Seminars
INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: MANAGING RISK TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
‘Examining the Impact of Transparency in Quality and Standards on International Students’
Melbourne, 15-16th May 2012
INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION: MANAGING RISK TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
‘Assessing and Managing Risk in International Education: A Post Knight Review Institutional Perspective
Melbourne, 14-15th February 2012
2011
COPLAND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
‘Digital Technology and Leadership Practice’
CEDA (Committee for the Economic Development of Australia),
Adelaide, 10th November 2011
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE
Adelaide, Flinders University Victoria Square, 1st December 2011
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Adelaide 11-14th October 2011
AUCEA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Adelaide, 1st August 2011
‘Welcome’
UNITED NATIONS NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE
Adelaide11 July 2011
‘Welcome’
THE AUSTRALIAN QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK: A SYMPOSIUM AND AQF LAUNCH
Melbourne, 23rd June 2011
‘The AQF: Providing (extra) Certainty for Mobile Students’
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE SOCIAL SERVICE ASPECTS
Anglicare and Flinders University Research to Practice Seminar
Adelaide, 31st May 2011
THE 9TH ANNUAL HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT
Brisbane, 27-29th April 2011
“Exploring the sector-wide response to a decline in international students”
DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
Flinders University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Adelaide 22-23rd March 2011
‘China’s Cities: The Last 25 Years’.
2010
IEAA/LH MARTIN INSTITUTE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Adelaide 26-27 August 2010
2010 NEAS ELT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Sydney, 13-14th May 2010
ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS
Washington DC, 14-17 February 2010
“Global Perspectives on Quality Assurance: Australia”.
2009
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Adelaide, 1 December 2009
“Community engagement: the secret life of universities.”
INFORMA SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY RELATIONS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
Cairns, 18 November 2009.
“International Contracts and MOUs”.
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE (AIEC)
Sydney, 13-16 October 2009
Comments as a panellist in a session on ‘A National Strategy for Australian International Education’.
IEAA-EAIE SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCING AUSTRALIA-EUROPE ENGAGEMENT
Sydney, 11-12 October 2009.
Rapporteur’s report for the meeting.
ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES
COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Colorado Springs, 13-15 July 2009.
“Challenges for Australian universities in international knowledge
transfer partnerships”. Click here for the powerpoint summary.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY FORUM
Alice Springs, 1-3 July 2009
Plenary address presented on “The international student experience in Australia”.
TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION FORUM
La Trobe University, Melbourne 18 June 2009
A seminar on good practice in TNE sponsored by the IRU Australia group of universities.
HIGHER EDUCATION CONGRESS
Sydney, 24-25 March 2009
Presentation in a session titled Creating Australia’s first global education city: Boston of the Southern Hemisphere. “Australia’s knowledge cities: work in progress”
THE OPTUS FOUNDATION
Adelaide, 10 March 2009
“The impact of China’s weakening economy on Australia’s international education sector”
2008
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Brisbane, 8-10 October 2008
I gave a presentation in a session titled “Leadership and Management in International Education: Fostering and Sustaining the Next Generation”.
ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN AUSTRALIA
Policy Roundtable on Higher Education Futures, Canberra, 1 August 2008
The ASSA runs regular Policy Roundtables. The purpose of this one was to develop an Academy response to the Higher Education Review. My presentation was in a session titled “Regional and global perspectives for university sector policy”.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY AGENCY (AUQA)
Transnational Education Auditor Training Workshop, Melbourne, 2 April 2008
Presentation of a simulated case study of a university’s transnational education activities. Workshop participants worked in groups to formulate approaches to undertaking a quality audit of the activities, focusing on the questions to be asked and the issues that needed to be addressed.
AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL FUTURE DIRECTIONS WORKSHOP
Canberra, 27-28 February 2008
“Flinders University international student strategy 1997-2007”. Current challenges and new approaches, consistent with the third wave activities being developed by several Australian universities, were identified.
2007
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 2007 SUMMIT
State Library of NSW, Sydney, 31 October-1 November 2007
A presentation on “Strategies for Sustainable Universities” was delivered at the Summit. A second short presentation was titled “Now that climate change is recognised as a major risk to business, how do you elevate from belief to action?”
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Trondheim, 12-15 September 2007
A presentation titled “Research student mobility in a competitive global knowledge economy” was delivered in a session on Research Student Mobility and International Research Links.
2006
AUSTRALIAN VICE-CHANCELLORS COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Sydney, 16-17 November 2006
“The value of peak bodies to the sector.”
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Perth, 10-13 October 2006
Two papers are here. The first is “Immigration futures” and the second is titled “Transnational quality strategy future directions.”
INFORMA UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS AND GOVERNANCE FORUM
Melbourne, 21 September 2006
“Regulation of international students: preparing for an added burden.”
NAFSA: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS; EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
“The International Network of Universities: a retrospective view” was first delivered at a session on “The University Consortium as a Multinational Strategy for Promoting Internationalization” at the NAFSA 57th Annual Conference in Seattle, 29 May-3 June 2005. A revised version of the paper was presented in a session on “International University Consortia: A Strategic Tool for Internationalisation” at the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for International Education, Basel, 13-16 September 2006.
THE BOLOGNA PROCESS NATIONAL SEMINAR
Canberra, 7 September 2006
Organised by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). As facilitator for a panel presentation on the International Dimension, I provided a summary of the main points.
TNE GOOD PRACTICE WORKSHOP
Melbourne, 2 August 2006
2005
AUSTRALIAN VICE-CHANCELLORS COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Adelaide, 22-23 November 2005
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY AGENCY TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION AUDITOR TRAINING PROGRAM
Melbourne, 28 October 2005
“A few cultural tips when auditing offshore”
2004
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF UNIVERSITIES SEMINAR
Budapest, September 2004
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY FORUM
Adelaide, 8 July 2004
Workshop “Internationalisation: quality and transnational education”
INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHERS CONFERENCE
Adelaide, 13-16 April 2004
“Cities, universities and global competitiveness”
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FLINDERS UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Adelaide, 19 February, 16 June 2008
Two seminars on “Leadership in International and Community Engagement”. The first seminar centred on the activities and performance of the University in the international and community engagement programs. The second seminar explored different aspects of leadership in a university environment. Workshops explored how participants would respond to particular scenarios within the international and community engagement portfolios. The seminar concluded with an argument that all leadership in the University should be set within a global context, such is the impact of globalisation on the core business of the University: its teaching, research and community engagement.
ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES
New urban forms are emerging in the Asian Pacific region, and they range from extended metropolitan regions, to world cities, mega-cities and mega-urban corridors. They create new environmental challenges. The widespread existence of slums and squatter settlements pose particular environmental problems. In the seminar we look at slum improvement programs in the Bangladesh cities of Dhaka and Dinajpure. The final theme in the seminar is the environmental strategies implemented in Singapore. A two hour seminar.
LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
What is leadership in the urban environmental management? The seminar explores a framework, which I have dubbed SPERLL, which focuses on six key leadership qualities: strategic thinking; relationship management; ethics; risk assessment; emotional intelligence; and learning cultures. I examine the policy framework for the urban environment developed by Mike Douglass and Ooi Giok Ling, and follow this with a closer look of the state - civil society link, and public-private partnerships in addressing environmental problems. A two hour seminar.
Both the above are seminars in a Masters level topic (ie subject) Urban Environmental Management which is part of the Masters of Environmental Management.
ASIA AND THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
The lecture explores the nature of education and knowledge cities in the Asian Pacific region, and strategies to create a niche in the global knowledge economy. The centrepiece is an examination of Singapore’s experience in creating a hub for world class universities and its aspirations to become a ‘global schoolhouse’.
The lecture is in an undergraduate topic in Asian Regional Development. Click here for an outline.
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN MEGA-URBAN REGIONS: LEARNING FROM PACIFIC ASIA
The four lessons I have learned from Pacific Asia:
The significance of the urban revolution in the 21st century
The impact the urban revolution will have on our understanding of the environment
How we might think about the sustainability of cities
The essential ingredients in successful environmental strategies
Click here for the Summary. These two undergraduate lectures are in Sustainability and Development.
Ho Chi Minh City, 1984
SEMINARS
Recent seminars for professional and university groups, and student seminars.
international education
Internationalisation in universities is about “engaging students, staff and the University community in an array of international activities both on campus and abroad, forming partnerships and expanding the international activities and profile of the University, developing the knowledge required for living in an interdependent world, and contributing to global understanding”
community engagement
My preferred definition of community engagement: “a new social contract between society and the university is moving the idea of engagement from its traditional association with outreach into the very conduct of its research and teaching...The new contract autonomy can be sustained only to the extent that universities become engaged in the joint production of knowledge with their communities” (Gibbons 2005).
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“My time is running out
and still
I have not sung
the true song
the great song”
Leonard Cohen My Time (Book of Longing, McClelland & Stewart, Montreal, 2006, p 178)
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