25th Australasian Polymer Symposium Special Issue

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Davis ◽  
J. P. A. Heuts
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Radical Polymerization ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Polymer Colloids ◽  
Joint Workshop ◽  
The University

In February 2001 the 25th Australasian Polymer Symposium was held at the University of New England in Armidale and was attended by over 200 Australasian and international scientists; about a third of these were registered as students. Preceding the conference, a well-attended joint workshop/summer school with the theme of radical polymerization was convened in association with the Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers (CRC-P) and the ARC Key Centre for Polymer Colloids (KCPC).

scholarly journals An overview of thriving through transformation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boyd Dirk Blackwell
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New South ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The University

The articles published in this special issue come from the blind peer review and refinement of papers presented to the biennial conference of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) held at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, New South Wales (NSW), Australia on 19-23 October 2015. All papers jointly contribute to helping transform the human existence toward one that is socially, culturally, environmentally, ecologically, economically and politically sustainable. Transforming our human existence to meet these multiple dimensions of ‘true’ sustainability is a difficult task, balancing potentially competing interests and, inevitably, involving trade-offs between these dimensions.

Building a world-class Australian decommissioning industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kym Bills
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
North West ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University

Collaboration in decommissioning offshore infrastructure could save both industry and taxpayers billions of dollars and facilitate new industries and exports for Australia, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. At the end of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant construction boom, Australia must not miss out on this major new opportunity. The 2017 bid for Commonwealth funding to establish a Decommissioning Offshore Infrastructure Cooperative Research Centre (DOI-CRC) involved more than 30 participants and many other collaborators. High-level commitments were made by Chevron, Woodside, Shell, BHP, ExxonMobil, Quadrant, The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, the University of New South Wales, Deakin University, Australian Maritime College, CSIRO and Australian Institute of Marine Science. A Perth-based DOI-CRC was supported by National Energy Resources Australia, National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority and other Australian Government bodies and by the Western Australian Government and its Chief Scientist and agencies but did not receive sufficient support from the CRC Advisory Committee. Meeting decommissioning challenges in the North West Shelf, Bass Strait and the Northern Territory in a timely, robust, scientific, efficient and cost-effective manner that contributes to a sustainable marine environment should draw upon and augment international best practice with local capability and expertise. Good science and innovative engineering are needed to support regulatory approval of options such as ‘rigs to reefs’ and commercial opportunities such as in waste management and expanded fishing and tourism. APPEA and operators wish to maintain DOI-CRC’s momentum and learn from UK research arrangements through funding marine science projects. But we must be much broader if we are to build a sustainable world-class Australian decommissioning industry. In particular, we need to work more closely with state and federal regulators and policymakers and undertake more engineering science research and innovation.

scholarly journals Space/place matters

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Tommaso M. Milani ◽  
Quentin Williams ◽  
Christopher Stroud
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University

This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape as part of a collaboration with the University of Oslo and three other South African universities – Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand – and financed by Research Council of Norway’s programme International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation (INTPART). Doctoral students based in Norway and South Africa attended the summer school, presented their research projects, and were encouraged to submit an article to Multilingual Margins. This was with a view to training budding scholars to deal with the peer-review process of academic publishing. This special issue is the material outcome of this process and includes three articles that have a common interest in unpicking the complex relationship between language and space/place.

A sustainable future for the Australian rangelands

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Rangeland Management ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Feral Animals ◽  
The University ◽  
Business As Usual

This paper proposes a broad overview of possible responses to the challenges posed by rangelands to promote discussion on a sustainable future for these vast regions. Rangelands Australia, an organisational unit of the University of Queensland, which promotes and delivers post graduate courses in rangeland management, assesses these challenges as managing the landscapes sustainably; supporting viability for pastoralists, tourism operators and miners; and maintaining benefits to our communities. It describes the desirable triple bottom line as profitable enterprises, healthy landscapes and vibrant communities. While there may be general agreement on these challenges and objectives, how we as a nation – and we as land managers specifically – meet them is the subject of intense debate. What is clear is that we can no longer maintain a ‘business-as-usual’ approach. We are all familiar with the effects of salinity and erosion and the impacts of feral animals and weed species. We understand the need for business in the rangelands to think smart about the environment, about markets and about communities and get smart or go under. We know that we have to do things differently or our rangeland communities will wither away as businesses fail and young people leave the bush due to lack of meaningful opportunity where they have grown up. The experiences and observations of the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre and the new Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation complement and bring together existing strands of activity across jurisdictions and disciplines. This synthesis of understanding offers some insights in how to conceptualise the future and act on the vision for a sustainable future for these extensive areas.

scholarly journals Editorial

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. iii-iii
Author(s):  
Martin Nakata ◽  
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Education ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Remote Education ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Team Working

This special issue of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education presents a second volume of papers which specifically address the issue of remote education for Indigenous Australians. ‘Red Dirt Revisited’, edited by John Guenther, presents findings from his team working on the Remote Education Systems (RES) project within the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP). Focusing on a number of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia, the RES project is now in its final stages and the main intention behind this special issue is to share significant findings from this important research. Much of the work presented here is by postgraduate students and AJIE is very pleased to be able to provide a voice and forum to support and ‘grow’ early career researchers in our field.

scholarly journals EMPLOYMENT IN VS. EDUCATION FOR THE BIOECONOMY

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina DREJERSKA
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Polish Experience ◽  
The University

A number of employees is one of the basic indicators applied for identification of the economic relevance of an industry or an economic sector. Referring to nearly 18.6 million people employed in the 28 EU Member States within the bioeconomy in 2014, it can be stated that this a an economic sphere of significant importance in the European economy. The main aims of the study are to identify a scale of employment in the bioeconomy sector across EU Member States as well as to investigate tertiary education in bioeconomy based on the Polish experience in the Bioeconomy subject area group within the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS). Data used included: (1) the data portal of agro-economics modelling – DataM of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, (2) CAWI research among students of WULS-SGGW on their attitudes to the bioeconomy, (3) feedback of participants of the first summer school in bioeconomy coordinated by WULS-SGGW. Research results display that the majority of Polish students did not meet the term of bioeconomy generally as well as at the university. There is also one very important students’ comment which can describe their attitude: students of economic disciplines are not very much interested as they think that bioeconomy focuses on life sciences (bio) so it is not appropriate for them; students of different fields of life sciences are not very keen to study bioeconomy as according to them it focuses on economy (as in the name itself).

scholarly journals Guest Editorial: Special Issue of Research Centre Řež: Nuclear-Engineering Activities in 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Kostal ◽  
Martin Schulc
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Editorial Special Issue ◽  
West Bohemia ◽  
Commercial Research ◽  
The University

Abstract This special issue is dedicated primarily to research performed in the Research Centre Rež (CVR, Centrum výzkumu Rež Fig. 1) during the Research for SUSEN (R4S) project, which is the follow-up of the (SUSEN) project, that was successfully completed at the end of 2020. Research Centre Rež is a research organization founded in 2002. It is a member of the UJV Group, and it is focused on the pre-commercial research in power-generation technologies, predominantly, but not exclusively, in the nuclear field. The R4S project comprised many topics, including the research and development of new technologies for current and future generations of nuclear reactor systems and nuclear fusion reactors. It was carried out within the CVR, in close partnership with the University of West Bohemia, and was funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

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