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Staff Bulletin | March 31, 2005Message From the RectorADFA Concourse landscapingThank you to staff for their comments and suggestions for the proposed landscaping of the concourse area. All comments were forwarded to the Commandant for consideration. Below is an email from the Senior Landscape Architect, Mr Andrew Corp detailing the outcome of the deliberations. "The current tree species proposed for the lawn area between the drives is now Pin Oak. As this is a larger growing tree species we have indicated 4 trees evenly spaced down the Tree sizes currently specified (budget/tender prices may impact): London Plane Tree - 1000 litre pot size - will be about 7+ metres tall Pin Oak - 400 litre - will be about 5+ metres tall when planted. Obviously these are not the final tree heights of these species, we expect good growth over time with irrigation etc. These trees will need to be trucked in and probably craned into position. We think that with these tree sizes that the project will have a great impact from day one." Professor John Baird ----------------------------------- Staff BulletinsIf you have something you would like to contribute, please download and complete the submission form and email the information to newsletter@adfa.edu.au. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Absence of CommandantThe Commandant will be absent from ADFA from 27 March until 3 June. He will be attending the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. Group Captain Loch Mitchell, the Deputy Commandant, will be Acting Commandant during Commodore Goldrick's absence. The Commandant's personal staff will continue to handle all inquiries and matters relating to the 4 May - Flu injectionsOnce again the University is giving staff the opportunity to be vaccinated against influenza. Health Services Australia advises that the antibodies only last about six months, so they will be given on the afternoon of Wednesday May 4 in room SR101. For further details and booking information please telephone Jacqui Jillard on ext. 8707. ------------------------------------------- Research MattersRESEARCH OFFICE REPORTIMMIGRATION AND INTER-REGIONAL MOBILITY IN THE UK, 1982-2000Congratulations to Timothy J. Hatton (University of Essex) and Massimiliano (Max)Tani from the School of Business, UNSW@ADFA who have recently had a paper accepted by The Economic Journal. The Economic Journal is the journal of the royal economic society(UK), the oldest journal in economics and one of the most prestigious. ABSTRACT: The possible effects of higher immigration, raising unemployment and lowering earnings for locals, has been a contentious empirical issue and it has recently come to the fore in Britain. Most studies that look across local labour markets, chiefly for the US but recently for the UK, have found the effects of immigration to be benign. One possibility is that an influx of immigrants from abroad to a specific area simply pushes non-immigrants onwards to other localities and thereby spreads the labour market effects over the whole economy. We investigate this issue looking at net internal migration across 11 UK regions over two decades. While we find consistently negative crowding out effects, the results are not statistically very strong. Neither are they enhanced when embedded in a model that includes other variables that drive inter-regional migration or one that examines bilateral population flows between regions. We conclude that this particular channel of adjustment is fairly weak. …and on a lighter reseach note…(with apologies to Sociologists) SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory behavior forms." If you can keep this up for 50 or 60 pages, you will get a large government grant. ADFA HUMAN RESEARCH ETHICS ADVISORY PANELThe ADFA Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel (HREAP) can process ethics applications for any research projects with human participants involving minimal ethical impact. Applications can be sent to Paul Tranter (Convenor of the panel). The current panel members are: Paul Tranter (Convenor) (PEMS) The ADFA HREAP meets on the first Monday of each month. To be processed at the next meeting, applications should be submitted by the 20th of each month. Urgent applications can be processed more quickly if necessary. Application forms and information can be found at the following web site: http://www.ro.unsw.edu.au/ethics/human/. Applicants are asked to mail one signed copy of the application (along with any supporting pages such as project description, questionnaires and participant information sheets) to Paul Tranter (PEMS) and to email an electronic copy of the application and supporting pages to Paul Tranter as well. (The application forms have been designed so that if you highlight a box, you can then type an “x”.) If your research involves more than minimal ethical impact, follow the pathway for the HREC (Human Research Ethics Committee) applicants at the web page listed above. This web page will also provide information on whether your research is likely to involve “minimal” or “significant” ethical impact. Applications for the HREC should be sent to: Ethics Secretariat If your research involves research with military personnel or research on a military base, you will also need to gain approval from the Defence Human Research Ethics Committee. A helpful contact is Rosemary Landy: rosemary.landy@defence.gov.au Please feel free to seek advice on ethics approvals from any of the Ethics Panel members. Paul Tranter -------------------------------------------ClassifiedsIf you have something you would like to contribute, please download and complete the submission form and email the information to newsletter@adfa.edu.au Subaru Outback 2003 - MY04 (CURRENT MODEL - Built Oct 2003) - Luxury Pack AWD See a photo of the actual car at - http://allclassifieds.com.au/c/ac?a=vc&i=350171952 The brand new on the road price for a manual Outback (with Luxury Pack (ie. Leather & electric drivers seat) with the accessories would be approximately $47303 ($42490 (RRP - luxury) + $1295 dealership fee + $2918 in accessories + 12 month rego $600) The car has a full 2 years factory warranty remaining, 10 months rego, full service history (recent had it's 25k service) and is in excellent condition inside & out. Reduced to $38,500. Please contact Alison on 6254 5479(h) or mobile 0416 099 437 if interested. Dining Suite - High quality timber square (1500cm x 1500cm) eight seater dining table and eight chairs. For sale for $800.00. Phone 0404 091 491.WANTED TO BUY Electronic treadmill. Contact: Zilla Mundy 6268 822 Free Community Lectures4 April - Asia Pacific Seminar Series Asia Pacific Seminar Series at UNSW@ADFA will be held on Monday, at 12:10-13:00 in SL1 (upstairs) in the former Geography and Oceanography building at UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra. Next seminar: Monday, 4 April 2005 Title: Preaching on Record and on the Air in Indonesia The Asia-Pacific Seminar convenors welcome suggestions for seminar speakers and topics. Please contact 2005 convenors: Minako Sakai (m.sakai@adfa.edu.au) Website: http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/SOE/Indonesia/apss/apss.html To be included into our mailing list, please send your email to apss@adfa.edu.au. ------------------------------------------------- 6 April - School of Information, Technology and Electrical Engineering Seminar Title: The truth and lies of NCW: a complex adaptive system perspective Speaker: Mr. Ang Yang, ALAR, ITEE, UNSW@ADFA Date: Wednesday 06 April Venue: Building 15 - Rm 152 ––––––––––––––– 6 April - Brown Bag Seminar – Apple Computer As part of the Brown Bag lunch time seminar series being run by the IT Managers Advisory Committee, Vanni Sant, from Apple Computer Australia will be giving a presentation on Apple's new iMac Mini and some of the features we should expect to see in Apple's new operating system (Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger). The seminar is being held in the Library Seminar Room on Wednesday 6th of April from 12:30 to 1:30pm. Any questions about this seminar should be directed to Phill Berrie (x8247). ––––––––––––––– Important Dates
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