Date: Wednesday 13th - Friday 15th May 2009
Venue: Peppers Salt Resort, Kingscliff, NSW
Theme: "Recalibrating our Aspirations"
Wednesday 13 May |
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| 2.00 - 6.00pm | Conference Registration (Foyer - Peppers at Salt) Optional Fitness Appraisals (Pavillion, Mantra on Salt Beach) |
| 3.30 - 5.00pm | VCAC Meeting (Mantra Ballroom) |
| 6.00 - 7.00pm | Pre-dinner Drinks (Salt Bar, Mantra on Salt Beach) |
| 7.00 - 9.00pm | Pre-Conference Dinner (Poolside, Peppers Resort) |
Thursday 14 May |
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| 6.00 - 8.00am | Optional Fitness Appraisals (Pavillion, Mantra on Salt Beach) |
| 6.00 - 8.30am | Breakfast (Roughies Restaurant) |
| 7.00 - 8.45am | Conference Registration (Ballroom Foyer) |
| Session 1 | |
| 8.45 - 8.55am | Conference Welcome |
| 8.55 - 9.05am | Chancellor's Remarks Major General (Retd) Peter Arnison AC, CVO |
| 9.05 - 9.45am | Vice-Chancellor's Opening Address Professor Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor Recalibrating our aspirations in a rapidly changing external environment |
| 9.45 - 10.45am | Plenary Session Chair: Professor Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor Keynote Speaker: David Phillips, Principal, Phillips KPA |
| 10.45 - 11.15am | Morning Tea |
| Session 2: Focus on Research | |
| 11.15 - 11.45am | Professor Arun Sharma: Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Commercialisation) Arun will provide a diagnosis of QUT's research performance and rankings, and reflect on some of the challenges which lie ahead. |
| 11.45 - 12.15pm | Two of our emerging research leaders share their views on the QUT environment as experienced by researchers. |
| 12.15 - 12.45pm | Q&A session involving the morning speakers on issues raised throughout the proceedings |
| 12.45 - 1.45pm | Lunch (Roughies Restaurant and Poolside) |
| Session 3 | |
| 1.45 =- 3.15pm | Focus on Learning at QUT: A QUT Affair Joint Chairs: Professor Vi McLean and Professor Tom Cochrane This session, co-sponsored by Professors Vi McLean and Tom Cochrane, will mimic a current affairs TV program, by piecing together a number of short segments focusing on current learning and teaching developments at QUT. Some of these segments will be live, and some videotaped, and the segments will feature both staff and students. |
| 3.15 - 3.45pm | Afternoon Tea |
| Session 4 | |
| 3.45 - 5.00pm | Briefing 1 on Major Initiatives
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| 6.15 - 6.45pm | Conference Pre-dinner Drinks (Poolside) |
| 6.45 - 10.00pm | Conference Dinner (Peppers Ballroom) |
Friday 15 May |
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| 6.00 - 8.30am | Breakfast (Roughies Restaurant) Optional Fitness Appraisals (Pavillion, Mantra on Salt Beach) |
| Session 5 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30am | Focusing on Our People - Recognising and Supporting our Sessional Academic Staff Chair: Professor Annette Patterson, Head, School of Cultural & Language Studies in Education Recognising the importance of this issue, particularly hightlighted by the survey of QUT sessional academic staff conducted in 2008, this session features three members of our sessional academic staff, who have been invited to reflect on their roles and discuss ways in which QUT might better recognise, support and reward the efforts of this group. Speakers: Barbara Kent, Faculty of Law Tim Milfull, Creative Industries Faculty Donna Teague, Faculty of Science & Technology |
| 10.30 - 11.00am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 - 11.30am | Briefing 2 on Major Initiatives The Move to 88 Musk Avenue Joint Chairs: Dr Carol Dickenson and Stephen Pincus Speakers: Sharron Caddie, Executive Officer, Office of the Registrar Michael Green, Associate Director, Capital Works, Facilities Management |
| Session 6 | |
| 11.30 - 12.30pm | Vice-Chancellor's Open Forum & Conference Close |
| 12.30 - 1.30pm | Lunch (Roughies Restaurant and Poolside) |