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Staff Notices: 1 - 5 March 2010

Table of Contents

Uni in the News
General Information for Staff
Events
Training and Development Opportunities
Information for Researchers

Uni in the News

'Kidnap' a joey to save a species

Australian scientists are taking babies from the pouches of endangered marsupial mothers in a bid to save their species from imminent extinction. Wallaby babies are carefully transferred into the pouches of surrogate mothers of another common species, held in captivity, where they are raised to adulthood in safety. The dramatic technique has been developed by scientists at the University of Adelaide and Adelaide Zoo, adopting aspects of marsupial reproductive biology. According to lead researcher Dr David Taggart, from the Discipline of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the state of Australia's fauna demands drastic measures. He said that 40% of the country's animal species are deemed to be endangered or vulnerable to extinction. "Instead of them producing one young a year, using this technique we can get eight or nine pouch young produced by every female every year. So it has a dramatic effect on the breeding rate of that species," he said. The brush tailed rock wallaby was the first species to be targeted for preservation using the pouch-swap technique, which is better known as cross species fostering.

Source: BBC News - Discovery programme (UK), 17 February 2010

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General Information for Staff

Success at Writers' Week

Two staff members from the Discipline of English were announced as winners at the Festival Awards for Literature as part of the opening of Writers' Week (28 February to 5 March).

Dr Amy T. Matthews won the Unpublished manuscript award (worth $10,000) - open to South Australian writers only - for her manuscript "End of the Night Girl". Amy Matthews is a PhD graduate of the Creative Writing program and now an Associate Lecturer on the program.

Dr Patrick Allington was named as the recipient of the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, a fellowship (worth $15,000) designed to provide an SA writer with a living allowance while they pursue writing projects. Patrick Allington is a Research Assistant on the Creative Writing program.

First semester use of Hughes Lecture Theatre

In line with the development of the new Hughes Plaza Learning Hub (at the centre of the campus), the first stage of works has commenced. As such, the Hughes Lecture Theatre will be closed for the first semester only. Due to this we have relocated lecture groups based in Hughes to various venues around the Campus, including Freemasons Hall and Scots Church on North Terrace. Freemasons Hall is currently being refurbished as a lecture theatre, with new chairs installed on Friday 26 February 2010, and tablets due to be added to the chairs in the week starting Monday 8 March 2010.

For more information, please contact Slavka Kovacevic on 8303 5383.

Participation in Cooperative Research Centres Policy
For Consultation

It is proposed to delete the existing Policy and replace it with a set of internal business requirements, linked to the Commonwealth Government CRC Program Guidelines. The current Policy was authorised in 2006, and amended in 2009 to take into account changes in the Government's Guidelines. The intention is to provide the University with a more responsive and effective basis to facilitate participation in CRC bids, and allow a more rapid response to any further changes in Government processes. The existing authorities within the current Policy will remain in effect.

The consultation period ends on Monday 15 March 2010.

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/drafts/ [UA access only]

Review of the Diploma of Languages and language related courses
offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

The University is currently undertaking a review of the Diploma of Languages and language related courses offered in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Staff, students and members of the University community are invited to make a submission to the review on matters relevant to the Terms of Reference, which are available on the Quality and Reviews website at: www.adelaide.edu.au/pvclq/reviews/current/.

Submissions can be sent via email to: Stephen Jeisman or via mail to:

Quality Assurance Officer (Reviews)
Quality and Reviews
University of Adelaide SA 5005

The deadline for submissions is 5:00pm, Friday 26 March 2010. All submissions remain confidential.

For further information please contact Stephen Jeisman, phone 8303 6346.

Legal and Risk Newsletter

The first 2010 edition of the Legal & Risk newsletter - Unilink - is now accessible from our webpage: www.adelaide.edu.au/legalandrisk/newsletter/.

In this issue of Unilink, we offer some suggestions as to how you can avoid accidentally defaming someone online, or being defamed yourself. Also in this edition, we introduce you to the New Standard for Risk Management (ISO 31000), draw your attention to more compliance resources now at your disposal and get you thinking about copyright issues that can arise as podcasting and online classrooms become more prominent in higher education.

We hope you find this edition informative and we look forward to receiving your feedback and suggestions.

2010 PricewaterhouseCoopers Excellence Award

We need your help to find our 2010 PwC Excellence Award winner from the University of Adelaide.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers we encourage our people to achieve excellence in their work whilst maintaining a balanced life. PwC are looking to identify high calibre students who do the same. For example, if you know anyone who is combining full time university with a passion for the environment, achieving success in a course of study and on the sporting field, or spending their time juggling studies with a commitment to a charitable organisation then the PwC Excellence Award is a chance for them to be recognised.

Award winners will receive both financial assistance towards the course or cause of their choice and a professional development package designed to assist them to prepare for the workforce, regardless of what career they would like to pursue.

Last year we congratulated Emma Moulds: 2009 University of Adelaide winner (pdf).

To refer any students or to find out more please visit: www.pwc.com.au/careers/excellence-award.

Staff Survey 2010: five more days to have your say!

Have you had your say yet? If not, you have until 5:00pm on Friday 5 March 2010 to complete the Your Voice Staff Survey 2010!

By completing the survey, you are eligible to enter the daily $100 prize draw and the main prize draw for a $400 travel gift voucher from the SA Visitor and Travel Centre, an iPod Touch or a $200 gift voucher for the restaurant of your choice.

The following staff members have all won the $100 daily prize draws:

Niki Pavlidis, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Melissa Gibbs, Business Services, Division of Services and Resources
Nicole Stones, Service Excellence, Division of Services and Resources

Remember, responses to the survey are 100% anonymous. The results will be compiled by Voice Project, an independent consultancy based at Macquarie University.

For further information on the Your Voice Staff Survey 2010 visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/staff_survey/

For questions or suggestions, please contact the Your Voice Staff Survey 2010 Hotline, phone 8303 3078, or email: yourvoice@adelaide.edu.au.

Tips for TRIMinising

Relating records in TRIM allows you to form links and relationships between document and files.

One example is to relate a registered incoming document to the outgoing response document.

For further information please refer to TRIM information sheet "Relating Records in TRIM" [D2010/21295] or go to https://www.adelaide.edu.au/records/trim/manuals/ under the heading Registration / Editing.

If you require any further assistance please call the TRIM Helpdesk on 35334.

TRIM Team.

Launch into ORBIT!

Did you know that details of publications and awarded research projects are automatically available to all University staff, both professional and academic, through the ORBIT Researcher Profiles Module? Just select the Researcher Profiles option from the Module Overview page, and search in the Research Projects and Publications reports.

For further assistance, contact the ORBIT helpdesk at: orbit@adelaide.edu.au or phone 8303 0391.

https://orbit.adelaide.edu.au

Vacant Positions

www.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/

Events

Field Geology Club of SA - Public Lecture

The Field Geology Club of SA presents a lecture on:

A new look at Broken Hill
Presented by: Professor Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology, University of Adelaide.

The Broken Hill ore deposit is the largest zinc-lead-silver deposit in the world. Together with its weathered equivalent it contains a bewildering array of minerals. Professor Plimer will review the origin of the deposit, and will discuss some puzzling features: why is it so large and why, although it is a sulphide deposit, does it lack the most common sulphide found in nature? (If you are not sure what this sulphide is, come along and find out!)

Date/Time: Thursday 4 March 2010, 7:45pm
Venue: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Laboratories (near corner of Victoria Drive and Frome Road)

Visitors are warmly invited to attend. For further details contact Frances Williams on 0403 153 726 or Paul Curnow on 0402 079 578.

Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion (RUSSLR) - Public Lecture

The University of Adelaide's Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion is pleased to announce a Public Lecture:

"Back to Russia? The Ukrainian Presidential Elections of 2010"
Presented by: David R. Marples, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History & Classics
and director of the Stasiuk Program on Contemporary Ukraine at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Date/Time: Tuesday 9 March 2010, 1:00pm
Venue: Moot Court Room, Ligertwood Building, Law School

Download: RUSSLR flyer (pdf).
No RSVP is required. Enquiries can be directed to Dr Paul Babie.

Twilight Concert at Urrbrae House, Waite Campus

Date/Time: Monday 15 March, 6:00pm with refreshments from 5:30pm.

"AS TIME GOES BY"

After three years of absence the Vivente String Quartet returns to Urrbrae House. Minas Berberyan, Erna Berberyan, Michael Robertson and Cameron Waters (members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra) will perform works by Mozart, Massenet, Saint-Saens and others. The main work in the program will be Mozart's String Quartet K.421 in d minor.

Admission $15. Bookings: 8303 7497 or email Bill Wallace.

Booking essential since seats limited.

Research Tuesdays

Who's the Boss?
An exploration of the ongoing tug-of-war between fairness and flexibility in the Australian workplace

Presenter: Professor Andrew Stewart, John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide
Date/Time: Tuesday 9 March 2010, 5:30pm
Venue change: Ligertwood, Law Lecture Theatre 2 (Room 333), North Tce Campus
FREE Public Seminar. All welcome.

Synopsis: When Labor swept to power in 2007 it carried a clear mandate to bury the Howard Government's controversial Work Choices reforms.

Its Fair Work legislation, which took effect in July 2009, was eagerly anticipated by those seeking a more equitable balance between employee rights and employer flexibility.

But 8 months on, controversy remains. Some say Fair Work delivers. Some say it's little different. Others, including Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, say it goes too far.

So how has Fair Work changed labour laws? What are its implications? And can the Coalition present a deregulatory alternative without reigniting community protest?

As another election looms, the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrew Stewart presents a timely exploration of these important issues.

Adelaide onLION members can register at: www.alumni.adelaide.edu.au/researchtuesdaysmarch.
Non members: RSVP is essential. Please fill in the registration form.

Further enquiries: research.tuesdays@adelaide.edu.au, phone 8303 3692.

Training & Development Opportunities

Health Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Training Plan for 2010 is now online

The HSW team offers a range of short courses to University staff and postgraduate students, to increase understanding and skills in Health Safety and Wellbeing within the University of Adelaide. Staff and students can view and book training offered by the University at:
www.adelaide.edu.au/hr/ohs/training/plan/

Lean Six Sigma - Executive Education Unit

Yellow Belt - 14/15 April

If you are a middle to senior level manager, Lean Six Sigma will introduce you to the concepts, methodologies tools and techniques by which business excellence can be maintained in your Faculty, School or Division. These methodologies are currently used by the University's Service Excellence Program.

The program is presented in a modular format to support varying needs in the implementation of improvement strategies. Lean Six Sigma will assist you in initiating and progressing improvement projects.

Discount: 10% offered to University of Adelaide staff.

For further information, contact: Evelyn Wagner, phone 8313 3268.

MyMedia Lecture Recording: Information Sessions

An introduction for staff on recording lectures using the facilities in Common Teaching Areas (Lecture Theatres and Tutorial Rooms) and the software available to then manage the captured content. Sessions for staff have been scheduled as follows:

Date	Venue	Time
Friday 5 March	Plaza 2060	10:30am - 12:30pm
Monday 15 March	Plaza 2060	10:30am - 12:30pm
Friday 19 March	Plaza 2060	10:30am - 12:30pm
Monday 22 March	Plaza 2060	10:30am - 12:30pm
Friday 26 March	Plaza 2060	10:30am - 12:30pm

Sessions will be two hours long to allow staff to have hands-on practice with the equipment in the lecture theatre if desired. No RSVP is required.

For further details visit the MyMedia website.

Teaching the Google-Eyed YouTube Generation

This Learning & Teaching Seminar, hosted by CLPD, will be presented by Dr Bill Ashraf, Director of Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Sussex, UK.

Date/Time: Thursday 25 March 2010, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Venue: CLPD, Level 2, Schulz Building West
Afternoon tea will be provided following the presentation.

For more details on the topic and the presenter you can download the seminars flyer from the CLPD website.

RSVP - please email Marilyn Purdy or phone 35771, by Tuesday 23 March, to register your attendance.

Strategies for Online Learning seminars 2010

This series, hosted by Online Learning at CLPD, complement and extend the Introduction to MyUni and Effective Use of MyUni workshops conducted by ITS Training. There are five themes for 2010: Designing for Online learning; Online Administration; Assessing Online; Collaborative Learning; and Using Voice.

You can download the seminars flyer from the training page on the MyUni Support website.

To book for the seminars go to: https://apps.adelaide.edu.au/training/.

Teaching for Improving Student Learning

Assistance in teaching for improving student learning is available for newly appointed lecturers, tutors and demonstrators. A series of self-access modules are available online from the CLPD website. The new and revised modules now cover 12 topics, from setting learning objectives, to teaching large and small classes, online learning, assessment, evaluation and curriculum design.

The modules can be accessed from the Sessional Teaching pages on the CLPD website at: www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/sessional/.

A link to details of Scheduled Faculty Sessional Staff Induction Programs is also available from this page.

For further information, email Ursula McGowan or phone 34745.

Professional and Continuing Education

Language Courses

Open to all adult learners, the University of Adelaide's Centre for Professional and Continuing Education (PCE) offers a wide range of language courses catering for beginners to the more advanced. Full Year courses commence in late March and run for 30 weeks, one evening a week.

Languages offered:
Arabic
Italian
Chinese (Mandarin)
French
German
Indonesian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

Discount: 5% offered to University of Adelaide staff.

For further information or to enrol please email Rupert Irudayaraj or phone 8303 4777, or visit our website at: www.adelaide.edu.au/pce to view our extensive program offering.

Upcoming Professional Development Courses

Improve Your Business Writing Skills
Thursday 11 March

Critical Thinking
Tuesday 16 March

Professional Telephone Skills
Wednesday 17 March

Publishing Newsletters and eNewsletters
Thursday 18 March

Discount: 5% for University of Adelaide staff.

You can now enrol and pay online! Visit our website and follow the easy steps.

www.adelaide.edu.au/pce

For further information visit our website or phone 8303 4777.

Information for Researchers

Future Research Leaders Program

The Future Research Leaders program has been developed collaboratively by the Go8 universities, and is delivered in full each semester for the benefit of the research community of the University of Adelaide. The program is aimed at current and aspiring research leaders, and seeks to build a range of skills and knowledge critical to successful research leadership and management.

There are eight modules in the program, together with a researcher orientation module. Modules are undertaken by a combination of online study, independent research and a face-to-face workshop. Do just one module, or do as many as you like. It's up to you.

Research Strategy & Planning Module 1
Effective research must be carefully planned to achieve the best outcomes. This module explores the links between your University's overall research strategy, your own research, the scoping and conceptualising of the project prior to the research commencing and research project management.

Date/Time: Tuesday 16 March, 12:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue: AGC Seminar Room, Level 6, 115 Grenfell St

More about the program at: www.adelaide.edu.au/red/staff/frlp/

Further enquiries: Dr Ian Green on 8303 6035, Dr Cally Guerin on 8303 3043, or email: researchereducation@adelaide.edu.au.

Exploring Supervision Program

The Exploring Supervision Program provides professional development for HDR supervisors, offering a series of three interactive workshops on key topics in HDR supervision, and providing a range of supporting tools and resources. Completion of the full module of the program leads to principal researcher supervisor status.

In 2010 we are offering the workshops in three concentrated blocks – in the mid-semester break after Easter, at the end of first semester, and at the end of second semester. You can do it all in one block, or as individual workshops to suit your purposes and/or timetable. There's no set order, you don't have to do them all in one go, and it's all FREE!

Find out more about the program, check our timetables, and link to our enrolment facility: www.adelaide.edu.au/red/staff/esp/