In brief
Closing the distance between England and the outback
Wanting
to experience nursing in rural Australia, third year nursing students Karl
Jones and Katy Darby, from the University of Worcester, England, spent five
weeks in Australia doing their nursing practicum. At first amazed at the
amount of space and distance between towns and cities, they quickly adapted
to life in outback Australia. Jones and Darby spent five weeks at Royal
Adelaide Hospital and then did two weeks’ work experience at the Whyalla
Community Health Centre, local aged care facility and hospital with trips to
the smaller regional health care facilities around Whyalla.
Expanding upon the existing service agreement between the two universities, the rural and Aboriginal health option was presented to the students by the University of Worcester’s, International Coordinator of the Institute of Health and Social Care, in coordination with Whyalla campus nursing lecturer, Joy Penman.
Ethics first for UniSA and the state
SA’s first multi-institutional ethics centre will be launched on November 24. The Ethics Centre of SA (ECSA) is a major collaborative project between Adelaide’s three universities and the State Government. Associate Professor Ian Richards, who has been involved with the project since its inception, said ECSA would foster national and international collaborative research and scholarship in the field of ethics.
Prof Richards said the launch was the culmination of an extended effort by a small group of academics with an interest in ethics. Others involved from UniSA were Associate Professor Chris Provis from the Division of Business and Jenny Baker from the Unaipon School.
Mawson Centre recognised as state’s best
UniSA’s
Mawson Centre has taken out the title of Australia’s Premier Commercial
Property in the recent Delfin Lendlease Grand Master Awards. In addition to
the remarkable accolade from Delfin, The Mawson Centre received the Award of
Merit (New Building Category) from the Royal Australian Institute of
Architects and Award of Merit from DesignShare, an international forum for
innovative schools. PLACE architects said the building is “ … an exemplar of
the effective use of community resources and social capital …”. In addition
to this, the Garth Boomer building, also at Mawson Lakes, won a Commendation
(New Building Category) from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
PLACE Architecture said “the Garth Boomer building employs innovative space
planning concepts to enrich both teaching and working environments”, and
“the design of mechanical systems demonstrates the highest level of
environmental engineering”. The buildings were both designed by Russell
Yelland Architects in association with Guida Moseley Brown Architects.
Jerzy Filar honoured with award
Professor Jerzy Filar, foundation professor of mathematics and statistics at UniSA has been awarded the Ren Potts Medal for his contribution to the advancement of operations research at the 18th National Australian Society for Operations Research Conference in Perth. Operations Research is the term given to the field of mathematics that uses existing data and process modelling to find optimal solutions to practical problems. Prof Filar has made a sustained and outstanding contribution to research since taking up a position at UniSA in 1992 and has authored and co-authored over 70 refereed research papers. He has gained international recognition in a number of branches of operations research.