Monday 4 to Friday 8 September
Date: Monday 4 September
Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm
Activity: Panel Discussion with Sharon Hill, Group Editorial Development Manager,News Ltd, and Meni Caroutas, Television Journalist.
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: Journalism postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitator: Stephen Tanner
Date: Monday 4 September
Time: 1.30 - 3.00pm
Activity: Making the Library work for you
This session will cover advanced database searching techniques to locate information including locating theses relevant to your topic; downloading of images and copyright; and promoting your scholarly output through ‘Research Online.’
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Vicki Dodd, Faculty Librarian
Date: Monday 4 September
Time: 3.30 - 4.30pm
Activity: Music 1st Year HDR students’ research proposal reviews
Room: To be advised
Participants: Music postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitators: Greg Schiemer and Stephen Ingham
Date: Tuesday 5 September
Time: 9.00 – 11.00am
Activity: Creative Writing 1st Year HDR students’ research proposal reviews
Anne Howe: MCA-R
Siobhan McHugh: DCA
Vivien Tait: MCA-R
John Turner: MCA-R
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: Creative Writing postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitator: Tony Macris and Alan Wearne
Date: Tuesday 5 September
Time: 11.30am – 12.30pm
Activity: Creative Writing National and International Publishing Contexts
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: Creative Writing postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitator: Anthony Macris
Date: Tuesday 5 September
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Activity: Workshop: Supervising Higher Degree Research Students - Policies and Procedures. This is the first Module in this series, and covers:
- Application processes
- Attracting and selecting research students
- Matching and allocating a supervisor
- Checking and monitoring progress
- Ensuring completions
- Examinations
Room: UniCentre - room to be advised
Participants: All staff
Facilitator: Professor Lee Astheimer, Professor Susan Dodds and Ms Kim Roser
Nominate: By Friday 25 August via WebKiosk: http://wss.uow.edu.au/owa/wss/WK8003$.Startup
Date: Tuesday 5 September
Time: 1.30- 4.30pm
Activity: Planning Your Creativity. Tim Nohe, Senior Fulbright Fellow. A round table discussion with each staff member to present a five-minute summary of his or her research. The aim is to identify resources and to clarify a possible Art and Design research cluster.
Room: 25:129
Participants: All Visual Arts and Design postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Diana Wood Conroy
Date: Tuesday 5 September
Time: 2.30- 3.30pm
Activity: Research Information System (RIS) Staff Training Session
Room: Bldg 25 Room 162
Participants: All staff
Facilitator: Mark Freeman
Date: Wednesday 6 September
Time: 10.00-11.00am
Activity: Research in Journalism
Eric Loo: Best (and Bad) Practices of Journalism
David Blackall: Making News Today - An ARC funded project deploying TV news practice in schools for multiple literacies
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: Journalism postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitators: Eric Loo and David Blackall
Date: Wednesday 6 September
Time: 11.15am – 12.30pm
Activity: Dr Elana Newman, Psychologist, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma- Australasia. Elana has done research on journalism and trauma issues from a health professional perspective. She was the Dart assigned person at Ground Zero to work with journalists. Her discussion will focus on basic trauma information for journalists - what we know about how trauma-related news affects consumers.
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: Journalism postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitator: Stephen Tanner
RSVP: By Friday 1 September to Dale Dumpleton
Telephone 02 4221 3190 Email: daled@uow.edu.au
Date: Wednesday 6 September
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Activity: Inspire Your Thesis: Working Creatively with Impasse and Writer's Block. Almost everyone writing a thesis can expect at some stage/s to get 'blocked'. This in itself is usually an indication of a creative opportunity. Methods for working productively with your experiences of impasse or writer's block are introduced and practiced.
Room: ITS Presentation Room, Level 3, Bldg 17
Participants: All HDR students (MA-R, MCA-R, DCA, PhD)
Facilitator: Chris Stevens
RSVP: Contact Meghan Gestos, Research Student Centre. Bldg 20
Telephone: 02 4221 5452 Email: meghan@uow.edu.au
Date: Wednesday 6 September
Time: 9.30am - 12.00pm
Activity: Design Presentations
The following speakers work at the cutting edge of contemporary design practice and research across social activism, campaigns and motion design:
Deborah Kelly is an artist who has been working with social issues in the public arena for 25 years. She is also an award winning graphic designers and her work combines the skills of her profession with the broad aspiration of cultural participation.
Dr IlariaVanni has been researching and presenting on the San Precario and Chainworkers movements in Italy: cultural/design/performance groups that use design techniques and high production values to create campaigns to highlight the precarious situation of casual workers.
Room: Bldg 25 Room 163
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Grant Ellmers
Date: Wednesday 6 September
Time: 12.35 – 1.25pm
Activity: Faculty Postgraduate Discussion Seminar: Installation and Sound
Speakers: Anthony Macris and Joan Grounds, Artist in Residence, School of Visual Arts and Design.
Room: 25:128
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Diana Wood Conroy
Lunch: 12.30pm - RSVP by Friday 1 September to Dale Dumpleton
Telephone 02 4221 3190 Email: daled@uow.edu.au
Date: Wednesday 6 September
Time: 2.30 – 4.00pm
Activity: Design Presentations continued
The following speakers work at the cutting edge of contemporary design practice and research across social activism, campaigns and motion design:
Ken Lambert is founder and Creative director of Ink Project http://www.inkproject.com/
Ben Hennessy is a recent graduate of the MCA in Design. Ink Project is an award winning Sydney design group notable for their work on station identities for SBS and a range of print and motion graphics. Their talk will focus on the place of research in creative practice and the value of postgraduate studies in contemporary design.
Room: Bldg 25 Room 163
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Grant Ellmers
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 10.00 - 11.00am
Activity: Research Information System (RIS) Staff Training Session
Room: Bldg 25 Room 162
Participants: All staff
Facilitator: Mark Freeman
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm
Activity: Writing a Thesis Proposal and Literature Review
This session will consider the variety of ways of writing a thesis proposal and the process of writing a literature review.
Room: ITS Presentation Room, Level 3, Bldg 17
Participants: First and second year HDR students (MA-R, MCA-R, DCA, PhD)
Facilitator: Learning Development staff
RSVP: Contact Meghan Gestos, Research Student Centre. Bldg 20
Telephone: 02 4221 5452 Email: meghan@uow.edu.au
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 9.45am – 11.15pm
Activity: Workshop Part 1: Managing Digital Image Files
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Di Epoff
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 11.30am – 12.30pm
Activity: Lecture: Archaeology and art in the ancient theatre. Dr Craig Barker, Manager, Education and Public Programs, University Museums; Associate Director, Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project, University of Sydney.
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Diana Wood Conroy
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 12.30 – 1.00pm
Activity: Exhibition - Sonic Architecture: mapping the ancient theatre in image and sound. Brogan Bunt, Di Epoff, Stephen Ingham and Diana Wood Conroy
Room: FCA Gallery
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Diana Wood Conroy
Lunch: 1.00pm - RSVP by Friday 1 September to Dale Dumpleton
Telephone 02 4221 3190 Email: daled@uow.edu.au
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 1.30 – 3.00pm
Activity: Workshop Part 2: Managing Digital Image Files
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff
Facilitator: Di Epoff
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 7pm
Activity: Between The Cracks: Revue style theatre performance by MCA student Amy O'Brien
Room: Bldg 25 Performance Space 168
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff and open to the public
Facilitator: Janys Hayes
Bookings: Brooke Green Telephone: 02 4221 4889 Email: brooke@uow.edu.au
Date: Friday 8 September
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Activity: Visual Arts and Design 1st Year HDR students’ research proposal reviews:
Anthony Bourke, MA-R
Catherine Carr, PhD
Julie Pryor, MCA-R
Annette Tzavaras, MA-R
Room: Bldg 25 Room 128
Participants: Visual Arts and Design postgraduate students and staff. Others welcome
Facilitator: Diana Wood Conroy
Lunch: 1.00pm - RSVP by Friday 1 September to Dale Dumpleton
Telephone 02 4221 3190 Email: daled@uow.edu.au
Date: Friday 8 September
Time: 1.45 - 3.30pm
Activity: Exhibition Preparation: Facilities, Planning and Technical Support
This session will focus on FCA gallery set up issues for postgraduate students' creative projects. It will explain the overall process, technical facilities and level of technical support students can expect, and the information they need to provide to ensure their exhibition proceeds smoothly.
Room: FCA Gallery
Participants: All Visual Arts, Design and Sound postgraduate students and staff
Facilitators: Brogan Bunt, Aaron Hull and Greg Schiemer
Date: Friday 8 September
Time: 7pm
Activity: Between The Cracks: Revue style theatre performance by MCA student Amy O'Brien
Room: Bldg 25 Performance Space 168
Participants: All postgraduate students and staff and open to the public
Facilitator: Janys Hayes
Bookings: Brooke Green Telephone: 02 4221 4889 Email brooke@uow.edu.au
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