In brief
Kev in TREV
Deputy Premier Kevin Foley had an inside view of
just some of the high potential research in advanced manufacturing
being spearheaded at UniSA when he visited Mawson Lakes campus at
the end of August. In a special presentation by UniSA Vice
Chancellor Professor Peter Høj, research leaders from the Centre for
Advanced Manufacturing Research (CAMR) and the Mawson Institute for
Advanced Manufacturing, the Deputy Premier got an insight into the
wide range of research activity in advanced rural manufacturing,
hybrid fuel generators, the manufacture of micro and nano devices
and other industry focused projects.
The visit also brought together industry representatives and partners from the automotive and other key manufacturing industries in the State.
Deputy Premier Foley took the chance to get on board UniSA’s two-seater renewable energy vehicle, TREV, an electric car powered by a solar charged battery.
UniSA wins another Hong Kong award
UniSA has won the Export of Services Award in the Hong Kong Australian Business Association– SA 2007 Business Awards.
This important honour, recognising excellence in bilateral trade with Hong Kong SAR/China, follows on from the University taking out last year’s Hong Kong Australian Business Association Judges’ Award. UniSA’s Director: International, Rob Greig, said the University was delighted to be receive the accolade.
"The export of quality education is an important part of UniSA’s mission statement, goals and plans," Greig said, "and Hong Kong is a key component of UniSA’s transnational programs.
"Indeed, no less than one quarter of the University’s 10,000 international students come from Hong Kong."
HKABA-SA spokeswoman, Wendy Rush said the award acknowledged superior achievement in the export of services to Hong Kong SAR and mainland China by a South Australian organisation.
UniSA offers 27 undergraduate and post-graduate programs with partner organisations in Hong Kong. This activity earned the University $9.3m in 2006 and currentlyemploys 66 UniSA staff.
Award of a lifetime to Lloyd Sansom
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Lloyd Sansom AO, who was awarded the inaugural Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Lifetime Achievement Award last month acknowledging his 40 years of visionary leadership in the industry.
Professor of Pharmacy at UniSA from 1990 to 2000, he was the head of the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences in his last five years at the University. In 2004 UniSA named the Sansom Research Institute in his honour and in 2001 established the Sansom Trust to promote and support excellence in pharmacy research. Today Prof Sansom is the Chair of the Federal Government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee.
Scholarship gives MATES a hand
PhD
student Lisa Kalisch, winner of the inaugural $2500 Roy Schulz
Travel Scholarship, has recently returned from Quebec, Canada where
she attended the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology
conference.
The travel scholarship is the gift of local businessman Roy Schulz, owner of movie memorabilia store Movie Maniacs and father of Lucy Schulz Director, Student and Academic Services.
It is awarded to the most meritorious postgraduate student or research staff member engaged in the Veterans’ MATES (Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services) project in the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, based within UniSA’s Sansom Institute, to obtain national or international conference experience.
Kalisch, who is due to complete her PhD in December, is exploring the extent of brand substitution for government-subsidised medicines in Australia and, in particular, the extent of switching between brands by individuals and attempts to characterise patients for whom brands of medicine are frequently substituted.
Her supervisors are Professor Andrew Gilbert and Associate Professor Libby Roughead.
Hawke Institute’s socially inclusive agreement
UniSA’s Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies (HRISS) and the Social Inclusion Unit (SIU) in the SA Department of the Premier and Cabinet have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on social sustainability research.
HRISS Director, Professor Alan Mayne said the agreement, which runs until the end of 2008, is a framework for combined research into social policy areas including school retention, poverty and unemployment, regional development and disadvantage, and social inclusion and social sustainability.
"The MOU builds on three HRISS Australian Research Council Linkage projects in which the SIU is already an industry partner," Prof Mayne said.
"We plan to explore other opportunities for joint research in areas such as the social, economic and environmental impacts of the minerals industry, disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the metropolitan area, and Aboriginal communities and remoteness."
As part of a joint education and training program, a series of workshops is being planned on topics such as making across government and across university approaches to social research work.
All in the taste - or is it?
An innovative research project from UniSA’s Wine Marketing Research Group has been awarded the prestigious Wine Press Club of NSW Fellowship grant of $7500 for 2007.
The successful researchers Professor Larry Lockshin and David Knott will be researching the real impact of in-store wine tasting on wine sales.
Boldly titled Boozing or Branding? Measuring the effect of free samples at wine shops, the project is a completely new area of research and one with potentially high impact on the sale and marketing of wines.
"What we hope to uncover is who tastes wine in wine shops, why they taste it and whether or not it actually influences their buying behaviour," Professor Lockshin said.
The research will be undertaken in Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney across a range of different wine brands, large and small.
The findings of the project will be published in WBM Australia’s wine business magazine and presented to members at the NSW Wine Press Club in early 2008.
Who's great?
Know someone who is a great example of excellence in education? Now is your chance to nominate them for the accolades they deserve. SA Great is calling for nominations for this year’s Education Award, along with the South Australian and Young South Australian of the Year and other categories.
They are looking for people who have demonstrated excellence in their field and have been inspirational role models for South Australians in the past 12 months.
They will also be judged on personal, academic and professional achievement; demonstrated leadership, innovation and creativity; community involvement; level of achievement and sacrifices made; nature and length of involvement; and contribution to the state. Peer, public and self nominations will be accepted. Nominations close on Tuesday, October 2 2007 and forms are available from SA Great on 8211 8111.
Online nominations can also be made at www.sagreat.com.au