POSTGRADUATE NEWS March 2007
WELCOME BACK AND INDUCTION
Friday 2nd March, 12.30
- 2pm in S119 (First Floor, South Wing, Building 11)
We invite all continuing and new HDR students and SGES staff
to a Welcome back and Induction luncheon on Friday 2nd March. It
is important that you attend the event and get to meet all your colleagues
and staff, and also get updates on some of the new HDR initiatives at the school,
faculty, and university levels. Food and drinks will
be provided .
CONGRATULATIONS
Shaun Berg, for submitting his PhD thesis, titled "An investigation into alpine catchment behaviour, and the effects of wildfire on hydrological processes and soil erosion on the Bogong High Plains, north-eastern Victoria" .Lee Tryhorn , who has accepted an invitation to join the Board on Societal Impacts of the American Meteorological Society. This is a great honour for a postgraduate student, particularly one from outside the USA.
Alex
Gartrell, for securing an Arts/Medicine Small Grant
for research on "Reproductive choice, motherhood and risk: women
with physical disability in Cambodia". Women with disability
in Cambodia are vulnerable to structural violence and social exclusion,
most obvious in their access to reproductive choice and motherhood.
This research will examine how women make decisions to manage their
reproductive health and wellbeing within a human rights framework
and will place women with disability's needs on Cambodian health
policy agendas.
This is a new grant initiative in 2006/2007
and aims to build collaboration between researchers in the Faculties
of Arts and Medicine. Four $10,000 grants were available.
Alex will be working with Dr Helen Potts from Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine and Dr Elizabeth Hoban and Professor Lenore (Social Sciences and Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences). It is envisaged that this research will contribute to research and teaching in the Faculties of Arts and Medicine in the areas of gender and international development (School of Geography and Environmental Sciences; Centre for South-East Asian Studies), and human rights, ethics, disability and resilience (Human Rights and Bioethics Unit; Social Science and Health Research unit). grant
SEMINARS
Seminars in March
Tricks of the Trade - Tuesday 20th March
5-7pm in SGO2
Tues 20 March - Welcome and Information Evening
SGES Lunchtime Seminars WEDNESDAYS 1-2pm in SGO2
Wed 7 March
Modeling soil erosion
and deposition utilizing remote sensing and GIS in a Mediterranean
river basin
Laurence Lewis, Professor,
Graduate School of Geography, Clark University Worcester, Massachusetts
Fri 23 March
Archaeological
Sites in the Kashgar Prefecture: Identification, Spatial Analysis
and Prediction by GIS and Remote Sensing Methods
Confirmation of Candidature - Uri Gilad
Fri
30 March
Investigating and enhancing the champion phenomena
to advance more sustainable forms of urban water management
Confirmation of Candidature - Andre Taylor
Details of other research seminars in related disciplinary areas can be found at:
CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Wed 21 MarchAboriginal Identity and Nationalism in Australian Football
Barry Judd, Lecturer, CAIS
H8, Bldg 11, 12-1pm
SCIENCE FACULTY
http://www.sci.monash.edu.au/postgrad/seminar.html
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
http://www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/research/seminars/index.html
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/research/seminars/