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Last updated: Friday, 24 May 2013
UTSpeaks: From Protest to Justice?
Understanding password security
Research seminar in finance - 29 May
Oh my aching back… Sitting is the new smoking
University of Technology Sydney MathWorks Day
Research Power Session: Using Referencing Software
Ramp Works Evening Closure
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Use your expertise as an accessUTS Consultant
Vision for a green economy
Academic Board forum: The Future of Learning
TfC lunch seminar: Queenly reenactments Wed 29 May
Secure your mobile phone and devices
Events Assistant - applications close 24 May 2013
Biggest Morning Tea - arrange one in your area
Protect children - Cyber Security Awareness Week
Mental Health Awarness workshops for UTS staff
The latest issue of TOWER magazine is available
Seminar: Applying for Promotion
Organic coffee
UTS Childcare Support Fund for conferences
Applications Invited for OLT Strategic Projects
Mailroom Supervisor - applications close 27 May
Launch of the UTS Professionals Network
Film shoot - 25 May in building 10
Safe social networking - Cyber Security Awareness
CPSU branch EB7 log of claims meeting
Doctoral supervision development program: Module 4
Improve your resilience at work
National Cyber Security Awareness Week
Seminar on video-based research
Guest lecturer - Professor Nader Tehrani
Urban Forum - 22 May with Donald McNeill
ESOS Information session – International Marketing
East Indian Ocean Circulations: an IOSARN workshop
Australia Quartet - free concert in the Great Hall
CHERE seminar - Mon 27 May at 12pm
Mental health first aid training
Research seminar in finance - 22 May
Law Postgraduate info evening - 22 May
HELPS intensive academic English program in July
UTS Media Training - Tues 21 May
UniSuper webinars
Central Park Information Day - 25 May
Open Educational Resources - Find out more!
CHERE Seminar - Mon 27 May
Quay Markets on Today at Haymarket campus
Steps to success - starting your new exercise plan
Weight Watchers at work
CPSU branch EB7 log of claims meeting
Borrow a 'Save Power Kit' from the Library
UniSuper financial advisor
Seminar: Sex and gender in research
Are you running a short course?
Research seminar in finance - 15 May
UTS Media Training - Tues 21 May
Reminder: The Garage as Museum, TfC lunchtime talk
Fraud and student misconduct training
Research seminar in economics - 15 May
Nominate your Green Hero
Do you know what is happening around you?
Recordkeeping Essentials training
Unified SMS system now available
Robert Button
UTSpeaks: From Protest to Justice?
Does the global justice movement have a coherent vision that can answer global crises?
Protest and reform movements across the globe emerge in response to global crises – financial collapse, climate change, hunger, war, human rights violations and others. Since the 1990s many movements have forged a new coherence, as a 'global justice movement'. Often viewed as a threat to the status quo by powerful interests, the movement meets with divisive, sometimes crushing and even cunning repression.
Drawing on fascinating new research and compelling case studies, this public lecture explores the ideas of the global justice movement. It surveys the very coherent values that underpin the movement and the alternatives it offers. It looks at the dramatic failure of global institutions to deal with crises that devastate the quality of lives. And it considers a future alternative to the straining paradigm of market globalism – justice globalism.
Associate Professor James Goodman
James Goodman conducts collaborative research into social movements that pursue global justice and climate justice within the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He is a political sociologist concerned with ecological change and how societies respond to it. His current work puts emphasis on the role of grassroots mobilisation in addressing the climate crisis.
Professor Manfred Steger
Manfred B Steger is at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT University. He is the author or editor of over 20 books, including the best-selling 'Globalization: A Very Short Introduction' (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Manfred Steger and James Goodman are co-authors with Erin Wilson of 'Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy' (Sage, London, March 2013), described by Saskia Sassen as a 'brilliant systematic and empirically based analysis'. Copies of the book will be available at the lecture.
Date:Wednesday 29 May 2013
Time: 6.00pm drinks and canapés for 6.30pm start Concludes 8.00pm
Venue: The Great Hall, Level 5, UTS Tower, Broadway, Ultimo
RSVP: Tuesday 28 May 2013
Register attendance online
Enquiries: robert.button@uts.edu.au
UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia, proudly supported by the UTS Union.
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David Morrison
Understanding password security
Find out about the importance of correct password storage and use, get some tips on creating and remembering strong passwords, and find out when even strong passwords can be compromised ... As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Week see this tip and more about online safety on the ITD website.
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Lakmali Dias
Research seminar in finance - 29 May
Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia
Speaker: Vivian Fang
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
Abstract:
This paper links the imminent vesting of a CEO's equity to reductions in real investment. Existing studies measure the manager's short-term concerns using the sensitivity of his equity to the stock price. However, in myopia theories, the driver of short-termism is not the magnitude of incentives but their horizon: equity will not induce myopia if it has a long vesting period. We use recent changes in compensation disclosure to introduce a new empirical measure that is tightly linked to theory - the stock-price sensitivity of shares and options vesting over the upcoming year. This sensitivity is determined by equity grants made several years prior, and thus unlikely to be driven by current investment opportunities. A one standard deviation increase in the sensitivity of imminently vesting equity is associated with a decline of 0.23% in the growth of R&D (scaled by total assets), 75% of the average R&D growth rate of 0.3%. Similar results hold when including advertising and capital expenditure. In addition, CEOs with imminently-vesting equity are significantly more likely to meet or beat analyst earnings forecasts by a narrow margin.
JEL classifications: G31; G34
Keywords: Short-Termism; Managerial Myopia; Vesting; CEO Incentives
Seminar paper can be downloaded
here.
Date: Wednesday 29 May 2013
Time:12 to 1.00 pm
Venue: Building 5, D Block, Level 3, Room 3.01
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Lisa Carroli
Oh my aching back… Sitting is the new smoking
In terms of the damage it's doing to our bodies, prolonged sitting and poor posture is potentially damaging our spines and muscular structure, digestive system and breathing capacity. Too much time sitting and not enough exercise is the most significant cause of obesity and its associated health risks, such as diabetes.
These are some of the key messages being communicated as part of Spinal Health Week this week. To find out more:
* refer to the Sit Right website provided by the Chiropractors' Association of Australia
* listen to the interview on ABC Radio
The UTS Safety and Wellbeing webpages provide useful links on computer comfort including advice on adjusting your computer workstation set up, stretching and eye exercises. It is also important to take regular, short stretch breaks when using computers. Software is available to prompt computer users to take more regular breaks such as the free "Sit Right Widget" available on The Sit Right website or Workpace which can be trialled when downloaded here. If this Workpace application is more suited to your needs contact Glen Coleman on ext 1062 or email Glen.Coleman@uts.edu.au.
The UTS Safety and Wellbeing webpages also provide information on your physical wellbeing. The 10,000 steps challenge which encourages physical activity has already commenced but it's not too late to join in. Further information can be accessed here.
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Peter Brady
University of Technology Sydney MathWorks Day
MathWorks in conjunction with the FEIT Research Computing Team are holding a complimentary seminar at UTS to demonstrate how MATLAB can be used to build mathematical models for forecasting and optimizing the behaviour of complex systems. This event is geared toward lecturers, researchers, and postgraduate students who would like to enhance their teaching and research, update their MATLAB skills, or learn from the experts how to get started using MathWorks software.
Details of the seminar:
26th June 2013 (Wednesday)
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Room CB01.23.22, Building 1, City Campus, Broadway
This free 3 hour seminar will be given by an experienced MathWorks engineer who will show how you can use MATLAB to:
· Develop models using data fitting and first-principles modelling techniques
· Model and forecast the behaviour of complex non-linear systems using machine learning techniques such as neural networks and regression trees
· Model and simulate dynamical systems using Simulink
· Automatically generate reports that document models and simulation results
Afternoon tea will be provided during break. Please feel free to invite any colleagues you feel would benefit from attending.
Register and learn more about this seminar at: http://www.mathworks.com.au/UTS13
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Georgia Markakis
Research Power Session: Using Referencing Software
Using endnote to manage references and create a bibliography
Are you tired of typing reference citations into your paper? How about, struggling to write a bibliography in the correct format?
Then why not try Endnote Referencing Software.
EndNote is referencing software freely available to all UTS staff and students.
In this session we will show you how to:
- Use EndNote to collect and store both the full text and the bibliographic information of your references
- Create both in-text citations and end-of-paper bibliography
- Use EndNote Web as a tool for research collaboration
Three sessions are available:
Tuesday, 4 June, 1-2pm, CB04.05.01
Wednesday, 5 June, 1-2pm, CB02.05.37
Tuesday, 11 June, 3-4pm, CB02.04.20
To book for these sessions, visit the library website.
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Danny Hung
Ramp Works Evening Closure
Hi All,
There will be a temporary evening closure of the ramp whereby the ramp will be inaccessible between the hours of 6pm - 6am on the evenings of:
Monday 27/05/13 - Friday 31/05/13.
(Ramp will resume evening access on Saturday 01/06/13 at 6am)
Operations will resume in its current arrangement at 6am each day. Please be cognisant of the traffic control in place, and make alternative arrangements if the ramp is required during these closure hours.
Please pass on this message to anyone whom may be affected.
Thank you.
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Thorsten Kostulski
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
'Expressions of Interest' for the prestigious UTS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are now open. Early Career Researchers with an outstanding track record are invited to submit proposals for innovative research projects aligned with established UTS Research Strengths. Fellowship benefits include a competitive academic salary, generous project funding and additional support for developing international collaboration.
EOIs will close 6 June 2013, 5pm AEST.
For further information, please refer to the CPDRF website or email research.grants@uts.edu.au
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Petra Becker
Use your expertise as an accessUTS Consultant
The Consulting & Expert Opinion Services unit of accessUTS provides a range of services to UTS academic staff and associates to assist with consulting activity.
On your behalf an accessUTS Project Manager can look after client liaison, contract negotiations and project financial management. Through consulting work, we can help you establish and build relationships with partners in business, industry and the community. The income from consulting projects can support UTS activities or be paid to you personally.
For more information, please call Petra Becker on ext. 1916 and for policy detail please refer to the Vice-Chancellor's Directive - University Consulting. http://www.gsu.uts.edu.au/policies/documents/universityconsulting.pdf
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Caitlin McGee
Vision for a green economy
This free lecture may be of interest to both students and staff.
Pooran Desai, co-founder of Bioregional and creator of One Planet Living, returns to Australia to launch the One Planet Councils program. Pooran will deliver a series of free lectures and workshops on a vision for a green economy based on One Planet Living.
One Planet Living is a framework and programme that makes sustainability easy, affordable and attractive – specifically for councils, communities and Companies. One Planet Living was used to make London 2012 games the most sustainable to date and is being used to help develop and test the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
More information can be found on the One Planet Living website.
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Executive Officer to Academic Board
Academic Board forum: The Future of Learning
The Future of Learning: How they want it, where they want it, when they want it?
Online learning, MOOCs, Open Education Resources, social media, flipped classrooms, blended learning, collaborative and practice based learning … What does it all mean for our courses, for our academics and for our students at UTS?
This Academic Board Q&A event was designed to stimulate the sharing of information and excite discussion among the UTS community on this very important topic. It was led by leaders in the field of new teaching and learning platforms.
The panel was moderated by Associate Professor Paul Allatson Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and panel members included:
•Professor Gilly Salmon, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning Transformations), Swinburne University of Technology
•Professor Shirley Alexander, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching, Learning and Equity)
•Jade Tyrrell, President, National Union of Students
•Jenna Price, Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The presentations and event videos are available online.
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Jemima Mowbray
TfC lunch seminar: Queenly reenactments Wed 29 May
You are invited to join us for the TfC Lunchtime Series:
Date: Wednesday 29 May, 2013
Time: 12.30 to 1.30 pm
Where: TfC Bagel, UTS Building 10, Level 5, Room 219
RSVP: Jemima Mowbray
This Wednesday join us for the following session:
Entertaining Possession: Re-enacting Cook's Arrival for the Queen
Katrina Schlunke, Transforming Cultures Research Centre
Abstract: In 1970 amid many nationally organised events to remember Captain Cook's passage up the east coast of Australia, are-enactment of his landing at Botany Bay was held for the visiting Queen Elizabeth and entourage. What was being enacted and what re-enacted was questioned by the arrival of the Royal Party at this event on the Britannia and royal barge campishly recordered by the appropriate social columnist. As a performance of unlawful possession, of practicing a forgetting of Indigenous sovereignty and original opposition, this piece of public relations was meant to settle the population both Indigenous and non-Indigenous but this conciliation to British rule and non-Indigenous control was at best partial. From that event emerge new ideas of how possession and Australia might be understood through the excess of performances of history as theatre.
This is a free event, we look forward to seeing you there.
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David Morrison
Secure your mobile phone and devices
The features that make your phone 'smart' also make it susceptible to viruses and malicious software... Find out more on the ITD website about securing your mobile devices.
These tips continue as part of Cyber Security Awareness week.
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Melis Avsar
Events Assistant - applications close 24 May 2013
The E&DU team has a new opportunity for an Administrative (Events) Assistant to join its team and facilitate E&DU programs and champion our principles.
For more information or to apply now please follow this link.
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Lisa Carroli
Biggest Morning Tea - arrange one in your area
The Biggest Morning Tea is a fund raising event on or around Thursday 23 May (events can be held any time during May or June). It is an opportunity for us to come together, share a cuppa and some delicious food, while raising money for the Cancer Council and awareness of cancer and cancer prevention strategies. A morning tea may already be organised within your work area. If not, why not organise your own event? The following link provides information about how to run your own Biggest Morning Tea event.
Did you know?
1. one third of cancer deaths in Australia are caused by preventable risk factors such as smoking, limited physical activity, poor diet, sun exposure or not taking part in screening programs
2. there are some simple steps you can take to minimise your cancer risk. For further information on cancer prevention strategies see: http://www.cancer.org.au/preventing-cancer/
3. giving (eg by donating to a charity or volunteering to organise a Biggest Morning Tea event) are good for your health. Health benefits of giving include increased immune system and energy, improved cognitive performance, lower heart rate and blood pressure, reduced internal stress, decrease in the intensity and the awareness of physical pain, activation of the emotions that are vital to maintaining good health, and a longer and more satisfied life.
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David Morrison
Protect children - Cyber Security Awareness Week
The internet offers an exciting world of experiences for children and the whole family. It can be entertaining, educational and rewarding. However, using the internet also involves risks and challenges.. Find out more about online safety on the ITD website.
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Jessica Mander-jones
Mental Health Awarness workshops for UTS staff
Mental Health Awareness Workshops for UTS Staff
Did you know that 75% of all serious mental health and related substance use disorders begin before age 25?
Come to this workshop for information and skills in recognising early signs of mental illness and making referrals.
The workshop is also an excellent opportunity to improve staff knowledge of the support services available within the University.
City workshop:
Date: Thursday 13 June, 2013
Time: 2 to 5pm
Venue: Building 06, level 06, room 106
Kuring-gai workshop:
Date:Wednesday 19 June, 2013
Time: 2 to 5pm
Venue: Building 05, level 04, 11AB
No need to register, please just come to the workshop!
Refreshments will be served.
For more information email Jessica Mander-Jones
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Emma Squires-McCarthy
The latest issue of TOWER magazine is available
TOWER magazine is UTS's flagship alumni publication, produced twice a year.
In this issue we celebrate our 25th anniversary, uncover UTS's origins, and explore the exciting transformations taking place through the City Campus Master Plan.
We also meet a diverse and inspiring range of alumni, including The Young Towering 10, arts philanthropist and businessman Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, Sydney Writers' Festival Artistic Director Jemma Birrell, Silicon Valley based entrepreneur Peter Le Lievre, plus many more.
TOWER is available to read online or download the free UTS TOWER iPad app from the App Store or from Google Play for Android tablets.
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Liz Hurley
Seminar: Applying for Promotion
Applying for Promotion to Associate Professor or Professor
Date: Wednesday June 5, 2013
Time: 2 to 3.30pm
Venue: Large HRU training room Building 10, level 06, room 440
Intending applicants and academic supervisors are invited to a seminar on applying for promotion to Associate Professor or Professor, with Professor Peter Booth, Chair of the Professor Promotion Committee, Professor Jenny Edwards, who has served as a member of promotion committees and Associate Professor Jo McKenzie from IML.
We will discuss the
•promotion process,
•expectations of the committees,
•the qualities of good applications and
•forms of evidence that are useful for supporting claims.
There will be time for questions and discussion.
Representatives from Human Resources will be there to answer questions on the application process.
Please note that applications for promotion to A/Professor close on 12 August 2013 and Professor on 9 September 2013.
Prior to the workshop, intending applicants are strongly advised to read the Academic Promotion Vice Chancellor's Directive in order to discuss their interest in applying with their academic supervisor and Dean and start working on their application.
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Annie Wong
Organic coffee
Organic coffee is available at Union Broadway Eatery at level 3 Tower Building, visit us for daily special deal.
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Joanna Leonard
UTS Childcare Support Fund for conferences
Applications for the next round of the Childcare and Carers Support Fund (Conference Attendance) are now open.
The fund provides academic staff with primary carer responsibilities with assistance towards additional care costs associated with participating in national and international conferences.
UTS acknowledges that both women and men may have primary carer responsibilities.
Guidelines and application forms available on the HR website or, for more information, contact Joanna Leonard, Equity & Diversity Unit.
Applications close 31 May 2013.
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Katrina Waite
Applications Invited for OLT Strategic Projects
The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) occasionally commissions new projects outside of the scheduled grant rounds.
Applications are now open for commissioned projects in the following areas:
1. Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?
2. Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?
3. Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?
4. National learning and teaching resource audit and classification
5. Good Practice Reports:
· Postgraduate research and coursework degrees
· Standards
Projects 1–3 are larger strategic projects of national interest and we would anticipate proposals for funding of $220,000 and beyond. The OLT may award one or more grants to address a strategic topic.
Project 4, National learning and teaching resource audit and classification, has funding available of up to $150,00 and the Good Practice Reports have funding of $30,000 each.
The external OLT deadline 5pm (AEST) Friday 28 June 2013.
The UTS deadline for review and endorsement is Friday 21st June.
More information and application instructions may be found here.
If you are intending to apply, please contact Katrina Waite by email, or on x2480.
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Melis Avsar
Mailroom Supervisor - applications close 27 May
UTS is seeking a Mailroom Supervisor with proven experience in managing a large, busy mailroom and its day to day activities.
For more information and to apply please follow this link.
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Dan Willis
Launch of the UTS Professionals Network
Are you a UTS professional (support) staff member and looking to further develop your career?
The UTS Professionals Network (UPN) is a Professionals Network, the first of its kind in the tertiary sector, developed by and for UTS professional (support) staff members and designed to focus on informal learning as a mode of professional growth.
UPN will have its inaugural (launch) event on Tuesday, 4 June 2013 from 5.30pm at the Loft Bar and will feature Bill Paterson, Director of the Governance Support Unit as the keynote speaker, attendance by some of our favourite senior staff and beer on tap!
UPN meetings will be varied; from insights and valuable strategies, stories and advice from the personal experiences of influential UTS professional staff members ("Meet the Boss"), to facilitated discussions about professional practice, custom professional development workshops, networking opportunities and much more as the group and its direction will be member-driven.
Is this something you want to be part of? Fantastic, either come along on the day, or better yet contact Dan Willis or Michelle Muchatuta to register for the evening.
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Karen Doherty
Film shoot - 25 May in building 10
A film shoot will be taking place on Level 14 of Building 10 on Saturday 25 May. The crew will be setting up on Level 14 on Friday 24 May at 6pm and we advise that people stay clear of the area during this time.
The film shoot is for the mini series Power Games: The Packer Murdoch Story showing on Channel 9.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me via email
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David Morrison
Safe social networking - Cyber Security Awareness
While most people who use social networking sites are well intentioned, you need to be careful about the information that you share and how you protect it...
Find out more on the ITD website.
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Greg Hampshire
CPSU branch EB7 log of claims meeting
CPSU branch EB7 log of claims meeting
A meeting to discuss and endorse the UTS CPSU Log of Claims for the next Support Staff Enterprise Agreement has been organized for CPSU members at UTS.
Date: Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Time: 12 to 1 pm
Venue: Building 04, level 02, room36
Info Session - UTS CPSU EB7 Log of Claims Information and Vote Meeting.
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Ella Chavez
Doctoral supervision development program: Module 4
Registration for Module 4: Writing Up the Thesis is now on.
Open to all registered UTS supervisors.
Date: 19 June 2013 (Wed)
Time: 2 to 5 pm
Venue: CB06.06.115
Max: 50 Supervisors
The focus of this module is working with doctoral students to successful completion and submission for examination of their theses in the staged and organised ways that are deemed appropriate in their particular discipline/field of practice.
This involves extending students' skills in conceptualising and categorising research reading, analysing, presenting and discussing data, and writing up a well-structured, cohesive thesis.
Register here
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Danielle Kirk
Improve your resilience at work
Learn how to understand your individual psychological capacity profile, how to assess that capacity and practice ways of increasing your resilience and how to foster resilience in others.
Join UTS: Executive Education for our Positive Psychology: Developing Resilient Individuals, Teams and Organisations (Syd 29-30 May 2013) program.
UTS Staff are entitled to a 10% discount.
Find out more here.
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David Morrison
National Cyber Security Awareness Week
There are simple steps you can take to protect your personal and financial information online. As part of National Cyber Security Week we will promote key tips that can help you improve online security on your computers at home and on your mobile devices.
Secure your computer @ home
It's important to secure your computer properly otherwise you may be putting yourself and possibly your family and friends at risk. Find out more Find out more about securing your computer @ home.
Computer security at UTS
Here at UTS we have extensive measures in place to secure our computers. We have a firewall to prevent malicious attacks, and an ongoing and comprehensive program to update UTS computers and systems with the latest security updates.
Contact UTS IT Security for more information.
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Sandris Zeivots
Seminar on video-based research
The Centre for Research in Learning & Change presents a public research seminar "Doing video-based research in "video society": Reflections from (multimodal) discourse analysis" by Sumin Zhao, Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney.
Date: Wednesday June 5, 2013
Time: 2 to 3.30 pm
Venue: Building 10, Level 9, Room 113
Abstract:
Despite the increasing prevalence of video data in social science research, there is little discussion on the theoretical, methodological, and in particular technical issues involved in recording and analyzing video data (Jewitt, 2011). In this talk, I explore the "trade-offs" in video-based research methodology, drawing upon first-hand experience in multimodal discourse analysis. Specifically, I look at several key methodological and technical aspects in recording and analyzing video data, including choices of annotation software, data annotation/transcription, unit of analysis, depth of analysis, etc. By offering personal reflections, I hope to invite discussions on the relation between technology, applied linguistic research, and evolving social and discursive practices.
Jewitt, C. (2011) Editorial, International Journal of Social research Methodology, 14:3, 171-178.
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Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Guest lecturer - Professor Nader Tehrani
Please join us this Friday for a guest lecture by Professor Nader Tehrani, Head of the Architecture School at MIT, founding partner of Office da and NADAAA.
Reasoned Work
Date: 24 May, 2013
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Building 06, level 03, room 22
NADAAA is a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry.
Previously Tehrani was a Principal and Founder of Office dA (1986-2011), where he designed award-winning projects such as Tongxian Art Gatehouse in Beijing, Fleet Library at RISD, the LEED-certified Helios House in Los Angeles, the Multi-faith Spiritual Center at Northeastern University, Banq restaurant and the LEED-Gold certified Macallen Building in Boston. Examining spaces of pedagogy, Tehrani recently completed the renovation of the Hinman Building at Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently redesigning schools of architecture at the University of Melbourne and the University of Toronto.
Tehrani's research and installations have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. He has authored several articles including 'Aggregation' and 'Difficult Synthesis' in Material Design: Informing Architecture through Materiality by Thomas Schropfer and 'Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space' in Architectural Design. And his work has been internationally reviewed and published-- in periodicals such as Architect, Architectural Record, Icon, Wallpaper, Monitor, The Plan, Abitare, Mark, Frame, I.D., Contract, Archiworld, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, among others.
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Michele Lancione
Urban Forum - 22 May with Donald McNeill
We have an exciting new guest for the next Urban Forum: Professor Donald McNeill, from the Institute of Culture and Society (UWS), will present his analysis of IBM's smarter cities initiatives.
Date: Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Time: 1pm
Venue: Building 06, Level 06, room 638
Please come along with friend and colleagues, tea and coffee will be provided. Below you can find Donald's paper abstract.
Flat World Cities? A critical analysis of IBM's Smarter Cities initiatives
This paper considers how global business services firms are shaping municipal service provision in some of the world's largest cities, especially with the conflation of 'smart city' with sustainability or eco-city discourses. Such firms are able to operate relationally, shifting teams of experts onto projects on different parts of the globe, and generating significant economies of scale in devising technical solutions for common urban problems. They work with city councils that are by definition territorially fixed, thus creating an interesting space of relational/territorial negotiation. This paper provides a discussion of IBM's smarter cities initiatives, a major element of the global corporation's attempts to define the urban agenda in coming years. It begins by providing a conceptual framework which positions such corporations within the context of the technopolitical state. It then provides a contextual discussion of how this initiative fits within IBM's corporate strategy, before discussing the epistemologies which IBM work with when pursuing the smart city strategies. Throughout the paper, reference is made to both the materiality of these interventions, and their role within broader strategies of governmentality, territoriality, and relationality.
The Urban Forum is supported by UTS: Design, Architecture and Building (DAB), which kindly offers the space for our meetings. It is also kindly supported by CMOS, Centre for Management and Organisation Studies, UTS Business School, which provides refreshments.
For more information, please visit our website
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Priya Narula
ESOS Information session – International Marketing
ESOS Information Session – International Marketing and Publications
UTS staff who have any involvement in the marketing of UTS courses or the development of marketing materials for the recruitment of international students are invited to attend an ESOS information session. Attendees would include staff who are involved in designing courses to be offered to international students, and those developing marketing materials to attract overseas students (including advertising, web, social media and official publications).
The session will include:
· An outline of the relevant ESOS principles.
· How the National Code Standards impact the way we promote our course offerings.
The session will focus specifically on:
· the legislative requirements which affect the promotion of the University and its courses
· developing compliant marketing materials
· the ramifications of course changes on international student recruitment and compliance.
The session will take place from 9:00 to 10:30am, Wednesday 5 June in CB04.02.31.
If you wish to participate in the session, please register online via neo (requires login).
If you have any questions, please contact Priya Narula.
The online registration closes Monday 3rd June.
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Jemima Mowbray
East Indian Ocean Circulations: an IOSARN workshop
IOSARN is pleased to invite you to join us for,
Eastern Indian Ocean circulations: people, politics, cultures, representations, trade – and tensions, a full day workshop at UTS on Friday, May 24.
About the workshop:
This workshop focuses on circulations and communication around the eastern Indian Ocean from the mid 20th century to the present. Much of the 'Indian Ocean' literature actually concentrates on the western areas – Africa and Western Peninsula India – rather than considering the Oceans eastern shores which cover many different countries. Yet in those eastern areas, it is usually regions which are studied alone: South Asia or Southeast Asia or Melanesia – while Australia is not considered at all, or lumped into the Pacific arena.
In this workshop we are instead asking participants to consider the connections between the various places around the eastern rim of the Indian Ocean – whether those connections be through the movement of people, of ideas including the representations of peoples or genders or histories, of trade goods, of living environments and of politics – but also through conflicts and tensions. In all cases, the connections have flowed in many directions which changed over time. Participants will be discussing the links – backwards and forwards – between India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore and the Straits, Thailand, Indonesia, Timor L'este, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Details:
Date: Friday 24 May, 2013
Time: 10.15am to 6pm
Venue: Building 10, Room 201, Level 14
RSVP: online or via email
For more information and to download the full workshop program, please visit the IOSARN website.
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Jacqui Smith
Australia Quartet - free concert in the Great Hall
Our second concert in the UTS Chamber Series will be in the UTS Great Hall – plenty of room for more people after our sell-out concert in April!
The Australia Quartet will take you on a journey through three masterful and beautiful gems of the Piano Quartet repertoire. Let your imagination run wild as you are whisked across national boundaries with music from the Spaniard Joaquin Turina, to Australian national treasure Peter Sculthorpe to influential German composer, Robert Schumann.
Program:
Joaquin Turina: Piano Quartet Op. 67 (15'16")
Peter Sculthorpe: Landscapes II for piano quartet 1979 (17')
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat Major Op. 47 (29')
Date: Tuesday 28 May, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: UTS Great Hall
Level 5, Building 1, Broadway
Cost: Free
RSVP: Please RSVP here
Australia Quartet, UTS Piano Quartet in Residence
Tamara Anna Cislowska – piano
Veronique Serret – violin
James Wannan – viola
Thomas Rann – cello
Enquiries: australiaquartet@uts.edu.au
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Gretchen Togle
CHERE seminar - Mon 27 May at 12pm
Title:Augmenting evidence-based medicine by the systematic application of decision theory
Speaker: Alastair J Fischer
Alastair Fischer held the post of Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Adelaide until he migrated to the UK in 1996.His first fulltime post in the UK was as a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at St George's (Medical School) University of London. He has worked at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) since 2000. His main research has been in the economics of ambulance services, the economics of diagnosis, and the allocation of resources in public health
Abstract: This talk shall summarise the content of four papers (none yet published) which examine the three major differences between decision theory and the frequentist version of evidence-based medicine (EBM).
This presentation shall show that for the appraisal of new drugs, decision theory and (frequentist-based) EBM converge to much the same thing. However, in most of population-based public health intervention and much of service delivery, the two paradigms diverge. It is in these areas that a one-stage approach – going straight to cost effectiveness – not only becomes feasible, but potentially may lead to much greater efficiency in the use of scarce healthcare resources.
Date: Monday 27 May, 2013
Time: 12 noon (light lunch will be provided)
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 3, 645 Harris St, Ultimo
Please RSVP by Thursday 23 May to reception@chere.uts.edu.au
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Arif Ongu
Mental health first aid training
Imagine a workplace and community where people feel safe to talk about their mental health and any issues they may be experiencing.
Imagine then having the confidence to support colleagues and students get the help they need.
This is the workplace that Mental Health First Aid training is helping to build at UTS.
MHFA training will equip you with the resources to help someone developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis until professional help is available. You will learn how to:
•Help people in the early stages of mental health problems
•Recognise the signs and symptoms of these problems
•Know where and how to get help
•Understand what types of help are effective
Upcoming free Mental Health First Aid courses
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July 2013, 9.30am to 5.00pm at City campus
enrol through NEO Online Learning Management (OLM).
NEO Online Learning Management (OLM).
Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 November 2013, 9.30am to 5.00pm, City campus
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Lakmali Dias
Research seminar in finance - 22 May
Topic:The Impact of Speculation on Aggregate Consumption Risk
Speaker:Emilio Osambela
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract:
We study the effects of speculation caused by differences of opinion in a dynamic general equilibrium production economy. Speculation leads to speculative aggregate consumption risk: output shocks affect individual consumption shares and aggregate consumption dynamics. Speculative aggregate consumption risk increases aggregate consumption growth volatility, the equity premium and Sharpe ratios, and reduces interest rate volatility and price-dividend ratio volatility relative to an endowment economy with disagreement. Optimistic investors' portfolios are less tilted towards stocks and pessimistic investors' portfolios are more tilted towards stocks because speculative aggregate consumption risk amplifies speculation risk for optimists and causes stock prices to hedge speculation risk for pessimists. In addition, our model is consistent with the size, book-to-market and investment-to-assets anomalies.
Seminar paper can be downloaded from:
here (PDF).
Date:Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Time:12 to 1.00 pm
Venue:Building 5, D Block, Level 3, Room 3.01, 1-59 Quay Street, Haymarket
RSVP: Please email by 17 May
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Timothy Barnes
Law Postgraduate info evening - 22 May
Discover opportunities to enhance your professional qualifications, skills and knowledge through further legal education. Join us at the Law Postgraduate Information Evening to find out about our specialist programs open to non-law graduates:
- Communications Law
- Dispute Resolution
- International Law
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Studies
- Juris Doctor
- Juris Doctor Master of Business Administration
Further Details and Registration
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Sang-Eun Oh
HELPS intensive academic English program in July
HELPS is running intensive academic English programs in the following areas during the semester break:
* Academic Writing
* Seminar Presentation
* Pronunciation Correction
The program is designed for UTS students who need to enhance their academic English in short time.
For more information about the program, timetable and online registration, please visit HELPS website www.helps.uts.edu.au
Please note that online registrations close on 7 June and places are limited.
If you think your students would benefit from this, please refer them to the website.
Please get in touch via email if you would like some leaflets.
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Xavier Mayes
UTS Media Training - Tues 21 May
The UTS media team leads a fun and informative basic media skills program for academics, researchers and support staff to better understand the media landscape and learn how to build confidence in sharing expertise and research.
The training is an ideal learning opportunity for those involved in research or other UTS initiatives that should be shared with the broader community. It's also ideal for those keen to develop a public profile as an expert in their field.
The first session for 2013 will be held next week on Tuesday 21 May from 9.30am sharp in staff training room 2 on level 6, building 10.
The session is run by Robert Button and Xavier Mayes from the Media Office, with visits by former Sydney Morning Herald Chief-of-Staff Wendy Frew, The Conversation News Editor Sununda Creagh and 2SER Radio journalists.
Together we will cover off:
•The media landscape in Australia, including new media such as The Conversation
•What makes news and why
•Making the best use of expert profiles on ExpertGuide.com.au and The Conversation
•Working with journalists, including mock radio interviews
•Condensing extensive expertise into palatable, media-sized bites
•Identifying topics of interest and value to journalists
•Avoiding pitfalls and ensuring positive media exposure is used to its full potential
•How media works within UTS
You can enrol online now via OLM (within NEO).
If you have any questions or a problem enrolling, please email Xavier.Mayes@uts.edu.au or call ext. 1623.
Regards
Robert Button and Xavier Mayes
UTS Media Office
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Paul Champion
UniSuper webinars
Sometimes it is not possible for you to attend a UniSuper Seminar but instead you could watch a UniSuper webinar on various topics at your desk.
The webinars that are coming up are as follows:
Retirement Planning & Centrelink.
Understanding Contributions & Caps.
Wealth Creation and Protection.
UniSuper 101 - An Introduction.
Pre-retirement Planning.
Register for access to a UniSuper webinar on your PC.
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Celia Britton
Central Park Information Day - 25 May
Our neighbours on Broadway – the new 'Central Park' development – is holding a Community Information Day next Saturday, 25 May, from 10am-2pm in the Central Park Display Pavilion at 80 Broadway, Chippendale.
Anyone interested in getting an update of the development's progress and future stages, including new student accommodation, are urged to attend. Senior members of the development team and project consultants will be available to answer any questions.
No RSVP required. For more information visit their website.
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Georgia Markakis
Open Educational Resources - Find out more!
Open Educational Resources are learning materials that are free to use and have permissive licence conditions that enable re-use and re-purposing. They include courses, textbooks, videos and more.
If you are an academic and would like to know more about Open Educational Resources, visit the Library website.
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Gretchen Togle
CHERE Seminar - Mon 27 May
Title:Augmenting evidence-based medicine by the systematic application of decision theory
Speaker: Alastair J Fischer
Alastair Fischer held the post of Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Adelaide until he migrated to the UK in 1996.His first fulltime post in the UK was as a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at St George's (Medical School) University of London. He has worked at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) since 2000. His main research has been in the economics of ambulance services, the economics of diagnosis, and the allocation of resources in public health
Abstract: This talk shall summarise the content of four papers (none yet published) which examine the three major differences between decision theory and the frequentist version of evidence-based medicine (EBM).
This presentation shall show that for the appraisal of new drugs, decision theory and (frequentist-based) EBM converge to much the same thing. However, in most of population-based public health intervention and much of service delivery, the two paradigms diverge. It is in these areas that a one-stage approach – going straight to cost effectiveness – not only becomes feasible, but potentially may lead to much greater efficiency in the use of scarce healthcare resources.
Date: Monday 27 May, 2013
Time: 12 noon (light lunch will be provided)
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 3, 645 Harris St, Ultimo
Please RSVP by Thursday 23 May.
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Natalya Oliveira
Quay Markets on Today at Haymarket campus
Once a month, the Quay Markets take place at the Haymarket Campus to increase student culture and engagement.
The next Quay Market is on Thursday May 16th from 10am to 5pm.
Clothes, accessories and food stalls all day. Live music at the Haymarket Campus courtyard 12 to 2 pm.
Come and check it out!
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Dominique Grady
Steps to success - starting your new exercise plan
All staff are invited to the above seminar that is being conducted in conjunction with the 10,000 steps challenge. You do not need to participate in the challenge to attend. The seminar is relevant to anyone who wants to make changes to their level of physical activity.
Presenter: Danny Redrup from City Edge Physio, Ultimo
Date: Thursday 16 May, 2013
Time: 12.30 to 1.30 pm
(light refreshments available)
Room: CB02.04.10
Please RSVP to Dominique Grady
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David Phillips
Weight Watchers at work
One of the safety and wellbeing offerings to UTS staff is access to a Weight Watchers at work program.
We want to continue to bring the Weight Watchers experience to work for another series with:
· confidential on-site weekly weigh-ins
· group support meetings
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays in one of the meeting rooms in the TAFE library.
The next session starts Tuesday 28 May 2013 from 1.30 pm
If you sign up, the program will be $253.50 for the 13 Week Program, which includes access to online eTools.
Please email if you are interested in participating.
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Greg Hampshire
CPSU branch EB7 log of claims meeting
A meeting to discuss and endorse the UTS CPSU Log of Claims for the next Support Staff Enterprise Agreement has been organised for CPSU members at UTS. Details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Time: 12 to 1pm
Venue: CB04.02.36
Info Session - UTS CPSU EB7 Log of Claims Information and Vote Meeting.
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Georgia Markakis
Borrow a 'Save Power Kit' from the Library
Are you curious about how much power you use in your home and would like to be able to measure it?
Borrow a 'Save Power Kit' from the Closed Reserve at the City Campus Library and identify the biggest users of electricity in your home. The kit provides simple actions for saving power, saving money and reducing your impact on the environment.
For more information, please visit the Library website.
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Paul Champion
UniSuper financial advisor
Craig Naylor, Private Client Adviser with UniSuper Advice, will be at the city campus on Thursday 30 May to give advice to members (and their partners if applicable) on a variety of issues including retirement, pre-retirement planning, and wealth creation.
Call 1300 331 685 if you would like to make a time to see Craig.
Please note: When making a booking you will be asked a series of questions to ascertain whether this is the right service for you. It may be more appropriate that your query is answered over the phone.
UniSuper Advice will not charge a fee for the initial appointment. If you wish to receive personal advice, a fixed quote will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.
For more information about the services offered by UniSuper Advice, refer to the Financial Services Guide on their website.
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Joanna Leonard
Seminar: Sex and gender in research
Integrating sex and gender in health research.
Every cell is sexed and every person is gendered. When it comes to developing new health interventions, policies and programs, one size does not fit all. Considering sex and gender is a matter of good science and good health policy.
Speaker: Adjunct Professor Joy Johnson, Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute for Gender and Health and Professor of Nursing at University of British Colombia.
Dr. Johnson's research focuses on health promotion and health behaviour change. A major focus of her work is sex and gender issues in substance use and mental health.
Date: 17 May, 2013
Time: 2 to 4pm
Venue: HRU training room CB10.06.430
Please note room change.
Please RSVP via email to Joanna Leonard.
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Tiffany Yee
Are you running a short course?
Run your short courses, conferences or seminars through the Short Courses Administration Team!
The UTS Short Courses website allows your participants to easily search for courses and enrol online with automatic confirmation email and tax invoice receipt. Participants can manage their own bookings and view past enrolments and results.
Our Short Course coordinators will assist in the set-up of your event online and provide the necessary training in Course Manager to access the system. This system will enable you to track enrolments, easily print registration sheets and name tags, identify any dietary requirements and download detailed reports.
UTS Short Courses will appear in the search results on the new UTS site design. To view all short courses on our site, please visit our website.
For more information, please contact Tiffany Yee, Short Courses Coordinator on x2913 or via email.
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Lakmali Dias
Research seminar in finance - 15 May
Topic: The Impact of Idiosyncratic Risk on Mutual Fund Fees
Speaker: Hardy Hulley
Finance Discipline Group, University of Technology, Sydney
Abstract:
In the context of a theoretical model for the interaction between an active fund manager and a risk-averse investor, we show that mutual fund fees should exhibit a positive concave dependence on their idiosyncratic volatilities. The crucial ingredients are the infeasibility of short-selling the fund, and the fact that its idiosyncratic volatility generates uncertainty about its performance. Our empirical investigations provide strong support for this result. In fact, idiosyncratic volatility appears to be the most important determinant of mutual fund fees. Moreover, we demonstrate that when it is included as an explanatory variable in cross-sectional regressions, the widely-reported negative dependence of fees on performance dissipates. Significantly, our resolution for this puzzle does not require assumptions of investor unsophistication or fund manager opportunism. In fact, we provide positive evidence for a certain amount of investor sophistication, by demonstrating their apparent unwillingness to pay active fees for passive performance, as predicted by our model.
Keywords: Mutual fund fees; idiosyncratic risk; uncertainty; short-selling
JEL Codes: C72; D58; D83; G11; G12; G23
Seminar paper can be downloaded here(pdf).
Date: Wednesday, 15th May 2013
Time: 12 to 1 pm
Venue: Building 5, D Block, Level 3, Room 3.01, 1-59 Quay Street, Haymarket
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Xavier Mayes
UTS Media Training - Tues 21 May
The UTS media team leads a fun and informative basic media skills program for academics, researchers and support staff to better understand the media landscape and learn how to build confidence in sharing expertise and research.
The training is an ideal learning opportunity for those involved in research or other UTS initiatives that should be shared with the broader community. It's also ideal for those keen to develop a public profile as an expert in their field.
The first session for 2013 will be held next week on Tuesday 21 May from 9.30am sharp in staff training room 2 on level 6, building 10.
The session is run by Robert Button and Xavier Mayes from the Media Office, with visits by former Sydney Morning Herald Chief-of-Staff Wendy Frew, The Conversation News Editor Sununda Creagh and 2SER Radio journalists.
Together we will cover off:
•The media landscape in Australia, including new media such as The Conversation
•What makes news and why
•Making the best use of expert profiles on ExpertGuide.com.au and The Conversation
•Working with journalists, including mock radio interviews
•Condensing extensive expertise into palatable, media-sized bites
•Identifying topics of interest and value to journalists
•Avoiding pitfalls and ensuring positive media exposure is used to its full potential
•How media works within UTS
You can enrol online now via OLM (within NEO).
If you have any questions or a problem enrolling, please email Xavier Mayes or call ext. 1623.
Regards
Robert Button and Xavier Mayes
UTS Media Office
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Jemima Mowbray
Reminder: The Garage as Museum, TfC lunchtime talk
Reminder - You are invited to join us for the 2013 TfC Lunchtime Series:
The garage as museum: performing contemporary masculinity through "man caves"
Jeff Browitt, TfC and Head of International Studies Program, Cultural Studies Group
Date: Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Time: 12.30 t0 1.30 pm
Where: TfC Bagel, UTS Building 10, Level 5, Room 219
RSVP: Jemima Mowbray
Abstract: Contemporary masculinity is constructed, performed, maintained through all kinds of symbolic practices and rituals. One recent kind of symbolic practice/expression is "man caves", the converted garages, basements, sheds and so forth where through found and chosen objects, heterosexual men practice both a kind of escape and a personal expression within the confines of the domestic sphere. The man cave has thus become a kind of vernacular, masculine museum. Such male spaces have always been around, but it is only in recent years that a discourse has developed around the term "man caves" as such. The phenomenon is now attracting the academic interest of gender theorists, who look at the impact of feminism on changing masculine practices and rituals and see man caves as yet another compensation for a certain type of traditional heterosexual masculinity in crisis.
This study will take a slightly different approach : through ethnographic inquiry (interview and participant observation) it will look at the way objects are arranged and referenced in man caves to signal a much more complex and sometimes even liberatory process of masculine identity construction through conversation around objects.
This is a free event, we look forward to seeing you there.
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Anita Christofides
Fraud and student misconduct training
The Governance Support Unit and Student Administration Unit will be conducting a training session on fraud and student misconduct on Friday 17 May, 2013.
The training will be similar to the session conducted on 12 December 2012. Staff who did not previously attend, or are in need of refresher, are encouraged to attend the session.
Fraud and Student Misconduct Training
Date: Friday 17 May, 2013
Time: 10 am
Venue: CB02.04.10
Please email names of staff who will be attending by Wednesday 15 May.
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Lakmali Dias
Research seminar in economics - 15 May
Price Cap Regulation with Capacity Withholding
Speaker: Diego Moreno
University Carlos III of Madrid
Abstract:
A monopolist facing an uncertain demand makes ex-ante capacity decisions involving irreversible investments, and then chooses its output up to capacity upon the realization of demand. In equilibrium, capacity is low and underused. Imposing a binding price cap leads to an increase of capacity as well as the expected output and total surplus, and to a decrease of the expected price. The optimal price cap trades off the incentives for capacity investment and capacity withholding but does not completely eliminate inefficiencies. When the unit cost of capacity is low, reducing the price cap below that that maximizes capacity investment increases total surplus.
Date: Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Time:4 to 5.15 pm
Venue:Building 5, D Block, Level 3, Room 3.01, 1-59 Quay Street, Haymarket
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Seb Crawford
Nominate your Green Hero
Nominations for the Annual UTS Green Hero Awards are now open. Nominate fellow UTS staff, students or alumni for a Green Hero Award and recognise their efforts.
Prizes include:
• Whale Watching Tickets
• Free organic certified coffees at Union outlets for the rest of the year, and more!
Activities can be at UTS, at home or in the broader community.
Nominations are quick and easily completed online.
The final date to nominate your Green Hero is 27 May with winners announced on World Environment Day, 5 June.
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Fiona Livy
Do you know what is happening around you?
In the May issue of U: magazine:
Staff profile: Meet the man whose 'revolving door' gathering is helping staff and students better understand ethnographic research.
Two of U: Find out more about the men behind the Kuring-gai campus's lush, leafy surroundings – horticulturalist Narciso Aparra and gardener Alan Mahon.
News: Discover the new program, developed by Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, that's helping more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people gain entry into university.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
U: magazine - keeping you in the know
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Sharron Baker
Recordkeeping Essentials training
Recordkeeping Essentials is designed to give staff an overview of how the record system at UTS works and explain what is required to ensure records are created, captured and managed appropriately.
All staff are encouraged to attend a session, particularly those who are new to UTS.
The next sessions are scheduled for:
Date: Thursday 6 June, 2013
Time: 10 to 11am
Venue: CB10.06.440 (HR Training Room 1)
To enroll, please follow this link.
Date: Tuesday 6 August, 2013
Time: 2 to 3pm
Location: CB10.06.440 (HR Training Room 1)
To enroll, please follow this link.
The links will direct you to log in to NEO. Once logged in, please click the 'Enroll' button on the top right of the screen. On the next screen, please click the 'Apply' button (don't worry about Enrolment Justification). You will now be enrolled in the class and sent a verification e-mail.
Further details are available at the Training link on the University Records website.
Recordkeeping Essentials will be followed by the Records Contact User Group. This meeting is specifically aimed at records contacts. Records Contacts attending should enrol via this
link.
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David Phillips
Unified SMS system now available
If you ever need to send SMS messages as part of your role at UTS, you should be aware that there's now a unified SMS system available which you're encouraged to use. SMS credits can be purchased in the system via a unit credit card.
Contact sms@uts.edu.au for access, or sign up for the training via OLM in Neo where you can find out the full details of the system and learn how to use it effectively.
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