Staff Notices: 19 - 23 March 2007

Table of Contents

• Uni in the News
• General Information for Staff
• Events
• Training and Development Opportunities
• Information for Researchers

Uni in the News

Breakthrough broadband network launched
Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop launched the $7.5 million South Australian Broadband Research and Education Network in Adelaide, which involved laying an ultra high speed, high volume fibre optic network capable of carrying up to 10 gigabits per second. SABRENet will link 27 institutions and allow the carriage of data, including bioscience research and complex medical information, via the network. SABRENet is the result of a collaboration between the three SA universities, Federal and State Governments and DSTO. Guest speakers included University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor James McWha.

Source: The Australian, 9 March 2007
Uni full story: Leaders welcome high-speed broadband for SA

General Information for Staff

IT Outages in March/April: impact on key services
ITS is currently engaged in a major program of improvements to services in addition to its ongoing maintenance program. A number of key services will be unavailable during 3 weekends around the mid-semester break:

• Friday 30 March 6:00pm to Sunday 1 April at 9:00pm (weekend only)
• Friday 13 April 6:00pm to Tuesday 17 April at 6:00pm (includes Monday & Tuesday)
• Friday 20 April 6:00pm to Sunday 22 April at 9:00pm (weekend only)

Several services will be unavailable for short periods from 30 March 6:00pm to 1 April (weekend only) including:

Saturday
Library Catalogue
Computer Science LDAP logins
Streaming Media
Student L: and P: drives
Sunday
MyUni including MapleTA, wikis, & streaming lectures
Student U: drives
Some University webpages
Syllabus Plus
Research Master
TRIM
Access Adelaide
PeopleSoft HR
PeopleSoft Student Admin
PeopleSoft Finance
Course Planner
Employee Services Online (ESO)

Download IT Outage March/April for services affected on the other two weekends. Additional information and updates will be available at: www.adelaide.edu.au/its/.

Stephen Cole the Elder Awards
The Awards were first presented in 1991, and are the University of Adelaide's premier teaching awards. Up to four Stephen Cole the Elder Awards (formerly Prizes) for Excellence in Teaching will be offered in 2007, each worth $8000. Both undergraduate and postgraduate coursework teams and teachers may be nominated.

The three categories of award are:

1. Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Early Career Teaching (five years or less)
2. Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Team Teaching
3. Stephen Cole the Elder Awards for Excellence in Teaching (more than five years)

Winners of a Stephen Cole the Elder Award are eligible for the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
Guidelines for the Stephen Cole the Elder Award are available online at: www.adelaide.edu.au/dvca/grants/ua/sce.html.
Information about writing your application is available at: www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/lta/grantsprizes/#stephencole.

Call for applications for Academic Promotion to Levels B and C
Staff and titleholders wishing to apply for promotion to Lecturer (Level B) or Senior Lecturer (Level C) are now invited to submit their applications.
Applicants should refer to the Policy and Guidelines, and the appropriate Position Classification Standards when preparing their application.
An application should be made on the approved application form and ONE full printed copy submitted to the Manager, Employee Services, by 5:00pm Friday 27 April 2007.
No supplementary information will be accepted from applicants after the closing date for applications, unless requested by the University.
Please note that applicants are responsible for contacting their own referees by forwarding their application, the appropriate position classification standard and the form letter requesting that the report be sent to Manager, Employee Services by Friday 11 May 2007.

The Policy, Guidelines and the toolkit applicable to the submission of applications are available for viewing at:
www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/148

Elections for student representatives to School Committees and Faculty Boards
During the week of Monday 2 to Thursday 5 April 2007 elections will be held for student representatives to Faculty Boards and School Committees. Further information at:
www.adelaide.edu.au/governance/council/elections/

Internal distribution of Adelaidean
With the new Adelaidean now out, the editor is seeking feedback from faculties, schools, disciplines and research centres about the internal distribution of Adelaidean.
Do you receive too many copies? Not enough? Has the name of your area changed?
Please provide all feedback to David Ellis in Marketing & Strategic Communications.
www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/

Vacant Positions
www.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/

Events

Research Tuesday with Professor Graeme Hugo
What does population change mean for business?
Date: Tuesday 10 April, 5:15pm for 5:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Napier Building (Lower Ground)
Free public seminar series.

Professor Graeme Hugo, a Federation Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, provides insights into what Australian population change means for business and the shifts in population which will have the greatest impact.

Bookings: research.tuesdays@adelaide.edu.au or phone 8303 3692.
For further information, visit the Research Tuesdays web site.

Ethics Centre of SA - Central Seminar Series
Beyond Bristol and Bundaberg: Should patients be given report cards on the performance of their surgeon?
Date: Tuesday 17 April, 3:30-4:30pm
Venue: Scots Centre, Cnr North Terrace and Pulteney Street
Free public seminar. All welcome.
Speaker: Associate Professor Justin Oakley, Director, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University

This presentation will outline several ethical arguments for providing surgeon report cards to patients, and consider how public reporting of surgeon performance can influence surgeon behaviour. Dr Oakley will also discuss some ethical arguments against publishing data on individual surgeons, focusing particularly on the concern, often raised, that public reporting of such data leads surgeons to avoid operating on high-risk patients.

For further information, download the attached flyer
RSVP to Danni Nicholas-Sexton, ECSA Project Officer or phone 8226 7291.

About ECSA: www.ecsa.edu.au or www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news8492.html

Law School Seminar Series - Semester 1, 2007
'A Market for Legal Claims? An examination of the Normative and Efficiency Grounds for Establishing Claim Alienability.'
Date: Monday 26 March
Speaker: Dr Vicki Waye

'The Combet Case and the appropriation of taxpayers' funds for political advertising - an erosion of fundamental principles?'
Date: Monday 30 April
Speaker: Professor Geoffrey Lindell

'Factoring Human Rights into Judicial Discretion: A Proposal for a Rebuttable Presumption at Common Law'
Date: Monday 21 May
Speaker: Dr Wendy Lacey

'Dixonian Strict Legalism'
Date: Wednesday 6 June
Speaker: John Gava

All seminars are held at 1:05pm in the Moot Court, Ligertwood Building. Sandwiches and light refreshments provided. Enquiries to John Gava.

Friends of the University of Adelaide Library
'Ruby Payne-Scott: a woman scientist in a man's world'
Date: Thursday 22 March, 6:00pm for 6:30pm
Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library
Speaker: Dr Miller Goss
www.adelaide.edu.au/library/news/events/goss.html

Barr Smith Discovery Series
'Joyce Cary: a varied life'
Date: Thursday 29 March, 1:05pm
Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library
Speaker: Tristram Cary
www.adelaide.edu.au/library/news/events/cary.html

Admission is free: gold coin donation invited. Bookings to Karen Hickman, phone 8303 4064.

School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Title: Statistical convergence of sequences of complex numbers with application to Fourier series
Date: Friday 23 March, 3:10pm
Venue: G08, Mathematics Building
Speaker: Professor Ferenc Moricz (University of Szeged, Hungary)
All welcome.

Further information on School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium webpage: www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/news/events.php
Enquiries to Jonathan Tuke.

Classical Association
'The ecology of vices and virtues: animal motifs in early Christianity'
Date: Monday 2 April, 6:00pm for 6:30pm
Venue: Council Room, Level 7, Wills Building
Speaker: Dr Peter Hill
Enquiries to Ron Newbold.

Beyond Oil SA regular meeting and film screening
Date: Tuesday 27 March, 6:00pm
Venue: Rennie Lecture Theatre

Beyond Oil SA will have regular meetings at 6:00pm and free film screenings from 6:30pm on the 4th Tuesday of each month. On 27 March we will screen a lecture by Richard Heinberg titled 'Peak Oil - Challenge and Opportunity' recorded at the Fuelling the Future conference in Kinsale, Ireland in 2005 followed by the film Crude Impact (which describes how oil influences all aspects of our lives).
For further information, contact Dr Michael Lardelli or phone 8303 3212.

Training & Development Opportunities

Student Academic Development Workshops
One-hour workshops for students on writing, speaking and general study skills at University including:

Venue: CLPD, Level 2, Schulz Building
For further information, visit the Language and Learning Service web site.

Planning and Development Review - have you attended a training session?
As part of the University of Adelaide's staff development program, the Centre for Learning and Professional Development is running training sessions for staff in Planning and Development Review (PDR). The PDR process provides a formal framework for discussion between managers/supervisors and staff members. Staff on continuing and fixed term contracts of 12 months or more should attend training.

The next training session will be held on:
Date: Tuesday 3 April, 1:00-4:00pm
Venue: CLPD, Level 2, Schulz Building (map).
For more information and to enrol, visit the PDR webpage.

Designing activity based learning in MyUni
The second in the Effective Use of MyUni series of workshops for 2007, it will focus on techniques for designing activity based learning in MyUni.
Date: Friday 30 March, 10:00am-12:00pm
Venue: SITTS 2, Level 2, 10 Pulteney St

For further information, visit the MyUni Support web site. To book into the workshop email Online Education.

University of Adelaide Governance
The first University Management Program seminar for 2007 will be presented by Heather Karmel, Council Secretary. Morning tea from 9:45am. All staff are welcome to attend.

Date: Tuesday 20 March, 10:00am-12:00noon
Venue: Hoods Room, Level 1, University Staff Club

To register visit the CLPD's University Management Practices Seminars web site.
For further information please email Janet Hart or phone 8303 3130.

Meeting Organisation
This development workshop is designed for staff who are required to take minutes at meetings. It will include making meeting arrangements; preparing documentation for meetings; and recording and producing minutes of the meeting, incorporating the use of University templates. Facilitated by Heather Karmel, Council Secretary.

Date: Wednesday 21 March, 2:00-4:00pm
Venue: CLPD, Level 2, Schulz Building (map)

Book online from the Organisational and Staff Development web site.
For further information, please email Janet Hart or phone 8303 3130.

Negotiation for Success 16 & 17 April - Adelaide Graduate School of Business
If you are a middle to senior manager or professional, this program will help you to improve your negotiation skills.
Effective negotiators understand the importance of preparation, which includes an understanding of the needs of the other party before the negotiation begins. Highly successful negotiators know how to deal with conflict, use influential language; and understand the key elements of negotiation; and they negotiate for mutual gain.

10% discount for University of Adelaide staff.
For further information, email: Mary Quinless or phone 8303 3268.
www.agsb.adelaide.edu.au/execed/mdp/negotiation/

PCE Short Courses
Professional and Continuing Education (PCE) are offering the following Professional Development Courses:

Contract Management (2 days)
Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 March

Designing the Perfect Corporate Occasion
Friday 23 March

Confident and Persuasive Presentations
Tuesday 27 March

Being an Effective Team Member
Wednesday 28 March

5% discount for University of Adelaide staff.

For further information or to enrol please email Nicolle Kelly or phone 8303 7502, or visit our web site at: www.adelaide.edu.au/pce to view our extensive program offering.

Information for Researchers

Adelaide Research & Innovation
The latest 'commUNIcate RESEARCH' newsletter is available online.

Research Branch
See the Research Branch newsletter for the latest information on major grant rounds and information sessions, a selection of competitive grants and prizes now open for application and other research-related news.