Associate Professor Roger Patching has just published the second edition of his co-authored Journalism Ethics - Arguments and Cases (Oxford University Press).

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.

Genevieve’s paper is titled “Can work preferences (personality based) differentiate between employees scoring high or low in general mental health?”. Serena’s paper is  “Do smoking cues make you want to smoke? And is it your parents’ fault?”.  Jacqui Yoxall, Teaching Fellow and PhD scholar, presented a paper on “Detection of malingering: a survey of Australian psychologists’ current practices”.

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.

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. 

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.

Kirsty Noffke, 19, Bond Journalism undergraduate, has started as a cadet journalist at the Fassifern Guardian. 

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.

Journalism graduate Emma Chalmers, City Hall reporter at The Courier-Mail, is back in Brisbane after working in London.

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.

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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".

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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. 

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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. 

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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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