ACADEMIC BOARD UNIKEN August 2003 • 13


August 6 – Forum – Graduate Careers Forum for arts, social science and science students. 10am–3pm, Tyree Room, Scientia.
Ph 9385 5429.

August 12 – Australia Ensemble free lunchtime concert – Bohuslav Martinu, Promenades, Debussy, Petit piece and Rhapsodie, and Graeme Koehne, Shaker Dances. 1.10pm, Clancy Auditorium.
Ph 9385 4874.

August 12 – Seminar – Looking for the cause(s) of perinatal brain damage, A/Prof David Walker, Monash University. 4pm, Garvan Institute.
Ph 9295 8202.

August 14 – Australia Ensemble free lunchtime workshop – Raffaele Marcellino and the players of the Australia Ensemble give insights into Maria Grenfell’s Poems of a Bright Moon. 1.10pm Clancy Auditorium.
Ph 9385 4874.

August 15 – Discussion – Book of Good Love. Dr Max Walkley, Sydney University. 1pm, G7, Electrical Engineering.
Ph 9385 4381.

August 16 – Australia Ensemble subscription concert 4 – Stravinsky, Suite from Histoire du Soldat, Maria Grenfell, Poems of a Bright Moon, Alfred Schnittke, String Quartet no. 2, Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49. Tickets $34/$25/$17. 8pm, Clancy Auditorium. Ph 9385 4874.

August 19 – Seminar – CD4+CD25+T cells: Regulating the regulators, Dr Rebecca McHugh, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington. 4pm, Auditorium, Garvan Institute.
vPh 9295 8202.

August 27 – Human Rights in a Globalising World: Terrorism and Security – ANU’s Professor Hilary Charlesworth, UNSW’s Professor Michael Humphrey. 1–2pm, Central Lecture Block 1, with discussion, 2–3 pm, marketing seminar room, John Goodsell.
Ph 9385 1803.

August 27 – Burgundian Consort recital – Vaughan Williams, Pearsall, Tomkins, Kodaly and Poulenc. $10/$5. 7.30–9pm, Clancy Auditorium.
Ph 9385 4874.

Academic Board farewelled Sid Gray, Dennis Lincoln, Bill Purcell and Michael Walpole. We thanked Lynda Ho, who has served as Acting Executive Officer, Academic Board for the first half of 2003, and we welcomed Rhona Fraser, as Deputy Head, Secretariat Services and Executive Officer, Academic Board. We also welcomed Rae Dufty, Ardrian Hardjono, Powen Hwang and Alexandra McCosker, who are the new student members, Geoff Dick and Ken Trotman, who are filling vacancies in elected membership and Lesley Hitchens, who has taken on the role of Presiding Member, Faculty of Law.
     We approved new guidelines for UNSW Centres, and noted that these guidelines replace all those that have been in place in the past. These guidelines underscore that the University establishes centres to encourage research, teaching and/or community service in areas not readily covered by individual schools and faculties. Most centres concentrate on multidisciplinary fields and bring together cognate groups of academics across different schools and/or faculties. The University limits the use of the title Centre to those that have been approved by the processes covered in these guidelines. Research centres focus on research activities. Program centres can be established to provide a focus for more significant involvement in multidisciplinary teaching activities than is the case for research centres. The role and function of centres vary across the disciplines. For example, while a centre in science may be large in scale and have considerable external funding, a centre in the humanities may be small and require few resources, providing a platform for the development of interdisciplinary research. The key criterion is that a centre adds value to the University’s research and/or educational mission beyond that which would accrue from the normal conduct of its members’ duties.
     Academic Board also received two significant reports. One came from the Postgraduate Coursework Committee and provided important information and recommendations concerning postgraduate coursework infrastructure. The other came from the Academic Services Committee and provided valuable comment on and recommendations about teaching and learning space on the UNSW Kensington campus.
     We noted these reports and asked Adrian Lee (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Education and Quality Improvement) to report to the November 2003 meeting of Academic Board on the implications and implementation of the recommendations contained in the reports.
     We received a presentation from Adrian Lee about the use of WebCT Vista in educational delivery; we approved the revised Academic Board electorates (following the restructure of Schools at University College, ADFA) which will be used for the elections in 2004; and we noted the Annual Reports from the Committee on Research and the Academic Services Committee.
     If there are issues that you would like Academic Board or its Committees to consider, or if you would like to attend a meeting, please let me know via k.mcconkey@unsw.edu.au or Ph 9385 2393.
Kevin McConkey is president of the Academic Board.