Transcript Induction - University of Waikato

ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONE
One Slide – One Minute Presentations
Combined Chairs and
Managers Leadership
Forums 2011
What is Achievements in One?
• An opportunity for collaboration and enhancing a One University/One
Waka approach
• Celebrating our success and recognising Excellence, Distinctiveness
and International Connectedness
• Ko te tangata – developing collective leadership
• Working smarter – responding to the external environment more
proactively
Achievements in One
Mike Bell
PROFESSIONAL AND
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
UNIT
POD Achievements 2011
• Successful introduction of Postgraduate Certificate: Leadership in
Higher Education (16 participants in 2011)
• Leadership and Management Development Programme
• Women in Leadership
• Forums in fourth year
• General Staff Day
• Development of General Staff Attendance at External Events guidelines
• Review of COD role undertaken with recommendations to be phased
in over three years from 2012
• Appointment of Organisational Development Adviser (Maureen Marra)
Achievements in One
Alistair Swale
SCHOOL OF ARTS
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
School of Arts Achievements 2011
• ‘Bedding down’ of School of Arts within FASS
• Success with 2011 Marsden round
• Music programme to be restyled as Conservatorium
• CUAP initiative around Text and Translation
• Bachelor of Media and Creative Technologies going to Honours
• Curriculum development for International Languages and Culture
major (including CAT)
• Consolidation of Research Centre: Mediarena
• International successes
Anthea Kivell
UNILink
UNILink Achievements 2011
•Increased research income to date
•Implementation of Project Accounting – providing training sessions and
continuing support
•Provided additional support for staff preparing research proposals
•Introduced weekly email research newsletter
•Established a series of 12 Research Professional Workshops during 2011
•Hosted several Professional Development Workshops through the ARMS
network – Next on the 7th Dec
•Strengthened relationships through the National University Research Office’s
Network (URONZ) with a number of working groups in place.
Achievements in One
Milo Roth
Information Systems Group (ISG)
ITS Division
ISG Achievements 2011
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Full service provider: Advise/Consultancy, Business Process Redesign, Software Design & Development,
Project Management, Maintenance & Support
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Business-as-Usual : maintenance and support of most corporate systems with minimum disruption to the
business
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Project Achievements:
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Online Academic Promotions & Salary Advancements (live 8th August 2011) – 218 applications
Online GSSR (live 29th August 2011) – 750 GSSR reports
Paper Appraisals process & Teleforms system (live June 2011) – 2,453 paper appraisals with 58,139 responses
recorded
Upgraded PBRF to support the 2012 TEC audit requirements (live 25th July 2011)
Project Accounting (live October 2011) - External Research: 856 projects; Research Trust : 1044 projects
Oracle Financials rel. 12.1.3 upgrade (live October 2011) – First successful release12 upgrade in NZ
Alesco HRM rel.12 upgrade (live August 2011)
PhD Progress Reports Online (in progress)
PGS Online (in progress)
Gradebook Integration (in progress)
Application to Enrol, Programme Planning on the Web, etc (in progress)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation featured in Oracle Magazin (international exposure)
Achievements in One
Dr E. Marcia Johnson and Ms Andrea Haines
Student Learning, Faculty of Education
Student Learning Achievements 2011
• WaiBoost – a highly successful four-day, motivational, academic skills
programme for under-achieving students. Ran in FASS (before Asemester and in B-semester for Maori students in FEDU).
• Doctoral Writing Conversations (DWC) – a very popular panuniversity, weekly research and writing conversation with doctoral
students. Includes invited speakers, targetted workshops, students’
own writing time, and 2 off-campus writing retreats.
• Website redesign – to improve ease of access to our interactive online
materials. Implementation of an effective, tailor-made online
enrollment programme for face-to-face workshops.
Achievements in One
TREVOR HARRIS
Buildings Maintenance Manager
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Achievements 2011
• UOW’s EQ-prone & EQ-risk buildings: UOW now has no EQ-prone
structures of significance
• Project Manage 2012 stage of 5-year Halls Refurbishment programme
($6M College Halls project currently out-to-tender)
• Project Manage SUB Re-cladding work (phase 1) -$450k
• Set up Supply & Service Agreement for Supply of Carpet Tiles (vinyl in
progress)
• Day job: 8 staff: $700k reactive & $1M+ preventative maintenance
• CONMEN to preserve sanity
Management Communication Department
COD Professor Ted Zorn
Presented by A/COD David McKie
Management Communication
Achievements 2011
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Five active competitive research grants worth $1.2M in 2011: Marsden Fund, Foundation for Research
Science and Technology, Health Research Council, and Business Research Institute
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Awards: NCA Ethics Division Top Edited Volume, NCA Division top article and top paper award, WMS &
UoW Outstanding Teaching Award, Thesis in 3 People’s Choice, and an ICA Outstanding Service award
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2 edited scholarly books (+1 Spanish trans.), 11 research book chapters, 27 refereed journal articles
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Leading international journals: 1 Editorship, 2 Guest Editorships, & many editorial board memberships
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Over 30 conference presentations (including keynotes, invited seminars, posters) + ICA division chair
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4 completed PhDs plus 2 submitted PhDs (under examination), and 4 completed Masters
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Scholarships: 1 Rhodes, 1 New Horizon for Women’s Trust, 1 Bren Low, 1 UoW summer research
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Collaboration with universities in Europe (Austria, Poland, Spain, Switzerland) and the UK (LeedsMet,
Stirling, York), UCT South Africa, and USA (Cincinnati, Kent, UCAL, Vermont) and PRSA educators
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Co-ran two successful international conferences ANZCA in Hamilton and PR in Barcelona
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Mean Taught Paper Quality in Semester A = 1.6
SDW 2011
Chemistry Department
Joseph Lane
Chemistry Achievements 2011
• Publications in international refereed journals: 42
• Conference presentations: 40
• Research degree completions: 7 PhD and 11 MSc
• 8 new external contracts for graduate research
• >400 school children attended outreach events: ChemQuest,
Analytical Chemistry Competition and NCEA Scholarship Day
• 300 delegates will be hosted for the NZIC international conference
• First analysis of Rena oil composition in the public domain
• All achieved with just 9.5 FTE academic staff
• However, similar achievement in 2012 is uncertain given a further
reduction of 1.5 FTE academic staff
Achievements in One: 2011
Brian Gabbitas
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Engineering Achievements 2011
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Research:
Marsden funding: Ilanko $790,000 over 3 years
MSI funding: Mike Duke $80,000 for a project with
Fletcher Building
Adrian Dorrington: $250,000 funding from Microsoft
Johan Verbeek nominated for a KUDOS Award
Howell Round: given a Distinguished Service award by
ACPSEM
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Teaching:
Rob Torrens, Marcus Wilson, Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards
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Other:
IPENZ accreditation for BE degrees for 5 years
Janis Swan: Marsden Council
Mike Duke: collaboration with Bochum University of Applied Sciences on
electric car run from Auckland to Invercargill.
Moira Steyn-Ross: Inaugural professorial lecture
Dougal Mair
ITS - Infrastructure
ITS Instrastructure Achievements 2011
• Project Fusion – staff migration to Google Apps
• Student Internet Outsourced to Lightwire
• Tauranga Network improvements
• New Telephony Systems
• New Data Centre – currently commissioning
• Druva Desktop Backup Solution
• Systems & Storage Infrastructure Improvements
• Maintained High Network & Systems KPI’s
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Network Availability (Jan to Oct) = 99.971%
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Network Availability (Jan to Oct) = 99.958%
Achievements in One: Waikato Print
“WHAT GUNPOWDER
DID FOR WAR THE
PRINTING PRESS HAS
DONE FOR THE MIND.”
Waikato Print Achievements 2011
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There has been a 20% increase in colour digital printing in 2011
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The skill level of staff has continued to be excellent with another two staff
completing print associated training
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We have appointed a talented new designer
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Waikato Print has produced over 29,000 printed course pack readers this year
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We have processed 10,625 individual print jobs through Printcost since it
went live in July 2010
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We have produced 6, 696 Print Jobs through Printcost this year 1st Jan – 24th
Oct 2011
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Survey shows that over 85% of customers rate their experience with us as
excellent
Achievements in One
Nigel Robertson
Waikato Centre for eLearning
Achievements 2011
• Upgrade to Moodle 2.0
• 50-fold increase in use of Panopto
• Developed Panopto block for Moodle
• Wrote Moodle connection for Gradebook project
• Roll out of Gmail & Calendar and now Google docs
• WCELfest2011 – 160 attendees
• 60+ Workshops run for staff, over 450 attendees
• Development of Digital Literacy for Staff project
• Inputs to Leading Edge, Web Presence, Digital Literacy projects
• Developed and supported the 1st Nola Campbell eLearning Award
Dan Marsh
ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT
“the top scoring
Department in the
No 1 Business School”
Some Economics Department Achievements 2011
• Innovation in Teaching
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ECON100 Review “this was a joyful review, the teaching team each receiving extraordinarily
high ratings. The Economics Dept should be complimented ….”
ECON100 Video Awards – 2552 Views of “The Economics of Dating”
Professional development days for high school economics teachers
• Economics Graduate is new Chief Financial Officer at General Motors
RePEc Top 8%
• Economics tops the WMS research output table ….
of Economics
Institutions
Worldwide
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the top scoring Department in “the No 1 Business School”
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John Gibson awarded the Dean’s award for research excellence (4th award to
Economics in last 5 years)
• 7 PhD completions and one MPhil in 2011
• Generation of External Research Funds
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$765,000 Marsden Fund Grant, Pollution and Immigrant Asthma in New Zealand
Plus generation of well over $ 1million in last 3 years
Achievements in One
Wendy Drewery
Department of Human
Development and Counselling
Selected Achievements 2011
• 282 EFTS (+30 on 2010): 25% PG, 33% Teacher Ed, 41% HD, (23% Cg)
• 10.5 FTEs, increasing to 12.5 (2005 FTE) in 2012
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2 edited books (14 co-authored chapters)
2 TLRI Commissioned Research Reports completed
Waikato Journal of Education Special Issue on Human Development
12 articles in refereed journals so far
• Grants won: TLRI began 2011, 2 in progress
• PG Supervision Award for Staff Excellence
• Changing the name of the subject: Special Education becomes
Disability and Inclusion Studies
• Waikato Summer Studentship, Ethics Summer Studentship
Achievements in One
Vye Perrone & Rae Gendall
Library
Library Achievements 2011
 Improved Access to Information
 Library Search implemented
 Website reorganised & redesigned using UOW 2010 templates
 Digital collection: British Parliamentary Papers- NZ is live
 Service Model Progress
 Discharge your own books (& get receipt to prove it!)
 Z Portal: staff, students can place & track own interlibrary loans
 Open, browsable Course Reserve Collection
 Triage approach embedded
Library Achievements 2011
 Teaching and Research Support
 Research Consultations – nearly doubled to approx 2,500 hours
 Academic staff consultations – up 33% to 750
 Students attending classes – risen by 3,500 to 11,500
 New technologies to engage students
 Research Commons
 Open access Institutional repository - added another 1500 items, now
approx 5,400 items including over 1000 theses
 Student Centre Opens
 Fabulous space, collections in place, staff rewarded!
Achievements in One
School of Māori and Pacific
Development
SMPD Achievements 2011
The School
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‘He Puna Kōrero’-Journal of Māori & Pacific Development 10 years
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Launch of first online te reo Māori journal at UOW ‘Te Kōtihitihi’
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Te Tohu Paetahi- Māori Immersion Language Programme - celebrating 20 years
Major Research Projects
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Tom Roa – Exploring a Māori classificatory system of flora and fauna within Tainui waka
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Hēmi Whaanga – The ethics, processes and procedures associated with the digitisation of the Pei Jones Collection and the opening of the Mareikura
room in the library
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Professor Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku – conclusion of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Project, Aitua : Death in a Changing Māori World. All objectives met - 3
symposia, 19 publications, 23 conference papers, 8 keynote & invited addresses, 4 wānanga and 5 MA completions.
The Staff
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Sandra L Morrison –National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in a Kaupapa Māori Context
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Professor Linda Smith – appointment to the Constitutional Review Panel; Decolonising Methodologies translated into Spanish and revised manuscript
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Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku – Le Prix des etudiants de l'Universite de la Polynesie francaise 2011 - sponsored by Association "Les Amis du Journal Te
U'i Mata", for Mau Moko, le monde du tatouage Maori (French version of Mau Moko the world of Māori tattoo) published 2010.
PhD completions
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3 Māori, 1 indigenous Hawai’ian, 1 Indigenous Taiwan student, 1 French student (working in Taiwan)
Visiting research scholars
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Dr Alex Onysko (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Dr Marta Degani (University of Verona, Italy) research on “Investigating lexical and semantic
features of Māori English”
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Dr Felecia Watkin-Lui, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research School of Indigenous Australian Studies (James Cook University, Cairns) research
presentation “I heard it through the Blackvine”
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Dr Myla Vicenti Carpio, Associate Professor American Indian Studies (Arizona State University, USA) “Critical issues in Indigenous Studies”
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His Highness Head of State of Samoa Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi
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Professor Pat Dudgeon, Curtin Indigenous Research Centre, Western Australia
Achievements of Biological Sciences in 2011
Brendan Hicks, COD
23 Nov 2010, COD Forum
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
FSEN
Biological Sciences achievements in 2011
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Teaching – 26 undergrad courses, 26 MSc courses
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Grad students - 48 MSc and PGDip, 48 PhD
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286 EFTS, 23 PBRF-eligible academic staff , 17 general staff, 1 Senior Tutor
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5 new academic staff in 2011
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Research – 263 PBRF-eligible outputs (120 journal articles, 4 book chapters, 125 conference
contributions) – 5% increase from 2010
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4.4 M EFTS revenue, 2.1 M PBRF revenue before contribution
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External research income – about $3 M per year
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Commercial income – (DNA sequencer, Waikato Stable Isotope Unit, etc) - $300 k per year
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Marsden Fund income - $586k per year (Antarctic microbial diversity, thermostable enzymes, toxic sea
slugs)
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Health Research Council - $844 k over 3 years (Arcus)
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Antarctic research programme – 8 researchers, 8 students, $3.3 M logistic support over 4 years
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ICTAR – International Centre for Terrestrial Antarctic Research
Achievements in One: Earth and Ocean Sciences
Dave Campbell
Earth and Ocean Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Our Achievements 2011
• 183 EFTS (+10%), including 13 taught PG and 43 research PG, SSR=15.0
• Papers offered: 22 undergraduate & 16 new (15 pt) graduate
• Average paper quality score in 2010 = 1.5
• Postgraduate: 11 MSc, 7 PhD/MPhil theses;
• Postgrad. conference $4K sponsorship
• Research:
• New FRSNZ (David Lowe)
• PBRF (2006): score 5.0, 3rd in ES, a high-scoring subject
• External income in 2011:
• Research: $1.52 M existing contracts + $0.75 M new (1-6 yrs),
9.4 FTE of contract research staff
• New Marsden contract ($215 K/yr)
• Commercial & consultancy: $270 K
Achievements in One
Communications and External
Relations
Communications and External Relations
And… survived office moves,
recladding, painting, noise
and scaffolding.
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