Let it go...

10/11/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

The sight of Christmas trees on display in David Jones this week startled me. I should clarify, I don't suffer from dendrophobia and I have, eight years in, made some appropriate mental adjustment to the fact that Christmas happens in summertime i...

Signs of normal life

01/10/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

There's something strangely comforting about us hosting graduation ceremonies again. It heralds a return to something akin to normal. It doesn't matter that the graduates are seated at 2m intervals from one another, that there are no handshakes or...

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Musing on Merging

09/08/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

I reckon it's about four years now since I used a Jaws quote. (Surprising, given it's my all-time favourite film and the reason I still don't go in the water). During our 25 th Birthday celebrations I wove a few into my speech for the gala dinner ...

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‘P’ is for…

26/06/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

The definition of prudence is one of those circular ones - it's the quality of being prudent - so to find out what it really means you've got to look up another word. Life's like that quite often. Like the committee to abolish committees. Being...

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So what are we going to do about it?

17/04/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

'It's not the years...it's the mileage.' We could probably all make use of Indiana Jones' off-the-cuff quote these days. Institutionally, collectively and individually, we've taken a buffeting over the last few weeks and with continued uncertainty...

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Unstoppable

03/04/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

This isn't another COVID-19 update with more changes arising that we need to implement at the drop of a hat. I'm reasonably sure that it's safe to continue reading. What an extraordinary couple of months we have been through. Since 1 st Feb and th...

Quiet achievers

14/02/2020 by: Professor David Lloyd

It’s been quite the start to 2020. A little over six weeks into the year and already we have seen fires, floods, a global health emergency… Throughout the bushfire crisis UniSA staff were responding and contributing across the board. We applaud an...

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Through The Big Picture, I hope that our whole community gains a greater and current appreciation of what is going on, how it fits together and how our activities connect and reinforce each other at a whole of enterprise level.

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