Research & Innovation

Issue 6 Nov-Dec 2009 Newswww.uow.edu.au/research/newsletter

IN THIS ISSUE Research Services Office page 2 Research Student Centre page 6 Commercial Research Unit page 6 Managers of Innovation & Commercialisation page 7 PODS page 8 Library News page 8 New Research Staff page 9 Publications page 10 Faculty News, Awards and Achievements page 16 News From iCampus page 16 Scholarships page 18 Conferences/Workshops page 19

Contributions Contributions to Research & Innovation News (Research news, achievements and events) are always welcome. To ensure inclusion of your research news, event or service in the next issue of RAID (due for publication early February, please e-mail details to [email protected] or vwallace@ Page 12 : Professor Buddhima Indraratna and Page 13 : A/Prof Sharon Page 16: The P.M. has presented uow.edu.au by 25th January industry partner David Christie received the Robinson has been appointed UOW PhD student, Matthew Business-Higher Education Round Table’s (B-HERT) as a member of the Antarctic Griffith, with a prestigious Asia “2009 Award for Best Research & Development Science Advisory Committee Endeavour Award Collaboration”. (ASAC) by Peter Garret (Minister for the Environment). 1 RESEARCH SERVICES OFFICE www.uow.edu.au/research/rso

NEWS FROM THE GRANTS TEAM dollars awarded and seventh nationally (relative to size). Of the 26 successful UOW Discovery Projects (DP) and seven Linkage Projects (LP) to be funded from 2010, outstanding results were After a year of maternity leave Julie achieved across most UOW faculties. Matarczyk returned to the RSO. in August this year in the role of Research Development Manager. In her new IMB Community Foundation role Julie is focusing on a number The Foundation is calling for applica- of key projects, including support tions for funding in 2010. The IMB for research centres (such as ARC Community Foundation was estab- Centres of Excellence and the Eastern lished in 2000 as a way for the IMB Australia Dementia Training Study to show tangible support for the Centre), building links with IHMRI and communities in which its members live the Graduate School of Medicine, and and work. This includes Wollongong the Internationalisation of our research. Julie is currently working and the Shoalhaven to Bega and the far south coast, inland to part-time, Monday to Wednesday, and can be contacted on Canberra, Goulburn, the Southern Highlands, the Macarthur extension x 4728 Region and into southern and western Sydney. The Foundation supports projects that reflect its objectives, which include Recent ARC Grant Outcomes enhancing the economic self-sufficiency of communities, as well as generating economic, social, cultural, environmental, tourism The University of Wollongong has been awarded $11.4 million and educational benefits for those communities. Further informa- funding through the Australian Research Council (ARC) tion can be found at:Applications close on 30 December. Discovery Grant and Linkage Grant schemes. The Minister for https://www.imb.com.au/AboutIMB/Foundation.asp Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, announced the grants in Canberra late October. It sees UOW ranked ninth nationally out of 39 Australian universities for overall

Successful ARC Discovery Projects 2010 (UOW as administering institution) Chief Investigator and Faculty Other CI’s Project Title Total ARC $ A/Prof Tim Coltman Modelling IT alignment in multi-business Keating BW 250,000 Informatics service organisations Soil erosion and river system response to Dr Anthony Dosseto Chivas AR climate change and early human activity in 300,000 Science Australia New directions to miniaturized power Dr Zaiping Guo (QEII) Chen Z sources: Integrated all-solid-state recharge- 700,000 Engineering able batteries Chen H Derewianka BM Kervin LK A/Prof Pauline Harris The National English Curriculum: McKenzie B Understanding the development, interpre- Education 246,000 Turbull JB tation and implementation of disciplinary Fitzsimmons P knowledge

Ngheim LD Investigation of chemical clogging in a Prof Buddhima Indraratna permeable reactive barrier (PRB) installed for Glamore W 310,000 Engineering remediating groundwater from acid sulphate soils

Rujikiatkamjorn C Laboratory and theoretical investigation of soft Prof Buddhima Indraratna Liu MD clay behaviour under cyclic loading stabilised 366,000 Engineering Chu J by prefabricated vertical drains

2 Zenobia Jacobs (QEII) none A tale of two species: constructing chronolo- Science gies for patterns of change in the behaviour 843,000 of Neanderthals and early modern humans

A/Prof Zhengyi Jiang Mechanics of micro cross wedge Engineering Wei D 365,000 manufacturing

Sun Z (APD) Dr Jung Ho Kim Directed assembly and photoelectric Zhao Y properties of core-shell nanowire networks Engineering 300,182 Zhu X of PbSe-TiO2 heterostructures for high efficiency low-cost solar cells Liu HK Dr Konstantin Konstantinov Calka A Advanced nanostructured ceramic compos- Engineering 280,000 Wexler D ites for ultracapacitors

Dr Helen McGregor Woodroffe CD Untangling the links between El Nino and the Science Phipps SJ 350,000 changing global climate

Prof Luke McNamara The impact of hate speech laws on public Gelber KP 196,000 Law discourse in Australia Dr Richard Menary Arts Simpson DI Embodied virtues and expertise 293,000

Prof Michael Morwood In search of the first hominins: excavations at Science Brumm AR 1,075,000 Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia

Jones BG Prof Gerald Nanson Murray-Wallace CV How green were our deserts? Evidence for Science Late Quaternary climate change and the 350,000 Cohen TJ source of water in the Lake Eyre basin

Dr Stephen Palmisano Viewpoint changes during locomotion: Their H&BS none role in self-motion perception and motion 200,000 sickness Prof Stephen Pyne none Stereoselective synthesis of bioactive alkaloids 390,000 Science for structure elucidation and drug discovery Prof Iain Raeburn Structure and states for operator-algebraic Informatics Laca ME 420,000 dynamical systems

Dr Christian Ritz Encoding and communicating navigable Informatics Burnett IS 210,000 soundfields

Lerch ML Dzurak AS Prof Anatoly Rozenfeld Jamieson DN Development of innovative radiation detectors Engineering and computational techniques for improving 310,000 Guatelli S quality of life Kuncic Z

Dr Adam Trevitt How does biodiesel fuel burn? Revealing the Science none chemical processes of methyl ester decom- 210,000 position and oxidation

3 Prof Simon Ville Merrett D Reassessing the role of industry associations Commerce through an examination of Australian and 90,000 New Zealand wool marketing, 1890–1960 A/Prof Guoxiu Wang Wexler D Engineering Calka A Graphene – the new frontier electromate- rial for rechargeable lithium batteries and 365,000 supercapacitors

Prof Xiaolin Wang Chen D Materials science and superconductivity Engineering Peleckis G (APD in the new Fe-based high temperature 555,000 superconductors Dr Robin Warner (APD) Harnessing the oceans to combat climate Tsamenyi BM change: Developing law and policy frame- Law 322,000 works for ocean energy and climate change mitigation Prof Anthony Worsley Yeatman HR A taxonomy of Australian consumers’ food H&BS Wang W 160,000 and health knowledge

Successful ARC Linkage Projects 2010 Round 1 (UOW as administering institution) Chief Total $ Investigator Other Project Title Industry Partner Received Received DECC NSW, Prof David Murray Darling CMA, Genetic rescue of Australia’s Ayre Denham A 330,000 arid zone plants Lower Murray Darling CMA, Science Sunraysia Nurseries Pty Ltd

Horvat J Prof Shi Dou Design, build and test a fault Xu X (APDI) current limiter employing Engineering Zenergy Power Pty Ltd 580,000 Moscrop JW magnesium diboride (MgB2) superconducting coils

Zhu SP, Study of coupled water-gas- Prof Buddhima Nemcik JA sediment (three-phase) flows Strata Control Technology SCT 178,676 Indraratna Yang S through jointed and stratified Pty Ltd (Wollongong) Gale WJ rock Perera S A/Prof Kashem Ciufo PP Integration of solar, wind and Muttaqi Sutanto D storage systems into distribu- Country Energy 420,000 Informatics Elder LA tion grids for network support

Dr Peter The long term causal effects of Vietnam War era conscrip- Siminski Australian Government Ville SP tion on economic and social 57,000 Commerce Department of Veterans’ Affairs outcomes for Australian conscripts

Clements MD Prof Trevor LG Electronics Aust Ltd, Sohal AS Spedding Technological innovation TNT Australia Ltd, Daniel LJ and change in supply chain 161,676 Commerce Compdata Pty Ltd Dawson PM integration

Prof Jiazhao Liu HK PT Nipress TBK, Wang Konstaninov KK Room temperature recharge- DLG Batteries Co. Ltd China 228,000 Engineering Wang Z able sulphur batteries

4 Successful NHMRC Project Grants 2010 Chief Investigators Project Title $ Allocated

Dr Martina Sanderson-Smith Role of the host fibrinolytic system in invasive group A streptoccal disease $503,500

A/Prof Robert Kapsa Multimodal Woven BioPolymer Fibre Conduits for Remodelling Damaged Peripheral $662,500 Prof Gordon Wallace Nerve Prof Xu-Feng Huang, Schizophrenia: prevention and treatment of atypical antipsychotic drug-induced Dr Chao Deng $399,250 obesity

AUSTRALIAN LEARNING & TEACHING (ALTC) Research Ethics GRANTS - 2010 Ethics Agenda Deadlines and Meeting Dates for your diary The ALTC promotes excellence in higher education by Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) - Health and recognising, rewarding and supporting teachers and professional Medical staff through a suite of award, fellowship and grant schemes. It Upcoming meeting on 15th December (agenda deadline aims to enhance the student learning experience by supporting November 25th) quality teaching and practice. Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) - Humanities, Leadership for Excellence in Learning & Teaching Program Social Science & Behavioural > This program provides grants for projects that build leadership Upcoming meeting December 17th (agenda deadline capacity in ways consistent with the promotion and enhance- December 2nd) ment of learning and teaching in contemporary higher education. They should reflect the ALTC’s values of excellence, inclusive- More information at: www.uow.edu.au/research/rso/ethics/ ness, diversity and collaboration and its commitment to long-term systemic change. Inaugural Australian and NZ network meeting Priority Projects > This program responds to priorities emanating from the ALTC’s A two-day network meeting hosted by the University of designated responsibilities and priorities determined by the ALTC Wollongong for people involved with the administration of ethics Board. The priorities for funding in 2010 are: in research was held on 12 and 13 • Academic standards, assessment practices and reporting. November. • Curriculum renewal. With speakers from New Zealand and around Australia, participants learnt • Teaching and learning spaces. more about national and international • Peer review for promotion. ethical review systems and possible impacts of Australia’s research agenda Support for grant applicants: on development of the Australian Joanna Failes, Grants and Awards Officer, CEDIR jfailes@uow. system. edu.au. (for guidance on developing the grant application, initi- The presenters included speakers ated by a Notice of Intent to Apply) from the Murdoch Children’s Research ALTC guidelines http://www.altc.edu.au/carrick/go/home/grants Among those taking part in the Institute, Macquarie University, the Timetable at the RSO web page http://www.uow.edu.au/ inaugural network meeting are Aboriginal Health and Medical Research (from left) Tim Dyke (NHMRC), Council, the Australian Research research/rso/grants/opportunities/external/UOW049813.html Jane Graham (ARC), Professor Council (ARC), National Health and Colin Thomson (Faculty of Need Assistance with your Grant Application? - Statistical Advice available Law, UOW) and Ellen Kittson Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (NHMRC) The Statistical Consulting Service (SCS) in the School of Mathematics and and the Cancer Institute of NSW. Applied Statistics provides UOW researchers with statistical advice. They can The network meeting also allowed people working in this area advise on planning surveys and experiments, statistical analysis, presenta- to discuss strategies for improving the administration of ethical tion of results and preparation of grant applications. For more information, or to arrange a meeting, see http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/maths/scs/ or research. Enquiries about this Network Meeting to Eve Steinke email [email protected]. ([email protected])

UNI IN THE BREWERY 2009 Follow UOW Many thanks to Lori Research on Become a fan of ‘UOW” Twitter. Find Lockyer for her presen- Research’ on Facebook. tation at Five Islands us via Brewery last October. www.twitter.com/uowresearch Keep an eye out for next year’s lecture series at Join these groups for news and info from the Research & Innovation Division (RAID). Contact us if you have trouble http://www.uow.edu.au/research/unibrewery/index.html finding us on either of these sites. Ph 4221 4126 5 Research student centre www.uow.edu.au/research/rsc

The Research Student Centre has begun enrolling, re-enrolling December 2009 HDR Graduands and processing Higher Degree Research (HDR) students for There are 87 HDR students graduating at the December 2009 Autumn and Spring Sessions 2010. These re-enrolments and graduation ceremonies. 67 are receiving doctoral degrees and enrolment variations are only processed following a complete and 20 are being awarded Masters - Research degrees. successful 2009 Annual Progress Report. Please ensure that all re-enrolments and variations (leaves of absence, change of Annual Progress Reports enrolment status etc) reach the Research Student Centre or go directly to the HDR Enrolment Officer - June Toussis before the APRs were released on-line via SOLS to HDR students on 12th census date of 31st March 2010 - [email protected] together October 2009. with supervisor support if submitting these requests separate to Due Dates – to note: the Annual Progress Report. We also ask that, once enrolled, you check that all of your enrolment details are correct, if not correct HDR candidate should complete Section 3 7 December please contact the Research Student Centre by email above or and submit the Progress Report to the Head 2009 phone 4221 5453 immediately. of Postgraduate Studies. The Head of Postgraduate Studies should 21 December forward the APR to the Dean of the The HDR Student Orientation Day and Enrolment Day will 2009 be held on Tuesday 23rd February commencing at 9.00 am Faculty. in the Uni Function rooms, Bld 11. This year the Orientation The Dean of Faculty should return the 22 January 2010 will coincide with “O Week Festival” so that HDR students APR to the Research Student Centre. can be participate in “O Week” celebrations. 1 – 28 February RSC process HDR re-enrolments, LOA etc 2010 for 2010.

Commercial research unit http://www.uow.edu.au/research/commercial/

2009 Integral Energy RPDE Program is wide participation from industry in collaborative task teams with a willingness to contribute intellectual property, Business Awards know-how and experience in the investigation of questions posed The Commercial Research Unit by Defence. (“CRU”) was a finalist in two The RPDE Program aims to identify and evaluate capability categories at the recent 2009 improvement options for Defence in short timeframes typically Integral Energy Business Awards. 12 to 18 months, producing evidence to allow Defence to make The Gala Awards Dinner was held decisions that rapidly improve the ADF’s networked warfighting on Friday 13 November at the WIN capability. Entertainment Centre. Over 1000 of the region’s business people UOW will be looking for project opportunities to engage with from across the Illawarra gathered Defence and other businesses and research institutions as they to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the region’s are released. business community. Establishing Internal Research Networks CRU has identified several research areas where a diversity of Defence News academic staff are involved but probably aren’t aware of each The University has been successful others’ activities. To help UOW researchers to network in areas in becoming an Associate Member of mutual interest, CRU is hosting Networking Sessions to of the Defence RPDE (Rapid better develop internal linkages. The idea is to share informa- Prototyping Development and tion, identify common themes and opportunities, get to know Evaluation program). other people working in similar areas and identify options to The RPDE Program is a Defence funded initiative that seeks stay in contact on an ongoing basis. The forums are facilitated collaboration across Industry and Defence in the investigation by CRU in a casual way where researchers are invited to intro- and evaluation of options for near-term Network Centric Warfare duce themselves and their area of research followed by lunch (NCW) capability enhancement. A key to the success of the and informal discussions. To date CRU has hosted two very successful forums – Drug Delivery and Indigenous Research. 6 Academics who attended these forums were from a range of in attending this forum or being added to the mailing lists for the faculties and were positive in their response to the concept of the Drug Delivery or Indigenous Research forum, please contact Deb networks and the continued development of relationships. It was Langton on ext 4817 or email [email protected]. CRU also fantastic to see the diversity of research interests and capabilities. welcomes suggestions from Researchers for further research To support ongoing networking, CRU has established mailing lists network areas. for each of the forums. Our next forum will be in the area of Social and Digital Media and is currently scheduled for December 10th. If you are interested

MANAGERS OF INNOVATION & COMMERCIALISATION (MICs) http://www.uow.edu.au/research/commercial/comcontact/index.html

“Recent” licensing For more information or enquiries contact the research with Partech Systems deals Tony Enright (02) 4221 4129 or tonye@ towards commercial outcomes.” uow.edu.au; Partech Systems is a “Defence Prostate cancer radiation device poised Recognised Supplier – Strategic for commercialisation in the US Capabilities” to the Defence Material An innovative prostate cancer treat- Business Development Organisation, mainly for its work on the ment device developed by University Activities Joint Strike Fighter program (JSF F-35). of Wollongong (UOW) researchers has ICT Research Institute (ICTR) Partech also supports the Seahawk enhanced the Prostate Immobilizer promotes Researchers in Business helicopters for RAN and FA-18 Fighter Balloon System launched by US Texas Aircraft for the RAAF, and more recently Partech Systems of Nowra has recently company, Radiadyne, at the American was awarded a major contract to develop been awarded a grant of $50,000 Society for Therapeutic Radiology and electronics test solutions for rail carriages from Enterprise Connect as part of the Oncology (ASTRO) convention in Chicago operating on the Sydney Metro system. recently. Australian governments new “Researchers in Business Program” to work with For more information or enquiries contact The technologically advanced ‘Prostate researchers from the University of Tony Enright on (02) 4221 4129 or Immobilizer Balloon System’, which Wollongong’s ICT Research Institute. This [email protected]; supports adaptive radiation therapy for program supports fifty percent of the prostate cancer patients, incorporates salary of researchers from universities for sensors developed by the University’s placement with a SME to implement new Centre for Medical Radiation Physics ideas of commercial value. (CMRP), under the directorship of Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld (pictured). UOW researchers from the ICT Research National Enterprize Institute have developed wireless commu- UOW licensed the technology exclusively nications technologies that could serve Competition to Radiadyne for its Prostate Immobiliser a key role in one of Partech’s newest Two University of System. An international patent application product development initiatives, serving Wollongong (UOW) has been filed in relation to the device, a domestic market and addressing the business ideas and it is anticipated that the new version needs of the industry internationally. competed as final- of the system with the novel sensor will ists in the University Members of the ICT Research Institute be available for commercial sales in the of Queensland (UQ) under the supervision of Dr.Mehran United States within six months, pending Business School’s Abolhasan, head of the Emerging Wireless regulatory clearance from the Food and annual Enterprize, a networks Research Center, will work Drug Administration (FDA). national competition with Partech Systems in its develop- designed to assist The Moskin Dosimetry Sensor Technology ment of a low cost solar powered level start-up companies with seed capital, detects and measures in real-time the crossing control system for use in rural business plans and to foster effective radiation exposure immediately adjacent to and remote communities within Australia networking with venture capitalists. the rectal wall when a patient is under- and overseas, to address safety issues at going treatment for prostate cancer. the vast number of unprotected rail level “The rectal wall is an area particularly crossings within these areas. Both entries ‘Warrapharm’ and susceptible to radiation exposure. For “This is the first grant of its kind awarded ‘ToughSkin’ showcased the strengths of patients undergoing adaptive radiation to the University. The ICT Research applied technology developments and therapy, this advance in the technology Institute has a track record of working with business plan development maturity at the means greater protection from potential Australian Industry and we are particularly University of Wollongong. complications that are known to occur”. appreciative of the opportunities to work “Launching this innovation into the market with and support local industry within the These enterprizing entries can be viewed via Radiadyne’s system is going to make a Illawarra. The support from Enterprise on the Research website at: real difference to prostate cancer patients Connect for the researcher placements http://www.uow.edu.au/research/profile/index.html in the near future.” comes at an opportune time to progress 7 pods

Program commencing in March 2010. As part of this Program participants will: Mentoring of ECRs • be matched with an experienced promotes a more researcher outside their Faculty focused approach to • receive formal training from a research planning, recognised mentoring expert, Ann Rolfe establishment of research networks, • be provided with support to build and an increase a research plan with both long and short in publication and term goals funding application • develop their research profile success rates. • establish contacts and networks to Research Mentoring support their research development Program for What are the Benefits Early Career of Having a Mentor? Expressions of interest for the 2010 Researchers 2010 • increased confidence as a researcher Program are now open and will close on February 5, 2010. These need to be • encouragement to develop a research submitted on the Research Mentoring plan If you’re an aspiring, committed early Program Expression of Interest Form career researcher who would like to fast • gaining research related knowledge and which can be down loaded from the track their research career this program is skills from an experienced researcher PODS Research Mentoring website for you! • support to achieve short term milestones • reduced sense of isolation For more information about the program As a result of a successful pilot Research • building a professional research network please visit the PODS Research Mentoring Mentoring Program for Early Career • learning to better balance research with website or contact Researcher (ECR) in 2007 - 2008, this other activities Lorraine Denny, [email protected] xtn: Program will now be open to all early career • increased motivation for undertaking 4948 or Jeanette Kost [email protected] researchers at UOW. Expressions of interest xtn: 4876 for the Program are now open with the research.

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8 Make Your research Host your conference on RO Wollongong journals on available via RIS The University’s open access repository is Research Online Academics can now input publica- now able to host conferences and archive Nine University of Wollongong journals tion data and files into the Research the proceedings. A full suite of features are now hosted on Research Online. Information System (RIS) and have - timetabling, room locations, author These include Asia Pacific Media that material uploaded into Research biographies, storage of conference papers Educator (Creative Arts), Law Text Online. This is now a one step and a/v material such as podcasts - can Culture (Law), International Gramsci process saving time and effort. When be accommodated. If you are interested Journal (Arts) and the Australasian entering data about publications, in learning more about using Research Accounting Business and Fiance Journal include a copy of the paper. The Online to host your next conference, (Commerce). The full peer-review Library will carry out copyright checks please contact Michael Organ. process can be carried out via Research on all items before placing them on Online. Two journals currently using open access via Research Online. For Research Online to manage this process further information see the Library are the Australasian Journal of Peer Guide on Open Access Learning and the Journal of University http://uow.libguides.com/openaccess. Teaching and Learning Practice

IHMRI launches new Research Network

The Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) welcomed Illawarra researchers and health professionals to the launch of its new Research Network on Wednesday 9 December.

IHMRI’s Executive Director Prof Don Iverson introduced the Institute and its work before the Network was officially launched by the Hon Jodi McKay, Minister for Science and Medical Research, and the Hon David Campbell, Minister for the Illawarra.

The strategic focus of IHMRI is providing leadership, fostering collaborations, and coordinating health and medical research conducted across multiple organisations. The IHMRI Research Network will provide the structures and mechanisms needed to facilitate this collaboration and coordination.

For further details on the IHMRI Research Network, please go to: http://ihmri.uow.edu.au/index.html new research staff

Dr Sarah Ferber is Head of She is widely recognised as an expert on the history of Catholic Postgraduate Studies for the exorcism in early modern France and recently held a term’s Faculty of Arts at UoW. She Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, where she began obtained a PhD in history from the a new project for CUP, on European witchcraft history. She also University of Melbourne (1994) collaborates with the criminologist Assoc Prof Adrian Howe at and taught at the University of RMIT University on a global study of cases of violent exorcism Queensland from 1995 to 2009, since 1970. where she also had administrative Her research in the field of modern bioethics brings a historical roles in postgraduate studies. perspective to many of the major debates in modern medical Sarah Ferber is a cultural histo- policy and practice. In particular, she addresses the extent to rian, with expertise in two discrete which historical issues impinge on modern analysis of such areas of religious and medical subjects as genetic and birth technologies, euthanasia, and the history. pharmaceutical industry. 9 Dr Katrarina M Mikac is an of $215,000 by UOW’s Professor Philip Ogunbona, Professor Entomologist who joined UOW in Fazel Naghdy, Associate Professor Golshah Naghdy and Dr August 2008 as coordinator of Anthony Koppi in partnership with members of the University of the Master of Science program Queensland, Murdoch University and Swinburne University. for the Faculty of Science. Upon Madeleine’s Masters studies will focus on the retention of women commencement of academic duties as students of ICT, industry input into the ICT curriculum and its Katarina also joined Institute for willingness to host ICT students in the workplace. Conservation Biology and Law (ICB) to continue her research on the invasive genetic and diagnostics of insect pests of Peter Goodall joined the staff of the University of Wollongong as grain. Katarina’s research is focused on developing innova- a Senior Research Fellow in early 2009. Peter has 25 years of tive diagnostic tools to correctly identify potential invaders at experience in industrial Information Australia and international borders and also to understand the Technology, he worked in several movement of invasive insects to enhance knowledge on patterns high-tech start-ups in Australia and of dispersal and gene flow. Silicon Valley in the U.S.A, Peter was Currently Katarina is involved in several large projects investi- a founding member of IBM’s Object gating the invasion dynamics and molecular diagnostics of some Technology Practice in Australia and of the world’s worst beetle pests including the Khapra Beetle a consulting application develop- and the Western Corn Rootworm (WCR). She is collaborating ment architect, co-authoring IBM’s with CSIRO Entomology (Canberra), CRC for Plant Biosecurity world-wide Rapid Solutions Delivery (Canberra), Curtin University (Western Australia) and United method. Recently Peter worked at States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Objective Corporation, where he met Prof. Peter Eklund who later Katarina’s research is also helping Europe fight the devastating invited Peter to be technical project coordinator and researcher impacts of the Western Corn Rootworm on maize crops. Katarina on an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, a cross- is collaborating with the University of Zagreb, Croatia and the disciplinary collaboration between the University of Wollongong’s French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA, faculties of Informatics and Creative Arts, and the Australian Nice) to investigate the historic and contemporary invasion Museum’s Cultural Collections department. genetics of the WCR in Croatia to gain a better understanding The project builds upon many years of research by Professor of its movement patterns and invasion success over time. Peter Eklund on practical applications of Formal Concept Katarina’s future research will include the development of real- Analysis (FCA). The team has made significant advancements time non-technical insect identification tests suitable for use by in FCA useability and intuitive user-interfaces for serendipitous non-scientific quarantine and biosecurity officers who require navigation of collections. The project team has published several immediate, accurate and reliable insect identification technology interesting papers. Peter Goodall presented ‘Designing the digital to maintain strict national border control. ecosystem of the virtual museum of the pacific’ at the IEEE DEST 09 conference in Istanbul, where an encore presentation Researcher, Madeleine Roberts was requested. will soon be investigating several The technology is becoming the foundation of a longer-term intertwined issues regarding the collaboration with the Australian Museum - ‘The Virtual Museum attraction of women to the area of of the Pacific’ (VMP). The VMP was recently launched at a Information and Communications major seminar entitled: ‘Pacific Outreach and Access to Cultural Technology (ICT), as part of Collections’ at the Australian Museum. The technology was also a Master of Information and recently applied to the University’s Art Collection Ecosystem’s Communication Technology (MICT) ‘Digital Natives’ exhibition. Further research is planned to inves- degree. tigate more general applications within Collection Management She will be enrolling in the MICT Systems including emergent taxonomies derived from commu- research degree in 2010 and, at nity annotations and social media. the same time, taking up a position as a Research Assistant for a recently awarded Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant

publications

The World Bank and the current operations of the World Bank, detailed, grounded studies of the Bank’s post-Washington Consensus which despite being the largest devel- lending practices. opment organisation and the largest The book starts with a detailed exami- in Vietnam and Indonesia development research body in the world nation of the development theory and By Susan Engel, with tremendous direct and indirect practice of the World Bank from its University of influence on developing economies, has Keynesian origins to the current shift Wollongong rarely received the critical attention its through the Washington Consensus to the ISBN: importance merits. The book’s unique so-called post-Washington Consensus. contribution is twofold: it provides an 978-0-415-54743-7 The second part is a detailed analysis original analysis of the interaction between of the Bank’s lending practices in two This book explores the economic theory, political practice and the countries, Vietnam and Indonesia. history, structure and Bank’s development praxis as well as two 10 The Power of Ideas Essays or post-modern clown, Fomenko’s publi- and analysis of popular culture. She then cations invariably outsell his conventional compares migrant perspectives with the on Australian Politics and rivals. Just as Putin has restored Russia’s undocumented migration debate held in History faith in its future, Fomenko and an army of political, economic and legal spheres. fellow alternative historians are determined Sheridan discovered that, with stricter By Gregory Melleuish, to restore Russia’s faith in its past. For border controls, undocumented border University of Wollongong Fomenko, the key to Russia’s greatness in crossings have become more treacherous, the future lies in ensuring that Russians study participants therefore chose to ISBN: 978 1 74097 188 1 understand the true greatness of their How important have stay longer in the United States to avoid past. frequent border crossings. Contrary to the ideas been in the history of Australia? This collec- United States desired goals of reducing tion of essays examines Direct Observation of the number of undocumented migrants, key ideas that motivated High-Temperature Phase stricter border policies have increased Australians, including transformations in Steel the number of migrants as many decided democracy, the ideal of to cross all their family members, rather Europe and socialism. Delta-ferrite to Austenite than just the male worker, to keep families The papers range from Phase Transformation. together. the colonial period to the present day, Perhaps most interesting was the ways from the ideal of the natural aristocrat By Salar Niknafs and Rian Dippenaar, within which migrants managed the to the conservative populism of Pauline University of Wollongong increasing levels of risk. Without a doubt, the number one risk management tool Hanson. They deal with fascinating ISBN 978-3-639-08515-0 Australians; from the colonial firebrand for unauthorized Mexican migrants is Daniel Deniehy to possibly the only During continuous family. According to the migrant partici- Australian intellectual to engage actively casting of steel, the pants in this study, the closer the kinship in propaganda for the Nazis, Randolph delta-ferrite to austenite relationship of the migrant to the human Hughes. These essays demonstrate that phase transition occurs trafficker, the better the chances for a there is a genuine intellectual depth to following solidification. safe, successful crossing into the United Australia. It is of great industrial States. Chances are better still if the significance to gain a migrant can afford to pay the trafficker better understanding more: the higher the fee, the more Nationalist Imaginings of of the nature of this reaction because sophisticated the strategy and the safer the Russian Past: Anatolii product quality is largely determined the journey. The safest, most expensive, by events occurring during and shortly option was to cross at an official border Fomenko and the Rise following solidification. Moreover, the exact port of entry using, in order of prefer- of Alternative History in way in which delta-ferrite transforms to ence, an original citizenship or permanent Post-Communist Russia austenite may influence the subsequent resident document (either borrowed or transformation of austenite to ferrite, by stolen), a false document, or an original which much of the mechanical proper- document altered to include the migrant’s By Dr Konstantin Sheiko in ties of the steel is determined. Relatively collaboration with Dr Stephen Brown, own photo. The worst, most dangerous, little attention has been devoted to the but also most economical option is to School of History and Politics, and delta-ferrite to austenite phase transi- cross in a less secure, remote area, where member of the Centre for Asia tion in the past, in part because of the migrants are often exposed to extreme Pacific Social Transformation Studies difficulty of making in-situ observations at climatic conditions or to attack either by (CAPTRANS) high temperatures. The recent develop- other traffickers or, on the U.S. side of Anatolii Fomenko ment of high-temperature Laser-Scanning the border, by individuals with antimigrant is a distinguished Confocal Microscopy has provided new sentiments. Russian mathemati- opportunities to observe in-situ high Copies of the book may be ordered via cian turned popular temperature phase transformations and the UOW campus bookshop, University of history writer, founder this technique has been employed in the Arizona Press or Amazon. of the so-called New present study. Chronology school, and part of the explo- I know it’s dangerous: Why sion of alternative Mexicans Risk Their Lives historical writing that has emerged in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet to Cross the Border

Union. Dr Lynnaire Sheridan, Faculty of Among his more startling claims are that Commerce, has just published “I know it’s the Old Testament was written after the dangerous: Why Mexicans risk their lives New Testament, that Russia is older than to cross the border” with The University of Greece and Rome, and that the medieval Arizona Press. Mongol Empire was in fact a Slav-Turk Based on extensive ethnographic field- world empire, a Russian Horde, to which work in Mexico and the United States, Western and Eastern powers paid tribute. this book investigates the motivations and While academic historians dismiss risk-taking activities of undocumented Fomenko as a dangerous ethno-nationalist migrants identified via in-depth interviews 11 FACULTY NEWS, AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Award honour for vital More recently Prof. Buddhima Indraratna will present the EH Davis Memorial Lecture. It is rail track research considered the most prestig- The University of Wollongong and RailCorp have been honoured ious lecture of the Australian with a major award for their collaborative research to improve Geomechanics Society track strength through IEAust and awarded and stability to to someone who has made cater for heavier, an outstanding contribution faster trains. to geotechnical engineering in At a ceremony Australia. attended by Deputy Prime This biennial lecture commemorates the pioneering work of Late Minister Julia Prof. Edward Hughson (Ted) Davis regarded as an early founder Gillard at the of Australian Geomechanics and emphasises the link between Arts Centre in theory and practice, and since its inception in 1987, so far 10 Melbourne, distinguished Australian practitioners and academics have been Professor honoured with the EH Davis Award. Buddhima Professor Buddhima Indraratna (UOW) and David Indraratna Christie (Railcorp) proudly display the B-hert received the The basis of the award is that the candidate selected by the award trophy. [Photo courtesy professor Indraratna and Leisa Hunt (B-HERT)] Business-Higher National Committee of AGS should have made a distinguished Education contribution to the theory and practice of geomechanics in Round Table’s (B-HERT) “2009 Award for Best Research & Australia. It is a cross-continent lecture tour that has to be Development Collaboration” for outstanding achievement. delivered in all the key states of Australia where the geotechnical This award is in recognition of the significant contributions made community is large, including NSW, QLD, WA and SA. by the UOW-Railcorp (NSW) partnership of Professor Indraratna (Professor of Civil Engineering) and David Christie (Senior Geotechnical Consultant, RailCorp, NSW). QUEST finds an Professor Indraratna from UOW’s Faculty of Engineering is also its application in Mining Director of the Centre for Geotechnical and Railway Engineering, The University of Wollongong (UOW) has carried out research in and the Wollongong Co-ordinator for the Co-operative Research simulating roadway development in underground coal mines to Centre for Rail Innovation. improve production rates using QUEST, a powerful 3D discrete He is regarded by his peers as being the leader of a group of event simulation tool. Ms Soumya Rao, a Master of Mechatronics researchers who are at the forefront of rail research in the world. student at UOW has utilized QUEST to simulate underground coal Since the mid 1990s after starting rail track research for the mining processes in order to identify critical bottle necks and first time in an Australian university, almost every PhD student analyze the impact of implementing alternative technologies. This in the rail track area in Australia has been a student of Professor project was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Indraratna. Cook (Dean of Engineering at UOW) & A/Prof. Ernest Baafi (Mining Engineering at UOW). Professor Indraratna and his co-researchers along with RailCorp have been involved in the design and construction of modern Soumya Rao’s work was aimed at simulating a mine to under- rail tracks using high strength plastic grids and synthetic drain stand the current processes involved in roadway development. systems and for introducing new ballast standards for rail tracks The project was concluded by simulating the utilization of Self in Australia to cater for faster and heavier trains. Drilling Rock Bolt (SDRB) technology to analyze its impact on the production rate. Earlier this year, the NSW Premier Nathan Rees and Transport minister David Campbell announced $10 million in funding from With the support and participation from various mining personnel, RailCorp to establish the SMART Rail institute at UOW. a realistic and accurate model of the roadway was built in QUEST. The various individual processes were mapped and simulated. The Rail Institute will play a critical part in the overall develop- Data for failure, cycle times, wait times & maintenance delays ment of the University of Wollongong’s SMART (Simulation, were sorted with respect to sequence of occurrence. The process Modelling and Analysis for Research and Teaching) Infrastructure was then simulated for the collected set of details and compared Facility now under construction at the University. against the real mine output to validate the software. B-HERT Awards were established in 1998 to recognise Prof Cook says “We were so encouraged at the positive response outstanding achievements in collaboration between business by the Industry to Ms Rao’s research that we are continuing and higher education in the fields of research and development to use QUEST, and its accompanying tools to develop system and education and training. The objective of the program is to analysis and visualization capability to support our on going highlight at a national level the benefits of such collaboration and research into other areas in underground coal mining. This enhance links between industry and universities. B-HERT awards research includes the design and implementation of automated are primarily sponsored by the Federal Government’s Department rock bolting and mesh handling systems, and a revolutionary new of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. roof support system using spray on roof liners”.

12 A/Professor Gary Tian from the Chinese Commerce Research A/Prof Sharon Robinson has been appointed as a member of Centre (CCRC) in the School of Accounting and Finance the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC) until 2012 by recently received research funding for travel expenses from the Peter Garret (Minister for the Environment). Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management The Antarctic Science Advisory University (SMU), to visit SMU in early 2010. This visit will further Committee plays an important strengthen the research collaboration between the CCRC in role in providing government UOW and SMU which has already seen co-authored papers with expert advice on the submitted to top finance journals and conferences. Gary Tian areas of scientific research was also invited to deliver a research seminar paper on “No News that should be considered a is Not Good News: Evidence from the Intraday Return Volatility- priority for Australia’s Antarctic Volume Relationship in Shanghai Stock Exchange” at the Korean Program. The committee will University Business School (KUBS) on 7th December 2009. The be developing recommen- KUBS is ranked consistently as one of the top Business Schools dations for a new Science in Asia. This visit will create opportunities for research collabora- Strategy for government to consider. tion between the Commerce Research Centre (CCRC) in the School of Accounting and Finance and the Finance Discipline at UOW Academics appointed to KUBS. World Commission on Protected Areas Child Obesity Research Two UOW academics, Dr Michael Adams from the Woolyungah Centre news Indigenous Centre and Professor David Farrier from the Institute Congratulations to Dr Dylan Cliff who has been awarded a Heart of Conservation Biology and Law, were appointed in October to a Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature These are extremely competitive and prestigious fellowships, with (IUCN), the largest conservation organisation in the world. Dylan competing against some of the brightest and most talented Dr Adams and Professor early career public health researchers in the country. Only a very Farrier were invited to a small number of fellowships are awarded annually. This is appar- workshop in Bonn, Germany ently the first time a UOW researcher has received one. in July to help IUCN produce This fellowship will allow Dylan to continue his cutting-edge a major new publication, the research in the area of physical activity and sedentary behaviour international Guidelines for among children. Protected Areas Legislation. They prepared a case study This Fellowship would not have been possible without the support on Indigenous co- manage- of initial post-doctoral funding from the Faculty and University. ment at Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay, and an overview of This allowed Dylan to spend his first 12 months post-PhD Indigenous co-management arrangements in Australia, as well building his track record and formulating his ideas into a competi- as joining lawyers and conservation managers from around the tive application. world in a comprehensive review of the 600 page draft publica- Also - Dylan Cliff attended the 14th Physical Activity and Public tion. Following the workshop, both academics were invited to join Health Researchers Course at Hilton Head the World Commission on Protected Areas. Island, USA. The course is delivered by Dr Adams said ‘The Bonn workshop was an excellent example South Carolina University and the Centers of the benefits of working collaboratively. We had lawyers, for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers and park managers from 15 nations contributing and aims to develop competencies in to the development of the Guidelines. When published, the physical activity research, particularly Guidelines, which will be translated into several languages, will be in research design and grantsmanship. the global standard for developing protected areas law’. While abroad, Dylan visited the Prevention Research Centre at Stanford University

where he attended after-school sessions Dr Mitch Byrne, Lecturer in the School of Psychology, has been of the ECHALE (Expressing Culture through Healthful Activity awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award for 2009 and Lifestyle Education) study, which aims to prevent diabetes from the Australian Psychological Society. and excessive weight gain in preadolescent Latina girls through The award is based on examiners’ reports, dance. publications emanating from the thesis, and overall impact of the research. It is not often that this Award goes to students in clinical Tony Okely was invited to be one of two international consult- psychology so winning this award is added ants to advise on and contribute to the development of Draft testament to the quality and impact of his Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours for the work. Early Years for the UK Government.

A/Professor Mary Kaidonis presented a paper titled “STRATEGIC DISCOURSE AND AUSTRALIA’S CARBON POLLUTION REDUCTION SCHEME” paper co-authored by Mary Kaidonis, Professor Shirley Leitch and Dr Jane Andrew at the Global Dialogue Conference 2009 Climate Change as Challenge for Intercultural Inquiry on Values, November 2009, Aarhus University Denmark, Denmark. 13 Release of Early Craig is currently Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, School of Psychology, and teaches Cognitive Behaviour Childhood Guidelines Therapy and Clinical supervision to postgraduate students. In October, the Federal Government released the much anticipated Get up and Grow National Nursing Appointment Healthy Eating and Physical The Dean of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Science, Activity Guidelines for Early Patrick Crookes, has become the Chair of the Council of Deans of Childhood Settings. As a Nursing and Midwifery. This elected position acknowledges and consultant to the project and in values Patrick’s contribution to nursing and midwifery in Australia his capacity as the corresponding and New Zealand. author of the Australian Physical Activity Recommendations Patrick has been on the Council for Children 0-5 years (which since 1999 and on the executive have been embedded in the for 8 years, serving as Secretary and Deputy Chair for the last 2. As Guidelines), Tony Okely spoke at the launch by the Federal Deputy Chair Patrick was active in Health Minister, Nicola Roxon and promoting the voice of academic conducted several media interviews. nursing and midwifery, particularly pre-registration nurse education The Get up and Grow guidelines will be sent to every childcare at all levels, including state and setting in Australia. They provide a comprehensive resource federal level politics. Nursing and including a manual for Directors and Setting Staff, posters and midwifery quality and supply are brochures, a cookbook, and information for parents on how they major issues in health services can provide healthy options for their child and support their child- worldwide and the Council has a care setting. A copy of the resource can be downloaded from: major role in promoting excellence in RN/RM preparation, whilst http://www.nhhrc.org.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/phd-gug-directorscoord also promoting (and sometimes defending) the professions from attack by forces of conservatism - for example, those who see The Child Obesity Research Centre (CORe) hosted Professor the simple cure for the ills of health services to be to ‘put nurse Thomas McKenzie from San Diego State education back into the hospitals’. University recently. He delivered a training At the same time, the Council is regularly consulted on issues session on the measurement of physical related to public policy and planning; as well as providing leader- activity in physical education using direct ship for the development of nursing and midwifery via research. observation, and presented on the series of National Institute of Health research Patrick has also represented Council on several major Govt. projects he has contributed to which aim sponsored curriculum initiatives for example in relation to Aged to promote physical activity in schools and Care and Mental Health Nursing content in RN preparation the community. programmes; both of which have led to recommendations for curriculum updating across programmes in Australia. Patrick currently represents Council on the National Health Workforce A/Professor Craig Gonsalvez has been awarded the Australian Taskforce’s expert panel for ‘Simulated Learning Environments’. Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists’ Award of Distinction for In recent times, The Australian and New Zealand Council of 2009. The College’s Award of Distinction Deans of Nursing and Midwifery has become a founding member is given to a candidate of exceptional of the Global Alliance for Nurse Education, Leadership and merit. It recognises the importance and Science (GANES) [yes there is no L in the acronym!] which is significance of an individual’s contri- a collaboration currently of similar Councils from the US, UK bution to the specialist field of clinical and Canada. Its charter is to provide leadership and assist in psychology and significant contributions the sharing of expertise in leading nurse education, globally. to the College over a number of years. Patrick currently sits on the executive of GANES, as one of three members representing Australia and New Zealand. Craig Gonsalvez, a clinical psychologist by training, was Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and Deputy Head, Department of Medical psychology at Westmead Asthma: Not A Sign of Old Age Hospital, when he was recruited to the University of Wollongong Older people and their GPs are not recognising the risks of in 1996 to teach in its clinical psychology programs. He has asthma among the over 65s. Many saw asthma symptoms served as Director of Clinical Psychology Training in the School “more as a nuisance, [a sign of] getting old” despite the high of Psychology for several years (2001-2004; 2008 – current) rate of asthma-attributed deaths for this age group. These and has contributed in a significant way to raising the quality were the findings of a study published in the August issue of and reputation of clinical psychology training at the University the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. of Wollongong. His contribution to clinical psychology training Kelly Andrews (pictured) and Sandra was recognised by the Australian Psychological Society when Jones from the Centre for Health he was selected to be Chair of Course Approvals for the APS Initiatives talked to older adults and College of Clinical Psychologists. Craig’s research contributions health professionals on their knowl- are in the area of clinical psychophysiology. He is principal edge of asthma and asthma diagnosis. investigator of an ongoing ARC-Linkage grant, “Problem Participants talked of asthma being a Gambling: Can subtle physiological reactions to wins and losses ‘young person’s disease’ and did not help identify the problem gambler? understand the risks of asthma in relation 14 to other health problems. industries from more than 30 different countries. A health professional remarked: “We aren’t really good at identi- Among these were UOW’s plenary speaker Institute of fying it and there’s very few people over the age of 45 who have Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) Director, pure asthma, it’s always mixed … to sort out what is asthma … Professor Shixue Dou; along with keynote speaker Professor and what is lifestyle related is really very difficult.” Xiaolin Wang and PhD student Hao Liu also from ISEM. Associate Ms Andrews said more support and information should be avail- Professor Guoxiu Wang also gave the opening address and a able. Other research has found that more than one-third of a keynote speech. sample of adults aged 55 and over had undiagnosed asthma. The Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1988, Professor Robert “Increased knowledge and understanding is needed to make Huber, gave a plenary speech with the title “Proteins and their older adults aware that asthma could be a reason for their Structures at the Interface of Physics, Chemistry and Biology”. symptoms,” she said. “In doing this, consideration must also be given to the needs of health professionals to help them do their job well.” Advanced Communication These findings were published in the August edition of the Health Methods for Integrated Promotion Journal of Australia, and emerge from research being Transport Applications conducted by the Centre for Health Initiatives with the Asthma An ongoing collaboration between A/Professor Rodney Clarke, Foundation through an ARC Linkage Grant. School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, and Director of the Centre for Applied Systems Research (CASR), and Per Echeverri of CTF (a multidisciplinary Adolescent Sun Protection research center at Karlstad University) and SAMOT (a Transport The Centre for Health Initiatives, via an ARC linkage grant with Research Group) is producing new communication methods for Cancer Council NSW, have been pilot testing in the month of use in travel analysis. Drs. Clarke and Echeverri have been aware September a measurement instrument of adolescent sun related of each others work behaviours. for some time but it The UniAdvice Year 12 Information Evenings provided a great was only possible to opportunity for the research team to access their target market, start up a research young people, to complete the survey. Along with participation partnership late last from a number of schools in the year. Dr. Echeverri Illawarra area, over 500 surveys visited CASR in were completed in the pilot study. late 2008 and now Results from the pilot are currently CTF is hosting Dr. being analysed by the research Clarke as a Guest team, with the final instrument Researcher for being used to evaluate a social Dr. Per Echeverri & Ass/Prof Rod Clarke three weeks. marketing program targeting Dr. Clarke works in a broad improved sun protection of adoles- range of applied systems using communication theory to under- cents commencing in December stand the complex relationship between users, clients and 2009. customers, and the manual or technology assisted systems in The social marketing campaign will which they find themselves enmeshed. Of particular interest are target various regions of NSW over communication resources that are used for making references to the summer of 2009/10, with initial results of the study expected service attributes and environments and also to those resources in May 2010. used for eliciting knowledge and experiences from service partici- pants. This type of communication approach is a natural fit with Dr. Echeverri’s work into video methodologies for representing the Triple symposia discusses latest processual aspects of services. These communication resources research on novel materials will form the basis for new travel service design methods. It is also likely that these new methods can also be applicable to China’s Fudan University and the University of Wollongong more traditional interests, for example operations management recently held a joint symposium in Shanghai, China. and manufacturing, where sequences of action are triggered It was the 5th International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry by or trigger communication including but not limited to service (IUPAC) international symposium on novel materials and their encounters. synthesis, together with the 19th international symposium on fine Dr. Clarke’s involvement in Swedish information systems dates chemistry and functional polymers and the 3rd symposium on from the early 1990s, but culminated in him being awarded a power sources for energy Docent i Informatik from Karlstad University in 2007, an unusual storage and their key distinction for non-Swedish academics. Karlstad University and materials. the University of Wollongong have had a long history of strategic Co-chairmen, Professor agreements dating from the mid-1990s in a range of disciplines Yu-Ping Wu from Fudan including information systems, computer science, the creative University and Associate industries, and now business administration and service science. Professor Guoxiu Wang from UOW invited more than 400 participants to attend these international joint symposia. This included 300 international distinguished guests and over 20 representatives of 15 Visual Storytelling for the 1st Prize. Congratulations to our PhD student Salar Niknafs from EMI Research Strength who presented an excel- Workshop at ABC lent talk entitled “ Study of Rapid High Temperature Solid-state In September 2009, Dr Helen Caple (English Language and Phase Transformations and Phase-Field Modelling in Fe-C Linguistics) delivered a workshop on visual storytelling to ABC and Fe-Ni Alloys”and was awarded the 1st Prize. Salar was journalists who are working in the Continuous News Centre at the congratulated by Jules Byrnes himself. Salar has previously ABC in Ultimo. The workshop is the culmination of a 2-year ARC completed his Master by Research at UOW under supervision Linkage Project between the ABC and the University of Sydney of Prof. Rian Dippenaar and they just recently published a book (USYD), in which senior management, based on his thesis: “Direct Observations of High Temperature state editors and ABC trainers and entry- Phase Transformations in Steel: Delta-ferrite to Austenite level journalists have been interviewed Transformation” (See publication section). regarding their views on their readiness for multiplatform journalism. During this time, how best to incorporate visual UOW Research into religious images into their online news bulle- bigotry and marriage airs tins has been identified as an urgent training need and this workshop aimed on abc radio national to address this need. The 4-hr workshop A two-hour radio was designed by Helen Caple, under the series, “Marrying direction of CI Assoc Prof Anne Dunn, Out’, made by UOW Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts at USYD. Journalism lecturer Evaluation of the workshop immediately after the session, along Siobhan McHugh, with feedback from News editors and managers, has demon- aired on the Hindsight strated the resounding success of the workshop, which will now history program on be incorporated into the training of ABC journalists who have little ABC Radio National experience with visual storytelling. The workshop will be rolled in October. The out nationally to all ABC centres, where journalists who tradition- series explores ally specialised in one media format (especially radio) will be the family conflict re-trained in the art of telling compelling news stories through caused by Catholic- visual images. A paper on the project will also be presented Protestant marriage in premulticultural Australia (1920s-‘60s). by Helen and Anne at the Journalism Education Association It is based on 50 oral history interviews conducted by Siobhan, Australia (JEAA) Conference in Perth in early December. a DCA (Doctorate of Creative Arts) candidate. Series music was composed by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald, a DCA graduate of UOW, The Jules Byrnes supported by a URC small grant. The series attracted widespread student presentation interest from ABC listeners and was the subject of an hour-long evening organised talkback on ABC’s ‘Life Matters’ program. Siobhan also delivered by NSW Branch of a lecture on sectarianism and religious bigotry in Australia at Materials Australia the Freilich Foundation Summer School at the ANU Humanities was held on the 25th Research Centre this year. ‘Marrying Out’ can be podcast on of November. Four http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight PhD students repre- senting UNSW, UTS, USyd and UOW were competing

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Prime Minister presents across Australia to have been awarded $63,500 to undertake an UOW student with Asia international research, study and internship experience in Japan. He will be using this opportunity to develop his research in Endeavour Award Nanotechnology, applied in solar energy at the Intelligent Polymer On 25 November, the Research Institute at his host University in Japan, Shinshu Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, University. announced recipients of the The prestigious Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards Prime Minister’s Australia provide scholarships for the ‘best and brightest’ university Asia Endeavour Award, students from Australia and Asia. including UOW PhD student Matthew Griffith. They provide the unique opportunity for postgraduates and undergraduates to undertake not only international study and Mathew is one of 20 research, but also internships or work placements. The Awards postgraduate students from aim to build deep and enduring education and professional 16 linkages between Australia and Asia. They also provide an oppor- UOW hosts three-day interna- tunity for Australian universities and the Australian Government to work in partnership to identify and reward high calibre scholars. tional symposium on renewable Read more: energy storage http://www.pm.gov.au/node/6356 Global warming and climate change represent a major challenge facing humanity today. It is now well recognised that the burning of fossil fuels is seriously threatening the planet. Korean Consul General visit The development of renewable energy storage and conversion marks growing collaboration technologies will play a pivotal role in reducing greenhouse gas between UOW and Korea emissions. A delegation from In light of this, UOW hosted a three-day “International Symposium Korea visited the on Renewable Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies” University on from 18-20 November at its Innovation Campus. November 23-24 with Key organizer, Associate Professor Guoxiu Wang of the University a view to exploring new of Wollongong invited more than 100 guests, including 50 inter- collaborative opportuni- national and national speakers and some guests from the indus- ties linked to the devel- tries to attend this significant symposium. Speakers are attending opment of the AIIM from China, USA, Korea, Japan, Canada, Singapore and from Processing & Devices universities across Australia. Facility under construc- Some of the topics to be discussed include: Advanced primary tion at the Innovation and secondary batteries, fuel cell technologies, hydrogen storage The Korean Consul General, Woong Nam Kim, Campus. is officially welcomed to UOW by (from left) materials, thermoelectric and other renewable energies and IPRI Director Professor Gordon Wallace, Deputy The delegation electrochemical and solid-state supercapacitors. Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Judy Raper and included Korean Vice-Chancellor Professor Gerard Sutton. The focus of the symposium is on the creation of technology Consul General, networks and technical road maps that will serve as foundations Woong Nam Kim, who was officially welcomed to UOW by for the research and development of the state-of-the-art in renew- Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton, Deputy Vice-Chancellor able energy applications. (Research) Prof Judy Raper and IPRI Director Prof Gordon Sponsors for this include the UOW Research Council, UOW Wallace. Other delegates included Korean university representa- Energy Futures Network, ISEM, ACES, WCU Centre for Next tives and Koreans from various commercial outlets. Generation Battery, Korea and Innovation campus. Read more: http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW069562.html

Solar Cells Forum triggers robust debate A forum being held at the Innovation Campus over 16 and 17 November by IPRI in conjunction with ACES involves international experts in the area of solar energy research coming together for robust debate on the science behind the research. Forum partici- pants are discussing the scientific challenges to make solar power an even more attractive and efficient proposition. The forum is entitled “Challenges in Solar Cell Characterisation: Theory, Spectroscopy and Devices”. Researchers have made recent inroads to the harvesting of sunlight for next-generation solar cells, a step closer to emulating photosyn- thesis as in nature. This research involves dye-sensi- tised solar cells, in which a photosensi- Solar cell forum participants pictured at the Innovation Campus tive pigment or dye is attached to a large surface area inorganic semiconductor (typically titanium dioxide), likened to photosynthetic struc- tures. Read more: http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW069351.html

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More information about available Higher Degree Research scholarships http://www.uow.edu.au/research/rsc/prospective/index.html

ARC Funded PhD Scholarship (MOET-VIED) Vietnamese in Organic Chemistry Doctoral Students (Joint A PhD scholarship funded by an Australian Research Council Scholarships Program) Discovery Grant is available to Australian Citizens, New Zealand Five to ten awarded annually to students from Vietnam wishing citizens and Australian Permanent Residents. Project: Total to enrol in a Doctorate at UOW. UOW will award International synthesis of bioactive alkaloids and analogues for structure valida- Postgraduate Tuition Awards (IPTA) to all successful MOET-VIED tion and biological screening. scholarship awardees.

SMART Infrastructure modelling China Scholarship Council-UOW (within the SMART Facility at UOW) (Joint Postgraduate These awards are tenable within the SMART Infrastructure Scholarship Program) Facility at the University of Wollongong and are available to Ten to fifteen per year awarded by CSC to University of both Australian and International applicants. It is envisaged Wollongong (UOW). UOW will award International Postgraduate that successful applicants will start their studies in Spring Tuition Awards (IPTA) to all successful CSC scholarship awardees. session 2010. The Vice Chancellor has approved 5 new SMART Unsuccessful CSC applicants will, if eligible, be considered for a Infrastructure scholarships for 2010 UPA in the next round.

Materials Research (Energy or Health) at the Innovation Campus Commercialisation Training (IPRI/ ACES) - PhD Opportunitites Scheme Scholarship (CTS) - At the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) opportunities 2010 Applications Now Open exist for students to become part of a unique research training environment to carry out research on materials. For Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) and University Postgraduate Awards (UPA) UPA commencing in 2010 Equity Scholarships there will be an Autumn and Spring round. Two types of Equity scholarships have been introduced for 2010 – 2 for Indigenous applicants and 2 for Women in non traditional areas (Engineering and Informatics).

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IEEE CONFERENCE to be Gender and Occupations and hosted in 2010 at UOW Interventions in the Asia Pacific The School of Information Systems and Technology will host the CAPSTRANS recently held a workshop on ‘Gender and next International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) Occupations and Interventions in the Asia Pacific, 1945-2009’. in 2010. Dr Holly Tootell and Dr Katina Michael from the Faculty The workshop brought together for the first time established of Informatics will take on the roles of Organising Committee scholars, ECRs, postgraduates and community members and Chair, and Program Committee Chair. The conference will have activists to discuss issues related to gender, occupation and the theme: “The Social Implications of Emerging Technologies” intervention. and will attract participants from an estimated 15 countries Military occupations and interventions, increasingly common in worldwide. The conference will be held at the UOW between regions of the Asia Pacific, have a gendered impact on both those 7th-9th of June 2010. Among the keynote and plenary addresses engaged in occupying or intervening, and those whose lands that have already been secured are: Professor John Weckert, have been occupied or are undergoing an intervention. Yet little Professor Kevin Warwick, and Mr Amal Graafstra. The conference is known about this gendered impact, in terms of both masculini- will be multidisciplinary and again, Holly and Katina encourage ties and femininities, either historically or in more contemporary Wollongong academics to submit full papers for review. The five times. tracks include: Automatic Identification, Location Based Services, More at: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/index.html Social Networking, Nanotechnology, Privacy Security & Human Rights. Select papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, with other papers appearing in a special issue of the Journal of Cases in Information Technology, and the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. Abstract submission has past. Enquiries to [email protected]

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