School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management

2008

Thursday 29 May
Seminar: Dr Yan Tan, Research Fellow, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, 'An Overview of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project', 1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.

Thursday 22 May
Honours Thesis Seminars, Room 242 SSN, 1.00 pm
1.00   Andrew Koerber
Minesite Rehabilitation at Onesteel's Iron Queen, SA.
1.20   Michael Stead
Examining the sensitivity of select dominant tree species within the Mount Lofty Ranges (MLR) to climate change using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)
1.40   Nikki Anderson
The Biological Surrogacy Issue: Choosing species for optimal habitat reconstruction in the Adelaide and Mt. Lofty Ranges

Thursday 15 May
Honours Thesis Seminars, Room 242 SSN, 1.00 pm
1.00   Manal Rachid
Identification of significant European archaeological sites in Adelaide using remote sensing
1.20   Marissa Bertram
Transport sustainability and accessibility at Mount Barker/Murray Bridge
1.40   Joel Chance
Implications of boat traffic on the short term behaviour of Bottlenose Dolphins in the Port River

Thursday 8 May
A presentation evening was held in the Function Centre of the University to congratulate students on their awards.

Marissa Schaefer, Simon Benger, and Andrew Lothian presenting the EIANZ Award

Thursday 8 May
Seminar: Dr Frances Mowling, Principal Consultant, Climate Change Programs, Rural Solutions SA, 'Approaches to documenting coastlines which are vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surge', 1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.

Monday 5 May
Professor Iain Hay has been admitted as a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, a major honour that "recognises outstanding achievement in teaching and enhancing the student learning experience, combined with scholarship and academic leadership". Mark Israel has also been admitted as a Senior Fellow and as far as we know he and Iain are the first non-UK people to be honoured - a tremendous achievement for Flinders. Congratulations to Iain on receiving such significant international recognition.

Tuesday 29 April
"World Environment Day Poster Competition for Secondary School Students".
The purpose of the competition is to raise awareness of the School’s environmental programs and the global impact of climate change. Posters need to address the theme of World Environment Day 2008. Winning entries will be reproduced for various promotional activities. Click here for details and entry form.

Thursday 10 April
Seminar: Dr Selina Tually, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Women and Housing: Future Issues',
1.00 - 1.50 pm, SSN 242.

Monday 7 April
A presentation evening will be held on 8 May to congratulate students on their awards as follows:
The 2007 Les Heathcote Award for Masters of Environmental Management winner is Brenton Hastie
The 2007 Murray McCaskill Medal winner is Erin Parham
The 2007 ESRI GIS Award winner is Hugh Hunkin
The 2007 GIS Applied Project Prize winner is Andrew Murray
The 2007 EIANZ Award winner is Marissa Bertram
The 2007 APA Prize winner is Nicole March
The 2007 John Lewis Prize winners are:
1st Year: Robert Bruce
2nd Year: Renee LeCornu
3rd Year: Marissa Bertram
Silver Medal: Shah Nawaz
Postgraduate Award for Teaching Excellence not awarded
Postgraduate Award for Public Research Output winner is Edoardo Rosso
Postgraduate Award for Service to Professional and University Community winner is Gavin Malone

Thursday 3 April
Seminar: Professor Don DeBats, Department of American Studies, Flinders University, 'The US Electoral Process'',
1.00 - 1.50pm SSN 242.

Thursday 27 March
Seminar: Arthur Manser, Buildings and Property, Flinders University, 'Fighting poverty through education: Building schools in Tanzania', 1.00 - 1.50pm SSN 242.

Wednesday 26 March
The School hosted a morning tea in the SSN Common Room to welcome the new postgraduate students and to get together with current postgraduate students and staff of the School. View morning tea photographs.

left to right: Dian Irawaty, Dini Desriani, Dini Nur Afni, Afrida, Maria Gayatri and Vita Yulia Devi

Thursday 20 March
Seminar: Professor Iain Hay, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Getting started with the super-rich', 1.00 - 1.50pm SSN 242.

Thursday 13 March
Seminar: Professor Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Myth Busters? Australians and their Housing in the 21st Century', 1.00 - 1.50pm SSN 242.

Thursday 6 March
Seminar: Dr Bernard Stratmann, Visiting Scholar, Institute for European Urban Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany, 'Myth Busters? Australians and their Housing in the 21st Century', 1.00 - 1.50pm SSN 242.

Monday 3 March
Iain Hay has signed a contract with Elsevier Publishers to edit the journal Applied Geography <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30390/description#description> until 31 December 2010.

Thursday 7 February
2007 Premier's Natural Resources Management (NRM) Awards: Congratulations to Michael Stead, an Honours student, on being awarded the Rising Stars NRM Youth Volunteers/Male award.

Monday 7 January
Iain Hay delivered keynote addresses at Massey University's (New Zealand) Annual Vice-Chancellor's Symposium in December 2007. The addresses delivered at the Auckland, Wellington and Palmerston North campuses of the university and were reported in Massey News. Details at:
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/12-12-07a.html
Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the foundation Editorial Board of The Open Political Science Journal published by Bentham Science. This is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in all areas of political science.

2007

Monday 3 December
An International conference on 'Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities' will be
held 3-6 December at Flinders University.
As part of the conference there will be a free public forum on "Building Migrant Friendly Communities"
on Monday 3 December, at 6:00 - 7:45pm in the Matthew Flinders Theatre. After the conference, on Thursday 6 December, there will be workshops and masterclasses that might interest postgraduates and/or members of the public ($35 for the day):
* Workshop 1: Shifting Organisations and Identities: towards Migrant Friendly Local Communities
* Workshop 2: The Power of Storying
* Workshop 3: Migration Studies Workshop.
* Workshop 4: "I have a great idea for a documentary!" From Memory to Screen.*
* Masterclass, in association with the Flinders Humanities Research Centre: Memory/Nation/Culture.
For further information on the conference, please contact the conference organizer Nena Bierbaum on (08) 8201 2578 or (08) 8201 5137 or go the conference website http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/movingcultures.html

Wednesday 28 November
Several members of the School are involved in the 3rd State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC 07) being held in Adelaide from 28-30 November.
New Publications:
Nguyenvan, H. & Saikia, U. 2008 (forthcoming) “HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: a gender analysis” Asian Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 1.
Saikia, U. and Dasvarma, G. 2007, “Endangered gender in a matrilineal society: evidences from the Khasi tribe in Northeast India”, Asian Social Science, Vol. 3, No. 11.
Hay, I. and Compas, E. 2007, ‘Ecological imperialism’, in Robbins, P. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 511-513. (ISBN 978 1 4129 2761 1 [cloth])
Nguyen, V.L. and Hay, I. 2007, ‘Vietnam’, in Robbins, P. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 1893-1894. (ISBN 978 1 4129 2761 1 [cloth])

Tuesday 27 November
Iain Hay is working on a new research project exploring geographies of the super-rich. He would be happy to discuss the project with any interested parties.
It is three years since Beaverstock et al. (2004) first alerted geographers to the need to give consideration to contemporary geographies of the super-rich. Since then, the pages of geography journals have remained devoid of work acknowledging this call while the pockets of the super-rich have filled and the gap between the world’s poorest and the world’s wealthiest people has grown (Capgemini & Merrill Lynch 2007; Kakwani & Son 2006). Income inequality between individuals is as high as it has ever been, with just 0.25% of the world’s population holding as much wealth as the other 99.75% (Beaverstock et al., 2004, p. 401). Our focus has typically been on the lives and challenges of the poor majority – or perhaps even more commonly it has been turned inwards on the middle class lives that are most familiar to scholarly researchers. Iain contends that this myopia is troublesome, causing us to overlook potentially valuable insights to the institutions, practices and cultural values of our society, as well as allowing us only a partial view of the iniquitous consequences of global capitalism.
Iain Hay is delivering keynote addresses at Massey University's (New Zealand) Annual Vice-Chancellor's Symposium in December. The addresses will be given at the Auckland, Wellington and Palmerston North campuses of of the university.

Tuesday 27 November
New Student Publications:
Richards, N.W. in press, 'Prescribed burning in temperate peri-urban Australia': how and why is the decision to burn made? Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.
Richards, N.W. and Hay, I.M. 2007, 'Prescribed burning', in P. Robbins (ed.), Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Sage, Thousand Oaks, pp. 1419-1421.

Tuesday 27 November
Seminar: David Bunce, Postgraduate Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Relocatable Homes: Low cost housing in a suburban caravan park', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm.

Tuesday 20 November
Seminar: Professor Chris Paris, Professor of Housing Studies, School of The Built Environments, University of Ulster, will give a seminar on 'Second Homes and Local Housing Markets in Ireland', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15am - 12.30pm.

Thursday 15 November
New publication: Dr Selina Tually, 'Housing Prices Put the Squeeze on Women', Flinders Journal, vol. 18, no. 15.

Tuesday 13 November
Seminar: Dr Udoy Saikia, Lecturer in the School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, will give a seminar on 'The Country with the World's Highest Fertility: An investigation into the Reproductive Behaviour of Women of Timor Leste', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15am - 12.30pm.

Tuesday 6 November
Professor Iain Hay has been appointed a UK CeAL (Centre for Active Learning) Visiting Fellow for April-May 2008. He will visit the Centre, located at the University of Gloucestershire, while on study leave in Semester 1 to conduct collaborative work with Dr Arran Stibbe in the Department of Humanities.

Tuesday 30 October
Seminar: Jim Chalmers, Adjunct Staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Mining Human Capability in Bougainville: notes on the preparation of their post-war Human Development Report', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Wednesday 24 October
Dr Simon Benger will be conducting an Honours 2008 information session in Room 241 Social Sciences North at 1 pm.

Tuesday 23 October
Professor Andrew Beer attended the 2007 Retirement Living Conference entitled 'The Ageing of Aquarius' at the Langham Hotel, Melbourne.

Tuesday 23 October
Seminar: Brett Bryan, Policy Analyst, Policy and Economic Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water, will give a seminar entitled 'Integrated Analysis of Landscape Futures: Lessons for a Modern Applied Geography', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Friday 19 October
The School hosted a symposium to celebrate 20 years of successful postgraduate teaching of population studies at Flinders University including a special feature public forum comprising a panel discussion on the sustainability of continued population growth in Australia and South Australia. A dinner was held at St Francis Winery in the evening. Click here to view photos taken at the symposium and dinner.

Wednesday 17 October
New Publication:
Hay, I.. 2007, ‘Transformational leadership: characteristics and criticisms’, in Mrudula, E. (ed.), Transformational Leadership, The Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, pp. 17-33. (Reprinted from E-Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership, vol. 5, no. 2.)

Wednesday 17 October
Special Seminar: Prof Bud Weinstein, University of North Texas and Prof John Rees, University of North Carolina will give a seminar entitled 'Technology, Creativity and Regional Development', from 12 noon - 1.30pm in the Banksia Room, Function Centre, Flinders University (Car Park 5).

Thursday 27 September
The School is holding a Postgraduate Research Symposium from 10.00 - 3.00 pm, followed by an informal gathering.

Friday 21 September
New publication: Hay, I.M. A modern-day dilemma, Independent Weekly, Supplements, 15 September 2007.

Monday 17 September
ArcGIS 9.2 Shortcourses will be held in September.
Course 1 - ArcGIS 9.2 for Vegetation and Wildlife Managers, 17 and 18 September
Course 2 - ArcGIS 9.2 for Earth Scientists, 20 and 21 September
http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/geog/Spatialindex.php

Tuesday 11 September
Seminar: Edoardo Rosso, PhD candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'The Role of Social Capital in the Development of South Australia's Elite Women's Soccer', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Tuesday 4 September
Employment Vacancy: Research Fellow. Closing date 14 September 2007.

Tuesday 4 September
Seminar: Paul Green, Adjunct staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'An Overview of Constructed Wetlands in the Lower Sturt and Torrens Catchments', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Tuesday 4 September
The Geography Teacher's Association of South Australia together with the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management is hosting a Professional Development evening for teachers on Population, Resources and Development to be held at Flinders University.

Monday 3 September
A new refereed publication:
Israel, M. & Hay, I. 2007, ‘Good ethical practice in empirical research on law’, United Kingdom Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE), Higher Education Academy, Available:
http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/resources/index.html

Monday 27 August
Congratulations to Edoardo Rosso, PhD Candidate, on his first publication:
Rosso, E. 2007, 'Changes in the ethnic identification of women’s soccer clubs in Adelaide: the case of Adelaide City Women’s Football Club', Fulgor, vol. 3, no. 2. If you are interested in seeing it, it is available online at: http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor/latest_issue.htm

Tuesday 21 August
Seminar: Professor Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled ' Geography and Economic Restructuring in the Automotive Industry', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Tuesday 14 August
Seminar: David Langdon, PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Development of sustainable eco-cultural tourism in an indigenous community: A case study of the Baduy of West Java, Indonesia', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Friday 10 August
Professor Andrew Beer is hosting a Symposium entitled '21st Century Housing Careers and Australia's Housing Future' in the Radford Auditorium at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Speakers also include: Dr Ian Winter, Dr Debbie Faulkner and Dr Michelle Gabriel.

Tuesday 7 August
Seminar: Dr Emma Baker, Research Fellow, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'How do Good Housing and Good Health go Together?', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Monday 6 August
Dr Udoy Saikia was invited by Deloitte Australia as the guest speaker to address “Global issues on Sustainable Development”. Deloitte Australia observed “Sustainability Week” from 30 July through 3 August 2007 in order to raise awareness and understanding of the plight of the environment and climate change. It was held on 31st July 2007 and was attended by Deloitte Australia staff.

Tuesday 31 July
Seminar: Associate Professor Alaric Maude, Adjunct Staff Member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Integrating environmental objectives into regional development programs: what could we learn from Sweden and Scotland?', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Monday 30 July
New Topic: A new topic entitled, 'The Environment in Film' will be taught by the School, commencing Semester 1, 2008.

Friday 27 July
The School hosted a get-together for our new and existing postgraduate students at 11.00 am in the Social Sciences North Common Room. Morning tea and refreshments were served.

Tuesday 3 July
New student publication: "Healthy Cities, local environmental action and climate change" in Health Promotion International, by MEM student, Michael Bentley.

Tuesday 3 July
Special Seminar: Dr Terry Clower of the Centre for Economic Development and Research, University of North Texas, is visiting with the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management in the first week of July and will be presenting a seminar on 'The Economic Impacts of Stem Cell Research' on Tuesday, 3 July from 1- 3 pm, Council Room, Registry Building. Everyone is most welcome.

Friday 29 June
Advertising for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIIHW) late 2007/early 2008 graduate intake has started. Applications close on Friday 3 August and information about what qualifications and skills we’re looking for, how to apply, duty statement and selection criteria are available through our internet site, at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/employment/graduate/index.cfm.
Although this advertising is targeted at people who will complete their studies at the end of this year, we are also interested in hearing from people who will finish their studies mid-year as opportunities may be available before the end of the year – in fact, we’re interested in hearing from any suitably qualified and experienced people who think they would like to work at the Institute – at any time!

Tuesday 26 June
Professor Andrew Beer was a co-author (with Dr Debbie Faulkner) on three papers presented to the Australasian Housing Researcher's Conference in Brisbane from the 20th to the 22nd of July. All three papers reported on work associated with National Research Venture 2: 21st Century Housing Careers and Australia's Housing Future and included a general overview paper, a discussion of the housing of older Australians (including Baby Boomers) and the housing careers of persons with a disability.
Professor Andrew Beer, Associate Professor Alaric Maude and Mr Michael Kroehn have been engaged by the Adelaide City Council to provide advice on best (and worst) practice in investment attraction strategies for capital cities. The project is expected to take ten weeks.
Professor Andrew Beer and Mr Michael Kroehn are also continuing their work with the Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group (NAMIG). The research is funded by NAMIG and examines the impact of problem based learning approaches on the career choices - and learning outcomes - of high school students in Northern Adelaide.
Dr Holli Thomas attended the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam where she gave a paper on the role of innovation in the manufacturing sector in responding to industry restructuring. Dr Thomas used the trip as an opportunity to strengthen the School's ties with Birmingham University.
Dr Emma Baker is at the European Network of Housing Researcher's Conference in Rotterdam where she is presenting a paper on housing and health.
New publication:
Peters, K. (2007) “m-Learning: Positioning educators for a mobile, connected future.” International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Volume 8, Number 2.

Monday 25 June
Dr Udoy Saikia has been invited to facilitate a working group (Water and quality of life in rural India) at the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) Developing World Conference. This year’s event is to be held from 28 June to 1 July 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia. The Developing World Conference is run for medical students, by medical students. This conference will have around 350 delegates from around Australia and New Zealand who are passionate about developing world health issues. The theme for the 2007 conference is "Pathways for Empowerment" which aims to explore the complicated matrix of social, political, health and economic factors that cause, contribute and continue problems in international health.
Udoy has also been awarded a Scholarship to attend a Summer School at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research in Germany between August 20th and 28th. The scholarship pays 1600 EURO to cover expenses and the Faculty of Social Sciences has approved a top up grant of $ 2000 to assist with travel costs.

Tuesday 19 June
Seminar: Meryl Pearce, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Hot Houses in the Desert - to cool or not to cool, that is the question!', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Friday 15 June
A farewell dinner for Eric Compas was held at Montezuma's Mexican Restaurant. Click here to view some photos taken on the night.

Tuesday 12 June
Seminar: Susan Lee, PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Low-flow Bypass Trial in the Marne Catchment, SA', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Tuesday 5 June
Seminar: Simon Benger, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled 'Effects of Floodplain Development on the Wetlands of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15-12.30.

Monday 28 May
Professor Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of Applied Geography for a three year term (2007-2010).

Thursday 24 May
Dr Udoy Saikia has been awarded the 2008 Ron Lister Scholarship from the University of Otago. The Fellowship assists distinguished international scholars to spend time at the University of Otago teaching and researching in the Department of Geography. The fellowship also provides up to $12,000 in support for research and other expenses.

Tuesday 22 May
Seminar: Dr Jonathan Sobels, Adjunct staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled '10 Taipans in a box; drought, government and communication', Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30 .

Monday 21 May
Associate Professor Alaric Maude, Adjunct Staff member, became the 1000th member of the Fox Creek Circle. Alaric is pictured here with his enrolment form.

Tuesday 15 May
Honours Seminar Schedule: Emma Fell, Mary Lewitska, Manal Rachid, Nathan Atterton and Joel Chance.

Monday 14 May
The first postgraduate research symposium of the year is scheduled for 2 - 5 pm on 14 May. The event will feature presentations from staff and be followed by drinks and nibbles. An agenda and further details will be forwarded in the coming weeks.

Thursday 10 May
Honours Seminar Schedule: Kate Braham, Lev Makaev, Michael Stead and Stewart Warner-Smith.

Tuesday 8 May
Honours Seminar Schedule: Erin Parham, Dominic Skinner, Tony Halls and Stewart Gundy.

Tuesday 24 April
Professor Andrew Beer will be giving a paper at an international symposium on 21st Century Housing Issues on 30 April at the University of North Texas, Dallas. With his colleague Dr Terry Clower he will then give a paper at the Pacific Regional Science Conference in Vancouver.
Gavin Malone , a visual artist and PhD candidate is presenting an exhibition arising from his research as part of the fortieth anniversary commemorations of the 1967 Australian referendum on Indigenous issues. The exhibition is entitled; Ways of Belonging: Reconciliation and the Symbolic Value of the Public Space in Adelaide; and will be held at Tandanya, the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute from 25 May – 22 July 2007 with the official opening on Friday, 1 June. The exhibition will coincide with Reconciliation Week, South Australia, 27 May – 3 June, 2007. For more information contact Tandanya 8224 3200.

'The Rainmakers, Lohmann Park, O'Sullivan Beach, 1965. Sculptor Geoffrey Shedley'
New Publication
Vo, P., Pearce, M. and Benger, S. (2007) Community Participation as a driver of domestic waste management: A case study from Vietnam, Int. J. of Cultural, Economic and Environmental Sustainability Volume 2, Issue 6, pp.95-102.

Tuesday 24 April
Seminar: Jim Chalmers, Adjunct Staff Member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled in 'Results of Human Development & Capabilities workshop, Oxford 2007’, Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30

Tuesday 3 April
A presentation evening will be held on 9 May to congratulate students on their awards as follows:
The 2006 Les Heathcote Award for Masters of Environmental Management winner is Louise Anders
The 2006 Murray McCaskill Medal winner is Edoardo Rosso
The 2006 ESRI GIS Award winner is Timothy Ey
The 2006 GIS Applied Project Prize winner is Jonathan Cudmore
The 2006 inaugural EIANZ Award winner is Tamara Sinkinson
The 2006 inaugural APA Prize winner is Marissa Schaefer
The 2006 John Lewis Prize winners are:
1st Year: Sophie Owen
2nd Year: Marissa Schaefer
3rd Year: Michael Stead
Silver Medal: Peter Smailes
Postgraduate Award for Teaching Excellence winner is Noel Richards
Postgraduate Award for Public Research Output winner is Gavin Malone
Postgraduate Award for Service to Professional and University Community winner is Susan Lee

Wednesday 28 March
A Flinders BA student, Tammy-Jo Sutton, from ENVS1702 won the Channel 9 Young Achiever Award in the Environment category. Tammy is an activist/organiser for the South Australian Wilderness Society. She was invited to attend the Gala Awards dinner on 31 March where she received her $1000 award. Congratulations Tammy-Jo.

Tammy-Jo and Eric Compas taken on the night.
Dr Holli Thomas has been invited to present a paper at the Tinbergen Institute in the Netherlands on restructuring in the automotive sector and innovation. Dr Thomas is only one of four Australians invited to present at the 2007 Tinbergen meetings and her participation has attracted financial support from the ARC Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences.
Janet Adkins has commenced her PhD examining the relationship between health and homelessness. Janet's supervisors are Dr Emma Baker and Professor Andrew Beer. Previously Janet worked with Shelter SA.
Honours student Kate Braham, under the supervision of Dr Simon Benger, received a $5,000 scholarship from the Deserts CRC for her project examining the influence of the Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) on the livelihoods of the Adnyamathanha people in central Australia.
David Bass and BEM graduate Jill Pearson have been invited to be part of an Industry advisory Committee for Urrbrae TAFE Diploma of Environmental Management.
ArcGIS Shortcourses will be held in April.
Course 1 - ArcGIS for Vegetation and Wildlife Scientists, 12 and 13 April
Course 2 - ArcGIS for Earth Scientists, 16 and 17 April
Course 3 - ArcGIS for Vegetation and Wildlife Managers, 19 and 20 April

Tuesday 27 March
Seminar: Kristine Peters, PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled, 'Carrots and Sticks: the role of incentives and regulation in behaviour change'
Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30

Tuesday 20 March
Seminar: Dr Les Heathcote, Adjunct Staff Member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, will give a seminar entitled, 'Revisiting the Drought Threat: is it all in the mind?'
Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30

Friday 16 March
Professor Chris Paris, University of Ulster, gave a seminar entitled, "Strategic Perspectives on Housing for Older Citizens in Northern Ireland' in the Council Room of the Registry Building from 12.00 - 2.00 pm.

Tuesday 13 March
Seminar: Dr Alison Reeves, Visiting Research Fellow, Head of Geography, School of Social Sciences, Dundee University, Nor East Scotland, 'Disciplinary Interactions: The impacts of ontological commitments on diffuse pollution policies in the UK'
Room 242, Social Sciences North, 11.15 - 12.30

Wednesday 28 February
The School hosted a get-together for our new and existing postgraduate students at 11.00 am in the Social Sciences North Common Room. Morning tea and refreshments were served.

Friday 23 February
New Publications
Beer, A. Kearins, P. and Pieters, H. 2007 Housing Affordability and Planning In Australia: The Challenge of Policy Under Neo Liberalism, Housing Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 11-24.
The paper "Indigenous Engagement with Modernity: Domestic Water Supply, Risk and Reflexive Modernization" by Eileen Willis, Meryl Pearce (Lecturer in the School of GPEM), Tom Jenkin (PhD student in the School of GPEM), Ben Wadham & Carmel McCarthy was presented (by Eileen Willis) at the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), at the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University in December. The paper is published in the associated refereed conference Proceedings.

Monday 5 February
Professor Andrew Beer gave a seminar to the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and the Institute for Economic Development Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham Business School, UK entitled 'Government Responses to an Automotive Plant Closure in Adelaide, Australia'.

Friday 5 January
The school is pleased to announce that at the graduation held on the 15th December the following students were awarded their PhDs:
Charlotte Morgan, for her thesis entitled "Revealing patterns of Campylobactor Infection in South Australia: An exploratory space - time analysis";
Peter Smailes for his thesis entitled "Redefining the local - The social organisation of rural space in South Australia, 1982-2006"; and
Selina Tually for her thesis entitled "Streets ahead? The limits of main street programs as a local economic development strategy. The case of the Beach Road Main Street Project Incorporated" .

Monday 1 January
Kathy Daish, an undergraduate student in the School, was recently awarded the Borrie Undergraduate Essay Prize for 2005. The award is made by the Australian Population Association for the best undergraduate essay about a demography related topic by an Australian University student. View Kathy Daish's essay

2006

December
Dr Andrew Lothian, an Adjunct Lecturer in the School, attended the annual conference of the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment (NZAIA) in Dunedin, New Zealand in December 2006. The theme of the conference was “Assessing the Impacts of Energy Development”. He presented a paper, Visual Impact Assessment of Wind Farms in South Australia. This described a study of the likely impact of wind farms in a range of coastal and inland sites in South Australia. The results showed that in all locations, the wind farm diminished landscape quality. The conference also included papers on hydro energy, air pollution impacts of conventional power generation, Maori involvement, and energy policy.

Thursday 21 December
Congratulations to Dr Beverley Clarke on winning the Institute of Australian Geographers Postgraduate Award for 2006 for her paper Australia's Coastcare Program (1996-2002): its Purpose, Components and Outcomes, which was published in the third (September) issue of GR: JIAG, Volume 44 (2006), pp. 310-322.

Wednesday 6 December
Professor Andrew Beer has been appointed to Minister Jay Weatherill's Ministerial Strategic Housing Advisory Council (MSHAC) for a period of three years.

Wednesday 29 November
Restructuring in the Automotive Industry - 40th Birthday Celebration Symposium
Staff from the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted a symposium on restructuring in the automotive industry on the 29th and 30th of November at McLarens at the Lake. The Symposium sought to draw out the similarities and differences between the closure of the Lonsdale plant of Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd (MMAL) and the Rover MG plant in Longbridge, Birmingham. Participants in the Symposium were drawn from Flinders University staff working on an ARC Linkage grant entitled the Health, Housing and Labour Market Impacts of an Automotive Plant Closure, and UK-based staff who have worked in Birmingham. Visitors included Prof David Bailley of the School of Business, University of Birmingham; Prof Phil McCann, Waikato University; Dr Caoline Chapain and Dr Stephen Hall of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Birmingham University; and Dr Ed Ferrari, Sheffield University.

The Symposium generated lively debate and included presentations by Mr Jeff Tate, CEO of the City of Onkaparinaga and Mr Len Piro of the Department of Trade and Economic Development.

The academic participants in the event included: Dr Lareen Newman (Public Health, Flinders); Prof Phil McCann (University of Waikato); Dr Holli Thomas and Prof Andrew Beer (Geography, Flinders); Dr Stephen Hall, Prof David Bailley and Dr Caroline Chapain (Birmingham University); Dr Fiona Verity (Social Work, Flinders); Dr Kathy Armstrong (The Work Foundation, London); Ms Gwynn Jolley (Public Health, Flinders); Dr Diannah Lowry (NILS, Flinders); Mr Hans Pieters (Geography, Flinders); Dr Ed Ferrari (Sheffield University); Mr Keith Hutson (Geography, Flinders) and Guangyu Zhang (Public Health, Flinders).

The event was supported by the Vice Chancellor as part of the Flinders 40th birthday celebrations, as well as the Department of Trade and Economic Development; the City of Onkaparinga; the Office of the Southern Suburbs and the Social Monitoring and Policy Futures Network

Thursday 30 November
Congratulations to Professor Iain Hay on winning the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year, the nation's top prize for tertiary teaching at the Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching presentation ceremony in Canberra on November 28. Flinders University news article. The 'very best uni teacher' is from Adelaide's The Advertiser (30 Nov, p. 25). The 'geographer wins top award' is from The Australian (29 Nov, p. 25).

Monday 27 November
Congratulations to Dr Beverley Clarke on her successful nomination as a member of the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board Coast, Estuarine and Marine Advisory Committee (AMLR NRM CEMAC). The appointment commenced in September 2006.

Tuesday 21 November
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 241 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Assoc Prof Paul Sutton, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Denver, 'Valuation of an Ecosystem Service: Estimating the dollar value of the mitigation of storm damage provided by wetlands'.

Wednesday 15 November
Congratulations to Eric Compas on his success in winning a Faculty of Social Sciences Teaching Award for 2006.

Tuesday 14 November
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 241 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Dr Simon Benger, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Spatial Relationships between Cancer and Geological Setting in NSW'.

Friday 3 November
The School held a Postgraduate Research Symposium from 1.00 - 5.00 pm, followed by an informal gathering.

left to right: Prof Iain Hay, postgraduate students Gavin Malone and
David Langdon and a visiting postgraduate student from Auckland
University, Loretta Geuenich.
Please click here for more photographs from an informal gathering following the Symposium.

Tuesday 31 October
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Dr Beverley Clarke and Eric Compas, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Tale of two seas: Marine Protected Areas in South Australia - some preliminary findings'.

Friday 27 October
Iain Hay spoke to the Australian Institute of Urban Studies (South Australian Division) on ‘Monuments, memory and marginalization: designing for inclusion’.

Wednesday 25 October
Professor Andrew Beer gave a presentation to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on 21st Century Housing Careers and Australia's Housing Future.. Andrew also visited PhD student Amity James while she completes her field work examining housing and ageing in non-metropolitan South Australia and Northern Ireland.

Tuesday 24 October
Iain Hay has joined the Editorial Board of Language, Society and Culture.

Tuesday 24 October
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Brian Caton, Adjunct Staff Member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Assessing Conservation Priority at the Southern Fleurieu Coast'.

Thursday 19 October
Congratulations to Udoy Saikia having his research paper (based on his PhD work) selected for an international award in an essay competition organised by Irmgard Coninx Foundation. He has been invited to participate in the Sixth Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality in 2007. The topic will be 'Population Politics, Migration and Human Rights'. Well done and credit to Gour Dasvarma too for his contributions to the work.

Wednesday 18 October
Hon. Mark Parnell, MLC (first member of the Australia Greens to be elected to South Australian Parliament) will be speaking about major environmental issues in South Australia and current efforts by the state government to address them at 10.00 – 11.00 am in Humanities North 2.

Tuesday 17 October
Professor Andrew Beer and Debbie Faulkner gave a presentation on the impact of ageing on the demand for housing to the Council of the City of Onkaparinga.

Tuesday 17 October
Honours Seminars
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
11.15 Alex Clarke, 'Spatial behaviour of the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) within a medium density 1080 baited area of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia'
11.35 Eduardo Rosso, 'The changing spatial organisation of women's soccer in the Adelaide metropolitan region 1978-2006'
11.55 Nikki Mahoney, 'GIS analysis of crime in Adelaide'

Monday 16 October
Iain Hay delivered a plenary address to the 1st International Indian Geography Congress held at Osmania University, Hyderabad, 5-7 October. His talk was entitled ‘Oppressive geometries? Developing postcolonial power/knowledge arrangements for a global virtual group’. On his return from India, Iain spent a day with colleagues in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore discussing new strategies for developing research ethics training and 'regulation'.

Tuesday 10 October
Honours Seminars
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
11.15 Dominic Skinner, 'The environmental responsibility of the individual'
11.35 Brett Williams, 'The impacts of Pyp Grass (ehrharta villosa var. maxima) on transgressive dune dynamics, Daly Heads, Yorke Peninsula'
11.55 Joel Chance, 'Coastal Issues'

Wednesday 11 October
Syed Sohel, a PhD student in the School, was the winner of a 2006 Science and Innovation Award for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The award was sponsored by the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation. His award was presented by The Honourable Eric Abetz, Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation at a Gala Dinner at Parliament House on the 11th October 2006.

Tuesday 10 October
Special Seminar
2.00 - 4.00 pm, Conference Room of the Function Centre
Professor Gavin Wood, Director of AHURI-RMIT, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, 'National Research Venture 1: Housing Assistance and Economic Participation'.

Friday 6 October
Congratulations to Udoy Saikia on the birth is his son Rian (an Irish name meaning the Little King). He weighed 3.05 kgs and length of 46 cm. He loves to wear a T-shirt where it is written "If you think I am handsome, you should see my Daddy".

Friday 29 September
Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Geographical Research (Blackwell Publishers) from 2007.

Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 September
The Five-Year Course Review of the Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems and its Honours component will take place. Interested people are invited to make a submission and should contact Ms Julie Nixon, via email to julie.nixon@flinders.edu.au. Please click here for a copy of the Terms of Reference of the Review .

Friday 22 September
Congratulations to Andrew Beer on his recent promotion to Level E Professor. Well done Andrew, very well deserved.

Monday 18 September
The School welcomes Jonathan Sobels as an Adjunct staff member. Jonathan has skills in qualitative and quantitative social science research methods, project and consultancy management, industry funding applications, commercialization of university research, and plant breeding and selection R&D and background knowledge of soils, plants and weeds; the seed industry – native and agricultural; agribusiness – pesticides sales and distribution, export trade relationships, farmer cooperatives, and conservation farming and grazing practices; dryland salinity, revegetation and NRM issues; and remote sensing, GIS and GPS as adapted for agronomic decision making.

Tuesday 12 September
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Elena Mazourenko, PhD Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Environmental Valuation and Policy Making Process: To what extent do the developments in environmental valuation related to environmental and social values of water influence water policy in Australia (South Australia) and Canada (Alberta)?'

Friday 8 September
Associate Professor Alaric Maude was invited to a Rountable Discussion held by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage at Parliament House, Canberra on 8 September. The Committee is conducting an inquiry into a Sustainability Charter. As a result of a submission he made to the Inquiry, he was invited to give a presentation on the scope of a Charter, and to join with representatives of eight professional and community organisations, and one other individual, in discussing three other questions relating to a Charter. Information on the Inquiry, and copies of the submissions it has received, can be found at: www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/environ

Tuesday 5 September
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Ali Said, PhD Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'The implementation of regional autonomy and the challenge of a rapid poverty reduction in Indonesia: some preliminary findings'.

Wednesday 23 August
Susan Lee, a PhD student in the School, has won the Playford Memorial Trust Scholarship. The scholarship will fund her continuing research in the field of environmental flows, specifically, her work trialling a device to protect small streams from interruptions to their flow regime caused by farm dams.

Tuesday 22 August
The 5 year Course Review Committee for the Master of Environmental Management met on campus on the 21st and 22nd of August. The committee was chaired by Associate Professor Bill Boyd (Southern Cross University). The other committee members were: Ms. Ann Shaw Rungie (Director, QED Pty Ltd); staff members Dr Meryl Pearce (SGPEM) and Dr Haydon Manning (School of Political and International Studies); and students Mr Graham Goss and Aisha Jhummun.

pictured l to r: Chair of the Master of Environmental Management review, Assoc Prof Bill Boyd,
with SGPEM staff, Prof Iain Hay, Dr Gour Dasvarma and Assoc Prof Clive Forster

Thursday 17 August
Dr Simon Benger, with Prof. Peter Fairweather and Dr Sabine Dittmann from Flinders Biological Sciences, were part of a successful collaborative research bid which received $2.2 million in CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country funding for the CLLAMMEcology project (Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Ecology). The other research partners are Adelaide University, SARDI, DEH and SA Water. Approximately $490K will flow to Flinders over the next 3 years for the project. Dr Benger will work on the Dynamic Habitats theme, which will characterise wetland and aquatic communities and their vulnerability to changes in hydrological conditions across the region.
Gavin Malone, a PhD student in the school and artist, was recently involved in the Murray Darling Palimpsest, a visual art event that engages issues of ecological and cultural sustainability through out the Basin. His work, with an emphasis on water, formed part of the 'Winter Landscape' exhibition at the Palmer Project, a long term ecological rehabilitation and art synthesis on the eastern escarpment of the Mt Lofty Ranges at Palmer.
Dr Simon Benger has been appointed to the Mitcham City Rail Task Force, which will investigate issues associated with The Hills Freight Line, among others.

Tuesday 15 August
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Dr Phil Lawn, School of Business Economics, Flinders University, 'In search of a measure of sustainable national income'.

Tuesday 8 August
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Amity James, PhD Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Housing Pathways and "Aging in place" in Non-metropolitan Australia and Northern Ireland', work in progress.

Wednesday 2 August
Congratulations to Associate Professor Paul Sutton, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Denver, on his recent co-authored paper published in Geocarto International.

Tuesday 1 August
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Eleanor Button, PhD Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Gambling and Pathways into Homelessness', work in progress.

July 2006
Emma Baker presented a paper entitled “Social Networks, Housing Quality or Residential Environment: What’s more important for the wellbeing of relocating tenants?” to the European Network of Housing Researchers Conference July 2006, Ljubliana, Slovenia.

Thursday 27 July
Professor Andrew Beer gave a Keynote paper at the Federal Government's Growing Regions Conference on the 27th of July. The paper examined the most appropriate economic development strategies for dealing with structural adjustment.

Thursday 20 July
Iain Hay (with Mark Israel, Law) received $5,800 for ‘Ethics with Impact – improving the impact of Research Ethics for Social Scientists: Between Ethical Conduct and Regulatory Compliance' from the Flinders Social Monitoring and Policy Futures Network Research Development Grant Scheme.

Friday 14 July
Iain Hay with completing Master of Environmental Management students.

pictured left to right: Lalu Adi Gunawan, Vonny Mutiara,
Professor Iain Hay, Dalilah, and Eman Siswanto.

Tuesday 11 July
Congratulations to Iain Hay on being awarded the 2006 Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Learning "For sustained scholarship and leadership dedicated to improving the quality of geography learning and teaching within Australia and internationally".
New Publication: Israel, M. & Hay, I. (2006), Research Ethics for Social Scientists: between ethical conduct and regulatory compliance, Sage, London (1 July)
Iain Hay presented the 2006 Journal of Geography in Higher Education annual lecture as a keynote presentation at the International Geographical Union conference in Brisbane. He spoke on "Postcolonial practices for a global virtual group - the case of INLT".

Friday 7 July
Congratulations to Bridget Kearins (graduate of the School) who is the proud mother of Hannah Rose Kearins, born Friday 7th July, weighing 7lb 7 oz and 50cm in length.

Friday 30 June
Dr Simon Benger will teach "ArcGIS 9.1 for Public Health Professionals" as part of the week long shortcourse called "Space, Place and Health - Geographical Approaches to Public Health" being run 7th-11th August, 2006, by Flinders Department of Public Health. For further details contact Lisel O'Dwyer at lisel.odwyer@flinders.edu.au

Monday 26 June
Australasian Housing Researchers Conference
Staff based in the Faculty of Social Sciences, through the Southern Research Centre of AHURI, organised the highly successful Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, held at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 19 to 21 June. The conference was convened by Professor Andrew Beer of the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, with Jenny Launer, Selina Tually, Vanessa Brownrigg and Lori Compas (all of Geography, Population and Environmental Management) playing key administrative roles. Dr Emma Baker and Ms Eleanor Button were members of the Organising Committee.
Papers presented will be included in the next issue of the School's Newsletter due out in July.

Cecile Cutler and Jenny Launer on the field trip at Port
Adelaide for the Australasian Housing Researchers
Conference 2006

Dr Emma Baker was awarded the AHURI Early Career Researcher Prize for her paper, Improving Outcomes of Forced Residential Location: The Development of an Australian Tenant’s Spatial Decision Support System.

Dr Emma Baker receiving her AHURI Early Career Researcher
prize from Mr Phil Fagan-Schmidt, Department for Families and
Communities, SA Government

Ms Selina Tually, Associate Professor Alaric Maude and Professor Andrew Beer have recently completed a report for the Office of Regional Affairs on Governance and the Organisation of Regional Development: Cross National Comparisons.

Dr Debbie Faulkner and Professor Andrew Beer have submitted their draft Research Report on Housing Models for an Aged Population to the City of Onkaparinga.

Dr. Simon Benger will serve as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Cultural, Economic and Environmental Sustainability for 2006 and has just completed the June round of GIS shortcourses in the Faculty. For the first time a cohort of staff and postgraduate students from Adelaide University School of Earth and Environmental Sciences joined other participants from DEH, DWLBC, SARDI and State NRM Boards.

Tuesday 20 June
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Dr David Bass, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Preliminary Investigations of Allelopathy in Olives'.

Friday 16 June
Congratulations to Noel Richards, PhD Candidate in the School, on being awarded the runner-up prize for the best spoken paper by a student at the Bushfire 2006 Conference in Brisbane on 9 June. His presentation was entitled, 'Prescribed burning in the Mt Lofty Ranges: How and why is the decision to burn made?'

Tuesday 13 June
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Associate Professor Susanne Schech, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University and Associate Professor Jane Haggis, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Flinders University, 'From stranger to citizen: racialisation at the contact zone of refugees and host country service providers'.

Friday 9 June
Noel Richards, a PhD Candidate in the School, was awarded the runner-up prize for the best spoken paper by a student at the Bushfire 2006 Conference in Brisbane. His presentation was entitled, 'Prescribed burning in the Mt Lofty Ranges: How and why is the decision to burn made?'

Tuesday 6 June
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Kristine Peters, PhD Candidate, Flinders University, 'Social Capital at Work: the Role of Local Business Associations in Creating Intercompany Linkages (a case study of the Hackham Business Association)'.

Wednesday 24 May
Dr Emma Baker and Professor Andrew Beer presented a paper to the Australian Research Council Research Network on Spatially Integrated Social Science (ARCRNSISS) on the Development of a Composite Model of Housing Need. This presentation was based on work undertaken for the Department of Families and Communities.

Tuesday 23 May
11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Seminar: Noel Richards, PhD Candidate, Flinders University, 'Prescribed burning in the southern Mt Lofty Ranges: How and why is the decision to burn made?'

Friday 19 May
Congratulations to Charlotte Morgan on being awarded the Doctor of Philosophy, effective 18 May 2006. Charlotte's thesis is entitled: "Revealing patterns of Campylobacter infection in South Australia: an exploratory space-time analysis'.

Wednesday 17 May
Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (2006-2008).

Tuesday 16 May
Honours Seminars 11.15am - 12.30pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Nikki Mahoney - GIS Analysis of Crime in Adelaide.
Alex Clarke - Spatial behaviour of the Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, within a medium density 1080 baited area of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Bronwyn Bean - Impact and Distribution of the Olive Lace Bug, Frogattia olivinia froggat, within the Mount Lofty Ranges

Wednesday 10 May
A presentation evening was held to congratulate students on their awards. Click here to view some photos taken on the night.

Tuesday 9 May
Honours Seminars 11.15am - 12.30 pm, Rm 242 Social Sciences Nth
Jonathan McPhail - The use of GIS to identify suitable locations for a wetland in the Silver Sands Catchment
Eduardo Rosso - The changing spatial organisation of women's soccer in the Adelaide metropolitan region 1978-2006Kelly Allen - Collective intelligence and the participatory design of urban environments

Tuesday 2 May
Andrew Beer presented a paper at the Don Dunstan Foundation Roundtable on 10 April entitled 'Displaced Workers and their Perception of Housing Needs'. He also gave a breakfast presentation to the Western Sydney Business Connection on 28 April on 'Effective Economic Development: How Do we Do It' and will give a paper at the 'Federalism and Regionalism in Australia Conference' in Sydney on 8 May.

Wednesday 26 April
The Southern Research Centre is organising the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference for the period 19-21 June 2006. This conference will be held in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Registrations are open, as is the call for contributions. Interested persons can obtain more information from the website www.ahc06.com.au or via andrew.beer@flinders.edu.au

Monday 24 April
Dr Udoy Saikia along with UNDP Coordinator Dr Jim Chalmers organised three workshops (two in Bougainville and one in Port Moresby) as a part of the ongoing project on Bougainville Human Development Report (BHDR). The workshops were held from 18 to 21 April 2006. Click here to find out more and view some photos taken.

Wednesday 19 April
Dr Udoy Saikia has been awarded support from the 2006 Faculty Research Budget of $3,000 for the project entitled 'the country with the world's highest fertility: a preliminary investigation into the reproductive behaviour of women of Timor Leste'.
Dr Gour Dasvarma and Dr Udoy Saikia have been awarded supported from the 2006 Faculty Research Budget of $1,500 to support visiting research fellow Professor Prem Saxena, Independent Researcher and Consultant.

Tuesday 18 April
Congratulations to all our students who graduated today. View a photo of Jenny Launer and Cecile Cutler.

Thursday 13 April
In his role as Chair of the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Geography, Iain Hay attended the Academy's biennial meeting of National Committee Chairs in Canberra. The meeting discussed both the Productivity Commission's Review of Public Support for Science and Innovation and the national and international roles and responsibilities of National Committees.

Wednesday 12 April
A presentation evening will be held on 10 May to congratulate students on their awards as follows:
The 2005 Les Heathcote Award for Masters of Environmental Management winner is Van Phong Vo
The 2005 Murray mcCaskill Medal winner is Elena Mazourenko
The 2005 ESRI GIS award winner is Kelly Allen
The 2005 inaugural GIS Applied Project prize joint winners are Laszlo Katona and Nathan Daniels
The 2005 John Lewis Prize winners are:
1st Year: Susanne Taylor
2nd and 3rd Year: joint winners are Kay Govin Karpagam and Paul O'Connor
Silver Medalist: Janet Candy

Monday 3 April
A New Set of Snakes and Ladders for 21st Century Home-owners. Article by Professor Andrew Beer appeared in the Flinders Journal.
Dr Andrew Lothian, Adjunct Lecturer in the School, won the National Award for Planning Excellence 2006 in the cateogyr of environmental Planning or Conservation for his report, 'Coastal Viewscapes'. The report covered the measurement and mapping of coastal landscape quality for the entire coast of South Australia which Dr Lothian completed in 2005 for the Coastal Management Branch of the Department for Environment and Heritage. The award was made by the Planning Institute of Australia at its conference on the Gold Coast on 3 April. The win followed Dr Lothian being awarded the State Award for Planning Excellence last November by the SA Division of the Planning Institute of Australia.

Friday 31 March
Andrew Beer presented a paper at the Australian Financial Review Housing Congress in Sydney. the paper considers 'The New Drivers in Australia's Housing Markets' and draws upon the project '21st Century Housing Careers and Australia's Housing Futures'.

Friday 31 March
The School welcomes Julie Nixon. Julie commences on Monday 3 April as the School's Administrative Officer.

Tuesday 28 March
Seminar: Dr Andrew Lothian, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'An Innovative Landscape Quality Assessment Methodology'.

Tuesday 21 March
Seminar: Associate Professor Paul Sutton, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Denver, 'An overview of several applications using night time satellite imagery'.

Monday 20 March
Iain Hay has joined the Review Board for the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Friday 17 March
Congratulations to Cecile Cutler and Dean Forbes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) on their contribution 'Laos in 2005: 30 Years of the People's Democratic Republic' to a recent publication Asian Survey, vol. XLVI, No. 1, pp. 175-179, January/February 2006.

Thursday 16 March
Dr Simon Benger recently returned from fieldwork examining floodplain modification on the margins of the Tonle Sap (Great Lake) of Cambodia, working under a Faculty Research Grant.
Professor Andrew Beer was a keynote speaker at the Local Government Association Queensland's Regional Rejuvenation Conference on 23 February at yeppoon. He also made a presentation on 13 March to the Standing Committee on Regional Development (SCORD) in Hobart. SCORD is a committee of Australian, State and Territory government officials.

Tuesday 14 March
Seminar: David Bunce, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Poatina - a model for urban and rural regeneration?'

Thursday 9 March
Dr Gour Dasvarma and Dr Udoy Saikia's recent trip to Bougainville to prepare a Human Development Report for the Autonomous Bougainville Region (see previous item of 26 January below) is detailed today on the University's 'News' web page http://www.flinders.edu.au/?news=102

Thursday 9 March
Congratulations to Cecile Cutler and Dean Forbes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) on their chapter contribution 'The Global Knowledge Economy, the University and the Southeast Asian City' to a recent publication Challenging Sustainability - Urban Development and Change in Southeast Asia, Ch. 6, pp. 175-196, Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore.

Friday 3 March
Iain Hay, Andrew Hughes and Mark Tutton are co-winners of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies Research Prize 2005 for their paper 'Monuments, memory and marginalization in Adelaide's Prince Henry Gardens' which was published in Geografiska Annaler B (2004, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 200-215). This paper was written while Andrew and Mark were undergraduate students in the School.

Friday 3 March
This week the School held separate functions to welcome postgraduate students and new first-year students. These successful gatherings are part of the School's ambitions to ensure a welcoming and supportive environment for all students.

Tuesday 28 February
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Beer who has been awarded a University-Industry Collaborative Research Grant and to a team led by Dr Beverley Clarke who successfully obtained a $10,000 Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant.

Monday 6 February
The School welcomes Dr Paul Sutton from Denver University. Paul is visiting the School for a period of 12 months.

Thursday 26 January
Dr. Gour Dasvarma and Dr. Udoy Saikia have been requested by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Papua New Guinea to provide technical and research expertise for preparing a Human Development Report for the Autonomous Bougainville Region. They are working with the Coordinator of the Bougainville Human Development Report (BHDR), Dr. Jim Chalmers on all aspects of the report beginning with the selection of a theme of the report, chapter selection, collection and analysis of required data and calculation of various indicators of human development.

The President of Bougainville Autonomous Region, The Hon’ble Joseph Kabuli addressing the Inception Workshop of Bougainville Human Development Report held at the capital Buka on 26 January 2006.

Dr. Udoy Saikia (fourth from left, back row), with Dr. Jim Chalmers, Coordinator, Bougainville Human Development Report (third from left, back row) at the Inception Workshop of Bougainville

Monday 16 January
Congratulations to Les Heathcote and Sheila on their recent marriage.

Monday 9 January
Dr Udoy Saikia joined the School as a Lecturer B. Udoy joins us from Flinders' Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences. Udoy has an MA (Economics, Golchale Institute, India), MPS (IIPS, India), MSc (LSE) and PhD (Flinders). He will be involved in teaching across a broad range of the School's academic areas of interest.

Tuesday 3 January
Dr. Gour Dasvarma participated at an international conference titled: “Female Deficit in Asia: Trends and Perspectives”, organised by the Singapore-based Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, in collaboration with CEPED, CICRED and INED of France. The conference was held in Singapore from 5 to 7 December 2005. Dr. Dasvarma and Ms. Tiodora Siagian of the Central Board of Statistics, Indonesia (a Master of Population and Human Resources graduate from Flinders University) presented a paper titled: “The Masculinisation of the Sex Ratio in Indonesia”.

Tiodora and Gour

2005

Monday 12 December
Congratulations to Associate Professor Susanne Schech, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management and Associate Professor Jane Haggis, Department of Sociology who were successful in the recent Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project 2006 funding round. 'From Stranger to Citizen: Migration, Modernisation and Racialisation in the Making of the New Australian'. Total funding of $505,000 over two years.

Wednesday 7 December
The School's staff and postgraduate students enjoyed their Christmas Luncheon at the mt Lofty Summit Cafe. We found out some interesting information about some staff members on the bus trip home as follows.....
We have a descendent of the first settlers in South Australia, an actor who appeared in "China No 1 Bodyguard", an ex-Oompa Loompa, Captain Cave Man, someone who likes peanut butter and vegemite sandwiches, a female re-roofer, a grade 2 classical guitarist, volleyball finalist winner and a tennis champion coahced by Margaret Court.

Tuesday 6 December
Congratulations to Collin Snow (graduate of 2003 from the United States) who is now employed with Envirobusiness Inc, USA as an Assistant Project Coordinator. In a recent card he says "Beverley, you have been a huge support and positive influence throughout this entire job searching escapade of mine. Your EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) class had a very large impact on me and as a result I have chosen to pursue a career in this field".

Short courses available in November/December 2005
Short courses in GIS are being offered for the first time in November/December 2005, through the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management. The two day courses are designed to attract government agency, university and industry researchers and resource managers working with the latest ArcGIS software. You will work on real data relevant to your applications, rather than the generic "one size fits all" training provided by the vendor.
Shortcourses in Geographic Information Systems 2005

Tuesday 29 November
Seminar: Professor Chris Paris, University of Ulster (Visiting Research Fellow in the School), 'Second Homes: irish Debates and International Comparisons'.

Thursday 24 November
School's Topic Review Day.

Wednesday 23 November
School's Planning Day.

Tuesday 22 November - Cancelled
Seminar: Holli Thomas, PhD Candidate, School of Political and International Studies and Research Officer, Mitsubishi Project, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Too Late for a Palestinian State?'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm.

Tuesday 15 November
Seminar: Dr Farah Adeeb, Adjunct staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management and Senior Scientific Officer, SA Environmental Protection Authority, 'Application of a 3-dimensional air quality model to Adelaide airshed-implications for air quality managemnt'.

Monday 7 November
Mark Lethbridge in collaboration with Professor Hugh Possingham, UQ and Dr Michael Westphal, EPA (Washington) has developed a GIS tool that helps conservation planners find optimal solutions when restoring native habitats.

Thursday 3 November
Congratulations to Bev Clarke who has been confirmed in her continuing appointment with effect from 10 October 2005. Well done..

Tuesday 1 November
Seminar: Eric Compas, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, '"Smart growth" and ecological science in local land-use planning outside Yellowstone National Park'.

Tuesday 25 October
Seminar: Matt Miles, GIS team leader, Environmental Information Analysis, Department for Environment and Heritage, 'GIS modelling for salinity assessment and policy in the Lower Murray-Darling Basin'.

Tuesday 18 October
Seminar: Brian Caton, Adjunct staff member, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Establishing conservation priority within the Coastal Zone'.

Monday 17 October
Dr Emma Baker has joined the School as a NH&NRC Post doctoral Fellow (Level B). Emma's work will focus on the relationship between health and housing. Emma is employed as part of the Auystralian health Inequities Program (AHIP) working three days per week for five years in the first instance.
Michael Kroehn has rejoined the School to work with Professor Andrew Beer on the evaluation of the Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group (NAMIG).

Tuesday 11 October
Seminar: David Gobbett, Postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Optimising outcomes for biodiversity in habitat restoration planning'.

Tuesday 11 October - Cancelled
Seminar: Holli Thomas, PhD Candidate, School of Political and International Studies and Research Officer, Mitsubishi Project, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, 'Too Late for a Palestinian State?'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm.

Monday 11 October
Congratulations to Bev Clarke, Eric Compas, Cecile Cutler and Andrew Beer on their recent Research Development Grant of $5158 for "Urban Growth and Marine Protected Areas: understanding the tensions in establishing a new conservation zone".

Thursday 22 September
The School hosted the inaugural Postgraduate Research Degree Symposium in the University Function Centre. The Symposium was attended by 13 postgraduate students and members of the academic staff. View the program and some photos (doc). Notes from the interactive sessions are available here.

Tuesday 13 September
Honours seminars: Alice Egan (thesis work-in-progress seminar) and Bronwyn Bean (thesis proposal).
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm

Thursday 15 September
Alice Bass has rejoined the School to work with Professor Andrew Beer on the evaluation of the Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group (NAMIG).

Tuesday 6 September
Honours thesis work-in-progress seminars: Elena Mazourenko, Allan Kane, and Eric Van Wyk.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30pm

Tuesday 30 August
Special Seminar: Udoy Saikia, 'Breeding for Survival in a Globalized World'
Banksia Room, 9.00 - 9.45 am
Special Seminar: Catharina Williams, 'Three Women in a Boat:: Globalisation, Migration and Social Exclusion', Banksia Room, 10.00 - 10.45 am
Special Seminar: Peggy James, 'Spaces of Environmental Inequality in Post-war Australian Cities', Banksia Room, 11.00 - 11.45 am

Monday 29 August
Special Seminar: Adam Simpson, 'Energy and Environmental Security in Thailand and Burma'
Room 223 SSN, 1.30 - 2.15 pm

Tuesday 23 August
Seminar: Syed Sohel, Postgraduate Student, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Automatic classification of land cover features with high resolution imagery and lidar data: an object-oriented approach'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm.

Friday 19 August
Congratulations to Shah Nawaz on his recent publication: 'Microcredit as a Tool for Poverty Reduction and Empowerment of Women', South Australian Geographer, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 42-47.

Tuesday 16 August
Seminar: Dr Gouranga Dasvarma, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Population and Environmental Issues of South Asia'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm.

Tuesday 9 August
Seminar: Professor Andrew Beer, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Mitsi and me: the impacts of the closure of Mitsubishi's Lonsdale factory'.
Room 242 SSN, 11.15 am - 12.30 pm.

Monday 25 July
Hearty congratulations to Meryl Pearce who has recently been promoted to Level C, Senior Lecturer and to Cecile Cutler who was recently promoted to Level B, Lecturer

Friday 22 July
Congratulations to Neville Crossman on being awarded first place winner of the South Australian Spatial Awards for 2004 - "Tertiary Award Category B". This is awarded to the best work for South Australian students completing spatially oriented research work at the masters and doctoral levels.
Congratulations to Steve Fildes on being awarded second place winner of the South Australian Spatial Awards for 2004 - "Tertiary Award Category B". Whilst in the original announcement of this competition, there was no second prize, the judges thought that Steve's work was of a very high standard and therefore varied the rules to award a second prize.
Neville and Steve will be presented with their prizes at the Spatial Information Day to be held on 27 July in the Adelaide Town Hall.

Thursday 21 July
In June, Professor Iain Hay won the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Iain has won this award on two previous occasions (1995 and 2000).

Tuesday 5 July
Seminar: Lesley McMahon, Research & Teaching Fellow, School of Town and Regional Planning, University on Dundee, 'Roofless Roulette: A Scottish Perspective'.

Friday 1 July
Professor Iain Hay has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Research in Critical Discourse Analysis.

Tuesday 21 June
Congratulations to Sarangoo Radnaaragchaa (2004 Les Heathcote Award joint recipient) who is now employed as a National Project Manager for a community based biodiversity conservation project in Mongolia.
Seminar: Dr Jane Gillooly, Environmental Sensing Prediction and Reporting, CSIRO Land and Water and Adjunct Lecturer with the School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Inclusion of Climate Change Scenarios in Water Resources Modelling: A Pilot Study in the Onkaparinga Catchment'.

Monday 20 June
University Open Days: Friday 12 August and Sunday 14 August 2005.

Tuesday 14 June
Seminar: Steve Fildes, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Landscape Composition Mapping Using Hyperspectral Imagery'.

Tuesday 7 June
Seminar: Associate Professor Clive Forster, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Containment, Consolidation and Centres? Planning Strategy for Australian Cities in the 21st Century'.

Tuesday 24 May
Seminar: Shah Nawaz, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'The Impact of Microfinance on Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh'.

Tuesday 17 May
Seminar: Kristine Peters, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Small business and the environment: Where is the motivation?'.

Tuesday 10 May
Seminar: Eleanor Button, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, PhD proposal.

Wednesday 3 May
A presentation evening was held to congratulate students on their awards for 2004. View photos taken on the evening.

Tuesday 2 May
Congratulations to the following staff who were successful during the first application round of 2005 for the Faculty Research Support, Establishment Grant and Visiting Research Fellow Schemes: Professor Iain Hay and Dr Paul Dare (adjunct staff member in the School).

In 2005, Brian Caton, an adjunct staff member in the School, will serve as a Member of the Coast Protection Board.

Tuesday 2 May
Professor Iain Hay accepted an invitation from the Australian Academy of Sciences to chair its National Committee for Geography until 31 December 2006.

Tuesday 26 April
The second edition of Iain Hay's book, Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography has been published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne. (ISBN 019555079X. Details at: http://www.oup.com.au/content/General.asp?ContentID=1063&MasterID=962) The book is a substantially amended and expanded version of the 1st edition, with nine new chapters.

Tuesday 26 April
Honours Thesis Proposals: Honours students, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University.

Friday 22 April
The 2004 John Lewis Silver Medals and Prizes were awarded last night at a function held at the Brookman Building in the Botanical Gardens by the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia.

Kaoru Taniguchi 1st Year Prize	Iome Christa 2nd Year Prize	Laszlo Katona 3rd Year Prize

Alaric Maude for Bridget Kearins Silver Medal	Neville Crossman Silver Medal

Tuesday 12 April
In mid-April Associate Professor Susanne Schech is going to Indonesia for 6 weeks to participate in the 3rd phase of the Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Project.

Monday 11 April

Dr Meryl Pearce and Dr Eileen Willis were granted $18,500 from the Department for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation for their new study - 'Water service delivery and State and Commonwealth water reform objectives - a response from Aboriginal communities in South Australia'.

Monday 4 April
The 2004 Les Heathcote Prize for Environmental Management winners are Phoebe Grow jointly with Radnaaragchaa Sarangoo
The 2004 Murray McCaskill Medal was not awarded
The 2004 ESRI GIS Award winner is Chi-Pong Wong.
The 2004 John Lewis Prize winners are as follows:
First Year: Kaoru Taniguchi
Second Year: Iome Christa
Third Year: Laszlo Katona
Silver Medalists: Dr Bridget Kearins and Dr Neville Crossman
A presentation evening will be held on 4th May

Monday 4 April
Dr Holli Thomas joined the School as a Post Doctoral Fellow working on the HSRIP and ARC Linkage Funded project: Health, Housing and Labour Market Impacts of an Automobile Plant Closure. Dr Thomas also received funding from Flinders' Early Career Researcher Establishment Grant scheme for comparative research examining the closure of the Rover plant in Longbridge, Birmingham and Mitsubishi's Lonsdale plant in Adelaide.

Tuesday 29 March
Seminar: Mark Lethbridge, Lecturer, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'A career in modelling'.

Monday 28 March
Congratulations to Emma Baker and Anton van den Hengel on the birth of their baby boy Luc.

Tuesday 22 March
Seminar: David Bunce, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Manufactured Home Village Communities: Are they a viable alternative housing choice for the retiree?'.

Tuesday 15 March
Dr Jane Gillooly, adjunct lecturer in the School, and Dr John Hutson, Flinders University Research Centre for Coastal and Catchment Environments, gave a presentation on Climate Change Modelling at Cornell University, New York State.

Tuesday 15 March
Seminar: Noel Richards, postgraduate student, School of Geography, Population & Environmental Management, Flinders University, 'Prescribed burning on public conservation lands in peri-urban temperate Australia: Where does biodiversity fit?'.

Friday 4 March
Sirixai Phantavongs, a past Master of Environmental Management student, has recently been appointed as Programme Analyst, Environment with the United Nations Development Programme in Laos.

Tuesday 15 February
Our first group of final year students in the Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems gave presentations on their applied projects to an audience of lecturers, fellow students and industry representatives. Congratulations to Nicky Mahoney, Natasha Bevan, Sharon Connor, Les Katona and

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