GRADUATION PROGRAM October 2011 October Graduation Ceremony 2011 The Chancellor, Hon. Sally Thomas AM, presiding Darwin Convention Centre Friday 21 October 2011 A Message from the Chancellor As Chancellor of Charles Darwin University it is an honour and a privilege to congratulate the graduands of 2011. Based on 50 years of education tradition, Charles Darwin University was formed through the merger of the Northern Territory University, Centralian College, the Northern Territory Rural College and the Menzies School of Health Research. This dynamic institution has grown into a place of learning for an increasing number of Territorians and people from across our nation and the world. Charles Darwin University offers an increasingly flexible approach to education, with a wide range of study options, high standards of teaching and an engaging learning environment. This is a university that aims to inspire its students to acquire the skills and knowledge to change their worlds for their own good and the good of the community. As well as being a celebration of knowledge, graduation ceremonies allow students to share their pride and satisfaction in achieving their goals with their family, friends, and the University staff who have supported and encouraged them throughout their studies. Graduation should not be a farewell to Charles Darwin University. We look forward to welcoming back our graduates as members of the Alumni or through continuing formal studies and to the many symposia, lectures, concerts and events held at the University each year. Congratulations again to the graduates of 2011. We have no doubt we will be hearing of your achievements in your work and the community in the future. Hon. Sally Thomas AM Chancellor Charles Darwin University October Graduation Ceremony 2011 3 A Message from the Vice-Chancellor This is a very important day in your life as you graduate from Charles Darwin University. You will have grown in knowledge and understanding during your time as a student at the University and, by making the most of your university experiences will make a difference not only to your own future and that of your family, but importantly to the Northern Territory and the community in which you live and work. You are part of a dynamic and rapidly changing world particularly in the generation of new knowledge and innovative approaches to solving complex globally relevant problems – ongoing change is quite simply part of life. Change also provides opportunities and challenges that I hope you will embrace and as a result make a real contribution to the adaptive and evolving society in which we live. Remember Charles Darwin, the namesake of our University, once said: “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” We live in an age where information on any subject is growing at an ever-increasing rate and technology is rapidly changing the way we live, work and enjoy ourselves. To respond to this changing environment, and to be a successful contributor to it, you must continue to learn and to strive to apply what you have learned to the challenges you face. I hope your time at Charles Darwin University has given you a thirst for life long learning and that you will be open to new ideas, and to doing things differently and for the better in the years ahead. As a graduate of Charles Darwin University, you join the alumni of a university that provides vibrant learning, life-changing experiences and graduating individuals with the ability to be excellent thinkers, workers and members of society: a university that equips its graduates with the generic skills to thrive in a complex world. I hope you have enjoyed your university experience and that you will continue to learn and, through your words and actions, contribute to the development and reputation of Charles Darwin University, a university that aspires to work with its alumni, wherever they may be, to provide an enriching experience. This evening is one of celebration; you have achieved a significant milestone and we are proud of you. We join with your family and friends in saying “congratulations” and best wishes for a bright and rewarding future. Professor Barney Glover Vice-Chancellor 4 Charles Darwin University October Graduation Ceremony 2011 Charles Darwin University, Darwin Convention Centre Friday 21 October 2011 – 11.00am Order of Proceedings The Academic Procession will enter with the Assembly standing The National Anthem The Assembly will remain standing for the singing of the National Anthem Welcome Address Presentation of Honorary Awards Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa Professor Ian William Chubb AC Occasional Address Musical Presentation The Conferring of Degrees and Awards Law, Education, Business and Arts Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Education Doctor of Philosophy Business and Services Industries Division Graduand Response Katherine Louise Barlow-Jensen The Academic Procession will retire with the Assembly standing Charles Darwin University October Graduation Ceremony 2011 5 Charles Darwin University, Darwin Convention Centre Friday 21 October 2011 – 5.00pm Order of Proceedings The Academic Procession will enter with the Assembly standing The National Anthem The Assembly will remain standing for the singing of the National Anthem Welcome Address Presentation of Honorary Awards Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa Professor Judith Ann Whitworth AC Occasional Address Musical Presentation The Conferring of Degrees and Awards Engineering, Health, Science and the Environment Menzies School of Health Research Doctor of Philosophy Trades and Primary Industries Division Community Services, Health and Literacy Division Presentation of 2011 Vocational Education and Training Medallist Rodger Johannes Moerkerken Graduand Response Roger Kenneth Jolley The Academic Procession will retire with the Assembly standing 6 Charles Darwin University October Graduation Ceremony 2011 Doctor of Philosophy Christabelle Jean Darcy Muhammad Farooq Haq Thesis Title: The role of arginine and Thesis Title: Marketing Spirituality: tryptophan metabolism in sepsis A Tourism Perspective Sepsis is a common and deadly complication This thesis is an exploratory study about of an infection. It is the leading cause of marketing of spirituality from a tourism death in intensive care units but is poorly perspective. A conceptual framework understood. We need a better understanding was developed for spiritual tourism as an of sepsis to improve current treatments. extension of special interest and cultural This project investigated the role of two tourism; where pilgrimage and religious amino acids, arginine and tryptophan, in tourism are recognised as its subsets. sepsis. We developed a method to accurately The characteristics of Australians and measure amino acids and their breakdown Pakistanis involved in spiritual tourism products in blood. We measured immune cell were investigated. Qualitative methods function, blood vessel function and amino were adopted for data collection based on acids in sepsis patients and healthy controls. in-depth interviews. A content analysis was We found that sepsis patients had low conducted to identify categories emerging concentrations of arginine and tryptophan from the collected data leading to market and increased concentrations of toxic segmentation. Relationship marketing was breakdown products. Decreased availability proposed as the core strategy to market of these two amino acids in sepsis was spiritual tourism. The relationship marketing associated with increased disease severity, strategy presented for each segment is impaired immune function and poor blood based on four elements of product, people, vessel function. Furthermore, we identified communication and collaboration. This a subset of blood cells in patients with thesis fills a gap in the literature on tourism septic shock which impaired T cell function. and marketing, the contribution is found Treatments which improve arginine and in the justification for recognising and tryptophan availability should be explored conceptualising spiritual tourism as a new as potential new adjunctive treatments in and emerging market. sepsis. Cecilia De Donatis Thesis Title: “They have a story inside.” Madness and healing on Elcho Island, north-east Arnhem Land This thesis is based on an ethnographic investigation of concepts related to mental health and madness among the Yolnu people of noth-east Arnhem Land, with particular focus on Elcho Island and its main settlement, Galiwin’ku. Chapter 1 to 3 contextualize the thesis from the geographical, historical and litereay point of view; Chapters 4 to 7 present the ethnographical material; chapter 8 reviews the findings of the ethnography. A key word of the thesis is bawa’ a Yolnu term which can be translated with ‘madness’ or ‘confusion’. Bawa’ is discussed in the ethnography both as social confusion and as an altered state of mind. The thesis demonstrates the existence of a complex Yolnu ethnopsycology and its relevance to the understand of Yolnu concept of ‘person’ and cosmology. Charles Darwin University October Graduation Ceremony 2011 7 Doctor of Philosophy Lisa Petheram Philippe Puig Thesis Title: Applying Visual Methods for Thesis Title: The role of fuzzy logic in Learning and Communication in Natural GIS modelling Resource Management This thesis investigates the application of An action research approach was used to fuzzy logic to the analysis of data defined investigate