Transcript Induction - University of Waikato

ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONE
One Slide – One Minute Presentations
Combined Chairs and
Managers Leadership
Forums 2010
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 DEVELOPMENT
UNIT
PDU Achievements 2010
• Successful development of Postgraduate Certificate: Leadership in
Higher Education (22 participants in 2011)
• Leadership and Management Development Programme
• Women in Leadership
• Forums in third year become self-directed
• Development of Staff Performance and Professional Development
Policy and Continual Professional Development Framework
• Action Learning methodology introduced
• Review and enhancement of Staff Awards
• Website enhancements (Leadership & Professional Development)
• Enhancement of new staff induction programme
Achievements in 60 x 106 microseconds: 2010
#1 in
NZ!!
Merilyn Manley-Harris
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
FSEN
Chemistry Achievements 2010
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9.5 FTE Academic Staff & 0.5 FTE Senior Tutor (teaching only)
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Mean Taught Paper Quality Semester A : 1.6
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31 Refereed Journal Articles
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16 Posters or conference presentations or invited seminars
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8 MSc (Research) , 1 PhD and 1 MPhil completions; 24 current MSc (Research), 16 current PhD.
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2 Te Tipu Putaiao Scholarships, 2 UW Doctoral scholarships, 4 TechNz scholarships, 1Environment
Waikato Scholarship, 1 ESR scholarship; all new in 2010.
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Active research collaborations with : Agrifeeds, Ballance, Cawthron Institute, Dow Agrosciences,
Environment Waikato, Fonterra, Hexion, Hill Laboratories, IRL, Landcare Research, Nature’s Country
Gold, NIWA, NZ Biotechnologies, Plant & Food, SCION, Steen’s Honey.
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International collaborations active with Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, France, Germany,
Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA(Hawaii, Montana, Chicago, Texas)
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>300 High School students hosted at ChemQuest, analytical chemistry competition, NCEA
Scholarship Day
Achievements in One
David Lumsden
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
SoSS Achievements 2010
• Surviving the birthing process on 15th March 2010
• From 5 former departments: GTEP; History; Philosophy & RS;
Political Science & PP; Societies and Cultures; linked to Population
Studies Centre (and its Marsden success).
• Early stages of Bachelor of Social Work
• First year of placements and appointment of two new staff
• Bachelor of Environmental Planning
• CUAP approved, teaching already, new appointments
• Surviving a difficult redundancy process
Achievements in One
Alistair Swale
SCHOOL OF ARTS
School of Arts Achievements 2010
• Establishment of new School of Arts within FASS
• Success with 2010 Marsden round
• Music programme restyled as Conservatorium
• School seminar series around Text and Translation
• Launch of the Bachelor of Media and Creative Technologies degree
• Round 2 Significant academic development of the International
Languages and Culture major
• Consolidation of Research Centres: Music Media and Performing Arts
& Text and Translation.
• Mediarena, WEL Academy and Arts Electronica
Achievements in One
Virginia Duncan
PROCUREMENT OFFICE, FINANCIAL
SERVICES DIVISION
FSD Procurement Office Achievements
• Chairperson of the UPG (Universities Procurement Group) in 2009
• Completed UPG accommodation & branded clothing tenders plus
UOW specific tenders for internal audit & security services
• Launch of new Procurement Policy
• Creation of various reports to monitor policies compliance – selfapprovals, PCard audit
• Moved all suppliers into Unimarket – now moving the receipting and
approvals processes into Unimarket
• Continuous advice and support at a tender and day to day purchasing
level
Achievements in One
Annabel Chaston
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
ALUMNI & FOUNDATION
Development Office Achievements 2010
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Launched a direct alumni and friends fundraising appeal for the first time in 5
years, sent to 28,000 individuals
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Implemented Payroll Giving so that staff who donate to the University can get
an immediate tax rebate of 33.33%
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Coordinated effort to find ‘lost alumni’ through mediums such as Community,
E-News, Off Campus, events, graduation and our website
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Markedly improved merchandise sales through product improvement and relocation to Bennetts, 5% of sales goes to support scholarships
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Successful bid to Environment Bay of Plenty to fund $1.5 million over ten
years to support a new Chair in Coastal Science
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Other major gifts include $50,000 from both Priority One and Port of
Tauranga for Intercoast, $50,000 from Antarctica NZ for ICTAR, a $25,000
bequest for scholarships, and a pledge of $90,000 over 3 years for a WMS
fellowship
Achievements in One
Milo Roth
INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP
(ISG)
ISG Achievements 2010
• We are a business enabler, a full service provider: Advise/Consultancy,
Business Process Redesign, Software Design & Development, Project
Management, Maintenance & Support
• We keep the lights on: Oracle Financials, Anfield, Jobtrack, UniMarket,
Alesco HR, PBRF, Institutional Research Repository, SASe-Web,
Syllabus Plus, Raises Edge, TMA, PrintCost, etc
• Projects:
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Academic Staff Portfolios Phase 1 – Academic Promotions and Salary
Advancements
Uniorder to Unimarket
Implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture Framework
Project Accounting – management of research projects
Continued development and support of the Institutional Research Repository
(Dspace) for LCoNZ
Programme Planning on the Web
Many other
Achievements in One
Dougal Mair
Manager, ICT Infrastucture
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
ITS Infrastructure Achievements 2010
• Evaluation of solutions and selection of Google suite of enterprise
products for Project Fusion (see www.waikato.ac.nz/project-fusion)
• Replaced aging network Firewall with next generation technology that
will allow us to now greatly improve network security
• Server virtualisation and ‘cloud’ infrastructure strategy continues to
provide great results – 72% of servers are virtual with 152 virtual
production servers running on 7 physical servers
• By End of Year:
 Eduroam and improved staff wireless network
 Wireless network expansion
 Desktop backup service
 New telephony solution – vendor and solution selected
 Home drive and Departmental shares expansion started
Achievements in One: Campus Safety
The vision…..
“The University will provide a full and dynamic University experience
which is distinctive in character.”
University Security enhancing the campus culture and educational
experience.
Ray Hayward
Security Manager
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Enhancing the campus culture and educational experience.
• At Risk Monitoring Group.
Aim.... Identifies and sets strategies around those students with concerning behavioural issues that
could manifest into harming others.
Who is involved…. SASD staff & Councillors , Medical Centre Doctors, NZ Police, Security Manager.
• Alcohol harm watch group.
Aim…. Indentifies businesses or organisations that target/promote excessive student drinking.
Who is involved… SASD staff & Halls Managers, District health Board staff, ACC staff, NZ Police and the
Security Manager.
• Department of Corrections- Home detainees.
Aim… To have prior notification from the Corrections staff of any potential student wishing to
commence or continue studies at University.
Who is involved…. SASD staff, NZ Police & the Security Manager.
Achievements in One
Chris Eames
Centre for Science and Technology
Education Research
CSTER Achievements 2010
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Celebrating 29 years of science, maths, technology and environmental
education research
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3.35 FTE academic staff plus associate staff
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4 refereed journal articles and 2 book chapters
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5 invited presentations, 14 elective conference presentations
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Mean 500-level Taught Paper Quality Semester A : 1.5
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2 MSc thesis and 3 PhD completions; 10 MSc thesis and 17 PhD students
currently
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Contract research for Ministry of Education and Teaching and Learning
Research Initiative for $120,000. New contracts likely for 2011 (ca. $250,000)
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National executive role in environmental education; organising Science
Communication symposium and Cafe Scientifique (Tauranga); international
collaborations in Australia, Canada, Austria, France, South Africa, Turkey
Achievements in One
Vye Perrone
Associate University Librarian,
Collection Services
Library Collection Services Achievements 2010
• Improved access to information
⁻ Summon – One search to rule them all
⁻ VDX – place & track your own interloans
⁻ Subject Portals redevelopment
• National & international recognition for the Library
⁻ Library Catalogue enhancements
⁻ ETTLIS Best Paper award
⁻ DigitalNZ award to digitize NZ-related British Colonial Papers
• More books for the Uni $$
Teaching and Research in the Library
Rae Gendall
ASSOCIATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN
TEACHING AND RESEARCH SERVICES
Library Achievements 2010
 Research Consultations with individual graduate students - over 1300
Academic staff consultations - 560
Students attending classes - 8000
 Showcase UoW research outputs to the world through open access
Institutional repository Research Commons
Nearly 4000 items – more journal articles than any other NZ university
771 theses, 260 are higher degree theses
 New technologies to engage students
Achievements in One
Bill Rogers
Computer Science /
Computer Graphic Design
Brian Gabbitas
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING FSEN
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS 2010
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23 FTE Academic Staff / 10 Technical staff
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Mean Taught Paper Quality Semester A : 1.8
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23 Refereed Journal Articles/10 refereed conference presentations
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5 MSc (Research) , 12 ME, 1 MPhil and 6 PhD completions; 17 current ME(Research), 45
current PhD.
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A FRST research contract $2.4m over 4 years
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More than 120 High School students hosted at the engineering open day.
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Janis Swan became an MNZM and wins the J.C. Andrews Memorial Award, the top Food
Technology award bestowed by the New Zealand Inst. Of Food Science and Technology.
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1 Teaching Excellence award
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A successful 2010 Engineering design Show.
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3rd year Mech. Eng student Victoria McCullough wins $3000 Society of Petroleum
Engineers scholarship.
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PhD student Paul Ewart gains a Fulbright scholarship to spend 1 year at University of
Texas
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An engineering technician, Pawan Shrestha wins a Queen Elizabeth II scholarship spend
two months at Cambridge University
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Another racing car designed and built for the SAE competition in December 2010
Achievements of Biological Sciences in 2010
Brendan Hicks, COD
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
FSEN
Biological Sciences achievements in 2010
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Teaching – 25 undergrad courses, 13 MSc courses. Grad students - 64 MSc and PGDip, 48 PhD
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Staffing - 260 students, 23 PBRF-eligible academic staff , 17 general staff, 1 Senior Tutor
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Research – 251 PBRF-eligible outputs (78 journal articles, 12 book chapters, 2 books, 139 conference
contributions)
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External income – about $3.3 M per year
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PBRF income - $2 M annually before 39% central contribution. PBRF rankings in 2006:
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First in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
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First in Molecular, Cellular and Whole Organism Biology
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Successful Marsden Fund applications – 4 current, 3 new in 2010
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FRST funding
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Outcome Based Investment - $10 M over 10 years – harmful algae (Hamilton) , pest fish (Hicks)
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Urban restoration - $1.9 M over 5 years (Clarkson)
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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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Two business units – DNA sequencer, Waikato Stable Isotope Unit - $200 k income in 2010
Achievements in One
Sally Sleigh
WAIKATO PRINT
Waikato Print Achievements 2010
• New equipment-excellent colour printing
• Photography project with CER
• New MIS system-better quoting and
estimating
• Renovated work space-better workflow
• Which means we can do an excellent job
for you at any time
TE PUA WĀNANGA KI TE AO (SMPD)
SMPD Achievements 2010
• Remaining a SCHOOL
• Meeting EFTS Target
• International Connectedness
• Staff Connectedness
• Research Projects
• Book Award
• Teaching Excellence Award
KUA MUTU!
Achievements in One
Carol Robinson (for Jan Bates)
UNILINK
UNILink Achievements 2010
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Increased research income
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Increased number of Marsden applications and successful
proposals
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Managed the process of the establishment of Institutes and
Centres
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Increased number of Health Research Council applications
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Staff research workshops - timetable to be introduced for 2011
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Hosted several Professional Development Workshops for
research administration professionals within the region through
the ARMS network
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Strengthened relationships throughout the University
Achievements in One
Neil Couch
SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES
School Support Services Achievements 2010
• Continued successful delivery of In Service Teacher Education (ISTE) to
540 primary, area and secondary schools and kura in the region.
• Over 100 workshops on National Standards delivered in the region,
and support for NCEA re-alignment.
• Awarded one of the Early Childhood contract in the new contestable
contract environment.
• Celebration of 20 years of support for schools in the region
• Successful re-arrangement of staff in two locations – New venue at
RS5 - ex Continuing Education – Ruakura, and offices, seminar rooms
and Resource Centre at Durham Street, Tauranga
And a VC in a pear tree…
Updating agent contracts
Attended Combined Universities Recruitment Fairs in India
Support for the WPC Fairs for their students to
move to degree
level
study
Supported the implementation
of the
partnership
CUP programmes
Newsline Newsletter to Secondary Schools and regular
advisers
emails
Workedcareers
with Maori
students
in Auckland schools
Held 1200 programme planning
appointments
in schools
through KATTI
programme
Organised and supported 5 events in schools
Held
Open
Day with
Faculties and
andUniversity
on-campus
for Māori
students
Schools for 3000 visitors to entire campus
Provided support for Inaugural Professorial Lectures
Produced enews for Faculty of Education anniversary
Contribute to and create Tauranga partnership enews
Generated on average 30 news releases a month
Provided support for Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner
Created annual information/promotion pack for new students
Saved $30,000 on handbooks
Supported Postgraduate Research Month
Updated Facts and
Figures Off
brochure
Produced
Campus alumni magazine
Launched VC on Demand website
Introduced
a web geo-targeting
campaign
Placed graduation
programmes
online
Updated academic’s photos across University
COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS