QUT News & Events Wrap – September 18 edition

NEWS

QUT announces new Vice-Chancellor: QUT Chancellor Mr Tim Fairfax AC has announced the appointment of Professor Margaret Sheil AO as the university's next Vice-Chancellor, effective February 2018. Professor Sheil is currently Provost, deputy to the Vice-Chancellor and the Chief Academic Officer, at the University of Melbourne.

New study measures human-robot relations: A QUT researcher is leading a new study to evaluate human-robot interactions as technology reshapes health care.

QUT research is behind the first 3D-printed shin bone implant: QUT research and technology is behind the first ever 3D-printed shin bone implant in a young Gold Coast man to replace bone lost through an infection.

QUT graduate recognised for cancer therapy innovation: QUT industrial design graduate William Mason is the Australian winner of the 2017 James Dyson Foundation prestigious international design award for his Activ Infusion Pump, designed to help chemotherapy outpatients manage day-to-day activities more comfortably.

Australian consumers are still losing out in streaming media markets: A new report by researchers at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre shows that Australian consumers are still disadvantaged compared to consumers in the United States when it comes to accessing digital media.

What householders think: Digital consumers, smart homes & electricity tariff reform: A national survey of 1345 households led by QUT researchers has found that most are ready to embrace digital tools that will give them more control over their power bills.

Nudge nudge, think think: why volunteering is good for you: Teams from around Australia have taken part in Australia’s first Nudgeathon at QUT – a behavioural change challenge to encourage more people to volunteer.

Mirvac chief Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz to address QUT Business Leaders’ Forum: Mirvac CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz – one of the most influential women in Australian business – will address the final QUT Business Leaders’ Forum for the year on October 25.

Australians volunteered 932 million hours to help others in 2015-16: Everyday Australians gave $12.5 billion and 932 million hours to helping others while businesses gave $17.5 billion, according to latest data from Giving Australia 2016.

EVENTS
 

Now-December: Code-A-Bot, Physics Observatory and Dino Zoo (free) @ The Cube
Sept 19: Future of Work Panel (free) @ QUT Gardens Point
Sept 22: QUT CEA's Creative3 @ Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Sept 22: School holiday campus tours (free) @ Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove
Sept 24-29: Vice-Chancellor's STEM Camp @ QUT
Sept 24-29: Australian University Games @ Gold Coast (Follow the journey on QUT Sport Facebook.)
Now-Sept 30: Brisbane Festival Theatre Republic @ QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Now-Sept 26: Pride Month 2017 (free) @ QUT
Sept 30: QUT Learning Potential Fund Riverfire Celebration and Online Auction @ RoomThreeSixty
Oct 4: QUT Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (free) @ Gardens Point
Oct 8: Brisbane Open House festival (free) @ Old Government House
Oct 17: Real World Futures conference @ Gardens Point
Now-Oct 29: Machination (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now-Oct 29: Why future still needs us: AI and humanity (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now-Nov 24: STEM for Schools: What's on in  2017 @ QUT
Now-June 25, 2018: Eternal Present: The Still Life paintings of William Robinson (free) @ William Robinson Gallery, Old Government House

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

- News of the appointment of Professor Margaret Sheil as QUT’s next Vice-Chancellor was reported in The Australian, The Courier-Mail, other news.com publications, and The Campus Morning Mail.
- Associate Professor Gary Mortimer spoke to Sunrise about Australian baby formula being sold to China, to Nine News about AfterPay for plane flights, and to Seven News about Aldi’s home furnishing strategy and Taco Bell opening in Brisbane.
- The Courier-Mail reported on military contracts boosting the Queensland economy, including QUT’s research partnership with Rheinmetall Defence Australia.

- Professor John Scott (pictured) was interviewed by ABC TV News about 17-year-old offenders being moved out of adult prisons to youth detention, and quoted by Brisbane Times.
- Dr Mark King  from CARRS-Q spoke to 9 News about driving skills, licences and autonomous technology. The story also ran on Big Rigs. He also talked to The Sunday Mail about licences surrendered or cancelled over health concerns.
- Brisbane Times and Fairfax media ran a report highlighting the findings of the Australian Access to Digital Media: 2017 Report compiled by QUT's Digital Media Research Centre. CNET also ran a story on the report.
- Brisbane Times also wrote about the Pettigrew saw mill which historians stretched along the Brisbane River to where QUT Gardens Point now stands.
- Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes was quoted in a feature in The Australian about the public perception of the charity sector and the need for change within it.
- QUT featured in The Courier-Mail and through News Corp  as among the world’s best universities for helping graduates get a job, as well as in a feature on its STEM and other programs.
- The Courier-Mail’s Careers section profiled education graduate Liam Beatty who is acting assistant principal at St Agnes Primary School. The story was also in The Cairns Post.
- Dr Amanda Mergler featured on The Project about further moves to allow schoolgirls to wear pants to school. She also spoke to News.com.au about introducing gender theory in schooling.
- Professor Selena Bartlett (pictured) answered questions from readers on the Reddit Journal of Science about her research on sugar affecting the brain. City North News also ran a story about her book.
- The Sunshine Coast Daily and other News Corp regional papers published a story on the importance of mums taking “me-time” which sought Professor Karen Thorpe’s expertise.
- Dr Stephen Hughes’s article on micro-hydro power and ‘swap n go’ batteries in Bhutan was in Australasian Science.
- Australasian Science also published Professor Matthew Rimmer’s article on net neutrality.
- Brisbane Times talked to Dr John Willsteed about Brisbane’s new music trail and a mural tribute to The Saints in Upper Roma Street.
- Associate Professor Wendy Scaife spoke with ABC North Queensland about the way Australians are giving, following the release of the latest Giving Australia report.
- Martin Obschonka’s research looking at the tweets of celebrities and entrepreneurs including Donald Trump featured in Raw Story.
- A Huffington Post feature on whether attractiveness and appearance equate to leadership and career success included a reference to QUT research.
- Michael Flood spoke with ABC Radio Canberra about the culture of men in football codes.
- Student Jasmine Jensen spoke with ABC Radio Brisbane about her research into energy storage as part of the Catch a Rising Star Women in Science in Regional Queensland Program.
- Michael Klaehn’s regular social media segment on ABC Radio Brisbane touched on advertising stunts and what can go wrong.
- Totally Wild (at 8:17mins) featured Brett Lewis in a story on school kids doing marine studies and researching coral.
- Work on developing chest pain protocols by Adjunct Professor William Parsonage published in MJA was featured in Medical News and MedicalXpress. 
- Computerworld’s story on driverless cars featured comment on privacy issues from Professor Des Butler.
- The Conversation article by Dr Monique Mann and Michael Wilson on police powers to read encrypted messages was republished by Fairfax.
- Dr Nick Kelly wrote for EduResearch Matters on the impact of economic thinking on education.
- A study by Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios on drivers answering phones was reported by ABC Online, ABC Radio Australia, 3AW, and ConsumerAffairs.com.
- Talking Lifestyle Radio interviewed QUT graduate William Mason, Australian winner of the international James Dyson design award for his chemotherapy infusion. The story also appeared on Pickr.
- Professor Monika Janda’s new study to detect suspicious skin cancer using “mobile dermatoscopes” ran on finder.com.
- A Robotronica feature, including videos, was published in Age of Robots magazine.
- Professor Suzanne Carrington co-authored a piece on the value of ‘slow schools’ which ran widely including in The Educator.
- Campus Morning Mail ran an article on QUT research into Australians’ digital access to US films, music, games and TV. It also reported that Professor Fiona Naumann, Dr Deanna Grant-Smith and Associate Professor Nicolas Suzor received Australian Awards for University Teaching.
- Professor Jane Shakespeare-Finch was interviewed on the ABC’s TripleJ Hack program about the Burning Man festival tragedy.
- Professor Axel Bruns wrote a piece for The Conversation on how social media can rapidly spread news, linking to the latest data from the Australian Twitter News Index.
- A Conversation piece co-authored by Dr Carl Grodach on creative precincts featured in Architecture and Design.
- Noosa News ran a story on Dr Vinesh Chandra and his QUT team donating laptops to students in Vietnam.

Media release date: Monday, September 18, 2017
Media contact: media@qut.edu.au