2011

September

A Busy September for UTS: APCCRPR conference presentations
7 Sep, 2011
This week DAB Honorary Associate and member of the UTS:APCCRPR Ulai Baya is presenting collaborative research undertaken with Professor Spike Boydell at the Mama Graon – Vanuatu Land Program - Workshop on Customary Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu, 4-8 September.

August

Spike Boydell on Radio Australia's Pacific Beat
25 Aug, 2011
On 24 August, Spike Boydell was a guest on Radio Australia's Pacific Beat discussing his views that landowners will need proper legal representation and guidance if Papua New Guinea introduce proposed changes to the country's mining laws.

Heather McDonald’s Book 'Urban Policy and the Census' published
24 Aug, 2011
Edited by Heather McDonald and Alan Peters, Urban Policy and the Census helps researchers and policy analysts gain an integrated understanding of census data and other relevant policy data sources, their strengths and limitations, and how best to use this data in policy research.

July

Land Resource Symposium Marries Theory with Practice
15 Jul, 2011
Australian and Melanesian senior land professionals recently joined with academics at the University of Technology, Sydney to address equitable land resource compensation.

SBE Achieves a Double Strike with Doctors of Project Management
10 Jul, 2011
Two Doctor of Project Management (DPM) scholars have completed their research successfully to graduate in 2011. They are our first DPM graduates from the program. Their success will enable SBE to extend the Project Management Institute's (PMI) accreditation of the Master of Project Management program to the Doctor of Project Management Program.

UTS: Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights hosts Land Resource Compensation Symposium
13 Jul, 2011
On the 11-12 July 2011, thirty leading thinkers and practitioners on property rights came together for 'Land Resource Compensation: a Pacific Regional Symposium' hosted by the UTS: Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights in association with the International Academic Association for Planning, Law and Property Rights.

May

Shankar Sankaran and Debu Mukerjee to Present at 'West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, and Transcending' Conference in San Antonio
5 May, 2011
In August, Debu Mukerjee and his PhD supervisor Shankar Sankaran will conduct a Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management Meeting being held at San Antonio, USA under the auspices of the Management Spirituality and Religion (MSR) Special Interest Group of the Academy.

April

Julie Jupp and Joanne Jakovich: Implementing ‘Think. Change. Do.’
18 Apr, 2011
On Friday 8 April, Julie Jupp and Joanne Jakovich presented the talk, Implementing 'Think. Change. Do.' at Bienalto House.

Spike Boydell: Is Crown Land Indigenous Land? 
8 Apr, 2011
Spike Boydell recently contributed to an op-ed piece titled Is Crown Land Indigenous Land? for New Matilda.

Professor John Sheehan Featured on SBS Dateline
3 Apr, 2011
Professor John Sheehan was recently featured on SBS Dateline in relation to a Negev Bedouin Mabo-style land claim.

February

UTS: Design, Architecture and Building Research Recognised as World Standard
14 Feb, 2011
Research by the Design, Architecture and Building Faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney has been rated as world standard in the recent Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) framework.

2010

November

Lizzie Muller and Julie Jupp win Early Career Researcher Grants
23 Nov, 2010
Congratulations to Lizzie Muller who has been awarded full funding for her project 'Curatorial innovation and digital media art' and to Julie Jupp who has been awarded a start-up grant for her project 'Network perspective of decision processes in complex construction projects'.

Steve Garfein's Masterclass for SBE
10 Nov, 2010
In October, the School of the Built Environment (SBE) invited Steve Garfein from the US to conduct a Masterclass on Strategic Portfolio Management for Senior Industry Managers.

October

Bryce Cassin To Publish New Book
26 Oct, 2010
Bryce Cassin is under contract to write the new title The Social Infrastructure of Project Management with Gower UK.

Industry Leaders Join UTS and RICS in Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings Focus Group
26 Oct, 2010
Major players in the institutional property sector recently participated in a UTS / RICS focus group aimed at identifying existing gaps in industry knowledge relating to the validation of development and investment decisions in energy efficient commercial buildings.

ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants
26 Oct, 2010
Congratulations to Heather Macdonald and Tom Barker for their ARC grant successes.

September

Transdisciplinarity and Action Research
28 Sep, 2010
At the Eighth World Action Research Congress organised by ALARA (Action Research and Action Learning Association of Australia) held in Melbourne from 6-9 September A/Prof. Shankar Sankaran and Dr. Alan Rayner, from the University of Bath facilitated a catalytic workshop titled 'How can we conduct action research to meet trans-disciplinary challenges?'.

New Professor Brings Digital Technologies in Construction Expertise to UTS
14 Sep, 2010
A leading expert in the development of new theories and models for construction project management, Professor Anil Sawhney joins the UTS School of Built Environment this semester.

Five new scholarships available for DAB PhD candidates
10 Sep, 2010
As part of its ambitious program of research expansion, UTS has created five special PhD scholarships for 2011 for candidiates undertaking research in DAB.

August

Trans-disciplinary Challenge Grant Project featured at ISSS 2010 in Canada
30 Aug, 2010
Presented a joint paper at a conference associated with the 54th International Society for the System Sciences 2010.

Master of Project Management program featured in Washington DC research conference
30 Aug, 2010
Master of Project Management program featured in Washington DC Project Management Education and Research Conference

June

Climate change facts, uncertainties and actions
7 Jun, 2010
On Tuesday 26 May 2010, Lord May of Oxford gave a public lecture at the UTS School of the Built Environment.

May

DAB gives a FIG
3 May, 2010
Last week saw some 2,200 valuers, planners, construction managers and surveyors descend on Sydney for the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG).

2009

December

Grant Won for Project Management
9 Dec, 2009
Dr Shankar Sankaran has recently received significant funding for the project Strengthening leadership capacity in Australia's rapidly changing aged and community care sector.

November

Spike Boydell Presents at SOAC 2009
23 Nov, 2009
Professor Spike Boydell will be in Perth next week for the biennial the State of Australian Cities conference (SOAC 2009).

Perry Forsythe Inducted Esteemed Fellow of API
23 Nov, 2009
Associate Professor Perry Forsythe was recently inducted as an esteemed Fellow of the Australian Property Institute.

Dr Shankar Sankaran Speaks at ROMAC Seminar
6 Nov, 2009
Dr. Shankar Sankaran will present a project management perspective of Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) at the organisation's breakfast seminar on 25 November.

Associate Professor Shankar Sankaran Works With Industry Networks

Associate Professor Shankar Sankaran has this month, been working with the Asia Pacific Mixed Methods Network (ARPMN).

September

Chivonne Watt Presents At PMOZ
2 Sep, 2009
UTS Project Management lecturuer Chivonne Watt presented the paper Learning How to Manage Projects: Exploring the Situational Context at a national project management conference “PMOZ” in Canberra last month.

Dr Peter Smith Awarded
2 Sep, 2009
UTS Built Environment's Dr. Peter Smith received the Australasian Innovation in Housing Research Award at the joint fourth Australasian Housing Researchers Conference & 7th Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research Conference held in August.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on 'Program Management' in The Journal of Project Program and Portfolio Management
2 Sep, 2009
The first issue of The Journal of Project, Program and Portfolio Management will be published in Mid 2010 as a special issue on the topic of 'Program Management', with guest editor Michel Thiry.

July

John Sheehan Speaks on Carbon
29 Jul, 2009
UTS Adjunct Professor John Sheehan, spoke in Albury last month at a seminar involving valuers, financial professionals and farm management personnel.

The Journal of Project, Program and Portfolio Management launches 2010
10 Jul, 2009
The first issue of The Journal of Project, Program and Portfolio Managementis to be published by UTS ePress in 2010.

UTS Investigates Metropolis Mix-Use Space
17 Jul, 2009
APCCRPR researchers Prof. Spike Boydell, Dr Glen Searle and Kate Fairlie are currently progressing fieldwork on the contemporary commons of Sydney’s Darling Harbour precinct.

UTS Advises on Native Title Laws
6 Jul, 2009
UTS adjunct professor John Sheehan travelled to Israel this month to advise Israel's Bedouin people on Australia's native title laws.

Spike Boydell Presents at the World Bank's 5th Urban Research Symposium
6 Jul, 2009
Professor Spike Boydell is currently a guest of the World Bank in Marseilles, presenting the findings of two UTS transdisciplinary research projects at the World Bank's 5th Urban Research Symposium.

Shankar Sankaran - Distinguished Fellow of New Action Research Centre
5 Jul, 2009
The Built Environment's A/Professor Shankar Sankaran has been invited to become a Distinguished Fellow of the University of Cincinnati's Action Research Centre.

Films For a Career in Architecture and Construction
2 Jul, 2009
The UTS Equity and Diversity Unit has funded a major project designed to encourage women to study and work in fields where they are statistically under-represented, including Architecture and Construction. The result is a suite of six short films, constructed from interviews with a range of prominent, interesting and articulate practitioners working in the Built Environment professions.

June

Shankar Sankaran - Distinguished Fellow of New Action Research Centre
26 Jun, 2009
The Built Environment's A/Professor Shankar Sankaran has been invited to become a Distinguished Fellow of the University of Cincinnati's Action Research Centre.

May

New UTS Research Venture Launched
11 May, 2009
The Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights (APCCRPR) was recently launched by Justice McClellan in the UTS Chancellory.

A Research Win for Professor Spike Boydell
11 May, 2009
Built Environment's Spike Boydell has won the Emerald Outstanding Paper Award for an APCCRPR collaboration with Radhika Murti of the International Conservation Union.

April

Project Management's Recent Successes
21 Apr, 2009
Dr Shankar Sankaran, Course Director of Master of Project Management has received a couple of honours from industry bodies this month.

March

Complex Real Property Rights research centre a first in the Southern Hemisphere
23 Mar, 2009
Carbon rights, customary land, urban planning, common property, the Republic, and even the sex industry will be under scrutiny by the University of Technology, Sydney's latest research venture. The Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights (APCCRPR), unique in the Southern Hemisphere for the way it embraces the challenge and diversity of contemporary property rights, will be opened by His Honour Justice Peter McClellan, Chief Judge at Common Law in the NSW Supreme Court, on 29 April 2009.

UTS to find a best practice model for the sex industry
6 Mar, 2009
When it comes to the sex industry, the term "best practice model" could have many interesting interpretations. However, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Technology, Sydney is commencing research into this in order to find best practice models for sex industry regulation.

February

Designing a 30 Year Public Transport Plan for Sydney
18 Feb, 2009
With Sydney's public transport systems currently under intense public and government scrutiny, Garry Glazebrook's report Designing a 30 Year Public Transport Plan for Sydney is a timely proposed long-term plan backed by the necessary financing and supportive policies.

January

New Head of the UTS School of the Built Environment has focus on industry and research
23 Jan, 2009
Leading the University of Technology, Sydney’s School of the Built Environment is Dr Perry Forsythe, who has joined the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building from the UNSW. In his new role as Head of the School of the Built Environment, Perry hopes to increase research capability and create areas of mutual interest for research.

March

Australia's First Project Management Researcher Forum
5 Mar, 2009
The University of Technology, Sydney's School of Built Environment has hosted the inaugural Australian Project Management Researcher Forum. The initiative was a collaboration between the University of Wollongong, The Australian Defence Force Academy which is part of the University of NSW and UTS.

UTS Planning at the World Congress of the Metropolis Association

Dr Glen Searle presented this October at the Sydney Olympic Park Authority Precincts Seminar.

2008

October

UTS Project Management Speaks at AIPM conference
29 Oct, 2008
Chivonne Watt presented a paper at the Australian Institute of Project Management National Conference, attended by over 500 delegates.

Project Management Awarded Research Funds
29 Oct, 2008
The Built Environment's Dr Shankar Sankaran and his Centre for Management and Organisational Studies colleagues have been awarded $420,000 over three years for the project: “Governance Matters: identifying and making sense of the antecedents to project-blow outs”.

Humanising project management practice and theory
13 Oct, 2008
New research has revealed the extent of the impact of complex human interaction on the effectiveness of project management practice. In his PhD thesis, Human Interaction in Project Management, Dr Mano Nugapitiya, recently graduated from the School of the Built Environment, explored the many social processes that take place concurrently with the technical process, and how these social processes come to influence a project outcome.

Citizenship and the sex industry
13 Oct, 2008
On Thursday 2 October, Prof Spike Boydell took part in a panel discussion at the 4Rs Conference on citizenship and the sex industry.

Planning education in a globalised world
13 Oct, 2008
The UTS Planning Program was a co-host (with USyd, UNSW and UWS) of the 2008 Australian and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) conference at the University of Sydney from 26-28 September.

September

School of Built Environment Represented at the National Conference of Action Learning and Action Research Association
4 Sep, 2008
Dr Shankar Sankran and Dr Dr. Elyssebeth Leigh from the School of Built Environment will act as provocateurs at a workshop in Canberra next week as part of the National Conference of Action Learning and Action Research Association of Australia.

Professor Spike Boydell Presents at Knowledge Sharing Workshop
1 Sep, 2008
Professor Spike Boydell presented Building Capacity Through Education and Training on behalf of the UTS Property Rights Research Group at the recent Knowledge Sharing Workshop organised by Land Equity International.

Chivonne Watt Presents at National Project Management Conference
1 Sep, 2008
The Built Environment's Chivonne Watt presented a paper at the national project management conference PMOZ 2008 in late August.

August

Dr Shankar Sankaran Speaks at UWM
5 Aug, 2008
Dr Shankar Sankaran presented a paper at the 52nd Annual meeting for the International Society for the System Science's, held at the University of Wisconsin Madison in mid-July.

A/Prof Angelo Karantonis Presents at the AUBEA Conference in Auckland
5 Aug, 2008
Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis has attended the AUBEA Conference in Auckland where he met with all the Heads of Construction and Construction Economic's courses throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Glen Searle Advises on Future Olympic Infrastructure in London
5 Aug, 2008
Dr Glen Searle has presented at the After the Event: Culture and Sport - Access and Legacies conference held in Manchester on 15-16 July.

Dr Grace Ding Speaks on Teaching in China
5 Aug, 2008
The School of the Built Environment's Dr Grace Ding, was invited by China's Ministry of Education, as a key note speaker at the bi-annual nationwide seminar in education development held in Tianjin between 15-18 July 2008.

2009

March

Dr Shankar Sankaran - Communications Director for (PMI)
5 Mar, 2009
Dr Shankar Sankaran has been elected Communications Director on the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Sydney Chapter Board.

2008

July

UTS Property Rights Research Group Back in the Pacific
18 Jul, 2008
The UTS Property Rights Research Group recently secured $30,000 AusAID International Seminar Support Scheme (ISSS) funding to co-facilitate the United Nations FAO / USP LMD Pacific Regional Seminar on Good Governance in Land Tenure and Administration in the Pacific Islands.

June

The School of Built Environment Staff Awarded by AIQS
17 Jun, 2008
Rick Best and Peter Smith from the School of Built Environment, have been awarded at the recent celebration for the Centenary of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS).

May

Dr Paul Luciani Awarded Doctor of Facility Management
27 May, 2008
The School of the Built Environment's Dr Paul Luciani was awarded his doctorate at this month's recent graduation ceremony.

Glen Searle Joins The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
27 May, 2008
Glen Searle has been appointed as a member of the Peer Review Panel in the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

UTS Prof. Spike Boydell Talks on Carbon Offsets
27 May, 2008
Carbon Property Rights were placed firmly on the agenda for property and legal practitioners at a packed Forum held at Corrs Chambers Westgarth lawyers on 19 May.

UTS School of Built Environment Chairs Annual Metropolitan and Design Summit
27 May, 2008

UTS Architecture and Construction Succeed in Equity and Diversity Grant Application
27 May, 2008
Naomi Stead recently lead a successful DAB team in applying for a UTS Gender Equity Grant for 2008.

April

John Sheehan is Appointed Adjunct Professor with the School of Built Environment
29 Apr, 2008
Professor Spike Boydell from the School of the Built Environment presented John Sheehan this month with his letter of appointment as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Technology Sydney.

Glen Searle Writes on Politics in Tourist Precint Development
11 Apr, 2008
Glen Searle has authored a chapter in recently published City Spaces - Tourist Places: Urban Tourism Precincts.

March

UTS Property Rights Research Group Attends International Academic Forum
28 Mar, 2008
John Sheehan recently represented the UTS Property Rights Research Group at the meeting of the International Academic Group on Planning, Law and Property Rights in Warsaw

Professor Spike Boydell Speaks on Property Rights with Carbon Offsets
28 Mar, 2008
The explosion of carbon offset schemes throughout Australia has raised alarm over the lack of regulation and the prospect for huge financial losses by investors seeking to compensate their carbon emissions through the purchase of carbon offsets.
Professor Spike Boydell will represent UTS' School of Built Environment as one of the five speakers in the forum Carbon Offsets & Trading Schemes: Challenges & Opportunities Forum to talk about how property rights in carbon might be achieved.

Dr Glen Searle Co-Authors Chapter on Sydney's Knowledge Sector Development
17 Mar, 2008
Dr Glen Searle has co-authored, with Associate Professor Bill Pritchard of the University of Sydney, a chapter in newly published US book Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era.

February

Built Environment Academics Present at Malaysian Conference
28 Feb, 2008

The Faculty's Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis, Dr Garrick Small, Dr David Higgins, Hera Antoniades and Vince Mangioni attended and presented at the 14th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference in Kuala Lumpur in January.

UTS are set to host the 15th PRRES conference in January 2009.

Is the IT Industry Holding Back Our Economy?
20 Feb, 2008
The health of the Australian economy is currently being jeopardised because the local IT industry has not achieved its full potential, a senior university academic has said. Dr Glen Searle, Course Director of Planning at the University of Technology, Sydney claims, with IT industry imports growing as a major contributor to the balance of payments deficit, all aspects of Australian industry are under threat.

2007

December

UTS Researchers Attend the State of Australian Cities Conference in Force
5 Dec, 2007
Eight UTS Researchers presented eight collaborative and individual research papers at the biennial State of Australian Cities Conference in Adelaide, 28-30 November 2007.

November

Dr Garrick Small published in social justice book
23 Nov, 2007
Dr Garrick Small has contributed to the book Life To The Full: Rights and Social Justice in Australia which contributes to the debate on social justice in our community. The book will be launched on 25 November 2007.

MOU signed with University of Wisconsin Plateville
15 Nov, 2007
UTS and the University of Wisconsin Plateville have this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

October

Placing commercial property in the Australian capital market.
31 Oct, 2007
David Higgins, Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, has written a new report “Placing commercial property in the Australian capital market”, which has been published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Dr Garrick Small wins API medal
2 Oct, 2007
Dr Garrick Small was awarded the SF Whittington Memorial Gold Medal

Built Environment academics secure AIQS commission
2 Oct, 2007
Peter Smith and Rick Best, from the School of the Built Environment, are to produce a teaching resource based on a 3D CAD model of a small building project

Gerard de Valence asked to write book chapter
2 Oct, 2007
Gerard de Valence, Course Director Postgraduate Property Development Courses, who has been asked to expand a conference paper into a chapter for a book to be published by Taylor & Francis in 2008, titled 'Developments in Procurement Systems'.

June

UTS challenge grant research project
12 Jun, 2007
A DAB research team which consists of Professor Spike Boydell, Peter Rickwood, Leena Thomas and Garry Glazebrook is involved in a collaborative research project titled 'Integrating Urban Models for Improved Decision Making'.

August

Residential property valuations need broader focus for investment purposes, says UTS Property Economics expert
2 Aug, 2007
New research from University of Technology, Sydney property economics expert Vince Mangioni reveals that property valuation advice may be failing investors, as the advice is asset focused, while valuers have a property focus. From a consumer perspective, valuers fail to link the specific attributes of a property to the specific investment objectives of the investor.

April

Property Tax - Risk Free Profit
26 Apr, 2007
Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis recently revealed that the three levels of Government receive over 60% of the total money generated by property development.

June

UTS academics win competitive research grant from RICS Education Trust
6 Jun, 2007
The Education Trust of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has awarded funding of $18,321 to three members of the UTS Property Rights Research Group (PRRG), Professor Spike Boydell, Dr Glen Searle and Dr Garrick Small, for their research "Defining Property Rights in the Contemporary Urban Commons: a case study of Darling Harbour, Sydney".

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