government intervention and funding, This represents an increase of 83 per and $352,000. Gardiner said. QUT will hear next month. with researchers and health workers needing cent over last year’s allocation to QUT “We’re pleased to see QUT improve Apart from QUT, the ATN group Queensland Aboriginal and Islander to look for alternatives involving other and is the best overall result by an its performance relative to other also includes RMIT University in Health Forum’s (QAIHF) Mick Adams funding agencies and service providers. Australian Technology Network (ATN) Australian universities, especially in the Melbourne, Curtin University in Perth, will tell a panel at QUT’s International Mr Adams will be part of a panel at university this year, according to area of Discovery grants – which are the University of South Australia and Health Summer School that illnesses such QUT’s Seventh International Health Research and Advancement Pro-Vice- traditionally secured by the older- the University of Technology, Sydney. as tuberculosis, cardiovascular disease and Summer School discussing “The Chancellor Professor David Gardiner. established sandstone universities,” Professor Gardiner said Linkage grants diabetes are still commonplace in challenges of Indigenous research: does “The funding was made from two Professor Gardiner said. had been secured for 20 projects across Indigenous communities because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander national research grant pools, the larger “This year’s Discovery results have seven faculties: Built Environment and workable health promotion strategies are research contribute to quality of life?” Discovery grants and more targeted, seen us improve six places in a very Engineering (seven), Science (four), not being adopted. The school – which runs from industry-based Linkage grants,” competitive field and will allow us to Business (two), Creative Industries (two), Mr Adams – the QAIHF chief executive November 19 to 23 – will also feature Professor Gardiner said. establish some important collaborations Health (two), Information Technology officer and Indigenous researcher – said sessions discussing public health “This year has seen a 60 per cent increase with researchers outside the university.” (two) and Education (one). A number of past and current research was doing a lot promotion, children and mental health, in our Discovery funding and a 20 per Professor Gardiner said cash contributions these were actually cross-faculty projects. to highlight the problems, but without environmental management systems cent increase in our Linkage grants.” by industry partners via Linkage grants – QUT’s Linkage grant projects were providing strategies that could be and qualitative research methods for Professor Gardiner said Discovery grants previously known as SPIRT grants – have awarded between $63,000 and $430,000. implemented to alleviate the situation. public health. had been secured for 10 research projects risen 46 per cent this year. Visit www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/ “You can make recommendations Visit www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/ to be based at QUT across five faculties: “And, with the Linkage grants – insidequt for a full list of ARC grant- forever and a day but thing aren’t going courses/ihss for more information about Education (four), Built Environment and where we have a strong reputation for winning projects. to change if you don’t provide strategies attending the summer school. Bridge passes load test with flying colours

In what was one of the biggest challenges for Brisbane’s independent testing service for construction new Goodwill Bridge, QUT structural engineers projects, which was often one of the final things recently helped conduct independent load tests last to be done before a structure was given the “all- month to make sure the bridge was safe to open. clear” to be opened. Staff from QUT’s structures laboratory He said the work used sophisticated surveying installed and monitored gauges to measure the technology to measure bridge movement in advertisemen t strain at key points along the bridge, as 92 water three-dimensions, the results of which were tanks – each capable of holding up to 6,000 provided instantaneously to on-site design litres – were slowly filled with water. engineers along with the strain measurements. QUT engineer Craig Smith said this Head of civil engineering Professor Rod simulation was heavier than the maximum load Troutbeck said the testing was a routine part of of pedestrians that could fit on the bridge. the construction process, but a particularly “You take a worst-case scenario and add a important one for a such an unusual project. sizeable safety margin, and the tests make sure “It’s unusual, particularly because it’s an that the bridge performs under these conditions,” asymmetric bridge which involves a number of Mr Smith said. different angles – and the bridge is supported at “The engineers give mathematical models that three points rather than the normal four points,” predict how the structure will react to this much Professor Troutbeck said. “In those aspects it load, and we measure strain at critical points and makes it a bit different to measure.” report on how the reality compared to the models.” Despite these challenges, the testing was a Mr Smith said QUT’s civil engineering success and the bridge passed with flying colours. QUT structural engineers use water structures laboratory routinely provided an – Margaret Lawson tanks to load test The Goodwill Bridge. National survey finds many students are struggling financially

by Margaret Lawson findings, saying they were consistent counselling service emergency with problems she saw students grants, development office A national student survey has found encountering every day. scholarships and faculty and most bachelor-degree students are “There are far too many divisional support programs. either struggling to survive on student students living on extremely low QUT Student Guild education income support or cannot devote incomes and we would certainly director Matt Harrison said the enough time to study because they are support the recommendation for guild could also provide advice and working part-time to survive. a review of income support,” Ms support for students whose The Australian Vice- Kelly said. financial situations were affecting advertisemen t Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC) She said QUT’s Equity Section their study. study of more than 30,000 students had received 230 applications this He praised the timing of the from around Australia found the year for equity bursaries, with report’s release and said he hoped increasing burden on students approximately 17 per cent of those it would put some pressure on the suggested that an “urgent applicants saying they lived on less major political parties to make reassessment” of student income than $100 a week. election promises that would support arrangements was needed. But, she said, the problem for many benefit students. A statement from AVCC president students was a lot more complex than “A lot of students we hear about Professor Ian Chubb said the report just a lack of money. have multiple jobs and might be highlighted the extent to which many “Many students are cash poor and working in two or three casual students were in paid work as a matter time poor, with about 30 per cent of situations just to pay for their way of necessity, and the negative impact our applicants saying they have through uni and buy their lunch that long hours of employment could additional care responsibilities for a and transport every day,” Mr have on their study. child, a parent with special needs or Harrison said. “The report shows that it has their own personal disability on top “I hope this report will put some become a necessity for many of our of their university workload,” Ms pressure on the political parties to students to work as they undertake Kelly said. think about reducing the youth their studies,” Professor Chubb said. “These students often don’t have allowance age to 18 and providing “It has reached the point where the time for paid employment and, more support for students at changes to student income-support without it, they are really struggling universities.” arrangements are needed as a matter just to survive.” • Full details of QUT’s Counselling of national priority.” Ms Kelly said QUT offered a Services – including locations and QUT Equity Section co-ordinator range of assistance including equity contact details – are available at Mary Kelly welcomed the AVCC’s bursaries, hardship assistance, www.counselling.qut.edu.au

Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Page 3 QUT honours former police commissioner by Toni Chambers

The man credited with modernising the Queensland police force and restoring community confidence in it in the wake of the Fitzgerald Inquiry has described receiving an honorary doctorate from QUT as capping a most fortunate life. Jim O’Sullivan retired from the Queensland Police Service last year after 41 years of service. Receiving his honorary doctorate for distinguished service to the community, he reminded other graduates of the need to ensure that their life’s experience was one of continued learning. “Learning from our experience, reflecting on our mistakes as well as our achievements, thinking about the way we conduct ourselves and the impact of our behaviour on others and, these days, learning to cope with the vast changes imposed upon us by the modern world are all important,” he said. Mr O’Sullivan said that, when he joined the Queensland Police Service in 1959, it was a proud organisation, poorly funded, yet staffed by decent people. After being awarded a Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1981 and becoming an Inspector of Police in Brisbane, he became the Director of Operations in charge of investigation at the Fitzgerald Inquiry. He said that while the inquiry caused ABOVE: Former Queensland Police Commissioner Jim O’Sullivan accepts his honorary doctorate. BELOW: Steve Wilson ... also honoured. a major trauma to the service, it was relatively short-term. Mr O’Sullivan said he had been proud His career highlights included being chairman of Wilson Investments “In addition to weeding out corrupt to have played a role in the service’s awarded the Australian Police Medal for Taurine Fund Ltd. individuals and practices, the reform new-found respect in the community. distinguished service, the National Mr Wilson is a former chairman of process had led to major gains in the “At last the service has won back the Medal of Australia, the Queensland the St John’s Cathedral Completion professionalisation of the police service,” respect and admiration of the Premier’s Medal for Excellence and the Fund as well as a former board member he said. community. Its pride has been restored Medal of the Companion of the Order of Telstra Corporation, the Education and training had been the core and I feel most fortunate to have played of Australia. Queensland Tourist and Travel of this increased professionalism, he added. a part in that reform process,” he said. QUT also recently awarded an Corporation and the City of Brisbane “Today more than 80 per cent of Mr O’Sullivan became Police honorary doctorate to South Bank Airport Corporation. recruits have tertiary qualifications and Commissioner in 1992 on the Corporation chairman Steve Mr Wilson received his award at a most others are studying towards those recommendation of Tony Fitzgerald and Wilson, who is also the managing ceremony at the Queensland Performing qualifications.” after serving every rank in the service. director of Wilson HTM Ltd and Arts Complex on October 16. Raft of new courses on offer for 2002 Work together QUT is set to introduce a range of new and revised The Built Environment and Engineering Faculty offered through the popular Bachelor of to achieve bachelor-degree and postgraduate courses in 2002. will introduce four new bachelor-degree offerings Information Technology course. Two QUT faculties are behind the new Bachelor and a new postgraduate course next year. Students will now be able to choose subjects innovation Ð of Business Information Management course that Three new cutting-edge Bachelor of Engineering that are of special interest to them because their will be offered at the new Caboolture Centre for courses – in environmental management, computer 12 core units have been reduced to eight, allowing Lucas Tertiary Studies from Semester One, 2002. systems and telecommunications – will be on offer, the remaining four units to be chosen from a list The course has been designed and will be along with a Bachelor of Property Economics. of information systems electives and new units Universities and research institutions need to work delivered by staff from the Business Faculty and The faculty’s School of Construction and that have been introduced to reflect recent IT more closely with industry to unlock the commercial the Information Technology Faculty. Property Management will offer a property developments. value of their world-class research, according to the QUT’s Business Faculty will also introduce economics course. The Law Faculty is introducing a Bachelor of State’s Minister for Innovation and Information three new postgraduate offerings in the areas of Also beginning in Semester One 2002 will be Justice in 2002, a course that specifically aims to Economy, Paul Lucas. innovation and in philanthropy and nonprofit the faculty’s new Graduate Certificate in Designed prepare students for careers in agencies concerned Speaking at the Technology Transfer and studies, with a graduate certificate, a graduate Environments for Ageing. with social and justice policy; advocacy agencies; Innovation Conference organised by QUT in diploma and a Master of Business available in The Education Faculty is introducing a two- youth advocacy services; the Criminal Justice September, Mr Lucas said a recent report on both disciplines from 2002. year part-time Master of Childhood (Childhood Commission; Queensland Police Service; commercialisation in the public sector suggested Services) for professionals working in Australian Federal Police; intelligence and security Australia needed to generate 10 times the present schools, hospitals, government and legal bodies; Private Security Agencies; National Crime number of licences and spin-off companies from agencies, museums, research centres and Authority; Australian Customs Service; the research of universities and government QUT CEED Program church youth programs. corrections; and the Human Rights and Anti- agencies. Students completing this new course will discrimination Commission. “Australia currently averages one or two Industry Projects be able to select units from across the The Science Faculty has introduced a three- companies per $100 million of research Education Faculty as well as from QUT’s year Bachelor of Applied Science Innovation expenditure, compared with Stanford University Engineering, Maths, IT Students School of Public Health and the School of degree program which aims to equip its graduates which generates 20 start-ups for the same investment,” Mr Lucas said. The QUT CEED Program sources industry Humanities and Human Services. with knowledge and skills in some emerging The Health Faculty will offer a new scientific disciplines while allowing them to build He said it was essential young science and projects for final year and postgraduate postgraduate nursing course next year, with skills in innovation, commercialisation and engineering graduates were equipped with the students’ theses. Benefits to students include: the introduction of the Graduate information technology. necessary business skills and confidence to Certificate in Emergency Nursing. Students can major in bioinformatics, chemical successfully commercialise their research. ● Free service Registered nurses who successfully technology or scientific computation and “I’m pleased to say we’re already seeing new ● Great industry experience & references complete the Queensland Health visualisation. directions in research training in Queensland,” for your CV Transition to Emergency Nursing Program The Science Faculty will also offer two new he said. ● Tax-exempt scholarship will be able to articulate into the Graduate fee-paying postgraduate coursework programs in “The State Government recently contributed ● So easy! CEED finds the project for you Certificate with advanced standing. cardiac ultrasound in 2002. $200,000 to jointly fund a Bachelor of ● You gain credit points The faculty’s School of Human The Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound Biotechnology Innovation at QUT.” ● Security - you are covered by a QUT contract Movement Studies will also offer a new and the Master of Cardiac Ultrasound will extend Held at the Sheraton Hotel in Brisbane, TTI2001 Graduate Certificate in Rugby Studies. the range of offerings for professional groups by was attended by more than 200 Australian and This course will allow rugby professionals adding to existing postgraduate courses in medical international researchers and developers. Register / get more info: and practitioners to focus on developing ultrasound, medical imaging and breast imaging. The event was an international collaboration Email: [email protected] advanced knowledge and skills related to The Science Faculty has also replaced its two- between Queensland universities, the the sport of rugby. year Dean’s Scholars Accelerated Program with a Queensland Government, the British Council Web: www.corptech.com.au (CEED Bulletin Board) QUT’s Information Technology Faculty three-year Dean’s Scholars Accelerated Honours and AusIndustry. Phone: (07) 3273 2804 (Graham Willett) has revised its information systems major Program. – Colleen Clur

Page 4 Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Visit www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/insidequt for more details when you see this symbol IQ Surveyors map dinosaur Elliot’s resting place by Toni Chambers All the bones so far have come from the surface, but it’s believed many more QUT surveyors will help answer some bones, including the skull, await important questions about the largest discovery below the surface. dinosaur ever found in Australia. There are plans for a major dig in the Palaeontologists from the Queensland middle of next year to be undertaken by Museum recently made the discovery a large number of volunteers. on a sheep station near Winton in the School of Design and Built State’s west. Environment lecturer Dr John Hayes Named Elliot – after the owners of said QUT had surveyed the site to the property where the fossil was found prepare it for the excavation. – the animal is 95million years old and He said the dig next year – and follow- its bones were found spread across 4,000 up analysis of the placement of fossils square metres. uncovered – would be highly beneficial The nature of the bones show that for students. Elliot was a sauropod – a gigantic, “This is a chance to demonstrate to four-legged, plant-eating dinosaur, our students a practical, yet unusual characterised by an extremely long application of the high-grade technology neck and tail and disproportionately available to them,” Dr Hayes said. small head. “For example, our Global Positioning State Arts Minister Matt Foley said System (GPS) equipment has located that, so far, scientists had uncovered part where the site is in the middle of a large, of the dinosaur’s thigh bone, ribs and featureless paddock that is 12km long portions of his backbone. and 8km wide. “Elliot would have stretched the “As the site is excavated, we plan to length of five cars and been able to peer assist the palaeontologists to locate the into the window of a second-floor fossils using an Electronic Distance apartment,” Mr Foley said. Measurement (EDM) total station, chart Dr John Hayes near Winton in western Queensland surveys the site of Australia’s largest dinosaur. “Based on the size of his thighbone, and display their spatial relationships “We then hope to model and add Dr Hayes said the western “Unfortunately, there is the it is estimated Elliot would have been within a computerised Geographic interaction to analyse and understand Queensland project was also a chance perception that surveyors only take almost four metres high at the hips and Information System (GIS) and then the surface and subsurface forces that to show surveying students the scope pictures of red and white sticks at the up to 21 metres long, weighing as much create a 3D model in our Synthetic created the distribution of bones of this of work that their profession was side of roads,” he said. “This project as five African elephants.” Environments Lab. animal over the eons.” involved in. allows them to be part of history.” ... University Running with a purpose ... surf lifesaving medallist our latest Rhodes rescue appeal benefits from Fun Run proceeds Scholar

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The Rhodes Scholarship will allow Mr Layton to work at the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at Oxford which is involved in the development of the retinal prosthesis or the “artificial eye”. “The project represents the most complicated and dramatic marriage of medicine, physiology and engineering ever attempted,” he said. “It also represents the ‘holy grail of ophthalmology’ – the cure of irreversible blindness caused by such diseases as glaucoma.” Mr Layton said there were 300 million blind people worldwide, with three-quarters of those forced to suffer a loss of vision due to their inability to afford spectacles. In response, Mr Layton has become involved with Vision Care Nepal and will travel to Nepal at Easter to distribute 4,000 pairs of glasses to people in need. The second-hand spectacles were donated by optometrists in Brisbane and Sydney. Mr Layton said it was hoped that advertisement there would be enough ongoing support for the scheme to treat 20,000 Nepalese a year. The value to the Nepalese Government of such a scheme is estimated to be $400,000. After completing a PhD at Oxford University, Mr Layton hopes to return to Australia to establish an ophthalmological centre studying irreversible blindness. “In Queensland, we have a sunny environment, an ageing population, and a large Indigenous population who are at a very high risk of developing TOP: Competitors line up for the busy irreversible blindness,” Mr Layton said. start to this year’s QUT Student Guild “This research is therefore uniquely Fun Run held on Sunday, September 23. important in Australia, and will have a ABOVE: Winner of the men's 10km dramatic effect on the health of nation, section of the QUT Fun Run, Alastair and be of great value to our community.” Stevenson. LEFT: Winners of the 5km men's and Mr Layton has also represented women's categories, Stephen Davies Australia in volleyball and enjoys (Built Environment and Engineering) playing basketball. and Julie Bridgewater (Education).

Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Page 5 Productive professor sets a cracking pace by Margaret Lawson This is one of Professor McWilliam’s “I believe that, in general, radical favourite pearls of wisdom – and only doubt is still the basis of good science,” Keeping up with Professor Erica one of dozens she has accumulated over she says. McWilliam when she’s on the go is a her career in education and academia. “And I don’t specifically laugh at marathon feat. A former teacher, Professor academia – rather I think I laugh with Whether she’s teaching, conferencing, McWilliam came to QUT as a teacher academia – and I do believe in researching, writing, supervising – or educator and “fairly reluctant scholar” universities and the power of thinking.” doing any one of the numerous other on a short-term contract. She also has a warning – or maybe things she cheerfully seems to do – QUT’s Fourteen years later, she is assistant another pearl of wisdom – for other most recently promoted female professor to the Dean of Education (postgraduate) women in academia who are aiming high. also seems to be one of its busiest. and has risen through the ranks to be “Women must keep being players, not Check that. One of its most QUT’s 18th female full professor (the pawns, when it comes to promotions,” productive. university has 78 male professors). she advises. “I think there’s a big difference between “I’ve always seen myself as a teacher “To be a player in promotions you being busy and being productive,” rather than a researcher, and definitely must think strategically and be Professor McWilliam explains. as a writer rather than a researcher,” she ambitious for your work.” And she likes to be productive. says when asked to describe her work. Her own goal, she admits, was to be She gives as an example the time she “I believe in making lateral moves into an associate professor, but once there skipped a conference session that would other disciplines to inform education, she saw the opportunity to go further. have kept her busy all afternoon, because I like to find new ways to look Now asked where that leaves her to instead using the opportunity to corner at things.” go, Professor McWilliam says she feels the editor of a prominent journal series Her lateral moves involve research her short-term future is in research and over a coffee. crossing from teaching and education research training. Professor McWilliam says it proved into risk management, the arts and “As long as I am doing the things I to be a much more productive use of cultural studies. want to do, I feel I have a lot to give,” time in the long-run, with her coming As well as a long list of academic she promises. away with the editing job she wanted. publications in these fields, Professor And in the long term? “If I can fill my time with things that McWilliam has also been on the local Maybe her passion for writing will are adding value, or being strategic, then best-seller list since August with a spoof win her over eventually, she feels, but I’m being productive rather than just book of her own pearls of wisdom called not for a while yet. busy, which is an important distinction,” How to Survive Best Practice. “I’m feeling like I’ve been climbing a she says. She stresses that the skeptical take on very big hill,” she says. organisational customs and buzzwords “And I’d like to just sit down for a LEFT: Newly promoted short while now and admire the view. Professor Erica McWilliam ... is not specifically inspired by QUT, but ‘big difference between being rather is the result of her passion for “But it will be a very short while, busy and being productive’. writing and irony. no doubt.” Bigger, safer trucks set to travel our outback roads

Bigger, safer and better-performing, freight- Main Roads and Queensland Transport – to efficient trucks may soon be accessing parts of the determine how they impact other road users Queensland road network. compared with traditional road trains, including Through their greater payloads these innovative measuring acceleration, lane width needs, and time road trains will reduce the overall number of to clear intersections. freight vehicles on the road, thereby improving Supervisor Dr Jon Bunker said the testing safety and efficiency. was driven by the trucking industry which was Officials are working to identify the appropriate keen to access greater parts of the State that roads to allow these innovative vehicles, which have were currently limited to conventional freight some special requirements, to use. vehicles like semi-trailers and, in some areas, Regional communities in Queensland can road trains. expect to see more road trains travelling through “There is a certain level of safety the community their areas as a result of truck innovations and expects,” Dr Bunker said. road improvements. “This research means that while these new larger Department of Mains Roads senior engineer vehicles may be able to access more parts of the Mandy Haldane is researching the impact of state, it will be strictly controlled with guidelines larger and heavier trucks on other road users as to ensure the roads and other road users can cope part of a memorandum of understanding between with them. QUT, the Department of Main Roads and “It will also feed into road designs and Queensland Transport. improvements.” “The Australian transport industry is moving Ms Haldane said there was now more driver towards improved freight efficiency and education for tourists to ensure they could cope competitiveness with the use of larger and more with changed road conditions and larger trucks innovative vehicle combinations,” she said. when travelling in outback areas. “This move has brought about some concern over the interaction of these new vehicles with RIGHT: Senior Main Roads engineer and existing infrastructure and other road users.” QUT researcher Mandy Haldane ... Ms Haldane has tested eight different sorts of ‘industry is moving towards improved vehicles – with assistance from the Department of freight efficiency and competitiveness’.

Page 6 Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Visit www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/insidequt for more details when you see this symbol IQ Vice-Chancellor’s Partnership boosts opportunities portrait unveiled for Yeronga High School students by Toni Chambers “It is estimated that the Cisco “There are kids who would not certification is worth an additional normally associate outside the Cisco class These students are from Afghanistan, $10,000 a year in salary to our that are mixing well together and helping El Salvador, Eritrea, Somalia and (graduating) students and, with a each other. The practical nature of the Yugoslavia and before this year they had worldwide shortage of 100,000 course means they have to work as a very little in common except that many networking people, it gives them a team,” he said. had fled to Australia to escape civil wars competitive edge,” he said. “I’ve also got some kids who are in their own countries. “But, more importantly, it is giving performing better in Cisco than in any Many of these 24 Yeronga High these high school students something other subject they’re doing in school. School students have lost years of to aim for. One of them said to me that Their achievements in this course will schooling and speak English only as a it was a doorway to the future. have a direct bearing on their future second language – which has made “Cisco Networking Academy is a job prospects or tertiary study.” making friends and passing subjects in program which, if students don’t make One of the students, Sahala English difficult. the entry quota for university, they still Mohamud from Somalia, has been in However, the long-term future for have a world-recognised industry-based Australia for just over two years and is these teenagers improved dramatically six certification which can put them into a now looking towards a career in months ago when QUT staff came into job and give them a step up – they can information technology – something the school, Cisco Systems Networking return to university later.” she admits would never happen in her Academy Program books in hand. Acting Education Minister Steve own country. QUT’s School of Data Bredhauer congratulated QUT and “I really like computers and, after Communications has become a regional Yeronga State High School for co- doing the course, I’d like to study IT at academy for Cisco’s Networking operating on the initiative which was university – this program is a good Academy program. helping students improve their chances stepping stone.” Under the scheme, Cisco provides of moving on to university or into Cisco’s business development equipment to QUT to teach their employment after high school. manager for e-learning and students how to design, maintain and “This course is providing students with education Peter Scope said the support internet networks, qualifying skills they need to enter the expanding company was able to recycle near- them to be Cisco Certified world of information technology, and this new Cisco network equipment, Networking Associates. is where our efforts at building a Smart donated by St George Bank for In exchange, QUT staff must take State must begin,” he said. Yeronga State High. the certification course into high schools Computer co-ordinator at Yeronga State “We hear so much about used with equipment, provided by Cisco. High Steve Kinsey said that, apart from equipment in the IT industry simply Data communications lecturer Les providing career opportunities, the program being thrown away – this changes the Smith said there were dual benefits. had instilled a team-building ethic. model,” he said. BELOW: Yeronga State High School student Saharla Mohamud explores the possibilities of a career in information technology as part of the Cisco-sponsored training network which operates in several schools with the aid of QUT Information Technology Faculty staff.

ABOVE: QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson with his recently unveiled portrait by award-winning Australian artist Robert Hannaford. A portrait of QUT Vice-Chancellor Bradman, Dame Joan Sutherland, the Professor Dennis Gibson by Australia’s late Dame Roma Mitchell, former Prime foremost portrait painter, Robert Ministers Paul Keating and Bob Hawke, Hannaford, has recently been unveiled writer Robert Dessaix and former at the QUT Art Museum. Governor-General Sir William Deane. Based in Adelaide, Robert Hannaford In 1995, the artist painted a portrait was chosen from a group of seven well- of QUT Chancellor Dr Cherrell Hirst. known portrait painters to undertake the “QUT, even going back to its commission. predecessor institutions, has a history of Seven sittings, each lasting three hours, recording its key people through were required to complete the seated three- portraiture,” Mr Rainbird said. quarter portrait of Professor Gibson. “It is also a valuable way of adding QUT Art Museum senior curator quality pieces to QUT’s collection.” Stephen Rainbird said the portrait Hannaford is the only artist successful successfully captured a very good likeness as a finalist in every Doug Moran of Professor Gibson, but also captured National Portrait Prize since its his character. inception in 1988, winning the prize in “He has caught Professor Gibson with 1990. a characteristic expression – it has a His portraits have also been included contemplative, pensive quality,” he said. regularly in Australia’s most famous “So not only is it technically very good, national portrait prize, the Archibald, but it portrays his individual character for the past 12 years. very well.” In 1991, he won the “Viewer’s Hannaford’s subjects have included Choice” section of the prize. notable figures such as Sir Donald – Toni Chambers Aussie actor explains realities of industry One of Australia’s busiest actors, Jeremy Sims – who is currently starring as Labor backbencher Tony Dunne in the biting electoral parody Corridors of Power on ABC TV – took time out of his hectic schedule recently to spend time with graduating students of QUT’s drama program. Mr Sims, pictured at left, held the final-year Creative Industries students enthralled for 90 minutes when he made a flying visit on October 10. His visit was timely, with the students preparing for their final talent showcase to be held in Sydney on Wednesday, October 31. Mr Sims spoke about the state of the industry across Australia and of his experiences as a stage, film and television actor, having had the lead role in the 2000 Sydney Theatre Company production Cyrano De Bergerac as well as a recent guest role in the Australian episode of The Bill (also ABC TV). He said that with the recent disappearance of several major agents from the market, there were plenty of leading Australian actors “walking the streets with their CVs”.

Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Page 7 Engineering academic honoured as News in Brief Carseldine ‘oustanding educator’ by peers organises ‘buddy’

A QUT professor who has devoted more Professor Moody was described by (AAEE) annual conference, which was system than 30 years to the advancement of IEAust as someone who had “motivated held at QUT from September 26 to 28. Volunteers have been called from engineering education was recognised students to be high achievers with a The head of QUT’s School of second- and third-year humanities and this month with an Australasian award global outlook”. Electrical and Electronic Systems human services students to act as for his achievements. “I have always been curious about the Engineering Professor Anthony Maeder mentors for new students enrolling in Professor Miles Moody was awarded way the world works, what makes it tick said the conference attracted more than courses at QUT Carseldine that begin the Institution of Engineers Australia’s and how we can use engineering to 100 delegates to Brisbane, including in 2002. premier award for engineering education improve the quality and enjoyment of many high-profile engineering educators. Mentors will be briefed prior to 2002 and $2,500 for his sustained and life,” Professor Moody said. He said it was an honour for a QUT O Week before connecting up with a outstanding contribution to his field. “Teaching engineering has been an engineering academic to be recognised small number of students over the first Professor Moody played an integral role effective way of imparting this curiosity in that forum. three to four weeks of their first semester. in establishing the curriculum for QUT’s to many others, producing a multiplier “It is a very well-deserved award The scheme – which has been successful teaching programs in electrical effect much greater than any other recognising his long-standing endorsed by the School of and computer engineering and in aerospace activity could.” involvement with engineering education Humanities and Human Services’ avionics, gaining accreditation for the Professor Moody said he felt the through accreditation and curriculum education committee – is being courses and building industry links. award was particularly special because it development,” Professor Maeder said. overseen by an academic co- He has also remained at the forefront of was judged by a panel of his peers. “It is also further evidence of the high ordinator, Dr Peter Hastings, as well Professor Miles Moody received professional practice, working on FedSat The award presentation was the ranking QUT places on the teaching as a student co-ordinator. the Institution of Engineers – Australia’s first satellite for 30 years – culmination of the Australasian ability of its staff.” For further details or to register Australia’s top teaching award. through the CRC for Satellite Systems. Association for Engineering Education’s – Margaret Lawson interest, contact Dr Hastings at [email protected] or 3864 4513. Public programs explore Blake Prize exhibition Schools renamed The Science Faculty has a new name for its former School of Physical Sciences. Following approval by QUT Council, the school will now be known as the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. Meanwhile, following the establishment of the Creative Industries Faculty and a reshuffle of teaching responsibilities within the Business Faculty, the six Business schools from January 1, 2002, will be: Accountancy; Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations; Brisbane Graduate School of Business; Economics and Finance; International Business; and Management. Guild fees rise Annual QUT Student Guild fees for full-time, part-time and external students are set to rise in 2002. Council recently approved the fee rises which will see full-timers pay $240 (up from $200), part-timers $120 (up from $90) and external students $48 (up from $30). Theses go online As part of a national initiative known as the Australian Digital Theses (ADT) Program, QUT has begun to provide online access to digital versions of postgraduate research theses. The initiative is designed to improve access to – and enhance the Second-year Creative Industries dance student Elise May performs her own contemporary dance composition in the QUT Art Museum. transfer of – research information contained in theses by providing full- The QUT Art Museum is holding a A free public program will run from followed by a performance by chamber On Thursday, November 29 at text versions online. week of public events in conjunction Friday, November 23 to November 30, choral ensemble “i9”. 12.15pm, Brisbane writers Carmen Strongly endorsed by QUT’s with the exhibition O Soul O Spirit O beginning with a floor talk at 12.15pm On Tuesday, November 27 at Keates, Bronwyn Lea and Linda Neil University Research Committee, the Fire: celebrating fifty years of the Blake by the exhibition’s curator Rosemary 12.15pm, QUT Creative Industries’ will showcase their literary works that project aims to make depositing a digital Prize for Religious Art. Crumlin, covering issues and concepts dance student Elise May will reflect on were inspired by the exhibition. copy of a student’s thesis as easy as This exhibition is a major survey involved in the survey exhibition. the spiritual ideas embodied in the works The program will end on November possible for graduates. of the Blake Prize, a national In Conversation and In Harmony on on display by performing her own 30 with leading Australian artist Lodgement of digital versions of competition without denominational Saturday, November 24 at 2pm will contemporary dance composition. Lawrence Daws speaking about his work theses, while not obligatory, will be restrictions that was first awarded feature three Australian art identities – Other events include a discussion by in the exhibition, again starting at strongly encouraged and library staff will back in 1951. artist Davida Allen, Blake Prize judge Aboriginal elder Penny Tripcony, about 12.15pm. be able to assist students in the process. O Soul O Spirit O Fire is on display Nick Waterlow and curator Rosemary Indigenous Australian ideas of O Soul O Spirit O Fire will include For more details about the project, at the QUT Art Museum from Crumlin – who will discuss their spirituality on Wednesday, November 40 works in all media. visit www.library.qut.edu.au/elibrary/ November 23 to February 24. involvement with the exhibition, 28, at 12.15pm. – Toni Chambers adt/index.html Overseas Moving Research investigates breast cancer services A QUT researcher is looking for volunteers for a showing that one in 11 Australian women much older, they don’t know where to go,” she Discount Price for Students study into the adequacy of services and develop breast cancer during their lifetime. said. information resources for young women with Australia recorded more than 10,000 new cases This study aims to find out about the major Door to Door—Depot to Depot breast cancer. of breast cancer in 1997 – 704 were in women concerns and issues faced by young women with from small bags to full containers QUT School of Public Health PhD student aged 39 years and under. breast cancer, including social issues, financial Shirley Connell said the study would attempt “Yet, because more women aged 55 and above concerns, family and relationship issues, JUN International Freight to understand the special needs of women are diagnosed with breast cancer, most of the treatment choices, physical concerns as well as diagnosed with cancer aged 40 and under as a research is conducted on their experiences and their emotional experiences. Tel: (07) 3277 5355 means of helping them better cope with breast services are developed for them,” she said. “Anecdotal evidence suggested that cancer Fax: (07) 3277 5399 cancer. “The emotional impact of having breast cancer support volunteers were often much older and Breast cancer is the most common cause of at a young age is extraordinary and when women young women found it difficult to identify with www.junfreight.com cancer death in Australian women, with go looking for resources and find they’re either them,” Ms Connell said. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare figures not there or they are targeted at women who are – Toni Chambers

Page 8 Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Visit www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/insidequt for more details when you see this symbol IQ Alarm sounds for ecstasy users News in Brief Scientists researching the effects of the club drug ecstasy on brain cells are sounding a Library wins web contract warning for regular ecstasy users – not only Having recently redesigned the web pages of the International might they end up in substance abuse Association of Technological University Libraries, the QUT treatment, but there may be dire, long-term Library has now been appointed IATUL webmaster for the brain damage in store. coming three years. Visiting international drugs researcher Dr With members in more than 40 countries, the IATUL Jane Maxwell – who has been working with website is the hub of the association’s “virtual community”. QUT – said trials on mice and primates clearly It contains information for members, online application showed that ingestion of MDMA, known on forms, current awareness services as well as links to the streets as ecstasy, damaged the central organisations and sites relevant to members. nervous system. QUT’s community services librarian Barb Ewers will be “However, proving that this is the situation executive officer and webmaster for the project and will be with humans is a little more complex,” Dr assisted by the Library Systems Section. Maxwell said. “So far, results from humans who have presented to doctors after using ecstasy have Interstate borrowing simplified almost always been users of other drugs, so Borrowing from interstate libraries has been simplified isolating the impact of ecstasy or its role in under a new national borrowing scheme called University combination with other drugs hasn’t been easy Library Australia. in these cases. QUT is already part of a regional borrowing scheme that “And, because it would not be ethical to allows lending between universities in Queensland and give ecstasy to patients or human subjects in a northern New South Wales, but a new co-operative trial, research into this area may take some arrangement between member universities of the Australian years yet to become clear. Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, now allows staff and students “However, many medical researchers who to borrow in person at any other interstate university library attended a recent conference in the United in Australia. States remained concerned for the long-term Visit wwwlib.qut.edu.au/info/about/borrowing/qut/ welfare of ecstasy users. other.html for more details. “A recent Australian study by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre – Childcare centres in spotlight Monitoring Trends in Party Drug Markets – The QUT Student Guild-operated childcare centre at reported that significant proportions of Carseldine has been nominated for a Business Achievers ecstasy users interviewed had experienced award. Winners of these awards – presented by Quest problems in the previous six months which Newspapers – will be announced in November. they thought were due at least in part, to Meanwhile, the guild’s main childcare centre at Gardens their use of ecstasy.” Point recently celebrated the reopening of its garden play Dr Maxwell who has analysed drug use area following its earlier closure to accommodate safety trends in Australia since 1994, is visiting concerns during the construction of the nearby walkway Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney to consult with that connects The Goodwill Bridge to the campus. Australian drug-use researchers and other Visiting international drugs researcher Dr Jane Maxwell warns that MDMA Ð agencies during her four-week visit. known as ecstasy Ð could cause damage to the central nervous system. Scandinavian students happy to hit the web to stay in touch A rapidly growing group of students from Sweden, Norway Parents hold key to slowing drug use and Denmark has clubbed together under the banner of the With the rising use of party drugs such as faster than ever, largely because information about emergency rooms last year recorded 4,511 Scandinavian Network Association and launched themselves ecstasy, fantasy (GHB) and speed drugs was being shared across the internet. cases of patients who reported ecstasy use, onto the internet. (amphetamines) across Australia, more than “Some of these party drugs can be bought up from 1,143 cases in 1998, or a rise of Their new website – at www.sna.nu – has links to the ever parents need to talk to their children on the web and there are pro-drug chat rooms almost 300 per cent. association’s news and events, address books for current and about drug use and be aware of drug- where heavy drug users share their experiences Australian drug statistics also reflected past students, a resume database as well as important related websites, according to QUT visiting and recipes for using drugs. such sharp upswings, Dr Maxwell said, and Australian and Scandinavian sites. research fellow Dr Jane Maxwell. “It’s like looking at a site for cancer or heart parents were likely to be the most influential The site services more than 500 Scandinavian students Currently in Australia, Dr Maxwell has analysed problems. You never really know whether to factor in whether their children took drugs. now studying at QUT. drug usage trends in Australia since 1994 in trust the information, but because it’s on the “What we found in a recent US conjunction with QUT and has been researching internet, people think it’s valid information.” national study was that fewer than one in Uni gets SMARTA with its data drug use in the United States for 30 years. Dr Maxwell, who is based at the Texas every 15 children aged between 12 and Management of student load is about to be streamlined at She said there was clear evidence in both Commission for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 17 who thought their parents disapproved QUT thanks to the work of a specialist team of staff from countries that party drug use was becoming said that, in Australia, seizures of ecstasy of drugs went on to try illicit drugs,” Dr the Division of Finance and Resource Planning, under the more common among young people. tablets by customs staff had increased more Maxwell explained. sponsorship of the executive director Joy Williams. In Queensland, 31 per cent of males than 340 per cent between 1997-1998 and “But as many as one in three who said The SMARTA team has a brief to ensure ongoing detained by police who were aged 18 to 20 1999-2000. their parents had not strongly disapproved improvement in the quality, consistency and availability of years reported having used speed in the past By comparison, she said, US customs of drugs subsequently tried illegal drugs. This official data used to inform management decisions. month, and 11 per cent reported use of officers had seized 9.3million ecstasy tablets sort of feedback underscores why it is critical Its prototype project, a student load management system, ecstasy in the past month. last year, up from 750,000 tablets just two for parents to start talking to their children is being rolled out, with a reporting tool module already Dr Maxwell said new drugs and new patterns years earlier – a staggering 1,140 per cent when they are young and make it veryclear available and a semester-based load projection model due by of drug use were now spreading around the globe rise. She said a sample of US hospital drugs are not acceptable.” year’s end. QUT, TAFE and high Students show their acumen schools forge new partnership A drive to create smoother transitions for students advertisemen t between high schools, North Point Institute of TAFE and QUT’s Carseldine campus has been initiated with the appointment of two special transition officers. Linda Clay and Judi Buckley have been appointed to the positions which will be jointly funded by QUT, TAFE and Education Queensland. QUT Carseldine Director Professor Ruth Matchett said the pair would develop seamless transitions between the three sectors. “The role of the transition officers is to work closely with secondary schools and their students in Brisbane’s north in order to assist students to choose the educational pathway which best meets their life goals,” Professor Matchett said. “Choosing the next step after high school is a big Two first-year QUT business students, Charlotte Sunde and Mark Vickers, call. The transition officers, with detailed defeated tough inter-university opposition to take home this year’s Acumen knowledge of all the courses of North Point and case study competition. The pair was presented with a cheque for $3,000 by QUT, will help to make this big decision easier.” State Development’s Catherine McCourt after the finals on October 23.

Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002, Page 9 QUT tipped to become aerospace centre of excellence by Toni Chambers He said he moved to QUT because of Global Satellite Navigation System his family wanted to live in Australia and (GNSS) receivers. QUT’s new chair in Avionics is predicting he was keen to return to two activities “For example, I’d like to do research the university can become a national that he loved – research and teaching. in the area of GNSS integrity for leading centre in aerospace technologies. Professionally, Dr Enderle has set high example, for application for aircraft Dr Werner Enderle has come to QUT goals, aiming to develop national and landing systems,” he said. from Brussels where he was working for international co-operations with partners Boeing Australia has contributed the European Commission (EC) on the in Australia, Europe and the United States, funds to the position as a way of growing European Satellite Navigation System, to make QUT a national centre of the aerospace industry in Queensland. Galileo, a civilian-run version of the excellence in aerospace technologies. The company’s technical director, Terry United States’ military controlled Global “There is a really solid base here and we Stevenson, said Boeing was the only big Positioning System (GPS). really can perform, starting from that point. aerospace company in Queensland and, Dr Enderle was attached to the There is an opportunity to be very without research and development activities, German Space Operation Centre when successful, that’s why I came over,” he said. graduates would continue moving overseas. he was delegated from the German “As long as the support is there from “We take some graduates but most go Aerospace Centre to work for the EC as QUT and we are able to have close co- overseas and, without a larger aerospace an expert in satellite navigation. operations with the national aerospace industry, we’re educating people for the industry as well as with our other partners, rest of the world instead of Queensland,” LEFT: With a specialty navigation systems for satellite I’m confident we can achieve that goal.” he said. “We hope Dr Enderle will bring applications, Dr Werner Enderle Dr Enderle’s main research interests expertise to the industry, help grow is looking forward to helping are in GPS applications for satellites, knowledge through R and D, provide Queensland’s pioneering satellite systems and aircraft, but also training to our staff and make more avionics industry. the modification and new development positions available in the industry.” Awards & Achievements

Duo makes national life among people with chronic QUT in February with two degrees, Grounds Committee by the university’s Outstanding Contribution Hepatitis C infections. winning the University Medal for law teaching finals Illuminating Engineering Society of Award for General Staff that needs to be This research will build upon earlier as well as the prize for best performance Australia and New Zealand. submitted by December 3, 2001. QUT lecturers Associate Professor Peter qualitative research work that was in the Business (economics) degree. The awards for individuals and Swann (Health) and Sally Kift (Law) have funded by the NH&MRC during 1999 She then began her legal career at Design student groups – including a cash prize to be made it to the finals of the Australian and 2000. Mallesons Stephen Jaques. spent on professional development – Awards for University Teaching. Their new project will include a Ms Cremer is the Law Faculty’s travels to Seoul will be presented at a special The university itself is also a finalist quantitative study of around 200 people third such winner in recent times and Postgraduate industrial design student Ken ceremony at The Gardens Theatre in the institutional award category for living with this chronic infection. is to begin her Cambridge studies Chi attended the LG International Design on April 15, 2002. its new V-lab that opened earlier this The work is to be done in this month. Competition awards ceremony in Seoul year for students in the library at collaboration with the liver unit at the recently to collect a bronze medal prize Sitcom idea a winner Gardens Point. Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Engineers take home worth $US2,000. A QUT communication academic With more than 90 nominations Hepatitis C Council of Queensland. The prize for Mr Chi’s design – a with a quiet passion for received for this year’s awards, all excellence prize portable music instrument and scriptwriting won an award for an eyes will be on Parliament House in The Physical Infrastructure Centre in Dissertation scores network communicator – was one of original treatment for a sitcom at Canberra on December 4 when QUT’s School of Civil Engineering seven major awards presented in a the Brisbane Writers’ Festival on winners will be announced at a national acclaim has been awarded an engineering field of nearly 2,000 entrants from October 19. special ceremony. QUT Doctor of Education student Paul excellence award by the state chapter around the world. Draper – a senior lecturer at Griffith of the Institute of Engineers Australia Lecturer Wayne Murphy wrote a “Bridging the digital with the concept for the winning sitcom Life CARRS-Q wins University – has won the Open and (IEAust – Qld). human” was the theme of the annual Distance Learning Association of Associate Professor Mahen Mahendran at Flanagan’s in partnership with Dr State award competition and four undergraduate Neil Rattaigan from the University Australia’s Award for Excellence in said the research and development award QUT design students who entered the QUT’s Centre for Accident Research Research for his doctoral dissertation. was for a study into improving the safety of New England. competition received honorable Mr Murphy said the treatment for and Road Safety, Queensland (CARRS- The award category specifically and efficiency of light-gauge steel mentions for their entries – Arife Sare Q) has won the Australian Driver covered research in the area of open, building products and systems for use in the show revolved around the workings Uyarel, Raymond R. Par, Ian Everest of a suburban funeral directorship that Trainers Association’s Queensland Road flexible and distance learning, education high-wind areas. and Lorraine Anderson. Safety Award for 2001. and training. had been taken over by a greedy CARRS-Q director Professor Mary Mr Draper was presented with the Art museum wins American conglomerate. Sheehan said the centre aimed to lead award at a special ceremony in Sydney Nominations sought “It’s the sort of program that will the way in the fight to cut the burden of on September 26. commendations Do you know a QUT general staff appeal to people who got a chuckle trauma and injuries occurring on The QUT Art Museum has recently won member who has gone above and beyond out of Fawlty Towers … or Father Ted, Queensland’s roads. Graduate snares State and international commendations the call of duty during 2001? They might and people who thought Ally McBeal for its lighting. have introduced significant innovation might have been a good show if only Hep C research prestigious award Lighting design for the venue’s galleries, or improvements, provided assistance to the Americans hadn’t made it,” Mr Recent law graduate Jacki Cremer has foyer and reception picked up a high the work of students or staff, enhanced Murphy said. work to continue been awarded a prestigious British recommendation at the Queensland QUT’s reputation, or demonstrated Mr Murphy said that while the QUT School of Public Health Chevening-Cambridge Australia Trust Lighting Awards, while lighting throughout initiative through service to clients. writing award did not guarantee that researchers Michael Dunne and Lyndall Scholarship to study for her Master of the venue won an award of commendation If so, contact Matt Terry in QUT’s the treatment would be picked up to Garrett have received a new grant worth Laws at Cambridge University. in the International Lighting Awards. Human Resources Department – become a pilot, he and Dr Rattaigan $65,000 from Queensland Health to Ms Cremer – one of just six Australian Certificates for both awards were [email protected] or 3864 4120 – who hoped to pitch the show to the ABC or continue their research into quality of scholarship winners – graduated from presented to the QUT Buildings and can provide a nomination kit for the rework it into a quirky feature film. About your newspaper Visit QUT Online at www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/insidequt Inside QUT is published by QUT’s Corporate Communication Department. Our readership includes staff, students and members of the QUT community. This paper advertisemen t is also circulated to business, industry, government and the media. Each story has been checked with the source prior to publication. Letters to the editor are welcome via email [email protected] or mail (Editor, Inside QUT, Corporate Communication Department, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld, 4001). 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Page 10 Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002 Visit www.corpcomm.qut.edu.au/insidequt for more details when you see this symbol IQ Entrepreneur takes reins of new rugby centre by Margaret Lawson He later received the Medal of the “I want the centre to be recognised Order of Australia for his as a world leader in innovative The new director of QUT’s Centre contribution to sport through his role delivery of outcomes in the world of for Rugby Studies candidly admits organising what became one of rugby, rugby education, research and that, at first glance, he might seem an Queensland’s most memorable consultancy,” he said. odd choice for his job. sporting events. “I see us becoming a resource to “I’m not a rugby player and have “It was huge, absolutely huge, and is assist at all levels of the game, from never been an academic,” said David something I’ll never forget,” he recalled. local club level, through to Keating, who became the centre’s first Mr Keating went on to work in international competition.” director in July. fundraising and management roles Mr Keating said his priorities would He even concedes that he hails from with the Heart Foundation and the be to establish the centre’s first academic Albury in New South Wales – devoted Surf Life Saving Foundation. He was program – the Graduate Certificate in “Aussie Rules territory” – and did not also the president of Tennis Rugby Studies – to start in 2002, and encounter the game of rugby union Queensland and a member of the to support the centre’s researchers who until his college years. Tennis Australia Council for six years were working to generate findings to But what distinguishes Mr Keating in an honorary capacity. benefit rugby players and coaches. is a life-long love of sports – many He counts as an achievement his He said another goal would be to sports – which has led to successful role in establishing and managing establish continuing and professional careers wherever he has turned: first as Brisbane’s own branch of the education programs to service the needs an athlete, then sports coach, manager, Australian Institute of Sport, part of the broader rugby community, from events whiz and fundraiser. of which involved setting up a parents, administrators and promoters, “I started as a physical education rugby unit. to young players, teachers and even teacher in Papua New Guinea, and “I think what I bring to QUT’s retiring players. actually represented PNG in track and Centre for Rugby Studies is expertise “This centre has been warmly field in 800m and 1,500m events,” in setting up small operations, a embraced at QUT and by the Mr Keating said. knowledge of sport and fitness issues, Australian Rugby Union and “Then I moved into coaching, and and experience in fundraising and Queensland Rugby Union, and with coached athletes for the South Pacific business operations,” Mr Keating said. the beginning of our programs, Games, and initiated the first national “This will be really important as research and consultancy, we are sports council in PNG.” the Centre for Rugby Studies depends really going to see some exciting But it was later, after a stint in on external support to become self- times ahead,” he said. Europe and the United Kingdom as a sufficient within three years.” RIGHT: The new director of sports coach and manager, that Mr So, for the next three years, Mr QUT’s Centre for Rugby Keating won the role for which he is Keating will be working to forge Studies, sports entrepreneur best known – as the executive manager relationships within the sporting and David Keating ... keen to see of operations for Brisbane’s 1982 business sectors that will allow the benefits of research flow Commonwealth Games. centre to achieve its goals. through to rugby union.

Innovative project builds important links Winning soccer side a sizzler The QUT Student Guild has had an Thanks to an innovative space recently standard foyer space into an inspiring information, displays and artwork, the enthusiastic line-up for its six-a-side launched at QUT Carseldine, and innovative resource that capitalises revamped foyer allows agencies to mixed soccer competition this year. community support agencies on on the already strong links between publicise details about their services and Up to 15 teams played in the Brisbane’s northside are now able to QUT and a range of northside upcoming projects to the growing “extremely competitive” QUT Cup interact more easily with those teaching, community bodies while encouraging university community. competition during the year, according studying and researching in the human even greater dialogue between all parties. The brainchild of youth services to guild sport officer Karen Bucholz. services area. Ms Clifford said young people were lecturer Phil Crane and Sally Clifford – Ms Bucholz said the guild The Foyer Project – as it has become involved at every stage and their creative the co-ordinator of Catalyst (a youth arts responded by purchasing four known – is essentially an art gallery, ideas about ways to engage with the organisation based at QUT Carseldine) miniature soccer goals, which were put installation space and interactive community were tapped for the project. – the project came together over four to good use during the recent finals of noticeboard that has been created in the The foyer project launch was part of a weekends with the help of human services the competition. Level 2 foyer of L Block, the building Networking Brisbane North meeting students from the Carseldine campus and Engineering students in the Brutal which houses QUT’s School of where agencies that provide support a group of young people from the Pine Deluxe team steered their side to Humanities and Human Services. Rivers and Nundah areas. services on Brisbane’s northside were victory. The team were defending Six-a-side soccer action at Featuring a large wall that has been In that time the team conceptualised, introduced to ways in which they could champions three years in a row. Kelvin Grove. cleverly transformed to accommodate designed, built and transformed a once take advantage of this new facility. Engineers mount student expos

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Lian Ngo and Victor Pun, two of four mechanical engineering students on the Go-Kart Team Project, demonstrate the lightweight, rigid frame sprint racing model the team developed. Displays and diagrams were the order of the day recently Theatre on the Thursday and the Friday, while first-year when students demonstrated their civil, mechanical, engineering students held their expo of projects done for medical, manufacturing, electronic and electronic systems volunteer organisations in the Level 4 Foyer of Z Block engineering projects at QUT’s Gardens Point campus. on the Saturday. Over three days in mid-October, the Built Environment Senior research assistant Anne-Marie McArdle said the and Engineering Faculty students occupied display tents idea behind the first-years’ exhibition was to show along Main Drive near the Kidney Lawn and The Gardens engineers could make a difference.

Inside QUT October 30, 2001-February 11, 2002, Page 11 Family celebrates accountancy trifecta by Toni Chambers Tomatsu, and Mr Hipwood junior had always wanted to enter the accounting profession and The Hipwoods laughingly say they don’t talk needed to complete his undergraduate degree. accounting all the time when they get together, “I guess I was influenced by Dad. I’d worked but admit it’s hard not to at times. with him and studied accounting at school. In a first for QUT, Erik Hipwood and his It’s a natural thing that must be in my blood,” son Rick and daughter Kim all recently he laughed. graduated with accounting qualifications. While they weren’t all living together during Already an accountant, Mr Hipwood senior their studies, they agree they did help each graduated with a Master of Commerce, 23- other. year-old Kim – who now works at Deloitte “It made studying a lot easier. Whenever I Touche Tohmatsu – has completed a Master needed advice I’d go to them. Dad is a really of Business in Professional Accounting and his good proof-reader, so that was handy for 25-year-old son Rick – who works for the checking assignments,” Ms Hipwood said. Workpac Group as an accountant – has The family accounting ties don’t end there graduated with a Bachelor of Business – wife and mother Maureen runs her own (Accountancy). company training small businesses in how to However, the trio insists their joint use accounting packages. graduation was just a coincidence. “We talk a little bit of shop when we get Mr Hipwood senior needed postgraduate together, but not as much as you’d think,” Mr qualifications to move from a career as an Hipwood senior admitted. accountant for manufacturing firms to public accounting. He is now a consultant with Keeping it in the family: Daughter Kim Hipwood (Master of Business in Mulraney Accountants on the Sunshine Coast. Professional Accounting) with father Ms Hipwood needed to supplement her Erik Hipwood (Master of Commerce) Bachelor of International Business to enter the and brother Rick Hipwood (Bachelor auditing department at Deloitte Touche of Business Ð Accounting). Sports people clean up at annual awards QUT Cup sports A gala dinner at Brisbane City Hall on sport champions awarded to Health (tennis (Science) and triathlete Glenn Barltrop announce champions Thursday, October 25, was the setting for the and Guild Gift), Science (swimming), Built (Health). announcement of the QUT Student Guild’s Environment and Engineering (beach volleyball Half Blues were presented to six other students Finals were held recently for several QUT Cup sports. Annual Sporting Awards. and soccer), Creative Industries (basketball, – basketballer Megan Michael (Business), rock First place in the table tennis championships went to The three main individual awards went to table tennis and netball), Law (eight ball) and climber Tiffany Melius (Creative Industries), Michael Huynh (Information Technology), followed by Built Environment and Engineering Faculty Education (touch football). rower Louise Auld (Education), rugby league Samuel Leung (Education) and Tony Nguyen (Built student Joshua Slack (Male Sportsperson of Information Technology Faculty student player Cameron Schulz (Science), rugby union Environment and Engineering). In the eight-ball the Year) for his performances in volleyball Michael Huynh collected the QUT Cup – player Mark McLean (Business) and swimmer tournament, Troy Johan (Law) outscored James Le (also and beach volleyball events, Education Faculty Drake Training IT Scholarship. Health Faculty Kate Corkran (Business). Law) and Kenneth Katafono (Built Environment and student Brooke Wilkins (Female Sportsperson student and women’s waterpolo team manager Sport achievement awards were presented to Engineering). of the Year) for softball and interfaculty student Jodie Taylor was presented with Sports athletes Fiona Cullen (Business), Josephine The annual Guild Gift winners were Anthony and rock climber Brenton Searle (the Jody Manager of the Year. Ngaluafe (Health), basketballers Nick Bladen Peterman (interfaculty) and Naomi Batch (Health), Martin Memorial Sports Service Award). Prestigious Sport Blue awards were (interfaculty) and Matthew Gray (Business), martial while in the three-on-three basketball, Naomi’s Team A Team of the Year award was presented to presented to seven students – Joshua arts exponents Janelle Hancock (Science) and (Creative Industries) took out the honours. the QUT men’s volleyball team, with Club Slack, gymnast Damian Istria (Business), Stephanie Looi (Health), softballer Brooke Wilkins, Creative Industries Faculty also scored well in the Person of the Year presented to touch footballer ironman Anthony Peterman (interfaculty), table tennis player Peri Campbell-Innes (Business), five-a-side netball competition thanks to its team, The Geoff Hooper. rowers Sam Kingston (Law) and Ben volleyballer Luke Shorten (Health) and waterpolo Battlers. Meanwhile, the Education Faculty is lauding The Drake Training QUT Cup Faculty of McGeachie (Built Environment and players Tom Low (Built Environment and its mixed touch football team, the “Cheezy Tacos”. the Year awarded to Health, with individual Engineering), swimmer Brenton Rickard Engineering) and Jodie Taylor. Six-a-side winners on p11

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