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by Noel Gentner
A QUT expert in air-pollution has briefed parliamentarians on the findings of her study of fine particle a i r p o l l u t i o n a l o n g B r i s b a n e ’ s South-East Freeway, warning of extremely high pollution levels in the inner-city area.
S e n i o r l e c t u r e r i n t h e S c h o o l o f N a t u r a l R e s o u r c e S c i e n c e s a n d p r o j e c t c o - o r d i n a t o r D r L i d i a M o r a w s k a h a d d i s c u s s i o n s w i t h t h e S t a t e ’ s P u b l i c W o r k s C o m m i t t e e o n S e p t e m b e r 3 .
The committee is responsible for scrutinising the Government’s c a p i t a l w o r k s p r o g r a m a n d i s interested in establishing the level o f a i r p o l l u t i o n a l o n g t h e f r e e w a y a n d h o w i t m a y a f f e c t p e o p l e l i v i n g a n d w o r k i n g c l o s e t o t h e f r e e w a y.
“ W e h a v e b e e n w o r k i n g o n particle pollution in the air for about four years with a specific focus on ultra-fine particles, (an area where) there has been very l i t t l e i n f o r m a t i o n a v a i l a b l e i n t e r m s o f c o n c e n t r a t i o n l e v e l s a n d e m i s s i o n s o u r c e s , ” Dr Morawska said.
“However, from epidemiological studies, there is more and more evidence that these (ultra-fine) particles cause most of the damage because they can penetrate deep into the human lung while larger particles will deposit mainly in the nasal areas.”
the city surrounded by hills where inversion of air over the city can occur,” Dr Morawska said.
I t w a s d i f f i c u l t t o d r a w a n y global conclusions, she said, as most monitoring periods overseas w e r e o f a f e w w e e k s ’ d u r a t i o n compared with the two-year study at Gardens Point.
However, Dr Morawska said, she had compared Brisbane with the industrial city of Birmingham in England.
The highest air-pollution level from Birmingham was recorded at 6 0 , 0 0 0 p a r t i c l e s p e r c u b i c centimetre, but no average level for the city was available.
“ W h e n w e d i d m e a s u r e m e n t s from various levels of the ITE
State warned about freeway pollution fallout
Pollution levels around Brisbane’s South-East Freeway at QUT’s Gardens Pont . . . measured at levels higher than those recorded
in one of the UK’s most industrialised cities
building (now S Block) on the QUT Gardens Point campus, we measured up to 90,000 particles p e r c u b i c c e n t i m e t r e , b u t obviously we are very close to the freeway,” Dr Morawska said.
She said measurements from the study’s monitoring station on the rooftop of “M” block, also on Gardens Point campus, recorded a reading of 40,000 particles per cubic centimetre.
“We’ve been doing measurements at the new S ta te Governm ent building site at 75 William Street a n d t h e r e s u l t o f o u r w o r k provided an argument against locating a child-care centre in t h a t b u i l d i n g a s p o l l u t i o n - concentration levels will be quite s i g n i f i c a n t l y h i g h e r i n t h a t building tha n other buildings further away from the freeway,”
Dr Morawska said.
D r M o r a w s k a s a i d i t w a s a
“vague situation” where work was being carried out in an area where no standards applied.
“ W e h a v e t o r e a c h a p o i n t where the Government realises t h a t , e v e n i n t h e a b s e n c e o f s t a n d a r d s , t h e d u t y o f c a r e requires them to do something ,”
Dr Morawska said.
by Andrea Hammond
QUT’s Dean of Science, Professor Vicki Sara, has been appointed chair of the nation’s most powerful research funding body, the Australian Research Council (ARC).
The prestigious appointment was announced by the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs Senator Amanda Vanstone on Friday, September 5.
Professor Sara is the first woman to chair the ARC, which commands an annual budget of more than
$300 million.
Senator Vanstone said Professor Sara’s appointment to the full-time, three-year post was “timely” because the ARC would shortly be making critical funding and program decisions.
“Professor Sara has more than 20 years worth of research experience both in Australia and internationally,”
Senator Vanstone said.
“She brings substantial overseas experience and a diverse research background to the position of ARC Chair. She will be well-placed to the lead the council in its role as a more autonomous independent body.”
Dean of Science to head ARC
A u s t r a l i a n V i c e - C h a n c e l l o r s C o m m i t t e e ( A V C C ) a c t i n g president Professor Geoff Wilson t h i s w e e k a p p l a u d e d t h e Government’s choice.
“The appointment is welcomed by the university sector — especially so because the appointment will be a full- time one for three years, which is consistent with the AVCC’s strongly
held view about the importance of the ARC position,” he said. “There should now be certainty to the work of the ARC and those institutions which rely on its leadership.”
Professor Sara, who will take up her new position early next year, said she was delighted with the appointment.
“As chair of the ARC, I want to ensure that Australia excels as a major player in the international research arena and that career opportunities are provided for researchers here in this country,” she said.
A current member of the ARC and chair of its Committee for International and National Co-operation, Professor Sara became QUT’s Dean of Science in July 1996.
As one of only three female science deans in Australia, Professor Sara totally restructured QUT’s Faculty of Science, substantially strengthening the university’s course offerings.
More recently she has spearheaded the QUT Science Train, an innovative educational project designed to take the excitement of “hands-on” science to tens of thousands of people in regional and rural communities throughout Queensland.
Professor Sara joined QUT as head of the School of Life Sciences in 1993. In 1995 she successfully secured for Queensland the QUT- b a s e d C o - o p e r a t i v e R e s e a r c h C e n t r e ( C R C ) f o r D i a g n o s t i c T e c h n o l o g i e s , a $ 4 0 m i l l i o n collaboration between universities, industry and government.
She had returned to Australia from Sweden in 1993 after heading the world-renowned Karolinska Institute’s Endocrine Pathology Research Laboratory.
Her ground-breaking research focused on hormonal regulation of the growth and development of the nervous system.
In 1993, Professor Sara was awarded the Swedish Rolf Luft Medal for research excellence in endocrinology.
A year later, Professor Sara received the Sir John Eccles Award from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Professor Sara is a keen sailor and lives in Manly, Brisbane, close to the Royal Queensland Yacht Club where her 31ft yacht Sindbad is berthed. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney.
QUT Dean of Science Professor Vicki Sara . . . to head up the
ARC from early next year
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Dr Morawska explained that the committee had heard of the QUT research and had requested t h e m e e t i n g f o r m o r e information.
S h e s a i d s h e w e l c o m e d t h e interest as the findings of the research related to the level of p oll ution adja cent to freeway s and where new buildings should b e l o c a t e d o r h o w t o p r o t e c t existing buildings.
T h e r e s e a r c h p r o v e d , D r M o r a w s k a s a i d , t h a t p a r t i c l e p o l l u t i o n i n B r i s b a n e w a s c o m p a r a b l e i f n o t w o r s e t h a n other places in Australia.
“We are a big city, we travel longer distances and there is the natural geographical location of
Page 2 INSIDE QUT September 16-October 6, 1997
A word from the acting Vice-Chancellor
From the Inside… by David Hawke
by Noel Gentner
A world conference to be held in Brisbane later this month will aim to create “real”
change for future generations.
To be held from September 28, the World Futures Studies Federation’s XV World Conference is being co-sponsored by UNESCO and the Communication Centre at QUT and held at the University of Queensland.
Global Conversations – What you and I can do for future generations has attracted delegates from more than 50 overseas countries and will include pre-conference workshops beginning on September 25.
Seven main streams (or networks) are planned within the conference and organisers predict a diverse range of participants will
include traditional (Aboriginal) and newer Australians, activists, academics and spiritualists from various political, theoretical and faith systems and ecologists.
Delegates will be encouraged to address a number of questions including:
• What are the elements of future visions 25, 50 and 100 years from now which are likely to motivate, energise or create commitment to bring them about; and
• What are the practical alternatives to the current failure for provision of sustenance, security and happiness?
Dr Sohail Inayatullah, a fellow at QUT’s Communication Centre, will present a paper entitled Making Sense Together.
“My approach will be to deconstruct the idea that we do make sense together,”
Dr Inayatullah said. “Men and women speak and see the world differently, as do cultures and civilisations.
“We then can look at how civilisations see themselves, see others, see nature, see the future and then we can make sense of these differences and do something for future generations.”
Dr Inayatullah said he would like to see the conference conclude with delegates asking themselves what are the “100 actions we can do for future generations”, whether they be ecological, gender, spiritual or economic issues.
“We don’t want it to be just ‘we had a wonderful conference, let’s all go home’, we really want to come out with something we can offer future generations,” Dr Inayatullah said.
Conference looks to real global change
Only one tenth of accidents at QUT are reported, QUT workplace health and safety manager Sonja Lusan said recently.
Ms Lusan said it was important for university staff to report all incidents so that unsafe work areas, equipment, or practices did not go undetected.
“If someone slips on some stairs and they report it, we have a record of that. If we get other reports of slips on the same stairs, we can investigate whether there’s a problem and, if so, we can fix it,” she said.
Ms Lusan said that, if an individual perceived an incident was their fault, reporting it was still important as the recording procedure helped staff assess their own practices.
“There are productivity gains, too, in looking at health and safety because the best way to do something has to be the safest way. So, where staff don’t examine their work practices and document them,
Accident report rate comes under scrutiny
perhaps they’re not doing them the best way anyway,” Ms Lusan said.
Health and safety was the responsibility, Ms Lusan said, of all those who made decisions on behalf of QUT.
“Managers have a professional duty — and a duty of care — on behalf of the employer,” she explained. “The Workplace Health and Safety Act takes it a little further and (managers) have the duty to train, supervise and enforce policies and procedures on health and safety.”
She said that, if managers did not understand health and safety — as well as their responsibility to provide and document safe methods of work, proper training and plant (which, under the Act’s broad definition, included hand-held tools and chairs) — then QUT, as an employer, could be challenged.
Australia’s increasingly litigious environment would see health and safety (and risk management) become a much bigger issue.
“The death of one person cost BP in Britain £10 million,” she explained, “so health and safety is now a standing item on their board’s agenda and is monitored and measured just like marketing and finance”.
Ms Lusan predicted that governments would eventually legislate to ensure organisations required to report annually on their financial health would also report on risk-management performance.
She said QUT’s Health and Safety Section had been providing health and safety officer training and representative training since February. The section also held Liable Manager presentations, covering risk management and health and safety, for senior staff on August 19 and September 5.
“Until we have a critical mass of people trained in every functional area of QUT, then there’s a limit to how much a small unit like ours can do,” Ms Lusan said.
— Carmen Myler
QUT staff, students and the general public will get a chance to see how children explore their built environment at a Kids Build It exhibition at QUT on Saturday, September 20.
The exhibition will celebrate completion of the first stage of an eight-week architectural workshop program for children organised by QUT’s School of Architecture, Interior
Exhibition focuses on kids’ view of the world
and Industrial Design, Hands On Art and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
Sponsored by The Arts Office of the Queensland Government, the program for eight to 14-year-olds will continue to run on Saturday afternoons until November 1 when the final exhibition will be held.
This week’s mid-way exhibition will be held from 3.30pm on Saturday,
September 20, in the Planning, Landscape Architecture and Surveying studio, Room 304, A Block at Gardens Point.
The next series of workshops will be held in January. For more information, contact Sheona Thomson at [email protected] or call Michael Vann from Hands On Art on (07) 3369 0572.
— Carmen Myler A group of final-year built environment
and engineering students will showcase their talents for representatives from industry, academia and business at the 1997 Dean’s Seminar Award to be held later this month.
Sponsored by BHP Engineering, the event will be held at the Brisbane Parkroyal Hotel on September 24, at 6.30pm.
A finalist from each school in the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering was selected last week to vie for the prestigious annual seminar award.
The six finalists who will present innovative research findings to a panel of non-technical judges include:
• Natasha Higham, School of Architecture, Interior and Industrial Design — Cinema Architecture:
Signifying the Imaginary City in Film;
• Poh Hwa Yeo, School of Civil Engineering — Soil Improvement;
• Rachel O’Neill, School of Construction Management and Property — Alternative Project Finance (Builders self-financing as in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel);
Finalists to vie for Dean’s prize
• Leonard Lee, School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering — QUT Microsatellite ’97;
• Justin Ludcke, School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering — Blood Handling Device;
• John Minnikin, School of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Surveying
— Why Landscape Architecture?
The finalists will be judged on their ability to communicate their ideas and technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
Last year’s winner, Andrew Collins, now works as a research and development engineer in the Defence Signals Directorate of the Department of Defence in Canberra.
Mr Collins said competing in the seminar competition had helped him polish his public speaking skills and increased his confidence — factors which contributed largely to him securing his current position.
To make a reservation to attend the 1997 Dean’s Seminar Award, call (07) 3864 1532.
QUT is proud to provide the next chair of the Australian Research Council (ARC) — our Dean of Science, Professor Vicki Sara.
The position of ARC chair is a very powerful one in Australian higher education. The fact that it is a full- time appointment indicates the importance with which the Federal Government also regards the position.
Each year the ARC dispenses more than $300 million in research grants to universities in Australia. It also plays a key role in advising government on national education and research policy.
Professor Sara’s appointment implicitly recognises the research credentials of newer universities such as QUT at a time when some in the
“sandstone” universities are arguing for concentration of national research resources in their hands.
QUT has consistently argued – for example in its submission to the West review – that research funds should be allocated on merit to recognise the efforts of individual researchers regardless of which university employs them.
Professor Sara herself is a good example of the case for recognising individual talent rather than institutional status or longevity.
In an interview with The Australian last week, Professor Sara outlined her vision for the ARC as one in which research funding needed to be merit- based, and stressed the importance of diversity in research.
She went on to say that one of her first tasks would be to develop a strategic plan for research directions as the big research funding agency takes a more autonomous role.
Professor Sara is one of the world’s leading researchers in her field of endocrinology, the study of hormones.
A national research leader
At QUT, she has built up the School of Life Sciences to be the university’s premier research performer.
She was the driving force behind the establishment of the $40 million Co-operative Research Centre for Diagnostic Technologies at QUT, a venture which involves university and industry bodies.
More recently Professor Sara has restructured the Faculty of Science to better focus teaching and research activities.
Her appointment has been welcomed by the Australian Vice- Chancellors Committee, the National Tertiary Education Union and the Australian Academy of Science.
This university joins these bodies in their confidence that Professor Sara will take the ARC in new and exciting strategic directions during the next three years.
QUT and the Faculty of Science will, of course, feel the loss of Professor Sara. But her appointment is a great honour for her and the university.
The country will benefit from the energy and creativity Professor Sara has shown so abundantly at QUT.
— Professor John Corderoy
Sustainable development that’s clean, green and profitable will be the subject of a special free public lecture to be held at QUT on October 1, 1997.
Professor Charles J. Kibert, a world authority on the environmental impacts of construction, will present the two- hour Faculty of Built Environment &
Engineering-sponsored lecture from 7.00pm at 80 George Street, Brisbane.
From the University of Florida’s M.E.
Rinker Snr. School of Building Construction, Professor Kibert will address key issues including the difference between sustainable development and greening, why green buisnesses will be the winners of the future, zero emissions and zero waste businesses and industrial ecology.
Contact Janelle Allison at [email protected] or call (07) 3864 1529 for further details.
Professor targets green solutions
QUT to run course for hypnotists
TYNAN ROB 15X3
by Andrea Hammond
Health professionals may soon be able to offer patients alternative pain and phobia treatment by doing postgraduate studies in hypnosis at QUT.
Practising doctors, dentists and psychologists will have access to the latest hypnosis research and t r e a t m e n t t e c h n i q u e s t h r o u g h three new award courses to be offered from February 1998 by the F a c u l t y o f A r t s ’ S c h o o l o f Social Science.
A t w o - y e a r ( p a r t - t i m e ) G r a d u a t e D i p l o m a i n S o c i a l S c i e n c e ( C l i n i c a l H y p n o s i s ) course will be the first of its kind i n Q u e e n s l a n d a n d a i m s t o d e v e l o p c o m p e t e n c i e s a n d s t a n d a r d s f o r g o o d c l i n i c a l p r a c t i c e i n t h i s S t a t e a n d throughout Australia.
Course co-ordinator Dr Kathryn G o w — a n e x p e r i e n c e d psychologist who has used clinical hypnosis for more than 15 years
— said two graduate certificates, one in Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and the other in Clinical Hypnosis Practice, would also be offered at QUT from first semester next year.
Dr Gow said the courses, which are subject to final approval by the University Academic Board, would g i v e h e a l t h p r o f e s s i o n a l s a t h o r o u g h u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f hypnosis and how to use it in their profession.
She said it would also help alter the public perception of hypnosis a s “ h o c u s p o c u s ” i n a n environment where it was very easy for “lay” hypnotists to learn a few techniques in a weekend workshop a n d t h e n “ t r e a t ” p e o p l e w i t h serious problems.
“ H y p n o s i s i s v e r y m u c h a n under-utilised skill among our health professionals, but the people who have been trained in it find it very valuable and use it regularly,”
Dr Gow said.
“People often think that what they see on the stage — during h y p n o s i s “ s h o w s ” — i s w h a t h y p n o s i s i s a b o u t , w h i c h i s u n f o r t u n a t e , a s a c l i e n t i n a therapeutic or a medical situation is treated totally differently from what is done on stage.
“There is no reason, for example, why a health professional would have a person jump up and down and behave like a chicken.
“Hypnosis can be relatively easily taught — it’s simple to put someone who is highly suggestible into a trance, but knowing what
to do with them when they are in a trance with respect to therapy or m e d i c a l o r d e n t a l t r e a t m e n t requires that the person has been thoroughly trained in their area of speciality.
“We have a lot of unregistered l a y h y p n o t i s t s a r o u n d ( i n Q u e e n s l a n d ) w h o h a v e v e r y little training.
“ M a n y o f t h e m h a v e n o experience whatsoever and they are hypnotising people left, right and centre, and that’s a great danger to the public.”
Dr Gow said hypnosis was used very successfully by dentists for treating patients with severe dental phobias, for controlling pain and minimising bleeding.
“For doctors, hypnosis also has a wide range of applications. It can be used for pain management, for d e c r e a s i n g a n x i e t y f o r r e a l l y i n v a s i v e o r s t r e s s f u l m e d i c a l procedures, or as an anaesthetic (in minor procedures),” she said.
“Hypnosis has also been used by d o c t o r s v e r y s u c c e s s f u l l y f o r treating burns and skin disorders, treating all kinds of viruses and removing warts.
“Psychologists frequently use hypnosis in their work to help patients quit smoking or lose weight, to treat behavioural disorders or panic attacks, for exam preparation, public speaking, sports medicine and in some abuse or trauma cases.
“One of the fundamental uses of hypnosis is that it provides what we call ego strengthening and builds up positive thinking in the p e r s o n — i t i n c r e a s e s t h e i r motivation and self-confidence.”
Q U T i s n e g o t i a t i n g a memorandum of understanding with the Queensland branch of the Australian Society of Hypnosis to ensure the diploma and certificate courses are conducted in line with the society’s standards.
Dr Gow said the courses would be full fee-paying and applicants must have an undergraduate degree i n m e d i c i n e , d e n t i s t r y o r psychology and be eligible for registration in their profession.
Members of the Australian Hypnosis Society who have a diploma in clinical hypnosis will also be able to upgrade their qualifications by completing the second year of the graduate diploma course.
D r G o w s a i d t h e g r a d u a t e diploma and graduate certificates would be offered to international students from 1999, with off-shore t e a c h i n g p o s s i b l y o n o f f e r i n Singapore, Hong Kong and India by the year 2000.
Dr Kathryn Gow . . . there’s a lot more to hypnosis and treating a patient than simply waving a fob watch
by Carmen Myler
Are kids who use instruments smarter than kids who use computers? Will broccoli protect you from cancer? And why can’t you keep your eyes open when you sneeze?
Every week, scientist and popular media personality Dr Karl Kruszelnicki tackles curly questions like these via the airwaves in his efforts to bring science to the masses, particularly the young.
On October 1 Brisbane audiences will get their chance to hear his words of wisdom when Dr Kruszelnicki delivers a free public lecture — The Important Role That Young People in Our Society Play in Constructing the Future Direction of Science — at QUT.
Currently the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney — where his primary role is to visit schools and speak to children about science — Dr Kruszelnicki (known as Dr Karl to the thousands of fans who jam the switchboard during his weekly radio talk back segment on Triple J) will visit QUT when it hosts the annual conference of the Science Teachers’ Association of Queensland, CONSTAQ ’97.
QUT’s Dean of Science Professor Vicki Sara said she shared Dr Kruszelnicki’s interest in making science more popular with the young.
Dr Karl to present special public lecture on science
Professor Sara, who is a keynote speaker at the CONSTAQ ’97, said her faculty was committed to working with science teachers to inspire interest in science at an early age.
She said the faculty would bring 150 conference delegates to QUT’s Gardens Point campus on Wednesday, October 1, for an afternoon workshop and to attend Dr Kruszelnicki’s lecture.
STAQ President Paul Parkinson said Dr Kruszelnicki brought “a breath of fresh air”
to science education with his special brand of real-world science, making it a part of people’s everyday experiences.
“People hear him and think science is not as stuffy or as complex as they thought it was,” Mr Parkinson said. “His appeal goes from the very young to older people because of his diversity of interests.”
Dr Kruszelnicki’s diversity is reflected in his employment and educational history. He has degrees in physics and maths, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery, and has worked as a physicist, labourer, tutor, roadie, filmmaker, car mechanic, television weather forecaster and doctor.
His media history is just as diverse, with television appearances on Quantum, The Midday Show, Good Morning Australia and SBS’ Second Opinion as well as regular stints on seven radio stations across Australia.
Dr Kruszelnicki has written 17 books, three of which hit the position of best- selling science book in Australia according to New Scientist magazine.
His latest book — Flying Lasers, Robofish and Cities of Slime and More Brain Bending Moments in Science — will be released in November.
Dr Kruszelnicki’s public lecture will be held from 4pm to 5pm in Room 406, Z Block, QUT Gardens Point campus.
CONSTAQ ’97 — Science Under Construction — will take place at the Bardon Professional Centre from October 1 to 3.
QUT academic Dr Noel Preston has written to Queensland members of Parliament branding the Coalition Government’s decision to establish a crime commission as
“inappropriate”.
Dr Preston — a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities and also president of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics — has called instead for the appointment of a commissioner for public integrity.
“My major concern (with a crime commission) is that there can be no adequate
Crime Commission ‘inappropriate’
monitoring of police complaints or surveillance of police corruption, let alone official corruption, by a body that is not also charged with investigating organised crime,”
Dr Preston said.
“I believe this mix of functions is best done by a strong, independent CJC, though I am not opposed to changes to that body which enhance its accountability and transfer some of its functions to a commissioner for public integrity.
“My recommendation is for a comprehensive, multi-faceted regime within
a whole of government approach, centred around the office of a commissioner for public integrity, accountable to a Parliament which, itself, needs to adopt a code of ethics and supportive measures like ethics education and advisory services for MPs.”
Dr Preston has sent the open letter to the Premier Rob Borbidge, Opposition Leader Peter Beattie, the Member for Gladstone, Liz Cunningham, Parliamentary Ethics Committee chair Lyn Warwick and CJC chair Frank Clair.
— Andrea Hammond
The women’s services department of QUT’s Student Guild has announced the four winners of its 1997 Women’s Creative Arts Grant Scheme.
Women’s services director Kellie McBride said the new grant scheme would encourage the artists to “re-examine traditional representations of women”.
Ms McBride said the four grants, each worth $250, would be awarded to:
• Leanne Taylor-Denholm, a third- year social science student, for a proposed short story, Diary of a Thief, which would “deconstruct sexual identity by transgressing the boundaries of ‘the other’ ”;
• Madeline Smith, a third-year Academy of the Arts student, for a proposed adaptation of the opera Carmen , a one-hour drama about young women who work in an oppressive environment;
• Di Ball, a visual arts honours student, for a proposed photo essay, Krystal Ball, which will examine traditional uses of “beauty” industry products; and
• Valerie Keenan, a visual arts student, for a proposed book, Connected in the Middle, about pioneering women in Far North Queensland.
The final works are to be showcased at QUT’s annual women’s spring dinner in November.
— Carmen Myler
Students win arts grants
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
Page 4 INSIDE QUT September 16-October 6, 1997 The fourth event in the university’s flexible
delivery series, Flexible Delivery: Block Teaching Forum, will take place on Wednesday, October 1 at Gardens Point campus.
Acting head of the Academic Staff Development Unit Dr Patricia Weeks said block or intensive teaching of units was an important and expanding form of flexible delivery, particularly at the full fee-paying postgraduate level.
Forum to show how block teaching can work
by Andrea Hammond
A QUT associate professor is one of two Australian academics to be awarded a 1997 National Teaching Fellowship by the Federal Government.
Professor Roy Ballantyne was presented with the prestigious award by the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs Senator Amanda Vanstone in Canberra this month.
A member of the Faculty of Education’s School of Professional Studies, Professor Ballantyne headed a record-breaking charge by QUT in the latest round of National Teaching Development Grants and Staff Development Grants.
The university was awarded Queensland’s only National Organisational Teaching Development Grant — for a project also directed by Professor Ballantyne — out of 10 awarded nationally. QUT also received Queensland’s only Staff Development Grant, out of 14 awarded nationally.
In a ceremony to mark the contribution of the nine past and present holders of Commonwealth National Teaching Fellowships, Senator Vanstone said fellows such as Professor Ballantyne served as “a role model and inspiration” to other academics.
“These awards help to revitalise the university system and remind us all that, in the final analysis, good teaching is about the best possible outcomes for students,”
she said.
Professor Ballantyne will undertake a program of travel in the United Kingdom and South Africa to examine
Education professor wins national fellowship
best practices in teacher education for geography and environmental studies.
A modest Professor Ballantyne said he believed he was awarded the fellowship because he had been lucky enough to receive four national teaching development grants in the past.
“I think it (the fellowship) is largely as a result of the national teaching
development grants that have enabled me to employ researchers to help develop and evaluate teaching materials in the area of environmental education and interpretation,” Professor Ballantyne said.
“So, although I’ve been awarded the fellowship, I think a lot of the credit should go to those who worked with me in teaching development teams over the past five years.”
Professor Ballantyne will spend three weeks in South Africa investigating how academics are preparing students to teach in curriculum areas such as social education (which combine the traditional disciplines of history, geography, environmental education and economics).
In the UK, he will visit the nation’s top universities in a 10-
week trip to investigate training s y s t e m s s e t u p b e t w e e n B r i t i s h universities and high schools to continue training students while they are doing “prac” teaching.
“We are finding we have less and less time to prepare our students while they are with us at university because more and more (of students’) time is being spent in schools,” Professor Ballantyne said.
“If we want to have an impact on the way in which our students are educated, from a professional development perspective, we need to start looking at different kinds of teaching methods which allow us to work in partnership with schools to allow us to develop our students while they are not on campus.”
When he has completed his overseas research Professor Ballantyne will present workshops to teaching professionals around Australia, as well as attend national and international conferences.
Professor Ballantyne is also project director of the university’s 1997 National Teaching Organisational Development Grant, a $100,099 project, awarded to QUT’s Faculty of Education, which will trial a system of networking between academics and “prac” students via the Internet and e-mail.
QUT Academic Staff Development Unit senior lecturer Dr Jill Borthwick is project director for the $91,113 Staff Development Grant which aims to enhance the quality of student learning outcomes through the development of a quality improvement process for course units.
Associate Professor and 1997 National Teaching Fellowship winner Roy Ballantyne . . . with a photograph of Cape Town, South Africa, that hangs in his Kelvin Grove office. Professor Ballantyne
will travel to South Africa and the United Kingdom to study best practice in teacher education.
Mackay City Mayor Julie Boyd was presented with a special Don Fraser Fellow award by QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson in recognition of the city’s support of the university’s Survey
Practice Course through the QUT Foundation. Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering students completed a project for the
Council in 1995 as part of the Building Better Cities program.
A lack of focus on the integral role played by executive secretaries and personal assistants in all organisations has inspired a national conference to redress the issue.
The brainchild of QUT’s secretarial network, the First National Conference for Executive Secretaries and Personal Assistants
— Managing our Executives with Innovation, Motivation and Self-Preservation — will be held from October 3 to 4 at the Carlton Crest Hotel in Brisbane.
The immediate past-president of SecNet Kate Doyle — a secretary for 35 years — said the conference was being held because there was a lack of personal development opportunities for secretaries in most organisations.
“At QUT, for example, there are conferences for senior managers and
Conference to focus on new skills for integral staff
“Up until now, QUT has been traditional in the way it offers postgraduate courses but we need to rapidly change our approach to delivery to keep pace with other service providers,” Dr Weeks said.
Dr Weeks said the forum would identify the advantages of the block mode of delivery and the ways this approach could enhance student learning. She said the forum would also showcase QUT examples, and address administrative and other considerations of block teaching.
Forum speakers will include the Faculty of Health’s Dr MaryLou O’Connor-Fleming and the Faculty of Education’s Dr Erica McWilliam.
A panel session focusing on success factors in block-mode teaching will also take place.
The forum will run from 10am to 1.30pm in Room Z304, Z Block, Gardens Point campus with morning tea and lunch provided.
To register, e-mail [email protected] or call (07) 3864 2697.
— Carmen Myler
Mayor receives honour
women in leadership but not many for people at levels three to five, particularly secretaries and personal assistants,” Ms Doyle said. “We want to make these people more aware that their positions are important and they should extend and develop themselves to make their careers more interesting and rewarding.”
She said the conference would cover topics including: personal development and training needs for the future;
working in teams; using the Internet;
mentoring; marketing yourself; public speaking; multi-skilling; financial management; and health and self-preservation.
To register for the conference: e-mail [email protected] or telephone (07) 3864 2915.
Booker Prize-winning Australian author Peter Carey, right, shares a funny moment with the 1997 Writers Festival chair and QUT School of Humanities senior lecturer Dr Adam Shoemaker, and festival deputy chair (and former QUT executive officer) Mary-Rose MacColl at the launch of this
year’s festival at the Brisbane International Airport. QUT was a major sponsor of the four-day literary festival which was held from September 4 to 7 and attracted more than 15,000 people.
Past and present QUT students were involved in a host of festival activities, including a choreographed performance of sections of work by postgraduate writing students. A number of
well-known Aboriginal authors, including Herb Wharton and Melissa Lucashenko, visited QUT’s Carseldine campus as guest lecturers during the festival.
High-flying author in fine festival form
(Above) Choreographer Rebecca Haddow instructs her class and (below) shows Amy Cupitt and Joanna Sylvester some new moves
by Carmen Myler
Two final-year QUT law students have been chosen to compete in the national final of a mooting competition run by the Law Council of Australia — Family Law Division on Thursday, September 18.
Accountancy-law student Belinda Bradberry and law student Caroline Hinds were one of two teams chosen from seven state and territory finalists to compete in the national final in Melbourne.
The duo — who will go up against a team from Tasmania in the final — beat students from Bond University and Griffith University in the State final of the mock-trial competition on August 29, presided over by retired Family Court Judge Dr Peter Nygh.
(A University of Queensland team also competed but was defeated by Griffith University in a semi-final.)
The students said the State competition, which was held in the awe-inspiring surrounds of the Commonwealth Family Law Court, was “terribly stressful” but well worth the experience.
“Our topic was parental relocation, so the parties had separated and the mother was looking to relocate to Western Australia,” Ms Bradberry explained.
“We were acting on behalf of the father, so we were saying the mother should not be able to relocate with the children.
“Apart from family law, though, we involved discussion on the International Covenant of Civil Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
“Because the law is moving towards implementing international developments
Law duo wins State honours in family law challenge
in the common law of Australia, that was significant and made the experience more interesting.”
Ms Hinds said that, in her argument, she discussed the 1996 changes to the Family Law Act which moved away from the old notions of custody, guardianship and access towards new orders called parenting orders.
“The goal of these orders was to eliminate the win-lose situation . . . and also to emphasise that it’s the children’s best interests which are paramount as opposed to the parents’,” she said.
The students, who have both secured positions as articled clerks with Brisbane legal firms — Ms Bradberry with McCullough Robertson and Ms Hinds with Clayton Utz — said the mooting exercise was a valuable part of their law education.
“A moot comprises everything,” Ms Bradberry said.
“It uses your ability to research, your ability to work in a team and your ability to speak and deliver oral presentations and answer questions from a judge.
“All the law subjects in the world don’t teach you how to do this — I think there should be more emphasis on it.”
Ms Hinds agreed and said that, even if a student graduated with good grades, it did not mean they possessed the skills to be a good solicitor.
“Communication is essential,” she said.
“You have to convey information to the client as a lay person and, conversely, be able to communicate with the judiciary.”
Ms Hinds commended QUT’s Law Faculty on providing the option for students to include moots as part of their assessment.
Competition finalists . . . Accountancy-law student Belinda Bradberry and law student Caroline Hinds
Faculties announce first projects to be funded by indigenous grants scheme
by Carmen Myler
In the first scheme of its kind, QUT has established a faculty-specific Indigenous Grants Scheme to improve participation and retention rates for its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
The $80,000 grants scheme has been established by QUT’s Oodgeroo Unit.
Oodgeroo Unit manager Penny Tripcony, right, said half the funds were allocated proportionally between QUT’s eight faculties, based on 1996 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enrolments, and the other half were divided evenly between the faculties.
“This scheme is innovative, exciting and offers a learning process for all concerned,” Ms Tripcony said. “It will improve access for, as well as participation and retention of, indigenous students and demonstrate across the university the value of indigenous people and their knowledge.
“It will also encourage faculties to consult indigenous communities and provide a framework for practices which are inclusive of students from culturally diverse backgrounds.”
As part of the scheme, faculties were invited to submit proposals for projects which encouraged recruitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in 1998 and beyond, or supported the participation and retention of existing indigenous students in their faculties.
The projects approved under the new grants scheme in each faculty are:
Arts ($11,400) — Research and investigate articulation possibilities between courses at QUT and institutes of TAFE in Queensland and northern New South Wales. Develop linking mechanisms to provide an opportunity for entry into undergraduate programs at QUT with
advanced standing from certificate or associate diploma courses.
Built Environment and Engineering ($7,000)
— Engage four mentors as a 12-month pilot project to take responsibility for existing indigenous students.
Business ($9,000) — Offer a one-day seminar on business planning and related matters (in response to Commonwealth-stated directions for indigenous self-management through enterprise development). The seminar would be for representatives of indigenous communities and councils, current students and indigenous students from Year 12 and TAFE.
Education ($15,800) — Review curriculum in the Bachelor of Education (first year, core units) and associated faculty staff workshops. Host a reconciliation forum.
Health ($11,800) — Conduct research leading to a co-operatively planned and developed bridging-orientation program to introduce indigenous students to required learning approaches to scientific or bio-scientific subjects.
Information Technology ($6,600)
— Improve dial-in access to resources for indigenous students. Tailor information technology days, canvassing attendees from indigenous school students, community groups and indigenous professionals.
Law ($11,400) — Present a one- day training workshop for staff and develop a guidelines booklet to reinforce workshop outcomes. Survey workshop participants and indigenous students.
Monitor indigenous student progression and attrition rates. Host a seminar for indigenous students at the beginning of 1998.
Science ($7,000) — Promote the Bachelor of Applied Science to potential indigenous students (including a brochure to promote careers in environmental science in particular).
Include a component of the Science Train project. Develop a special web page, linked to the faculty home page.
Incorporate relevant material into the environmental science course.
Faculty progress will be monitored by QUT’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee through reports provided by Ms Tripcony, who is also executive officer of the committee which is headed by Commissioner Colin Dillon, a national member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
Ms Tripcony said, however, that the scheme was self-monitoring and hoped that it would facilitate a closer working relationship between the faculties and the Oodgeroo Unit.
Faculty representatives will meet again during second semester, and a final report on the scheme will be presented to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee at the end of first semester next year.
The upcoming dance performance New Moves will be a launch pad for new choreographers in contemporary dance and ballet, according to Academy of the Arts dance lecturer John Utans.
New Moves will be staged at the Woodward Theatre at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus on September 26 and 27 from 8pm.
Mr Utans said the program consisted of works by students specialising in choreography and dance students who had chosen to expand their horizons.
“Some of this work is quite daring and experimental,” he said.
New generation of dance choreographers on show
“There is always a sense of risk, excitement and challenge to both the choreographer and the audience.
“Four of the students have had music especially composed for their pieces and some of it will be performed live.
“This will add a unique and unusual element to the performance.”
Mr Utans said the purpose of New Moves was to allow new choreographers the space and freedom for exploration, innovation and new ideas.
“New Moves is a great opportunity for school-aged dance students to view the area of choreography as an art-form and to enjoy experiencing fresh, new ideas in dance,” he said.
Page 6 INSIDE QUT September 16-October 6, 1997 QUT’s School of Management
offers an Honours program for exceptional students. You will develop practical research skills and expertise in an area of contemporary significance to managers and human resource professionals.
Not only will this make you more employable, it will enable you to move directly into your PhD if you decide to pursue further study – now or down the track.
The Honours degree is an additional year of full-time study (or two years part- time) after you finish your undergraduate degree.
You will be able to research an area that you find particularly interesting and you will be individually supervised.
That means you’ll always have someone with the appropriate expertise to discuss your ideas with and to provide suggestions and advice when needed.
If you are interested in finding out more phone Dr Rachel Parker on (07) 3864 2522 or come along to our information session on Wednesday 24 September at 5.30pm in Room 1128, Level 11, Z Block, Gardens Point campus.
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TECHNOLOGIES 10x3
Regions turn out to inspect QUT Science Train
by Glenys Haalebos
QUT’s Science Train has now been on the move around Queensland for three weeks and almost 20,000 people who have climbed aboard to date have declared it a roaring success.
The train’s 10,000th visitor was recorded in Longreach after only 13 days on the rails and almost as many again have visited the mobile science display since then.
and prepared themselves to give thoughtful answers to the childrens’ questions.”
“These postgraduate students are our brightest and best, but nothing was too much trouble for them, no question was too simple or silly for them to deal with seriously,” Mr Wilson said.
“In spite of the long hours and the demanding work, they were unfailingly polite, interested and, best of all probably, they were fun. They really had fun with the children and, while the visitors learned lots about
science, they had a good time doing it.”
QUT’s Science Train is now in its third and final leg of its 10,000km journey which is taking it to Mt Isa, Richmond, Charters Towers, Cairns and back down the coast to Ingham and Proserpine.
For readers back in Brisbane who have yet to see the train, it will be open to the public in Brisbane at Platform 3, Roma Street Station, from Sunday September 21 to Friday September 26.
(Top) Shaded by the Tree of Knowledge, the familiar Science Train sandwich board beckoned hundreds of Barcaldine residents to the popular exhibition
(Middle) When QUT’s Science Train visited Barcaldine in Central Queensland, young and old alike stepped aboard to take a close look
at the four display carriages (Bottom) Visitors to the Science Train have enjoyed using a wide range of scientific instruments supplied by QUT’s Faculty of Science
Part-time staff conference to focus on alternatives for flexible delivery
QUT’s part-time academic staff will have an opportunity for professional development and to learn about flexible delivery at a free conference on October 4, according to Academic Staff Development Unit acting head Dr Patricia Weeks.
Dr Weeks said the Enhancing T e a c h i n g : I m p r o v i n g Conditions conference had been organised in association with t h e Q U T P r o f e s s i o n a l A s s o c i a t i o n o f P a r t - T i m e Academics (PAPTA).
“ P A P T A w a s f o r m e d , f o l l o w i n g l a s t y e a r ’ s P a r t - So far, Mackay has topped the daily visitor
number logs, with a record 1,325 people passing through the exhibit on Saturday September 6.
The $500,000-Science Train project was conceived by QUT Faculty of Science Dean Professor Vicki Sara and has been sponsored by the Queensland Government, Queensland Rail, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, the Federal Department of Industry, Science and Tourism, the Arts
Office – Queensland, Sunstate Airlines and Rotary.
Its three themed carriages — earth science, environmental science and cell science — are staffed by staff and postgraduate students from QUT’s Faculty of Science, with Admissions personnel covering a fourth carriage.
School of Natural Resource Sciences senior administration officer Cathy Fielding travelled with the train from Nambour to Rockhampton and talked about the project
from an insider’s view.
“Having seen all the work that went into getting the train ready, it was great to see it come together so well in reality,”
Ms Fielding said.
“Watching the excitement of the children was really special. For example, we were in Longreach on a weekend, so there were no organised school visits, but the children still came and some stayed for hours, talking and asking questions.
“It was great seeing them getting excited about science and asking serious questions. One of our aims was to enthuse people about science and I believe we are achieving that.
“Our display brought many new concepts to regional and rural residents
— there were lots of things they wouldn’t have seen before. Looking at life forms and objects through microscopes was a big hit.
“Often, visitors would step onto the train, take one look around and just say ‘wow’.”
Ms Fielding said that, in spite of the slightly cramped conditions and close contact on the train, the staff had remained in good spirits.
“We did everything as a group — ate in the dining car together, ate out together when that was possible and worked together during the day. Everyone got on and we managed to have fun as well as work very hard,” she said.
“Rotary was kind enough to provide billets and hotel accommodation where they could and this gave staff the occasional break and a stationary bed.
We really appreciated that.”
QUT Admissions’ Tony Wilson also travelled on this leg of the journey and his comments echoed those of Ms Fielding.
“The excitement of the children visiting the display was a real buzz for us,” he said.
“It seemed that the further west we went, the more appreciative and interested the kids were. They really appreciated the fact that we had come so far to bring science to them.”
Both Ms Fielding and Mr Wilson praised the Faculty of Science postgraduate students who supervised the displays.
“They were fantastic,” Ms Fielding said.
“Often they were asked questions in fields that were not their specialty and it was amazing to see how quickly they learned
T i m e A c a d e m i c s : T h e I nvisibl e Fo rce conf ere nce,”
Dr Weeks said.
“We offer things [like this c o n f e r e n c e ] a t a l t e r n a t i v e times, alternative venues and i n a l t e r n a t i v e w a y s s o t h a t p a r t - t i m e s t a f f c a n a c c e s s services that are available for full-time staff at QUT,” she said.
T h e c o n f e r e n c e w i l l b e opened by QUT Chancellor D r C h e r r e l l H i r s t a n d t h e k e y n o t e a d d r e s s , F l e x i b l e Delivery and its Implications for Part-Time Academics, will
be delivered by Teaching and L e a r n i n g S u p p o r t S e r v i c e s D i r e c t o r P r o f e s s o r G a i l Hart.
E n h a n c i n g T e a c h i n g : Improving Conditions will be h e l d i n t h e O w e n J . Wordsworth Room, S Block (formerly known as the ITE building) at Gardens Point campus from 8.30am to 4.30pm on Saturday, October 4.
Part-time staff wanting to attend the conference should contact Katische Haberfield at k . h a b e r f i e l d @ q u t . e d u . a u o r phone (07) 3864 5256.
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Oct 15 Young-Ah Kim, Piano. Performing sonatas by Carl Vine and Ginastera.
KG/M Block Music Studio. 1-1.45pm.
FREE. (07) 3864 5998.
Nov 29-30 Non-Linear Digital Recording. Q U T s t a f f a n d s t u d e n t s a r e invited to learn to record sound
& music in the non-linear digital d o m a i n . K G / M B l o c k M u s i c Studio. $330. Andy Arthurs at a . a r t h u r s @ q u t . e d u . a u O R (07) 3864 3296.
STUDENT GUILD
Sep 19 Free Movie Night GP
Sep 23 Noon Hour Band KG
Sep 25 Noon Hour Band GP
Sep 29-Oct 3AUSF Games Melbourne Oct 2 National Band Comp Roxy Hotel
Oct 16 Octoberfest GP
Oct 17 Free Movie Night GP
Oct 20 Band/Market Day C
Oct 23 Noon Hour Band GP
Oct 24 QUT Cup Soccer KG
Oct 28 Noon Hour Band KG
Oct 30 Athletic Awards TBA
Nov 28 QUT Ball Jubilee Hotel
Dec 15-19 Sport Camps Week #1 C
SCIENCE TRAIN
The QUT Science Train is showcasing the dynamic world of science — from dinosaurs to DNA — as it visits regional centres in Queensland. Its remaining schedule is as follows:
Sep 16 Cairns, 10am-3pm Sep 17 Ingham, 9am-8pm Sep 18 Proserpine, 9am-3.30pm Sep 19 Return to Brisbane Sep 20 Return to Roma Street Sep 21 Roma Street, 10am-4pm Sep 22 Roma Street, 10am-4pm Sep 23 Roma Street, 10am-4pm Sep 24 Roma Street, Noon-8pm Sep 25 Roma Street, 10am-4pm Sep 26 Roma Street, Noon-8pm Oct 4 Part-time Academics: The Invisible
Force Conference — Enhancing Teaching, Improving Conditions.
This seminar is designed for part- time academics to engage in discussion & action to improve quality of teaching & conditions for part- timers at QUT. GP/OJW, S Block, 8.30am-4.30pm. Free. Katische Haberfield at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 5256.
Dec 9-11 Respecting Ethnic & Cultural H e r i t a g e ( R E A C H ) P r o g r a m . Dates tentative. Expressions of interest — REACH is a non-profit organisation involved in training
& professional development in the area of leadership for diversity.
$ 5 0 0 . P a t r i c i a K e l l y a t p . k e l l y @ q u t . e d u . a u O R (07) 3864 1651.
• Continuing Professional Education Oct 3-4 Medical Imaging in Accident &
Emergency. Clinical investigation &
practices in emergency medicine as they relate to medical imaging. $350 (or $80 for undergraduate medical radiation students). GP/Q216-218 9.30am-5pm. Samantha Chaplin at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 3505.
Oct 3-4 First National Conference for Executive Secretaries and Personal Assistants. Carlton Crest Hotel. $395.
Maria Lamari at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 2915.
Oct-Dec Brief: Family Therapy. Introductory course, Oct 18 & 25; Intermediate course, Nov 8 & 15; Advanced course, Nov 29 & Dec 6. $235. Samantha Chaplin at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 3505.
FROM THE ACADEMY
Sep 17 High Class Brass. A variety of works by composers including Malcolm Arnold & Andre Previn.
KG/M Block Music Studio. 1- 1.45pm. FREE. (07) 3864 5998.
Sep 24 F. Gerard Errante, clarinet. The clarinet of the 21st century. KG/
M Block Music Studio. 1-1.45pm.
FREE. (07) 3864 5998.
Oct 8 Percussion Duo. Contemporary works ranging from Xenakis to Chick Correa. KG/M Block Music Studio. 1-1.45pm. FREE. (07) 3864 5998.
Check out What’s On at http:// www.qut.edu.au/pubs/02stud/whatson.html.
Send your What’s On entry to [email protected] or via fax on (07) 3210 0474.
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
• Centre for Policy & Leadership Studies in Education
Sep 16 Music in an age of mechanical r e p r o d u c t i o n : s o m e n o t e s t o w a r d s a t h e o r y o f phonography. Dr Colin Symes, QUT School of Cultural & Policy Studies. KG/E416 12-1pm. FREE.
Anne Wilson at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 5959.
Nov 29 Pedagogy & the Body conference (1- day). Will address complex & changing interrelationships between pedagogical
& corporeal practices in contemporary cultural & educational settings. Waged participants $95, non-waged $60. KG.
Anne Wilson at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 5959.
• Human Movement Studies
Sep 17 Career Information Evening. Find out about the Human Movement Studies undergraduate programs and the career opportunities available to graduates. KG/N519 7pm. Free.
Bob Boyd at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 3078.
• Equity
Sep 23 Equity Basics. Weekly half-day -Oct 17 seminars for staff with or without
supervisory duties. FREE. Dates: Sept 23 & 29 , Oct 7 & 17 . Times:
(managers) 9am-Noon, (non- managers) 9am-Noon & 1.30pm- 4.30pm. Leanne Zimmermann at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 3653.
• Built Environment and Engineering Sept 29-30 Architectural Illustration
Workshop. Two-day watercolour seminar for students only, presented by international architectural perspectivist Frank Constantino.
$260. GP/A303 9am-5pm. Jane Grealy on (07) 3394 4333.
• Academic Staff Development Unit Oct 1 The Flexible Delivery: Block Teaching
Forum. Forum will: identify advantages of block/intensive approach; ways in which it can enhance student learning;
key administrative & pedagogic considerations in block teaching &
showcase examples. GP/Z304, 10am- 1.30pm. Free. Jenny Hunter at [email protected] OR (07) 3864 2697.
NORTH QUAY HOTEL 25x2
Children showcase their skills
by Noel Genter
A School of Early Childhood community art project, “Children’s Bronzes”, has had a successful second public showing during Children’s Book Week, with a special display mounted at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus.
The display featured a series of linocuts, pictured left, created earlier this year by children from the Cleveland and Dunwich State Schools during workshops with artists funded by a QUT Community Service grant.
Their work was so impressive that the children’s linocuts were recently cast in bronze for inclusion in the new Library Square in Cleveland.
Joint co-ordinator of the Children’s Bronzes project and School of Early Childhood lecturer Beverley Broughton said the inspiration and support provided by artists, QUT staff and the general community had resulted in the children producing art works of an exceptionally high standard.
“The idea was for the children to interpret t h e i r e n v i r o n m e n t , w h a t t h e y s e e i n t h e i r environment and what they think is important,”
Mrs Broughton said.
“You see a lot of nature and the sea and, interestingly, the Dunwich children have a lot of horizons in their art work.
“No matter where you look from Stradbroke Island, you see the horizon.”
“Adults have been stunned by the result.”
Carseldine takes to the streets
To mark the launch of QUT’s new Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1998, staff from the School of Humanities are literally
“taking it to the streets”.
Throughout September, lecturers and students are visiting northside shopping centres, armed with QUT brochures and the lastest information on the university’s arts degrees. Every Thursday evening and Saturday morning teams of QUT people in Faculty of Arts T-shirts act as mobile information officers.
Acting Head of School Wayne Hindsley said the initiative demonstrated QUT’s strong commitment to north Brisbane and to the Carseldine campus.
“This is our way of underlining the link between the local community and what we teach – and how we teach it,” he said.
Innovative new programs in Indigenous Australian Studies, Applied Ethics, and Political Studies are just some of the offerings being introduced in 1998 at the Carseldine campus on Beams Road.
Vicki Palmer, left, tells Larissa Paton from Keperra about great QUT courses during a visit to Brookside Shopping Centre
