FASS Achievements - October/November
- Posted: 1st November 2009
Congratulations on promotion to Associate Professor to: Karen Fisher (SPRC), Roslyn Jolly (EMPA), Sarah Maddison (IPDRU), Grace Karskens (History & Philosophy), Carmel Flaskas (SSIS), Ludmila Stern (Languages & Linguistics), Paul Brown (History & Philosophy), Mina Roces (history & Philosophy) and Emery Schubert (EMPA).
The Faculty was awarded two Future Fellowships in the first round of allocations. In the new year, Louise Chappell will join Politics from Sydney, and Helen Groth will join English from Macquarie.
Professor Bettina Cass, AO., has been invited to the United Nations in New York by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) to present to an Expert Group Meeting on the theme of Social Integration in early November. Peter Whiteford will be working on the presentation with Bettina.
In recognition of ‘her long standing commitment and work with refugee women and girls', Dr Eileen Pittaway has been invited to share the podium with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and give a presentation at the opening plenary of an intergovernmental meeting at the United Nations Palais in Geneva.
Scientia Professor Peter Saunders has been formally appointed Academic Advisor and Honorary Professor by the China Research Centre on Ageing, an ‘authorized' national research institute established in Beijing in 1989. Peter is the first foreign national to receive such an appointment. In early November Peter is participating as external member of the committee that will be conducting an internal university review of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford. Peter was elected President of the Australian Social Policy Association (ASPA). Melissa Roughley was elected Treasurer of the association.
NHMRC grants: Associate Professor Eileen Baldry is part of a team awarded $885k for a project on ‘Social and cultural resilience and emotional well being of Aboriginal mothers in prison', and Professor John de Wit is on a $668k project studying ‘Social norms regarding HIV/STI risk and risk reduction behaviours among men who have sex with men in Australia.'
UNSW is the only Australian university to be ranked in the world's top 20 most productive research institutions in educational psychology in 2003-2008. UNSW was ranked 17th in a global study published in the Contemporary Educational Psychology journal. In the previous survey (1997-2001) UNSW was ranked 25th. The survey ranked Emeritus Professor John Sweller as the 10th most productive researcher in the world in terms of collaborative publications, and 17th for single and first authored publications. Associate Professor Slava Kalyuga was the 10th most productive researcher for single and first authored publications.
