THE MAGAZINE OF CURTIN UNIVERSITY ISSUE 24_SUMMER 2014/2015
WORTH WATCHING Curtin graduate wins Emmy for hit TV show title sequence
Living under shared skies A collision of astronomy, art and culture from around the globe
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Cover Raoul Marks – Curtin alumnus and Emmy winner. cite_contributors Editorial Team Editor: Jarrad Long Sub Editor: Anita Shore Claire Bradshaw Sue Emmett Andrea Lewis Staff Writers: Carmen Reilly, Claire is a freelance Sue is a freelance writer Andrea is a freelance Courtney Schuur, Jessica Ibacache writer, editor and and photojournalist, writer and editor. She scriptwriter, with more with special interests was formerly publications Creative Direction than 20 years’ experience in science, technology, manager in Curtin’s Luisa Rheinlander in the communications Western Australian corporate communications Design field. She completed her business, education and area. Manifesto Design creative writing degree the marine environment. at Curtin. Contributing Writers Claire Bradshaw, Sue Emmett, Andrea Lewis, Steve Packer
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Under shared skies The Square Kilometre Array promises to connect scientists with the universe like never before, but the project, yet to enter construction, is already connecting us with one another.
feature_stories regular_features 18 Alumni profile Taking London by storm 16 All things being equal 02 VC’s view A commerce degree has taken A Curtin research team is Melissa Whiteside to the 03 In brief developing a way to measure world-famous insurance just how equitable university is. 05 Campus life market, Lloyd’s of London. 20 Going for gold 07 Alumni profile 18 Alumni profile Building a bright future for Worth watching Space and power Curtin WA School of Mines. Raoul Marks has won an Professor Oren Yiftachel is Emmy for his work on the title a scholar of international sequence to hit TV show, True standing who currently teaches snap_shots Detective. at a university in Israel. 07 Alumni profile Living Aboriginal history 22 Rear view 06 A healthy attitude Perth’s Aboriginal heritage Julie Meek is a renowned 24 In perspective has been put back on the map sports performance specialist Answering the big questions thanks to the Karla Yarning and dietician with a passion for The discoveries that are yet to project. making a difference. come are what inspire Curtin Building bicycles astronomer Dr John Morgan. 19 inspires teens Bicycle workshops in Perth’s Cite magazine is now online. hills are helping high school Read and share your favourite students dream big. stories and access web-exclusive content at curtin.edu.au/cite vc’s_view
VICE-CHANCELLOR CURTIN UNIVERSITY
The Australian university sector is facing unprecedented change due in-part to the proposed Federal Government’s higher education reforms. Although many challenges lie ahead, the successes highlighted in this edition of Cite indicate that Curtin is well placed to continue growing as a The successes highlighted global innovator in the areas of teaching, learning and research. in this edition of Cite indicate The University’s meteoric rise in the Academic Ranking of World that Curtin is very well placed Universities 2014 reflects Curtin’s commitment to engaging in high- impact research and providing high-quality education. Now in the to continue growing as a top two per cent of universities worldwide according to the Times global innovator in the areas of World University Rankings 2014, our 2030 goal of becoming a leading teaching, learning and research. international university is firmly in sight. Two budding Curtin researchers were recognised at the Premier’s Science Awards 2014. You can read about their winning research programs, which have significant bearing in the fields of mathematics and applied physics, on page 3. As the higher education industry transforms teaching and learning capabilities, the work of the Director of the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Professor Sue Trinidad, will become all the more pertinent. Her valuable work and the Centre’s proactive approach to ensuring equal access to higher education is featured on page 16. October marked the start of construction on the Agricola student accommodation redevelopment in Kalgoorlie. This modern facility will enable more Curtin science and engineering students to study on-location at one of Australia’s major mining hubs (see page 20). It was my pleasure to present the 2014 John Curtin Medal to Clinton Heal, a young melanoma survivor and founder of MelanomaWA. Clinton’s outstanding contribution to the community can be found on page 3. Indigenous artists from Australia and South Africa recently showcased work in the Shared Skies exhibition at John Curtin Gallery. Linking ancestral stories with the major Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, this stunning exhibition reflects the scale and power of the SKA project and the potential role it can play in reconciliation (see page 8). Page 6 covers the successful ‘Karla Yarning – stories of the home fires’ project. A major step toward Indigenous healing and inclusion, the two maps locate important Wadjuk Noongar sites across Perth’s CBD. I hope you enjoy this exciting edition of Cite. You can access these articles, as well as exclusive content, online at curtin.edu.au/cite.
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MelanomaWA founder Clinton Heal with his Award winners Dr Ryan Loxton and Students pose with fashion icon Jimmy Choo, nominator for the medal, Associate Professor Mark Zammit designer Illiza Ho (far left) Head of School Design Jan McKay and Art, Anne Farren (back right) and Vice- Chancellor, Professor Deborah Terry (far right)
Melanoma crusader Young scientists honoured at Fashion students meet icon wins John Curtin Medal 2014 Premier’s Science Awards Jimmy Choo
Thirty-one year old Clinton Heal has been Curtin University young scientists have won Curtin final-year fashion students awarded the prestigious 2014 John Curtin top state awards taking out both the experienced the opportunity of a lifetime in Medal for his outstanding personal resilience Woodside Early Career Scientist of the Year August when they met and exhibited their and the community service he has given to and the ExxonMobil Student Scientist of the work to global fashion icon, Professor Jimmy raising awareness about melanoma across Year categories in the 2014 Premier’s Science Choo OBE. Western Australia. Awards. The world-renowned shoe designer visited In 2005, Heal, then 22 and a radiographer Dr Ryan Loxton, Senior Lecturer in Curtin’s Curtin’s School of Design and Art last week at Peel Health Campus, was diagnosed with Department of Mathematics and Statistics, as part of Fashion Advocate, a proposed new metastic melanoma. Since then he has had won the Woodside Early Career Scientist of education program to help boost Western 35 tumours removed from his body. Proactive the Year category with his research, which Australia’s creative industry. from the start in managing his life- uses mathematical techniques to find ways Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Terry threatening disease, it did not take the young of controlling real-world robotic, electronic and Professor Majella Franzmann Faculty of Curtin graduate with a degree in Medical and chemical engineering systems. Humanities Pro-Vice Chancellor, welcomed Imaging Science and an MBA long to Mr Mark Zammit, a PhD candidate in the Professor Choo and his current protégé, recognise there was little support in WA for Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, handbag designer Illiza Ho. melanoma victims and their families. was named the ExxonMobil Student Scientist Students Mallory Maduka-Ika, Jayde In 2008, Heal established the not-for-profit of the Year, for his work developing the Christie, Tia Tokic, Maegan Da Silva, Melanie organisation MelanomaWA, which today world’s most accurate model for describing Lam and Chanelle Gibbs each had the provides immediate information, advice and the collisions of atoms and molecules. opportunity to discuss their latest design support for sufferers, their families, friends Curtin’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research projects, receiving some valuable feedback. and carers and the broader community, and Development, Professor Graeme Wright The affable fashion icon shared his business including schools and sporting clubs. said it was exciting to see the University’s card with each student, saying they were In 2011, he was named WA Young young scientists being rewarded for their welcome to contact him for further advice. Australian of the Year. research. The Fashion Advocate program aims to “I have always had a passion to help “It is fantastic to see the next generation bring to life the disappearing art of people get better and when the thought of of scientists carrying out research that is at craftsmanship, encouraging young people to starting a melanoma-specific organisation the leading edge of significant scientific take up careers in design. came about, my MBA education and discoveries, and then for those researchers His first time in Australia, Professor Choo generous volunteer support played a to be recognised for their work,” says spoke to audiences in Perth on behalf of The significant part in setting up the facility and Professor Wright. West Australian newspaper’s Fashion making it happen,” says Heal. Agenda initiative. Born in Malaysia in 1961, Professor Choo followed in his cobbler father’s footsteps and made his first pair of shoes at just 11 years of age.
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Curtin’s strength in research is a major factor Laurie Oakes optimistic about future of The Curtin Ignition team growing stronger for the jump up the international rankings. journalism
Curtin improves world ranking Laurie Oakes public lecture Curtin Growth Ignition by more than 100 places program
Curtin University has significantly improved As part of Curtin’s 40-year anniversary The Curtin Centre for Entrepreneurship’s its rankings in the highly regarded Academic of journalism, political editor for the Ignition program continued to grow this year Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Nine Network and respected political with 54 of Western Australia’s entrepreneurs Curtin is now placed 303 within the commentator Laurie Oakes, presented attending the event in Perth. 301-400 band, up from the 401-500 band in a public lecture at the Bentley Campus The program, established in 2011, allows 2013. The University was one of only 19 in September. budding entrepreneurs to come together Australian universities ranked in 2014 and is Oakes provided valuable insights into the for an intense week of learning and placed equal 10th nationally. current state of political journalism and its collaboration, with the purpose of turning Curtin University Vice-Chancellor, uncertain future in the digital age. innovative ideas into commercial reality. Professor Deborah Terry said she was “There’s been a lot of pessimistic Ignition Program Director Jane Garrett, delighted Curtin had significantly improved commentary about the future of journalism, said the course was a unique and proven its position in the ARWU. especially quality journalism,” he said. entrepreneurial learning program taking “The ARWU is widely recognised as the While traditional print and broadcast participants through a disciplined, intensive most relevant research-oriented university reporting are in retreat, the internet means process. ranking system worldwide and this is the politicians can bypass journalists to produce “The program enables entrepreneurs to sixth consecutive year Curtin has featured,” their own content. firstly validate their business concepts, then Professor Terry said. “As journalists we face the threat of to build the basis of a business plan and a “Curtin’s significant improvement in the reduced relevance,” Oakes said. funding proposition, all in one week. 2014 rankings is a reflection of the focus the However, he remained optimistic about “This year’s program featured a who’s who University has put, over a period of time, on the profession’s survival, noting many from the start-up, investment and innovation increasing its research performance. journalists have embraced online reporting community in Perth, and beyond. This is “One of the factors for this improvement is due to the public’s preference for online reflected by the quality of applicants we that Thomson Reuters recently revised the news and renewed appreciation for received and the awards some of the published list of Highly Cited researchers. unbiased, accredited articles. program’s alumni have achieved,” Curtin now has three researchers included “Journalism matters in our society. It’s Garrett says. which substantially improves Curtin’s fundamental to the operation of our The course is based on the successful position in the rankings, and is really democratic system,” he said. Ignite program, managed and delivered by gratifying,” Professor Terry said. With a career spanning 50 years and four the University of Cambridge Judge Business Curtin’s 2013-2017 Strategic Plan outlines Walkley Awards, including the Gold in 2010, School’s Centre for Entrepreneurial the intention to attract and retain iconic Oakes’s cogent reporting has earned him the Learning. scholars to undertake world-leading respect of peers, politicians, the public and The long-term aim of Ignition is to help research in areas of global significance. aspiring journalists. broaden the Western Australian and Oakes’s achievements reflect the aims Australian economic base and to drive and purpose of Curtin’s Department of growth, new business activity and Journalism, which has produced some of employment. Australia’s most successful media professionals.
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Superheroes, giant fuzzy animals and Star Wars characters took over Curtin’s Edinburgh Oval for 24 hours in October. The groups were part of Curtin’s annual Relay for Life event to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, education and support services.
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Living Aboriginal history The Karla Yarning maps of thousands of years of Aboriginal history “I think this project is important for before the arrival of the first white settlers two reasons,” says Jones. “Firstly, with Perth city centre are helping in 1829. The other (Fighting for country, the guidance of the area’s traditional to restore public awareness of rights and recognition) details post- owners, it expresses their continuing the city’s Aboriginal heritage. 1829 events, resistance and protest, and connection to country that exists there, organisations that worked to improve the and it aligns with a bigger project of lives of Aboriginal people. recognising all Aboriginal connections story Steve Packer Ideally, locals and tourists use the to country and the related history. PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES ROGERS brochures to guide them on walking tours “Secondly, it’s about the diversity of which each take about 90 minutes. Perth itself. If we can create a city where “Obviously there’s a real appetite for we recognise that there are many different Tod Jones was never in doubt about the this kind of information,” says Jones, groups with connections to places, and value of ‘Karla Yarning – stories of the home a senior lecturer at Curtin’s School of Built different ways of seeing those places, then fires’, the Aboriginal history and culture Environment. we’re creating a multicultural society that project he started working on in mid-2013 “Most of the interest has come from Perth can cope with difference and diversity.” for the City of Perth. And when the first 5,000 residents, and teachers have been keen to The illustrated brochures pull together copies of the project’s information brochures get their hands on the brochures as well.” a wealth of fascinating information and were snapped up within two months of Jones and Professor Len Collard, from make it accessible in a way that hasn’t publication in June, it was confirmation that The University of Western Australia, led been done before. many other people share his view. the project and drew on input from eight “The landscape has been through big The two brochures describe and map sites Aboriginal cultural advisors. There’s also changes,” says Jones, “but the history is in central Perth which were, and continue to a website where the brochures are available still there, and knowing about it enriches be, of significance to the Wadjuk people, the to download (perth.wa.gov.au/our-city/ life in the current city. At the same time, it area’s traditional owners. One brochure (This things-see-and-do/karla-yarning-stories- helps the families of the traditional owners city is Wadjuk country) is based on the many home-fires). re-enliven and reclaim their heritage.”
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Scotland. There, he learned the Louisiana waterways fill up the “artful skill of adding exploding characters’ silhouettes.
Jon Sander cars, muscled superstars and “We liked the idea that the machine guns” to DVD box art. characters and the landscape The experience sparked his were intrinsically linked,” Marks interest in the entertainment says. “They are born of that industry and motion graphics. environment, in the way that a He joined Antibody, a creative tree grows crooked on top of a production team based in windy hill. These characters are Sydney, and designed graphics people born of a psychological Worth watching_Raoul Marks for commercials and computer wasteland.” games, including Tom Clancy’s In recent years, TV series like story Carmen Reilly The Division and Ghost Recon. True Blood and Game of Thrones Catching the attention of major have cemented the titles sequence Raoul Marks’ work as a digital Georgina Noble (retired) and Steve US producers, Antibody was as an art form. animator has taken him from Rubeck (retired). invited to pitch for True Detective. “[For True Detective] the most a publishing house in Perth to Marks says some of the course’s The team beat four industry- crucial element was to help tell the red carpet of Hollywood. The most valuable aspects were the experienced firms to take on the the show’s story, to enrich it,” says project and, with Marks as head Marks. “The biggest compliment Curtin graduate’s striking visual robust debates that took place in- animator, won the 2014 Emmy for for me is being told, ‘we didn’t skip style, which recently earned him class about the ability of design to Outstanding Main Title Design. the titles’.” an Emmy, is as multilayered as explore deeper issues. Marks’ appreciation of Marks has since been involved in his career. “Finding that link between complexity and nuance is perhaps the highly successful Adidas FIFA Raised in Fremantle, Marks broader politics and design was a best demonstrated in the work. World Cup campaign and worked completed a degree in multimedia really engaging and illuminating Incorporating intricate detail on the titles for the acclaimed new design at Curtin. He fondly part of the course,” he says. and carefully overlaid imagery, AMC TV show, Halt and Catch Fire. remembers a number of lecturers After graduating, Marks the talented animator shows a Now based in Melbourne, Marks is who played a role in his formative designed publications for Perth keen understanding of visual continuing his work as a freelance years, notably Dr Andrew companies and then took up a allegory. In the montage, images motion designer for local and Hutchison, Xavier Ng Cheong Tin, film-advertising job in Edinburgh, of fire, streetscapes and polluted overseas clients.
of those friendships still remain an 800-year-old apartment today,” says Meek. in Tuscany they plan to slowly Meek has worked as a sole renovate. dietician in rural New South Wales, “I would like to establish helped sports organisations speaking work in Italy and Europe from grassroots to the elite level, in the next couple of years and established Belly Blasters (a become bilingual,” she says. weight reduction program), started “I feel very passionate about what her own business and written two I do and the difference I can make books. She is perhaps best known in people’s lives – that always A healthy attitude _Julie Meek for her work as a sports dietician drives me forward.” story Courtney Schuur for the Perth Wildcats basketball team and the Fremantle Dockers football club as well as writing and publishing a book entitled entitled Truth, Lies and Chocolate, which In year 9 at school, Julie Meek and a Postgraduate Diploma became a finalist in the World realised she wanted to help in Health Promotion, Meek had Food Media Awards. people choose a healthy lifestyle a solid foundation to become She now spends her time and food as a career. She sought the sought-after performance writing and speaking to corporate advice from a guidance counsellor specialist and sports dietician groups about how to embrace and came up with a plan to she is today. world-class athletes in the achieve her goal of becoming a Meek’s passion for healthy business realm. dietician. eating has led to an incredibly As her whirlwind career might After a completing three varied and successful 15-year indicate, Meek is not one to sit still degrees at Curtin – a Bachelor career, which she has loved from for long. Meek, her husband and in Nutrition and Food Science; a day one. “It was a small cohort three children recently bought Graduate Diploma in Dietetics; of like-minded people and some
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08 cite_summer 2014/2015 The Square Kilometre Array mega science project has ambitious celestial aims: looking deeper than ever before into time and space to help answer our questions about the early history of the universe. However, the new connections it is creating on the ground are also proving an extremely important aspect of the project, as its Shared Sky exhibition clearly demonstrates.
WHILE separated by a vast ocean, the inhabitants is also exciting the scientists Yamaji people of Western Australia and working on the SKA, as are the possibilities the people of San descent in South Africa the project offers for reconciliation. have much in common: they share the “We have learned an enormous amount same latitude and view of the southern from each other, and I think we are showing sky, they have a similar history of cultural how science can drive activities that dispossession following colonisation, and work towards reconciliation in interesting both have recently marked the arrival ways,” explains Curtin’s Professor of of some very modern and sophisticated Radio Astronomy and co-director of the technology in their quiet, ancestral International Centre for Radio Astronomy landscapes. Research (ICRAR) Professor Steven Tingay. Their traditional lands in the Murchison Tingay, like others involved in the project, region of Western Australia and the Karoo was in awe of the flat, ancient, pristine region in South Africa’s Eastern Cape land on which the Australian SKA radio are the chosen sites for the A$2 billion telescope and its precursor infrastructure international Square Kilometre Array was to be situated and was keen to learn (SKA) project. Different types of telescope more about its history. In 2009, discussions infrastructure are being hosted at each between astronomers, astrophysicists and site, combining to create the world’s local Indigenous artists started to open largest and most sensitive radio telescope, some interesting doors. capable of capturing unprecedented levels “We got together with a group of of information from some of the farthest indigenous artists from around the region reaches of the universe. who had already been painting their stories While it is their remoteness, sparseness about the night sky and visited Boolardy and lack of radio activity that lends these station where the Australian SKA site is sites their scientific attraction – they are, located,” he elaborates. “They walked their literally, some of the quietest places on land with us and shared their perspectives Earth – the celestial knowledge of their first on the night sky. In return, we showed them
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telescopic views of the sky, formed the exhibition Ilgarijri – things belonging to the sky – which was shown at Curtin before touring internationally. When it was announced in 2012 that the SKA project would be split between Australia and South Africa, extending the art project to the Karoo region was seen as an ideal way for the SKA to build connections across countries as well as cultures. While the Western Australian Indigenous artists continued to explore their relationship to the sky through paintings, collages, sculptural installations and emu egg carvings, artists of San descent worked collaboratively at the Bethesda Art Centre, on the edge of the Karoo, to produce large embroidered quilts inspired by the celestial creation myths of their ancestors. Fortunately, these ancient stories were meticulously recorded prior to the extinction of their language in the late 19th century. These works have now been brought together in the Shared Sky exhibition, curated by the John Curtin Gallery’s director, Chris Malcolm. Excitingly, two of the San descent artists travelled to Perth for the exhibition opening at Curtin, along with the Bethesda Art Centre’s founder, and all three spent time in the Murchison region with the Yamaji artists, furthering opportunities for collaboration and exchange. “Shared Sky is all about learning from one another, respecting and celebrating the ancient cultural wisdom the artists are connected to, alongside the new knowledge and vision of the SKA,” Malcolm explains of the exhibition, which sees the distinctly different (though equally rich and colourful) TOP: The Girl Who Made Stars, 230cm x 186cm, collaborative art quilt, First People Artists, Bethesda Arts Centre ABOVE: Collaborative painting, 2014, acrylic on canvas, Yamaji Art Centre, Image Charmaine Green artworks from both countries linked by spectacular time-lapse images of the night sky, as tracked by the SKA astronomers. “It reflects the internationally collaborative “The study of black holes, dark energy and new views of the sky through binoculars and spirit at the heart of the SKA and reinforces matter is relatively new, but we realised that telescopes and talked about the proposed its potential for respect, healing and Aboriginal people had been relating to the SKA project and what we hoped to achieve. reconciliation. Both of these communities dark spaces in the sky for a very long time. “These were eye-opening discussions have had their connections to their land, It was incredibly inspiring.” for us as scientists. An important reference their languages and their cultural identity point for many Aboriginal people is the huge seriously disrupted. This project provides ‘emu in the sky’, which is not made up of an opportunity for reconnection with the bright stars, but of dark patches running richness of their pasts in the context of their along the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. lives today.” The study of black holes, dark energy and In 2015, the exhibition will start its global matter is relatively new, but we realised that tour in Cape Town, South Africa before Aboriginal people had been relating to the travelling to more than 10 SKA partner dark spaces in the sky for a very long time. nations across five continents, encouraging It was incredibly inspiring.” many more people to reflect on the The artworks resulting from these initial important links between art, culture and interactions, exploring both traditional and science.
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Pasar Malam – Malay for ‘night market’ - is a not-for- profit student initiative, organised annually by the International Students Committee and Curtin Student Guild. It’s a celebration of Curtin’s diversity, with food and entertainment from around the globe, put together to conclude Multicultural Week.
photography Jessica Ibacache A feast for the senses
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With around 10,000 attendees each year, Pasar Malam has grown from Curtin’s “best kept secret” to the biggest cultural event on the University’s calendar. More than 40 stallholders and perfect spring weather made for an unforgettable event in 2014.
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Curtin provides Parkerville students with career development sessions, a Curtin career day excursion and regular volunteers at the workshops. “We provide guidance and an excursion that includes a tour of the campus and the chance to speak to student ambassadors, who are of a similar age,” Nielsen says. “Without Ride AHEAD the students might not have the exposure to university and may not consider it as an option. We give them a glimpse into a possible future.” The Parkerville program enables disengaged youth to graduate from secondary education and prepares them for employment through practical training, career development and classroom sessions in a welcoming environment. Parkerville Education, Employment and Training Program Manager Anna Ellis has noticed a significant change in the students who attend the workshops. “For students who have not succeeded in mainstream school the bike workshop has been a great incentive to re-engage in education.” Parkerville student Melissa Benfield looks forward to the bike workshop every week. “We made bikes to donate first and now we’re making our own with a lot of help from PEDAL the staff, so I feel very confident in making bikes now,” she says. Ellis says the Ride AHEAD program has contributed to Parkerville’s already established student career development focus by introducing the possibilities of higher education to students. POWER “Having people in from Curtin has given them the idea to do something more after school.” Nielsen says the outcomes of the program can’t be measured by academic results or university recruitment numbers, but through The art of bicycle restoration Dismantle, a bicycle rescue group that offers students’ personal growth and development. bicycle repairing mentoring sessions. has given a group of Perth “They’re much more confident in their With help from Dismantle bicycle ability to fix bikes and feel that they have teenagers a renewed mechanics, the teenagers restore two actually achieved something,” he says. enthusiasm for learning. bicycles: one for charity and one for “They’re proud of the fact that this is their themselves. Through bicycle restoration bike, they chose the colour and put it back and career assistance from Parkerville together and understand what’s going on. story Jessica Ibacache and Curtin staff, students learn basic There’s some ownership, confidence and mechanics, gain confidence in themselves pride in what they’re doing.” and acquire interpersonal skills essential for Project Coordinator Silvia Lozeva hopes FOR a teenager, riding a bicycle is liberating, employment and furthering their education. Ride AHEAD will maintain its momentum The program is associated with the Curtin but riding a bicycle you built with your own in 2015, and has plans to take the initiative AHEAD initiative, which seeks to raise hands is an achievement. At one of the to other educational providers. awareness and understanding of the benefits state’s oldest youth-focused not-for-profit of higher education. organisations, they’re getting the opportunity Len Nielsen, a staff volunteer from Curtin Curtin AHEAD to do just that. Student Equity who helped kick-start the curtin.edu.au/ahead The teenagers are students in Parkerville program, says Ride AHEAD is the stepping- Parkerville Children and Youth Care Children and Youth Care’s Education, stone for inspiring youth into university study. parkerville.org.au Employment and Training Program and “It’s a long-term thing that can actually participate in Ride AHEAD – a collaboration have an influence on them going to university Dismantle between Parkerville, Curtin University and in years to come,” he says. dismantle.org.au
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16 cite_summer 2014/2015 engineering, architecture and information technology. These groups are under-represented in higher education and therefore don’t experience its lifelong benefits equally. For example, low SES applies to 25 per cent of the Australian population, but only 17.3 per cent of higher education students. For Indigenous Australians, the comparative figures are 2.5 and 1.5 per cent. For people with a with a disability, they are eight and five per cent. “I was very lucky to come through a free education system, but it’s not like that now,” says Trinidad, who achieved a doctorate at Curtin in the early 1990s. “That makes it all the more important we can monitor and evaluate equity in higher education and see if there are initiatives that can be used to give disadvantaged students every opportunity to succeed.” Monitoring and evaluating the system’s equity is a deceptively complex task. Last year the Curtin-based NCSEHE started work on an innovative new method, the Equity Performance Framework (EFP), for the federal government. The initial draft has had feedback from a number of stakeholders and has gone out to the broader stakeholder group. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2015. “We’re building flexibility into the framework so that, as political policies and other factors shift, the performance of different or additional equity groups can be monitored, giving us a more holistic understanding of higher education equity,” says Trinidad. Trinidad is the project’s director, with Andrew Broadley as project manager. The NCSEHE team also includes the draft framework’s writers, product developer Tim Pitman and data analyst Paul Koshy. The project has a 10-person steering group Australia will soon have Trinidad grew up in regional Western with representatives from the Department of Education (the NCSEHE’s main funder), a comprehensive framework Australia and was the first member of her family to go to university. Early in her career National Centre for Vocational Education to monitor and help overcome she was a teacher of Indigenous students in Research, Australian Institute of Health inequities for disadvantaged a remote WA town. and Welfare, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Advisory Council, groups in higher education. Her background has deepened her understanding of the barriers and problems Australian Bureau of Statistics, Universities faced by many of the six groups identified Australia and Equity Practitioners in Higher in Australian higher education policy Education Australasia. when Professor Sue Trinidad talks about as requiring better equity: regional and ACHIEVING greater equity has been backed disadvantaged students coming through the remote students; lndigenous students; low by both sides of politics, resulting in many higher education system, it’s from personal socioeconomic status students; students initiatives to counter an issue which was experience as well as in her capacity as with a disability; students from non-English barely acknowledged two decades ago. director of the National Centre for Student speaking backgrounds; and women in The EPF has had bipartisan support since Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE). non-traditional areas of study such as its conception.
cite_summer 2014/2015 17 But political priorities are subject to As Pitman and Koshy note in the uncertainty. “We’re waiting to see what framework’s first draft: “It is important to happens with the decision about deregulation state from the outset that membership of of higher education currently going through one of these groups does not necessarily parliament,” says Trinidad. constitute disadvantage at the individual The project team has already had to deal level ... Some individuals within one or more with a change to the proposed framework of the equity groups might not consider this year when asked to extend the themselves disadvantaged and might resent stakeholders beyond universities, to take in being labelled as such. all providers of higher education including “However, explication of these groups TAFEs – about 160 institutions in total. is an acknowledgement by and through The complexity with equity itself is that public policy that, in most cases, under- it’s not just about who is at university and representation in higher education leads to how many graduate. “One of the reasons the future socioeconomic disadvantage, such framework is important is that it’s not just as higher levels of unemployment, lower monitoring higher education. It’s monitoring levels of lifetime earnings and worse health disadvantaged students right from entering outcomes.” education at a very young age, up to A LACK of self-recognition of being in an leaving the system. The whole education equity group is something Bowman can journey,” says Trinidad. “We know that equal relate to. “I was technically an equity student opportunity starts from birth, and one in five because I came from a low SES family, and Australian children is growing up without I was the first in my family to go to university,” the opportunities they need to succeed. she says. “But when I was coming through We have to be able to identify these children Curtin 10 years ago, I had no idea equity early and ensure the interventions are groups even existed.” making a difference.” Adds Trinidad: “The point is, we’ve moved This is of interest to non-government quite a long way in a decade because of organisations as well, says NCSEHE media the government policy of recognising the and communications officer Louisa Bowman. importance of supporting students like “For example, The Smith Family, which works Louisa and I. We managed to come through in the education space with disadvantaged without many support mechanisms, but now children, is interested in the framework students like us are likely to get picked up because it comes back to the interventions early and given more support to succeed. the government funds to provide outreach, “It’s one of the reasons Louisa and I, access and support to disadvantaged and and everyone else at the NCSEHE, are so marginalised groups.” passionate about this project.”
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“Being a retail broker at Lloyd As a wholesale broker, and Partners provided me with the Whiteside analyses her clients’ skillset to be a client first service risks and determines the most provider and to think quickly on effective ways of marketing my feet,” says Whiteside. “My time each risk to the London market on the graduate program provided at Lloyd’s of London on behalf many networks and contacts of their network partners and across our global organisation. retail brokers. “My first attempt And of course, like most of broking in Lloyds was an achievements in life, an element intimidating but great experience Taking London by storm _Melissa of luck aided me in reaching my and now something I do on a current role.” daily basis,” says Whiteside. She Whiteside Whiteside’s greatest career credits the business acumen, story Courtney Schuur achievement to date, and a analytical skills, report writing and defining moment in her life, was understanding of economics that being offered a secondment with she gained at Curtin as valuable A Commerce degree from Curtin JLT Group, whose companies the Lloyd and Partners office in skills used in her current role. has taken Melissa Whiteside all include Lloyd and Partners. In London. She describes it as “a Lloyd’s of London was founded the way to a prestigious position her graduate position she rotated surreal moment which reminded 325 years ago and maintains many within the world-famous through the company’s various me that putting in hard work does of the traditions built up over those insurance market at Lloyd’s of segments giving her the ability reap rewards.” years, including the historical London. to discover her own niche at the Whiteside has embraced Lutine Bell – traditionally struck Following graduation from company. London life, settling in the once for bad news and twice for Curtin Business School, Whiteside Whiteside was appointed southeast of the city. Although goods news – and the doormen spent a few years working for Account Executive, Mining and she initially found her famous wear red coats and top hats. an accounting firm, gaining Construction in 2012 and was workplace a little intimidating, she For Whiteside, these aspects are experience in office administration responsible for placing insurance now says “walking into Lloyd’s fascinating and make Lloyd’s of and business support. on behalf of clients by marketing every day is a fun experience and London a unique place to work. She then joined the Perth and broking to the Australian and a very unique way of transacting office of the global conglomerate, global market. business.”
had become excluded, through – about 100,000 people – so they law or land alienation. could have some safety in their “I was also part of the affordable lives and not be constantly under housing association for people threat of house demolition. who had hardships in the housing “We don’t know how many market, so this informed much of disasters would have happened my activism in later years.” without the activists around the Yiftachel subsequently went world, so I’m glad I’m one of on to complete his PhD in Israel, them,” he says. work for some of the world’s most Yiftachel partly attributes his renowned universities including world view to his upbringing. Space and power_Oren Yiftachel Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Born in Galilee in Israel, he was story Jessica Ibacache Berkeley in the United States, and raised in a kibbutz, a collective publish more than 120 articles and community based on agriculture 13 books. and socialist ideals. Professor Oren Yiftachel’s Technology (WAIT) as Curtin He has also founded a number “I grew up in what could be career has not been a typical one. University was previously known. of activist and professional called the socialist utopia that was The Israeli native is not only a Yiftachel says he was studying organisations. located in a mixed region of Arabs prominent academic in the field at WAIT when he first realised how “I headed the biggest activism and Jews. Property was shared by of urban and regional planning, urban and regional planning could organisation in Beersheba, everybody and we didn’t have any but an activist whose work benefit society. Gaza, which deals with human possessions,” he says. concentrates on human rights for Yiftachel now holds a “WAIT was a good influence”, he rights violations in the occupied the minorities and Indigenous territories by working a lot with distinguished academic position recalls. “Some of us were involved people of the Middle East. Palestinian organisations,” at Ben-Gurion University of the His interest in urban planning in the Swan Brewery battle. We he says. Negev, Israel, and continues his started in the 1980s studying a had a tent city and we slept there “I’ve also worked with quest of human rights through Bachelor of Arts in Urban and with the fringe dwellers, who were Indigenous communities in Israel. planning. Regional Studies at Curtin’s groups of Aboriginal Australians I used my skills as a planner to “The mission of every planner previous incarnation, the who camped on the outskirts of devise a regional plan for the is to make a better society and a Western Australian Institute of Australian towns and cities and recognition of these communities better city”, Yiftachel says.
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Going for Gold
A series of investments in the Curtin WA School of Mines in Kalgoorlie underpins the University’s commitment to the region and is ensuring that students get the best possible educational experience.
story Andrea Lewis
20 cite_summer 2014/2015 For students studying mining geology, A new 64-seat mine design laboratory mining engineering, mine surveying or commissioned in 2013 is in full use by metallurgical engineering at Curtin’s both students and staff. It allows students Kalgoorlie Campus, living in Australia’s gold to access over A$10 million in specialist mining capital during this time offers a software. A new mining equipment simulator unique educational opportunity. is being used for student teaching and Almost all, however, are living away from project work. home for the four or more years of their The School’s curriculum development Kalgoorlie experience. Where and how they takes place collaboratively and with input live during this time plays an important role from industry, ensuring its high quality in their student experience. and responsiveness to industry needs. The historic Agricola College has been This is achieved through Mining Education the hub of student accommodation for more Australia – a consortium of universities than 40 years. While its various facelifts teaching mining engineering that includes have kept the college relatively modernised, the University of New South Wales, the it is no longer able to keep up with growing University of Queensland and the University student numbers. For the first time in its of Adelaide, and is supported by the Minerals four-decade history, much of the college is Council of Australia. about to be rebuilt. “Mining Education Australia graduates The re-development will consist of a new over 85 per cent of Australia’s mining 180-bed facility and the refurbishment of engineers,” says Hall. “About ninety-five per an existing 48-bed facility. Expanding its cent of these graduates find employment housing capability from 160 to 228 students, within six months of graduating. Curtin, for the new college will be the temporary home example, supplies as many graduates to for around one third of Curtin WA School of BHP Billiton as does any other university. Mines’ student body. “Growth in student numbers remains Importantly, the new and modern strong and is projected to continue. That is accommodation has been designed to make true for our undergraduate programs but the college a social hub. Current dormitory- we are also expanding our research PhD style rooms will be replaced by ‘apartment- student numbers. Currently, we are quickly style’ living, with students each having their approaching 50 doctoral students in mining own room, while sharing lounges, bathroom The Agricola building project makes up engineering and metallurgical engineering.” and kitchen facilities with five others. one part of a larger picture of development Curtin’s Vice-Chancellor Professor “With international student numbers for the school with recent infrastructure Deborah Terry says the University remains strong – just over 200 currently represent and equipment investments in excess of very committed to the WA School of Mines more than 35 nations – and Australian A$5 million and a further A$5 million to be and Curtin’s presence in Kalgoorlie. students coming from all parts of WA and “The WA School of Mines is one of the around Australia, their first living away from spent in late 2014 and early 2015. Some learning infrastructure has already jewels in the crown for Curtin,” she says. home experience can have a great impact “It has a long and proud history of producing on them,” says Curtin WA School of Mines been upgraded. Launched in May this year, the new library and learning centre is a excellent graduates and of supporting an Director Steve Hall. industry that is absolutely critical to Western “It’s important that they have a high-quality significant investment and has already begun to create a new heart of campus. Australia. and welcoming residence waiting for them. “In addition to supporting the host of This means having good infrastructure, good Open from 6 am to 2 am seven days a week, the library is a contemporary place changes currently taking place, I am security and a warm and friendly student also pleased to be part of the revitalised experience. Rebuilding Agricola is very much of learning with a variety of individual and group study spaces, modern technology Kalgoorlie Campus Council, which is, about socialising the campus, about looking amongst other things, currently developing after the health and welfare of students for and round-the-clock security. a new strategic plan for the campus. whom Kalgoorlie is not home.” Importantly, it has the same academic “It’s vital that, in a state like WA, regional The construction of the new college will resources as the library at the Bentley communities have access to high-quality begin in early 2015 and is expected to be Campus, along with access to specific education. Our presence in Kalgoorlie is completed two years later. The project has mining and metallurgy software. Nearly critical to meeting this goal.” received A$20 million from the Royalties to 300 students, staff and community members Regions program, with Curtin contributing a day use the library precinct. A$10 million. The School is also receiving new lecture theatres, along with improvement to the quality of laboratories and IT upgrades.
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Spreading Report ideas at shows WA TEDxPerth industry
Thirteen remarkable people inspired needs to and energised the 1,700-strong audience attending TEDxPerth 2014 diversify at the Perth Concert Hall on Saturday 4 October. It was the third year that Curtin University partnered with the highly successful not-for-profit conference. Speakers included entrepreneurs, organisational leaders, educators and authors from a wide range of disciplines, among them three from A2 milk protein the Curtin community: sustainability expert Professor Peter Newman, could yield astronomer Andrew Walsh and A report into Western Australia’s comedienne and actress, Andrea labour force shows the next decade Gibbs. health benefits will be one of diversification, with During session breaks attendees sectors other than mining and enjoyed hands-on interaction with Curtin University research shows milk construction looking to capitalise. Curtin technology including the drinkers may gain digestion benefits by The Bankwest Curtin Economic empathy simulator, Curtin Robotics drinking milk containing the A2 protein Centre (BCEC) report, titled Workforce and the oculus rift headset. rather than the A1 protein, which is and Skills: Western Australian labour Attendees could also listen to Curtin currently the most common type of milk markets in transition, examines WA’s students’ mini-TEDx talks. sold in supermarkets. labour market composition, worker Curtin University’s Chief Marketing Research Academic at Curtin’s School satisfaction, changing work Officer, Ty Hayes said TEDxPerth of Public Health Associate Professor environments and work-family provided the perfect platform for Sebely Pal, conducted a cross over trial of balance. It is the third report in the Curtin to join in the dissemination of 41 people, where both groups drank centre’s Focus on Western Australia ideas with an aim to change minds, either A1 or A2 milk. series. lives and the world. She said animal evidence from earlier BCEC Director, Professor Alan “It was great to again be part of research, and in cell culture, evidence Duncan said WA’s labour force would such an innovative event in WA.” indicated the BCM7 peptide released only increase by 30 per cent to 1.75 million Hayes said. in A1 milk appeared to affect some by 2025. The day was streamed live to the biological processes in the body due to “Our new modelling shows that Northbridge Piazza, Curtin’s HIVE the way the milk was digested. while construction will remain strong, facility, and Westlink on Channel 602 “Based on animal evidence that the growth in employment from in regional and remote areas. produced gut inflammation and other mining will moderate over the next side effects we ran a crossover human decade.” Professor Duncan said. trial to see if there was a similar “Agribusiness, niche response,” Sebely said. manufacturing, and the health, “Thirty three people in our study were education and tourism sectors are normal milk drinkers and eight were milk likely to offer employment intolerant. The study showed that when opportunities to WA’s workforce, as the participants drank A1, they had will the state’s growing oil, gas and significantly higher stool consistency sustainable energy industries.” (softer stools) which was correlated to “To maintain WA’s economic more abdominal pain. This was not prosperity, we will need to bridge the observed when the same participants gender equality gap and ensure the drank A2 milk.” state’s education and training sectors The Curtin researcher hopes to follow are well placed to support emerging up the trial with a larger study with an labour demands. We must also give aim to find milk that is well tolerated by more consideration to the work- most humans, as it is an excellent source family balance and to those living at of calcium. the margins of society.”
22 cite_summer 2014/2015 Midas touch at up_coming events
Commercial Seng Jarrad Innovation Awards
An analytical device that optimises the gold extraction process has won first prize at the 2014 Curtin Commercial Innovation Awards. Adjunct Professor Bill Staunton and his team received the award for creating a carbon meter that increases efficiency, reduces costs and can considerably improve yields Sustainable in gold mining and gold recovery Curtin University will partner with FRINGE from tailings. living café WORLD in January and February 2015 Director of Curtin’s Office of IP Commercialisation, Rohan John Curtin Gallery McDougall said more than 75 per series SoDA14 cent of the world’s gold producers The Curtin University Sustainable Policy 21 November – 14 December 2014 used the carbon in pulp (CIP) gold Institute (CUSP) and the City of The John Curtin Gallery in partnership with extraction process. The current Fremantle are jointly hosting ten Curtin’s School of Design and Art (SoDA) method of checking the levels of community sustainable café-style is proud to present the work of graduates activated carbon used to extract gold meetings over the next ten months, from the school’s postgraduate program. from the slurry is a manual process, designed to help residents, ratepayers This annual project has been ongoing which is often inaccurate and gold and local stakeholders develop and since the Gallery’s inception in 1998. can be lost. share their sustainability issues, ideas Tel: +61 8 9266 4155 “The carbon meter developed by and achievements. johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au the Professor Staunton and his team The series, launched at the Victoria automatically takes 20 litre samples Hall, Fremantle on 25 August, is based Fringe world from CIP tanks every 15 minutes, on the One Planet Living Councils 24 hours a day, thus ensuring more program. Meetings will cover topics 23 January – 22 February accurate carbon level assessment such as zero carbon and waste, For the first time, Curtin will partner with and maximum gold recovery,” sustainable transport and water, local Perth’s annual arts festival, FRINGE McDougall said. and sustainable food, land care and WORLD. A diverse and exciting array of “This new automated process will wildlife, equity and economy, culture and performers will fill the Perth Cultural significantly benefit large and small community wellbeing. Centre every day and night for four weeks. gold miners, and Australia as a CUSP Outreach Officer Ainslie Beattie fringeworld.com.au whole being, as one of the world’s said guests sit informally at tables in the largest gold producers, has a lot to “Café”, enjoy talks by leading academics, Outdoor movies gain from this method.” local government officers and business 13 February – 11 April 2015 The carbon meter is planned to be people, sample local produce and commercially available within 12 to 18 discuss the major issues facing their Curtin’s outdoor cinema season will kick months. local environment now and into the off in February 2015. Now known as future. McDonald’s Community Cinemas, the “Our aim is to find ways to link and family-friendly cinema donates all profits to charity. Edinburgh Oval will replace encourage the community and local Henderson Court as the venue. corporations to work together for better sustainability” Beattie said. communitycinemas.com.au CUSP is also running seminars with the Shire of Margaret River-Augusta and the City of Geraldton.
L-R: Vice-Chancellor Terry, Teresa McGrath and Bill Staunton
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Answering the big questions
Combining his passions for science, research and teaching, them, but they are not the sole reason why I find my topic so intriguing. Astronomy has led Dr John Morgan strives to unlock the universe’s secrets and directly or indirectly to advances in navigation, share them with the world. radio communication, digital photography and wi-fi. Our understanding of the laws of physics has not changed significantly for story Dr John Morgan almost a century, yet the rate at which we uncover new information about the universe is only accelerating. The discoveries yet to I WAS not always interested in examining When I designed Curtin’s ‘Astronomy: come are what motivate my research. the night sky. As a child growing up in Discovering the Universe’ Massive Open When completed, the Square Kilometre England I spent more time looking through Online Course (MOOC), I wanted to connect Array (SKA) telescope, in which Curtin is a microscope than a telescope. I enjoyed the people from all walks of life to science and involved, will be the world’s largest and most process of discovery and formed an early astronomy. I am pleased the results show sensitive telescope. There is a long list of big appreciation for what science is and for what a very broad range of people have benefited science projects we want to use the SKA for, it can achieve. from this course, which aims to introduce but one of its main goals is to probe the In primary school I was fortunate to be people to astronomy and provide some Epoch of Reionisation, a crucial period in the taught by people who understood the insight into how great science discoveries universe’s early history when the first stars ‘scientific method’. We were allowed to are made. I hope, too, that students leave and galaxies formed. Still in its create our own experiments, which was a the MOOC with an appreciation for astronomy developmental stages, the project needs tremendous freedom and encouraged us as a discipline. experts from a range of disciplines to ensure to think for ourselves. When I go to schools I finally chose a career in the field at the SKA has every opportunity to conduct now as part of the Scientists in Schools university. As a teenager I had read science breakthrough science in the future. In program, I enjoy teaching kids of all ages fiction, owned a backyard telescope and science, often the most incredible discoveries the basics of science. visited the London Planetarium, but it was are the least expected. I believe that learning science can help the Jodrell Bank telescope at the University Exciting times lie ahead for science and build important critical thinking and problem of Manchester that reeled me in. To me, astronomy. Through my research and solving skills. Independent thought is key to these huge telescopes are cathedrals of teaching, I hope to communicate to as many a democratic society and I strongly support science. They embody what science is all people as possible the wonder of science and equal access to education to ensure everyone about: the feeling of being on the frontier its potential to impact our understanding of has a say in our future. If we want the best and uncovering something new. the world. I am looking forward to seeing people working on tomorrow’s problems, we Many of us are fascinated by the potential what we reveal and welcome the next need to draw scientists from across all areas for astronomy to answer the ‘big’ questions: generation of astronomers and stargazers to of society. This means providing high quality How did the universe begin? Are we alone? ask tomorrow’s big questions. science education to children from every I am intrigued by these questions and courses.curtin.edu.au/course overview/ background. ultimately hope astronomy can help answer moocs.cfm
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