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UWAnewsThe University of Western Australia ESTABLISHED 1911 19 MAY 2003 Volume 22 Number 6Lydia grows into a familytraditionby Lindy BrophyWishes and predictions for achild’s future can often beway off the mark.So it was brave of UWA’s first archivist,Christine Shervington, to dedicate an oralhistory of the University to her two-yearold daughter Lydia, as ‘a prospectivestudent of the 21st century.’That was 15 years ago and the littlesmock-frocked Lydia Shervington Lamb wasfeatured in The West Australian withrespected UWA graduate EricaUnderwood, perusing the history, UniversityVoices – Traces from the Past.This year, 17-year-old Lydia has fulfilledher mother’s aspirations and followed inthe footsteps of her father’s side of thefamily, becoming the third generation toenter UWA’s Medical School.ABOVE RIGHT: TheWest Australianfeatured Lydia in thereport on the oralhistory of UWA(LEFT) Lydia andChristine return tothe arches with thebookLydia’s grandparents, Dr Adrian and Dr Margaret Lambstudied medicine in Scotland and migrated to WA in the1950s. Dr Adrian Lamb taught at UWA’s medical school whileDr Margaret Lamb worked in cancer research (at UWA) untilthe age of 75.Their son Alan (Lydia’s father) studied medicine at UWA,spent some time as a National Health and Medical ResearchCouncil research scientist and has recently retired as a generalpractitioner.“If you count dentistry as a medical science, Lydia is actuallythe fourth generation to enter the medical profession.Margaret Lamb’s father was a dentist,”said Christine, who was UWA’sarchivist from 1979 to 1991.Lydia decided when she was inYear 11 at St Hilda’s that she wantedto study medicine. Hergrandmother’s example was part ofthat decision. But Margaret Lambdidn’t live to know that Lydia wasaccepted into medical school. Shedied late last year.

2 UWAnewsVCariousthoughts …Triumphingover distance“Good grief…” a friend said to me as I welcomed himto UWA from Canberra for a professional visit. “I’dforgotten how far it is to WA.”I quietly pointed out that it is just as far from WA toCanberra … but I am not sure the fact registered with him ashe continued commenting on how he had taken most of theday to reach us.With the new communication technologies distance andtime has been revolutionised. The new edition of ProfessorBlainey’s famous Tyranny of Distance has a new, final chapterreflecting on those dramatic changes in our history.Yet ‘mind sets’ are not so easily changed. And nor are thetime-zones of the geography that constitutes a vast islandcontinent such as ours.Paradoxically, the issues are indeed alive again as adimension of educational and research policies designed todeal with internationalisation.To ensure quality and competitiveness, national policiesincreasingly focus on priorities, concentration, and linkages.The potential for these policies and resources to focus on atriangular axis of ‘Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne’ is great.Queensland’s ‘smart state’ strategies have broadened thatfocus. But outside that east coast line, an urgent challengeremains to build a regionally distributed and diversified set ofresearch intensive universities and centres.The current ‘mapping of science’ exercise being conductedby DEST in collaboration with the ARC, AVCC, academiesand PMSEIC — will set the issue for the future squarelybefore us.Our university has a proud history of creativity andachievement based on distinctiveness and a sense of identityborn of a certain separateness of WA within the nation.Traditional isolation has spurred on self-reliance. A specialawareness of overseas linkages has flourished in the absenceof easy east-west connections.UWAnewsEDITOR/WRITERLindy BrophyTel.: 9380 2436 Fax: 9380 1192 Email: lindy.brophy@uwa.edu.auEDITOR-IN-CHIEFColin Campbell-FraserTel: 9380 2889 Fax: 9380 1020 Email: ccampbell@admin.uwa.edu.auDesigned and typeset by Publications Unit, UWAPrinted by UniPrint, UWAUWAnews online: www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/uwanews/All that needs to continue and indeed expand. TheFounders of WA brilliantly anticipated the role of an excellentstate university as a powerhouse for the state.The great challenge before us a century later is to confrontthe potentially worsening terms of policy and investment asthe Commonwealth distributes major infrastructure facilities,research centres and educational programs in ‘places’ andscholarships.We shall need new macro strategies according to thepriorities and objectives contained within the University’sOperational Priority Plan. This will ensure that WA is integralto national policy and allocations in both research andteaching.• We must position ourselves through collaborative researchprograms: success in CRCs will be vital (we had no successin the last ARC round).• As a State and a university we need to gain a greater shareof Commonwealth-funded undergraduate and postgraduateplaces (we are desperately short of HECS places… and we failed to gain any of the prestigious FederationFellowships).• Establish strategic alliances with significant externalconsortia involved with Innovation, Research andDevelopment.• Lobby strongly for a share of the hubs in technology andinfrastructure to be distributed in the next decade.• Ensure that our State Government and industries provideus with the kind of gearing support which will ensurecompetitive bids in public-private grants.The has been much discussion about higher education itselfbeing at a crossroads in the Nelson Review, with anappropriate focus on base funding, places, about HECS andefficient governance.Equally at the crossroads is our successful place in the longtermof the future of the national knowledge culture inresearch and educational programs.That will be the ultimate triumph over distance.Professor Deryck SchreuderVice-Chancellor and Presidentvc@acs.uwa.edu.auTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

Can redwine begoodforyou?Diabeticsneededto test thetheoryResearchers Dr Trevor Mori (centre) and Professor Ian Puddey (right)and research nurse Di Dunbar get to know volunteer Peter FarsonUWAnews 3The French enjoyment of red wine might well be afactor in their lower rates of heart disease, whencompared with other European countries.But Australian health professionals want more than anecdotalevidence or cultural clichés. The ‘French paradox’ is under themicroscope in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, with astudy aimed at shedding new light on the effects of red wine onblood pressure and cholesterol.Research fellow Dr Trevor Mori and Professor Ian Puddeyare calling for volunteers to help them with their research atRoyal Perth Hospital.But the volunteers need to fit very specific criteria.The team needs about 35 participants who haveType 2 diabetes, who are aged between 40 and 70years, and who drink at least one or two glasses ofred wine each day.“We know a great deal about the relationshipbetween alcohol consumption and blood pressure,but we know very little about the overall effects ofred wine in particular on blood pressure, blood lipids(cholesterol) and blood glucose in people with Type 2diabetes,” Dr Mori said.“We have chosen to work with diabetic volunteersbecause they already have an increased risk of heartdisease. They are predisposed to high blood pressure,they have higher blood sugar levels and higher clotting levels.“They also tend to have higher levels of the so-called badcholesterol,” he said. “And they are the people who stand tobenefit the most from this research. To our knowledge, this isthe first study of its kind in the world.”It is the most recent in a series of studies by Dr Mori andProfessor Puddey into diabetes and methods of complementingdrug treatment for Type 2 diabetes by targeting nutrition andlifestyle factors.They have previously examined and shown benefits of acombination of fish in the diet and aerobic exercise, and thepurified marine omega 3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA.Dr Mori said there were suggestions that red wine had alesser effect on blood pressure than other alcohol. “This ispossibly because of a protective factor offered by the high levelsof vasodilator and antioxidant flavonoids in red wine.“We know from test tube studies that this is the case, butwe don’t know it if translates into human studies.”He said the trial would establish the balance of potentialbeneficial or adverse effects of the regular consumption of redwine for diabetic patients.The research is supported by the Australian HealthManagement Group Medical Research Fund, with help from theAustralian Wine Research Institute and the Orlando WyndhamGroup.While some people might think it’s a hoot to take part in astudy that requires you to drink two glasses of red wine everyday, it is proving difficult to get the right volunteers and theresearchers are still recruiting.Volunteers would have their blood pressure and cholesterolmonitored, over periods of four weeks, during which theywould drink moderate amounts of red wine, red wine in whichthe alcohol had been removed, and water.If you fit the bill or know somebody who could volunteer,please call research nurse Di Dunbar at RPH on 9224 0242.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

4 UWAnewsPainless procedure is a prize-winnerPhysicists Tim St Pierre(left), Paul Clark (right)and Wanida Chua-Anusorn celebrate theirwin with Office ofIndustry andInnovation’s AndrewBeveridgeNew medical technologydeveloped in UWA’s Schoolof Physics has scooped the pool inawards for commercialisation.UWA spin-out company Inner VisionBiometrics (IVB) was awarded two prizesat the recent Commercialisation Forumand Fair of Ideas held in Sydney.Organised by KnowledgeCommercialisation Australasia (KCA)and supported by the FederalDepartment of Education,Science and Training under theBacking Australia’s Abilityinitiative, this event showcasedmore than 200 commercialisationprojects from Australianuniversities and research institutions.IVB was awarded two prizes:• Most outstanding researchcommercialisation opportunity in thefield of Biotechnology/Life Science —$5000 award, sponsored by MerckSharp and Dohme• Most outstanding researchcommercialisation opportunity froma research institute or spin-offcompany based in Western Australia— $5000 award, sponsored by theWA Department of Industry andResources.IVB was founded in 2000 followingseveral years of intensive researchactivity in the School of Physics. Led byAssociate Professor Tim St Pierre, theresearch group has developed a noninvasive,patented technique of imagingthe liver using Magnetic ResonanceImaging machines.Professor Robyn Owens, UWA’s ProVice-Chancellor (Research and“ It confirms that Western Australia is capable ofproducing high-technology, growth-oriented companies”Innovation), explained that thebreakthrough identified by the researchteam offered significant benefits.“The breakthrough can assistclinicians in the early detection ofdiseases characterised by liver ironoverload such as hemochromatosis,thalassemia and hepatitis C. The currenttechnique to measure liver iron levelsrequires a needle biopsy, which is bothpainful for the patient, notrepresentative or particularly accurate,and carries significant heath risks.“The University is immensely proudof what has been achieved so far, andhas high expectations for the future ofIVB. The combination of a high qualityresearch team, strong intellectualproperty coupled with a ‘hands-on’investor will help to ensure the longtermsuccess of the venture,” ProfessorOwens said.“As with all our research groupsundertaking commercialisation projects,the Office of Industry andInnovation (OII) hasworked very closelywith the IVB team.From developing therequired investormemoranda andbusiness plans, to approaching venturecapital organisations, OII assisted IVBevery step of the way.”Director of OII and Vice-Chair ofKCA, Dr Andy Sierakowski said thatKCA was a key industry organisationin the field of technologycommercialisation : “For IVB toreceive two awards in what was ahighly competitive field is an excellentresult. It confirms that WesternAustralia is capable of producing hightechnology,growth-orientedcompanies that are central to theknowledge economy.”THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

UWAnews 5Teaching from thefoundations upThere is more to turning abright graduate into a greatteacher than just making ateaching position available.This is why universities providetraining in foundations of universityteaching for new academics. But, untilrecently, foundations programs wereconceived and offered in isolation, albeitat a rapidly increasing rate, at individualinstitutions.UWA’s Dr Allan Goody, a lecturer inhigher education development from theOrganisation and Staff DevelopmentServices, and a colleague, Dr JaniceOrrell, from Flinders University,recently convened a national meetingfor education developers who facilitatefoundations programs.Dr Goody and Dr Orrell, whosefoundations programs are very similar,put together a colloquium on thepedagogy, impact and logistics of theseprograms. Held at Flinders Universitylast month, it attracted 45 academicsfrom 29 universities, including four fromDr Allan Goody …interested indeveloping betteruniversity teachersNew Zealand and one from Canada.Dr Goody said that despite thegrowth of foundations programs, therehad been little reference betweenuniversities, regarding inclusions orcollaboration in the development ofresources. “Evaluation of their impacton education quality have remainedlargely within the single institutions.”A central concern at the colloquiumwas the likely position that the imminentNelson Report may have on the initialpreparation of academics for theirteaching roles.Another was how to engage differentdisciplines in the development anddelivery of such programs to accountfor diverse cultural contexts anddemands.Also significant was the issue ofwhich staff should be targeted byfoundations programs.The concept of the higher degreegraduate winning a continuing positionand being mentored into a new role isnot the prevailing norm. It is more likelythat academics experience long periodsof sessional employment as tutorsbefore achieving a continuingappointment. By this time, manyteaching habits have been ‘caught’ onthe job.There was also the question of inservicefor experienced staff, who aretaking on new responsibilities,knowledge and skills withteaching on-line, off-shoreteaching and supervisinglearning in workplaces.These emerging demandsprovide challenges tofoundations programs.A consensus wasreached that little couldbe decided pending therelease of the NelsonReport. Conclusions willbe drawn after its release.A forum to follow upthese issues will be run byAllan Goody and Janice Orrellat this year’s HERDSAconference in Christchurch.High qualitylowers theoddsUWA Presscontinues toproduce highquality bookswhich are continuallyshortlistedfor awards.The latest on the short lists arethree non-fiction publications and achildren’s book.Bitter Victory: the death of the HMASSydney by Wes Olson, is one of threebooks shortlisted from 18 nominationsfor the Frank Broeze MemorialMaritime History Book Prize.Frank Broeze was a highlyrespectedprofessorof history at UWAwho died in 2001.His passion for andinternationallyrecognisedexpertise inmaritime historyis rememberedwith this prize,sponsored by theAustralian Association for MaritimeHistory and the Australian NationalMaritime Museum.The Western Australian Premier’sBook Awards always have UWAPress books shortlisted. This year,they are Verticordia: The Turner ofHearts by ElizabethGeorge and MargaretPieroni, and BloodSweat and Welfare byMary Anne Jebb, vyingfor the non-fictionaward. Verticordia isalso shortlisted inthe Scholarly ReferenceCategoryfor the TREAT awards(The Australian’s awards forexcellence in educational publishing).In the children’s book section,Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac’sThe Legend of Moondyne Joe is up for aprize.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

6 UWAnewsAlison Fowler hopes toextend her appreciationof physics throughanother languageOne of UWA’s top physics students is enjoyingstudying German.“Much as I love science, especially astro-physics andparticle physics, studying German is great. It’s such a change,reading and writing about plays and films,” said Alison Fowler.“The reason I’m studying German is that there are somany great German physicists and I want to be able to readtheir work and talk to them in their own language,” she said.But before she spends time in Germany, Alison is off toDurham, England, next month, after winning a place at theannual Particle Physics and Astronomy InternationalUndergraduate Summer School.This is the third consecutive year in which one of theSchool of Physics’ students has been chosen to attend theexclusive summer school. It is also the third time that theUWA student has been the only representative fromAustralia.Only 24 students are invited: 12 from the UK and 12international students. For five weeks, the summer schoolAlisonmakesit threein a rowbrings together these young adults who are seriouslyconsidering a career in either astronomy or particle physics.Two weeks of concentrated lectures are followed bysupervised work on a project with a leading physicist.The students will then visit CERN, the European Centreor Research in Particle Physics, in Geneva. CERN was thebirthplace of the World Wide Web. “I’m hoping the summerschool will help me to make a decision about my futuredirection in physics because, right now, I’m not sure whetherI want to follow astro-physics or particle physics,” Alisonsaid.Head of the School of Physics, Professor Ian McArthurcongratulated Alison and thanked her for keeping up theSchool’s fine record.While most of her expenses will be paid, Alison has tofind part of the airfare herself and is looking for sponsors tohelp her get to the summer school. If you can help or haveany suggestions for her, contact Alison atfowlea01@tartarus. uwa.edu.auAnti-warsentimentsan electronic alternativeAlthough the war in Iraq has ended, George W Bush’s waron terrorism is on-going — and fine arts lecturer PaulTrinidad has created an avenue for teenagers to expresstheir thoughts and feelings about war, conflict andterrorism, through the preferred vehicle of theirgeneration, the electronic media.“Back in March, the Minister for Education, Alan Carpenter wascalling for high school students to stay at school and not to joinanti-war protests during school hours. I responded to that call andworked on this project, which I’ve called the Horrors of War, gettingit ready to take off at the start of this new school term. As it pansout, it is too late to offer to high school students as an alternativeto joining sometimes illegal protests against the horrors of war inIraq,” Mr Trinidad said. “But, with the on-going threat of the waragainst terrorism, this project is still valid.”He has set up a virtual gallery which gives high school studentsthe opportunity to produce and exhibit work reflecting theirTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

UWAnews 7EXPOsing the UniversityEver had a neighbour or friend ask: “But what doyou really do at University?”Here’s your chance to show them. UWA’s EXPO 2003 is onSunday August 31 and work is already under way to show off thecampus and its faculties to their best advantage.Every year, after each Open Day or EXPO, the organisers askfor feedback, then use those ideas to make the next event evenbetter.UWA public affairs project manager and EXPO co-ordinator,Ian Lilburne, is already counting down the weeks until EXPO,with lists of preparations that would be daunting without thehelp and enthusiasm of a great organising committee.This year, EXPO will widen its target from school leavers andtheir parents, to people interested in pursuing postgraduatestudies.“This means there will be an information session aimedreactions to the idea of conflict and the horrors of war. It is onthe website of the Faculty of Architecture Landscape and VisualArts at http://www.alva.uwa.edu.au/gallery/Linking in with one of the student projects of last year, SevenDeadly Sins, Mr Trinidad says this on-line project will run forseven weeks and participating students can win one of sevenlimited edition artists book for their schools.“Of course, their work will also be exhibited in the virtualgallery for the world to see,” he said.Students are asked to submit imagery or text, which might bea collage from a newspaper, their original images, even thecontents of a student’s pockets along with a handprint, placedonto a scanner (reminiscent of the procedures following arrestafter taking part in an illegal protest). As long as the idea and thesubmission is original and it conveys a message about war,terrorism or conflict, it will be considered.UWA staff members are asked to spread the word at theirchildren’s high schools and refer to the website or call PaulTrinidad on 9380 7177 for submission details.Some of the highlights of last year’s EXPOspecifically at prospective postgraduate students,” Ian said.“There will also be repeats of the information sessions forprospective undergraduates, to give visitors more opportunitiesto attend them.”The information sessions, which attracted very positivefeedback last year, will be complemented by displays on researchactivities and courses, and some general events, including sportsand musical and cultural performances, aimed at giving visitors ataste of the UWA campus experience.The key messages EXPO is designed to communicate arequality, flexibility, diversity, innovation, excitement, challenge, funand value.Get your ideas together,ready for June 12.The closing date for information on all the displays is June 12,so all staff should now be actively involved in preparation of thatinformation. If you are not as yet involved and would like to be,find out from your Faculty office who your EXPO representativeis, or call Ian Lilburne on 9380 7302.The most popular displays, and consequently, those that sendvisitors away with the best impressions of UWA, are always themost interactive ones, like the suturing lessons ( by the MedicalSchool) at CTEC last year, the digital re-imaging of visitors’features into the Mona Lisa (by Fine Arts), at the LawrenceWilson Art Gallery, and the hands-on solving of a murdermystery (by Palynology) in the geography building.The EXPO poster should be available later this month,followed by bumper stickers. The mail room is franking alloutgoing mail with an EXPO promotional stamp, and the EXPOWebsite should soon be up and running at www.expo.uwa.edu.auThe weekend before EXPO, The West Australian will include anEXPO program in its Saturday edition. But the website willeventually have more detailed information about all the displaysand events than the newspaper insert.The public are about to be alerted, but don’t be alarmed. Justbe prepared.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

8 UWAnewsWorkplace bullying“I just want it to stop!”Bullying is not something thatis confined to the schoolyard.Recent press reports on bullyingfrom the schoolyard to the workplaceremind us all that, unfortunately, itrears its ugly head in almost everyaspect of life. UWA is no exceptionand the University is committed toaddressing the problem.Bullying may include one or a combination of thefollowing:• abuse, insulting or offensive language by one of more personsto another or others;• behaviour or language that frightens, humiliates, belittles ordegrades, including criticism that is delivered with muchyelling and screaming;• inappropriate comments about a person’s appearance,lifestyle or their family;• teasing or regularly making someone the brunt of pranks orpractical jokes;• interfering with a person’s personal effects or workequipment;• physical assault or threats;Last year, the UWA HumanResources occasional newsletter, Issuesin Human Resource Management, talkedabout workplace bullying (see http://www.hr.uwa.edu.au/publications/newsletters).It pointed out that, while peoplemay have been silent about bullyingbehaviours observed or experienced inthe past, they are less willing to be sotoday. Employers, too, are recognisingthe cost of ignoring this behaviour,through staff turnovers, provision ofemployee counselling and lost worktime.Individual effects of bullying can beboth psychological (increased stress• organisational behaviour that undermines, treats lessfavourably or dis-empowers others, for example, overloadinga person with work and setting timelines that are difficult toachieve, setting tasks that are beyond a person’s skills level,deliberately denying access to information, consultation orresources, or unfair treatment in relation to accessingworkplace entitlements such as leave or training.levels, insecurity and loss of trust) andphysical (tiredness, headaches and lostwork time from illness). These impactsare not confined to the target of thebehaviour but can also affect others inthe workplace. Together they canreduce organisational productivity.Indeed, the combination of increasedturnover, the need for sometimescomplex grievance resolutionprocesses, access to employeeassistance support and, occasionally,litigation, can dramatically escalate thedollar costs of bullying behaviour.(WorkSafe WA has recently issued AGuide for Employers in Dealing withWorkplace Bullying and an associatedGuide for Employees, at http://www.safetyline.wa.gov.au/PageBin\guidwswa0076.htm Guidelinesfor Conduct in the Workplace (http://www.hr.uwa.edu.au/policy/toc/perform_mgt/conduct_workplace)offers both guidance on minimising thelikelihood of bullying behaviours and aprocess for resolving complaints.If you are a manager concerned bybehaviours you have seen or if you area staff member who has experiencedbullying it is important to act as soonas possible.The first and best step is to starttalking. Staff need to discuss openlywhat they believe to be reasonableexpectations and standards forindividual behaviour.Staff members who have been thetarget of bullying behaviours and needsupport are encouraged to access theUniversity’s Employee AssistanceProgram (EAP) either throughDavidson Trahaire (9382 8100) or theUniversity Counselling Service (93802423). Managers who need advice ondealing with difficult people shouldcontact Human Resources but may alsoaccess the Employee AssistanceProgram.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

UWAnews 9An important date …remembered in afavourite placeAn historic anniversary for the Universitywas celebrated quietly at UWA’s AlbanyCentre.Verna Rowbotham, the daughter of foundingProfessor Alexander Ross, visited the Centre to markthe 90th anniversary of the first lecture delivered atUWA — by her father.Professor Ross gave the first lecture — Mathematics— at 9am on Monday March 31, 1913 in the IrwinStreet buildings in Perth. Theday before, he and ProfessorDakin had swept the sawdust from the new buildings, inreadiness for the first day of business for the new University.The Professor of Mathematics and Physics came to UWAfrom Glasgow after working in Germany. His expertise wasin radiation and he had corresponded with Marie Curie.Mrs Rowbotham, who lives in Albany, remembered bothher father’s academic career at UWA and his love of Albanyand the south coast, as Albany Centre director BarbaraBlack gave her a tour of the UWA facility.She said her mother had arrived in Perth several monthsafter her father and that they had married the next day(August 1913) in the new University’s lecture theatre, withthe wedding reception in the physics laboratory.Professor Ross and his wife were both originally fromGlasgow and used to escape Perth’s heat by spending everysummer in Albany and Denmark.During the summer, Professor Ross would give lectures(forerunners of UWA Extension and the Albany Centre!)and Mrs Rowbotham remembers attending one on x-rays inthe Empire Theatre, which is now a nightclub in Albany.He retired to Albany in 1950. His daughter had, in themeantime, completed a degree in science at UWA,enrolling in 1938, the University’s 25th year of operation.The war put a halt to her plans to do fisheries researchand, after the war, she was asked by Methodist Ladies’College to become a biology teacher.After half an hour of training, she took up theposition and stayed for 23 years, until she too retiredto Albany.Professor Ross is remembered at UWA with theRoss Lecture Theatre in the Physics building. Theother seven inaugural professors — Dakin (biology),Whitfeld (mining and engineering and first vicechancellor),Woolnough (geology), Willsmore(chemistry), Shann (history and economics),Murdoch (English) and Paterson (agriculture) — arealso remembered with lecture theatres or memoriallectures and prizes.Verna Rowbotham (right) with Barbara Black atthe UWA Albany CentreTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

10 UWAnewsTeachinghow to learnAssociate Professor Geoff Cooper’s students, Olimpia Caligiuri, Gro Morris-Thomasand Gigi Zhu say they have found the guidelines usefulAsimple party trick encapsulatesthe theory behindAssociate Professor GeoffCooper’s new book, The(Intelligent) Student’s Guide toLearning at University.On one page is a random grouping ofletters: uyo ont teh dil ryt ubt nac tey tif ymaThe author asks his readers to try tomemorise it. On the following page, thegroups of letters have been rearrangedinto recognisable words: try can but youyet not the may fit lid. AssociateProfessor Cooper points out how it iseasier to learn and memorise the list if itcan be understood.The next page rearranges the wordsinto a sentence: the lid may not fit yet, youcan but try. It then becomes clear howmuch easier it is to learn something thatmakes sense.“This is what makes this bookdifferent from other study skills booksthat simply try to teach students tricksof the trade. They don’t have a centralfocus on what learning is all about. Thisguide is aimed at helping students tounderstand how we learn things andhow they can become active,independent and self-directed learners,with transferable skills and attitudes forlife-long learning,” Associate ProfessorCooper said.He is senior learning and researchskills advisor in Student Services and thebook is the result of 10 years work.“It started as a series of pamphlets,each of which has become a chapter inthe book. My workshops with studentsand the book have fed off each otherover the years,” he said.Associate Professor Cooperacknowledged his debt to otherresearchers in the field of studentlearning, including John Biggs, NoelEntwistle, Ference Marton, PaulRamsden and Roger Saljo.The day of Prosh dawned fineand warm this year.But you never know how theweather will turn in Albany! UWAAlbany Centre students decided to beprepared for anything and turned outto sell The Chest Infection on the streetsof Albany wearing snorkel, mask andflippers.The small student contingentstarted the day with a formal breakfaston the roundabout at the southerncity’s busiest intersection, then went“My original material has all beenheavily revised and the book nowincludes lots of comments fromstudents on learning strategies. Thestudents are from the TargetedStudents Program, which providessupport for undergraduate studentsfrom non-traditional schools andbackgrounds,” Associate ProfessorCooper said.Chapters in the book often beginwith a few questions and an invitation tothink about particular issues beforestarting to read. Reflection is a majorpart of successful learning.In his conclusion, he encouragesstudents to engage fully in university life.“The more you (sensibly!) involveyourself with university life, the moreyou will benefit from it” he writes,quoting an observation by McInnis (FirstYear on Campus, 1995) that “the poorerperformers were clearly less sociable.”The (Intelligent) Student’s Guide toLearning at University is available from theCo-Op Bookshop for $25. It has beendistributed across Australia by CommonGround Publishing. Copies are alsoavailable for reference and borrowingfrom the Research Skills Servicescollection at Student Services.A fine dayfor fun andfundraisingon to raise about $900 selling theProsh publication.The rural students’ efforts weremuch appreciated as the Prosh totalheaded towards $94,000, more than$1,000 more than was raised last year.About 3,000 students joined in thefun to raise money for the HolyoakeFoundation, to help the children ofdrug- or alcohol-addicted parents, andthe Royal Flying Doctor Service,which will use the funds to buydefibrillators for premature babies.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

UWAnews 11pPassionsersonalA series looking at thePersonal Passions of people on campus …Psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky is afraid ofheights. A tall bridge or building can bring himout in a sweat.But put him 10,000 feet in the air in a glider and he’s inheaven.“I’ve never had any fear of height in a glider,” saidProfessor Lewandowsky, UWA academic and chief flyinginstructor for the Narrogin Gliding Club, whotakes to the air over the wheatbelt every secondor third weekend.Gliding has been his passion since he was 29.“I was a late starter. You can take gliding lessonsat the age of 14 and fly solo at 15.”He is one of up to 300 active glider pilots in WA whomake the most of the hot air over the wheatbelt insummer, and ride the thermals for hours at a time.“It totally clears the head. When I’m up there, I’m notthinking about academia, the University, my mortgage,anything. It’s pure freedom and joy!”Professor Lewandowsky then goes on to talk aboutcompetition gliding, where you need to make a decisionevery 10 seconds. He came third in his class of glider inthe state championships last season.“To be a good glider pilot, you need to be familiar withGlobal Positioning Systems, radio procedures andmeteorology. You also need to have an interest in aviation.But it’s better than flying a plane.“The challenge is to make use of the weather to coverdistances at high speed. It’s a sport, like sailing.”To learn how to glide, it costs about $80 for 25minutes for the first lesson. “After that, if you comedown to the club every weekend, you will probably beable to fly solo in about two months. But it takes 10years to become an expert.”Professor Lewandowsky sometimes flies for up to sixhours at a time, in his own glider, for pure enjoyment.But he also teaches gliding, flying in a two-seater formuch shorter periods. He has taken about 1,000 flightsas an instructor.He says the members of the five gliding clubs in WAcome from a complete cross-section of society. “But Isuspect we have a few more engineers than we wouldjust by chance.”Anybody can learn to glide. Then it costs about $27an hour to hire a glider, about a quarter of the cost ofleasing a plane for joyriding. Or you can buy your own, asProfessor Lewandowsky has. “I’ve seen gliders advertisedfor under $10,000 and really, there’s no upper limit. Youcould spend $250,000 if you wanted to!”Is it dangerous?“I’d say it is as safe as other pastimes generallyconsidered risky, like rock climbing and scubadiving.“I’veworked out, onthe accident statistics, that,if you could ride your glider to workevery day, you could commute for 400 yearsbefore you had to worry about your life!”If you’d like to try gliding or just find out more aboutit, call Steve Lewandowsky on 9380 3231 or atlewan@psy.uwa.edu.auTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

12 UWAnewsTHElast wordby Professor Fiona StanleyDirector TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health ResearchPrevention the name of the gameIn this still new 21st century, how best should weexpend our scant resources — not just money, butour energies and passion — to improve the life chancesof our most precious commodity, our children, ourfuture human capital?In reviewing the available data on child and youth health,development and well being in Australia over the past 30 years,we are faced with some unpalatable and rather frighteningstatistics. There are very few indicators of child and youthoutcomes that are improving and many are worsening.While Australian death rates in childhood are very low, it isthe alarming rise in rates of complex illnesses, mental health andbehaviour problems, educational difficulties, drug and substanceabuse, and juvenile crime that must now engage and worry us.These increases in rates have occurred over the past 30 yearsin Australia and in many developed countries. They coincidewith marked changes in the social fabric, in the way we nowlive, work, and socially interact. Whilst many of these changeshave been beneficial and many children and young people aremanaging very well in modern Australia, many others arestruggling. We are observing an increasing proportion offamilies who are finding it difficult to bring up children and toenable them to develop the essential characteristics ofresilience, social and intellectual capacity.One in five teenagers in Australia has a mental healthproblem that interferes with their daily lives, 12 per cent ofprimary school children have depression, behaviour problemsor educational difficulties, 30 per cent of Australian childrendevelop allergic asthma by age 10 years, an unacceptable (andnot accurately measurable) number of children are abused andneglected, are homeless or in care, 15 per cent of 12 year oldmales AND FEMALES report hazardous drinking in the previousmonth. The marked increases in violent crimes are also in bothmales and females, many of these drug related. There has beenan increase in the proportion of children classified as obese,and at the other end of the spectrum, a rising proportion ofyoung girls (and even now young men) have eating disordersand are unhappy with how they look. Many of these problemsalso lead directly in to self harm and suicides.Research on many of these problems suggest that there aresome common pathways which means that effective earlyprevention may reduce a broad range of problems. Forexample, addressing risk and protective factors to enhancemental health also improve educational outcomes and reducecrime in young people.Getting it right early is so much better than the expensiveand less effective treatments. Today’s social and environmentalinfluences are far more powerful in child and adolescent healthand mental health than are the drugs or therapies we have atour disposal to treat them.Why are current policies and practices not working? Onehears comments all the time such as “all the money spent onAboriginal health and we haven’t seen any improvement inhealth status” or “expenditure on mental health but noresults”. If you look at the causal pathways to most mentalhealth and other child and youth problems then it is obviousthat current interventions are too late and will not effectimprovements in outcomes. It is only by acknowledging thefactors early in these pathways and avoiding them, that we willbe able to reduce these tragedies and improve the life chancesfor young people.Can anyone give me any evidence that incarceration ofjuveniles reduces juvenile crime? Most evidence points to nonrehabilitativedetention actually increasing it, particularly inIndigenous children. And how can you ‘treat’ suicide when thechild is already dead?So prevention is the name of the game. It is the focus of allthat we do at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.But as researchers, we have to work smarter, more efficientlyand more collaboratively. That’s why we’ve spearheaded theformation of the new Australian Research Alliance for Childrenand Youth as a national effort to facilitate the generation andtranslation of knowledge to enhance the well being and lifechances of children and young people.Our messages – based on the best data and evidence–– willbe for all levels of government and non-governmentorganizations, for parents, schools, for practitioners andcommunities. We owe it to parents to give them the mostimportant information about early development and theimportance of the early years of a child’s life for their futurehealth, mental health and capacity. Then they will be able tomake informed choices for their families, lobby governmentsthemselves about what is important for their children’s futuresand collectively start to turn around these statistics. Nothing ismore important for Australia right now.So perhaps rather than ‘The Last Word’, the preventionmessage is the first and most important one.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 19 MAY 2003

infoUWAnewsResearch&GrantsContractsCAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENTCompiled by Joanna ThompsonTelephone: 9380 3029LIFT-OUTFacsimile: 9380 116219 MAY 2003 Volume 22 Number 6Email: joanna.thompson@uwa.edu.auDITR: AUSTINDUSTRY —TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION PROGRAMDr Timothy St Pierre, Physics: ‘Magnetic andstructural properties of cobalt naoparticledispersions’ — $12,000 (2003).AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL:DISCOVERY PROJECTSProf James Williams, Physics: ‘Spin-dependentinteractions: a fundamental basis for spineclectronics’— $375,000 (2003-05).Prof David Badcock and E/Prof John Ross,Psychology: ‘How the human visual system usespattern information to organise motion’ —$194,000 (2003-05).Prof Colin Macleod, Psychology: ‘Attentionaland interpretive bias in anxiety: concurrentexpressions of a common selective mechanism,or independent mediators of anxietyvulnerability’ — $260,000 (2003-05).Prof Gillian Rhodes, Psychology: ‘Applying thepsychologist’s microelectrode to high-levelvision: what face after-effects can tell us aboutface processing’ — $649,000 (2003-07).NATIONAL HEART FOUNDATIONA/Prof Kevin Croft, Prof Ian Puddey and DrTrevor Mori: Medicine and Pharmacology: ‘Thedistribution of fatty acid oxidation products inlipoproteins and atherosclerotic plaque.Identification of specific compounds as bioactivemarkers of disease’ — $98,887 (2003-04).NHMRCDr Nigel Laing and Prof P. W. Gunning,Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders:‘Investigation of childhood onset distal myopathymyosin variants’ — $225,000 (2003-05).Dr Y. Kanagasingam, Dr Marc Tennant andDr Mei-Ling Tay-Kearney, Ophthalmologyand Visual Science and Dentistry: ‘A single digitalhandheld imaging device for use in both ophthalmologyand dentistry’ — $430,000 (2002-04).Dr Y. Kanagasingam, Dr Marc Tennant andDr Mei-Ling Tay-Kearney, Ophthalmologyand Visual Science and Dentistry: ‘Onlinehealthcare system to provide specialist care torural, remote and undeserved regions’ —$343,000 (2003-05).A/Prof Kevin Croft, Prof Ian Puddey and DrJonathan Hodgson, Medicine andPharmacology: ‘Gamma-tocopherol: animportant dietary factor for protection againstCVD’ — $325,000 (2003-05).UWA RESEARCH GRANTS SCHEMEMr Sergey Samarin, Physics: ‘Spinreorientationtransitions in ultra-thin magneticlayers by surface magneto-optic Kerr effect’ —$9534 (2003).Continued on back pageRAINE RESEARCH PRIZEClosing Date: Monday, 26th May 2003Applications are invited for the 2003 Raine Research Prize in accordance withthe conditions governing the prize.The prize, consisting of a travel allowance to the value of $5000 and medallion,shall be awarded by the Raine Research Committee to a researcher inWestern Australia in the field of medical/health science for the best scientificpaper published within five years of award of their doctoral degree orprofessional qualification.Candidates are invited to submit applications to: The ExecutiveOfficer, Raine Medical Research Foundation, Suite 24, TheHollywood Specialists Centre, 95 Monash Avenue, Hollywood,WA 6009The prize shall be presented by the Chair of the Raine Research Committee ornominee at the 2003 Medical Research Week Dinner. Details of the MRWDinner are available from the ASMR website address: http://www.asmr.org.austates/waevents.html.Application Form and ConditionsThe Application Form and the Conditions governing the Raine Research Prizeare available to download from the Raine website: http://www.raine.uwa.edu.au/prizesraine@raine.uwa.edu.au.THE ASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE (INC.)ASTHMA PATCHClinical Trial for a New Form of Asthma MedicationThe Asthma and Allergy Research Institute (Inc.) based at Sir Charles GairdnerHospital is looking for volunteers to participate in a clinical trial for a newPATCH medication for asthma.If you are interested please call the Asthma and Allergy ResearchInstitute on 9346 4971 or email sphelps@cyllene.uwa.edu.auAll reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

BooksCAMPUS Diary21 May – June 1salewantedNOWStarts May 19!We have stock markdowns. American University Pressand Routledge remainders, $20 to $25.The Co-op BookshopThe University of Western AustraliaThe Guild Village, Hackett Entry 2Hackett Drive, Crawley WA 6009Phone (08) 9380 2069, Fax (08) 9380 1007E-mail uwainfo@coop-bookshop.com.auwww.coop-bookshop.com.auSave the Children2003booksaleJuly 25th–30thstarts Friday 6pmdrop off at the new depotbooks • CDs• records • sheetmusic (no schooltexts or weeklymagazines please)entry off Brockway RoadUNDERWOOD AVEBROOKDALE RDBROCKWAYROADUWA Instituteof AgricultureUniPrint is UWA’s in-house printshop. We provide afriendly and efficient print, copy and design service toall areas within the University.• Graphic design and typesetting• Digital copying• General printing• Sale of course readers• Assistance with UWA and facultybranding guidelines• On-campus copying• Daily delivery and pickupContact Ray Horn on 9380 8790 or David Prior on9380 8791 to discuss all your printing needs.Email uniprintjobs@admin.uwa.edu.au Website www.uniprint.uwa.edu.auPickups can be arrangedby phoning9440 64119312 31199385 90709381 3423for more information9440 6411UniPrint 26403

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