Staff Notices: 26 - 30 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

A wonderful underwater world explored
Twenty of the University of Adelaide's Marine Biology students toured the Port Noarlunga reefs as an introduction to diving. Gerald Buttfield, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said staff tried to get students into the water as soon as possible. "It's a useful way of highlighting what marine biology is really about - understanding the marine environment, the effects of what people are doing and trying to get the data that enables us to reverse some of that or at least to stop it," Mr Buttfield said.

Source: The Advertiser, 19 March 2007

General Information for Staff

Energy Management & Sustainability Update

Staff are reminded that the University of Adelaide is committed to actively managing energy usage and efficiency. The University is becoming more aware of the cost of energy and its efficient use, in particular electricity and natural gas. An Energy Projects Coordinating Group has been established to oversee energy projects across the University. The group has the following broad targets relating to energy:

• Secure reliable electrical energy supply on the best available commercial terms
• Increase the University's knowledge about its use of energy including greenhouse gas emissions
• Reduce the per capita use of energy
• Increase the efficiency with which electrical energy is used
• Minimise transmission costs
• Ensure regulatory compliance

The University has conducted an Energy Audit of all four campuses and the National Wine Centre. The audit identified a comprehensive range of potential energy saving opportunities with an aggregate potential savings of over $1 million. The audit has been used in identifying and prioritising energy management projects including:

Greenhouse Challenge
The Vice-Chancellor & President has approved a recommendation that the University joins the Commonwealth's Greenhouse Challenge. Apart from providing a focus for energy use reduction and energy efficiency initiatives, the Greenhouse Challenge helps members to build their capacity to measure and monitor greenhouse gas emissions.

A Cooperative Agreement between the University and the Commonwealth is being drafted.

Installation of Electricity Metering Equipment
The University has appointed an independent Meter Provider, enabling us to monitor electricity use at all thirty-six connection points. The University now has the capacity to continuously monitor energy consumption on an almost real-time basis.

Power Factor Correction - download Case Study
Power Factor is a measure of the efficiency of connection to the electricity network. Progressively the University is improving the power factor at a number of its major connection points. So far it has spent $150,000 in power factor improvement projects. The total estimated cost to complete appropriate power factor remediation in 2007 is $150,000.

Control of Room Air-Conditioners - download Case Study
The University has around 850 wall-mounted room air-conditioners on North Terrace Campus. Potentially these could consume 10% or more of the University's total power consumption. This project involves installation of automatic, time-based control over the individual units.The first phase of this project involves control of 100 Room Air-Conditioners in the Hughes and Benham buildings at a cost of around $25,000.

Evolution of Artificial Lighting requirements at the University - download Case Study
More than 200 light fittings were installed with new "T5" fluorescent lamp (high efficiency, low energy) technologies throughout the refurbished areas of the Physics Building in 2004/05.
Motion and time smart controls are provided for Lighting to Napier Building Common Teaching Areas - download Case Study

Building Management System (BMS) Network - download Case Study
Property Services is investing in the integrated North Terrace Campus BMS Network. This will result in the coordinated monitoring and control of major electrical and mechanical services to buildings or clusters of buildings.

HVAC Heat Recovery System - download Case Study
A new heating, ventilation and air condition (HVAC) heat recovery system at the Medical School South, Laboratory Animal Services Facility will help Property Services staff and maintenance Service Providers improve their understanding and control of building HVAC costs and thereby reduce energy consumption.

Water and waste management
A number of initiatives are underway to save water and recycle paper.

For further information or advice, contact Bill Aukett, Energy Procurement and Management Team.

IT Outages in March/April: impact on key services

Information Technology Services is currently managing 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 as follows:

• 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)

Details of services affected for each weekend of maintenance/service improvement are as follows:

30 March from 6:00pm - 1 April
Several services will be unavailable for short periods during this outage including:

Saturday

• Library Catalogue (Voyager)
• PeopleSoft Finance
• Streaming Media

Sunday

• Access Adelaide
• Course Planner
• Employee Services Online (ESO)
• MyUni including MapleTA, wikis, & streaming lectures
• PeopleSoft HR, Finance & Student Admin
• Research Master
• Student U:, L: & P: drives
• Syllabus Plus
• TRIM
• Some University webpages (restricted content)

Other services which are unlikely to affect staff will also be unavailable for part of the weekend. A full list can be found at: www.adelaide.edu.au/its/cab/mw/07mmw1b.html

13 April from 6:00pm - 17 April
The following services will be unavailable during this outage:

• Access Adelaide
• Animal Ethics
• Calendar
• Course Planner
• Email and Webmail
• MyUni including MapleTA, wikis, & streaming lectures
• Password change web site
• Remote access (Dialup, VPN, Wireless)
• Various University web sites (where content is restricted)

Other services that will be available during this upgrade include: desktop login, file access (U:, V: and J: drives), printing, Internet access/web proxy, PeopleSoft Finance, HR and Student Admin and Employee Services Online (ESO). Very brief outages in some of these services may be experienced.

We recommend that all staff give some thought to the planning of work tasks to be performed on 16 and 17 April when some key online services are likely to be unavailable.

We also recommend that course coordinators avoid setting assessment deadlines that rely on online services from 13 April through to 20 April. If it is necessary to set deadlines at this time, contingency plans should be in place and communicated to students from the start of teaching.

Additional information and updates are available at: www.adelaide.edu.au/its/projects/infrastructure/april_outage/

20 April from 6:00pm - 22 April
Several services will be unavailable for short periods during this outage including:

Friday after 6:00pm & Saturday

• MyUni including MapleTA, wikis, & streaming lectures
• Streaming Media

Saturday

• Access Adelaide
• Calendar
• Course Planner
• Data Warehouse
• Employee Services Online (ESO)
• Mailman email lists
• MyUni including MapleTA, wikis, & streaming lectures
• Password change web site
• PeopleSoft HR, Finance and Student Admin
• Printing in student labs
• Remote access (Dialup, VPN, Wireless)
• Voice mail
• Webdev (Dreamweaver, TMS and ftp access)

Other services which are unlikely to affect staff will also be unavailable for part of the weekend. A full list can be found at: www.adelaide.edu.au/its/cab/mw/07mmw1b.html

If you have any questions or concerns relating to this work and how it may affect services you use, please contact the ITS Helpdesk - phone 8303 3000 or email: helpdesk@adelaide.edu.au in the first instance.

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/hr/policies/prom_class/

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. For further information, download: www.adelaide.edu.au/governance/council/elections/

Vacant Positions

www.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/

Events

UniSuper Seminar Program

Staff are invited to attend these FREE seminars presented by UniSuper:

2007 Super Opportunities: Opportunities before and after 1 July 2007
Date: Wednesday 11 April, 12:00noon-1:00pm
Venue: Johnson Labs, G29 Rennie Lecture Theatre

In the May 2006 Federal Budget superannuation received significant attention. The Treasurer announced plans to radically overhaul the way super operates. This seminar will provide information relating to the Government Budget proposals and it will also highlight the opportunities that members will have before and after 1 July 2007.

Salary Sacrifice - Does it work for you?
Date: Wednesday 11 April, 1:15-2:00pm
Venue: Johnson Labs, G29 Rennie Lecture Theatre

Salary sacrifice is a popular way of making extra contributions to your super. This seminar will provide information on tax-effective ways to build your benefits, Super Co-contribution and practical examples on how salary sacrifice can work on different income levels.

To register your attendance, visit the UniSuper web site.

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.

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.

In developing business strategy, population size, composition and distribution is regarded as a static background. Yet the Australian population is changing in a myriad of ways, all of which have implications for the evolving demand for goods and services. Identifying, and especially anticipating, change in population can prove invaluable to businesses seeking to gain and maintain a competitive edge.

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

Don Dunstan Foundation Program, April 2007

Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change through Green Productivity with Heinz-Werner Engel
Date: Tuesday 3 April, 5:15pm for 5:30pm
Venue: Room 102, First Floor, Napier Building
Free seminar.

Food Justice in South Australia: From the ground up with Professor Fran Baum and Zannie Flannagan
Date: Thursday 19 April, 5:15pm for 5:30pm
Venue: Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia
Cost: $20 (incl GST), $16 (incl GST) for DDF Subscribers

Bookings to Josie Covino or phone 8303 3364.
For further information, visit: www.dunstan.org.au

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
Speaker: Associate Professor Justin Oakley, Director, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University
Free public seminar.

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

'A Market for Legal Claims? An examination of the Normative and Efficiency Grounds for Establishing Claim Alienability.'
Date: Monday 26 March, 1:05pm
Venue: Moot Court, Ligertwood Building
Speaker: Dr Vicki Waye, Law School

Traditionally legal claim commodification has been prohibited. However, this paper considers whether, contrary to current legal convention, claimholders should be able to sell their claims to litigation entrepreneurs, who are better placed to aggregate the claims and prosecute them. The paper argues that commodification is a matter which is largely culturally constructed, and that there are few normative or economic reasons warranting a ban on claim sale.

Enquiries to John Gava or phone 8303 4451.

Friends of the University of Adelaide Library
Barr Smith Discovery Series

A warrant to the Great Wardrobe for your Majesty's Maundy
Date: Thursday 19 April, 1:05pm
Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library
Speaker: Dr Helen Payne, Visiting Research Fellow, School of History and Politics
Free public seminar.

The Barr Smith Library holds an original warrant signed by Queen Elizabeth I on 16 March 1579. Dr Helen Payne's presentation on this document, its context and significance, offers a fascinating glimpse into the tradition of the Maundy ceremony held on Easter Thursday, as it was both prepared for and practised at Elizabeth's court.

Bookings to Karen Hickman or phone 8303 4064.
For further information, visit: www.adelaide.edu.au/library/news/events/payne.html

Classical Association

'The ecology of vices and virtues: animal motifs in early Christianity'
Date: Monday 2 April, 8:00pm
Venue: Council Room, Level 7, Wills Building
Speaker: Dr Peter Hill
Enquiries to Ron Newbold.

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.

Student Expectations Survey 2007

First year students attending introductory lectures in 2007 were surveyed on their expectations of study at the University of Adelaide. The results have been posted on the Evaluation and Assessment 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 further 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.

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/

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.