UNE Academic passes 300 mark
Comments: 0 - Date: November 13th, 2009 - Categories: School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor Brian Dollery of the School of Business, Economics and Public Policy, and Director of the UNE Centre for Local Government, has passed the 300 mark in the number of papers he has published in refereed scholarly journals.
Professor Dollery said: ‘With 305 refereed papers not out under my belt, I have passed Don Bradman’s second highest score of 304 and the chase is now on to overtake his highest score of 334’.
‘Provided the wicket plays well and I can stay fast, fierce and focused, after that I will be aiming for Brian Lara’s 400’, Brian said.
‘In family terms, I passed England cricketer Tom Dollery’s highest test score of 37 way back in 1992 and Queenslander Keith Dollery’s highest Shield innings of 41 in 1993’, Brian observed.
‘Over the years, I have been very lucky to have had a succession of excellent batting partners, especially Joe ‘Thrasher’ Wallis, Andrew ‘Blocker’ Worthington and Lin ‘Flogger’ Crase’, he said.
On a personal level, Professor Dollery ascribed his research productivity to a carefully targeted regime of detoxification and rehabilitation, combined with early nights.
‘Big Dog’s injunction to go to bed at 7.00pm has been a wonderful boon to me’, Brian said.
The University of New England stands to benefit from the development of strategic relationships in the interna-tional arena, following the unqualified success of its International Health Conference held in Thailand this week. The International Conference on Health Service Delivery Management is a joint effort between UNE and Thailand’s Naresuan University, and has attracted more than 450 delegates from across three continents. The Vice-Chancellor and CEO of UNE, Professor Alan Pettigrew, in Thailand, said the conference had pulled together knowledge from the fields of health, medicine and education to address global issues in health service delivery. He said the conference had attracted considerable international interest from health practitioners, health providers, and educators from 16 countries including Australia, Sudan, Nepal, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Laos and Bhutan. “All of the international experts present are committed to improving health care and to learning from each other through research and education strategies,” Professor Pettigrew said. Professor Victor Minichiello, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of UNE’s Faculty of The Professions, said that the strategic relationships developed between UNE and institutions such as Naresuan University and the World Health Organisation would provide benefits to the global community.
Women’s representation in leadership positions in agricultural industries and regional communities more generally was the focus of a report co-authored by Professor Alison Sheridan and her colleague from Curtin University of Technology, Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie. The report identifies where women are located across occupations and industries in the Australian paid workforce and examines the reasons for women’s low representation in formal leadership positions in agriculture and regional organisations. It concludes with recommendations for improving the proportion of women in formal leadership roles and enhancing women’s leadership experiences. The report, ‘Revisiting Missed Opportunities – growing women’s contribution to agriculture’, was released by the Rural Industries Woman of the Year, 2009, Roma Britnell, in Canberra on 15 September, with the importance of the findings stressed by the Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon Tony Burke, MP in his press release about the report.
The DEHub team have won a grant that will enable UNE to undertake an exchange with Latin American Colleagues around distance education in 2010, which will demonstrate how DEHub connects distinguished postgraduate students from Latin America, Dr Fredy-Roberto Valenzuela (BEPP: Translator) and Carina Bossu (PhD candidate) with our three sector partners.
An academic from the University of New England has won a highly competitive scholarship from the European Commission that will enable him to share ideas with researchers in Scandinavia.