UQ Update

UQ Update - 29 October, 2007  


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It’s Teaching and Learning Week

Teaching and Learning Week kicked off today and continues tonight with the announcement of the UQ Awards for Teaching Excellence at Customs House. There are still many activities on Tuesday and Wednesday that staff can get involved in, including:

Full times and venues are available on the Teaching and Learning website.

School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences Inaugural T&L Award Winners

The School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences has this year instituted Excellence in Teaching Awards to recognise outstanding individuals and teaching teams within the School. Innovation and results characterise the work of the award winners. Congratulations to individual winners Dr Liz Ward and Ms Donna McCook and the team of Associate Professor Sylvia Rodger (team leader), Associate Professor Jenny Ziviani, Dr Pauline Watter, Dr Gail Woodyatt and Dr Julie Marinac.

Celebrate T& L Week at placement course showcase

As part of Teaching and Learning Week, a showcase and discussion of placement/internship program management and innovation at UQ is being held from 12.30pm on Wednesday, October 31. There will be featured presentations from health sciences, occupational therapy, dentistry, music therapy, engineering and agricultural science, and political science. Afternoon tea will be available. For more information and RSVPs, please email dvca.rsvp@uq.edu.au.

New software and hardware demonstrated

The full suite of LabVIEW applications is now available to UQ students and staff for academic and research use. To mark the launch of LabVIEW @ UQ, National Instruments (NI) and UQ will hold a joint seminar in the Kathleen Room, UQ Staff and Graduates Club on Wednesday, October 31, from 9am-12.30pm. NI will demonstrate LabVIEW software and data acquisition hardware. UQ staff will detail LabVIEW’s availability and existing applications within the University. Morning tea and a light lunch will be provided and registration is free. Register (for catering purposes) by contacting courtney.girdwood@ni.com or telephone: 1800 300 800.

New head appointed for Vet School

Dr Jonathan Hill, who will commence at UQ early in the new year, will oversee a $75 million project to relocate the School of Veterinary Science to the University's Gatton campus, expected to be in place by mid-2009.

New Rhodes Scholar is from UQ

UQ student Anna Kloeden is the 2008 Queensland Rhodes Scholar.

Senate approves new academic staffing policies

Academic staff are encouraged to acquaint themselves with these new policies which cover teaching-focused academic appointments, set new criteria for assessing academic staff performance, and revise the system for managing probation, confirmation and promotion. The policies (in the Handbook of University Policies and Procedures — HUPP) affect all UQ academic staff, including research-only staff. They are:

The policies are set out on the UQ website for Current Staff under Career Progress and Appraisal for Academic Staff.

Guided tour of Self-Portrait Prize by UQ Art Museum Director

UQ Art Museum Director Nick Mitzevich will lead a guided tour of the UQ National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize on Friday, November 2 at 12.30 pm. Sydney artist Ben Quilty has won the University’s prestigious $40,000 National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize with his painting now on view in the UQ Art Museum, alongside other entries. Thirty Australian established and emerging artists submitted works to this invitation-only prize, which will be held bi-annually. The Margaret Hannah Olley Foundation supported the 2007 prize. The Self-Portrait Prize exhibition continues to February 10, 2008. The exhibition Reveries: Photography & Mortality closes on November 4. Details: ext. 53046 or www.maynecentre.uq.edu.au.

Apply now for summer semester

Make the most of your break by choosing from almost 250 undergraduate and postgraduate summer semester courses, ranging from Accounting to Zoology. You don’t need to be a current UQ student to apply and undergraduate courses are HECS-HELP eligible. Courses are also available at the Institute of Continuing and TESOL Education and the Institute of Modern Languages. Enrolments close Friday, November 9. For more information call ext. 52600 or visit www.uq.edu.au/study/summer.

Water for Life... display in the Library

Water is a vital resource and no more so than now. On show in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library, Level One, Duhig Building until December 14 is an exhibition featuring the power of water in the arts, architecture, health, mythology, the environment and life in general. Also on display is material from UQ's Advanced Water Management Centre, an international centre of excellence in innovative water technology and management.

Grant to collaborative parenting project

Premier Anna Bligh has announced a $75,000 Queensland Government grant to support collaborative international parenting research by Professor Matt Sanders, Director of UQ’s Parenting and Family Support Centre and Carolina Distinguished Professor Ron Prinz at the Parenting and Family Research Center at the University of South Carolina.

UQ Business School lists exec education courses for 2008

Register your interest now for one of these superb Executive Leadership courses:

Details: contact the Executive Education Team on ext. 67105 or 67115, email exceed@business.uq.edu.au or visit www.business.uq.edu.au/execed.

UQ SPORT holds annual blues and sports awards dinner

UQ's elite athletes and officials will be honoured at the prestigious 2007 Blues and Sports Awards Dinner on Friday, November 2. Guest speakers will be Australian Olympic Gold Medallist Kieren Perkins and AFL triple premiership player Luke Power of the Brisbane Lions. Award categories include Club Coach of the Year, Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, and Blues and Half Blues Awards. Download an invitation (PDF), email UQ SPORT Events or phone ext. 67242.

Enrol now in staff development courses

Places are still available in the following upcoming staff development courses:

For details on all courses offered in the Staff Development Program, visit www.tedi.uq.edu.au/sdh/.

Come to SI-net training on maintaining grades and grades upload

Training on the Maintaining Student Grades module in SI-net is being held on Thursday, November 1 from 2pm-4pm in Room 509, Level 5, JD Story Building. This session is for staff who have not previously attended training for this module and who require access to this functionality. Register via TEDI.

SI-net refresher training offered

Staff who have previously attended this training but may need a refresher on Maintaining Grades and the Grade Upload Process can attend a session in the Senate Room, Brian Wilson Chancellery, St Lucia on Thursday, November 8 between 10.30am-11.30am. No registration is required.

Social event benefits researcher’s study on young people with depression

Mindcare Limited is hosting a gala cocktail party on November 16. Proceeds will support a University of Queensland PhD student whose project aims to improve early detection of depressive disorder in young people. Tickets are $65 each and should be purchased in advance. Contact v.catts@uq.edu.au for details and registration.

Academic and scholarly authors sought for study

Professor Brian Fitzgerald of the QUT Law Faculty is leading a research project – The OAK Law Project – which promotes copyright management strategies to optimise access to research output (especially publicly-funded). The project is surveying academic and scholarly authors within Australia to understand authors’ knowledge of publishing agreements and their experience in dealing with publishers. The results will be used in developing model publishing agreements, toolkits and training materials for academic authors and publishers. If you are an academic or scholarly author within Australia, please click on this link to complete the survey by November 2. Details of the OAK Law project: www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au.

Would you like to be more effective in supporting your child at home?

Staff and students are invited to take part in a free occupational therapy coaching intervention that aims to improve children’s skills through coaching parents in the particular learning needs of their children. Areas addressed in this study include: managing family routines such as getting ready for school, completing homework; specific skill problems such as dressing, cutlery use, playing with friends; or more general issues such as physical skills, thinking skills or social skills. If interested, contact the occupational therapist researcher on ext. 67469 or email her on f.graham@shrs.uq.edu.au.

Sports psychology seminar focuses on mental toughness and resilience

Resilience: it is inherent in champion athletes, but what is it? This UQ SPORT seminar on Wednesday, October 31 from 6.30pm-9pm will help you to identify and develop the characteristics that make up the mentally tough athlete. Guest speakers include the University’s leading sports psychology academics.


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