Early Career Research Showcase 2008
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2008 Program
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| Welcome | 2:00 pm | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1 | 2:10 - 2:45 pm | Chair: Tara Murphy | |
| James Curran | School of Information Technologies | Sharing a joke with your computer | |
| Camille Raynes-Greenow | Kolling Institute | Linked data to answer questions concerning stillbirth | |
| Clare Corbould | Department of History | Race, Nation and Diaspora in the Making of Harlem | |
| Greg Madsen | Institute of Astronomy | How Does Our Galaxy Work? | |
| Andrew Kemp | Discipline of Medicine | Towards a better understanding of depression heterogeneity and response to treatment | |
| Break | 2:45 - 2:50 pm | ||
| Session 2 | 2:50 - 3:30 pm | Chair: Katherine Bode | |
| Renae Ryan | Discipline of Pharmacology/Bosch Institute | Neurotransmitter transporters: vacuuming the brain | |
| Karl Maton | Department of Sociology and Social Policy | Creating A New Theory in Knowledge and Education: LCT | |
| Toby Hudson | School of Chemistry | Simulation in Materials Chemistry | |
| Chris Maloney | Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise | Developmental Origins of Health and Disease - Nutritional Programming of Obesity and Diabetes | |
| Charles Wolfe | History and Philosophy of Science | Materialism encounters the problem of Life: Monsters Organisms and Brains | |
| Arlie Loughnan | Sydney Law School | How do we know when someone is non-responsible? | |
| Break | 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Afternoon tea/coffee | |
| Session 3 | 4:00 - 4:35 pm | Chair: Sam Solomon | |
| Tara Murphy | School of IT / Institute of Astronomy | Here today, gone tomorrow: exploring the transient radio sky | |
| Penny O'Donnell | Department of Media and Communications | The media and listening practices | |
| Manish Arora | Population Oral Health | Health Effects of Environmental Toxicants | |
| Karen Gonsalkorale | School of Psychology | Scratching beneath the surface: Implicit biases in stereotyping and prejudice | |
| Joy Paton | Department of Political Economy | Seeking Sustainability: On the Prospect of an Ecological Liberalism | |
| Break | 4:35 - 4:40 pm | ||
| Session 4 | 4:40 - 5:25 pm | Chair: Renae Ryan | |
| Katherine Bode | Department of English | What have statistics got to do with English? | |
| Deborah Barton | School of Biological Sciences | Directing plant growth: a role for microtubules? | |
| Michele Zappavigna | Department of Linguistics | Enacting Reconciliation: Negotiating Meaning in Youth Justice Conferencing | |
| Jeff Holst | Centenary Institute | The role of amino acid transport in prostate cancer | |
| Kate da Costa | Department of Archaeology | Drawing the Line: The archaeology of Roman provincial borders | |
| Rola Ajjawi | Medical Education | Education for clinical reasoning capability | |
| Concluding remarks | 5:25 pm | Followed by drinks | |