Happenings and seminars

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• Wednesday 2 December
  Special Presentation in the Noel Stockdale Room, Central Library from 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Associate Professor Lisa Emerson, 2008 NZ Prime Minister's Supreme Award Winner for Teaching and Learning, on "Talking to Teachers".
  
  
• Friday 27 November
  Flinders University (Dr Udoy Saikia, Dr James Chalmers and Dr Gour Dasvarma) has played a major role in preparing a human development report after Bougainville emerged from a decade-long conflict, Spectrum, The Independent Weekly,
  20-26 November.
  
  
  
• Tuesday 24 November
  Seminar: Catherine Way , PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Decoupling Economic Growth from Carbon Emissions: A Case Study Using Carbon Reduction Cost Curve Modelling'.
  
  
• Thursday 19 November
  Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the International Editorial Board of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography with effect from March 2010.
  
  
• Thursday 12 November
  Special Seminar:  Dr Sudibyo Alimoeso, MA, Principal Secretary, National Family Planning Coordinating Board , BKkbN,
  Jakarta Timur, 'The Future of Population and Family Planning in Indonesia'.
  
  
• Wednesday 11 November
  The School hosted a morning tea for staff and the students of the Master of Applied Population Studies to welcome Dr Kasmiyati, Head of Training and Development and Dr. Sudibyo Alimoeso, Principal Secretary, Indonesian Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN) Jakarta Timur. Please click here to see additional photos.
  
  
  
  
• Tuesday 10 November
  Seminar: Dr Brad D Wolaver, Research Fellow, School of chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Flinders University, 'Hydrogeophysical Investigation of an Isolated Recharge Event on a Central Australia Ephemeral River'.
  
  
• Tuesday 10 November
  Professor Iain Hay received a 2009 Council of Education Associations of South Australia (CEASA) Award 'in recognition of outstanding contribution to the teaching profession in South Australia'. The award was presented by the Hon Jane Lomax-Smith, Minister of Education on World Teachers' Day (30 October).
  
  
• Thursday 5 November
  Congratulations to Dr Beverley Clarke on the offer of a place in The Governor's Leadership Foundation program for 2010. Competition for places on the program was apparently very intense this year with a high number of outstanding applicants, so it is a credit to her to be invited to join the program.
  
  
  
• Tuesday 3 November
  Three of our Master of Applied Population students attended a farewell garden party for 600 international students last week hosted by South Australia's Governor Kevin Scarce and wife Liz, with a photograph in The Advertiser, 3 Nov 2009, p.55.
  
  
  
  
  
• Tuesday 27 October
  Seminar: Emeritus Professor Chris Paris, University of Ulster, 'Housing booms and housing busts: mansions, booms and holiday homes in Ireland and the UK'.
  
  
• Thursday 22 October
  New publication:
  Saikia, U. 2009, "Population and environment: some reflections on this complex reality", South Australian Geographer, vol. 24, no. 3.
  
  
• Tuesday 20 October
  Seminar: Emeritus Professor Chris Paris, University of Ulster, 'Housing and Ageing in Northern Ireland', Radford Auditorium, 5.00 - 7.00 p.m.
  
  
• Tuesday 20 October
  Seminar: Associate Professor Alaric Maude, Adjunct Staff, School of Geography, Population and
  Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Towards a national school geography curriculum for Australia: the process so far'.
  
  
• Wednesday 14 October
  Congratulations to PhD student Edoardo Rosso for his award as Football Federation SA Women's Premier Division Coarch of the Year. Well done, Edoardo!
  
  
• Tuesday 13 October
  Seminar: Dr Debbie Faulkner, Director AHURI, 'Housing Careers, Ageing in Place and the Older Population', as part of the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) seminar series in Room 240 SSN.
  
  
  

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