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UNSW Medicine Newsletter - 2 September 2009
General News
Research News
Learning & Teaching News
OHS News
Current Events
General News |
Most Successful Dean's Lecture Ever
Monday 31st of August, saw the Faculty of Medicine stage its most successful Dean's Lecture ever.
300 people gathered to hear the Dean, Professor Peter Smith welcome Dr Paul Kelly, General Partner and Executive Director of OneVentures, Dr Chris Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of Cochlear Limited, both UNSW alumni, and Professor Philip Hogg, Director of UNSW Cancer Research Centre to discuss the intriguing topic of ‘Medical inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs - challenges in a global market”.
Mr Tim Harcourt, chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission, presided over a lively and thought provoking discussion which explored medical entrepreneurship in an increasingly global environment.
The event marked three new experiences for the Faculty of Medicine. With 300 people in attendance on the UNSW Kensington Campus, this was the largest of the Dean’s Lectures to date and the first to be held in the John Niland Scientia building. This is also the first time that the Faculty of Medicine has collaborated with a Centre affiliated with the Australian School of Business; the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
As well as the tremendous feedback from those who attended the evening, the Dean's Lecture generated some excellent media coverage including the feature opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review (1st September) written by Professor Phil Hogg and a piece in The Australian's Higher Education Supplement (2nd September) profiling Paul Kelly and referencing his involvement in the Deans Lecture Series.
Office of the Dean on the move
As from Monday 7 September the Dean and Senior Associate Dean, will be relocating to the AGSM Building Level 2. This will complete the Office of the Dean move to AGSM - already made by the General Manager, MCSU, Finance and HR. There will be no change to phone numbers. The Dean's Executive Assistant, Ellie Polias, will be located in room 248. Jasmine Wu, Executive Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean and General Manager will be located near room 221.
New Name for Student Administration and OME
The Medicine Education and Student Office (MESO) will be located in the old Dean's Unit (B27) - bringing together the former Office of Medical Education (30 Botany St) and the Student Administration staff (B27). Note that some staff are still located in Level 1 30 Botany but will make the move to B27 at the end of September.
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Research News |
Faculty Research Grants incorporating the Early Career Researchers Grants Scheme 2010
Closing Date: 5pm on Thursday 29 October 2009.
Note: Wendy Wartho is on leave until 21 September. Please direct your enquires to Professor Denis Wakefield.
Indigenous Research Showcase
Call for Abstracts - Due 18 September 2009
The UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Academic) and (Research) will jointly host the 2009 Indigenous Research Showcase aimed primarily at identifying opportunities for collaboration across the University.
The Showcase will be held on 10-11 November, 2009, in the Law Lecture Theatre (G04).
Submit your abstract. Presentations should be short (approximately 10 minutes in total).
Please see the Information Sheet and Abstract Template (at link below). Abstract submissions should be sent to research-showcase@explode.unsw.edu.au no later than 18th September, 2009.
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Role out of InfoEd Grants Management System
Grants Management Office started launching InfoEd Proposal Tracking across the UNSW campus at the beginning August.
InfoEd Proposal Tracking is a system for managing and monitoring compliance of research grants.
As a Researcher -
- Do you want to know if your Application has been received by the Grants Management Office?
- Submitted?
- When your next report is due?
- Or see your current financial statement?
Want to know how? Come along to the next InfoEd Proposal Tracking information session and learn how to obtain this information plus more anytime, anywhere, by logging into InfoEd.
To know when and where these information sessions are happening please email Christine Jarvis . Please include within the email, your School, Position, and Staff number.
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Helping NeuroAIDS research - volunteers required
Dr Lucette Cysique and colleagues at UNSW / St Vincent's Hospital are conducting a study to better understand whether HIV infection may cause increase risk for developing memory and attentional difficulties in middle-aged persons.
To better understand this issue and help HIV research, HIV-negative health volunteers research participants are needed aged 45 and above.
Participation will help develop standard guidelines to understand cognitive difficulties in HIV infection.
> More Information
Contact: Dr Cysique (02) 8382 4104 or Professor Brew (02) 8382 4100
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Learning and Teaching News |
2010 ALTC Competitive Grant Program - Round 1 Expression of Interest
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Competitive Grants Program Round 1, 2010 The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) provides grants for research, development and innovation related to the enhancement of learning and teaching in higher education.
Through the Competitive Grants Program, funding priorities for 2010 are:
- Priority One: Research and development focussing on issues of emerging and continuing importance
- Priority Two: Strategic approaches to learning and teaching that address the increasing diversity of the student body (addressing the ‘diversity of the student body’ directly)
- Priority Three: Innovation in learning and teaching, particularly in relation to the role of new technologies
Round 1: Applications will be accepted under Priorities One, Two and Three.
ALTC closing date: 2 November 2009.:
Round 2: Applications accepted under Priorities One, Two, Three and any additional priorities (to be announced).
ALTC closing date: 3 June 2010.
Funding range: for applications other than those building directly on previous work is $80,000–$220,000.
Applications building directly on previous ALTC or AUTC projects have a funding range of $80,000–$150,000.
For more information see Guidelines:
http://www.altc.edu.au/grants-funding-available#competitive-grants or contact Learning and Teaching @ UNSW, email: lt@unsw.edu.au or phone: 55989.
Action required: Please register your interest by filling in the Expression of Interest form and return it to h.dalton@unsw.edu.au prior to the workshop advertised below.
Developing your Application Workshop
A workshop for those applying for Round 1 ALTC Competitive Grants will be held 21th September 2009, 9am – 10am. Venue: Room 416, level 4, Mathews Building, Kensington campus.
Please call / send any general queries to Rachel Thompson ()
Move from WebCT Vista to Blackboard 9
The move
The University is undergoing many technological changes over the next year, including, most importantly for teachers, a change over from WebCT Vista to Blackboard 9 (Bb9) as the Learning Management System. The implications for staff in this faculty will be that all of the courses that you currently teach using WebCT Vista will need to be moved into Bb9 for the beginning of Session 1 next year (2010) (or by Session 2 if they commence in Session 2). This move will need to be conducted within schools by course convenors with support locally from the school and faculty, plus some support centrally from Learning and Teaching @UNSW. The faculty aims to recruit a temporary staff member to assist course convenors and program managers in the time-consuming task of transferring the courses across but this will be a limited resource. Please note that the 3802 medical program course content move will be managed by Suzanne Mobbs of the Medicine Education and Student Office (MESO - old OME). Also, courses for Summer Teaching Period 2009-10 will be delivered as usual in WebCT Vista but any new courses for this need to be put in as soon as possible.
Training
Training in Bb9 will be offered by Learning and Teaching @ UNSW to all academics who currently use WebCT Vista to convene their courses or teach with. Those who wish to move their courses into an on-line system are encouraged to attend the training also. This may be the only face to face training offered so it is expected that teaching academic staff should attend, even if their use of WebCT Vista is currently minimal. These training sessions will be held in September/ October and are likely to be offered on a first come first served basis, so, please sign up as soon as you receive the email invitation. Administrative staff who have need of training may also be accommodated if requested. There will be in-house training provided for everyone else (e.g. tutors, demonstrators, etc) who have minimal involvement with WebCT Vista/ Bb9. Learning and Teaching @UNSW are designing on-line resources to teach students how to use the new system.
Support
Rachel Thompson is chairing the faculty committee that is coordinating the faculty's response to the Bb9 rollout . This group has school reps / members from SOMS and SPHCM, MESO (to cover all the 3802 program) and MCSU (see below). We will inform you of developments, support and training dates as soon as these become available. At this stage, please contact your school/local rep for more information and support.
SOMS - Jessica Hu, Administrative Officer SPHCM - Sophie di Corpo, Instructional Designer
3802 Medical Program - Suzanne Mobbs, Learning Resources Manager, MESO MCSU - Luc Betbeder-Matibet
Dr Rachel Thompson
UNSW Fellow in Learning and Teaching
Convenor of Quality of Medical Practice & Health Maintenance B
Medicine Education & Student Office (MESO)
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OHS News |
Students' OHS Training Registration and History - Now on My UNSW
From Thursday 27/8/09 Postgraduate, Honours and ILP students will be able to check course availability, enrol for OHS training courses and check their training history by logging onto MyUNSW portal, entering their student number and unipass. The training links can be seen at the bottom of the "My Student Profile" tab under "My Student Services". Unlike with staff, there is no supervisor approval requirement. Once enroled, a confirmation email is automatically sent to the student. Courses that require payment (First Aid, Fire Training or OHS Consultation) will still need enrolment via the OHS Online Registration Form accessed from the training page link on the OHS web site. Payment account details will be needed.
Review of After Hours Procedure
A significant proportion of work at UNSW is conducted after hours due to the nature of our operations. Therefore, after hours work is likely to impact most people at UNSW at some stage. Please take the time to review this updated procedure and send any comments to me by the due date.
The consultation draft - Working After Hours and Working Alone Procedure OHS322 and its new associated
form has been launched to the consultation page of the Policy website: http://www.policy.unsw.edu.au/consultation.htm and will be available until Friday 25 September.
The direct URL's are:
OHS322: Working After Hours and Working Alone Procedure: http://www.policy.unsw.edu.au/consultation/Draft_OHS322.pdf
OHS703: After Hours Work Approval Form: http://www.policy.unsw.edu.au/consultation/Draft_OHS703.pdf
Waste Disposal Disruption
UNSW Facilities Management is resurfacing the loading dock at the back of the Biological Sciences building from Friday 4 September until it re-opens Monday 14 Sept. For that week there will be no chemical waste collection from the following buildings: Biological Sciences, Samuels or Wallace Wurth Buildings. Chemical waste will still be collected from the rest of the campus.
Richard Szczepanski
OHS Coordinator
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Current Events & News Stories |
Power and the people in Australian health care: and where were “the people’ in the NHHRC?
AIHI Seminar Series 2009
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Date: 23 September, 2009
Venue: To be advised
RSVP: Danielle Del Pizzo or 9385 3165 by Wednesday 16th September
Speakers Profile
Gavin is based in Western Australia. He is an internationally recognised health economist and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town as ‘one of the founding fathers of health economics’. He holds professorial positions at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Cape Town and Aarhus University (Denmark).
Gavin has worked as a health economist for nearly 40 years, first in the UK, then Denmark and more recently in Australia. He has well over 200 publications in health economics, including 20 books. His latest book (2009) is Challenging Health Economics from OUP. Gavin has worked as an adviser on many occasions for WHO and OECD and for various governments and health departments. His main interests within health economics are equity and ethics.
Abstract
This paper argues that too little thought is given to the political economy of health care in Australia. My own discipline of health economics - but it is just as true of others - does much good work in evaluating different policies but the difference all this analysis makes in practice is in general small.
Much of this is to do with the way that power is exercised in the health care system with too much resting in the hands of those in the system, especially doctors as corporate bodies, and too little in the hands of citizens and the community.
What would happen if it were citizens’ values that drove Australian health care? Would that make a difference to what we currently have?
The paper examines the findings from some Citizens’ Juries on these issues. It also wonders why the NHHRC did not go down this road in reaching its recommendations but settled for proposing only their adoption in looking at priorities for the future.
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