The Symposium generated lively debate and included presentations by Mr Jeff Tate, CEO of the City of Onkaparinaga and Mr Len Piro of the Department of Trade and Economic Development.
The academic participants in the event included: Dr Lareen Newman (Public Health, Flinders); Prof Phil McCann (University of Waikato); Dr Holli Thomas and Prof Andrew Beer (Geography, Flinders); Dr Stephen Hall, Prof David Bailley and Dr Caroline Chapain (Birmingham University); Dr Fiona Verity (Social Work, Flinders); Dr Kathy Armstrong (The Work Foundation, London); Ms Gwynn Jolley (Public Health, Flinders); Dr Diannah Lowry (NILS, Flinders); Mr Hans Pieters (Geography, Flinders); Dr Ed Ferrari (Sheffield University); Mr Keith Hutson (Geography, Flinders) and Guangyu Zhang (Public Health, Flinders).
The event was supported by the Vice Chancellor as part of the Flinders 40th birthday celebrations, as well as the Department of Trade and Economic Development; the City of Onkaparinga; the Office of the Southern Suburbs and the Social Monitoring and Policy Futures Network
Thursday 30 November
Congratulations to Professor Iain
Hay on winning the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University
Teacher of the Year, the nation's top prize for tertiary teaching at the
Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching presentation ceremony
in Canberra on November 28. Flinders
University news article. The
'very best uni teacher' is from Adelaide's The Advertiser (30 Nov, p. 25).
The 'geographer wins
top award' is from The Australian (29 Nov, p. 25).
Dr Emma Baker receiving her AHURI Early Career Researcher
prize from Mr Phil Fagan-Schmidt, Department for Families and
Communities, SA Government
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 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.
Kaoru Taniguchi 1st Year Prize |
Iome Christa 2nd Year Prize |
Laszlo Katona 3rd Year Prize |
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Alaric Maude for Bridget Kearins Silver Medal |
Neville Crossman |
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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
and the regions.
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.
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).
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.
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
You can find full details of the position along with the selection criteria.
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.
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
View photos taken on the night.
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.
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.
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.
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".
The award will be presented by Chief Justice John Doyle on 6 August at 7.15 pm in the Civic Centre, 165 Burbridge Rd.