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UWAnewsThe University of Western Australia ESTABLISHED 1911 9 AUGUST 2004 Volume 23 Number 11Birth can heraldpotential killerBig US grant to study breast cancerby Lindy BrophyPregnancy, while a time of joy for most expectant mothers,leaves a woman’s body vulnerable, and many cancers arediagnosed during pregnancy or immediately after birth.Professor Christobel Saunders, Professor of Surgical Oncology in the School ofSurgery and Pathology, has won significant funding from a United States cancerresearch foundation to gain a greater understanding of breast cancers thatoccur during pregnancy.She and her team will use WA’s extensive and unique populationdata for the study, funded by the Susan G Komen foundation, for$US240,000. They also have funding from the WA ClinicalOncology Group.Professor Saunders said that UWA researchers werecurrently studying breast cancer from many perspectives andtheir work was attracting international funding because of itshigh quality, and because of the availability of detailedpopulation health data from the WA Data Linkage System,jointly managed by the WA Department of Health andUWA’s School of Population Health.“We have found in a study, funded by the RaineFoundation, that breast cancer associated with apregnancy is diagnosed in about seven percent of youngwomen, and that four percent of women who havesurvived breast cancer will go on to get pregnant,”Professor Saunders said.“However, diagnosis and treatment become moredifficult because of the pregnancy, and we need a much betterunderstanding of how pregnancy affects a breast cancer andhow a cancer will affect a woman’s pregnancy.“We have already done a lot of research on gestational breastcancer and are now planning to extend this work to look at, forexample, the imaging and pathology of these cancers, and thepsychosocial issues encountered by these women. We will also beextending the study to look at all young WA breast cancer patients, whichwill be both an invaluable comparator group and give us important informationon patterns of care.”The study is a collaborative project involving Dr James Semmens and Angela Ivesfrom the School of Population Health, and Associate Professor Kate White from EdithCowan University. Professor Saunders says that the good news is that while fertility can besignificantly reduced by cancer treatment, young women who have had breast cancer can goon to have successful pregnancies that are cancer-free.

2 UWAnewsMakingchanges forbabies oncampusThe University’s policy ofsupporting its staff’s worklifebalance has a newpractical focus.For staff and students whose familyresponsibilities include the care ofbabies, several new baby changingfacilities are being installed on campusover the next few months.Gaye McMath, Executive Director,Finance and Resources, said theinstallation of the changing tables inunisex toilets had been an agreedaction at UWA for a few years. Theyhad been built in at the Oral HealthCentre of WA (OHCWA), and areplanned for the new University Cluband the Molecular Sciences building.Ms Mc Math said that if creating thebest work-life balance for some staff andstudents meant bringing a child ontocampus, then it was the responsibility ofthe University to assist them.The University already has changetables at the medical/dental library,OHCWA, the Child Study Centre andparenting facilities at the Guild and theUWA Medical Centre.The office of Facilities Managementhas committed to installing anadditional five facilities this year and toensure that all new constructionsprovide baby change tables in unisextoilets. OFM has identified a need inthe following areas, where facilitiesare soon to be installed: SocialSciences building, Arts building, GuildVillage, Centre for Water Researchand the School of Architecture,Landscape and Visual Arts.OFM’s Gerald Stack said the tableswere prefabricated and folded upagainst a wall when not in use. Alltables have straps to prevent wrigglingbabies from falling off. “All the newchange tables will be on the groundfloor, some of them in existingdisabled toilets, because they havemore room, and some in femaletoilets,” he said.Books for kidsmilestoneVice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson cut the anniversary cake with the help ofJan White (left), President of the University branch and Kay Hallahan, National Chair of SCFThe University branch of Save the Children Fund (SCF)celebrated the 40th anniversary of their book sale with theirbiggest profit ever.The proceeds of the sale, in the Undercroft last month, were $127,000, topping lastyear’s total by just $1,000. They also celebrated with a cake, cut by the Vice-Chancellor the day before the sale opened to thousands of Perth booklovers.The funds from the sale will be used to support SCF’s projects overseas as well as arange of health and welfare projects for children in Perth city, the hills, the wheatbeltand Carnarvon.On behalf of the branch, Rosalind Lindsay thanked the sale’s supporters for boththeir patronage and donations.UWAnewsEDITOR/WRITER Lindy BrophyTel.: 6488 2436 Fax: 6488 1192 Email: lindy.brophy@uwa.edu.auEDITOR-IN-CHIEF Colin Campbell-FraserTel: 6488 2889 Fax: 6488 1020 Email: ccampbell@admin.uwa.edu.auDesigned and typeset by Publications Unit, UWAPrinted by UniPrint, UWAUWAnews online: www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/uwanews/THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

countdownUWAnews 3EXPOAustralian Idol hopefuls who weredisappointed at the local auditions cantry again at EXPO.The Arts Faculty’s Multimedia Centre is invitingvisitors to the annual open day to perform in ArtsstralianIdol and go home with their talent captured ona CD.Others may be more interested in a display by theBusiness School on the economics of the marijuanamarket.Musicians will be intrigued by an optical pickup for aguitar, being demonstrated by the School of Electricaland Electronic and Computer Engineering.Or you can try out the eddy current can crusher atPhysics, have a personality reading at Psychology orget a nano-view of your household in Microscopy.Dozens of staff have been working for the past fewmonths to get EXPO ready for Sunday August 29, andall staff are encouraged to help out over the nextthree weeks and to come along on the day.The popular information sessions for prospectivestudents, both undergraduate and graduate, will berun, and repeated, during the day. Other favouritesfrom previous EXPOs will be the helicopter rides fromJames Oval; free tram rides around the campus; theChemistry magic show (usually standing room only);the opportunity to climb up Winthrop Tower (usingthe stairs inside, rather than ropes on the outside!);learn-to-suture sessions at Anatomy for buddingsurgeons; wine to taste and animals to handle,courtesy of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; andSport and Recreation’s climbing wall.A full program for EXPO will be published in TheWest Australian on Saturday August 21, so make sureyour family, friends and neighbours get their copiesand encourage them to come along and see whatreally happens on campus.For more information visit theEXPO website:www.expo.uwa.edu.auTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

column4 UWAnewsVice-Chancellor’sThechallengeStatisticallythe besttheofreward &work at UWAIt was pleasing to see a table recently published in The Australiannewspaper which showed that UWA had the lowest ‘Universitystudent-to-teacher ratio’ of all WA universities and was secondonly to UNSW nation-wide.It is worthy of note as it comes at a time when we are looking at the implications ofthe 2003 Working Life Survey, and at ways in which UWA can better support staff inachieving a balance between their working and non-working lives.The Working Life survey showed workload as the number one concern for most staff.Factors creating workload pressure are many and varied, but are something we need toattend to. The surveys conducted in 1997 and 2000 both provided a valuable insight into theviews, perceptions and experiences of staff and has been useful for planning purposes,particularly in relation to enterprise bargaining.It is the understanding that salaries are just one component of employmentconditions offered to staff that we have brought to our discussions around the nextEnterprise Bargaining Agreement. We believe the total package of working conditionsat UWA is valued overall by staff. It includes a flexible Academic Promotion System,free of quotas or restrictions; salary progression for general staff (now under reviewwith a view to facilitating application of superannuation to salary progressionallowances); flexible working arrangements aimed at promoting work/life balance;flexible and generous study leave provisions for academic staff which provide for accessto six months leave after three years service or one year after six years service; anemployment philosophy promoting direct employment of staff on a tenurable/tenuredor ongoing basis; and provision of in house childcare facilities and a commitment toincrease these facilities.Salary is certainly a motivator for staff but is not of itself the sole reason peoplechoose to work at the University and it can be offset by the other elements as outlined.In attending to the challenge of reducing workload pressure, the most pressing concernis how we deal with the competing priorities of compliance with University-wideinitiatives and expectations placed on us both collectively and individually within anincreasingly competitive external framework as well as our day to day internal activities.As a start we have limited the number of emails to all staff, and are investing constantly inanti-spam programs, to screen out the huge volumes that arrive daily. We are alsoattempting to shield staff from the seemingly ever-increasing reporting requirements fromDEST and other Government agencies. Unfortunately some of these fall under the ‘noreport, no funding’ category. We are asking staff for suggestions on how to reduceadministrative workloads, and some very useful proposals have now come forward forconsideration from the University Managers Group. Exploring this issue further is achallenge we face together.Alan Robson Vice-ChancellorProfessor Adrian Baddeley, a world leader inhis area of mathematics and statisticsAs one of the world’s greatstatisticians, Professor AdrianBaddeley can probably workout the probability of winningthe Pitman Medal.The Medal is the highest honour thatcan be bestowed by the StatisticalSociety of Australia (SSA), and it waspresented to Professor Baddeleyrecently. It is awarded for achieving highdistinction in statistics, which enhancesthe international standing of Australia inthis discipline.The following extract is from the SSAassessors’ report: “Adrian Baddeley is aworld leader in the areas ofmathematical stereology, stochasticgeometry, and spatial statistics. Hispapers have invariably been seminal,ranging from highly useful and innovativecreations of new sampling techniques instereology, through to novel statisticaldiagnostics for point patterns, andemploying both profound mathematicsand also implementation as practicalcomputer methods.”Associate Professor Tony Pakes,Head of the School of Mathematics andStatistics, congratulated ProfessorBaddeley on “this wonderful recognitionof his scientific work.”THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

UWAnews 5Damian Davini with histeam mates and teammanager, after winningthe national awardDamien’s number 1in first aidby Maureen de la HarpeThey couldn’t be more different: IT with itsemphasis on precise systems and itsdependence on technology; and first aid, inwhich you are dealing with critical situations,injuries and sometimes human lives.Damian Davini is an IT systems manager, currently workingon a project in Financial Services. Since the age of eleven he hasalso been a committed volunteer ‘first aider’ with St JohnAmbulance. And last month he became a national championwhen his team of three won the annual National First AidCompetition.“I’ve represented WA numerous times,” says Damian, “butthis is the first time I’ve won a national award.”Alice Springs was the venue for the finals, which broughttogether winning teams from around Australia. Damian’s teamof volunteers (they trained twice weekly for the event)competed against nurses and paramedics for whom first aid ispart of the job rather than a voluntary activity.The finals took the form of a mock scenario in which the‘first aiders’ had to put their training into practice in a criticalsituation. In this case, it was a parachute accident: a parachutisthad landed in a tree, dislodging branches that had fallen onbystanders, causing multiple casualties.The event was held on a Saturday morning in the CivicCentre gardens in Alice Springs’ town centre and thecompetition was watched by a large, fascinated audience. Theaccident scene is always staged very realistically, according toDamian. “We arrive on the scene and in a set time we have tocontrol the situation, treat the casualties, and arrange theirtransport to hospital or discharge them. Marks are given forevery aspect of the event: how well we treat the casualties, howquickly and how effectively.”Competing in such realistic situations is very stressful, saysDamian, “because you want to do well, you put highexpectations on yourself, and you are dealing with situationsyou don’t normally meet at a sporting event or concert.”He became interested in first aid through his mother whowas a member of St John. He joined up while still at primaryschool and has been working for the organisation ever since. AsDivisional Manager of St John’s Mundaring branch, whichinvolves weekly training and public first aid duties, he especiallyenjoys being on duty at public events.“You get to go to big sporting occasions and concerts — Iwas lucky enough to go the Sydney Olympics in 2000. It’s a bigselling point when we recruit new members.”Damian’s Team Manager Gabrielle West is delighted with theteam’s success.“I’m extremely proud of the entire team, especially as I’veseen all the training they put in. It’s nice to see that their hardwork paid off,” she said.While winning national competitions is exciting, what givesDamian enduring satisfaction are the more routine aspects ofhis St John activities, which add up to a commitment of about100 hours a year.“Keeping up with your training and doing public first aidduties is satisfying because you are able to help people andknow that you are making a difference to them.”THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

6 UWAnewsPreserving theancienthistoryof theMiddle East“The Middle East is a treasure trovewaiting to be discoveredand explored”THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

UWAnews 7David Kennedy has spent more timeflying over ancient ruins in Jordan thanbrowsing the aisles of his local supermarket.And, as it’s infinitely more exciting than perusing grocerieson shelves, Professor Kennedy is sharing his experiences ofaerial archaeology with the community — through two books, apublic lecture, a UWA Extension course, and a guided tour ofRoman Jordan.The Professor of Ancient History and Roman Archaeologyhas been regularly visiting the Middle East since 1969, workingin Jordan since 1976, and flying over Jordan every year since1997, with the support of the Jordanian royal family.Together with Dr Robert Bewley (co-author of one of hisbooks), Head of Survey for English Heritage, and FrancescaRadcliffe, a freelance aerial archaeologist, Professor Kennedyhas taken about 10,000 aerial photographs in these nineseasons.“It is a major and vital task to record the archaeology beforeit is swept aside by rapid development, and to monitor sitesunder threat,” Professor Kennedy said. “A classic example isthe town of Ma’an, famous from the battles of the Arab Revoltof WWI. The traces are still visible, all around, of the Turkishtrenches, but they are starting to be filled in, after 85 years ofpreservation.“Nearby, in 1998, we photographed a superb caravanserai,of, perhaps, the eighth century AD, about 40 metres square. In2000, it had had all the internal rooms bulldozed away. By 2003,it was bulldozed entirely.”Roman ruins are Professor Kennedy’s specialty. He has ledtwo guided tours of Roman Britain and is leading a tour ofRoman Jordan next year. He has just spent his study leavetracing more Roman ruins across the deserts of Jordan.“Jordan is terribly underexposed, compared with the ruins inwestern Europe,” he said. “The Middle East is a treasure trovewaiting to be discovered and explored. There are only about 15archaeologists working on the Roman period in Jordan, whilethere are up to 60 in Britain just working on Hadrian’s Wall!.”He said that, despite the royal family’s support of his aerialarchaeology, there were too few safeguards for preservingimportant sites. “Each year, when I go back, I can see sites that Iphotographed have gone, been bulldozed to make way forroads and development.”David Kennedy, Francesca Radclifffe, Bob Bewley andRoyal Jordanian Air Force crew before a recent helicopter flightover Roman ruins (see pic below)Professor Kennedy said he always felt safe in Jordan. “TheMiddle East has a bad reputation. I feel safer in Jordan at nightthan I do here or in Britain. The people are so hospitable that,sometimes, it’s hard to get your work done!”His new book (with Bob Bewley), Ancient Jordan from the Air,is a cross between an academic publication and coffee tablebook. While there are no footnotes, its 60,000 words of textmake it more than just a book to browse casually, but its 200photographs should make it more popular than an academictome. “Certainly the print run of 3,000 copies implies weexpect four or five times the sales figures an academic booknormally gets in my field,” he said.The second edition of his earlier book The Roman Army inJordan, has also recently been published. The first edition soldout in a year. Both books are published by the Council forBritish Research in the Levant/British Academy.On Wednesday August 18, Professor Kennedy is delivering apublic lecture, Ancient Jordan from the Air, illustrated with manyof his thousands of photographs. He hopes both the lecture andthe book will inspire people to join his guided tour of Jordan inlate April, early May next year. The tour will include two weeksin Jordan, including the ‘rose-red’ city of Petra, and a week inSyria, with a visit to Palmyra, and a possible side trip to Baalbekin the Lebanon.Overlapping with the public lecture, Professor Kennedy willpresent a course for UWA Extension beginning on ThursdayAugust 5 on Petra, the Nabataeans and the Roman Empire, bothon the UWA campus and at venue in Kalamunda.A busy year lies ahead. In September he is off to TheInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton for three months; hehas just been elected to a Cotton Fellowship for 2004/5 whichwill provide some support for his fieldwork in Jordan in early2005 and he expects to lead the tour of Jordan and Syria soonafter.Information about the tour of Jordancan be found at:http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/Classics/Jordanair.htmhttp://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/tours/jordan.shtmlTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

8 UWAnewsA classiccareer comesto a closeWhen Margrit Walmsley firststarted work at UWA in1969, she was thrilled to haveher first electric typewriter.“I used to type 99 words a minute. Iknow, because, in those days,secretaries were paid an allowance inaccordance with their typing speed.Every year, our typewriters would betaken to Mount Lawley tech, and wewould have to go there on a Saturdaymorning and do a test,” she said.Margrit, administrative assistant inClassics and Ancient History, is retiringon August 20, just three weeks short of35 years at UWA.She has a very good reason to beleaving just before reaching themilestone. Margrit is taking herhusband, daughter, son-in-law and twogranddaughters to India for celebrationsmarking her old school’s 150 thanniversary.“I was in the centenary class atWoodstock, which is now called TheInternational School,” she said. “Mymother was English and my father wasSwiss, but I was born in Calcutta andboarded at Woodstock for all of myschool life. My father was working for aSwiss company in India, but in thosedays, all the expats sent their childrento school in the foothills of theHimalayas, because it was cooler than inthe cities down south.“Woodstock was in one of the hillstations and most of the other studentswere American. There will be about 65of us, from our class, including thefamilies we’re bringing with us. I haven’tbeen back to India since I married andcame to Perth in 1962 – and I’m soexcited,” she said.Margrit’s husband Michael worked forairline companies. He was not, as manyMargrit Walmsley … “ a warmth ofpersonality that lights up her office”people at UWA assumed, a professor ofclassics, Alan Walmsley. “Because weshared the same surname and worked inthe same department, it was justassumed. One day, I signed a payauthority for him and Human Resourcesquestioned it, because they thought I washis wife and it wasn’t appropriate!”After finishing school in India 50years ago, Margrit worked inSwitzerland for three years, where shelearnt to speak the Swiss dialect ofGerman. “When I came to UWA, Istarted work in the Italian department,then moved to German, where I stayedfor 25 years. I could understandeverything everybody said, but couldn’tspeak German very well myself. I havewhat’s called a silent vocabulary.”Margrit moved to classics nine yearsago and says she has had a lot of fun inthe Arts faculty, but she wasn’tprepared to elaborate!She says the introduction ofcomputers was the biggest single changein her working life here. “I lovecomputers, but they changed our workcompletely. We used to type up all thelecture notes and the academics’correspondence. Now they do thatthemselves. We used to have foursecretaries to look after four disciplines– now we have two, to look after fivedisciplines.”Dr Judith Maitland, Discipline Chairin Classics and Ancient history, adds:“Margrit is an extraordinary creature.She is immensely kind, very smart, verymischievous, and has a warmth ofpersonality that lights up her office. Inaddition, her networking skills would bethe envy of any Vice-Chancellor.“How on earth we will manage ourcommunications in the future is beyondme. We, that is staff, students, visitorsto the discipline groups, their families,friends and pets, not to mention anyother waifs and strays that may findtheir way into her ambit, will miss hervery much.”THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

UWAnews 9Women’sviews ofmodernlifeby Maureen de la HarpeThree women artists, Portia Bennett, EliseBlumann and Iris Francis, take the spotlight at theLawrence Wilson Art Gallery in a new exhibition,Approaches to Modernism, focusing on artworksproduced between the 1930s and 1950s.According to exhibition curator Dr Sally Quin, Modernismdescribes the flurry of new concepts that emerged after the FirstWorld War, concepts like bolshevism, Freudian psychology, thecar, the aeroplane, movies and the ‘new woman’.Why these three artists? “The idea was to look at differentapproaches to Modernism. These three represent very differentways and they were also very worthy of sustained consideration.They were important and each had something to say aboutPerth,” said Dr Quin.Barrack Street, Perth (1939) by Portia BennettWomen in a sitting room (1930s) by Elise FrancesVisitors to the gallery will find many nostalgic images in thework of Portia Bennett: views of Barrack Street in 1939, the oldAdelphi Hotel, the Cloisters, Howard Street and St GeorgesTerrace. Bennett, who trained in Sydney, came to Perth in 1932and held her first exhibition at Newspaper House. She wouldhave preferred to be an architect, and her fascination with theline and detail of buildings is apparent at a time when landscapewas still the main preoccupation of many artists. PortiaBennett’s Perth is sunny and unhurried, a place in whichbuildings rather than people are the focus of interest.German-born Elise Blumann studied at the Berlin Academyof Arts where she became familiar with the works of MarcChagall, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky When she came toPerth with her husband and two children in 1938, her Europeaninfluences became interwoven with her Australian experiences.Like so many artists, she was fascinated by the Australianlight and the unique forms of our plants, particularly melaleucas,banksias, zamia palms and grass trees. In contrast with PortiaBennett, Blumann saw her art as “the sensuous awareness ofbeauty and harmony”.“Generally, the land is presented as untamed, thestrangeness of nature being accentuated and not subdued.When humans are present in the land, as nude figures dancingor surfers on a wave, their relationship to nature is joyous andoptimistic,” said Dr Quin.The only artist in the trio who trained solely in Perth, IrisFrancis worked as a commercial artist and taught art at PerthTechnical College. Painting in oils and water colours, she wasalso a printmaker and ceramicist and employed a variety ofstyles. While her works from the Thirties present quiet,intimate moments in interiors, Francis was active during thewar. She translated aerial maps, taught, did volunteer work andentertained troops, and her work reflects her contribution inscenes representing hospital and Red Cross experiences. Sadly,she died during the planning of this exhibition.The works on view, many of which have not been displayedbefore, come from public and private collections, including theArt Gallery of WA, the Holmes à Court collection and UWA’sart collection.Approaches to Modernism continues until August 29.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

10 UWAnewsBig grantsfor childhealthresearchTwo major grants totaling $10million from the NationalHealth and Medical ResearchCouncil (NHMRC) will enableUWA to forge ahead withresearch into child healthproblems, and to establish oneof the world’s biggest facilitiesfor epidemiological andgenetic research.The five-year grants were announcedat UWA by Federal Health MinisterTony Abbott as part of a $115 millionnational grant round.Despite Australia’s high standard ofliving, health and developmentalproblems are on the increase in childrenand young people, problems includinglow birth weight, behavioural andmental health problems, autism, obesityand — in indigenous children —infections.Professor Fiona Stanley, Director ofthe Telethon Institute for Child HealthResearch (ICHR), will head an ongoing$7.7 million study to developpreventive measures through a betterunderstanding of the complex pathwaysthat lead to these problems.The research will bring together amulti-disciplinary team of researchersfrom UWA, Curtin University andICHR, including Professor Lyle Palmer,UWA’s foundation chair in GeneticEpidemiology.“The project will develop new waysof measuring and analysing the complexand interacting factors that determinechild health,” said Professor Stanley. “Itsfocus is on both the most common andthe most serious problems affectingchildren, many of which have long termconsequences in terms of adult health.”The program pursues five interlockingthemes: social, economic andpsychological determinants of health;developmental disorders; growth andnutrition; infection, and Aboriginal health.Western Australia is fortunate to beone of only three sites in the world withcomprehensive health data on the wholeof its population of children and theirfamilies. The research team will harnessthis data to gain greater insight into howchildren develop, which will assist thedevelopment of strategies to reversethe current trends.A second NHMRC grant of $1.9million (brought to $2.9m by a matchingcontribution from the University) willfund a new national facility forpopulation-based medical research atUWA. It will be one of the largest of itskind in the world, and will significantlyboost Australia’s national researchcapacity.BELOW: Professor Lyle Palmer andProfessor Fiona Stanley discuss details ofthe grant with Federal Health MinisterTony AbbottTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

UWAnews 11Recognitionfor asthmaresearchKirrily O’Hara at work in theCAAR laboratoryAustralia has the third highest incidence of asthma in the worldafter the UK and New Zealand – one very good reason whyresearch in this field has a high priority in this country.A recent study by UWA researchers has brought science a step closer tounderstanding the causes of this debilitating disease and developing more effectivetreatments.The new findings, from a genetics study at UWA’s Centre for Asthma, Allergy andRespiratory Research (CAARR), were considered so significant they were reported inthe May issue of the highly respected international Journal of Allergy and ClinicalImmunology.The researchers, Dr Mary-Anne Kedda, Jing Shi, Stephanie Phelps and KirrilyO’Hara, headed by Centre Director Associate Professor Philip Thompson, looked at aparticular gene — leukotriene C4 synthase — to find out more about its role in thedisease. This gene has properties that cause inflammation, and because asthma sufferershave inflamed lungs, the team wanted to determine whether the gene was involved inthe condition.To conduct the study, the Centrecalled for volunteers throughout WA todonate DNA samples. The researchteam needed both asthmatics and nonasthmaticsand they were delighted withthe response, which gave them accessto DNA samples from more than 1,000West Australians.The research found that this genecould have a weak effect on asthma, butthat other genes also contributed to thedisease. The findings were differentfrom those of previous studies, and willhelp in developing more effective drugtreatments for asthma.Professor Thompson hailed theresults as very encouraging. “Asthma isa serious illness and given its prevalencein Australians, it is vital that we studythe disease here where we can workwith a large population of affectedindividuals,” he said.“The research this team of youngscientists has conducted is of worldclass and worthy of recognition by thewider community.”As the research team is continuing itsefforts to identify the genes responsiblefor asthma, they are still keen to hearfrom people willing to donate a DNAsample or to make a financialcontribution to this vital research.If you would like to help, call 93463198 for more information.If you are thinking of taking study leave in thesouth of England next year, why not spend some ofit teaching at the Queen’s University InternationalStudy Centre in East Sussex?How about study leave in a castle?This is located in Herstmonceaux Castle, a 15th century manor restored last century, locatedjust 100km south of London. The Study Centre offers courses which take advantage of thecastle’s location, principally in arts, business and business law, to Canadian and internationalstudents.Staff are largely sessional and positions are advertised in October each year. Faculty staff recruited abroad receive freeaccommodation and meals on site (family accommodation available), a salary of’£2,000 per course plus up to £500 per coursedepending on the quantity and integration of field study, and up to $1,500 Canadian per term for air travel from normal domicile.Commitments can be tailored to allow time for research as London and its resources are within easy reach.For further information see www.queensu.ca/isc/ or contact Dr Bruce Mackintosh at the International Centre (6488 1853).THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

12 UWAnewsTHElast wordThis year marks the tenth anniversary of theestablishment of the Leadership Developmentfor Women (LDW) program at this university.Cheryl E PraegerProfessor, School of Mathematics and StatisticsLeadership Development for WomenDuring this period LDW has established the benchmarknationally and internationally for in-house women’s leadershipprograms in higher education.It is the most comprehensive and long-standing cohortprogram nationally, embracing leadership and careerdevelopment, mentoring and peer learning. So far 330 womenhave participated in 12 programs (cohorts) and the 13 thprogram has just begun. A heavy demand for places means thatoften there are more than twice as many applicants as places.National recognition and influence of the LDW program isdemonstrated through the successful practitioners’ groupestablished for coordinators of such programs on the initiativeof the LDW Coordinator Jen de Vries. This group meets everytwo years. Internationally the program is highly regarded. Forexample, I recall the strong interest shown in our program’sstructure and achievements by a senior staff member, ProfessorHeisook Lee, of Ewha University in Seoul, Korea. EwhaUniversity was the first educational institution in Korea to begranted the status of a university. All of its students are women,but it had no similar staff leadership program.Let me relate some of the striking measurable indicators ofthe program’s success.10 years on• LDW participants, from both the academic and general staff,are almost three times more successful in gaining promotionthan men, and than women who have not participated in theprogram.• Within most staff groupings, retention rates have been atleast 10% higher for LDW participants.Moreover these statistics have remained consistent over theyears of the program.The LDW program has made a marked impact on universityculture. Indeed, the University of Western Australia Press has justpublished the book Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility inthe Changing University describing this culture change written by DrJoan Eveline of the UWA Business School with the assistance ofseveral other members of the LDW Planning Group.The LDW program has created awareness among both menand women, at all levels, of the need to create a more inclusiveand welcoming workplace for women. In addition there is agrowing understanding and recognition of different styles ofleadership, leadership that can be exercised at all levels withinthe university.Participation and support from the wider universitycommunity has been high, especially through the mentorcomponent of the program, with 168 mentors contributing,often more than once. Comments from both mentors andmentees typically refer to mutual learning and sharing, and tothe benefits of the mentor relationship running across differentareas of the university.LDW has brought together women from diverse backgrounds,from all staff categories and levels, and from all parts of the campus.In fact one of the recent changes was to open up the program towomen staff at all levels, and this resulted in an unprecedentedincrease in demand for places in the program.Through participation in the program friendships andnetworks have formed. Participants speak of the program as a“life-affirming experience”, giving them confidence to pursuethings that they may never have considered doing, or that theywould have found too daunting. Women sometimes strugglingin their own workplaces have worked out how they can maketheir contribution at UWA; they found that the positive LDWexperience helped “improve [their] sense of place at UWA”.Working together, all involved in the LDW program havecreated a climate of support and encouragement for womenthat now stretches across the campus, and enables womento“capitalise on their talents”.Please join with me in celebrating the tenth anniversary yearof this exceptional women’s leadership program.Cheryl Praeger is Professor of Mathematics. She joined the PlanningGroup for LDW in 1996 when Professor Lyn Abbott stepped downfrom her pivotal role in establishing the Program. She has been Chairof the Planning Group since 2000.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 9 AUGUST 2004

infoUWAnewsResearchGrants&ContractsALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ONSCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION(NARSAD)Dr Sibylle Schwab, UWA Centre for MedicalResearch: ‘Investigation of Dysbindin, aCandidate Gene for Schizophrenia inChromosome’—$156,000 (2004–05)AUSINDUSTRYProf Kevin Fynn, Prof Antonio Cantoni,Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering:‘Technology Diffusion Grant’—$444,700 (2004)AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUEDr Peter Eastwood, D R Dawson, Anatomyand Human Biology: ‘Sleep Quality and AthleticPerformance: the Effect of Interstate AirTravel’—$16,964 (2004)AUSTRALIAN GYNAECOLOGICALENDOSCOPY SOCIETY LTDDr Roger Hart, Ms Deborah Sloboda, ProfRaymond Garry, Women’s and Infants’Health: ‘Study to Determine the Origin of theEndometril Cells in Superficial Peritoneal andRecto-vaginal Endometriosis’—$30,000 (2004)AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL:DISCOVERY PROJECTSProf Michael Johnson, A/Prof WilliamBlack, Animal Biology: ‘Ocean Currents andGenetic Connectedness in a ComplexArchipelago’—$106,000 (2003–04)AINSE RESEARCH TRAININGDr Jasmine Henry, Electrical, Electronic andComputer Engineering:—‘SIMS Characterisationof Sputtred Hydrogenated Amorphous SiliconFilms Assured in PSDS’—$10,914 (2004)Prof Sidney Bradshaw, Animal Biology:‘Isotopic Measurement of Field Metabolic Ratesin Free-Ranging Honey Possums’—$14,125(2004)Ms Shari Forbes, Dr Ian Dadour, ProfGeorge Stewart, Life and Physical Sciences:‘Bomb Pulse (14C) Dating of AnthropologicalSkeletal Remains of Forensic Interest’—$11,685(2004)Prof Francis Mastaglia, Medicine andPharmacology: ‘B-CIT Study of Drug-InducedParkinsonism (DIP)’—$25,000 (2004)Mr David Reynolds, Water Research:‘Integration of Surface Water and GroundwaterProcess in Coastal Catchments’—$12,014(2004)AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCILLINKAGE GRANTDr Trevor Mori, Medicine and Pharmacology:‘Development and Nutritional Evaluation ofNovel Foods Based on a Unique Combination ofSoy and Dairy Products’—$100,000 (2004–06)CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENTCompiled byLIFT-OUTPublications Unitenquiries@publishing.uwa.edu.au9 August 2004 Volume 23 Number 11AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCILLINKAGE/FIRE AND EMERGENCYSERVICES AUSTRALIA (FESA)Prof John Cordery, Prof Michael Levine,A/Prof David Morrison, Economics andCommerce, Humanities, Psychology: ‘Integrity,Leadership and Behaviour in Organisations’—$225,000 (2004–06)AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCILVIA MURDOCHDr Gregory Acciaioli, Social and CulturalStudies: ‘Locating the Commonweal: Community,Environment and Local Governance Regimes inReform Era Indonesia’—$28,994 (2004)CANCER COUNCIL OF WAA/Prof Christobel Saunders, Surgery andPathology: ‘Improved Local Staging of EarlyBreast Cancer Using Magnetic ResonanceImaging MRI’—$48,515 (2002)CSIRODr Johanna Pluske, A/Prof MichaelBurton, Agricultural and Resource Economics,Natural and Agricultural Sciences: ‘Desalinationin Western Australian Rural Towns: anEconomic Perspective’—$82,320 (2004–06)Prof Craig Atkins, Plant Biology: ‘Quantifyingthe Effect of Hydrogen Gas on Soil Biota andCrop Performance’—$45,000 (2003–05)DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSAND TRADE: ACIARA/Prof Martin Barbetti, Plant Biology:'Brassica Improvement in China, India andAustralia’—$435,518 (2004-08)FLINDERS UNIVERSITY EXAUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCILDr Jane Balme, Social and Cultural Studies:‘Shared and Separate Histories Landscapes ofMemory in the Barunga Region Australia’—$106,332 (2004–06)GARNETT PASSE AND RODNEYWILLIAMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONProf Donald Robertson, Dr JenniferRodger, Biomedical and Chemical Sciences,UWA Centre for Medical Research: ‘Revealingthe Function of Inner Ear Proteins’—$268,970(2004–06)JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONALMiss Vanessa Bussau, Human Movement andExercise Science: ‘JDRF Travel GrantApplication’—$2000 (2004)MEAT AND LIVESTOCK AUSTRALIA(MLA)Prof Graeme Martin, Animal Biology:‘Lambmax Western Australia MS.022’—$130,914 (2004)Dr K Reed, Centre for Plant BasedManagement of Dryland Salinity: ‘PAST001-Perennial Grass Improvement for Low-MediumRainfall Recharge Environments’—$2,110,000(2004–08)MUSCULARDYSTROPHYASSOCIATION OF AMERICADr Stephen Wilton, Dr Susan Fletcher,Centre for Neuromuscular and NeurologicalDisorders: ‘Reducing the Severity of DMD byRedirected Pre-mRNA Splicing’—$462,112(2004–06)NANYANG TECHNOLOGICALUNIVERSITYDr Jason Antenucci, Mr Matthew Hipsey,Water Research: ‘Water Quality Monitoring,Modelling and Management for a Catchment/Reservoir System’—$40,000 (2004–06)NEUROTRAUMA RESEARCHPROGRAM (NRP)Dr Qi Cui, Prof Alan Harvey, Anatomy andHuman Biology: ‘Effect of Genetic Manipulationon the Regrowth and Re-innervation of InjuredAdult Central Nervous System Axons intoCentral Target Sites’—$53,000 (2004)Dr Jennifer Rodger, Prof Lyn Beazley, MsLois Balmer, A/Prof Sarah Dunlop, UWACentre for Medical Research, Animal Biology:‘Central Nerve Repair: Signals to FormFunctional Connections’—$59,237 (2004)Dr Giles Plant, Prof Alan Harvey, Mr MarcRuitenberg, Anatomy and Human Biology,UWA Centre for Medical Research: ‘GeneTherapy and Spinal Cord Contusive Injury’—$80,000 (2004)Dr Samantha Busfield, Dr Giles Plant, MrMarc Ruitenberg, UWA Centre for MedicalResearch, Anatomy and Human Biology:‘Analysis of Proteins Secreted by OEG: AComparison Study with Schwann Cells’—$32,000 (2004)A/Prof Sarah Dunlop, Prof Lyn Beazley,Dr Jennifer Rodger, Dr Giles Plant, MrMarc Ruitenberg, Animal Biology, UWACentre for Medical Research, Anatomy andHuman Biology: ‘Training-induced Recovery ofFunction after Neurotrauma’—$55,000 (2004)Ms Carolyn King, Prof Lyn Beazley, A/ProfSarah Dunlop, Animal Biology:‘Metallothionein IIA in Regeneration of the VisualSystem’—$59,000 (2004)NHMRCDr Stephen Stick, Dr Darryl Knight, Dr MA Kedda, Paediatrics and Child Health, Medicineand Pharmacology: ‘Developmental and CellularMechanisms Involved in the Pathological Changesto the Epithelium in Asthma’—$259,750 (2004–06)A/Prof Gary Hulse, Mr Mahesh Bulsara, DrDiane Arnold-Reed, Psychiatry and ClinicalNeurosciences, Population Health: ‘ARandomised Double Blind Placebo ControlledClinical Trial of Naltrexone Implants for theTreatment of Heroin Addiction’—$401,363(2004–05)NHMRC: EQUIPMENT GRANTSDr Giles Plant, A/Prof Sarah Dunlop, MrMarc Ruitenberg, Prof Alan Harvey,Anatomy and Human Biology, Animal Biology,UWA Centre for Medical Research: ‘GeneTherapy Centre Equipment Application’—$54,238 (2004)For any queries about the research grants published in this issue contactthe Research Grants Office, ext. 3702.Continued on back page

CAMPUSDiary9 – 22 AugustMonday 9 AugustASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE–2004MEDICAL RESEARCH SEMINARSERIES‘Monitoring Receptor Demerisation andtrafficking’, Associate Professor Karin Eidne,Western Australian Institute of MedicalResearch. Lunch provided from 12pm.12.30pm, Joske Seminar Room, FourthFloor, G Block, SCGH.Tuesday 10 AugustSCHOOL OF ANATOMY ANDHUMAN BIOLOGY SEMINARSERIES‘Osseointegration and its uses in surgicalreconstruction’, Associate ProfessorRaymond Williamson, Head of the Oral andMaxillofacial Surgery Unit at Royal PerthHospital and the Oral Health Centre ofWestern Australia, School of Anatomy andHuman Biology. 1pm, Room 1.81, School ofAnatomy and Human Biology.Wednesday 11 AugustFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY TALK‘This is our amazing heritage’, MarionBalckwell, Environmental Scientist andLandscape Designer. Marion Blackwell willshow photographs and talk about Australiaas she knows it, illustrating the amazingheritage we have of landscape, vegetationand flora - with, of course, a slight biastowards the assets of this often forgottenwestern one-third of the continent. 5.30pm,Library Training Room, Ground Floor, ReidLibrary.Friday 13 AugustSCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL ANDCHEMICAL SCIENCES,MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Vaccine development for intestinalspirochaetes’, Professor David Hampson,Veterinary and Biomedical Science,Murdoch University. 9am, Seminar Room1.1, First Floor, L Block, QEII MedicalCentre. ‘Computer-Aided Design of NovelAnti-Diabetic Agents: Modelling the Insulin/Receptor Complex’, Associate ProfessorHelmerhorst is Director of EndocrineMimetics and Associate Director of theWestern Australian Biomedical ResearchInstitute (WABRI), a Centre of Excellencefunded by Curtin and Murdoch Universities,and the Western Australian Government.1pm, Simmonds Lecture Theatre.Tuesday 17 AugustSCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGYLECTURE‘The cost of clinical assessment: Aphasiatesting undressed’, Kathryn Hird, CurtinUniversity. 11am, Room 2.33, PsychologyNorth Block.SCHOOL OF HUMANITIESHISTORY DISCIPLINE GROUPSEMINARS‘Writing Catholicism for Oxford UniversityPress’, Professor Gerald O’Collins SJ,Gregorian University, Rome. 4.30pm, Room1.1.3 (First Floor Tearoom), Arts Building.Wednesday 18 August–Thursday 19 AugustCLIMA SPECIAL SEMINAR‘Glycine collection and its molecularsystematics and polyploid evolution’ and‘Core collection and sampling of plantgenetic resources’, Dr Tony Brown,CSIRO. 4pm CLIMA Seminar Room.Friday 20 AugustSCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL ANDCHEMICAL SCIENCES,MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Molecular mechanism of the response tohypo-osmotic shock in bacteria’, AssociateProfessor Boris Martinac, School ofMedicine and Pharmacology. 9am, SeminarRoom 1.1, First Floor, L Block, QEIIMedical Centre.LAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY PUBLIC PROGRAM‘Keeping Faith: Western Australian Writersof the 1930s’, Dr Vernoica Brady, HonorarySenior Research Fellow, Department ofEnglish. A free guided tour of theApproaches to Modernism exhibition will beheld at 12pm prior to the talk. 1pm,Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.CLIMA SEMINAR’Use of pasture legume compounds inmedicine’, Dr Peter Leedman, UWA;‘Investigation into legumes withpharmaceutical and aquaculture potential’,Dr Shao Fang Wang, CCWA. 4pm, CLIMASeminar Room.UPCOMING EVENTSMonday 23 AugustASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE–2004MEDICAL RESEARCH SEMINARSERIES‘Health effects of natural dust: the role oftrace elements and compounds’, ProfessorPhil Weinstein and Dr Angus Cook, Schoolof Population Health. Lunch provided from12pm. 12.30pm, Joske Seminar Room,Fourth Floor, G Block, SCGH.Tuesday 24 AugustSCHOOL OF ANATOMY ANDHUMAN BIOLOGY SEMINARSERIES‘The fate of antigens after injection into theanterior chamber of the eye’, Dr SergeCamelo, Research Fellow, School ofAnatomy and Human Biology. 1pm, Room1.81, School of Anatomy and HumanBiology.Sunday 29 AugustESSAYCOMPETITIONoffers two-week trip to BritainAustralian and British international co-operation isthe focus of a new essay competition launched today,which offers younger Australians the chance to win atwo-week expenses paid visit to the United Kingdom.Our Shared Future: the UK-Australia Essay Competition isopen to Australians aged between 18 and 30.Applicants must submit a 2,000 to 2,500 word essayonone of the following themes:■■UWA EXPO 2004This exciting event combines informativecourse information sessions with handsondisplays, music, community events andcampus tours. Visitors will haveopportunity to chat to UWA staff andstudents, view exhibits anddemonstrations, attend talks on courses,enjoy concerts, grab a bite to eat, strollthrough the beautiful UWA grounds orsee them by tram or from a helicopter.9am to 4pm, UWA Crawley campus.The UK and Australia co-operating internationallyto achieve an international system based on therule of law, which is better able to resolvedisputes and prevent conflictsThe UK and Australia co-operating internationallyto achieve an open and expanding globaleconomy■ The UK and Australia co-operating internationallyto achieve sustainable development, underpinnedby democracy, good governance and humanrightsAll entries must be submitted online by 28 August2004 through the Our Shared Future competitionlogo at http://bhc.britaus.net/osf Full competitiondetails, including terms and conditions, are available atthe site.The competition is offered by the British HighCommission, with the support of the British CouncilAustralia.The competition will further promote the excellentrelationship between Australia and the UnitedKingdom, and builds on the success of the 2003 Essaycompetition.The writer of the winning essay will receive a firstprize of a return airfare to the UK, two weeksaccommodation and some expenses.Four shortlisted entrants will be flown to Canberrafor an award ceremony on Thursday 28 October2004 at which the winning essay will be announced. Itis a condition of entry that applicants agree to attendthe ceremony if shortlisted.MEDIA CONTACT: Phone 02 6270 6658 or 02 62706660POST: British High Commission, CommonwealthAvenue, Yarralumla, ACT 2600EMAIL: Information.Section@uk.emb.gov.au WEB:http://www.britaus.net

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Research Grants & ContractsContinued from front pageNHMRC: EQUIPMENT GRANTSProf Patrick Holt, Dr Peter Mcminn, ProfWayne Thomas, Prof Peter Sly, Paediatricsand Child Health: ‘PSBD Sterilizer (NHMRCEquipment Grant)’—$37,509 (2004)Prof Wayne Thomas, Prof Peter Sly, ProfUrsula Kees, Prof Patrick Holt, Paediatricsand Child Health: ‘NHMRC Equipment Grant: L-90K Centrifuge’—$121,500 (2004)Prof Brendan Waddell, Prof Alan Harvey,Prof Paul Mcmenamin, Dr Giles Plant,Anatomy and Human Biology, Medicine andDentistry: ‘Upgrade of Live Cell Imaging Suite’—$31,250 (2004)Dr Daniel Green, A/Prof TimothyAckland, Prof Brendan Waddell, HumanMovement and Exercise Science, Anatomy andHuman Biology: ‘Dual Energy X-rayAbsorptiometry (DEXA) Machine’—$70,000(2004)Dr David Lloyd, Mr Peter Mills, HumanMovement and Exercise Science: ‘MagneticResonance Processing Workstation andSoftware’—$22,080 (2004)NHMRC: EQUIPMENT GRANTSProf Paul Mcmenamin, Medicine andDentistry: ‘State of the Art Leica CM30505Motorised Cryostat for the Dedicated FrozenSectioning of Fresh Human Tissues as well asGenetically Modified and Viral VectorContaining Animal Tissues’—$43,747 (2004)QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OFPRIMARY INDUSTRIES, ANIMALFOR SALEASTRA City 97 1.6ltr 5-door hatchback, metallicblue, 5-speed manual, air con, remote c/lock,immob, FSH, lic til July, 109,000kms and in goodcond, $8500 ono. 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We would like to rent accommodationfor approximately 6 months. Requirements are 3bedrooms and reasonable proximity to UWA.Contact Andy Fourie at andy@civil.wits.ac.zaClassified advertising is freeto all university staffTo place your advertisement please emailenquiries@publishing.uwa.edu.auRedundant Equipment for SaleITEM PRICE AGE(YRS) COND. 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Receipts should be PeopleSoft account coded490 (computing with barcode), 491 (non-computing with barcode) or 493 (items with no barcode). If equipment has an existing barcode please contactextension 3618/2546 for details.CONDITION refers to the general condition of item ( 1 = as new; 2 = good; 3 = serviceable; 4 = unserviceable). AGE refers to the nearest year.