On Friday February 11, Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Professor Raoul Mortley welcomed almost 400 students and guests to the Cerum Theatre, for the 2010 September semester Dean’s Awards ceremony.

265 awards were presented on the evening to the top achieving students across all subjects in the Faculty, as well as those students who made the Dean’s and Vice-Chancellors’ Lists of Academic Excellence.

After three months of extensive building work, renovations have recently been completed on Levels 1 and 2 of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences side of the Arch Building. The renovations provided a fresh outlook to many existing offices and reconfigured other administration spaces to incorporate a new meeting room and storage areas. 

The Psychology Clinic is newly located on the ground level of Building 4 and staff now have the use of new consultation rooms, a teaching classroom, observation rooms and an updated learning library.

When Carly Sheehan graduated with a degree in International Relations at Bond University in 2002, she went straight to Canberra with her qualifications in hand and an eagerness to work in a government role as a foreign officer.  Once she arrived however, she was faced with the harsh reality that obtaining work in those roles was scarce and fiercely competitive.  

Carly returned to university, completing a Master of International Affairs at the Australian National University while working in an Australian Government department unrelated to her field.  Following her graduation, Carly began working for the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID,) an agency that coordinates a non-government organisation lobby which helped individual groups to achieve a common voice.  At ACFID Carly liaised with a number of people who were employed in international non-government organisations involved with the coordination of medical aid, securing food and water and in the reconstruction efforts after large natural disasters or political problems. 

Realising that her true passion involved work overseas, Carly applied for a role in the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Program.  She was successful and was posted to Bangladesh with CARE Bangladesh to assess the impact of projects and report on these for the purposes of internal learning and promotion to donors.

Carly is currently working for Oxfam Great Britain as a roving Information Manager, a role new to the organisation.  From her base in Australia, she has already been sent to Mexico and Guatemala to train field officers.  Where she goes next is up to Oxfam and the world’s hotspots.

A number of Film and Television students recently entered short films in a competition to market one of Australia’s fastest growing franchises, “Espresso Essential – Coffee for Life”. From the four that entered, the final winner was determined by the amount of Youtube votes their film received.

Winners were announced at the Gala Awards Dinner hosted by the Essential Brands Group on 2 March. The winning video can be seen on YouTube on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZKXJX3CCU

A group of Bond current film and television students and alumni have taken out the 2011 Optus 180 prize for best student production.

Neon a film about a brilliant 21 year old criminology student who leads a double life as one of the Gold Coast’s most prolific drug traffickers, was created by the group of Bond film and television students and alumni. From a pool of hundreds of entered films, Neon won the student prize for best production. Directed by Milan Gandhi, Neon took out the overall student prize of $5,000 which was shared by Milan with his team – Cameron Suardana, Shane Kang, Kelly Chen, Mason Hoffman, Shanan Hound Withers, Jas Gill, Lawrence Cercone, Dipesh Parmar, the cast and rest of the crew. Other prizes awarded to the team included a Samsung Galaxy Tab and a Samsung Galaxy S Handset with a $30 Optus SIM Card pack.