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The latest
Vice-Chancellor’s statement to Senate
To read Professor Paul Greenfield’s statement to the Senate meeting of May 14, including the impact of the Federal Budget on UQ, please click here.
The aging of Aquarius: challenges for Aussie housing
From a project initially entitled “The Aging of Aquarius”, Professor Shane Murray of Monash University tracks the changing demographic context of housing in Australia and examines the architects’ role in housing provision. Professor Murray will discuss this work and his own design research at 6pm on Tuesday, May 19, in the Abel Smith Lecture Theatre as part of the UQ “City Thinking: Architecture Talks” program. Details: k.galloway@uq.edu.au, ext. 69681.
Awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision
UQ instituted annual Awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision in 2000, making the University one of the first Australian institutions to offer such awards. The awards recognise, encourage and reward sustained excellence in research higher degree supervision, education, mentoring and guidance at the University. Each award includes a $10,000 prize, presented at a ceremony in Research Week. Expressions of Interest are invited for the 2009 awards. Please note the following critical dates:
- Expressions of interest deadline – Monday, June 15
- Application deadline – Monday, June 29
Details: click here.
General Staff Self Development Prize 2009
Applications are now open, closing on June 30, for the General Staff Self Development Prize 2009 valued at $150. You must have been a UQ staff member for at least three years and be able to demonstrate outstanding achievements in self-development, whether of an academic or non-academic nature. A written statement addressing the above should be sent to: Confidential, General Staff Self Development Prize, Undergraduate Scholarships and Prizes Office, JD Story Building.
Tell us about the best bits about having a baby
The Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies within the School of Psychology is collecting photos and quotes about the best bits of pregnancy, birth and having a new baby to showcase at the Pregnancy, Children’s & Babies Expo on June 19, 20 and 21. We are encouraging mums, mums-to-be, dads, grandparents, and siblings to contribute so we can represent as many “voices” and experiences as possible. You are invited to send us a brief message about the one thing that you loved most about pregnancy, birth or having a new baby. We would love you to send in a photo that sums up your message, and we’ll use them to make a rolling “slide show” of everyone’s thoughts and photos to share on the day. As a thank you, we will send all contributors a free pass to the Expo (worth $14). Details: qcmb@uq.edu.au or 3346 8797.
Holiday Inn Hotel Technology competition
Students will examine and deliver a proposal to industry on Hotel Technology Systems for a fictitious hotel, “Holiday Inn Virtuoso Brisbane” with the top three teams representing the University at a presentation for Holiday Inn Brisbane General Manager Raymond Faulkner and UQ School of Tourism Industry Partnerships Director Dr David Solnet. The presentation will be held from 11am–1pm on Tuesday, June 9, at the Holiday Inn, 159 Roma Street. Staff and students welcome to attend. Details: click here, a.ash@uq.edu.au or ext. 69989.
Events & UQ in the media
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Upcoming events:
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UQ in the media:
- Students show how opposites light up
- Obesity link to difficult children
- The Bard is back
- Registrations open for science course test
- Slip, slop selenium
- FEAST offers opportunity to explore career options
- Million Paws Walk for RSPCA
- Hunt to uncover history and find Coast’s first sea wall
- Island refugee threat as reef food ’vanishes’
- Young scientists in the spotlight
- Discovering the benefits of corn
- Therapeutic benefits of saffron
- Science lights up career prospects
- Name honour
- Sign in to the UQ Mediaclips site for more media clips.
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Other news
Homestay families needed
If having an international visitor appeals to you, if you live close to public transport and travel to the UQ St Lucia campus takes less than 40 minutes, and you live in an English-speaking household, then ICTE-UQ would like to hear from you. We are particularly interested in families who are able to host male students or Muslim students. ICTE-UQ homestay is currently renumerated at $205 per week and is available for short- and long-term placements. Details: homestay@icte.uq.edu.au or Jane Clark 334 66737 or Liz Caverswall 334 66738.
Diversity Week events and activities
Register your attendance for the following Diversity Week activities at equity@uq.edu.au
- Poster presentation – innovative outreach, recruitment and retention strategies for disadvantaged students, Tuesday, May 26
- Forum with Marc Shannon – community engagement, industry linkages, pathways (for invited senior staff), Friday, May 29
Please also note a change of time for the following Diversity Week event: Interrogating the Rhetoric and Reality of Equity and Diversity at The University of Queensland: What are We Doing Well and Where can We do Better? will now be held from 2pm–4pm on Wednesday, May 27. Venue details unchanged.
Click here to view other planned activities for Diversity Week and to register for the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity & Diversity Awards event featuring Phillip Adams, Carmen Lawrence and Kevin Clements. Other events include:
- Economic effects of migration
Have you ever wondered how migrants earning money in Australia could affect the economies of their home nations? Walk in another’s shoes and consider migrant issues from another perspective. The Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, in support of UQ’s Diversity Week, invites you to attend: “Trading places: economic impacts of migration on those left behind” – a seminar presented by Associate Professor Richard Brown, from 2pm–3.30pm on Tuesday, May 26, in the Parnell Building Room 222. RSVP: by Wednesday, May 20, to events@bel.uq.edu.au.
- In Others' Shoes: Is peace possible?
Hear from four Rotary World Peace Fellows (David LaMotte – USA, Tamara Turcan – Moldova, Marcos Zunino – Argentina, and Lydia Bulmer – Wales) as they discuss their experiences as peacemakers and uncover the passion and drive behind their chosen paths. Proudly presented by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the School of Political Science and International Studies as part of Diversity Week. It will be held between 6pm–7pm on Wednesday, May 27, in room 309 in the Steele Building. RSVP: Friday, May 22 to k.parish@uq.edu.au or ext. 69544. Details: here.
- Journey of Healing Dinner
In order to keep the momentum going following the National Apology to the Stolen Generations by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on February 13, 2008, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit will hold its Journey of Healing Dinner at 6pm for 6.30pm on Friday, May 29. This is an opportunity for UQ staff and students and members of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities to come together to acknowledge the spirit of reconciliation. Cost: $50 for wage-earners and $25 for students/pensioners. UQ faculties, schools and centres can book a table of 10 for a reduced rate of $450. Details: Sue on ext. 56699 or Colleen on ext. 56714.
National online survey for same-sex-attracted Australians
Not So Private Lives: The Ins and Outs of Same-Sex Relationships is an anonymous nationwide survey for same-sex-attracted single and partnered Australians. Focusing on several aspects of same-sex relationships, the survey welcomes the participation of people who are at least 18 years of age; are permanent residents or citizens of Australia; and consider themselves to be same-sex-attracted (whether LGBTQ/I or unlabelled). To participate and/or find more information on the survey, click here. Details: s.dane@psy.uq.edu.au / 3346 7689/0403 895 268) or b.masser@psy.uq.edu.au/3365 6373 at the School of Psychology.
Housekeeping matters
UQ Research Reports 2008
If you would like copies of the UQ Research Report 2008 for your area or upcoming events, please order from central stores on ext. 51231. The reports are available in boxes of 60. To view an online version of the report, please click here.
Using email distribution lists
In recent months there has been growing interest in, and demand for the use of email as a mechanism for sending announcements, information and notices. ITS provides a number of ways that staff at all levels of the University can create and manage distribution lists. Details: here.
Get out & about
Bronwyn’s back from OS to organise Brisbane
The UQSOPA will host a luncheon with former UQ employee Bronwyn Tutty who has travelled the world. It will be held from 12.15pm on Wednesday, June 3, in the UQ Club. Cost $30 for members, $35 for non-members. A delicious lunch and accommodation (O’Reilly’s) and pamper pack prizes. RSVP: k.hendrickson@uq.edu.au by Friday, May 29.
UQSOPA new executive committee election
Date claimer: Tuesday, July 28, for AGM to elect new committee for the UQ Secretaries and Office Professionals Association. More details to come.
So you think you’re pretty brainy…?
Put your general knowledge to the test and have some fun at the same time at UQ’s popular monthly quiz from 6pm on Thursday, May 21, at the UQ Club (formerly UQ Staff and Graduates Club). Team and individual prizes, a cash jackpot prize ($330 this month) and a “Famous Faces” prize board. Entrance fee: $3. Details: cmccowie@optusnet.com.au or 0423 775 025.
University of Queensland Club membership incentive
The club is offering a great incentive for UQ staff who join as new members prior to Monday, June 22. You will receive one-month free membership and a complimentary food and beverage voucher valued at $15 to use within the club. The club has also introduced a fantastic weekly wine special for members available from the club’s bottle shop. Click here for more details. To join the club, download a membership form or pick one up from the club. Upcoming events at the club include:
Claymation triumph
Mary and Max has started screening at the Schonell Cinemas and is the latest feature film from Adam Elliot who won an Oscar for his short film Harvey Krumpet. Narrated by Barry Humphries and five years in the making, Mary and Max is an insightful film with loneliness at its core. It covers 20 years of a pen-pal friendship between Mary Daisy Dinkle – voiced by Bethany Whitmore as a child and Toni Collette as an adult, and Max – voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman – a New Yorker with problems relating to people. Details: click here.
Madness and isolation explored
Join the enthusiastic UQ Drama students as they explore and challenge notions of patriarchy, madness, and isolation with their exciting new production of Louis Nowra’s Inside the Island. The play will be held from 7.30pm from May 21–23 at the Cement Box Theatre. Cost: adults $12, concession $8. Bookings: ext. 52552, 10am–4pm, Monday-Friday, or on sale at the door.
Riverside dining at its best
Customs House is offering UQ staff members 10 percent discount when dining in the restaurant. The offer does not apply on Saturday evenings, one discount per booking, and not to be used in conjunction with any other promotion. For trading hours and full menu details, click here. Your employee number must be provided in order to receive your discount. Reservations: ext. 58921.
Health & fitness
Sports Specialty Clinic
The UQ Musculoskeletal and Sports Injury clinic offers a Sports Speciality Clinic in conjunction with Postgraduate Sports Physiotherapy program. No referral necessary. Clinic operates 1pm-5pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Therapies building (84). Details: physioclinic@uq.edu.au or ext. 52232.
Swine flu – keep informed
The World Health Organization last week raised the pandemic flu alert level from 3 to 5. The University regards the health and welfare of its staff and students as a key priority and has put a comprehensive plan in place.
Last chances for a flu jab
Another session has been arranged for the Staff Flu Vaccination Program. Free vaccinations are offered to continuing and fixed-term contract staff. The next session on Wednesday, May 20, will be held in the Boardroom, UQ Centre from 8.30am–3pm. The following session is in the VIP room (next door to the Boardroom, UQ Centre) on Tuesday, June 2. Details: click here.
Study, training & development
Upcoming ATEM courses
- Change management June 4
- Towards middle management June 18–19
- Coaching skills July 9
- High performance teams August 6
- Emotional intelligence August 14
Details here, or email b.cavallari@uq.edu.au.
Upcoming staff development courses
Places are still available in the following courses:
General
Teaching & Learning
Details: click here.
Practise your English speaking
The Institute of Continuing and TESOL Education is offering Practice English Classes to all adult learners. A 36-hour course costs only $30 if 90 percent of lessons are attended. The two-hour lessons are taught in the afternoon and focus on speaking, listening, vocabulary and grammar. The next course begins on June 15. Details: parttime.english@icte.uq.edu.au or 3346 6770.
Mastering SI-net
Staff may enrol for upcoming SI-net Fundamentals training sessions held between 9.30am and 12.30pm in room 102, building 33 on the following dates:
- Monday, May 25;
- Wednesday, June 10; and
- Wednesday, June 24.
Staff may enrol for the following SI-net Course Catalogue training sessions held between 9.30am and 4.30pm in room 102, building 33 on Tuesday, July 7.
UQBS Corporate Education Courses for 2009
Register your interest now for one of these superb Corporate Leadership courses:
- Women Executive Leaders (15–19 June)
- Leadership for the Not for Profit Sector (6–10 July)
- Supply Chain Management (13 July – 17 July)
Details: click here or 3346 7111.
Lectures, seminars & workshops
Defence talk: Power and purpose in the Asian century
The School of Political Science and International Studies is pleased to present a Q & A panel discussion on the Australian Defence White Paper released earlier this month. A panel of UQ experts will debate its merits and explore the broader implications for the maintenance of regional peace and security. The discussion will be held from 2pm–3.30pm on Wednesday, May 20, in room 537, building 39A, on the St Lucia campus.
Conflict in the Andean region
Dr Maria Consuelo Ahumada (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia) will present “Conflict in the Andean Region in the 21st century: Between the US and the Alternative Governments” from 9am–11am on Friday, May 22, in the Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building (No 14). Bookings essential, and RSVP to: m.beamond@icte.uq.edu.au by Wednesday, May 20.
Rotary World Peace Fellows’ Seminar 2009
The UQ community and general public will have an opportunity to hear from UQ’s Rotary World Peace Fellows as they share their practical experiences of peace-building around the globe at this year’s RWPF Seminar (formerly known as the Paul Harris Seminar) to be held from 9am–5pm on Saturday, May 23, in the Sir Llew Edwards building (formerly GPN 4). The seminar will include presentations by peace fellows about their applied fieldwork experiences. Details: click here.
UK homelessness explored
The School of Social Work and Human Services and The Social Policy Unit present a talk by Rachael Dobson of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, on the relevance of organisational settings for housing-related support from a UK homelessness context. It will be held from 11am–noon on Wednesday, May 27, in rooms 111/112 in the Chamberlain Building (no. 35). Details: ext. 51788.
Humphrey McQueen’s Marxist perspective
Find out about the trials and tribulations of writing from a Marxist perspective from witty and entertaining speaker, Humphrey McQueen when he discusses his latest book Framework of Flesh, a history of the Builders Labourers' Federation, from 10.30am–11.30am on Wednesday, May 27, in the Library Conference Room, Level 1, Duhig Building, UQ St Lucia. Bookings essential and RSVP to ssah-mgr@library.uq.edu.au or 3346 4328 by Tuesday, May 26.
Gorilla Girl: remediating Dian Fossey
This Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies lecture presented by Professor Gillian Whitlock recounts her meeting with an aid worker from Goma who gave her a harrowing first-person account of the systematic rape of women and children in the DRC now. Most memorably the aid worker spoke of a community of women struggling to survive near Lake Kivu, “just across the border from where Fossey watched the gorillas”. The lecture will be held from 5.30pm–6.30pm on Thursday, May 28, in the UQ Art Museum at the St Lucia campus. Details: click here or 3346 7407.
Blended Learning Conference
UQ is once again hosting this conference on Thursday, June 18. Regstrations close Sunday, May 31. Details: click here.
Engaging Culture Workshop
The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies presents a one-day Engaging Culture Wworkshop at the St Lucia campus on Wednesday, June 24. This workshop aims to assist people to increase their awareness of their own cultural identitiesand how it impacts on their dealings with people from different origins. UQ staff are eligible for a 20 percent discount on the workshop fee. Details: click here (PDF), acpacs.melbourne@uq.edu.au or 03 9863 2600.
Student Engagement Workshop Queensland
Professor George Kuh from Indiana University Bloomington will conduct a workshop on Student Engagement on Monday, July 6. All UQ staff are invited to attend the workshop. Details: Lisha.allen@uq.edu.au or ext. 51320.
Cultures of violence and conflict explored at conference
UQ’s Cultural History Project will host the 2009 Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. International scholars will address a broad series of questions pertaining to cultures of violence and conflict, highlighted by keynote presentations by Professor Joanna Bourke from Birbeck College, UK, Associate Professor Alice Yang, UC Santa Cruz, and Dr Alastair Blanshard, University of Sydney. The conference will be held from July 20–23 at the St Lucia campus. Details: p.ahrens@uq.edu.au, ext. 52710.
Volunteers sought
Please note entries remain for two Updates unless further requests received. Thank you.
New this week
- Individuals with type 2 diabetes, aged 18–70, to take part in research exploring a new way to support individual efforts to improve diabetes management.
Details: TLCDiabetes@coh.uq.edu.au or 3636 5506
- People aged 18–45 years with chronic neck pain to undertake one supervised exercise session and undergo a MRI exam of their necks.
Details: a.reeve@uq.edu.au
- Volunteers (particularly males) who have not had a stroke, are right-handed and over 40 years old with English as a first language for a study investigating how language therapy works in the brain after stroke.
Details: a.holmes@uq.edu.au or d.copland@uq.edu.au or 3346 5579
- Patients with carpal tunnel syndrome to participate in a clinical trial evaluating non-surgical interventions.
Details: carpaltunnel@uq.edu.au or ext. 54692
- People who have experienced tennis elbow pain for at least six weeks.
Details: tenniselbow@uq.edu.au or ext. 54692
- Healthy older adults (>65 yo) who do not wear dentures or have current trunk/limb/jaw pain sought for muscle control research. Reimbursement for travel expenses provided.
Details: l.hall1@uq.edu.au or ext. 54589
- Adults of any age to answer very brief survey regarding TV viewing. Click here to take the survey.
Details: s.kelly@business.uq.edu.au or ext. 68154
Carried over
- Adults of any age to answer very brief survey regarding the Australian Open tennis tournament. Click here to take the survey.
Details: s.kelly@business.uq.edu.au or ext. 68154
- Women aged 32-42 years for an MRI imaging study. No needles or medications involved. Reimbursement for time and transport provided.
Details: 0413 208 083 or 3346 4864
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