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Iain Hay and Ethan 
Advertiser, Tuesday 9 September, page 1.
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The President of Bougainville Autonomous Region, The Hon’ble Joseph Kabuli addressing the Inception Workshop of Bougainville Human Development Report held at the capital Buka on 26 January 2006.
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Dr. Udoy Saikia (fourth from left, back row), with Dr. Jim Chalmers, Coordinator, Bougainville Human Development Report (third from left, back row) at the Inception Workshop of Bougainville
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Congratulations to Les Heathcote and Sheila on their recent marriage.
Dr Udoy Saikia joined the School as a Lecturer B. Udoy joins us from Flinders' Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences. Udoy has an MA (Economics, Golchale Institute, India), MPS (IIPS, India), MSc (LSE) and PhD (Flinders). He will be involved in teaching across a broad range of the School's academic areas of interest.
Dr. Gour Dasvarma participated at an international conference titled: “Female Deficit in Asia: Trends and Perspectives”, organised by the Singapore-based Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, in collaboration with CEPED, CICRED and INED of France. The conference was held in Singapore from 5 to 7 December 2005. Dr. Dasvarma and Ms. Tiodora Siagian of the Central Board of Statistics, Indonesia (a Master of Population and Human Resources graduate from Flinders University) presented a paper titled: “The Masculinisation of the Sex Ratio in Indonesia”.
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Tiodora and Gour
2005
- Monday 12 December
Congratulations to Associate Professor Susanne Schech, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management and Associate Professor Jane Haggis, Department of Sociology who were successful in the recent Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project 2006 funding round. 'From Stranger to Citizen: Migration, Modernisation and Racialisation in the Making of the New Australian'. Total funding of $505,000 over two years. - Wednesday 7 December
The School's staff and postgraduate students enjoyed their Christmas Luncheon at the mt Lofty Summit Cafe. We found out some interesting information about some staff members on the bus trip home as follows.....
We have a descendent of the first settlers in South Australia, an actor who appeared in "China No 1 Bodyguard", an ex-Oompa Loompa, Captain Cave Man, someone who likes peanut butter and vegemite sandwiches, a female re-roofer, a grade 2 classical guitarist, volleyball finalist winner and a tennis champion coahced by Margaret Court. - Tuesday 6 December
Congratulations to Collin Snow (graduate of 2003 from the United States) who is now employed with Envirobusiness Inc, USA as an Assistant Project Coordinator. In a recent card he says "Beverley, you have been a huge support and positive influence throughout this entire job searching escapade of mine. Your EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) class had a very large impact on me and as a result I have chosen to pursue a career in this field". - Short courses available in November/December 2005
Short courses in GIS are being offered for the first time in November/December 2005, through the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management. The two day courses are designed to attract government agency, university and industry researchers and resource managers working with the latest ArcGIS software. You will work on real data relevant to your applications, rather than the generic "one size fits all" training provided by the vendor.
Shortcourses in Geographic Information Systems 2005 - Tuesday 29 November
Seminar: Professor Chris Paris, University of Ulster (Visiting Research Fellow in the School), 'Second Homes: irish Debates and International Comparisons'. - Thursday 24 November
School's Topic Review Day. - Wednesday 23 November
School's Planning Day. - Tuesday 22 November - Cancelled
Seminar: Holli Thomas, PhD Candidate, School of Political and International Studies and Research Officer, Mitsubishi Project, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Too Late for a Palestinian State?'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm. - Tuesday 15 November
Seminar: Dr Farah Adeeb, Adjunct staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management and Senior Scientific Officer, SA Environmental Protection Authority, 'Application of a 3-dimensional air quality model to Adelaide airshed-implications for air quality managemnt'. - Monday 7 November
Mark Lethbridge in collaboration with Professor Hugh Possingham, UQ and Dr Michael Westphal, EPA (Washington) has developed a GIS tool that helps conservation planners find optimal solutions when restoring native habitats. - Thursday 3 November
Congratulations to Bev Clarke who has been confirmed in her continuing appointment with effect from 10 October 2005. Well done.. - Tuesday 1 November
Seminar: Eric Compas, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, '"Smart growth" and ecological science in local land-use planning outside Yellowstone National Park'. - Tuesday 25 October
Seminar: Matt Miles, GIS team leader, Environmental Information Analysis, Department for Environment and Heritage, 'GIS modelling for salinity assessment and policy in the Lower Murray-Darling Basin'. - Tuesday 18 October
Seminar: Brian Caton, Adjunct staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Establishing conservation priority within the Coastal Zone'. - Monday 17 October
Dr Emma Baker has joined the School as a NH&NRC Post doctoral Fellow (Level B). Emma's work will focus on the relationship between health and housing. Emma is employed as part of the Auystralian health Inequities Program (AHIP) working three days per week for five years in the first instance.
Michael Kroehn has rejoined the School to work with Professor Andrew Beer on the evaluation of the Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group (NAMIG). - Tuesday 11 October
Seminar: David Gobbett, Postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Optimising outcomes for biodiversity in habitat restoration planning'. -
Tuesday 11 October - Cancelled
Seminar: Holli Thomas, PhD Candidate, School of Political and International Studies and Research Officer, Mitsubishi Project, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Too Late for a Palestinian State?'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm. - Monday 11 October
Congratulations to Bev Clarke, Eric Compas, Cecile Cutler and Andrew Beer on their recent Research Development Grant of $5158 for "Urban Growth and Marine Protected Areas: understanding the tensions in establishing a new conservation zone". -
Thursday 22 September
The School hosted the inaugural Postgraduate Research Degree Symposium in the University Function Centre. The Symposium was attended by 13 postgraduate students and members of the academic staff. View the program and some photos (doc). Notes from the interactive sessions are available here. -
Tuesday 13 September
Honours seminars: Alice Egan (thesis work-in-progress seminar) and Bronwyn Bean (thesis proposal).
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm - Thursday 15 September
Alice Bass has rejoined the School to work with Professor Andrew Beer on the evaluation of the Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group (NAMIG). -
Tuesday 6 September
Honours thesis work-in-progress seminars: Elena Mazourenko, Allan Kane, and Eric Van Wyk.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30pm -
Tuesday 30 August
Special Seminar: Udoy Saikia, 'Breeding for Survival in a Globalized World'
Banksia Room, 9.00 - 9.45 am
Special Seminar: Catharina Williams, 'Three Women in a Boat:: Globalisation, Migration and Social Exclusion', Banksia Room, 10.00 - 10.45 am
Special Seminar: Peggy James, 'Spaces of Environmental Inequality in Post-war Australian Cities', Banksia Room, 11.00 - 11.45 am -
Monday 29 August
Special Seminar: Adam Simpson, 'Energy and Environmental Security in Thailand and Burma'
Room 223 SSN, 1.30 - 2.15 pm -
Tuesday 23 August
Seminar: Syed Sohel, Postgraduate Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Automatic classification of land cover features with high resolution imagery and lidar data: an object-oriented approach'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm. -
Friday 19 August
Congratulations to Shah Nawaz on his recent publication: 'Microcredit as a Tool for Poverty Reduction and Empowerment of Women', South Australian Geographer, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 42-47. -
Tuesday 16 August
Seminar: Dr Gouranga Dasvarma, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Population and Environmental Issues of South Asia'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm. -
Tuesday 9 August
Seminar: Professor Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Mitsi and me: the impacts of the closure of Mitsubishi's Lonsdale factory'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm. -
Monday 25 July
Hearty congratulations to Meryl Pearce who has recently been promoted to Level C, Senior Lecturer and to Cecile Cutler who was recently promoted to Level B, Lecturer -
Friday 22 July
Congratulations to Neville Crossman on being awarded first place winner of the South Australian Spatial Awards for 2004 - "Tertiary Award Category B". This is awarded to the best work for South Australian students completing spatially oriented research work at the masters and doctoral levels.
Congratulations to Steve Fildes on being awarded second place winner of the South Australian Spatial Awards for 2004 - "Tertiary Award Category B". Whilst in the original announcement of this competition, there was no second prize, the judges thought that Steve's work was of a very high standard and therefore varied the rules to award a second prize.
Neville and Steve will be presented with their prizes at the Spatial Information Day to be held on 27 July in the Adelaide Town Hall. -
Thursday 21 July
In June, Professor Iain Hay won the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Iain has won this award on two previous occasions (1995 and 2000). -
Tuesday 5 July
Seminar: Lesley McMahon, Research & Teaching Fellow, School of Town and Regional Planning, University on Dundee, 'Roofless Roulette: A Scottish Perspective'. -
Friday 1 July
Professor Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Research in Critical Discourse Analysis. - Tuesday 21 June
Congratulations to Sarangoo Radnaaragchaa (2004 Les Heathcote Award joint recipient) who is now employed as a National Project Manager for a community based biodiversity conservation project in Mongolia.
Seminar: Dr Jane Gillooly, Environmental Sensing Prediction and Reporting, CSIRO Land and Water and Adjunct Lecturer with the School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Inclusion of Climate Change Scenarios in Water Resources Modelling: A Pilot Study in the Onkaparinga Catchment'. - Monday 20 June
University Open Days: Friday 12 August and Sunday 14 August 2005. - Tuesday 14 June
Seminar: Steve Fildes, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Landscape Composition Mapping Using Hyperspectral Imagery'. - Tuesday 7 June
Seminar: Associate Professor Clive Forster, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Containment, Consolidation and Centres? Planning Strategy for Australian Cities in the 21st Century'. -
Tuesday 24 May
Seminar: Shah Nawaz, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'The Impact of Microfinance on Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh'. -
Tuesday 17 May
Seminar: Kristine Peters, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Small business and the environment: Where is the motivation?'. -
Tuesday 10 May
Seminar: Eleanor Button, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, PhD proposal. - Wednesday 3 May
A presentation evening was held to congratulate students on their awards for 2004. View photos taken on the evening.
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Tuesday 2 May
Congratulations to the following staff who were successful during the first application round of 2005 for the Faculty Research Support, Establishment Grant and Visiting Research Fellow Schemes: Professor Iain Hay and Dr Paul Dare (adjunct staff member in the School).
In 2005, Brian Caton, an adjunct staff member in the School, will serve as a Member of the Coast Protection Board. -
Tuesday 2 May
Professor Iain Hay accepted an invitation from the Australian Academy of Sciences to chair its National Committee for Geography until 31 December 2006. -
Tuesday 26 April
The second edition of Iain Hay's book, Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography has been published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne. (ISBN 019555079X. Details at: http://www.oup.com.au/content/General.asp?ContentID=1063&MasterID=962) The book is a substantially amended and expanded version of the 1st edition, with nine new chapters. -
Tuesday 26 April
Honours Thesis Proposals: Honours students, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University. - Friday 22 April
The 2004 John Lewis Silver Medals and Prizes were awarded last night at a function held at the Brookman Building in the Botanical Gardens by the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia.
Kaoru Taniguchi
1st Year PrizeIome Christa
2nd Year PrizeLaszlo Katona
3rd Year Prize
Alaric Maude for
Bridget Kearins
Silver MedalNeville Crossman
Silver Medal
- Tuesday 12 April
In mid-April Associate Professor Susanne Schech is going to Indonesia for 6 weeks to participate in the 3rd phase of the Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Project. - Monday 11 April
- Dr Meryl Pearce and Dr Eileen Willis were granted $18,500 from the Department for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation for their new study - 'Water service delivery and State and Commonwealth water reform objectives - a response from Aboriginal communities in South Australia'.
- Monday 4 April
The 2004 Les Heathcote Prize for Environmental Management winners are Phoebe Grow jointly with Radnaaragchaa Sarangoo
The 2004 Murray McCaskill Medal was not awarded
The 2004 ESRI GIS Award winner is Chi-Pong Wong.
The 2004 John Lewis Prize winners are as follows:
First Year: Kaoru Taniguchi
Second Year: Iome Christa
Third Year: Laszlo Katona
Silver Medalists: Dr Bridget Kearins and Dr Neville Crossman
A presentation evening will be held on 4th May - Monday 4 April
Dr Holli Thomas joined the School as a Post Doctoral Fellow working on the HSRIP and ARC Linkage Funded project: Health, Housing and Labour Market Impacts of an Automobile Plant Closure. Dr Thomas also received funding from Flinders' Early Career Researcher Establishment Grant scheme for comparative research examining the closure of the Rover plant in Longbridge, Birmingham and Mitsubishi's Lonsdale plant in Adelaide. - Tuesday 29 March
Seminar: Mark Lethbridge, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'A career in modelling'. - Monday 28 March
Congratulations to Emma Baker and Anton van den Hengel on the birth of their baby boy Luc. - Tuesday 22 March
Seminar: David Bunce, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Manufactured Home Village Communities: Are they a viable alternative housing choice for the retiree?'. - Tuesday 15 March
Dr Jane Gillooly, adjunct lecturer in the School, and Dr John Hutson, Flinders University Research Centre for Coastal and Catchment Environments, gave a presentation on Climate Change Modelling at Cornell University, New York State. - Tuesday 15 March
Seminar: Noel Richards, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Prescribed burning on public conservation lands in peri-urban temperate Australia: Where does biodiversity fit?'. - Friday 4 March
Sirixai Phantavongs, a past Master of Environmental Management student, has recently been appointed as Programme Analyst, Environment with the United Nations Development Programme in Laos.
- Tuesday 15 February
Our first group of final year students in the Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems gave presentations on their applied projects to an audience of lecturers, fellow students and industry representatives. Congratulations to Nicky Mahoney, Natasha Bevan, Sharon Connor, Les Katona and Peter Mackenzie, and to program director Mark Lethbridge and other staff involved.
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- Thursday 10 February
Seminar: Professor Chris Paris, University of Ulster, will speak on 'The immigration turnaround in Ireland and housing markets' in Room 104 SSN at 11.15 am. - Monday 7 February
Welcome to Dr Simon Benger. Simon will teach Geographical Information Systems (GIS) topics as a Level B Lecturer. Simon taught Spatial Information Systems at the University of Canberra.
Welcome to Dr Eric Compas. Eric joins the School from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has a three-year contract to teach GIS. - Monday 10 January
At graduation in December Ms Bridget Kearins, Mr Neville Crossman and Mr Bruce Visser received their PhD awards. Bridget's thesis title is 'Exporting locally' which examined the use of regionally based strategies to encourage small and medium sized companies to export. She is living in Indonesia at present. Neville's thesis title is 'Predictive modelling of weed spread: applying cellular automata to the spatial and temporal movement of the invasive European Olive (Olea europaea L.)'. Bruce's thesis title is 'From Braai to Barbeque: South African settlement in Australia'. He is employed in the SA Department of Transport and Urban Planning.
2004
- Thursday 16 December
10 - 11am, Rm 223 Social Sciences Nth
SPECIAL SEMINAR:
Eric Compas, Geography Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 'Subdivide and save? Environmentalists, private-land planning, and landscape patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. 10.00 - 11.00 am, Room 223 Social Sciences North. - Tuesday 7 December
Seminar: Dr Amy Griffin, School of Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, ADFA, 'How experts interact with geospatial data: Relationships between expert-user characteristics, geovisualization tool use and hypothesis generation', Room 102 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm.
Abstract
With the development and widespread adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the 1980’s and 1990’s, scientists from a wide variety of knowledge domains (e.g., ecology, geology, climatology, public health, business logistics, etc.) now routinely collect, store, analyze and visualize geographical data. Many geographic data users construct models to analyze a variety of problems and scenarios. Understanding how different groups of users can most effectively interact with these models through different forms of visual display (e.g., maps, scatterplots and time-series graphics) can play a role in helping researchers solve substantive problems in their areas of expertise. By considering both user characteristics (e.g., the different training and research perspectives that users who have different areas of scientific expertise bring to the task of using a geographical simulation model) and the processes and outcomes of their simulation model use (i.e., their selection and use of particular tools and the impacts of that use on their thinking about the problem), we can better support the design of tools that are effective for, or are adaptable to several user types. Knowledge of how different groups use tools in geographical models also supports the development of training materials that help groups of users take advantage of geographical visualization methods that they have not commonly employed. - Tuesday 30 November
The following article appeared in The City Messenger on 25 November 2004: "Monumental Mistake" referring to a paper published last month by Professor Iain Hay with Andrew Hughes and Mark Tutton. - Tuesday 23 November
School's Planning Day. - Monday 22 November
Dr Meryl Pearce recently returned from the 30th Water, Engineering and Development Centre International Conference on People-centred approaches to Water and Environmental Sanitation held from 25-29 October in Vientiane, Lao. Meryl presented a paper entitled, 'Aboriginal perceptions of incompatibility of location, lifestyle and water resources' authored by Meryl Pearce, Eileen Willis and Tom Jenkin. While in Vientane, Meryl caught up with recent Flinders University graduates who live in Vientiane - Sirixai Phanthavongs and Khamlar Phonsavat (see photograph). Sirixai completed a Master of Environmental Management degree in 2003 and Khamlar completed a Bachelor of Environmental Management degree in 2003. Both graduates hold responsible positions in companies with an environmental focus, and are held in high regard.
- Tuesday 16 November
Seminar: Gavin Malone, PhD candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, ‘Towards an Ecological Identity: the Nexus between Australian Identities, Ecologies and Sustainability’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Monday 15 November
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Beer on receiving a NH&NRC grant of $500,000 over 5 years. - Friday 12 November
Special Seminars:
09.15 - 10.00 Dr Awais Piracha from the University of Western Sydney, "Natural Resources and Environmental Management: The Experience from Asia"
10.15 - 11.00 Dr Salim Momtaz from the University of Newcastle, "Development, Environment and People: Can the Programs of Non-governmental Organisations Promote Sustainable Development in Rural Bangladesh"
11.15 - 12.00 Dr Jiaping Wu from the University of South Australia, "Global Integration and Urban Sustainable Development: A case study of the peri-urban area of Shanghai"
All seminars will be held in Room 223 SSN. - Tuesday 9 November
A photo of staff and friends taken at Les Heathcote's 70th Birthday morning tea.
- Monday 8 November
Mr Chris Watson, from Birmingham, is visiting the School for a period of 5 weeks. - Tuesday 2 November
Seminar: Robert Keane, Spatial Information Technologist, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Introducing Corporate GIS at Flinders’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Monday 1 November
Professor Iain Hay was recently accepted as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He has also accepted an invitation from Kluwer Academic Publishers to join the Editorial Board of their new Online Geography Handbook series. - Tuesday 26 October
Seminar: Dr Jenny Muir, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Urban Institute of Ireland & Visiting Fellow, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, ‘Tenant Participation in Northern Ireland’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Tuesday 19 October
Seminar: Professor Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, ‘Regional Cities at the 2001 Census’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Tuesday 12 October
Congratulations to Professor Iain Hay on the publication of his book "Communicating in the Health and Social Sciences". - Tuesday 12 October
Seminar: Ali Said, Postgraduate Student, School of Geographical & Environmental Studies, Adelaide University 'The Implementation of Regional Autonomy and the Challenge of Rapid Poverty Reduction in Indonesia', Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm.Tuesday 30 November
The following article appeared in The City Messenger on 25 November 2004: "Monumental Mistake" referring to a paper published last month by Professor Iain Hay with Andrew Hughes and Mark Tutton. - Tuesday 23 November
School's Planning Day. - Monday 22 November
Dr Meryl Pearce recently returned from the 30th Water, Engineering and Development Centre International Conference on People-centred approaches to Water and Environmental Sanitation held from 25-29 October in Vientiane, Lao. Meryl presented a paper entitled, 'Aboriginal perceptions of incompatibility of location, lifestyle and water resources' authored by Meryl Pearce, Eileen Willis and Tom Jenkin. While in Vientane, Meryl caught up with recent Flinders University graduates who live in Vientiane - Sirixai Phanthavongs and Khamlar Phonsavat (see photograph). Sirixai completed a Master of Environmental Management degree in 2003 and Khamlar completed a Bachelor of Environmental Management degree in 2003. Both graduates hold responsible positions in companies with an environmental focus, and are held in high regard.
- Tuesday 16 November
Seminar: Gavin Malone, PhD candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, ‘Towards an Ecological Identity: the Nexus between Australian Identities, Ecologies and Sustainability’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Monday 15 November
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Beer on receiving a NH&NRC grant of $500,000 over 5 years. - Friday 12 November
Special Seminars:
09.15 - 10.00 Dr Awais Piracha from the University of Western Sydney, "Natural Resources and Environmental Management: The Experience from Asia"
10.15 - 11.00 Dr Salim Momtaz from the University of Newcastle, "Development, Environment and People: Can the Programs of Non-governmental Organisations Promote Sustainable Development in Rural Bangladesh"
11.15 - 12.00 Dr Jiaping Wu from the University of South Australia, "Global Integration and Urban Sustainable Development: A case study of the peri-urban area of Shanghai"
All seminars will be held in Room 223 SSN. - Tuesday 9 November
A photo of staff and friends taken at Les Heathcote's 70th Birthday morning tea.
- Monday 8 November
Mr Chris Watson, from Birmingham, is visiting the School for a period of 5 weeks. - Tuesday 2 November
Seminar: Robert Keane, Spatial Information Technologist, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Introducing Corporate GIS at Flinders’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm - Monday 1 November
Professor Iain Hay was recently accepted as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He has also accepted an invitation from Kluwer Academic Publishers to join the Editorial Board of their new Online Geography Handbook series. - Tuesday 26 October
Seminar: Dr Jenny Muir, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Urban Institute of Ireland & Visiting Fellow, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, ‘Tenant Participation in Northern Ireland’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Tuesday 19 October
Seminar: Professor Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, ‘Regional Cities at the 2001 Census’, Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Tuesday 12 October
Congratulations to Professor Iain Hay on the publication of his book "Communicating in the Health and Social Sciences". - Tuesday 12 October
Seminar: Ali Said, Postgraduate Student, School of Geographical & Environmental Studies, Adelaide University 'The Implementation of Regional Autonomy and the Challenge of Rapid Poverty Reduction in Indonesia', Room 104 Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 pm. - Wednesday 22 September
Congratulations to Steve Fildes on his outstanding academic results from his Masters program. - Tuesday 7 September
Gavin Malone (one of our PhD students) has art on exhibition in Rosetta's until this Friday. You may be interested in having a look-see. This is one of 6 exhibitions in which he is involved in SA at the moment. - Tuesday 31 August
Congratulations to Udoy Saikia on being awarded his Population & Human Resources PhD after four and a half years. Well done. - Wednesday 25 August
Professor Andrew Beer has been included as a designated member of one of the 24 successful ARC Research Networks, "The ARC Research Network: Spatially Integrated Social Sciences". - Tuesday 3 August
The School's Seminar Program for Semester 2 commenced today with a seminar by David Langdon, postgraduate student in the School. Click here to view the School's Semester 2 Program. - Friday 30 July
Congratulations to Iain Hay on his recent promotion to Level E Professor and also to Andrew Beer on his promotion to Level D+ Professor, wef. 1 July 2004. Well done Iain and Andrew, very well deserved. - Tuesday 27 July
Iain Hay received the 2004 Royal Geographical Society of South Australia's G.W. Symes Bequest. Iain has also recently completed the requirements of a Master of Educational Management degree. - Friday 16 July
Congratulations to Susanne Schech on her recent promotion to Level D (Associate Professor) wef 1 July 2004! Well done Susanne and very well deserved! - Friday 2 July
Andrew Beer has been invited onto the Southern Suburbs Industry Development Group's Sub-Committee of the Mitsubishi Taskforce. The Taskforce is responsible for implementing the $55m adjustment package associated with the closure of the Lonsdale casting plant of Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd. On behalf of the Southern Research Centre of AHURI, Andrew has been awarded a grant for a project on Building Social Capital? Urban regeneration: development and a trial of an evaluation. - Friday 2 July
Alaric Maude has been awarded a grant by the West Torrens City Council for research on the Multi Lateral/Intergovernmental Community Capacity Building Initiative. - Friday 18 June
The Advertiser: Mark Lethbridge's work as a consultant on the Department of Environment and Heritage's Bounceback program to help the yellow-footed rock wallaby. - Monday 24 May
Click here to view some photos taken on a trip to Mt Gambier to visit groundwater fed swamps. - Thursday 22 May
Congratulations to Dr Beverley Clarke who was successful in obtaining an Establishment Grant in the recent URB round. - Tuesday 18 May
The School's presentation of awards evening was held on Wednesday 12th May. Click here to view some photos taken on the night. - Tuesday 4 May
The 2004 Annual Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers was held at the Stamford Grand, Glenelg in April. The conference, jointly organised by our School and the School of Geographical and Environmental Studies at Adelaide University, attracted 150 delegates, some from as far afield as Israel, the UK and Jamaica. Our staff and postgrad students made a major contribution to the conference by presenting eight papers, chairing six sessions and running two local field excursions. Eight papers were presented and five sessions were chaired by ex-students of the School who now hold academic positions elsewhere. - Tuesday 4 May
Flinders Open Day dates this year are:
Friday 13 August 12 noon until 5 pm
Sunday 15 August 10 am until 4 pm - Monday 3 May
Amy Beal, a final year Environmental Management student, was recently presented the Golden Circle Environment Award at the 2004 Young Achiever Awards which were held early in April. - Monday 5 April
Congratulations to Dr Meryl Pearce for her Silver Medal in breaststroke at the recent National Masters Swimming Meeting held here in Adelaide. - Monday 1 March
The School held a retirement party for Assoc. Prof. Alaric Maude recently. Click here to view some photos taken on the evening. - Monday 16 February
The School welcomes Emma Baker to the staff as an 0.5 Lecturer. Emma will be teaching in the topic GEOG3013 Geographical Information Systems in first semester. - Monday 16 February
The 2003 Murray McCaskill Medal and The Les Heathcote Award for Environmental Management winner is Jacqueline Watts.
The 2003 ESRI GIS Award winner is Brendan Phasey.
The 2003 John Lewis Prize winners are as follows:
First Year: Mr Edoardo Rosso
Second Year: Mr John McArthur
Third Year: Mr Mark Tutton
John Lewis Silver Medal: Ms Michiyo Yoshida
A presentation evening will be held on 12th May - Tuesday 6 January
Dr Paul Dare, Senior Research Scientist with Airborne Research Australia, has been awarded Full Academic Status as Senior Lecturer in the School for 3 years, commenced 21 December 2003.
2003
- Monday 22 December
Dr Bev Clarke, Professor Iain Hay and Dr Susanne Schech each received funding (totalling $5,461) through the Faculty Research Support Program to help complete separate publication projects. - Wednesday 3 December
Amy Beal, who is studying Environmental Management at Flinders University, has been recognised for her contribution towards helping the environment.
The active young environmentalist was one of four finalists in the SA category of the Young Australian of the Year Awards last month and is a member of the SA Youth Environment Council for people aged 10-18. Her latest project involves organising a conference for more than 200 SA primary school students to educate them about the plight of the Murray River.
Source: Hills & Valley Messenger, 3 December, p 5. - Monday 1 December
The School hosted an end-of-year BBQ held in the Social Sciences North Courtyard. The BBQ was held for all the Population, Development Studies and Master of Environmental Management students of the School. Click here to view some photos taken on the day. - Friday 21 November
Neville Crossman, PhD candidate, SGPEM, visited Florida and California, USA. Neville delivered a paper at the '7th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions', November 3-7, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. His paper was titled 'Predictive habitat models, GIS, and weed risk assessment: threat analysis of Olea europaea in South Australia'. He also chaired a session entitled 'Predicting Invasion'. Over 700 delegates from all continents attended this conference. Between 75-100 attended his sessions.
Neville then presented papers to two seperate invasion biology research groups in California. One was at UCDavis, the other at the Albany/Berkeley offices of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). His paper for both was titled 'Predictive habitat modelling and invasive plant spread: feral olives (Olea europaea) in southern Australia'. His time at UCDavis and the USDA was also spent meeting several leading researchers in the field of plant invasions to explore the potential for collaborative research. - Monday 17 November
Andrew Beer is attending the National Population Summit at Parliament House,
Adelaide, on Friday 21 November.Andrew Beer was a keynote speaker at the Institute of Australian
Geographer's Joint Meeting of the Rural Geography Study Group and the
Economic Geography Study Group. The meeting focussed on neoliberalism
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Monday 17 November
Gour Dasvarma participated in a symposium and workshop in Canberra in June this year organised by the Development Studies Network, The Australian National University. He presented a paper at the symposium, titled: "Population change, development and poverty reduction in Cambodia", which has subsequently been published in Development Bulletin, Development Studies Network, Canberra, August 2003, 62: 74-80. - Tuesday 11 November
One of our post-graduate students - Janet Candy - won the 2003 South Australian Young Planner of the Year award at the Planning Institute of Australia's Awards for Excellence on Friday night. The award was in recognition of work she did for the City of Salisbury in the second half of 2002. The award was written up briefly in The Advertiser on Saturday 8th November. - Tuesday 11 November
Seminar to be held in Room 242 Social Sciences North
Ms Tiffany Morrison, Visiting Research Fellow
Pursuing Collective Interests in Complex Environments: Regional Institutional Integration for Rural Sustainability in the Wet Tropics (Australia) and Northeast Wisconsin (USA) - Tuesday 4 November
Dr Gursewak Aulakh, Senior Lecturer in Land Use and Resource Management at the University of Plymouth, visited the School today to discuss mutual research interests and activities. - Tuesday 28 October
Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Andrew Beer on being appointed as an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster until 2006.
Seminar to be held in Room 242 Social Sciences North
Associate Professor Andrew Beer
Developing Models of Good Practice in Meeting the Needs of Homeless Young People in Rural Areas. - Tuesday 21 October
Seminar to be held in Room 242 Social Sciences North
Dr Terry Clower, Visiting Research Fellow
Local Economic Development in the US - What Works and What Doesn’t? - Tuesday 14 October
Seminar to be held in Room 242 Social Sciences North
Mr David Langdon, MA Research Scholar
Sustainable Eco-cultural Tourism in West Java, Indonesia - Friday 26 September
Dr Dany Breelle has been awarded Adjunct Academic Status as Lecturer (Academic Level B) in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, at this University. This status is awarded immediately for a period of three years ending 18 September 2006. - Monday 22 September
Iain Hay has had his term as Chair of the Australian heads of geography programs committee extended until July 2004. - Tuesday 9 September
Elen Shute (McCaskill Medal recipient for 2002) has written an article "Bringing Back the Ground Parrot" published in Eco Research, August/September 2003. - Tuesday 2 September
Iain Hay has recently accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Advisory Board of International Gambling Studies.
Tom McFarlane (now doing postgraduate research in the School of Politics and International Studies) and Iain Hay had a paper entitled 'The Battle for Seattle: protest and popular geopolitics in The Australian newspaper' published in Political Geography. (2003, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 211-232). doi:10.1016/S0962-6298(02)00090-2. This paper is part of the ongoing work of the Spaces of Oppression Research Group.
Dr Gour Dasvarma had a paper entitled 'Population Change in Cambodia and Issues for Development and Poverty Reduction' published in the Development Bulletin, No. 62, August 2003.
- Tuesday 26 August
Seminar to be held in Room 242 SSN from 11.15 - 12.30 pm
Charlotte Morgan, Revealing patterns of Campylobacter infection in South Australia.
- Tuesday 19 August
Seminar to be held in Room 104 SSN from 11.15 - 12.30 pm
Dr Farah Adeeb, Environmental Protection Agency, Adelaide.
Meteorological and land use influences on ozone formation in Auckland,
New Zealand.
- Friday 15 August
Conference: Placing Race and Localising Whiteness to be held in Adelaide from
1-3 October 2003, organised by the Research Aggregation for Cross-Cultural Studies and Practice, Flinders University.
- Friday 1 August
Iain Hay, together with Mark Israel from the Flinders University School of Law, has been contracted by Sage Publishers (UK) to write a book tentatively entitled Research Ethics for Social Scientists.
- Monday 21 July
Click here to view the Semester 2 Seminar Program.
- Tuesday 1 July
Congratulations to Susanne Schech who has been appointed to a continuing post (Level C) in the School.
- Tuesday 20 May
Congratulations to the following students on their awards which were presented recently at a function held in the Function Centre:
Elen Shute - 2002 McCaskill Medal Recipient
Megan Harper - 2002 Les Heathcote Award
Brett Wilkinson - 2002 ESRI (GIS) Prize
Robert Gregory - 3rd Year John Lewis Prize
Alan McLennan - 2nd Year John Lewis Prize
Cheryl Lambert - 1st Year John Lewis Prize
Click here to view photos taken on the evening.
- Monday 5 May
Congratulations to Michiyo Yoshida on being awarded the Doctor of Philosophy, effective 15 April 2003. Michiyo's thesis title is: "The influence of public policies on the socio-economic adaption of Vietnamese refugee women in Japan and Australia".
- Monday 28 April
A book written by Andrew Beer, Alaric Maude and Bill Pritchard entitled Developing Australia's Regions: Theory and Practice has been completed and published by UNSW Press.
This book recognises that regions matter - what takes place in our diverse regions fundamentally determines the nation's quality of life. It delves behind the headlines and speeches and considers the true state of Australia's metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions, and what can be done to improve their economic, social and environmental wellbeing. This practical book draws upon regional development theory, and national and international experience, to set out the principles and strategies that can be used to establish a stronger future for our regions.
- Tuesday 22 April
Congratulations to Noel Richards who has won a University Medal on the basis of his undergraduate and Honours year results. This is a fine achievement. Well done Noel.
- Friday 11 April
The School is pleased to advise that Donna Ferretti - who has been working part time on her PhD with Clive Forster and Iain Hay since 1993 whilst lecturing at UniSA - has been awarded her PhD. Donna's thesis is entitled: From rational planning to risky business: notions of ecological sustainability in planning discourse.
- Monday 7 April
Congratulations to Charlotte Morgan on the recent South Australian Croquet win.
- Tuesday 1 April
Congratulations to Meryl Pearce whose post has recently been converted to a continuing position.
2002
- Tuesday 3 December 2002
Congratulations to Clive Forster on being promoted to Associate Professor, to David Bass on his promotion to Level C Senior Lecturer and to Meryl Pearce for having her post converted to continuing.
Congratulations are also extended to Neville Crossman, PhD Candidate for his recent award at the AURISA conference last week. He won the prestigeous Gerald McCalden Award 2002 - 'Recognising and promoting innovative research in the field of Urban and Regional Information Systems excellence in the field of Spatial Information'.It was awarded for the best paper in the conference proceedings (which included approx 60 papers in total, from all sectors of the Spatial industry, most states of Australia, and several overseas submissions).
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Tuesday 3 December 2002
Sally Vidler, Graduate of Environmental Management has recently been appointed to the Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management and is the Editor of Weed Watch.
- Friday 29 November 2002
The School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management is pleased to advise postgraduate students of a new Conference Travel Grant Scheme. Research Student Conference Travel Grants have been established to subsidise the attendance of research higher degree candidates at conferences (or relevant workshops) in order to present a paper or poster which will result in a significant improvement to the quality of the thesis. Full details of the scheme, plus the application form are available on the School's web site at: http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/geog/policiesandprocs/
- Monday 11 November 2002
Click here to view a photo taken recently at a Master in Environmental Management afternoon tea.
- Tuesday 4 November 2002
Following are the summary aims of an NHMRC grant won by Fran Baum, Christine Putland and Andrew Beer on the socio-economic determinants of health:This research will explore factors that contribute to differing health outcomes within Australian urban populations. It aims to identify the compositional factors (relating to the types of people living in a location) and contextual factors (relating to the location itself) that affect health. It further aims to explore how these factors contribute to health inequities, and to contribute to policy development addressing these inequities. There are five associated objectives: 1. To consider the impact of compositional factors on health including socio-economic status (SES), race/ethnicity, age, gender, housing tenure; and individual social capital; 2. To consider the impact of contextual factors on health including characteristics of the physical environment of a geographic area or “location”. This includes the availability of services and amenities as well as social capital promoting features of areas; 3. To consider interactions between the effects of compositional and contextual factors on health; 4. To compare residents’ perception of the influences on their health status; 5. To determine the policy and practice implications of the research findings in conjunction with relevant human service agencies. Associate Professor Andrew Beer Director Southern Research Centre, AHURI and, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management Flinders University, Adelaide, GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE SA 5001
(phone) 61 8 8201 3522, (fax) 61 8 8201 3521, mobile 0409 696 485
- Friday 25 October 2002
The School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management farewelled Dr Ross Steele, who has taken a position with Planning SA, at a function held at the home of Alaric Maude. Click here to view photos taken on the evening.
- Wednesday 23 October 2002
If you are interested (however vaguely) in taking an honours degree in Geography, Environmental Studies or Environmental Management in 2003, you are cordially invited to a meeting at 1.00pm in Room 213 Social Sciences North to discuss the programmes and answer any questions you have. If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to know more about the honours programmes, contact:
Clive Forster
Room 322 Social Sciences North
Phone (08) 8201 2308; email clive.forster@flinders.edu.au
- Tuesday 20 August 2002
The second edition of Iain Hay (Geography) , Dianne Bochner (English) and Carol Dungey's (now UniSA Library) Making the Grade: A guide to successful communication and study has been recently released by Oxford University Press. This book was originally commissioned by the Flinders University BA Board of Studies as a reference volume to be used by Flinders students. It was then 'picked up' by OUP and is now popular with large markets in Australia and New Zealand. The revised second edition (with a silver-blue cover) includes new material on, for example, passing online exams, group work, and referencing electronic resources. The book has chapters on a wide range of topics including writing research reports; preparing annotated bibliographies, summaries and reviews; public speaking; and communicating effectively with figures, tables and maps.
- Tuesday 30 July 2002
Professor Graeme Hugo - whose MA is from Flinders and who taught in the School until 1991 - has been awarded a $1.12M Federation fellowship. The five year fellowships are designed to attract and retain top researchers to lead world-class research that benefits Australia economically, environmentally and socially. Professor Hugo (now at Adelaide University) plans to spend the next five years on research he hopes will help Australians decide if high immigration rates are culturally unsustainable and culturally damaging or essential for long-term prosperity.
- Friday 31 May 2002
Oxford University Press have just released the 2nd edition of Iain Hay's book "Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences". This extensively revisd edition includes new material on writing media releases and revisions that reflect changed technology. For instance, the chapter on citing sources has been revised substantially to offer guidance on dealing with electronic resources and there is also new material on passing online exams.
- Tuesday 28 May 2002
AHURI Southern Research Centre will present a seminar on "Social Inclusion and Housing: Developing Research and Policy Agendas" on Thursday 20 June, 9 am - 1 pm, Function Room 2, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Presentations by:
Dr Keith Jacobs, Housing and Community Research Unit, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
John Spoehr, Centre for Labour Research, Adelaide University
Associate Professor Alaric Maude, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University
Kathy Arthurson, University of South Australia
Cost $50 (includes morning tea)
RSVP Friday 14 June, debbie.faulkner@flinders.edu.au
- Tuesday 28 May 2002
The following postgraduate students will give their IAG Conference Presentations on Tuesday 18th June in
Room 104 Social Sciences North:
Dany Breelle, "The Shaping of Vietnam by French Geographers".
Susanne Wood, "Water Allocation in South Australia: The Growers' Perspective".
Susan Lawrie, "Confronting Asparagus Weeds in South Australia: Research and Management".
Tom Jenkin, "Cultural Tourism as Coalescence: Melding Land, Culture, Politics and Stories in the Desert".
Bridget Kearins, "Export Assistance in North West Adelaide".
- Monday 15 April 2002
Congratulations to the following students on their awards which were presented at a function held on Thursday 11 April:
Veronika Thiel - 2001 McCaskill Medal Recipient
Jayne Randall jointly with Jacqui Symonds - 2001 Les Heathcote Award
Graham Green jointly with Philipp Oswald - 2001 ESRI (GIS) Prize
Jillian Pearson - 3rd Year John Lewis Prize
Tracey Seaton - 2nd Year John Lewis Prize
Alan McLennan jointly with Vicki Irvine - 1st Year John Lewis Prize
- Monday 18 February 2002
An introductory meeting for all students enrolled in Geography, Environmental Studies or Environmental Management Honours in 2002 will be held on Thursday 28th February at 4.30 pm in Room 213 South Sciences North.
- Monday 14 January 2002
John McArthur, a student in the Bachelor of Environmental Management program, was named South Australia's Young Local Government Manager of the Year in December 2001. John works as Unley Council's Tree Maintenance and Street Beautification Team Manager. According to the Unley Life, John was recognised "for his outstanding capacity to lead a diverse group of people towards the goal of improving the amenity of the City of Unley, for developing computer programs to collect data on Unley's street trees and park safety checks, and for his many hours of volunteer work". John also maintains a very high GPA in the BEnvMgmt program.
2001
- Wednesday 5 December 2001
Three special GIS seminars entitled "Recent Applications of GIS (Geographical Information Systems)" will be held in Room 223 Social Sciences North from 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm
- Tuesday 27 November 2001
Susan Lee (Honours student in the School) will give a seminar entitled "Wastewater reuse in Mount Barker" in Room 104 SSN at 11.15 am.
- Wednesday 21 November 2001
The Advertiser, Wednesday, November 21, 2001
John Moriarty with the Qantas Nalanji Dreaming passenger jet decorated by his design company.
Aboriginal artist, businessman, Australian representative soccer player and the first Aborigine to graduate from a SA university, John Moriarty was presented with the Flinders University Convocation Medal for outstanding achievement by a graduate. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in geography and politics, in the 1960s as a mature-age student.
- Tuesday 16 October 2001
David Bass, Neville Crossman and the City of Mitcham have been successful in obtaining a grant of $11,000 from the Native Vegetation Council entitled: "Mapping Environmental Weeds on the Western Slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges". Congratulations.
- Monday 15 October 2001
Iain Hay is a finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching (http://www.autc.gov.au/aw/aw.htm). The awards were established in 1997 by the Commonwealth Government to celebrate and reward excellence in university teaching. The presentation ceremony will be held at Parliament House in Canberra on 4 December. Iain was also a finalist in this award in 2000.
- Monday 1 October 2001
A New Position for a Lecturer (Academic Level B) Geographical Information Systems has just been advertised.
Applications are invited for a full-time Lecturer position (equivalent to an Assistant Professor in the USA) which will be offered on a continuing basis, commencing 1 January 2002. The appointee will be responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision in Geographical Information Systems within the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management.You can find full details of the position along with the selection criteria.
- Friday 28 September 2001
Linkage Project (previously SPIRT) - Assoc. Prof. Donald Pate, Dr W H Adams, Dr K Walshe, Dr L Leader-Elliott,
Dr PA Smith and Dr David Bass, "The Adelaide
Hills Face Zone: Reconstructing the cultural landscape and the identification
of sites of cultural significance" $187,118 over three years, including an
Australian Postdoctoral Industry Award for Dr Smith. Industry partners
include: Boral Resources, Planning SA and various local councils.
- Friday 28 September 2001
Udoy Saikia, PhD student int he School presented a paper entitled "Culture, Religion and Reproductive Behaviour in Two Indigenous Communities of Northern India: a discussion of some preliminary findings" at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) - General Conference. The conference was held in Salvador, Brazil from 18-24 August 2001. Visiting Research Fellow Professor Paul Matthews also attended the conference.
- Friday 7 September 2001
Dr Kevin Dunn from the School of Geography at the University of New South Wales gave a seminar in the School entitled "The Geographies of Racism".
- Thursday 6 September 2001
Associate Professor Lily Kong, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore gave a seminar in the School entitled "In search of permanent homes: Singapore's house churches and the politics of space".
- Monday 3 September 2001
The School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management is pleased to announce the commencement of a new degree from 2002 entitled 'Bachelor of Applied Geospatial and Information Technology'.
This new and exciting course has just received special Federal Government funding under the Backing Australia’s Ability program. It prepares students for a variety of careers involving the capture, synthesis, analysis and communication of spatially-referenced information. Opportunities to apply these skills are growing rapidly in fields as varied as urban and regional planning, infrastructure management, transportation, environmental science, biological sciences, biodiversity management and archaeology.The course provides a comprehensive training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), reinforced with skills in remote sensing, statistics and computing, plus the opportunity to study a major sequence in an applied area such as biology, earth sciences, archaeology, geography or environmental studies. This combination of a strong GIS training and an applied area of study is unique in South Australia, and prospective employers have hailed it as a major advantage over other GIS degrees.
Industry placement and applied project topics will build links between the geospatial and information technology core of the degree and the applied major sequence, while developing applied skills. Further opportunities to reinforce those links and skills, and to build up a portfolio demonstrating abilities to prospective employers, will be provided by the choice of assignments in other core topics in the second and third years of the degree.
- Tuesday 28 August 2001
Congratulations to Tom Jenkin on his recent monograph publication: "Place, Image and Environmental Conflict: World Heritage and the Lake Eyre Basin", South Australian Geographical Papers, No. 6, RGSSA (Inc.), 2001. An abstract is available.
'South Australian Geographical Papers' publishes monographs in both human and physical geography. Papers presenting original research findings dealing with South Australian topics, where appropriate in wider Australian context, will be preferred. The series aims primarily to publish contemporary geographic research of a high quality, but in a form accessible to as wide as possible a range of readers. The series is not a regular periodical, and publication intervals are dependent on supply of high quality manuscripts. Due to the need to be financially self-supporting, papers relating to applied geography on topics of public interest or importance will be particularly welcome, but this is not an essential criterion for publication.
- Monday 27 August 2001
Ms Eun-Kyung (Jade) Lee from Korea is our first recipient of the new Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management - our congratulations to her.
- Tuesday 14 August 2001
Professor Paul Matthews from the University of New Mexico is visiting the School for a year (until August 2002). He delivered a seminar today entitled "Geography and Law" as part of the School's Research Seminar Program. Professor Matthews' web site is at: http://www.unm.edu/~geog/MATTHEWS.htm
- Friday 15 June 2001
We are delighted to announce that Dr Li Wei who graduated with a PhD in our Graduate Program of Population and Human Resources in April this year had been awarded The Royal Geographical Society of South Australia's John Lewis Silver Medal for an outstanding PhD thesis for 2001. The silver medal is the highest award given by the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia for theses which are judged as excellent by the School of the University and by the Awards Committee of the Society.
Dr
Li Wei's PhD thesis was titled: 'Human Resources and Household Poverty: An
Empirical Study in Rural China' which examined the interrelationship between
the level of human resource development and the incidence of household poverty
in rural China. It was based a a large-scale national household survey conducted
in the poor areas of China and on a survey that he personally conducted in
400 households in Shibing County, a poor area of Guizhou province. The thesis
was supervised by Dr Ross Steele and Associate
Professor Alaric Maude of the Graduate Program in Population and Human
Resouces in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management.
- Friday 15 June 2001
The Graduate Program of Population and Human Resources in the School was host to DR Sridadi Suparto (Deputy for Training and Program Development) and Drs Sugihartatmo (Deputy Head of the Division for Overseas Training Programs) of the National Family Planning Coordinating Board of Indonesia during a three visit that they made to the University from 30 April to 2 June, 2001. The main purpose of their visit was to monitor at first hand the progress of eight of their students who are now in the final semester of their studies towards their MPHR degrees. The visitors attended research presentations from these students and also took the opportunity to discuss with senior staff of the GPPHR (Dr Ross Steele, Assoc. Prof. Alaric Maude, Professor Iain Hay and Dr Santosh Jatrana) future training opportunities available for their staff at Flinders University. DR Sridadi Suparto and Drs Sugihartatmo also met with Professor Dean Forbes (Pro-Vice-Chancellor International) and Ms Joanne Barker (International Office), Professor Bruce Guerin and FIPPM staff, Dr Colin MacDougall (Primary Health Care) and Ms Bonnie Cothren (IELI) to discuss future cooperation with Flinders University. The visitors also took the opportunity to have a working lunch with the Indonesian participants currently attending a Women's Empowerment short course organised by Dr Jane Haggis of the Development Studies Centre in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Friday 15 June 2001
Flinders University Environmental Weeds students spent four days in May mapping and removing Asparagus scandens (Climbing asparagus) from roadsides in the Victor Harbor region. First found on the Fleurieu in June 2000 it seems as though this plant is at the very early stages of invasion in South Australia. It is native to the Western Cape of South Africa and has naturalised in New Zealand, Victoria and New South Wales, northern Tasmania and Lord Howe Island. It grows in heathland, woodland, riparian vegetation as well as damp schlerophyll forest. A.scandens is a relatively slow growing plant which has seeds dispersed by birds. While considerable effort is directed at controlling Bridal creeper and Bridal veil, eradication may be an option only for A.scandens. The student group of five Honours and one Masters student was lead by David Bass. Twenty-two kilometres of roadside were searched in the Hancock, Back Valley, Inman Valley and Range Road areas. Two populations were found and four hundred and fifteen plants were dug up from roadsides. The largest individual mass had a root tuber mass 1.0 m x 0.5 m in size. The approximate value in time and labour amount to approximately $6000. Follow up treatment is planned for later this year and in May 2002.
- 5-7 June 2001
The Bachelor of Environmental Management degree was recently reviewed by a committee comprising:
Professor Roger McLean (ADFA)
Ms Jade Ballantine (City of Port Adelaide-Enfield)
Dr David Bass (Flinders)
Assoc. Professor Lesley Cooper (Flinders)
Dr John Hutson (Flinders)
Dr Andrew Lothian (Department of Environment & Heritage)
Dr Barbara Radcliffe (PPK)
The review was conducted as part of the University's regular five-yearly cycle for degree programs. The Committee's report is due in late July.
- Tuesday 5 June 2001
Ms Miho Homma arrived from Tsukuba University Graduate School as the first winner of a Mawson Lakes Fellowship Program to study at Flinders University. Ms Homma will be working for six months in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management with Professors Iain Hay and Dean Forbes. She is developing a PhD project on multicultural and assimilationist trends amongst Southeast Asian immigrants in Adelaide.
- Friday 4 May 2001
T/Shirt Sale. "Without Environmental Management We're Stuffed" T/Shirts now available for the low, low price of .... $15 each ...
Only extra large sizes left.
Available from Room 318 Social Sciences North. -
6 April 2001
Congratulations to the following students on their recent awards which were presented at a function on 5th April in the Banksia Room:
Samantha Muller - Inaugural winner of the Les Heathcote Award for Environmental Management
Rebecca Schultz - 2000 McCaskill Medal Recipient
Tracey Treloar - 2000 ESRI (GIS) Prize
Thomas McFarlane and Anne Brindley - 3rd Year John Lewis Prize
Noel Richards - 2nd Year John Lewis Prize
Katrina Beruldsen - 1st Year John Lewis Prize
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2 April 2001
The CDS now has a contract in association with SAGRIC to deliver training in gender mainstreaming to a group of Indonesian middle and senior government officers. This three-month program runs under the Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Project Phase II, and will begin 17 April 2001.The vice-president of the Vietnam Women's Union and editor-in-chief of the Union's publications, Mme Nguyen Phnong Thinh, visited the University in early March. She was accompanied by senior journalists: Mme Nguyen Thuey Diep and Ms Nguyen Thi Thuc Hanh. Their purpose here was to gather information about study opportunities and living conditions for Vietnamese students. The visitors were hosted by the CDS and the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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16 March 2001
Dr Paul Foley, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, Adelaide, has received funding from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) to lead a "Comparative Study of Housing Needs and Provisions for Recently-arrived in Australia". The three state study will investigate the experiences of refugees in the housing market and examine the housing needs and aspirations of different refugee groups. -
12 February 2001
Professor Iain Hay is member of a twelve person team led by Professor Ken Foote (Colorado) that has been granted US$800,000 by the US National Science Foundation to develop a "Geography Faculty Development Alliance - Workshops and Seminars to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Geography in Higher Education". -
29 January - 2 February 2001
Staff and students attended the 3rd joint New Zealand Geographical Society/Institute of Australian Geographers Conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. Flinders staff and students who presented papers were: Iain Hay, Tom Jenkin, Suzanne Lawrie, Thomas McFarlane, Udoy Saikia and Michiyo Yoshida. -
Tuesday 30 January 2001
Iain Hay and Lisel O'Dwyer ended their terms as joint-Secretaries of the Institute of Australian Geographers. Both have served as Secretaries since 1998. Iain was also Councillor over the period 1995-1998. -
Monday 1 January 2001
Mark Lethbridge has been appointed to a fixed-term Lecturer B post in the School.
Cheree Metcalfe will be working 3 days per week as Administrative Assistant in the office until the end of this year. -
Monday 1 January 2001
The staff have elected Professor Iain Hay to head the School for three years from 1 January 2001.
Andrew Beer has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to the University of Ulster. He will be away from the University for 2001.
2000
- Tuesday 12 December 2000
We wish all our students and friends a happy festive season, and we look forward to seeing you in 2001.
Contrary to popular belief, Flinders is open during the so-called holidays, as it is when staff undertake research and catch up on teaching and administrative matters. However, the university does close between Christmas Day and the first working day after the New Year. This year the School office will re-open on Tuesday 2nd of January.
Wednesday 29 November 2000
Book: Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography. Edited by Iain Hay. Oxford University Press, Melbourne. 2000. ISBN 0195507878. An abstract and list of contents are available.
Click picture for a larger view.
- Tuesday 28 November 2000
Professor Iain Hay was accepted by the Governor, Sir Eric Neal, as a Fellow of the South Australian Governor's Leadership Foundation at a function at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Tuesday 28 November 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Tom Jenkin (PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University)
"Reconciliation and Settler Spaces. From Colonisation to Co-existence? Transitions in Land Management in Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia".
- Friday 24 November 2000
Congratulations to Andrew Beer and Alaric Maude who have been promoted to Associate Professor with effect from 1 January 2001.
- Friday 24 November 2000
VCs Awards for Excellence in Teaching for 2000 were presented last Friday. In Social Sciences an individual award has been won by Professor Iain Hay.
- Monday 20 November 2000
Dr Alaric Maude's Head of School appointment comes to an end on 31 December 2000. The staff have elected Professor Iain Hay to head the School for three years from 1 January 2001.
- Tuesday 14 November 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Selina Tually (PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University)
"Trading for the Future: A Thesis Proposal"
Tuesday 31 October 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Neville Crossman (PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University)
"Invasiveness and Management of the European Olive (Olea europaea):
A Thesis Proposal"
- Monday 23 October 2000
Iain Hay is a finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching, one of three in the Social Sciences group. There are six disciplinary groups and three institutional groups, each with three finalists. He and Tanya win a free trip to Canberra. Congratulations.
- Tuesday 17 October 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Chris Paris (Visiting Fellow, University of Ulster)
"Ethno-religious Residential Segregation in N. Ireland"
(note: advance reading: Adair, Berry, McGreal, Murtagh and Paris 2000 "The local housing system in Craigavon, N. Ireland: ethno-religious residential segregation, socio-tenurial polarisation and sub-markets", Urban Studies, 37:7, pp. 1079-1092).
- Monday 16 October 2000
The Environmental Studies ENVS 2704 field trip to Burra photographs are available.
- Thursday 12 October 2000
SA Housing Forum 2000 to be held in the Pilgrim Hall, Flinders Street, Adelaide from 9.15 am - 12.30 pm.
- Tuesday 10 October 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Thomas McFarlane (Undergraduate Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University)
"The Battle for Seattle: discourse, the Australian and framing representations of the Seattle World Trade Organisation protests"
- Tuesday 3 October 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Mary Reiger (Research Associate, Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology, Adelaide University)
"Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and gene flow"
- Tuesday 12 September 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Honours Work-in-Progress Seminars
- Monday 11 September 2000
Home Truths : Property Ownership and Housing Wealth in Australia - has been completed and published. An introduction to the book, written by Blair Badcock and Andrew Beer and published by Melbourne University Press, can be found with a purchase order form.
- Tuesday 5 September 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Meroe Darke (Project Coordinator, Mannum to Wellington Local Action Planning Committee Inc) and
Dan Meldrum (GIS Analyst, Department of Transport and Urban Planning)
"Applying the Bachelor of Environmental Management in the Workforce"
- Tuesday 29 August 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Michelle Tuckey (PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Flinders University)
"When believing is seeing: The influence of expectations on eyewitness memory for crime"
- Tuesday 22 August 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Robert Keane (Research Consultant, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University)
"Delivering Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Over the Internet"
- Tuesday 15 August 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Udoy Saikia (Population & Human Resources Research Scholar)
"Reproductive Behaviour Among the Tribal Women in North-East India:
- Monday 14 August 2000
Congratulations to Bruce Visser on being granted a six-month scholarship for 2001.
- Tuesday 8 August 2000
Congratulations to Heather Paull on her new 3-year full-time position as Administrative Officer (International Programs).
- Friday 4 August 2000
Semester 2 Geography Research Seminar Program is now available.
- Friday 21 July 2000
Santosh Jatrana has joined the staff.
- Monday 3 July 2000
We have two major achievements to celebrate.
Andrew Beer has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to the University of Ulster.
Iain Hay has been promoted to Professor.
Congratulations to both on this recognition of their achievements.
- Tuesday 27 June 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Ms Michele Slatter and Dr Andrew Beer (Flinders University)
Legislature Reform and Change in South Australia’s Private Rental Market.
- Tuesday 21 June 2000
Dr Lisel O'Dwyer is currently working on a project with the Whyalla City Council on mosquito control. The story was published on the front page of the Whyalla News.
- Tuesday 13 June 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Dr Greg Hainge (Department of French, University of Adelaide) ‘No Sympathy for the Devil, or, Lobby Music; Spaces of Disjunction in Barton Fink, The Shining, and Muzak’.
- Friday 9 June 2000
Report on Outside Studies Program from Alaric Maude. The following places and institutions were visited:
Cardiff, Wales: Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales at Cardiff; Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales at Cardiff; Welsh Development Agency; Welsh Local Government Association.
Leeds, England: School of the Built Environment, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Morgantown, West Virginia: Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University; Department of Geoegraphy, West Virginia University.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Department of Geography, University of North Carolina; Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina; Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina; Regional Technology Strategies.
Tucson, Arizona: Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona; Local and regional development practitioners in Sierra Vista, Tucson, Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona.
Portland, Oregon: Oregon Progress Board; Department of Economic and Community Development.
A brief summary of each place visited.
- Wednesday 7 June 2000
Mr Abdi Rizal (Biro Pusat Statistik - Jakarta Office) recently successfully completed his Masters of Population and Human Resources degree and celebrated at a function joined with Ross Steele, Dean Forbes and Alaric Maude.
- Tuesday 6 June 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Mr Robert Keane (Flinders University) Social Applications of G I S.
Monday 5 June 2000
Chomsook Thiamklin, her mother and Dr Ross Steele at Chomsook's graduation in April 2000. She graduated with her Masters Degree of Population and Human Resources with a coursework thesis titled: "Government Services and Family Support of the Elderly in Thailand, 1990"
- Tuesday 30 May 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Ms Donna Ferretti (University of South Australia)
"From Rational Planning to Risky Business: Notions of Sustainability in Planning Discourse"
- Monday 29 May 2000
T/Shirt Sale. "Without Environmental Management We're Stuffed" T/Shirts now available for the low, low, price of..... $14.95 each. Only large sizes left.
First pay the Cashier in the Registry (Account 422-1000-0805-051), and bring the receipt to the
School Office (Room 318SSN) to collect.
- Tuesday 23 May 2000
The Final Examination Timetable for June is available on the Web.
- Monday 22 May 2000
Dr Meryl Pearce has joined the staff from Vista University, South Africa and has taken up a Lecturer B position in the School. Dr Pearce is a geographer with a specialism in hydrology. She is contributing to teaching in a range of undergraduate and Honours topics.
- Monday 22 May 2000
GEOView - The Journal of GEOS: Geography, Environment, Oekumene Society was officially launched on Monday 22 May. Assoc Prof Iain Hay introduced the following speakers: Selina Tually spoke about the beginning of GEOView, Tracey Treloar spoke about its continuance and Professor Anne Edwards officially launched its existence on the School's Web page. View the photos taken.
- Tuesday 16 May 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Dr Alaric Maude (Flinders University)
"Study Leave Report, A Gentleman's Travels through the Northern Regions"
- Friday 12 May 2000
Master of Environmental Management students taking topic ENVS 9001 Urban Environmental Management went on a field excursion on Tuesday 9 May led by Dr Clive Forster to examine environmental management issues in metropolitan Adelaide. See more photos of the excursion.
- Thursday 11 May 2000
Dr Alaric Maude spoke to the Forum of the State and Territory CEOs of Departments of Industry/State Development/Commerce on Linking Social and Economic Development. He was rewarded with a bottle of 1997 Maglieri Shiraz.
- Tuesday 9 May 2000
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Ms Bridget Kearins (Flinders University)
"Exporting Locally? Programs to Facilitate Exports by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises"
- Monday 1 May 2000
These pictures were taken at a dinner party given by Anna and Ross Steele at their home on Saturday 29 April for the Graduate Program in Population and Human Resources students.
- Friday 14 April 2000
Congratulations to the following students on their recent awards which were presented yesterday evening at a function held in the University Club:
Thomas Jenkin - 1999 McCaskill Medal Recipient
Jennifer Burden - 1999 ESRI (GIS) Prize
Samantha Muller - 3rd Year John Lewis Prize
Julie Snell - 2nd Year John Lewis Prize
Noel Richards - 1st Year John Lewis Prize
- Friday 7 April 2000
Cecile Cutler recently attended the WebCT Conference held in Adelaide.
The WebCT conference held in Adelaide was the first conference of its kind to be held outside North America. There were about 180 conference participants from a number of areas of the Asia Pacific including New Zealand and Singapore, though the majority were Australian with a large proportion from TAFE South Australia.
The conference was entitled 'Global e-Learning Solutions' and the papers given throughout the three days focussed ont he use of new technology to assist in improving the learning environment for students and assisting with delivery of materials. There was a series of plenary sessions with a variety of speakers who were either from WebCT or users of the technology. The papers presented at individual sessions were varied and covered a wide range of aspects of advancing learning through the medium of WebCT.
- Monday 3 April 2000
GEOS held a very successful quiz night on Friday 31 March. More than 70 people attended this function, which was held at the 'deCafe' cafe. Thanks are due to the GEOS organisers and presenters and to local businesses and organisations that donated some very attractive and valuable prizes.
- Monday 13 March 2000
Some photos are in from work carried out around the Flinders University campus and a ‘very wet’ field trip to the Barossa Valley. The outings were organised as part of the Remote Sensing topic (GEOG 3014), which saw students from a variety of backgrounds including, Environmental Management, Archaeology, and Earth Sciences, undertake two weeks of intensive training in remote sensing principles and state-of-the-art image processing software ERDAS IMAGINE.
- Monday 6 March 2000
Congratulations to Professor Dean Forbes who has been appointed to the new position of Pro-Vice Chancellor (International).
- Friday 25 February 2000
Congratulations to Andrew Beer and Christine Steele on the birth of their daughter, Stephanie Louisa.
- Friday 25 February 2000
Congratulations to Paul Foley for completing his PhD.
- Friday 18 February 2000
A part-time, fixed term Lectureship in Population Studies (0.8) is available in the School.
- Wednesday 16 February 2000
Congratulations to K.G. Santhaya who has successfully completed her PhD in Population Studies. Santhaya is back in Kerala, India, and will soon be taking up an appointment at the Population Council's Asia Regional Office in New Delhi.
- Monday 14 February 2000
This week eight recently arrived postgraduate students will be enrolling in the Masters in Population and Human Resources degree within our Graduate Program in Population and Human Resources. Ms Catur Elmiyati; Ms Citawati Sriamin Rejeki; Ms Diyah Herowati; Ms Wahyu Sri Herwati; Ms Sulistyawati; Mr Muhammad Abdillah Abadi; Mr Hari Suroso; and Mr Samsu Eriyanto. All of these new Masters candidates are from the National Family Planning Board (BKBN) of Indonesia and many are from the provincial offices of the Board in East Java. Five of the group arrived in December 1999 and the remainder in January this year. Since their arrival they have all been intensively involved in preparing for the new semester at the Intensive English Language Institute (which is situated on the Flinders' campus) under the supervision of Ms Bonnie Cothren and Mr John Murphy.
- Tuesday 8 February 2000
The School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management welcomes back Neville Crossman and Thomas Jenkin, who completed Honours degrees in 1999. Both have been awarded Australian Postgraduate Awards and have commenced on PhD research. Selina Tually, another Honours graduate from the 1999 bumper crop, has also been awarded a PhD scholarship funded by Andrew Beer's successful SPIRT grant.
- Tuesday 1 February 2000
Mrs Charlotte Morgan joined the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management on 1 February as a Lecturer A in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Charlotte is a science graduate of James Cook University, and was most recently employed at Victoria University of Wellington as the School of Earth Sciences GIS professional. She will contribute to teaching in GIS-related topics in the School. The position is funded through the National Key Centre for Social Applications of GIS.
Stephen Fildes, who has for several years been the Spatial Information Systems Officer in the School, has also accepted a 0.3 Lecturer B in the School to teach in Spatial Information Systems and Remote Sensing.
Dr Meryl Pearce will be arriving from Vista University, South Africa in early April to take up a Lecturer B position in the School. Dr Pearce is a geographer with a specialism in hydrology. She will contribute to teaching in a range of undergraduate and Honours topics.
- Monday 31 January 2000
Dr Gour Dasvarma has taken leave to head up a Women's Health and Family Planning project in Eastern Indonesia. It was to be originally located in Kupang, West Timor, but has been temporarily moved to Mataram in Lombok. The project will tackle issues not dissimilar to those taught in the Population Studies program at Flinders, and continues the close interaction established between Flinders demographers and their colleagues in Indonesia.
Dr Ross Steele has been appointed head of the Graduate Program in Population and Human Resources in Gour's absence.
- Monday 17 January 2000
Happy New Year. A particular greeting to those students intending undertaking the Bachelor of Environmental Management and the Bachelor of Arts in Geography or Environmental Studies. Students will have received their offers today. Staff from the School will be available to answer any questions you might have at the enrolment sessions next week.
1999
- Thursday 24 December 1999
We wish all our students and friends a happy festive season, and a bug-free Y2K, and we look forward to seeing you in the new millenium
Contrary to popular belief, Flinders is open during the so-called holidays, as it is when staff undertake research and catchup on teaching and administrative matters. However, the university does close between Christmas Day and the first working day after the New Year. This year the School office will re-open on Wednesday the 5th of January.
- Tuesday 21 December 1999
After three decades of outstanding service to the School and university, Ken Bardsley retired. Past and present members of the School farewelled Ken today. Click here for photographs of a gathering held to wish him well. A speech was given by Cecile Cutler at Ken's farewell.
- Friday 17 December 1999
Iain Hay has been awarded $10,000 under the University's new Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant program for a project entitled 'Student Transferable Skills Portfolios'. Iain is leading the project which involves nine discipline areas across the Faculty of Social Sciences. The project aims to assist students to identify those transferable skills they develop in Social Sciences topics; to acknowledge and track student skills achievements within discipline-based topics; and thereby better prepare students for their search for employment. The outcome will be a simple, sustainable procedure intended to encourage students to produce detailed and indexed personal skills portfolios and staff to reflect on their skills teaching
- Friday 17 December 1999
Iain Hay has been selected in a state-wide competitive process to participate in the activities of the South Australian Governor's Leadership Foundation during 2000. The Foundation 'is dedicated to improving leadership in South Australia by bringing together emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds'. Participants who successfully complete the one year program of activities become Fellows of the Foundation.
- Thursday 16 December 1999
Andrew Beer has received a SPIRT grant (that's Strategic Partnerships with Industry - Research Training) for a project titled 'Trading for the future: overcoming the barriers to information technology within small business' in partnership with Beach Road Main Street Project Inc.
- Monday 13 December 1999
Alaric Maude has returned from study leave and resumed as Head of School. Welcome back! A short account of Alaric's leave will soon be published on this page. Iain Hay resumes his normal work after filling in for Alaric during his absence. We are all grateful for the excellent job Iain did during the second half of 1999.
- Tuesday 7 December 1999
The staff in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management wish to extend their congratulations to all the Honours students who have recently completed their degrees.
- Monday 6 December 1999
POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY URBAN INNOVATION IN JAPAN
Mawson Lakes Fellowship Program, A Scholarship Exchange Program with Three Leading Japanese Universities.
Three scholarships are available for three postgraduate students from South Australian universities to study for six months at one of three leading Japanese universities - Waseda University; Tsukuba University and Nagoya University. This is supported by Flinders, UniSA and Adelaide University, in conjunction with a consortium of Japanese firms. Applications are invited from post-doctoral, postgraduate, Honours or coursework postgraduate students interested in pursuing research topics related to 'urban innovation' and 'innovative urban planning and development practice'. A scholarship of A$11,000 per student is available to cover accommodation and subsistence costs in Japan. A further amount (A$2,500) is also available to cover a return economy class airfare to Japan. Applicants will need to take out their own personal health cover. Academic semesters in Japan normally commence in April and the second in September.
Applications for 2000 close at noon on 24 December 1999.
Further information and application forms are available from:
Jayne Taylor, Chancellery, University of SA, City West Campus, 70 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000. Telephone: (08) 8302 0061, Facsimile: (08) 8302 0225, Email: jayne.taylor@unisa.edu.au
- Wednesday 1 December 1999
Ms. Linda-Marie Hall, a BA (Hons) graduate from the School won the Unilever Environment Award 2000 as part of the South Australia 2000 Young Achiever of the Year competition. Ms Hall is currently working as Coastcare facilitator for the Southern Region of South Australia.
Our congratulations to Linda-Marie Hall on her well deserved success in the South Australian Young Achievers Awards. Linda-Marie, who is a graduate of this School, and was also a tutor during 1997-98, won the Unilever Environment Award for her coastal conservation work. She has also been involved in many other conservation areas including Waterwatch Coordinator for the Lower South East, Monarto Zoological Park, Scientific Research Expeditions and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
- Wednesday 24 November 1999
The Graduate Program in Population and Human Resources (GPPHR) received four visitors from Indonesia during 17-23 November 1999. Drs. Imam Hariyadi, Director, International Training Centre in Population and Family Planning and Drs. Masri Muadz, Chief, Overseas Training Division, both of the Indonesian National Family Planning Board (NFPB) visited Flinders University from 17 to 23 November. Their visit was primarily aimed at monitoring the progress of nine NFPCB staff members currently enrolled in the Master of Population and Human Resources program. During their visit, they also met with with Dr John Browett, Head of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Dean Forbes, Head of the International Board, Associate Professor Iain Hay, Acting Head, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Associate Professor Greg Tobin, Chairperson, Higher Degrees Committee, Ms Joanne Barker, Head of the International Office and Ms Bonnie Cothren, Director, Intensive English Language Institute. They also visited SHine SA (Sexual Health Information Networking and Education, South Australia).
Their visit was organised and coordinated by Dr.Gour Dasvarma and Dr. Ross Steele of the GPPHR. Eight more staff members of the NFPB are due to start their Master in Population and Human Resources program in Semester 1, 2000. Besides the long term training of its staff members, Drs Hariyadi and Muadz also discussed the possibility of several short term training programs for more senior level staff of NFPB to be run by GPPHR.
- Tuesday 23 November 1999
Dr S. G. Made Mamas, Senior Researcher and Drs. Toto Sastrasuanda, Head, Bureau of Population and Labour Force, both of the Central Board of Statistics, Indonesia visited the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management and the GPPHR on 23 November 1999. Dr. Mamas and Drs. Sastrasuanda are senior members of the team responsible for conducting the 2000 Population Census in Indonesia, which will, for the first time use GIS as a part of the census operations. They were given a tour of the School's GIS laboratory by Mr. Steven Fildes. Prior to visiting Flinders University, they have visited the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian National University, Canberra and the GISCA, University of Adelaide.
- Monday 22 November 1999
Honours student Tom Jenkin has recently had a paper entitled 'A preliminary analysis of environmental issue reporting in The Advertiser, August and September 1998' published in South Australian Geographical Journal.
- Monday 15 November 1999
After two years of prepatory work GEOView has been launched. GEOView is a student-reviewed and student-produced electronic journal intended to showcase the diverse range of high quality research being undertaken by students in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University
GEOView publishes high quality student work. It provides all students in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management with the opportunity to participate in the publishing process (as author, peer reviewer or editor). It is also intended to encourage excellence in geographic, demographic and environmental research and writing.
The School would like to thank all those students who have been involved with GEOView since it was first proposed in 1997 for their energy, enthusiasm and good will. We would also like to thank Louise O'Loughlin and David Schroeder for their great work making the GEOView site work!
View the site.
- Friday 5 November 1999
Professor Sachio Kubo from Keio University (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) in Japan visited the School today. He is working on a number of projects including urban environments in large Asian cities (Tokyo, Bangkok, Shanghai), and is a specialist in the use and applications of GIS.
- Monday 1 November 1999
Dean Forbes recently returned from a visit to the United States, where he gave a paper in a seminar on World Cities in Poor Countries at the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. The paper titled 'Globalisation. Economic Crisis and Social Change in Jakarta' was also presented at a leadup seminar in the University of Connecticut. Papers from the seminar covered Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Moscow, Singapore, Bombay, Jakarta, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Cairo and Johannesburg, and are to be published in a book due out in 2000.
During the same trip he participated in the launch of the International Network of Universities in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Flinders is a founding member of the INU. He also visited Stockholm and Uppsala University in Sweden, and made a brief visit to London en route to Washington.
- Monday 1 November 1999
1999 Completed Theses
The 1999 Honours thesis titles are now available. Abstracts can be read by clicking on the student's name.
Masters and PhD thesis titles are posted regularly during the year.
Monday 25 October 1999
POSITION ADVERTISEMENT
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
Associate Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems (Fixed-Term) $33 444 - $45 387 pa
Available from 1 January 2000 for an initial period of two years. The appointee will be an employee of Flinders University, but will also be affiliated with the Key Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems.
- Tuesday 19 October 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Mr Alex Gunjko (ESRI Australia)
"The next generation of GIS? ARC INFO 8"
- Monday 11 October 1999
Postgraduates Roldan Cardona and Chairil Anwar are hosts of a weekly radio program titled "International Link". The program includes talk, research, interviews and music, and can be heard on 5UV (531 AM) from 8.00-8.30 pm on Thursday evenings.
- Monday 4 October 1999
On 2 October Iain Hay attended the National Promotion of Geography Forum held at the University of Sydney. Discussion at the Forum focussed on five invited key papers including one written by Iain on the subject of 'Promoting Geography in the Media'.
- Monday 27 September 1999
27 September - 1 October Andrew Beer, Clive Forster, Iain Hay, Samantha Muller and Lisel O'Dwyer presented papers at the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference held at the University of Sydney.
- Monday 20 September 1999
Dean Forbes is accompanying Professor Ian Chubb, the Vice Chancellor, on a visit to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. The purpose of the visit is to develop Flinders range of international links. Flinders already delivers courses in Singapore and Hong Kong, and is exploring new possibilities in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur. They return on the 26th September.
- Tuesday 14 September 1999
Jaclyn Edlington has recently commenced employment with the Mildura City Council as a Development Assessment Officer in the Development Department.
- Tuesday 14 September 1999
1999 Honours Thesis Work-in-Progress Seminars. Tuesday 14th September and Wednesday 15th September.
- Tuesday 14 September 1999
On the afternoon of Friday 17 September the Management Committee of the Key Centre for Social Applications of GIS will meet in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders.
Between 3.00 and 3.45 Professor Graeme Hugo, Director of the Key Centre, will talk about the research projects currently being undertaken. The venue will be the Spatial Information Systems Laboratory, Room 210 in Social Sciences North. All students and staff are welcome to come along to hear about the work going on in the Key Centre. This may prove especially useful to students working on GIS.
- Tuesday 7th September 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Dr Susanne Schech (Flinders University)
"Study Leave Report: Development and the Internet"
- Friday 3rd September 1999
Dr David Bass is on study leave from 4 September 1999 to 6 February 2000.
- POSITION ADVERTISEMENT
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
Lecturer in Geography (Convertible) $47 777 - $56 735 pa
Available from 1 January 2000 for an initial period of three years, with the possibility of conversion to a continuing position.
- Tuesday 24 August 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Chairil Anwar (Flinders University)
"Fieldwork Report; the Construction Industry in Ujung Pandang"
- Tuesday 17 August 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Roldan Cardona (Flinders University)
"Gender, Tenure and Forest in an Indigenous Community in the Philippines"
- Tuesday 10 August 1999
On 6 August Thomas Jenkin and Julie Snell were presented with 1999 City of West Torrens Max and Bette Mendelson Scholarships by the Honourable John Doyle, Chief Justice of South Australia. These awards (which include a medal, certificate and $2000) have been made since 1993 and are presented to students who are resident in the City of West Torrens and have outstanding academic records. It is testament to the high quality of work by students and staff that two of the seven awards made to Flinders University should go to students from the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management.
- Monday 9 August 1999
Dr Andrew Beer visited Seoul, Korea from 12-16 July 1999 to present a paper entitled "Regional Cities within Australia's Evolving Urban System, 1991-96" to the 16th Pacific Regional Science Conference.
- Monday 2 August 1999
Dr Susanne Schech spent the first semester of this year on study leave. Dr Schech spent the first three months writing and completed the manuscript for a book on "Culture and Development: a critical introduction" with her sociology colleague Dr Jane Haggis. The book constitutes a fresh treatment of the relationship between culture and development, bringing current debates in anthropology, cultural studies and postcolonial theory to development studies. Blackwell Publishers are aiming to publish this book late 1999 or early 2000 - watch out for it!
For the second part of her study leave Dr Schech went on a twelve-week research and networking journey which took her to Beunos Aires (Argentina) to research whiteness and race relations (and try out the tango!); Lima, Cusco and Iquitos (Peru) - to research development NGOs and their use of information and communication technologies (and wander around in the Andes and along the Amazon); Mexico-City and Oaxaca (Mexico) - to network with academics on NGOs use of ICT (and eat lots of tortillas - the real ones); London, Newcastle and Nottingham (United Kingdom) - to present papers on whiteness and on gender and development (I did not see the Queen); Hamburg, Chemnitz and Frankfurt (Germany) - to network with academics and institutions on whiteness research, and to work on two papers on development and ICT (and visit Weimar, the cultural capital of Europe 1999, where Goethe and Schiller used to live and the Weimar Republic was proclaimed).
- Friday 30 July 1999
The new Masters of Environmental Management degree commenced this year. Currently three students are enrolled in the program: Jason Nichols, Takashi Miyake and Takeshi Tomotsugu. In addition to the on-campus delivery of the M.E.M, negotiations are underway to deliver the degree course in Shenzhen in China through the China Development Institute.
- Friday 30 July 1999
Professor Dean Forbes has fully implemented WebCT as part part of his teaching methodology in GEOG 2005 (Asian Regional Development). Anyone interested should go to the Welcome Page for the topic. If you would like to have more information please contact Dean Forbes.
- Friday 30 July 1999
ENVS 1702 (Environmental Studies 1B) will be using WebCT based exercises and access to all teaching material from Monday 2 August. Anyone interested should go to the Welcome Page for the topic.
- Friday 30 July 1999 and Sunday 1 August 1999
Flinders University Open Days (Friday 30 July 12.00 - 5.00 pm : Sunday 1 August 10.00 - 4.00 pm)
Venue: Sports Centre. We have a place on the ground floor for prospective students to meet and talk to staff and space on the mezzanine floor for current students to speak and offer advice to prospective students
Information Lectures: Thirty minute information lectures on the Bachelor of Environmental Management degree will be presented by Dr Andrew Beer and Assoc. Prof. Iain Hay as follows:
Friday, 12.30 - 1.00 pm, Room 149 Social Sciences South Building by Dr Andrew Beer
Sunday, 2.30 - 3.00 pm, Room 102 Social Sciences North Building by Assoc. Prof. Iain Hay
Lucky Draw: The School will run a lucky draw for one of our Environmental Management T/shirts. Entries will be available at our ground floor desk and can be deposited in a box available at the student desk on the mezzanine floor.
- Monday 26 July 1999
Dr Alaric Maude is on study leave and long service leave from 26 July to 6 December 1999.
In the study leave portion of this period he will visit the University of Wales at Cardiff, Leeds Metropolitan University, West Virginia University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Arizona at Tucson and the regional development branch of the State Government of Oregon. The main aims of these visits are (a) to study the relationships between regional development theory and regional development practice, as part of a research project focussed on Australia, (b) to see how others teach regional development, and (c) to examine where geography departments in these two countries are heading, particularly in the development of new courses and new student markets.
The long service leave portion of the trip takes in Bali, Prague, England and Wales, New York, Washington DC, West Virginia, North Carolina, Arizona, Oregon, Washington State, Vancouver and Cairns.
Assoc. Prof. Iain Hay will be acting Head of School in his absence.
- Thursday 22 July 1999
Tiffany Inglis has been awarded $750 by the Bookmark Biosphere for research on "The Impact of Water Regime on the Seed Banks and Extant Vegetation of Temporary Wetlands".
- Thursday 8 July 1999
Iain Hay presented a paper entitled "Towards an international network for learning and teaching geography in higher education (INLT)" to the New Zealand Geographical Society Annual Conference, 'Geography and the Millennium' held at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 5-8 July 1999. Iain co-authored the paper with Professors Mick Healey (UK) and Ken Foote (USA).
Iain has also been appointed recently to the Editorial Board of a new international journal, "Social and Cultural Geography".
- Thursday 1 July 1999
Environmental Studies Honours student Tom Jenkin, has just been advised that he has been awarded the Max and Bette Mendelsohn Foundation Scholarship by the City of West Torrens. This will support Tom's work on his research thesis.The award will be presented by Chief Justice John Doyle on 6 August at 7.15 pm in the Civic Centre, 165 Burbridge Rd.
- Wednesday 30 June 1999
Three Bachelor of Environmental Management Honours students, Sarah Rhodes, Tiffany Inglis and Julian James have just completed industry placements with Trees for Life. These placements have involved the use of Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems to map the incidence of weeds in a number of National Heritage Agreement areas.
- Tuesday 22 June 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (University of Hull) (formerly of Science Policy Institute, University of Sussex)
" The Politics of sustainable Development Bureaucracies, Politicians and Consultants in the Search for the Holy Grail (a cost-free Greenhouse Policy)"
- Tuesday 15 June 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Andrew Lovell (School of environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
"Accessibility to Health Care Services in East Anglia, UK: An Analysis using GIS and patient Register Data"
- Tuesday 8 June 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Roldan Cardona (Flinders University)
"Gender, Tenure and Forest in an Indigenous Community in the Philippines"
- Wednesday 2 June 1999
The second edition of the book - Australian Cities: Continuity and Change - has been completed and published. An introduction to the book, written by Clive Forster and published by Oxford Univesity Press.
- Wednesday 2 June 1999
David Bass has been awarded an Ian Potter Foundation Institutional Travel Grant to support a conference and research related trip to Italy. David will attend the 5th International Conference on the Ecology of Invasive Alien Plants, La Maddalena, Sardinia 10-16 October 1999 and deliver three papers: "The importance of population growth and seed dispersal ecology in determining invasiveness of fruiting woody plants in Australia"; "The ecological interactions between weeds and animals in Australia"; and The 1st International Workshop on Weed Risk Assessment coauthored with John Virtue, Animal and Plant Control Commission, Adelaide.
- Friday 28 May 1999
Dr Gour Dasvarma will teach in a training program on "STD/HIV/AIDS Information and Education" in Mataram and Kupang, eastern Indonesia from 14 to 25 June 1999. The participants to the course are drawn from Indonesian health officials of the region. The course is being conducted by Flinders Technologies in collaboration with the Centre for Health Research, University of Indonesia under contract with the Hawthorn Consulting Group of Melbourne and funding from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
- Tuesday 25 May 1999
Article by Dr Gour Dasvarma in the Flinders Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, May 10-23 1999
"Putting the brake on population growth: an Indonesian success story".
- Tuesday 25 May 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Emily Gilbert (Queen's University, Canada)
"Cultural Economies: Explaining the Historical Relationship Between Money and Nation-States"
- Tuesday 18 May 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Anna Ziersch (Flinders University, School of Medicine)
"Access to Social Capital: the Implications of Exclusion for Health Promotion"
- Tuesday 11 May 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Michiyo Yoshida (Flinders University)
"The Influence of Public Policies on the Socioeconomic Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugee Women in Japan and Australia"
- Friday 30 April 1999
Congratulations to the following students on their recent awards which were presented at an evening held in the Banksia Room of the University Club:
Phillip Parker - 1998 McCaskill Medal Recipient
Caroline Heathcote - 1998 ESRI (GIS) Prize
Thomas Jenkin - 3rd Year John Lewis Prize
Rebecca Schultz - 2nd Year John Lewis Prize
Tracey Treloar - 1st Year John Lewis Prize
Tuesday 27 April 1999
Geography Seminar: 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Associate Professor Iain Hay (Flinders University)
"On Rediscovering Justice and Regulation: a Personal Story"
- Tuesday 20 April 1999
Some photos have been taken from a field trip to Victor Harbor. The trip, led by Ken Bardsley, was organised as part of the Coastal Studies topic.
- Tuesday 30 March 1999
Geography Seminar : 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Liz Ampt (Steer Davies Gleave, Transport Consultants)
"Travel Blending and Living Neighbourhoods in Adelaide"
- Tuesday 23 March 1999
Geography Seminar : 11.15 - 12.30 in Room 104 SSN
Dr Clive Forster (Geography) and Nick Harvey (University of Adelaide)
"Geography and Environmental Studies in Australian Universities: Match Made in Heaven or Shotgun Marriage"
- Wednesday 17 March 1999
"Without Environmental Management We're Stuffed" T/Shirts available for $19.95.
First pay the Cashier in the Registry (Account 422-1000-0805-051), and bring the receipt to the School Office (Room 318SSN) or Resources Room (204SSN) to collect.
- Tuesday 16 March 1999
Some photos are in from a field trip to the Barossa Valley. The outing was organised as part of the Remote Sensing topic, which was run for the first time this year through the efforts of Andrew Beer and Stephen Fildes. More photos taken on the day can be found here.
- Monday 15 March 1999
Liz Ampt, a distinguished former graduate of the School, is returning to give a seminar at 11.15am on Tuesday March 30th (In Room 104 in Social Sciences North). Liz is employed with the London based transport consultancy Steer Davies Gleave. She is currently in Adelaide directing a study of travel blending in living neighbourhoods (Liz is conducting a parallel study in Santiago, Chile).
- Friday 12 March 1999
The Research Seminar Program for the first semester has been released.
- Friday 5 March 1999
Visiting Scholar
Dr Emily Gilbert from the Department of Geography at Queen's University, Canada, has come to Flinders. She will continue her field research on the formation of national currencies and national identity among some of the original member countries of the British Commonwealth. Dr Gilbert has a base in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management until the end of June.
- Thursday 4 Feburary 1999
About 130 teachers of Year 12 Geography attended a two day workshop in the School in December focusing on the new curriculum. Contributors included Alaric Maude, who organised the event, Ken Bardsley, David Bass, Stewart Fraser, Stephen Fildes and Paul Woods.
The new Flinders Alumni Association Executive will meet for the first time in February. It contains distinguished School alumni Dr David Filby and Mr Stephen Hains. Dean Forbes is the Vice Chancellor's representative on the committee.
School staff have done well in the 1999 Australian Research Council Grants. We were successful with two SPIRT (Strategic Partnerships with Industry, Research and Training) Grants. Drs Andrew Beer, Alaric Maude and Mr B. Hales won an APA Industry Scholarship for a project titled Exporting Locally: Enhancing Export Performance Amongst Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.
Dr Lisel O'Dwyer has been awarded a SPIRT industry postdoctoral fellowship to undertake a project titled Patterns, Processes and Implications for Policy: The Private Rental Sector in Australia. Together the SPIRTS are worth $213,491 for 1999-2001.
Dr Susanne Schech has won an ARC Small Grant for 1999 for her project with Dr Jane Haggis on White Identities of British Post-War Migrants to South Australia.
Dr Andrew Beer was awarded two small ARCs for projects on Globalisation, Governance and the Australian Urban System: The Case of Regional Cities, and on Economic Restructuring, Equity and Sub-markets Within Adelaide's Private Rental Housing Market, 1990-98.
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