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 Colleagues and Faculty friends,
Welcome to the new edition of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty News. As you can see, the Faculty staff, students and graduates continue to create lively activity on many fronts. We are particularly pleased to put on display the work of our PhD students.
Enjoy reading our first newsletter for 2008.
Kind regards,
Raoul Raoul Mortley AO, Dean
BOND COLLEGE GRADUATES MOVE TO UNIVERSITY
Seven students from Bond College’s first intake have begun their undergraduate studies here in first trimester 2008. The inaugural Bond College graduation was held on Friday, February 1. Students are studying a variety of degrees including Criminology, Law, Property and Sustainable Development, and Business.
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CERUM THEATRE PACKED FOR DEAN's AWARDS
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Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Prof. Raoul Mortley, AO, welcomed a great turnout of families, winning students and staff for the February 1 Dean's Awards Night in the Cerum Theatre. Master of Ceremonies was Head of the School of Social Sciences Phillip Fourie. Photos taken by Mike Grenby can be found via the Humanities Students' Association website link.
The awards were for students who came top of their classes during the September 2007 semester, also for those who made the Dean's List and Vice-Chancellor's List of Academic Excellence.
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WINNERS CONGRATULATED ON SPEECHES IN JAPANESE
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 Four students in Japanese Studies have been congratulated by Prof. Raoul Mortley for their success in the Gold Coast and Queensland State annual Japanese speech competitions held at Griffith University. They are now preparing with Dr Masako Gavin (right) for the 2008 competition.
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SUE GWILLIAM IS NOW FACULTY HR & STAFF DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR; SANDRA ROBB JOINS DEAN’s STAFF
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 Dean Raoul Mortley has announced that Sue Gwilliam is now Staff Development and Human Resources Coordinator for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. "Sue is working closely with Faculty Finance Manager Kevin Jih on HR matters and is responsible for looking after all adjunct staffing appointments," Prof. Mortley said.
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FOUR J-DAYS WERE RUSHED BY BUDDING JOURNALISM STUDENTS
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 About 100 budding reporters attended four J-Days in February and March to get the inside story on Journalism as a career.
The full-day sessions included a lecture on the role of journalists in different media, a news writing workshop, a guest lecture from a Gold Coast Bulletin journalist, and an afternoon of television news reading using the autocue facilities in the campus TV studio.
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PROF. PAUL WILSON JOINS LIST OF ICC EXPERTS
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 Prof. Paul Wilson has been appointed to the list of experts for the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a consultant in forensic psychology and criminology. The court only appoints experts after a thorough and comprehensive vetting process.
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NEW BOOK OF CASES ON GLOBALISATION & WORLD POLITICS
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Dr Anne Cullen, Associate Dean and Head of the Humanities School at Bond, and Dr Stuart Murray, are celebrating the release of their new 224pp book of 34 case studies from Oxford University Press, a companion volume for The Globalisation of World Politics, by Patricia Owens, John Bayliss and Steve Smith, 4th edition, 2008. | |
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PhD CANDIDATES GET FINANCIAL HELP TO DO FIELDWORK
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To further support the Faculty's research students, nine PhD candidates have been awarded a fieldwork grant of up to $4,000 each from Humanities and Social Sciences funds:
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FOR PhD, TANYA NEVES PROBES WAYS PR IS PORTRAYED
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Tanya Neves’ PhD candidature in Public Relations at Bond has been confirmed at a face-to-face session with Communication and Media staff on Friday, February 29. Supervisor is Dr Emma Robinson.
Draft thesis title is “The (mis)representation of PR: portrayals of public relations on popular television and implications for student expectations”. | |
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LESLEY BROWN IS RESEARCHING TERRORISM IN SE ASIA
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Lesley Brown, now in the second year of her doctoral studies, has just completed field work in Indonesia and Singapore on her topic which explores the notion of a lifecycle of terrorism. | |
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JACKSON EWING STUDYING SECURITY RISKS IN CLIMATE CHANGE
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Jackson Ewing, a PhD candidate and Teaching Adjunct in International Relations, is currently in Southeast Asia on a field research grant. He emailed Humanities Faculty News with details of what he is doing there. | |
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AMBER McKINLEY-GEORGE SEEKS PhD ON HOMICIDE SOLVABILITY
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 At her PhD confirmation on Thursday, March 20, Amber McKinley-George presented her research regarding her topic “An Examination of Clearance Rates and Homicide Solvability in Australia”. Her supervisors are Prof. Paul Wilson and Assistant Prof. Wayne Petherick.
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ANIMAL INSTINCTS FILM WINS IN WOLLONGONG AND SEATTLE
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Cameron Edser and Michael Richards, Directors of the Bond-produced graduation film Animal Instincts, have collected prizes at two more film festivals. On March 28 they were presented with the Thomson Young Innovator of the Year Award at the opening night of the National Film Festival for Talented Youth held in Seattle.
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CARA DORGAN GETS DREAM JOB IN NEW YORK ADVERTISING
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 Cara Dorgan, a graduate of Bond Senior Teaching Fellow Petra Goor's Advertising classes, has emailed Petra to say she has got her dream start in New York City advertising: "I got the job at Neo@Ogilvy, thanks in part I'm sure to your recommendation letter.
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WHAT A WEIRD AMAZING RACE, THIS BONDY 500!
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by Anna-Lee Bridgstock
While standing at Surfers Paradise bus depot on Sunday March 9, I realised that it was no ordinary day. While it's true that an 'ordinary' experience in Surfers is sometimes rather extraordinary, Sunday was a scene that would stop traffic and startle many in their paths.
Around the corner, through the car park and dodging a police car came a trail of dead brides, cannibals, 'hobos', pit stop workers and many other strange groups of young Bondies competing in the Bondy 500 this first trimester.
Highlights of the day: Starting at the eating challenge, the eager beavers chowed down on the rare delicacies of raw eggs, cooked liver, green spaghetti and - wait for it - Yogo and vegetables in a (clean) baby diaper.
- Shout-outs go to The Pingers who swiped up a parking ticket….for parking on the wrong side of the road, facing the wrong way.
- An honourable mention goes out to The Cannibals who had the police park them into their illegal park. Perhaps it was the fact they had the inconspicuous name, the ‘CANNIBALS’, written on their windshield....nothing sus.
The HSA judges were gobsmacked at the scavenger items that teams dug up (literally). A couple of our executive (who shall remain nameles - our President and Treasurer) were thrilled when a team found the never-before-seen episodes of Gossip Girl. However to their dismay, it was a blank CD with the episode titles written on it - ingenious.
I was impressed by the number of bags of dust that teams handed in! Simple minds, I guess.
The winners
Overall winners: Team Canta, known by the rest of the team as Team 11. Although they completed the final pool task second, this team proved that scavenger items can make all the difference. Team Canta took out the title of the overall Bondy 500 081 winners, with a whopping 985 out of 1000 possible scavenger points.
Overall runners-up: The Hobos aka Cezy, Troy, Ben Mack and Deb Horsley took out runners up with another whopping scavenger score, bumping their time down to second place.
Theme winners: The team Just Killed killed the opposition in the theme contest. Donned in wedding dresses, white makeup, teased hair and riding in a four-wheel drive dressed as a wedding car, Just Killed stole the show.
They also deserve a special mention for having the most inventive form of scavenger items: well done for your creativity! |
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| NEW MULTI-MEDIA CENTRE SET FOR MAY OFFICIAL OPENING |
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The Multimedia Learning Centre in the old Art Gallery space of the Humanities and Social Sciences building is ready for the official opening in May and is indeed the spectacular learning environment originally envisaged. 
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| ADVERTISING TEAMS FIND NEW PLOYS TO BOOST STUDY ABROAD |
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Teaching Fellow Susie Ting is assessing 13 keen teams comprising a total of 55 students in two Advertising subjects this semester 081. Teams of two to five are competing to present their potential campaigns for Bond's Study Abroad program.
PROF. HICKS HEADS FOR PSYCHOLOGY CONFAB—IN DISNEYLAND
Bond Psychology Professor Richard Hicks is attending two conferences during a three-week overseas trip. The first is the annual convention of the California Psychological Association, April 3-6 at Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim.
DIABETES STUDY SEEKS ADULT VOLUNTEERS
Dr Kavita Kasana from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine (phone 07 5595 4432) is seeking volunteers with type 2 diabetes to participate in a research study. Volunteers must be 18 years or older and willing to undertake a directed exercise program (mainly walking) for 12 months.
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NEXT ISSUE: ITEMS NEEDED
To contribute, please email Dr Richard Phillipps on rphillip@bond.edu.au or call him on 0427 392 568.
STOP PRESS: JOURNALISM STUDENT BRIDIE JABOUR SELECTED FOR 2020 SUMMIT
Congratulations to Bond's John Burton Cadetship Scholarship student Bridie Jabour, cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin, who has been selected as a participant in the Prime Minister's Australia 2020 Summit. The summit is being held in Parliament House, Canberra, on April 19 and 20.
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Two Doctors of Philosophy and one Doctor of Psychology received their awards at the graduation ceremony on Saturday, February 2: Dr Helene Forscher, PhD, Dr Moyna Glenn Goold, PsyD, and Dr Lee Stubbs, PhD.
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