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 Colleagues and Faculty friends,
Welcome to the Christmas edition of Humanities Faculty News. 2007 has been another successful year for the Faculty and our staff and students. With the year drawing to an end the faculty has seen many more successes.
Amazing films were shown at the final year screening for our Film and Television students, and BUFTA (Bond University Film and Television Awards) showed us there is some great up-and-coming talent in this area. Congratulations to all the finalists and entrants, and thank you for making this year’s event a huge success.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff, students, families and other supporters of the faculty for their hard work and support throughout the year.
I wish every member of our community a safe and merry Christmas, as well as a happy and prosperous new year. We look forward to bringing you more stories of success in 2008!
Raoul Raoul Mortley AO, Dean
BOND COLLEGE FIRST INTAKE IS GRADUATING
Bond College ’s first intake will commence their undergraduate studies in January 2008. Ten students, who commenced the Bond College foundation program in May 2007, will be entering the University in January 2008. The inaugural Bond College graduation will be held in early February.
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RED TERROR WINS THREE AWARDS AT END-OF-YEAR SCREENINGS
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There were nine graduating students’ films in the class of 2008 run by Teaching Fellow Judy Hamilton. Red Terror, a drama, won production design, direction (Joel Jonnson), sound (Paul Browning), and tied for most popular audience film.
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GRADUATES' FILM KILL BULJO HITS THE BIG TIME!
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 A low budget feature film written, produced and directed by Bond University Film and Television graduates, has become an unlikely international success. Kill Buljo, a parody of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, is the brainchild of Bond University Film and Television alumnus Tommy Wirkola who co-wrote and co-produced the film in Norway.
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VC's QUALITY AWARDS HONOUR DR DELLIOS AND DR PETHERICK
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 At Professor Robert Stable's annual Staff Christmas function on December 7, he presented his Vice-Chancellor's Quality Awards to recognise excellence in teaching, research, postgraduate supervision, and outstanding service. Two awards went to Humanities and Social Sciences staff:
International Relations Associate Professor Dr Rosita Dellios, for postgraduate supervision
Criminology Assistant Professor  Dr Wayne Petherick (pictured centre), for teaching Excellence, sharing the award with Associate Professor Terry Gygar (left) of the Law Faculty. | |
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MELBOURNE STUDENT's COMEDY FREQUENCY WINS BUFTA
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 Winner of the 2007 Bond University Film and Television Awards (BUFTAs) scholarship, to study a Bachelor of Film and TV, was James Base of Melbourne for his comedy submission of Frequency. James scooped top honours at these 11th annual BUFTAs, winning a full tuition scholarship, valued at almost $75,000, which he will take up after he graduates from high school at the end of 2008.
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BOND STUDENTS TEST FURY, A NEW COMPUTER GAME
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Bond University Bachelor of Multimedia and Bachelor of Computer Games students have taken their first steps toward working in the digital media industries with two important industry linkages - taking part in quality testing a new Auran studios game called Fury, and visiting another digital media company. | |
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DREAMWORLD's TIGER ISLAND HOSTED FACULTY CHRISTMAS PARTY
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The Faculty's Christmas function, organised by Executive Support Officer (Events) Anoushka Douglas, was held at the Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld. Two of the attraction's Bengal tigers went through their paces, then after food and drinks the Dean, Prof. Raoul Mortley, acknowledged staff who have been with Humanities and Social Sciences or with BUELI for more than 15 years.
Pictures from the night are included in the print-friendly pdf version of this newsletter. |
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PSYCHOLOGY SHINES AT SYDNEY PERSONALITY CONFERENCE
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Bond student Justine Ebenreuter and her supervisor, Prof. Richard Hicks, gave papers at the sixth Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences at Sydney's Macquarie University this month. | |
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BOND'S GRADUATES IN JAPAN WELCOME ALICIA AND DEBBORAH
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Alicia Vallero and Debborah Smith attended the Independent Learning Association Conference at Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan. Conference theme was: “Exploring theory, enhancing practice: Autonomy across the disciplines”.
"Whilst in Tokyo we had the opportunity to catch up with ex-Bondies," Debborah said.
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ALANA BRADY TAKES UP NEW MARKETING ROLE
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Alana Brady has joined the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty as Marketing and Student Liaison Officer. Alana comes to us from Somerset College where she worked in community relations for three years. | |
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KYRRIE IS LOVING THE COURT ROUNDS AT CHANNEL 9, DARWIN
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Bond Journalism graduate Kyrrie Blenkinsop has emailed her former lecturers Prof. Mark Pearson and Assoc. Prof. Roger Patching that life in Darwin is great: "I'm loving the court rounds at Channel 9," she writes. | |
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NICK JONSSON LEADS VIETNAM HELMET PARADE
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 Bond Public Relations Masters graduate Nick Jonsson (class of 2004, who took out the PRIA award for best student project with his Make-a-Wish charity golf day, raising $18,500) has left London public relations and is now area sales manager for Oriflame Cosmetics in Vietnam.
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SCOTT KNIGHT GETS CASH TO RESEARCH GAMES HISTORY
Computer Games and Film Assistant Professor Scott Knight has been awarded a research commission from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image to write a history of the Australian computer games industry to be part of the national Game On exhibition which will open in March 2008 in Melbourne. 
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POLITICAL SPIN AND BLOGS INVESTIGATED AT SYDNEY CONFERENCE
Prof. Mark Pearson, Head of Journalism and Director, Centre for New Media Research and Education, Assoc. Prof. Roger Patching and Dr Richard Phillipps presented papers at the Public Right to Know conference at University of Technology, Sydney.
PROF. PEARSON SAYS THE COURTS ARE SCANDALISING MEDIA FREEDOM
Journalism Prof. Mark Pearson presented a paper titled "Scandalising media freedom: resurrection of an ancient contempt" to the refereed stream of the Journaliam Education of New Zealand conference at Massey University, Wellington, this month.
ENGLISH HELP CENTRE NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK
The Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty's English Help Centre, aiding particularly those students from a non-English-speaking background, has been operating five days a week for the final semester of 2007, after being at four days a week in semester two. The three part-time staff this semester have been Susan Macfarlane, Shirley Brown and Jessica Iannacci.
The Dean, Prof. Raoul Mortley, has confirmed that the Centre will also operate five days a week in first semester 2008.
The English Help Centre offers help with:
- understanding assignment questions,
- essay organisation and structure,
- grammar, reading pronunciation, writing and listening skills.
The Centre has its own web page. Its email address is englishhelp@bond.edu.au.
HUMANITIES STUDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS
JULIAN LAMBERTIN IS HSA's POSTGRAD LIAISON DIRECTOR
The Humanities Students Association has chosen Julian Alexander Lambertin, who is studying for his Master of Communication, as its Postgraduate Liaison Director for 2007-08.
WHERE YOU'LL FIND THE DEAN'S AWARDS PHOTOS
A selection of the last Dean's Awards photos by Teaching Fellow Mike Grenby (with captions added) can be found in the print-friendly pdf version of Humanities Faculty News, Vol. 4 Issue 3, which can be accessed via the Faculty newsletters' web page.
NEW EVENT: ALL THAT JAZZ
This semester the HSA organised a new event which sold out quickly: All That Jazz. Bond's classy young men and women donned 1920s 'Chicago'-themed outfits and enjoyed Heineken, bubbly champagne, wine and Baileys.
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FIRST ISSUE FOR 2008 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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