QUT News & Events Wrap

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

- Brisbane Times and Fairfax publications and Seven News Brisbane featured Dr Geoffrey Swan, who became QUT's oldest person to graduate last week.
- Associate Professor Sharon Hayes took part in a panel on Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise on the effect of Disney movies and other stories from popular culture that promote the "happily ever after" stereotype but which can lead to women staying in abusive relationships.
- Professor Kerry Carrington and Associate Professor Mark Lauchs were interviewed for ABC TV news on the 2.1 per cent crime drop in Queensland.
- QUT Business School Outstanding Alumnus Greg Creed, US boss of fast food chain Taco Bell and incoming head of the parent company YUM! Brands, was featured in The Courier Mail's business section.
- Professor Debra Anderson's research finding women over 50 should engage in moderate to vigorous exercise for 45 minutes at least five times a week continued to run in the media including Health 24 and was featured on ABC TV News.
- Prof Selena Bartlett's development of a brain vitality index (BVI) app ran on Seven News.
- Dr Gary Mortimer's research finding that shoppers' desire for local fresh foods has led to more farmers' markets and a broader range of produce at supermarkets was featured on Seven News.
- Dr Ian Weir was widely quoted in WA media on the state's proposed bushfire planning policy for bushfire resilient homes.
- Graduating QUT international students told the Courier-Mail why Queensland was a great place to study and Vice-Chancellor Prof Peter Coaldrake gave his thoughts on the prospects for the international student sector
- Seven News sought Emeritus Professor Bill Caelli's expertise on their story about an iTunes email scam.
- The Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame 2014 inductees continued to receive attention in Queensland Country Life, the Courier-Mail's City Beat and QBM magazine.
- Following the Queensland Government's resounding defeat in the Stafford byelection Prof Clive Bean told AAP Labor and its leader Anastasia Palaszczuck should sit tight.
- Prof Myles McGregor-Lowndes' research finding charity fundraising accountability was needed was covered by Pro Bono News and the Institute of Community Directors.
- Prof Sharon Hayes' story about why women stay in abusive relationships was covered by MX and The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times.
- Two QUT teaching graduates featured in a news.com.au story about QUT's Stepping Out capstone program. The story also focussed on Dr Rebecca Spooner-Lane's seminar on avoiding burnout.
- Octogenarian paleobotanist John Rigby's bodybuilding world title caught the attention of Seven News.

NEWS

Six QUT researchers become ARC Future Fellows: Personal internet cryptography, anti-bacterial coatings for medical implants and a better way to identify carotid plaque risks are three of six QUT projects funded in the latest round of five-year ARC Future Fellowships.

QUT's Professor Tony Clarke leads fruit fly research: QUT scientist Associate Professor Tony Clarke has been appointed as the newly established $1.4 million Chair of Fruit Fly Biology, in partnership with the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (PBCRC), to combat a pest that causes losses of up to $159 million a year in Australia.

QUT builds links between China and Queensland schools: Queensland's newest "Confucius Classroom" has been officially opened at Kedron State High School in Brisbane as part of the Confucius Institute at QUT (CIQ).

New building designs compromised in WA's bushfire prone areas: Rather than adequately protect residents from bushfire, the WA Planning Commission's proposed bushfire risk management policy will endanger lives and stall residential development, Australia's leading specialist bushfire architect has warned.

Eighty-seven and still mastering his education: QUT's oldest graduate: At 87, Dr Geoffrey Swan became QUT's oldest person to graduate when he donned a mortar board and robes to accept his Master of Arts (Research) degree last week.

From Disney to distortion: why women don't leave abusive relationships: Women often find it difficult to leave abusive partners because they have been socialised into believing it is their role to 'fix' an unhappy marriage, according to QUT criminologist Associate Professor Sharon Hayes in her recently released book Sex, Love and Abuse: Discourses on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

Stepping Out of university and into the teaching profession: One in eight newly qualified teachers leaves the profession within the first few years of teaching, a statistic QUT is hoping to break by future-proofing graduating education students with a capstone conference called Stepping Out.

EVENTS

July 29: QUT Outstanding Alumni Awards @ Brisbane Convention Centre

Aug 1-3: Australia-China forum on child welfare, air pollution & ageing @ QUT

Aug 2: TEDxQUT live streams @ The Cube & Kelvin Grove Student Village

Aug 5: Business School Careers Fair @ Gardens Point

Aug 5-7: Murri-Ailan Way culture event (free) @ QUT Caboolture, Kelvin Grove & Gardens Point

Aug 6: Science and Engineering Careers Fair @ Gardens Point

Aug 6: PATHWAYS Fashion (free) @ The Glasshouse, Kelvin Grove

Aug 7: QUT Business School superannuation panel event @ Brisbane City Hall

Aug 7: Skilled Volunteering Expo @ Gardens Point

Now - Aug 8: ANtIMATION (free) @ Creative Industries Precinct

Aug 15-24: National Science Week (free) @ QUT

Aug 17: QUT Caboolture Open Day (free) @ QUT Caboolture campus

Now - Sept 7: Carol Jerrems: photographic artist (free) @ QUT Art Museum

Now - Sept 7: Agenda @ QUT Art Museum

Sept 10: Gala QUT 25th Anniversary Dinner @ Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Now - Dec 31: Long Time No See? (free) @ The Cube

Now - July 19, 2015: William Robinson: Infinite sphere (free) @ William Robinson Gallery

Media contact: QUT Media, media@qut.edu.au