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Fremantle’s planning and development provided ‘hot topic’ for Forum hosted by Notre Dame
No full textThe future of Fremantle’s planning and development provided the ‘hot topic’ for a forum held at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus on Tuesday 15 September, 2009.
Chaired by Dr Martin Drum, Politics and International Relations lecturer at Notre Dame, the forum’s aim was to bring members of the community together to discuss how they can play a part in creating a sustainable and liveable Fremantle for the future.
Presentations were given by Professor Richard Weller from The University of Western Australia and author of recently released book Boomtown 2050; Associate Professor Brad Pettitt from Murdoch University and author of Embodying the Past in The Future? Sustainability and Built Heritage in Fremantle and Curtin University academic, Professor Peter Newman, co- author of Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change and Green Urbanism Down Under.
Dr Drum said that the University was keen to support community debate and very pleased to be working together with the Fremantle Network in planning this event. The Fremantle Network has a track record of raising and discussing issues of public importance in our community.
“Fremantle has a strong intellectual tradition, where we value discussion about local issues and Notre Dame has a crucial role to play in this.”
“Our university is committed to facilitating constructive and reasoned debate, and exploring links with the people and places we inhabit. We are also very interested in thinking about how our community would look in the future. This is why we are proud to host this discussion Fremantle 2050.”
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Fremantle Academic attracts significant research grant
No full textNew Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor and Dean of The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus School of Business, Professor Geoff Kiel was a Chief Investigator in a successful Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant application this year.
As a director, consultant to many boards and author of two books and numerous publications on corporate governance, Professor Kiel is acknowledged as an expert in corporate governance.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management and past president of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) and a past president of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
The project is titled ‘Director identity, identification and information flows as predictors of board monitoring, resource provision and organisational performance.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Second edition of church history in the Kimberley launched in Fremantle
No full textThe second edition of Margaret Zucker\u27s From Patrons to Partners and the Separated Children of the Kimberley was launched at The University of Notre Dame Australia on Thursday 17 November 2005.
The original edition, published in 1994 and launched in Broome, traced the first hundred years of the interwoven story of the European missionaries and the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley from 1884.
For the second edition, Margaret Zucker has interviewed people and relatives of the stolen generation , who were separated from their families as young children and were brought up and educated at the Missions in Beagle Bay and Broome.
Their stories, and the stories of the Sisters who looked after them, form a major part of the new section in this second edition.
The author recounts the acknowledgement of the effects both Government and Church policies, and the apologies from the Bishop of Broome and the various religious orders through the 1996 Bringing Them Home National Inquiry .
Vice Chancellor, Dr Peter Tannock acknowledged the extensive research and commitment of Margaret Zucker in writing the additional chapters.
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Notre Dame hosts Australia\u27s premier Mathematics educators
No full textStrengthening the connections between research in teaching and learning and the new Australian mathematics curriculum were topics discussed at the inaugural mathematics conference hosted by The University of Notre Dame Australia at the end of January.
Featuring some of Australia’s premier Mathematics educators, and attracting an audience of over 440, the event was a unique opportunity for Primary and Middle School teachers to consider the emerging Australian Curriculum and how it will affect mathematics content and pedagogy in WA classrooms.
Professor Peter Sullivan from Monash University, author of the shaping paper for the new Australian Mathematics Curriculum, featured as one of the speakers and was joined in presenting sessions by leading academics and mathematics educators from Western Australian, interstate tertiary institutions and academic staff from Notre Dame.
“An event such as this is never easy to pull together,” said Derek Hurrell, one of the coordinators of the conference.
“We were delighted with the overall response, and the valuable feedback which makes it all worthwhile.”
Senior Lecturer, Jennifer O’Neil, also one of the coordinators, stressed that the overall success of the conference depended on the quality of the presenters.
“The way in which they engage the participants is so important. We were fortunate to be able to attract presenters who possess the ability to marry cutting edge research with the day-to-day business of the craft of teaching.”
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Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Perth Convention Bureau awards scholarships to Notre Dame Academics
No full textGenerating convention business in Western Australia (WA) through support for academics is the goal of the Perth Convention Bureau’s professional development scholarship program.
The scholarships are offered annually to academics in each of WA’s five universities.
Notre Dame academics, Associate Professors Dr Carole Steketee and Dr Deborah Gare, were each presented with scholarships valued at 50 million for the Western Australian economy.
“We’re delighted to be able to help our academic community attend overseas conferences, to network with their international peers and showcase their cutting edge research and to push WA’s case to bring these conventions here,” Ms McLean said.
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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