POSTGRADUATE NEWS June 2006
SGES COMPETITION;
Only one suggestion, put forward by the Graduate Coordinator, has been received for re-naming the SGES HDR News. If this remains uncontested until 9th June 2006, our new name will be:"Graduate Research News at SGES"
CONGRATULATIONS
Ari Soemodinoto has received a travel grant from the conference organisers to present his paper "Does tourism really help to revitalise management of national park as commons? Lessons learned from West Bali National Park, Indonesia" at the Eleventh Biennial Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP),"Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges & New Realities", 19-23 June 2006, Bali , Indonesia.
Kiran Shinde's research
paper entitled "Religious Tourism: Intersection of Contemporary
Pilgrimage and Tourism in India", has been published in Mike
Robinson and David Picard (eds), Journeys of Expressions V- Tourism
and the Roots/ Routes of Religious Festivity (Belfast, Sheffield
Hallam University, 2006),
www.tourism-culture.com
Abstract of Kiran's paper:
Pilgrimage and tourism provide human beings with opportunities of travel, the former driven by religious needs and the latter by recreational needs. Contemporary expression of traditional pilgrimage travel in India is increasingly changing in its meanings, character, form, organisation and societal functions. Though religiously motivated it exhibits certain characteristics of mass tourism and has a potential to be considered as 'religious tourism'. Even though it accounts for more than 90 percent of domestic tourism in India, it is not readily acknowledged in current public policy. This paper explores the changing meaning of such religiously motivated travel from traditional patterns of pilgrimage to religious place tourism. It focuses on the religious complex of Braj and Vrindavan in Northern India, which receives over 3.5 million visitors each year. The paper argues that conventional accounts of pilgrimage travel are no longer relevant or adequate to explain the contemporary movements of people in to these sacred sites. The paper emphasises the need to examine influences of modern transport, growth of package tours, and new consumption patterns on the journey to describe and analyse the emerging form of religious tourism.
Andrew Coutts, Herlina Hartanto, Xiaoye Liu, Michele Lobo, Kiran Shinde and Peter Wheeler were successful in receiving funds from the School Travel Grants
The Monash Centre for Environmental Management consisting of Doug Holmes, Chris Fayers, Shanit Borsky, Stephen Reardon, Julian Scarff, Angelina Lee, Alison George, Diana Arbelaez, Paul Rogers, and Laura Little, who were awarded a Monash Industry Engagement Award for their work in the area of Socially Responsible Investment.
ATTENTION! FOR ALL STUDENTS THAT ATTENDED WORKSHIP: PART 1 CONFIRMATION OF CANDIDATURE WORKSHOP: PART 2
Wednesday 7th June, 10:00am - 1:00pm in the Mal Logan RoomIn addition to all the tasks you needed to do for this workshop, please make sure you have read the paper on PhD examinations " 'It's a PhD, not a Nobel Prize': how experienced examiners assess research theses" by Gerry Mullins and Margaret Kiley before the workshop. Please see Bianca if you haven't received a copy.
SEMINARS
SEMINARS IN JUNE
PROGRESS SEMINAR
Friday 9th June 11.00 - 1.00pm in S11911.00 - 11.30 "3D terrain modelling
and environmental visualisation: challenges and advantages in deployment
of LiDAR data"
Xiaoye Liu
11.30
- 12.00 "A Population Based Approach to Seasonal Changes in
Acute Myocardial Infarction Hospitalisations in Melbourne 1999-2003"
Margaret Loughnan
12.00 - 12.30 "A
palaeoecological study from Lynch's Crater Atherton Tablelands,
Northeast Queensland"
Sue Rule
12.30
- 1.00 "Religious tourism and environmental issues at pilgrimage
sites in India"
Kiran Shinde
Tricks
of the Trade TUESDAYS 5-6.30pm in E457
13
June Part-time Candidature
27 June The Literature Review
30 May Annual Progress Reports
SGES Lunchtime Seminars WEDNESDAYS 1-2pm in SGO2
Details of other research seminars in related disciplinary areas can be found at:
SCIENCE FACULTY
http://www.sci.monash.edu.au/postgrad/seminar.html
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/research/seminars/
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
http://www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/research/seminars/index.html