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Colleagues and Faculty friends,
Welcome to the third edition for the year of Humanities Faculty News. This web edition also comes in print-friendly pdf form. This month we welcome new staff to our administrative team:
Anouschka Douglas has joined us as the new Faculty Executive Support Officer (Events)
Courtney Martin is the new Business Development Manager and will be looking after Faculty internships
Fiona Lythgoe is the new Education Placement Coordinator looking after placements for our postgraduate Education students
Also, welcome back Mandei Singh. Mandei has returned on a part-time basis from maternity leave as Business Manager.
This issue includes news on research, staff, student and alumni activities. I congratulate everyone on their achievements.
Raoul Raoul Mortley AO, Dean
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MARIE-CLAIRE PATRON TURNS PhD RESEARCH INTO A BOOK
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Marie-Claire Patron, Head of French and Spanish at Bond, has a new 330pp book out, Culture and Identity in Study Abroad Contexts. It is subtitled After Australia, French without France, is published by Peter Lang and sells for $US 79.95.The book examines the effects of a study abroad experience on students’ culture and identity and the impact of these effects on their readjustment to their home culture. It explores issues of culture and identity from the perspective of French students studying in Australia.
"I am particularly pleased that the book, a research monograph, has been published so soon after my PhD," Marie-Claire said. "I graduated in August 2006 after having completed my PhD in less than three years part time. Lecturer in Intercultural Communication Peter Meggitt has selected my book as one of the texts for required reading." |
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ROGER PATCHING'S ETHICS BOOK RUNS TO SECOND EDITION
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 Associate Professor Roger Patching has just published the second edition of his co-authored Journalism Ethics - Arguments and Cases (Oxford University Press).
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PSYCHOLOGY MASTERS STUDENTS SPOKE AT APS CONFERENCE
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Two of our current Masters of Psychology students, Genevieve Colling and Serena Thorpe, together with Professor Richard Hicks their supervisor, had their refereed papers accepted for the Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference in Brisbane, September 25-30. As well, their papers will appear in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the APS Conference. | |
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JEFF BRAND WOWS PRIA IN BRISBANE WITH TALK ON NEW MEDIA
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 Associate Dean Jeff Brand, Head of Communication and Media, gave a talk in Brisbane last month to the Public Relations Institute of Australia about what he termed the "citizen audience". "Multicultural online Australia is creating a new public," he said.
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PETER MEGGITT, SINGING VILLAIN, STARS IN OAKLAHOMA!
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 Peter Meggitt, adjunct Teaching Fellow in Communication and Media, starred as Jud Fry in the musical Oaklahoma! at Tweed Civic Centre last semester. Peter lectures in Intercultural Communication, also Communication Research Seminar and tutors in Human Communication and Theoretical Constructs of Human Communication.
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HAMISH McLEAN VOTED TOP PRESENTER IN CRISIS FORUM
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 Universities, corporate delegates and government representatives from Australia, Singapore and New Zealand voted Bond Public Relations lecturer Hamish McLean top presenter for content and presentation at a national crisis management workshop in August.
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DR SHIRLEENE ROBINSON ENTHUSES CHINESE ABOUT AUSTRALIA
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 Dr Shirleene Robinson, who lectures in Australian Studies, was one of those Bond staff who visited China earlier this year. While there she helped stage Australia Week in Inner Mongolia.
"There are 20 Australian Studies centres in China - more than any other country, including Australia, has," Shirleene said. "I gave seminar papers at the East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University, also spent more time at Remin University in Beijing and the University of Inner Mongolia in Hohhot.
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BIG TURNOUT OF STUDENTS, PARENTS, STAFF FOR DEAN'S AWARDS
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 Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Prof. Raoul Mortley, AO, welcomed a great turnout of families and winning students, also staff, for the September 28 Dean's Awards Night in the Cerum Theatre.
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BUFTA COMPETITION BECOMES BIGGER AND BETTER
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For its 12th year of competition, there have been changes to Bond University Film and Television Awards for 2007: BUFTA is now open to year 11 and 12 school and college students only. | |
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GREEN FILM FEST PRIZES AWARDED TO TWO BOND STUDENTS
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Two Bond Film and TV students took out top prizes at the Shorts on the Green Film Festival held at the Surfers Paradise Circle on Cavill retail district. | |
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NEWSPAPER INTERN WINS CADETSHIP
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Kirsty Noffke, 19, Bond Journalism undergraduate, has started as a cadet journalist at the Fassifern Guardian. | |
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CRIMINOLOGY ALUMNI GRADUATE AS PAROLE OFFICERS
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Georgia Brookes and Tim Kurz, two recent graduates from the Bond Criminology program, are among the first 40 officers across Queensland to complete the state's new Probation and Parole Reporting Officer Development Program. | |
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GRADUATES FIND TV AND PRINT JOURNALISM JOBS
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Journalism graduate Emma Chalmers, City Hall reporter at The Courier-Mail, is back in Brisbane after working in London. | |
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| THREE LUNCHTIME FRIDAY SEMINARS |
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has lined up Professor Duncan Chappell, Michael Otterman and Des Clark for three 12-1pm Friday seminars in C3C01 this semester (45 minutes plus questions). Bring your own lunch. The first is:
Friday, October 19: “Crime, Justice and the Mentally Ill” by Professor Duncan Chappell
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NEW TEAM LEADS HUMANITIES STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
A new team has been elected to lead the HSA for the next year.
BOND STUDENTS VISIT JAPANESE FIRMS
Twenty Australian and Japanese students from Bond University had first-hand observation of working in a cross-cultural environment when they went to Sydney in July. Associate Professor and Coordinator of Japanese Studies Dr Masako Gavin took them to visit four major Japanese institutions there.
MIKE GRENBY TURNS WALLFLOWERS INTO SUNFLOWERS
 Mike Grenby, who has lectured Bond students in Public Speaking since 1999, has been awarded one of the prizes in the Carrick Institute for Teaching in Higher Education. The Australian Higher Education supplement notes that Grenby is an academic "who turns wallflowers into sunflowers".
NEW CHALLENGE FOR JOY CAMERON-DOW
Joy Cameron-Dow has moved from Journalism teaching to run core subject Communication Skills now that Wayne Murphy has moved to QUT.
ON-THE-SPOT SOCCER RESEARCH
 Associate Professor of Public Relations Maria Hopwood took a group of students to Brisbane in September to see the the Queensland Roar FC v Sydney FC soccer match.
PHILLIPPS FACES COURT
On Wednesday, September 12, Bond's newest Justice of the Peace (Qualified) was sworn in at Coolangatta Magistrates' Court: Humanities News editor Dr Richard Phillipps.
SAM SHINES AT SPEAKING JAPANESE
Japanese Studies is pleased to announce that Sam McDonald came first at the Queensland Japanese Speech Competition. |
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ISSUE FOUR UNDER WAY
To contribute, just email Dr Richard Phillipps on rphillip@bond.edu.au or call him on 0427 392 568.
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