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Film students document East European journey

by Phillipa Hanrick

Child abuse may go largely undetected, or even be ignored, because many teachers have preconceived ideas that prevent them from recognising and reporting cases to child- protection agencies, according to a QUT study.

The study was conducted by Dr Vivienne Watts who recently completed her doctoral

Teachers not helping to detect child abuse

studies through the Faculty of Education.

“While teachers may be aware of the definitions and descriptions of child abuse, the signs of abuse and the procedures for reporting abuse, they are not always influenced by this knowledge when they make child-protection decisions,” Dr Watts said.

“They are more likely to be influenced by some personal experience — such as a previous

␣ by Phillipa Hanrick

For many people, the idea of working from home sounds ideal — offering the advantages of flexibility and independence, and saving on parking and childcare — however, recent research indicates that telecommuting will fail unless several key issues are addressed.

QUT communication lecturer Neville Meyers is finalising six years of research for his doctorate, examining the types and effects of, and challenges for, telecommuting.

The definition of telecommuting is working from home or another remote location (some or all of the time) using communication technologies in lieu of travel to and from the office.

His research — called the Joint Australian- North American Telecommuting Survey — draws on the experiences of 200 telecommuters from major organisations in both countries.

Mr Meyers said it was a “large curiosity bump”

that got him interested in telecommuting.

“I wanted to know what happened to people who increasingly spend more time working outside their formal office requirements; how they self-regulated their behaviour; how they coped with varying levels of professional and social isolation; and, not least of all, how telecommuting affected work and lifestyle satisfaction,” Mr Meyers said.

“There are three types of remote workers:

voluntary telecommuters who, with their bosses’

approval work at home, usually for part or most of the week; and, of course, the ‘mandatory mobiles’ — usually sales, marketing, or technical personnel — who are required to spend

Telecommuting may fail if issues ignored

increasing amounts of time outside for more direct client contact.

“The ‘cybernetters’ — usually project workers from several organisations who never see each other but work collaboratively and communicate electronically to achieve w o r k g o a l s — a r e t h e m o s t r e c e n t telecommuting addition.”

Mr Meyers said the research had shown there were four major issues that could d e t e r m i n e t h e s u c c e s s o r f a i l u r e o f telecommuting.

“These are: information and technical support from the organisation; friendliness and support of co-workers ‘back in the office’;

the domestic situation; and the extent to which management communicates explicit support for telecommuting,” he said.

According to Associate Professor Greg Hearn, who has been supervising the doctoral research:

“Personality is a big issue and one that can not be overestimated”.

“There are people for whom (telecommuting) is very suitable but, if you allow people choices, they will find their own particular profile of work,” he said.

“Where it gets difficult and dangerous for both the organisation and the person is where the telecommuting is not voluntary and they cannot cope with it.

“People have certain geographic zones in their lives and the ability to go across zones is not as flexible as we at first thought. To be in the home role while trying to work can actually be quite stressful.

— Continued Page 2 Telecommuting does not suit everyone … (l-r) communication lecturer and doctoral

candidate Neville Meyers with supervisor Associate Professor Greg Hearn

relationship with a person in a similar position, a child of a similar age, or identifying with one of the people involved in the case, such as the mother, child or father.

“One of the initial beliefs I encountered, which originally got me interested in the topic, was that ‘a mother wouldn’t do that’, regardless of the fact that almost 50 per cent of abuse is perpetrated by women.

— Continued Page 2

(l-r) Film and television students Maxine Williamson and Tony Stevens recently returned from Estonia where they filmed a documentary about the return of land

to its “original” owners. For the full story, see Page 7.

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“Other (identified) teacher beliefs about mother’s roles … were that they should get up early, cut lunch, make meals, not rush, arrange after-school care and generally be able to cope with everything.

“Other beliefs included (those) that single mothers had difficulty coping financially, ‘children should come before work’ or that ‘the mother was working for selfish reasons’,” Dr Watts said.

Dr Watts said her aim was to highlight the need to prepare teachers to respond to child abuse as part of their initial professional development and to propose how that professional development should be structured.

they need to be able to use all the information available to them.

“Hopefully, this will make teachers competent, valued and credible members of the child-protection team,”

she said.

As a former primary school teacher and now a senior lecturer at Central Queensland University, Dr Watts’

responsibilities are in the field of children’s behaviour management and classroom communication.

“My research interests relate to the teacher’s role in child protection and related issues, such as eliminating school violence (like) bullying and harassment, and developing a supportive school environment and children’s personal safety programs,” she said.

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“Another key issue is that people seem to want some time in isolation and some time in the office and we are looking at whether these people have higher job satisfaction.”

Professor Hearn said economics was driving the telecommuting phenomena, with one telecommuter claiming to save $400 a month by not having to park and buy lunch.

Businesses were also saving by reducing the overhead cost of building space and desks when they put staff on the road, he said.

“A classic case is the ‘hot desking’ at IBM, where you book your desk and have it for a day, take your pencils and photo of the family in and, at the end of the day, you put them in your bag and tomorrow when you come in you will have a different desk,” he said.

“This raises questions about how we form our identity,whether we have a sense of place, and about what the dislocation of identity is doing to the way people cope with their sense of who they are and their affiliation with the company,” he said.

Professor Hearn said that, under a shared-data arrangement, survey results would be fed back to assist computer giant Hewlett-Packard in evaluating its own telecommuting program.

As well as conducting their research, Professor Hearn and Mr Meyers are also writing a book which has the working title: Communicating and Coping in the Era of Virtual Work.

For those interested in participating in the telecommuting survey, the web address is http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/

telecommuting.

… Telecommuting presents challenges for workforce

She said most universities did not include child protection as a topic in pre-service teacher education courses.

“The main outcome of the study was a model which illustrated teachers’

decision-making processes and, from that model, a curriculum framework was developed for use in child-protection training programs,” she said.

“It is important that pre-service teachers are able to think about and analyse their own decision-making processes and that they can identify the various types of information from which they are drawing — and how they arrived at — their particular decision.

“Teachers need to able to make objective decisions and know the parameters of their role and, to do this,

… Child abuse goes undetected

by Noel Gentner

The younger generation and public o p i n i o n h o l d s t h e k e y t o t h e success of sustainable development, a c c o r d i n g t o a s e n i o r l e c t u r e r at QUT.

Acting head of the School of C o n s t r u c t i o n M a n a g e m e n t a n d Property John Hornibrook said sustainable development had been around and talked about for more than 20 years and, apart from a few examples, it had “never really got off the ground”.

L a s t m o n t h , M r H o r n i b r o o k addressed a seminar on the subject from a “builder’s view of sustainable development”.

He said the solution to removing s u s t a i n a b l e d e v e l o p m e n t f r o m t h e t o o - h a r d b a s k e t w a s t o convince people that their short- t e r m i n t e r e s t s w o u l d n o t b e adversely affected.

“ W i t h o u t a d d r e s s i n g t h e commercial implications, the overall acceptance and implementation of sustainable development may not occur until things get so desperately bad that it becomes a matter of survival,” Mr Hornibrook said.

“We must ensure we don’t get into this situation.”

Mr Hornibrook said governments were unlikely to offer subsidies to seed the concept without evidence of strong support in the community, and private investors did not see t h a t t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r t h e continued welfare of the community rested with them.

H e s a i d b u i l d e r s , w h o o f t e n initiated development, saw themselves at a distance from the issue since they generally had no part in the design function.

Universities also had to realise and appreciate the fact that there w a s v e r y l i t t l e o p p o r t u n i t y t o i m p l e m e n t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f high-tech construction and energy- saving systems if they were not commercially viable.

Through research, Mr Hornibrook has already established that the majority of young undergraduates are n o t a d v e r s e t o t h e c o n c e p t o f sustainable development.

He said feedback from students in architecture, construction management, property, education and urban planning showed many would personally be willing to pay a slight premium on the cost of a building constructed using sustainable principles.

Mr Hornibrook said he believed an adoption of sustainable development

would become more widespread within the next decade.

“It will come about with the graduating younger people who will question whether the way they are d o i n g i t i s t h e o n l y w a y , ” M r Hornibrook said.

“ I f t h e y d o t h a t a n d a r e supported by factual and applied research they will experiment with the concept.

“Then, once you can convince d e v e l o p e r s t h a t i t i s n o m o r e expensive to build this way, or that e v e n i f i t i s m a r g i n a l l y m o r e expensive people will still buy, actual change will occur very rapidly.”

M r H o r n i b r o o k s a i d h e w a s optimistic that change would come.

“ T h e Q u e e n s l a n d s t y l e , w i t h verandahs provided initially for shade lends itself to the weather p r o t e c t i o n o f t h o s e s u s t a i n a b l e materials which are less durable than the brick and concrete used today,”

he said.

“Recent history has shown us that houses of this style retain their market value.

“The real change will come when p e o p l e r e a l i s e t h a t t h e y c a n contribute to the common good w i t h o u t p u t t i n g a t r i s k t h e i r legitimate, short-term interests.”

Sustainable development relies on young people

In the lead up to the Federal election, the Government is likely to find a few sweeteners for higher education to offset the years of cuts announced by then Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs Amanda Vanstone in 1996. A good case can be argued that any additional money should address inequities in funding between the states.

The long-running story on interstate equity in Australian higher education has focused on differences between university participation rates in the relevant demographic segments and the need to increase the number of funded tertiary places in states with population growth in these segments.

Little attention has been given to the actual dollars attached to funded places.

Yet, DEETYA figures for the current funding triennium clearly show that some states fare much better than others in the Government funding they receive per student unit.

Queensland gets the worst deal of all, receiving about $400 less each year per student unit than the national average.

Over the triennium this means a shortfall of about $150million to the State.

In the early 1990s, the Commonwealth awarded “growth”

places to Queensland in recognition of growth in the relevant population in the State (as opposed to negative growth in

some southern states), as well as our low university participation rate.

But these additional places were funded at a marginal rate actually lower than the average rate of funding under the late 1980s’ comparative funding model.

The states most affected by this historical differential in funding are, of course, those which have received most of the growth since that time — particularly Queensland and Western Australia, hence the low per- student funding for these states, as reflected in the DEETYA figures.

The battle for additional places in recognition of growth and differential participation rates was largely won in the early 1990s. It is time now to address the corresponding inequities in per-student funding.

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Study investigates the investigators

Student’s technique gets down to bones of flat feet

A technique developed by podiatry PhD student Scott Wearing will show whether or not the orthotics and shoes worn by people with flat feet do measure up

More than 450 businesspeople gathered at the Hilton Hotel recently to hear one of the nation’s most powerful regulators, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Professor Allan Fels, address the second of QUT’s Business Leaders’ Forums.

Professor Fels used the opportunity to promote the ACCC’s aims and its enforcement rather than advocacy role.

“The ACCC’s role is to apply Parliament’s Trade Practices Act without fear or favour in the interests of consumers, small, medium and large,” he said.

“Unless we’re asked by the Government to take on an advocacy role in a particular area, we concentrate solely on enforcement issues.”

To that end, he said, his organisation sought to weed out anti-competitive practices at all levels of business and government, most particularly in the area of non-traded goods and services.

And, he said, in its corporate watchdog role, the ACCC was having a very real impact on Australian business, having boosted fines for breaches of the Trade Practices Act from

$250,000 to $10million and collected a number of high-profile “scalps”.

“We’ve moved in where there are cartels and monopolies,” he said, indicating the ACCC would always take an interest where trade was constrained because of the actions of one or more players in a market.

In the contentious area of business mergers, Professor Fels explained, the ACCC had actually opposed few mergers, despite its high-profile intervention in a few recent cases.

“Of every 10,000 mergers, 9,000 would be too small to warrant our attention, 850 of the last 1,000 would not have competition issues of concern and, of the remaining 150 we do take an interest in, we only oppose around 5 per cent,” Professor Fels said.

But it’s those 5 per cent, he said, which attract “disproportionate publicity”.

“The ACCC never opposes mergers where imports make up a significant proportion of the business,” he said.

Professor Fels said that the “real agenda” was in deregulating sectors across industry, with the “big cases still to come”.

He also agreed that the imposition of salary caps by sporting bodies deserved attention from the ACCC.

“The former Trade Practices Commission was actively

discouraged by Government in the 1980s from looking at sport, but the advent of Super League has changed all that,” he said.

When questioned whether the relatively low level of litigation brought against the ACCC was because organisations were frightened of taking on the powerful regulatory body, Professor Fels said it was the ACCC’s role to “uphold the law evenly in all sectors”.

“They don’t take us on because they expect to lose,” he said.

Continuing a nice touch from the first QUT Business Leaders’ Forum, an audience raffle raised almost

$2,600 for the Abused Children’s Trust. (The Royal Children’s Hospital benefitted from the raffle at the previous forum.)

The next Business Leaders’

Forum will be held at lunchtime on September 3 at the Hilton Hotel.

Chairman of Newcrest Mining and Hudson Conway and former chair of Rio Tinto Sir Roderick Carnegie will be guest speaker. The final forum for the year will be a lunch with Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley on November 19.

— Trina McLellan␣ ␣

Fels fires up competition

The aftermath of recent civil and economic crisis in Indonesia will present increased, long-term opportunities for Australian architectural firms, a recent QUT study has shown.

Architecture student Peter Navin has completed a study on exporting architectural services to Indonesia.

Mr Navin said he believed that, provided there was an understanding of the unique cultural and business environment of the country, then the

Indonesia opens doors to architects

long-term outlook for exporting architecture was good.

“We can offer a different level of expertise in design and conceptual services that do not exist in Indonesia,”

he said.

“Local architects are trained differently and prefer to become property managers or documenters rather than working in design.

“However, there are no Australian architectural firm practices delivering

a complete range of services in Indonesia.

Mr Navin said he planned to eventually work in Indonesia on a permanent basis.

“There will be long-term benefits despite the short-term volatility because of the huge population growth,” he said.

“There will be a large growth of the middle class which needs services, housing and shops.”

— Phillipa Hanrick

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The ability to determine a person’s sex, race and possibly age from a single strand of hair is the focus of a forensic science research project at QUT’s School of Physical Sciences.

The project’s co-ordinator, senior lecturer Dr Serge Kokot, said the research was leading Australia in the interpretation of the spectra, or

‘fingerprints’, of hair obtained from measurements by an infra-red technique called ‘FT — IR Microscopy’.

Hair treatment — whether it is bleached, tinted, dyed, etc. — could also be classified by the process, Dr Kokot said.

“We have just recently completed a masters study with some very interesting results which show excellent promise,”

he said.

“These results have already stirred up quite a lot of interest among some of the top people in this area from throughout the world.”

Dr Kokot said the interest was not so much in the use of the infra-red

technology, “but rather in what we do with the signals or ‘fingerprints’ we get from the hair and the advanced data interpretation”.

“We are able, for example, to look at single hair fibres, compare their

‘fingerprints’ with those taken from a similar set of reference fibres, and predict

— from a single, very rapid measurement — the gender, race, nature of hair treatment and possibly the age of the individual.”

Dr Kokot said conventional methods used to determine race and gender from general hair structure were quite subjective.

“At present, hair evidence in legal proceedings is not regarded as very informative,” Dr Kokot said.

“It is certainly supportive, but quite subjective to interpretation.

“What we are trying to do now is establish an objective method that is rapid and will enable us to compare a sample hair with an existing database (of hair) on a consistent basis.

“We match and discriminate single hair fibres taken from people of interest

in relation to a database of classified hair fibres.

“For example, we collect infra-red spectra of hair on, say, two male and two female subjects a number of times to replicate the measurements and make sure we have correct

‘fingerprints’.

“We then include data measurement from samples from two unknown subjects.

“Then, using a mathematical procedure, we are able to classify where the new subjects cluster and match on a display diagram.”

Dr Kokot said his long involvement in researching natural fibres, particularly wool and cotton, had led him to his interest in the forensic field.

“ W e h a v e m a d e s o m e v e r y successful contributions to the fibre industry and it was obvious there was a gap in this field in the forensic science area,” Dr Kokot said.

Also working on the project are PhD student Helen Panayioutou and honours student Belinda Paris.

Hair has brush with identity

Leading research at QUT is searching for a new method to determine identity from a strand of hair

Crime, courtroom drama and an over- excited press are the basis of many gripping yarns and will almost certainly make for an entertaining and, hopefully, bestselling Phd.

QUT’s first PhD in Creative Writing student, Donna Lee Brien, pictured right, has begun researching the late-19th Century case of Mary Dean who was poisoned by her husband and who was also pilloried by the press and conspired against by politicians of the day.

“It will be a fictional biography — one that is impeccably researched — but still accessible to the ordinary reader,” Ms Brien said.

“People love biographies and histories but, too often, the really good ones are too difficult or dry and boring, while the interesting ones just aren’t rigorous enough.

“I want to examine the case and see how it reflects on the gender relationships of that day — how Mary Dean’s fate was inextricably bound to the social change taking place in Australia at the time.

“It was the time of the ‘new woman’

— the suffragette movement, when

women started going to university and (there were) debates on divorce — and yet, at the same time, there was a particularly gruesome series of murders and rapes.

“Today we are in a time of changing gender roles and we also have an increase in sex crime.”

Ms Brien said the Mary Dean story had many similarities to the famous Lindy Chamberlain case and she hoped to draw some parallels between the two episodes.

“Mary’s husband George was a handsome, 27-year-old Sydney ferry master and a popular hero who had saved the lives of a number of his passengers,”

she said.

“However, during his trial for attempted murder of his wife Mary, it was her habits, personality and character, as well as that of her mother and the whole female gender, that were questioned and vilified.

“My biographical study will explore how Mary’s fate was inextricably bound to the social change taking place in Australia and the role of the press in forming and manipulating public opinion,” she said.

Ms Brien, who is an art historian a n d c u r a t o r , d i s c o v e r e d M a r y D e a n ’ s s t o r y w h i l e s h e w a s researching her masters’ thesis, a biography on Australian artist and benefactor John Power.

She said she chose QUT after being offered scholarships from six institutions, because it allowed her to focus on being creative rather than purely theoretical.

“At the other institutions, I would be writing my work on the theory of

biography and using (it) as an illustration, but here the focus is on the creation and processes of the work,” she said.

Ms Brien said she hoped the biography’s interesting elements would make it suitable for adaption to a radio or television series.

Crime, drama and media make for novel PhD

Research for a major mental health prevention and intervention strategy for school children is underway at QUT’s School of Public Health.

PhD student Sarah Dwyer is developing questionnaires for teachers and parents at 20 Brisbane schools which will identify risk factors for the intervention program.

“About 15 to 20 per cent of children develop serious mental health problems,” Ms Dwyer said.

“School personnel are well placed to identify children who may be developing early problems and to provide interventions that prevent the further development of these problems.”

Ms Dwyer said she would distribute checklists to parents and teachers which were aimed at identifying risk factors in the children’s family backgrounds.

“The checklists contain questions on risk factors such as conflict between parents, parenting practices, social support, drug and alcohol use, parental mental health problems, physical illness and adverse life events,” she said.

“I will be looking at how accurately teachers are identifying family risk factors in children’s backgrounds.

“We know they can pick up on behavioural problems in the classroom but we want to find out how much they know about the background of their students and where they get this information from.

“We can then develop programs for teachers to improve their ability to identify and respond to children (who are) at risk of developing mental health problems.”

Ms Dwyer said information from the questionnaires would also be used to develop intervention programs with components that could focus on the key risk factors in a community.

“So if, for example, poor parenting is identified as a risk factor in a community then we will work with the schools to set up a positive parenting program.

“Alternatively, there will be intervention components for children, such as social- skills training or problem-solving.”

Ms Dwyer said many existing programs targeted children who had already developed behavioural problems and these were important.

“However, the development of programs for children who do not yet have any any behavioural problems will make way for a truly preventive mental health strategy,” she said.

Prevention best strategy for kids’

mental health

Working towards an intervention program for children who may be developing early mental health problems …

School of Public Health PhD student Sarah Dwyer

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by Noel Gentner

Australian meat workers in abattoirs from Queensland to Western Australia will participate in a QUT research project into a health problem affecting many in the industry.

Studies in the United States and Europe have shown that meat workers have the highest occupational incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome — with up to 25 per cent of workers affected.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful disorder of the wrist and hand.

Occupational health and safety PhD student Margaret Cook has begun a research project to determine the incidence and impact of carpal tunnel syndrome in Australia’s meat processing industry.

Ms Cook said she would also study the relative risk of a range of occupational and personal factors associated with the onset of the syndrome.

She said she hoped to determine whether a predictive model could be developed from the data that would assist in determining the potential onset of carpal tunnel syndrome.

The study is being funded by a research grant of $39,000 from the Meat Research Corporation, a Federal Government authority. Ms Cook’s principal supervisor is the School of Public Health’s Associate Professor Mike Capra and she is also being assisted by consultant neurologist Dr John Cameron.

“There is a lot published about carpal tunnel syndrome, but a lot of the information is conflicting,” Ms Cook said.

“The biggest area of conflict is how much your personal characteristics are associated with being susceptible versus what you do in your job.”

Ms Cook said one line of thought was that carpal tunnel syndrome had nothing to do with work activity but was caused by a combination of personal factors.

She said personal risk factors which related to the syndrome’s onset fell into two main categories, those associated with the size and shape of the carpal canal and the surrounding wrist, and those of a more general nature.

Personal factors clearly identified as being connected to the syndrome included: being female (more susceptible for hormonal reasons); being 35-64 years old; and being obese, physically inactive and short in stature.

Late next month and through to February next year, Ms Cook will collect data from abattoirs in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

“In my research, what we are looking at is going into the abattoirs and trying to work out whether there are such things as high- risk people and high-risk jobs,” she said.

“If we can identify these factors, we can try and make sure people susceptible to carpal tunnel syndrome are not placed in these high-risk positions.

“We have just commenced pilot studies at two abattoirs in the Brisbane area, focusing on slaughter floors and boning rooms where most people are likely to be at risk.”

Ms Cook said she expected to report back on her findings to the Meat Research Corporation before the middle of 1999.

Above: Carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful condition of the hand and wrist, is a big problem among meat workers in the cold

environment of Australia’s abbatoirs

Left: PhD student Margaret Cook in one of two Brisbane abbatoirs that are participating in her national study

While most people know that Noosa has become one of Australia’s most desirable places to live or holiday, few people know what has prevented it from becoming just another tourist resort.

Senior lecturer in urban design Dr Danny O’Hare has recently completed a major study of Noosa and puts much of the town’s unique cultural landscape down to myth.

“The issue of tourism spoiling coastal places is well documented internationally and has become a major issue in Australia,” Dr O’Hare said.

“However, I believe that the ‘spoilt/

unspoilt’ debate is not very helpful because it implies powerlessness and inevitability.

“Noosa’s reputation for being a beautiful place dates back to the gold- rush days in the 1880s when it was known as the ‘Brighton of Gympie’.

“Three key ‘myths’ have been maintained and promoted to make Noosa different. The term ‘myth’ is used in a neutral sense, meaning shared beliefs and values which can influence perceptions and actions.”

Dr O’Hare said the myths were: a

“not the city, not the Gold Coast”

myth; a “nature” myth; and a

“paradise” myth. A fourth myth, which survived only as a powerful memory, was the “egalitarian” myth.

“There has been a constant battle, since the first high-rise building controversy in the early 1970s, for Noosa to be different from the city or the Gold Coast and development of this myth has been very profitable,” he said.

“Instead of building high-rise apartments, they built smaller ones that made them a great deal more money

than the conventional Gold Coast and southern Sunshine Coast developments.

“That is the power of the myths which were reinforced by councils and consultants and by visitors from Sydney and Melbourne, particularly media people.

“The myths have been harnessed over several decades to guide both development and conservation decisions.

“In other words, these recurring themes or myths can be seen in urban design documents, tourism literature, publications and the perceptions of residents and tourists.

“I would argue that Noosa is a very good example of how quite a lot of change has been accommodated while actually maintaining these myths.

“While all the up-market travellers’

guides give you the impression that you have a beautiful beach and, behind it, a coffee shop at the gate of a national park and rainforest, when you get there you will find that — once you get away from the water — there is an evolving suburban sprawl that had disappointed several tourists interviewed in the study,” he said.

Dr O’Hare said the recent population cap and escalating property values may have some detrimental effects for the long-term viability of Hastings Street.

“The tourist turnover in Hastings Street may decline as the number of visitors who can afford to stay close to the tourist strip reduces,” he said.

Dr O’Hare said he was planning to do further comparative studies on areas such as Byron Bay in northern New South Wales and Carmel in California.

— Phillipa Hanrick␣ ␣

Appeal of Noosa attributed to ‘myth’

Australian meat industry gives thumbs up to carpal tunnel syndrome research

Visitors face up to preventable death

The QUT Student Life Christian group presented a special display at each campus last week, offering a poignant reminder of the number of children who die each day from preventable diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory infections.

The 40,000 Faces Project, facilitated by TEAR Australia, is touring the nation.

For the display, children from around Australia created collages of children’s faces from around the world, to remind visitors that up to 40,000 children under the age of five die needlessly each day because of poverty in their communities.

Right: QUT Student Life co-ordinator Gary Cook at the 40,000 Faces display with education student Jacky Rose.

More than 100 dignitaries and media representatives attended the successful launch of the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety — Queensland (CARRS-Q) at QUT on July 22.

Based at the university’s Carseldine campus, CARRS-Q is a joint initiative between QUT and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC).

Led by School of Social Science head Professor Mary Sheehan, the centre’s aim is to reduce the number and severity of crashes on Queensland’s roads.

“It has been fully funded by the MAIC for five years for the purpose of collaborative research, interdisciplinary teaching and consulting activities,”

Professor Sheehan said.

“We focus on the particular problems influencing injury and fatality patterns in this State and attention is also paid to the relatively decentralised population and other issues related to climate and lifestyle.”

Professor Sheehan said CARRS-Q was also responsible for the road

accident prevention and road safety research grant scheme.

At the launch, initial CARRS-Q research grants worth more than $800,000 were made to a dozen projects to be conducted at seven institutions across the State — the University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, James Cook University, QUT, the Royal Children’s Hospital, the RACQ and the Noosa Community Training Centre.

RACQ chief executive officer Alan Terry officially launched CARRS-Q, with other guest speakers at the launch including QUT Chancellor Dr Cherrell Hirst AO, MAIC chief and the State’s Insurance Commissioner Lesley Anderson, CARRS-Q director Professor Sheehan and QUT researcher Jeremy Davey.

Mr Terry praised the work already being done in the new research centre and said the “real significance of today’s gathering lies in presenting this ‘centre of excellence’ to the Queensland community it was primarily designed to serve.”

Mr Terry said Queensland, and indeed the world, needed centres of road safety research excellence such as CARRS-Q,

“if we are to aspire to truly civilised road use without the ever-present threat of serious injury, or worse”.

CARRS-Q grant recipients from QUT:

• QUT social science lecturer Dr Sandy Smith and Dr Lucy Zinkiewicz ( USQ) were awarded $83,630 to conduct a three-year study into the impact of territoriality on driver behaviour.

• Optometry senior lecturer Dr Joanne Wood received $80,022 to conduct a two-year research project into the effect of cataracts on the driving performance of elderly drivers.

• Postgraduate optometry student Mark Woolf received $66,000 to conduct a three-year project to investigate the differences in visibility distances of different age drivers in the open-road environment.

• School of Civil Engineering head Professor Rod Troutbeck received $64,000 for a one-year project to develop full-scale testing procedures for road safety devices.

Accident research centre launched

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␣ by Noel Gentner

University staff and students have been called upon to be vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature on campus to the security help desk (extension 5585).

QUT’s security manager Fergus Ross said the security office was receiving and processing 3,800 telephone calls each month through a 24-hour service.

“There are villains out there, and we are catching some,” Mr Ross said.

“I don’t want to create a siege mentality of what goes on in society today, but QUT is part of that greater society.

“People should just be aware of the risks in society generally.”

However, Mr Ross stressed that QUT was a safer area to be in than surrounding suburbs and that QUT — along with other Brisbane universities

— was safer than interstate universities.

He said bicycle theft, vandalism and the theft of VCRs, purses, wallets and mobile phones had all occurred this year on campus.

“There was a bike thief with a brand new pair of bolt cutters, who was surprised by security guards during an attempt to cut a chain lock on a bicycle,” Mr Ross said.

“He dropped the bolt cutters in his haste to escape.”

Mr Ross advised people who rode bicycles to university not to use chains to secure their bikes. A “D” clamp lock was recommended as it was far more difficult to defeat.

He said there were instances where bicycles chained to racks had been stolen while, nearby, more expensive bikes which had been secured by “D”

clamp locks were left untouched.

“Staff and students should also take care of their valuables and personal items,” Mr Ross said.

“We have caught a couple of purse thieves in the library and we have problems in photocopying areas where

students still leave their wallets open and unattended.

“If you provide some people with an opportunity, they will take that opportunity.”

The university’s Security Section recently distributed 1,000 mouse pads in some computer work areas as an ongoing commitment to security awareness and part of the Take Care — Be Aware crime prevention program.

The university’s first Emergency Procedures Manual has also been published recently.

Mr Ross said the manual was part of a new initiative which reinforced the training provided by the security section.

“The manual details for campus managers and building and floor wardens what to do in the event of various situations that may include gas leaks, fires and medical emergencies, and is a handy reference guide,” Mr Ross said.

QUT Security superintendent Ron Riches with confiscated bolt cutters believed to have been used to steal bicycles

A letter from Nisar Keshvani, a journalism student from Singapore

A touch of fear strikes me each time I see someone in uniform — it could be a police officer, marine or even QUT security officer.

Don’t ask me why; perhaps it is the stern image they portray or the gruesome images we see on television, but an experience right here at QUT has changed that.

During Swotvac, I was at university on a Sunday trying to study for an exam. The library was closing soon so I headed to G-H Block Link and found a quiet spot, complete with a table.

A few minutes later, a security officer arrived and told me politely that it was time to lock up the building.

I asked her if she knew of another quiet place where I could resume my revisions.

After a short chat, she told me about a secluded computer lab in another building.

I went there for an hour or so and, when it started to get cold, I realised I had left my jumper in G Block.

I decided to take a short break and walk and, coincidentally, I bumped into the security officer again.

She asked if I had found the lab. In turn, I asked her if G Block would be open the next day (so I could retrieve my jumper).

She kindly let me into the building, as I did not have swipe-card access.

Without hesitation, she also said:

“Give me a few minutes, I’ll pick up your jumper for you.”

I was touched by her friendly nature, helpful attitude and the pride she had for her work. I asked her about her job.

“One thing I don’t understand is why international students are afraid of us,” she said.

Perhaps it could be our upbringing or the image of authority a uniform displays.

But, one thing is for sure, this is one student who no longer fears them.

… Security: a student’s perspective

Security on campus demands vigilance

Entry to universities and the job market is being denied to the most needy young people because they are not provided with skills that allow them to participate in society, according to a QUT lecturer.

Social science lecturer Dr Barbara Adkins suggested in a recent seminar paper

— Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion in Youth Performance Arts — that this process occurred because young people were not equipped with the correct “entry fee” to participate in or enter cultural activity.

“The ‘entry fee’ is a combination of dispositions and skills that individuals have,

She said governments often funded underclass projects based on intervention, whereas middle-class projects were usually attached to a particular theatre.

Dr Adkins said underclass young people not only missed out on cultural participation but also on jobs or TAFE courses, because they did not have the right entry fee.

“If you aggregate their exclusion from the arts, from the labour market and from education, then they are effectively excluded from social participation and, some might say, citizenship,” she said.

‘Underclass’ denied access to arts

including education, analytical abilities and a group of characteristics that cover certain stylistic traits,” Dr Adkins said.

In a study of two Brisbane cultural projects, Dr Adkins said young people from the “underclass” or low socio- economic circumstances were not offered the same “entry fee” skills as middle-class children.

“The thing about the middle-class cultural project (studied) is that the art workers and young people are alike in background and they have an affinity that you can see working,” she said.

Traditional blood collection methods remain the most financially viable option for the Red Cross, a QUT masters study has found.

Falling donor numbers — resulting particularly in losses in plasma acquisition — prompted the Red Cross to request QUT’s

School of Public Health to investigate the cost effectiveness of alternatives to the current whole blood collection procedure.

Master of Public Health student Anne Pink (pictured right) — a scientist working in immunology at Princess Alexandra Hospital — completed the study as her course research project.

“My study — Economic and financial analysis of

alternative plasma collection technologies: whole blood collection versus erythroplasmapheresis — looked specifically at cost variations between whole blood collection and a new technology,”

Ms Pink said.

“With new technology an erythroplasmapheresis machine separates red cells from plasma at the time of collection.

“The entire procedure collects approximately 460 mls of plasma, whereas whole blood collection yields approximately 300mls of plasma.”

Both methods yield 220 to 240ml of red-cell concentrate.

Ms Pink said that, while the new technology’s plasma- gathering capacity was superior to current methods, her cost analysis revealed it was less cost-effective for the Red Cross.

“The greater expense involved with the new technology included its very high initial capital cost and its on-going use of expensive, imported consumables,” she said.

“Then, for a first- time donor, the whole process takes over an hour and involves additional orientation interviews by Red Cross staff.

“The collection time is about 24 minutes, compared with nine minutes for the whole blood method.”

The research was funded by Commonwealth Serum Laboratories through QUT’s Co-operative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) program.

Research tests blood collection techniques

A problem for the underground mining industry that has long been a source of concern has been solved by a masters’

student project at QUT.

Project manager and Fuchs Professor of Tribology in the School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering Professor Will Scott said national and international patents had been taken out on the technique.

Professor Scott said the project successfully developed a “variable fluid proportional mixer” which regulated water and oil content in hydraulic fluids for roof- support systems in underground mining.

He said that, since the initial prototype trials had been conducted, an approach had been received to manufacture the unit, from which royalties would be paid to QUT.

The unit’s involvement was not restricted to the mining industry and, Professor Scott said, had tremendous potential to be adapted to many other industries, including chemical and food processing.

He said the project was initiated when it was recognised that the existing proportional mixing units — used in

Slippery mining problem solved

underground coal mines for the hydraulic fluids for roof-support systems

— were performing unsatisfactorily.

“It had been an underground mining problem for years, causing production losses, and nobody seemed to have been doing anything about it,” Professor Scott said.

“For more than 30 years, oil and water have been mixed as a hydraulic fluid to be used in roof-support systems, particularly in what is known as long-wall mining.

“However, there has always been a problem in maintaining the correct proportion in the water-oil mix.

“When the mix is incorrect, the fluid becomes unstable and creates problems in relation to mechanical and safety aspects in the roof supports.”

Professor Scott said prototype units had been tested in one or two mines in New South Wales and the results had been so successful that the equipment had replaced unreliable units.

“Manufacturers have recognised that we have developed a device which is much more superior to what has been available in the past,” Professor Scott said.

— Noel Gentner

Book helps postgrads

The ‘I’s have it for insight, instruction and inspiration in a recently published book co-authored by a QUT staff member.

Co-authored by Leonie Elphinstone and QUT Counselling head Dr Robert Schweitzer, the book — How to get a Research Degree — is the first practical guide of its type in Australia, and is particularly aimed at preparing students for what lies ahead on their postgraduate path.

The authors have based the book on personal experiences which offer a guide for survival for the unwary.

Dr Schweitzer said, “what struck us initially, was how poorly prepared many students were in terms of what to expect in their postgraduate studies”.

He said the book was not confined to postgraduate students and would be of interest also to supervisors.

“Many supervisors seem to know very little about supervision because what they know about it is usually limited to their own experience of being supervised,” Dr Schweitzer said.

He said one of the chapters dealt with how students should “manage” their supervisors.

“What one needs to do from the beginning is to establish not a formal contract, but an understanding with your supervisor in terms of what’s required (in terms of) resources and support,” Dr Schweitzer said.

The book is published by Allen & Unwin.

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Clubs Forum. Wed, Aug 9. Campus Club GP.

International Comedy/Arts Festival. Aug 17–21. All campuses.

Touch Football/Dash For Cash. Aug 21. KG.

8 Ball Comp — QUT Cup. Sept 4. Campus Club GP.

Fun Run. Sun, Sept 13. GP.

Ski Trip. Sept 19-26.

AUSF Games, Sept 20-25.

Oktoberfest, Oct 15, GP campus.

AUSF Reunion, October 15, GP campus.

Soccer Comp-QUT Cup, Oct 23.

Sports Awards Dinner. Oct 29.

QUT Ball, Friday Nov 27.

NB: Unless otherwise specified, contact Recreation Department on (07) 3864 1213.

• School of Public Health

Fifth International Health Summer School. Nov 16-27.

Short courses and presentations on current and emerging public health issues. Julie Joughin on (07) 3864 3523 or [email protected]

• School of Architecture, Interior and Industrial Design Winter Colloquium — Design for Sustainability.

Aug 15. 8.30am-5pm. Z401/GP. Chris Millington on (07) 3864 2670 or [email protected]

• School of Economics and Finance

Economics, Finance and International Competitiveness Seminar Series — Where are we with the Wallis reforms? July 30. 11am-noon. Z504/GP. Speaker: Professor Ian Harper, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. Ilona Schultz on (07) 3864 1629 or [email protected]

• School of Nursing

Nursing the Future — Convention and Trade Expo.

Nov 3-4. GP. (Preceded by reunion, see Alumni Events).

Helen Keown on (07) 3864 3820 or [email protected]

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.

ALUMNI EVENTS STUDENT GUILD

COURSES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES

ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

STAFF COURSES

Outstanding Alumni Award. Wed, Sept 2. Breakfast function at the Heritage Hotel. 7.30-9am. $25. RSVP by Aug 27. Jill Dale on (07) 3864 2821 or [email protected] Information Technology Reunion. Fri, Sept 4. The Pier (City). 6.30pm. Errolyn Walker on (07) 3864 1917.

Education Reunion for 1968 Graduates of Kedron Park Teachers College. Sept 19. Kedron State High School. 3- 6pm (informal event) $10; 7.30pm onwards (dinner) $20.

Grant Fraser on (07) 3297 0139.

Legal Practice Reunion. (Sept) Liz Clark on (07) 3864 2211 or [email protected]

Nursing Reunion. Mon, Nov 2. Gala dinner celebrating 20 years of nursing education at QUT. Sheraton Towers Brisbane.

Helen Keown on (07) 3864 3820 or [email protected]

Lion in the Streets. A play by final-year acting students. Content may offend. Aug 14-22. 8pm. QUT Theatre. Admission $18/

14. Leanne Cutler on (07) 3864 3685 or [email protected] Free lunchtime concerts at 1.05pm. M Block Music studio.

KG. Elizabeth Anderson (Aug 19), hottest hippest harpischord; Brisbane Madrigal Quintet (Aug 26) sacred and secular Renaissance masterpieces; Jazz Improvisations (Sept 4); the Trevor Hart (jazz) Quartet (Sept 11); Latin Jazz with Yoboso (Sept 23); Australian contemporary music with pianist Carson Dron (Oct 7).

QUT Big Band at the Travelodge, (Jazz & Blues Bar) Wed Aug 26, 9pm-1am. Admission free.

Managing Stress in the Workplace, for supervisory staff.

August 13, 9.30am to12.30pm. Z413/GP campus.

Manual Handling Aug 20. 10am-1pm. Z413/GP. Nita Stark on (07) 3864 3201 or [email protected]

Designing Workplace Orientations. Sept 8. 9am-1pm. KG.

Dora DeLaat on (07) 3864 9605 or [email protected] Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development Second Annual National Teaching Forum — Celebrating Excellence in University Teaching. Nov 24. Canberra.

Professor Gail Hart on (07) 3864 4351 or [email protected] Making an entertaining and meaningful

speech may look easy, but it requires considerable skill and a knowledge that is now in high demand both in Australia and overseas.

With this in mind, two senior communication academics, Dr Caroline Hatcher and Mrs Patsy McCarthy — aided by video footage of two well- known speakers, media magnate Rupert Murdoch and Rural Woman of the Year Deborah Thiele — have developed a new speech presentation CD-ROM.

“In business you should be able to speak spontaneously and sound confident and well-informed, so speech- preparation skills are important tools for the professional,” Mrs McCarthy said.

“We believed there was a huge demand in the business sector for this kind of training and this has been born out of the response we received to our earlier book (Speaking Persuasively: Making the Most of Your Presentations published by Allen and Unwin) and now the CD,” she said.

Titled Speaking Strategically: Planning an Effective Speech, the CD-ROM is a hands-on, step-by-step way to teach yourself to make great speeches.

It guides the would-be presenter through every aspect of effective speech preparation using the RPS Model (requirements, problems and strategies).

Authors address strategy of speaking in new CD-ROM

The speeches of Rupert Murdoch and Deborah Thiele have been used to analyse and evaluate effective speaking techniques, and to provide the learner with examples for solving problems and developing strategies.

A second CD-ROM that uses the Australian Olympic bid speeches as examples, and which teaches skills in group presentation, has also been developed.

During a recent overseas trip, the authors started negotiations with the Multimedia Marketing Consortium — a joint operation of London Guildhall, Birmingham and Manchester Universities — to sell Speaking Strategically in the United Kingdom.

The original concept for the CD was developed with a Large Teaching Grant of

$92,000 and has taken two years to develop.

— Phillipa Hanrick Well spoken … co-authors Dr Caroline Hatcher and Patsy McCarthy

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Making documentaries in far-away countries is the stuff of dreams for many aspiring film and television makers but, for some lucky ones from QUT, it recently became a reality.

Film and television student Maxine Williamson and her crew have produced a documentary, Patience, which is about Estonia as it progresses towards democracy and returns land to its “original” owners.

“The project is personal to me as it is about a close friend’s father, Villem Fischmann,” Ms Williamson said.

“I went to Estonia to get background footage on Villem — an 89-year-old Estonian emigré — who, after 50 years of living in Australia, has had land returned to him.

“Villem survived the wars, deportation to Germany, being drafted into the German army, being a prisoner of war in a displaced-persons camp and, finally, immigration to Australia.

“It is a miraculous story that I felt was timely, considering the current debate on immigration in Australia.

“I went to Estonia with very different views of how people would feel about the Russians and I left with the feeling that I had uncovered some snippets of truth rather than myth.

“Having international film maker (animator) Priit Parn meet us at the airport, arrange interviews with high- ranking officials and organise an

interpreter for our stay, was exciting and opened many doors for us.

“We were also fortunate in having (the opportunity) to view Estonian film archives and we have managed to have sent to us archival footage dating from the ’40s through to the ’60s.

“To have Soviet propaganda archival films in our documentary is a dream come true.”

A self-confessed technophobe, Ms Williamson said the crew’s greatest fear was technical failure and not knowing if they would complete their schedule of interviews.

“Due to heavy snowfall, our equipment had humidity build-up caused by going from outside, where it was freezing, to warmer conditions inside,” she said.

“We were in a cab, it was midnight at Easter, few people spoke English, and our camera had started giving warning signals that the operator was unfamiliar with.

Everyone was fretting and I was panicking.

“Our taxi driver became quite animated and started speaking to our interpreter.

“It turned out the taxi driver had worked at the TV station for years and had a friend who just happened to be a technical-support person and was working at the Esti TV station that night. He fixed our camera and sound equipment and we walked away feeling very lucky.”

Ms Williamson and her crew — producer and sound recordist Tony Stevens and camera operator and technical support person Tony Luu — are now back in Australia while film editor Gillian Isoardi is working on a first-edited draft.

… Film documents journey

The mere placement of computers in classrooms would have little effect on student outcomes, QUT PhD student and teacher Neil Anderson said recently.

An expert in learning technology, and doctoral student in the Faculty of Education, Mr Anderson said educators were now concerned with the learning process and how they could design more effective delivery strategies.

Earlier this year, Mr Anderson — a Year 5 teacher at the Monkland State School in the Gympie area — was named Educator of the Year by the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education, and also received a national award for research.

Recently returned from attending the Australian Computers in Education Conference in Adelaide, Mr Anderson said a recurring theme at the conference was the shift of focus from the

“technology” to the “pedagogy” (the function, work or art of teaching).

Mr Anderson said educators should create strategies that helped students to engage in meaningful, authentic activities, making use of today’s tools.

“These tools should not be used in the classroom to replace existing tools,” he said.

Attempts to assist one student to fit into the classroom formed the basis of Mr Anderson’s PhD research for his thesis titled Higher order thinking skills for

children with intellectual disabilities — can teachers and technology meet the challenge?

His school was involved in a pilot program to “include” children with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.

“One of these children, Amanda, a 10-year-old child with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, entered my classroom,” Mr Anderson said.

“Her obvious problems were a fear of text and reading, and lack of communication skills with her peers, as well as being behind in all areas of the curriculum.

“I saw her interest in technology as an avenue to assist her to improve academic and social skills and to raise her status in the classroom.”

Mr Anderson’s strategy was to teach Amanda desktop publishing skills before the rest of the class and then have her engage in peer tutoring.

“The end result was a complete turn around in Amanda’s work and the way the rest of the class perceived her.”

Mr Anderson said teaching strategies should be built on in small steps towards meaningful use of classroom technology.

He has also established an Internet site, Literacy Web Australia” (http://

www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb/), to provide teachers and researchers in the literacy field with practical case studies of teachers implementing the latest ideas and teaching techniques in literacy education.

Classroom technology needs to be meaningful

The number of women in senior roles within the university may be boosted with the start of a third mentoring program.

F o l l o w i n g t h e s u c c e s s o f t h e inaugural 1997 mentoring program for academic women in the Faculty of Arts, a 12-month program for g e n e r a l s t a f f w a s l a u n c h e d l a s t S e p t e m b e r . The program is still running its 12-month course.

In July, 13 female “mentorees” and 12 mentors (one mentor was requested by two mentorees) joined the new 1998 academic mentoring program.

Mentoring for success

An Orientation afternoon was held on July 27.

The program exists to assist and s u p p o r t f e m a l e a c a d e m i c s w i t h c a r e e r p l a n n i n g , r e s e a r c h a n d teaching issues, getting to know QUT processes and networking within the university.

Mentors are at senior lecturer level and above and can be male or female. They are usually chosen from outside a mentorees’ discipline and school.

Mentorees are all female, in line with QUT’s affirmative action and equity aims.

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