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Meeting 1, 13 February 2009
The University Council met in Meeting Room 1, Newnham Campus, Launceston on Friday 13 February 2009. The University Council also held their annual planning conference on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 February. Friday's session focussed on recommendations from the Bradley Review of Higher Education and Saturday's sessions focussed on priorities, timeframes and funding options for implementing the MasterPlan.
Agenda items included-
Council received the report on the resignation of Mr Bernard Lillis, Executive Director Finance and Administration, and noted its deep appreciation of his significant contribution to UTAS.
Council received a presentation on the Menzies Research Institute, noted the strong performance of the Menzies Research Institute again in 2008 and congratulated those responsible.
Council approved the Council members’ report, including the financial reports for the year ended 31 December 2008.
Council noted its appreciation to the Director, Financial Services, and his team, as recognised also by the Auditor-General, especially with regard to timeframes.
Council received the Vice-Chancellor’s report on 2009 enrolments, noting its appreciation to those who are performing well.
Council also received a report on the Acceptance days. The acceptance concept was a strategic initiative implemented for the 2009 admission cycle to provide support to the early offer and pathway case management process. The acceptance concept was designed in response to a need to provide important information, an early connection and commencement of a sound relationship with applicants that was different from the old ‘enrolment day’ model. The acceptance process has been designed to provide applicants with the ability to view their offer online, accept their offer online and book into an acceptance session online. Acceptance Sessions were offered in Hobart, Launceston and Cradle Coast and scheduled on a rolling fortnightly basis commencing in early September to support the first offers in mid-August. Sydney nursing students were offered a tailored session and phone acceptance sessions were available to interstate or distance applicants. To date, 2106 have attended the sessions and they will continue until 25 February. Acceptance Days were implemented to cater for Year 12 applicants and were designed to provide an early connection for Year 12 students and their parents and friends. The Acceptance Days were delivered in Hobart, Launceston and Cradle Coast Campus in late December and mid January. A total of 1004 people (students, parents and/or friends) attended the Year 12 Acceptance Days state-wide. Feedback from students attending the Acceptance Sessions and Acceptance Days has been very positive with a number of good suggestions for further refinement.
Council received the Vice-Chancellor’s report on emerging issues,
including –
Council received a report on significant achievements by the University, its staff and students.
The eagerly anticipated Review of Australian Higher Education (‘The Bradley Review’) was released on 17 December. Key recommendations include increasing the number of Australians with degrees, improving access to universities from lower socioeconomic and regional areas and increasing funding for teaching and research, are positive initiatives. The recommendations will lead to a stronger university sector that can continue to build Australia’s economic, social and cultural capital. The report also identified some key targets highlighting the significant contribution of higher education to the economy of Australia which will undoubtedly have benefits for Tasmania as well. UTAS is also well placed to adopt the proposed voucher system, where funding follows students rather than the institution. A presentation on the likely impact of key recommendations will be provided at the Council Planning Day and UTAS will submit to Government a formal response to the Review in early 2009.
The Committee is readying to work through the formal submissions due from Deans, Heads of Schools, Institutes and Departments in mid February. A facilitated discussion on ‘clustering’ is planned for all Heads of School in mid March. The Vice-Chancellor continues to visit Schools and Divisions and an update article will be published in the March issue of UniTas.
On 12 December 2008 the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, announced an injection of $500 million into universities through a new Teaching and Learning Capital Fund for Higher Education. The new fund will provide a one-off investment of $500 million targeting capital expenditure towards the development of teaching and learning spaces in Australia’s universities that are physically and technologically appropriate for 21st century approaches to tertiary education. The Teaching and Learning Capital Fund is part of a $4.7 billion nation-building infrastructure package to support Australia’s economy in 'tough times'. Funding will target the development of new infrastructure as well as the upgrading of existing facilities. TLC grants will be made available from 1 July 2009, and funding will be distributed among universities through grants taking into account each university's share of total domestic students. UTAS has been allocated $10.5m.
The University was granted $11.55 million in funding from the Australian Government announced by Deputy Prime Minister the Hon Julia Gillard in December. The funding from the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund for 4 key projects across the University’s 3 state campuses will allow UTAS to move ahead with key initiatives. The projects allocated funding are-
It is notable that UTAS received 10% of the national allocation.
The Executive has been working through a carefully balanced approach to managing our existing and future infrastructure needs, since the development of the UTAS Master Plan. The results of that effort are captured in the series of papers that will be presented to the Council Planning Conference.
Consistent with the Master Plan, the Hobart City Council is constructing a roundabout at the intersection of Churchill Avenue and TT Flynn Street, including indented ‘bus bays’ either side of Churchill Ave. Construction commenced on 5 January 2009 and is currently on schedule to be completed by 15 February.
UTAS is still awaiting clarification from the Federal Minister for Youth on the conditions attached (National Access to Services Benchmarks) to the proposed student amenities and services charge.
The Cradle Coast Futures Working Party is working, under the stewardship of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) & Provost, to develop and make recommendations on options for the academic future of UTAS on the Cradle Coast and on appropriate governance arrangements that will ensure the sustainable development of the University in the region. It will also consider and make recommendations on the necessary support and enabling arrangements to underpin successful development, particularly those related to business and finance, academic staffing, administrative and support staffing, decision-making and consultation, and relations with faculties, schools, Academic Senate and other relevant UTAS bodies. The Terms of Reference have been agreed to and the Working Party will make recommendations to the Vice-Chancellor’s Building on Strength Committee (BOSC) and to the North West Advisory Board (NWAB) during February.
Advertising for these positions has ceased and applications have closed. Here is a snap-shot:
59 applications (including 6 from current UTAS staff) have been received, and all New Star positions received applications
There has been good a good number received (about 15 applicants each) for New Stars in Earth Science and Medical Research, and to a lesser extent in Analytical Chemistry and Law. Draft short-listing has commenced and will be completed by the short-listing committee in each area by early February
Draft shortlists will then be moderated by the full selection committee during February, identifying those to be called to the first round of interviews
Interviews are scheduled to commence late February and continue into March, with appointments to be made as soon as possible.
In his July 2008 presentation to Council the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) & Provost pointed to the need to understand staff attitudes to and engagement with the University, and to identify issues of concern to staff. In August 2008, Senior Management Team (SMT) considered a proposal to undertake a survey of staff attitudes (to give staff a ‘voice’). Subsequently a scoping exercise was undertaken with the CEO of the Voice Project (Macquarie University) with favourable results, and thus SMT was asked to commit to deploying the Voice Project process and set up a small steering committee to guide the project; SMT endorsed the proposal. The overall intention is to monitor staff opinions, attitudes and beliefs in a way that will provide hard data to allow management to develop a rigorous dialogue around issues and institute appropriate actions. Depending on the survey instrument used, the results may allow UTAS to benchmark against other universities. A survey will provide a baseline to allow us to track performance over time; subsequent surveys may evolve to encompass new issues while retaining a consistency of core questions to allow such tracking. The Voice Project is also potentially a mechanism to help develop a collective ownership of the University’s direction. The Steering Group will meet shortly with a Senior Consultant of the Voice Project to expedite the implementation of the survey. The earliest such a survey could be administered is March or April, and the exact timing to be considered alongside other events and processes.
More than 35 applications were received for the second round of the 2008 Conference Fund, and 12 were successful. Funds enable academics to attend a conference (Australia or overseas) either to present a paper or chair a session. In 2009, a similar fund has been set up to support conference attendance by UTAS Graduate Students.
As part of the more rigorous process for developing Australian Research Council (ARC) bids, more than 90 outline bids were submitted to our first step Peer Review process in December 2008. These were reviewed by a panel of academics with significant expertise in successful grant writing, and feedback was provided.
The Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) received a great deal of positive feedback about the process. As well as providing feedback on grant proposals, the process has provided a catalyst for academics to discuss approaches to career progression and planning.
Professor Gary O'Donovan is taking up the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) from 2 February this year for approximately 6 months. Dr Martin Grimmer will be Acting Dean of the Faculty of Business for this period. Dr John Byrom will be Acting Head of the School of Management.
The Faculty of Business held its Annual Faculty Awards dinner at the end of November 2008. These staff won awards-
Early Career Research Award: Yi Wang (School of Accounting and Corporate Governance)
Research Award: Dr Hugh Sibly (School of Economics and Finance)
Teaching and Learning Award: Dr Alison Dunn (School of Management)
The Faculty will begin offering the Bachelor of Business with a Business Management Major in Hong Kong in 2009, in partnership with Hong Kong Universal Education Pty Ltd (HKUE). Students will be given advance standing for completion of an Advanced Diploma in Marketing at North Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), also offered through HKUE.
It was announced on 23 December 2008 by the Premier David Bartlett that Professor David Adams of the School of Management has been appointed as the Social Inclusion Commissioner for Tasmania. This part-time position is one of 3 key appointments to be made by the Premier, the other 2 being the Chief Scientist and the State Architect. The office of the Commissioner will be based in Launceston.
Professor Jonathan West of the Australian Innovation Research Centre (AIRC) addressed the Tasmanian Economic Forum in Hobart on 1 December 2008. Professor West noted that Tasmania cannot rely on consumer and real estate booms to drive its economy indefinitely, particularly in a world wide economic crisis. He argued that an alternative possible future for Tasmania, with significant up-side potential, involves a major expansion of the beef, dairy, horticulture, wine and aquaculture sectors and could add $5 billion to the value of agriculture in a decade or around $10,000 to the average productivity of every Tasmanian.
Premier David Bartlett announced on 14 November 2008 that Professor Jonathan West has been appointed as Chairman of the Festival of Ideas Tasmania, to be held in May 2010. The Festival, which will be run over four days, has a $3.5 million budget.
Faculty Grant Successes
In December 2008, Dr Bill Baker was successful in obtaining a University Teaching Development Grant. His project, entitled ‘Learning Centres in Arts Education: A Learning Resource for Early Childhood and Primary Students’ was very well received by the Grant Committee, which was impressed by the planned project outcomes for students within the Faculty’s pre-service programs, staff teaching those programs, and teacher colleagues within schools.
Dr Bronwyn Reynolds was successful in obtaining a NARGS (New Appointees Research Grant Scheme) research grant in November 2008 for her project entitled ‘Early Childhood Education and Care Leadership Dilemmas: Tasmania, Australia.’ This project will explore the nature of dilemmas encountered by leaders in early childhood education and care settings and their understanding of how such complex problems might be managed. It will have a highly applied as well as a theoretical focus, and will be the first action research project of this kind undertaken in Australia.
Degree Successes
In the December 2008 round of graduations, 27 Faculty of Education students received their postgraduate degrees, including 1 Doctor of Education degree, 3 Doctor of Philosophy degrees and 23 Master of Education degrees.
Honours student, Sibella King, who graduated with a Bachelor of Human Movement with First Class Honours in Launceston on 13 December, was also awarded a prestigious University Medal for exceptional results. Only 13 are awarded each year across the entire University.
‘Raising the Bar’ Evaluation Project with the Department of Education
The Faculty has been granted $150,000 to evaluate the Tasmanian Department of Education’s Raising the Bar, Closing the Gap project over the period January 2009 to December 2010. Raising the Bar, Closing the Gap is partially funded by the Federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and forms part of a national series of pilot projects aiming to accelerate sustainable improvement in literacy and numeracy, especially in low SES school communities. The project targets primary schools and aims, over a staged process, to address the following:
Halving the literacy achievement gap for Indigenous students
The needs of low SES communities
Student-centred approaches and interventions using an evidence-based approach
Investment in lifting teacher capacity
Leadership and whole school approaches
Effective use of student outcome data to monitor and evaluate progress
Sharing best practice.
The project evaluation team includes Professor Ian Hay, Associate Professor Geraldine Castleton, Associate Professor Rosemary Callingham and Dr Sally Milbourne.
New Pilot Teacher Education Pathway for Pre-Service Teachers: Department of Education Partnership
The Faculty of Education and the Tasmanian Department of Education have come together to provide an innovative pilot teacher education pathway for pre-service teachers seeking a teaching career in Tasmanian Government schools. The school-based program is for students in their second year of the Bachelor of Teaching, and is tailored towards the local teaching needs of Tasmanian schools. Twenty students have been offered the opportunity to participate. The intent of the pilot project is to increase the retention of teachers in Tasmanian Government schools and to grant extended practice opportunities for pre-service teachers, assisting them in becoming excellent reflective practitioners.
Teacher Professional Development: Department of Education Partnership
The Faculty is working in partnership with the Department of Education in teachers’ professional development in literacy, which will involve over 200 teachers, around 70 of whom will enrol in a Graduate Certificate in Education (Literacy).
Summer School 2009
In January 2009, the Faculty of Education held the three-week residential component of its Summer School program, with approximately 400 student enrolments across 19 subjects offered by the Bachelor of Education In-Service program and the postgraduate coursework Graduate Certificate and Master of Education programs. More than half of the students travelled from mainland Australia and, in some instances, from overseas to attend. Positive feedback has been received in relation to all units, with students enjoying the opportunity to meet with staff and colleagues where communication is usually reserved to email and telephone conversations in these otherwise distance/on-line programs.
Evaluation Project
Associate Professor Geraldine Castleton (Head of School) is currently undertaking an evaluation of a Commonwealth-funded literacy and numeracy project in four North-West independent schools for the Association of Independent Schools in Tasmania.
Education Library Liaison
Anna Klebansky, Education Library liaison, has been seconded (0.5 / 0.6) to work with the Associate Dean (T&L) and staff within the Faculty throughout 2010 as the Faculty renews and develops units for its proposed new programs within Education. She will be assisting staff to embed information literacy and information integrity resources, teaching and learning experiences and assessment items across each of the years of the programs (both 2 and 4 year programs) to enable a scaffolded development of these skills and understandings. The resources and teaching and learning experiences that Anna will assist in the development of will be designed for both face-to-face and online delivery.
Book Launch 2008
In 2008, Faculty academic staff published three books, which were officially launched in the Sir Raymond Ferrall Centre on Wednesday 10 December by the Mayor, Alderman Albert van Zetten. The books covered topics in leadership, global education and mental computation, authored by Professor Bill Mulford, Ms Julie Browett, Dr Greg Ashman, Professor Jane Watson and Associate Professor Rosemary Callingham. The event was well attended and provided a suitable celebratory end to what was a very successful year for the Faculty of Education.
Honours Presentation Evening 2008
On 25 November, the Faculty hosted its annual Honours Presentation Evening, to celebrate the achievements of its Honours students and provide an opportunity for members of the Faculty and the Education sector, as well as family and friends, to become acquainted with their research. Nineteen students presented a poster outlining their project and gave a brief talk. The posters are now on display in the University (Newnham) Gallery and will tour the other two campuses.
Faculty Academic Workload Model
On 21 November 2008, the Dean met with all academic staff to discuss the proposed draft Academic Workload Model, which was prepared and submitted to the Dean for consideration by the Academic Workload Review Panel. Staff expressed general support for the draft model and the Dean advised that it will be trialled and reviewed through implementation in 2009.
New Appointees
The Faculty of Education recently advertised a Level C/D Literacy position and a Level D/E Teacher Education position, for which six and twelve applications were received respectively. This provides a clear indication that academics from other Universities recognise that the UTAS Faculty of Education is a strong and growing Faculty and one they would like to join. The Faculty hopes to fill these positions early in 2009.
A number of new staff members commence appointments in January. The Faculty welcomes: Scott Pederson, Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy; Matthew Michaelson, Lecturer in Education – Mathematics; John Kertesz, Teacher – Professional Development; Nichole Todd, Lecturer in Education (DoE secondee); Robb Soward, Associate Lecture in Education – SOSE (DoE secondee); Fiona Phillips, Associate Lecturer in Education – Mathematics (DoE secondee); and Carol Boyd, Associate Lecturer in Education – Literacy (DoE secondee). Ms Tracey Muir was internally appointed to the role of Director of Professional Experience. Ms Muir formerly held the position of Lecturer in Maths Education in the Faculty.
In November 2008, Associate Professor Rosemary Callingham joined the Faculty, taking up the role of Associate Professor in Maths Education. She comes to the Faculty from the School of Education at the University of New England.
Students
The Faculty continues to attract the most able students in the State and good numbers of international students and some interstate students. The student body remains one of the greatest strengths of the Faculty particularly with their work through the Tasmanian University Law Students Society (TULS) which organises a range of promotional competitions, employment fairs, the UTAS legal referral service (operating on all three campuses), education advice, year representatives, the annual Advocatus magazine and the careers journal. The graduating class of 2008 was one of the strongest ever with eleven firsts, approximately 30% with Honours and one student who achieved the University Medal with a perfect HD record. Mr Lionel Nichols, who won the Tim Hawkins Scholarship, also received the Rhodes scholarship for 2009.
Teaching
The Faculty continues to take great pride in its teaching and maintaining overall high scores in SETLs. 2008 was a particularly fine year with Mr Rick Snell and Ms Rikki Maward achieving national Carrick teaching awards. In addition the international student support program also won a national prize. The ISSP grew out of the AIDAB supported tutor for Pacific Island students in the late 1980s. This prize reflects on the senior year students who delivered the program, and Dr Lisa Butler who was overall co-ordinator over the last seven years. The highly successful and long standing Summer School in 2008 included Art Law (Professor Norman Palmer CBE and Dr. Ruth Redmond Cooper from the UK), Tax Law (Associate Professor Justin Dabner), European Law (Professor Alexander Mowara and Professor Thomas Mollers) and Conflict Resolution (Dr Samantha Hardy).
Staff
Three new lecturers have been appointed (Drs Jane Neilson, Brendan Gogarty and Jeremy Pritchard) joining Christine Beuermann as the next generation of young scholars in the Faculty. Implementing the new University policy for adjunct staff, the Faculty appointed the following as adjunct professors: Professor Tim McCormack, (University of Melbourne, International Humanitarian Law) Professor Ken Mizuno (Gakushuin University, Torts, Comparative Law), Professor Norman Palmer CBE (Kings College London, and English Bar, Property, Art and Trade Law) and Associate Professor Julia Davis (University of South Australia, Torts and Law Reform).
Research
The Faculty concentrates on research as a distinguishing characteristic from other Australian law schools. Professor Di Nicol and new staff member Dr Jane Neilson were successful in their application for an ARC Discovery grant. There is a strong enrolment in PhDs, with the faculty having one of the highest enrolments in the country. In addition, with between four and six PhD graduations each year, although these figures are modest, the Faculty remains one of the top producers of Law PhDs in the country.
The Centre for Law and Genetics combined with the Menzies Research Institute have obtained a NMHRC program grant valued at just over eight million dollars. The CRGL organised an international conference held at St Anne’s College, Oxford, in collaboration with the Ethox Centre and supported by the UK Welcome Trust and the European Science Research Council grant. Professor Dal Pont, Lynden Griggs, Lisa Butler and Ken Mackie continue to lead our Trusts and Property Law team with major books in superannuation and succession. Professor Dal Pont has had the unique honour of being appointed as the editor to the Halsbury’s Laws of Australia following in the footsteps of distinguished Australian judges. This is a prestigious recognition of his scholarship.
The Faculty has been preparing for the forthcoming ERA and following a number of strategies to ensure a substantial increase in overall publication output.
Community
The Faculty is active in many community organisations with representatives in state, national and international committees. One of the major and continuing successes for the university is through the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute which received outstanding coverage nationally for its work on a charter on human rights and on new approaches to sentencing. Professor Kate Warner continues as director with strong support from Associate Dean Terese Henning and other members of staff.
Facilities
The new Andrew Ingles Clark Court was opened in 2008 and will further strengthen the opportunities for students to participate in mooting and other mediation exercises. The students will continue to have the unique privilege of presenting their final moots at the Supreme Court building in Salamanca.
A new Student Learning Hub has substantially improved the services in the Law Library.
Alumni
The Faculty is now producing two high quality alumni newsletters each year. Dr Brendan Gogarty is building on the terrific work of Dr Rebecca Bradfield and support from PRUE. These newsletters highlight alumni achievements.
International
The Faculty has an international focus in its curriculum to ensure the value of the degree for the many international students studying here and to enable our graduates to practice around the world. The exchange program with our international partners saw a number of students taking up the Faculty Federation Scholarships. Our new exchange with Lucerne, Switzerland attracted four students from that university.
Our long standing twinning program with KDU collage in Malaysia (the first and only Australian twinning program) continues successfully. Our formal collaboration with the prestigious Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia (UKM) saw the first joint biotechnology conference held in Putrajaya.
Amalgamation
The proposed merger between Law and Business did not proceed. However the University is now investigating other ideas to ensure the efficiency in the delivery of programs and research. The Faculty is preparing a submission to the Vice-Chancellor in response to his Building on Strengths paper.
Support for Clinical Training in Health Professional Education
A major breakthrough occurred at the last Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting, when as part of a $64.4 billion allocation for the next Health Care Agreement, COAG committed $1.6 billion to support the Health Workforce in Australia. Most of this is directed to undergraduate clinical training and will provide the necessary expansion of infrastructure and teaching support for adequate clinical training for the increased number of students in medicine, nursing and other health professions. Increased postgraduate training places are also to be established and the program will be managed by a National Health Workforce agency.
These decisions are most welcome and have been influenced by active lobbying from Medical Schools and other health professional education groups over the past five years. The anticipated arrangements will do much to overcome the bickering and cost-shifting between State and Commonwealth health and education agencies which have been exacerbated over recent years.
Staff of the Faculty of Health Science are actively involved in discussions concerning the detail of the new agency (which is planned to be established in August/September 2009) at the National and State levels. Together with the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Partners in Health Management Committee and a number of other State working groups, the Faculty is working to ensure maximum benefit accrues for Tasmania. The recently established Health Services and Workforce Education Unit and the Faculty’s Student Placement Management System will play major roles in these new developments.
Senior Staff Movements - School of Pharmacy
Professor Greg Peterson assumes the role of Head of School of Pharmacy from 2009. He succeeds Dr Steven Aldous who has been Head of School for the past five years during which there has been significant growth and development within the School. Professor Peterson has had a major role in the expansion of research within the School and will continue that focus in addition to his new role.
Senior Staff Movements - University Department of Rural Health
Associate Professor Sue Kilpatrick will leave her position as Head of the University Department of Rural Health (UDRH) in February 2009 to take up the newly created position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Rural and Regional) at Deakin University. Sue has been Director of the UDRH over the past five years, prior to which she had a long involvement within the Faculty of Education. A function to thank Sue for her service to the University and wish her well for the future will be held in early February. Mr Stuart Auckland and Dr Erica Bell will be Acting Co-Directors of the University Department of Rural Health for the next six months.
Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) was successful in attracting three new ARC grants in the last round. Two discovery grants were awarded. The first was to Paul Haddad, Emily Hilder and Andrew Shalliker ($560,000 over 4 years for the project ‘Synthesis, characterisation and evaluation of novel ion exchange polymer monolithic stationary phases for separation science’) and the second (which included a QEII Fellowship) was to Michael Breadmore ($705,000 over 5 years for the project ‘Integrated microfluidic device for the direct analysis of drugs and metabolites in biological fluids’). A LIEF grant of $172,025 was awarded to Paul Haddad, Philip Marriott, Andrew Shalliker, Pavel Nesterenko, Greg Dicinoski, Emily Hilder, Michael Breadmore, Joselito Quirino, Rosanne Guijt and Robert Shellie for a Multi Purpose Mass Spectrometry Facility. It is noteworthy that two of the above grants include staff from the RMIT and University of Western Sydney nodes of ACROSS.
In early December, ACROSS hosted an international conference (ASASS - ACROSS Symposium on Advances in Separation Science), which was held in the School of Chemistry. The purpose of this event was to bring together all of the personnel from the three nodes of ACROSS and to showcase their research internationally. Over 150 people from 18 countries attended the meeting, including an outstanding group of 12 distinguished invited speakers (most of whom will be participating in the forthcoming ARC Centre of Excellence bid to be submitted by ACROSS). The conference was opened by Professor Laybourn-Parry, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research).
Dr Michael Breadmore was recently appointed to the editorial board of the prestigious journal Electrophoresis.
A special issue of Journal of Chromatography A (Volume 1213, issue 1) appeared in December 2008 to mark the 60th birthday of Professor Paul Haddad. This issue was entitled ‘Techniques for the separation of ionic and ionogenic species’ and featured Dr Emily Hilder and Dr Michael Breadmore as guest editors.
Building on the MOU between the University of Tasmania, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) and CSIRO, the three organizations co-hosted a two day workshop titled Analysing the dynamic response of fisheries production systems to biological, social and economic management measures: methods and case studies.
The workshop brought together over 30 fisheries scientists and managers from Australia, New Zealand and France with expertise in biology, economics, sociology, modeling and management, to learn from each other about the different approaches and methods used in assessing fisheries in Europe and Australia. The need for multi-disciplinary approaches for assessing fisheries is being recognized globally with an increasing focus on the need to understand the economic and social drivers of fishing industries. Fisheries scientists are now looking at ways of building economic and social analyses into our more traditional biological focused assessments. The MOU provided an ideal platform for the joint application to the Australian Government’s International Science Linkages Program under the French-Australian Science and Technology (FAST) Program for support for this workshop.
Another activity supported by the MOU is the development of joint PhD degrees known as ‘cotutelle’ degrees. A cotutelle is an established framework for a student to be enrolled in an institution within another country (in this case, France) as well as a country outside of France, in this case Australia.
The workshop provided an ideal opportunity for the MOU’s first cotutelle student, Katell Hamell, to discuss her PhD on bio-economic impact assessment changes in the regulation of access to fisheries, using the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery as a case study on individual transferable quotas.
A follow-up workshop is scheduled in Brest in France in September 2009 to further examine ways to improve fisheries management and to foster further engagement between UTAS, CSIRO and IFREMER under the MOU. The workshops are sponsored by the Australian Government’s International Science Linkages Program under the French-Australian Science and Technology (FAST) Program, the French Embassy, TAFI and CSIRO.
In accordance with the Honorary, Visiting, Clinical and Adjunct Appointments Policy, Dr Peter Davies has been appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Zoology and Ms Inger-Margrethe Jensen has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
These students graduated in absentia at the meeting-
Khaled Suhail Mohamed Al Seraidi
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Michael Malcolm Aucello
Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Nautical Science)
Dereck Thomson David Augustine
Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management)
Jennifer Claire Bardenhagen
Bachelor of Education
Shane Noel Broad
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Man To Chau
Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Chief Mate/Master)
Zye Ming Chong
Master of Electronic Business
Bernadette Dean
Master of Education
Martin Delpero
Advanced Diploma of Marine Engineering
Robert Bruce Gregor
Bachelor of Science with Honours (First Class)
Wray Ward Grimaldi
Bachelor of Antarctic Studies with Honours
Emma Andolese Hobson
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
Damen James Holmes
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
William Alfred Jackman
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Keadea Jessey
Bachelor of Business (Maritime and Logistics Management)
Steven Craig Jones
Graduate Diploma in Information Management
Seung Won Kim
Bachelor of Computing
Lila Maree Landowski
Bachelor of Medical Research
Yu Lin
Master of Electronic Business
Yu Tong Lin
Master of Professional Accounting (Business Management)
Ting Hei Luen
Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Chief Mate/Master)
Kevin Willis Maguire
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Ahmed Aruf Muhammadh
Diploma of Nautical Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Vasuki Muniandy
Graduate Diploma of Nursing
Okpaka Cromwell Okpaka
Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Chief Mate/Master)
James Paul Oliver
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Riley Joseph Oxenbridge
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
John Heathershaw Palmer
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Renee Alyss Patterson
Bachelor of Science
Bradley Keith Quinn
Advanced Diploma of Marine Engineering (Chief Engineer)
Jason Adam Saunders
Bachelor of Commerce
Andrew Bernard Scott
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
Wei Chun See
Bachelor of Architecture
Glen Maxwell Shaw
Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)
King Yii Teng
Bachelor of Laws
Ruth Thomas
Graduate Diploma in Information Management
Yong Sii Thomas Tiong
Bachelor of Computing
Panapasa Vonokula
Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Chief Mate/Master)
Chiu Yu Wong
Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Chief Mate/Master)
Brendon James Young
Bachelor of Applied Science (Fisheries) with Honours
Szilvia Loekoes
Bachelor of Nursing
Fransisca Pinondang Siregar
Bachelor of Laws
