FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 9 – JULY 2015
Page 1
Welcome
Page 2 – 3
Did You Know?
Page 4 – 6
Current Projects
Page 7 – 8
CSS’15
Climate Change
Lecture
Page 9
International Visitors
Page 10
Recent Travel
Page 11
Predatory Publishing
Local Stories
Page 12
Ethics Dates
Page 13 - 15
Professional
Development
Page 16
WELCOME
In this issue of the Faculty of Business Research Newsletter you will read about some
new projects, such as work by Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko on
immigrants in the Agricultural sector, PhD student Sabih Rehman’s work on vehicular
wireless communication and the latest outcomes from the mining technology project.
I would like to draw particular attention to the Cyber Security Symposium and the public
symposium on Climate Change and Energy Efficiency run with the Bathurst Climate
Change Action Network (BCCAN). Both events were outstanding successes. As
academics, it is easy to attend or organise events that only involve other academics. It is
safe, and we all speak the same language. However, if we are to realise our goal of
making a real difference to and serving our communities we must engage with, involve
and serve our key stakeholders with the research that we do. At the Cyber Security
Symposium which was very well organised by Dr Rafiqul Islam there were key executives
from several different industry organisations, as well from government, most of whom
gave keynote addresses about future research needs and directions. Another keynote
was from a significant senior academic, a recognised leader in this field, from Deakin
University. There was time at the symposium not just for presentations from our
academics, industry and government but also about opportunities for joint research. This
sort of engagement is in my view a sign of a healthily developing research area, and
should be the norm, and should happen regularly.
I was also very pleased by the BCCAN symposium. It was attended by representatives
from BCCAN, Bathurst Regional Council and a Bega-based not for profit that focuses on
energy efficiency, representatives from CSU Green and academic staff from various
faculties. A substantial body of research has been completed by the Faculty in the area
of climate change and energy efficiency, and more is planned for the future. It was
pleasing to hear the work has helped to inform government policy and industry practice,
and also to see work happening in many different areas (e.g. households, agriculture)
and in various parts of the world (e.g. Nepal).
I hope that you enjoy reading this
newsletter and my thanks as always to
Deborah Munns for putting together such
interesting
and
well
designed
newsletters.
Professor Mark Morrison
Sub-Dean Research
Research Find-a
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Publications
Next Issue: The next issue will be published in October 2015. To contribute or suggest a
story, please email Deborah Munns of the Faculty of Business Research Office at
[email protected]
DID YOU KNOW?
2015 Australian Competitive Grants Register (ACGR)
The ACGR lists schemes
that
provide
competive
research grants to higher
education providers (HEPs).
The
ACGR
lists
the
Category 1 grants for each
year. All funding schemes
are notionally listed on the ACGR for 5 years, unless
they come to an end before that date.
There are ten schemes new to the list in 2015. These
include the Sweeter Citrus Program through
Horticulture Innovation Australia and Dementia Team
Research Grants through the National Health and
Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
New National Science and Research Priorities
The Commonwealth
Government has recently
announced new national
Science and Research
Priorities. The nine
cross-disciplinary
priorities are food, soil
and water, transport,
cybersecurity, energy, resources, advanced
manufacturing, environmental change and health.
representatives. The priorities will guide the provision
of funding and increase investment in areas identified
as being critically important to Australia.
For more information about the priorities please refer
to:
http://www.science.gov.au/scienceGov/ScienceAndRe
searchPriorities/Pages/ThePriorities.aspx
The priorities were developed in consultation with
researchers, industry leaders and government
Learn All About Research - Professional Development
CSU’s
Research
Office
coordinates a variety of online
training
opportunities
throughout the year covering a
wide range of research related
topics.
Programs are tailored to all
members of the research
community, whether students, academic staff or
support staff. Programs are delivered by experts in the
field including staff from the library and SPAN.
Courses are free of charge and cover topics including
NVivo and Endnote software, Australian Bureau of
Statistics (ABS) data, planning surveys and
questionnaires and bibliometrics.
A new course is My Research Career covering topics
such as the academic track records, the publication
process and grant writing.
For
more
information
please
refer
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/professionaldevelopment/program-calendar
to:
CSU Fleet Changes for 2015
Need a CSU vehicle for your research? Make sure you
are aware of some of the recent changes in CSU fleet
arrangements. The 2015 Fleet Charges have been
updated, with the charge per kilometre rising by
roughly one cent per kilometre over the 2014 charges.
http://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/118
Staff members on the Bathurst campus now require
their staff card to be activated (hotspotted) to access
the new ‘folder cupboard’, which contains the vehicle
folders including the keys and fuel card. Valid staff
cards are also required for out-of-hours (early morning
and evening) access to the fleet compounds on the
Bathurst and Albury campuses.
The policy on CSU vehicle usage was also updated in
March.
Australian Research Council – Keep Updated
The ARC releases an electronic newsletter,
ARCHway, on a bi-monthly basis. ARCHway provides
an overview of ARC activities, events and funding
announcements. The newsletter is a great way to
remain up-to-date with the ARC funded research and
funding rounds. Electronic subscriptions to the
newsletter are available via the ARC website.
The ARC has announced they will launch a new
website in July which aims to be ‘a more accessible,
user-friendly and informative resource’. If you are
interested in applying for ARC funding keep your eyes
open for upcoming announcements about the website.
http://www.arc.gov.au/ARChway_forms/subscribe.htm
Remember the Oncosts – Employment Cost Calculator
When you are
calculating the
costs of an
employee, such as
a research officer
or administrative
assistant, for your
next research
project it is important to remember to include the salary
oncosts in your budget. Oncosts are the additional
costs incurred in employing someone. Oncosts
include workers compensation, payroll tax and
superannuation and are added to the hourly pay rate.
The Division of Finance has constructed a handy
employment cost calculator that can help with
calculating salary rates and the associated oncosts.
https://www.csu.edu.au/division/hr/salary-andconditions/salary-allowances
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Immigrants and the Agricultural Sector
Associate Professor Branka Krivopkapic-Skoko, of the
School of Management and Marketing, has been busy
over the past 18 months working on a project
investigating immigrants working in the Australian
agricultural sector. The project is funded by the Rural
Industries Research and Development Corporation
(RIRDC).
Branka, along with her research partner, Professor
Jock Collins of the University of Technology Sydney,
has been busy interviewing immigrant farmers and
permanent and temporary immigrant farm labourers.
The project aims to investigate the experiences of
these different groups of migrant workers.
Professor Jock Collins with Nicky, a rose grower who migrated from
Zimbabwe.
In 2013 the team conducted in-depth interviews with
African, Asian and Middle Eastern migrant producers
across a range of agricultural industry sectors.
Interviews were completed in New South Wales,
Victoria and Western Australia.
During 2014, the team completed stage two of the
project by interviewing South Korean working holiday
makers (WHMs). Temporary immigrant workers are
an increasingly important source of seasonal
agricultural labour on farms where labour is not
required on a year round basis. The team conducted
20 in-depth interviews with Korean WHMs to
determine the experiences that these workers have
had while they have been working in Australia.
Keshav, a Nepalese immigrant who now works as a tomato growerr in
Armidale, NSW.
The third and current stage of the project is
investigating temporary workers who are part of the
Pacific Island Seasonal Worker Programme. In-depth
interviews have been conducted during early 2015.
The results from these interviews are currently being
transcribed and analysed.
The results of the interviews, combined with statistical
data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, will lead
to a better understanding of the ways in which
immigrants contribute to productivity, sustainability,
preserving resources and rural renewal in Australia.
The team intends to make recommendations to
improve the attraction and retention of immigrant
agricultural workers, both permanent and temporary.
The preliminary findings show that migrant labour is an
integral part of Australia’s agricultural sector.
A Liberian farm worker at Mamre House, Sydney, NSW.
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The Way of the Future - Vehicular Wireless Communication
Sabih Rehman, a PhD candidate from the School of
Computing and Mathematics in Wagga, is currently in
the final stages of completing his thesis. Sabih’s
research is in the emerging field of Vehicular Wireless
Communication.
Building on his previous qualifications in
communication engineering from the University of
South Australia and his related industry experience,
Sabih’s research focuses on developing an effective
information delivery system for vehicular networks in
order to improve vehicle safety and post-accident
response times.
There has been a global push to reduce the high
number of casualties through road traffic accidents.
The field of vehicular communication research focuses
on developing new effective communication strategies
that will pave the way for further innovations in traffic
engineering such as Intelligent Transport Systems
(ITS). For instance, vehicular communication
networks can increase safety by sending warnings to
other nearby vehicles when it is changing lanes or
entering an intersection.
Sabih commented that one of the biggest highlights for
him during his PhD “has been given the opportunity to
be able to share his ideas with researchers from all
over the world”. Sabih especially feels privileged to
have been able to present his research and attend the
th
20 IEEE International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Systems (ICPADS) in Taiwan last year.
Sabih states, “One of the main highlights of my visit
was not only to network with researchers from other
universities, but the chance to visit the Industrial
Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan, which
holds the patent for hardware equipment utilised in
vehicular communication”. Sabih also received
encouraging feedback on his research from wellknown and respected researchers in this field.
More recently, Sabih attended a symposium on
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) held in Melbourne
during May. At the symposium he had a chance to
interact with researchers and industry professionals,
who work in this field and was also able to closely
inspect new software and hardware utilised in
vehicular communication. He is now looking forward
to attending the 23rd ITS World Congress in
Melbourne to be held in 2016.
Sabih at the ITS2015 Symposium in Melbourne.
Throughout his candidature, Sabih has considered
himself to have been lucky to have had the utmost
support from his supervisory team that includes
Associate Professor Tanveer Zia, Dr Arif Khan and Dr
Lihong Zheng.
For more information on Sabih’s research, please
contact Sabih via [email protected]
Sabih at the IEEE Conference in Taiwan.
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*J. Provost, "The Future We Deserve," IEEE Spectrum vol. 51, no. 6, p. 54, 2014.
Mining Technology (MMT3) Project Leads to Additional Opportunities
In early June 2015, Dr Wayne Moore, from the CSU
Mining Research Laboratory, travelled to a Mass
Mining Technology meeting in Johannesburg, South
Africa. At the meeting, Dr Moore presented the results
of the work being undertaken by the CSU Mining
Research Laboratory on a boulder detection system
using ground penetrating radar.
size of large cars. The boulders have the potential to
block the draw bell above the extraction points, and
early detection improves mine efficiency by allowing
ore extraction scheduling to be amended in
preparation for the blockage.
During September and October 2014, a 16m X 16m
radar testing facility was constructed on the Bathurst
campus (see photographs) and several months of
testing took place by the members of the team at the
facility and in the laboratory. These experiments will
allow development of a new radar system to image
rocks underground.
As a result of Dr Moore’s presentation and the
research work performed by the members of the CSU
Mining Research Laboratory, one of the consortium
partners (which consists of some of the largest
international mining and services companies) has
invited the CSU Mining Research Laboratory to submit
a proposal to continue funding the research.
Additionally, the research undertaken by Dr Allen
Benter is being considered for further commercial
development by one of the consortium partners.
The aim of the new system will be to penetrate through
20 metres of rock to detect large boulders that are the
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CSS’15 - CYBER SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
rd
The 3 Cyber Security Symposium (CSS) recently
took place in Wagga Wagga on 10 – 11 June at the
International Hotel. The symposium was hosted by the
Faculty’s Cyber Security Research Group.
The symposium was very timely given the recent
launch of the Commonwealth Government’s Australian
Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the listing of cyber
security research as a national research priority.
This year the symposium focused on all aspects of
techniques and applications linked to ICT security
research. All group members were invited to present
at the event, with 16 presentations being selected for
the two day event. The presentations covered a wide
range of ICT security areas including cloud security,
data protection, malware, network security and IOT
security.
Professor Jemal H. Abawajy of Deakin University
An industry focused presentation was made by Dr
Steve Versteeg, Vice-President of CA Labs, who
talked about the emerging trends in risk adaptive
techniques that mean that businesses need to be
constantly ahead of the game in terms of their security
perimeters.
Additionally, Magda Gibbons, Assistant Director of the
Australian Cyber Security Centre, Canberra gave
participants an introduction to the ACSC which was
established in November 2014.
The centre will
coordinate
the
Commonwealth
Government’s
response to serious cyber security incidents.
Participants at a technical session.
Additionally, presentations were made by seven
keynote speakers from academia, industry and
government.
These
presentations
provided
participants with insights into the current research
needs of business and government agencies.
One such presentation was made by Professor Jemal
H Abawajy from Deakin University, who presented on
the topic of ‘Privacy Preserving Approaches for Social
Network Data Publication’. Privacy in online social
networks is a key research area given the enormous
growth in social networks among individuals and
businesses. Prof. Abawajy is considered to be a
research leader in the field of cyber-security and is in
demand as a keynote speaker at conferences
throughout the world, the group was privileged that he
was able to find time in his busy schedule to attend the
symposium.
Ms Magda Gibbons of ACSC with A/Prof Irfan Altas.
If you would like to obtain a copy of the program
booklet for CSS’2015 please contact Dr Rafiqul Islam,
Leader,
Cyber
Security
Research
Group
[email protected]
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A group of participants at the CSS’15 Symposium, Wagga Wagga.
PUBLIC LECTURE - RESEARCH AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE
In early May, the Faculty of Business and the Bathurst
Community Climate Action Network (BCCAN) hosted a
public seminar about research into climate change and
energy efficiency. The seminar was also video linked
to the Wagga, Orange and Albury campuses.
Over the last decade, researchers from the Faculty of
Business have been conducting research into various
climate issues including community attitudes and
behaviour towards climate change, household energy
efficiency and farm adaptation to climate change.
Presentations were made by Professor Mark Morrison,
Dr Rod Duncan, Professor Kevin Parton, Dr Felicity
Small , Dr Jodie Kleinschafer and Samir Thapa on
their past research and the future directions of
research in their field of interest.
Professor Kevin Parton
The seminar attracted a good mix of university and
council staff and local community members. There
was a considerable amount of audience interaction
with questions and discussions about various aspects
of climate change research. There was particular
interest in energy usage and changes in political
direction.
The next step is to explore possible projects that can
involve the researchers, the BCCAN group and the
broader community.
Professor Mark Morrison
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ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS – INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
Dr Rosalind Bark
Dr Rosalind Bark is an
environmental economist
who was until recently a
Senior Research Scientist
with the CSIRO. She spent
the first two weeks of June at
CSU’s Bathurst campus
working closely with
Professor Mark Morrison.
Rosalind’s main research
interest is the valuation of water-dependent
ecosystems. In her four years with the CSIRO
Rosalind worked on the large interdisciplinary project
‘Assessment of the ecological and economic benefits
of environmental water in the Murray-Darling Basin’
that was conducted for the Murray-Darling Basin
Authority. It was during this project that Rosalind
worked with Mark Morrison and Rod Duncan.
Previously, Rosalind was based at the University of
Arizona, USA where she researched the cultural and
non-market values of water dependent eco-systems.
Her work focused on the Colorado River, particularly in
metropolitan areas along the river.
During her recent visit to Bathurst, Rosalind worked
closely with Mark Morrison and PhD student, Buyani
Thomy. Buyani is currently researching non-market
values of urban communities for improved riverine
health, focusing on the Cooks and Georges rivers in
Sydney. Both Rosalind and Buyani utilise hedonic
pricing systems to estimate economic values for water
dependent ecosystems.
Marie Curie Fellowship
In July, Rosalind starts a 2 year Marie SkłodowskaCurie Research Fellowship at the University of Leeds
where she will be researching factors that influence
investment in natural capital-based flood adaptation
measures on four English rivers.
The Marie Curie Fellowship is a highly competitive
funding scheme and requires strong support from a
host university in Europe. In Rosalind’s case the
journey began in May 2014 after a visit to the
University of Leeds in regards to a potential job. The
selection panel suggested that Rosalind complete a
Marie Curie application as an alternative to the job.
The Marie Curie Fellowship will ensure that Rosalind
receives an adequate income while she concentrates
solely on her research interests. Additionally, it
provides the opportunity to undertake some travel to
other European universities.
Professors George Parsons and Kevin Boyle
Professor George Parsons from Delaware University
and Professor Kevin Boyle from Virginia Tech, in the
USA, have visited CSU on several occasions to
provide advice on environmental economic projects
utilising non-market valuation methods.
Kevin will be visiting CSU again in August 2015, and
George will be visiting in early 2016.
The pair has worked on numerous projects in
Australia, including the project valuing river health in
Sydney and previous work on the Murray River. They
have several publications in press which have been
co-authored with CSU colleagues.
The pair also demonstrate that environmental
economic methods can be applied to different
locations. George is currently measuring the impact of
offshore wind projects on beach usage and tourism.
Kevin is currently working on the impact of forest pests
on property values.
Kevin Boyle (left) with
George Parsons in
Sydney, 2014
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RECENT TRAVEL
Manoranjan Paul - ICASSP Conference
Dr Manoranjan Paul, of the School of Computing and
th
Mathematics, recently attended the 40 International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing (ICASSP) which was held in Brisbane, 19
– 25 April. The conference was hosted by the IEEE
Signal Processing Society.
global publisher, about authoring a book on the
subject.
Manoranjan also chaired a session on 3D Processing
and attended an Editorial Board Meeting for Eurasip
Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, for which
he is an Associate Editor.
Manoranjan with his conference poster at ICASSP 2015
I CASSP is the world’s largest and most
comprehensive technical conference focused on signal
processing and its applications. The conference
featured world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and
over 120 lecture and poster sessions. The conference
featured five globally renowned plenary speakers.
Manoranjan presented a paper on ‘Efficient Coding
Strategy for HEVC Performance Improvement by
Exploiting Motion Features’. The paper was extremely
well received and led to a discussion with Wiley, a
Manoranjan (far left) at the Eursip editorial board meeting.
Additionally, while he was in Queensland, Manoranjan
travelled to Toowoomba where he presented a
seminar at the University of Southern Queensland
(USQ). During his visit to USQ he also met with
Professor Raj Gururajan (USQ), Professor Sanjoy Paul
(UQ), Dr Subrata Chakraborty (USQ) and Steve Rees
(National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (USQ)
about potential collaboration on a research project.
Congratulations: Successful Research Infrastructure Block Grant
Congratulations to the team of Dr Manoranjan Paul, Professor Junbin Gao, Dr
Michael Antolovich and Professor Terry Bossomaier who were successful in
obtaining funding through the 2015 RIBG funding round. The funding will be used
to purchase a hyperspectral camera which is suitable for capturing the different
wavelength information of various objects. The camera will be located in the
Computer Vision Lab, on the Bathurst Campus, which is currently used by six
academics and their research students for imaging, mining and robotics research.
Photo courtesy abc.net.au
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PREDATORY PUBLISHING – DO NOT BE CAUGHT OUT
criteria to determine if a publisher or journal is
predatory. For instance a predatory publisher may
identify the publisher’s owner as the editor of each and
every journal published by the organisation or
republish papers already published in other venues.
The following link lists the full criteria used by Jeff
when classifying a journal or publisher.
https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria
-2015.pdf
Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the Auraria Library,
University of Colorado, Denver releases an annual list
of predatory publishers and stand alone journals. This
year, 2015, marks the fifth annual release of the list
and now includes 693 publishers; an increase of 241
from 2014.
In 2014 two new lists tracking questionable practices
related to open-access journals were added to the
website Misleading Metrics and Hijacked Journals.
If you decide to publish in an open access journal, it is
worth taking the time to evaluate the credibility of both
the publisher and the journal. On his website, Jeff
Beall urges academics to resist the temptation to
publish quickly and easily.
http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/01/02/bealls-list-ofpredatory-publishers-2015/
For more information read the article published in
Nature (2012) Volume 489, Issue 7415:
Jeff started the list when he noticed an increase in fake
scholarly open access journals. Jeff uses a number of
http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-arecorrupting-open-access-1.11385
GETTING THE WORD OUT ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH
Until recently the majority
of academics had only
communicated their
research findings to
other academics via
journals, scholarly books
and at academic
conferences.
Researchers at CSU,
and other universities,
are now being strongly encouraged to build closer
connections with their broader communities.
But, how do you make non-academic audiences aware
of your research? Your local media, radio, television
and local papers, are important channels in
communicating your research to the regional
communities within CSU’s footprint. But, how do you
communicate to a non-academic audience without
sacrificing research rigour?
CSU has a media section with staff on each campus
who are experts in ensuring complex issues are
expressed as accessible messages for the broader
community. The media team know how to write in
non-jargonistic language while still conveying the
accurate findings of your research.
The media team also have contacts with various media
outlets, both locally and nationally. They can ensure
that your story reaches the right audience.
Contact Bruce, Hannah, Fiona and Emily of CSU
Media at [email protected]
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BFHREC MEETING DATES AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
2015 BFHREC Meeting and Submission Closing Dates Note: Submissions must be received by 5.00 pm on the date
of closing.
Business Faculty Human Research Ethics Committee
Meeting Dates for 2015
Submission Deadline/Agenda Closes
Meeting Date
Meeting Time
Venue
Thursday 25 June
Thursday 9 July
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 30 July
Thursday 13 August
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 27 August
Thursday 10 September
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 24 September
Thursday 8 October
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 29 October
Thursday 12 November
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 26 November
Thursday 10 December
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Face-to-face location
tba
Congratulations: Conference Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr Abhishek Dwivedi, who along with his co-authors Lester
Johnson of Swinburne (previously CSU) and Bob McDonald of Texas Tech
University, recently received the award for Second Best Paper at the 4th
International Consumer Brand Relationship Conference that was held in Porto,
Portugal from May 21 – 23. The paper, ‘Examining the effects of celebrity
endorsements on brand equity and self-brand connection ‘was presented as
part of a session on Celebrities and Brand Relationships.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty of Business lunch time seminar series
The lunch time seminar series continue into the second half of 2015. A range of internal and
external guest speakers are scheduled for, please check the Faculty of Business webpage
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/faculty-research/activities/seminar-series for up-to-date
information.
Business Seminar Series usually run from 1pm – 2pm on a Wednesday in the School
Meeting Rooms on each campus (1411 - 431 in Bathurst, 764-205 in Thurgoona and 28214 in Wagga). A light lunch is provided starting at 12:30pm on each campus.
Date
Presenter
Topic
1 July
Associate Professor
Rumintha
Wickramasekara
Understanding longevity and market success of
Queensland University
Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs): living
of Technology
rd
beyond the 3 generation.
Associate Professor
Nitika Garg
TBA
University of NSW
Associate Professor
Carmel Herrinton
TBA
Macquarie University
Graduate School of
Management
Dr Sophia Dunn
TBA
CSU
24 July
(note Friday)
31 July
(note Friday)
University
th
16
September
Please note that other speakers will be added as they become available please refer to the Faculty of
Business website and your check your email inbox for updates.
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Professor Steve D’Alessandro, on ext
84286 or [email protected] or Dr Yapa Bandara on ext 32960 or [email protected]
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School of Computing and Mathematics Seminars usually run from 12 – 2pm on
Wednesdays in the School Meeting Rooms on each campus (771 in Bathurst, 780 in Albury
and 766 in Wagga). A light lunch is served prior to the seminar.
Date
Presenter
Topic
University
1 July
Professor Falk
Scheiber
Visual computing and visual analytics.
Monash University
Professor Raj
Gururajan
Health Informatics
University of Southern
Queensland
Professor Yun Yang
Cloud computing
Swinburne University
5 August
Associate Professor
Wei Xiang
View synthesize for 3D Video
University of Southern
Queensland
14 August
Professor Manzur
Murshed
Data compression
Federation University
19 August
Professor Kimbal
Marriott
Adaptive visualisation
Monash University
Muhammad Ali
TBA
CSU
Dr Mehrtash Harandi
Computer vision
Australian National
University
15 July
29 July
26 August
23 Sept
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected]
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Basic Statistics Course – 6 July 2015
The next face to face basic statistical workshop will be commencing on Monday
July 6 2015 on the Wagga Wagga Campus from 9am to 5pm each day. The
course will run for 4 consecutive days at a cost of $750 for CSU Staff; $600 for
Masters, PhD or Honours students . The course will cover:

Experimental Process
• Data Types
• Data Preparation
• Data Summaries
• Confidence Intervals
• Hypothesis Testing
• Simple Linear Regression
• ANOVA
• Modelling Data
• Report writing
If you are interested in this workshop please contact Sharon Nilson via phone 6933 2223 or email
[email protected] at your earliest convenience and I will send you a registration form. You will need to provide
your own laptop for this course.
One Day Research Writing Bootcamp – 13 July 2015
There will be a 1 day research writing bootcamp on Monday, July 13 2015. The
bookcamp is open to higher degree students and staff. The workshop will be available
face-to-face on the Wagga Wagga Campus, while also being broadcast simultaneously
online in Adobe Connect.
The bootcamp will be conducted by Cassily Charles, Academic Literacy and Numeracy
Coordinator for Postgraduate Studies.
For more information please contact Cassily Charles via [email protected]
ASPRI Spring Program 2015 – September/October
The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI)
Spring Program will be taking place at the University of Technology, Sydney from 28
September to 2 October. This program includes the popular Fundamentals of SPSS,
Applied Statistical Procedures and Qualitative Methodologies.
All courses are intensive and run from 9am – 5pm for the week.
The early bird cut-off date is Wednesday, 5 August 2015.
Course details can be found at the ACSPRI website via https://www.acspri.org.au/springprogram2015
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed papers
Al-Saggaf, Y.,Burmeister, O.K. & Weckert, J. (2015).
Reasons Behind Unethical Behaviour In The
Australian IT Workplace: An Empirical Investigation.
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in
Society, 13(3/4).
Dwivedi, A. (2015) A higher-order model of consumer
brand engagement and its impact on loyalty intentions,
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Vol 24,
100 -109.
Evans, M.M. (2015) Toward an outward-looking
Indigeneity, Artlink: Indigenous 35(2) 81-85.
Davaakhuu, O., Sharma, K. and Bandara, Y. (2015),
‘Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment During
Economic Transition in Mongolia’, Australasian Journal
of Regional Studies, Vol. 21 (1), 138-158.
Davaakhuu, O., Sharma, K. and Oczkowski, E.
(2015), ‘Has foreign investment played a role in
Mongolia’s export success? Post-Communist
Economies, Vol. 27 (2), 256-267.
R. Xiao and M. Paul (2015), "Efficient Compression of
Hypersepctral Images using Optimal Compression
Cube and Image Plane," Lecture Notes in Computer
Science. Vol. 8935, 167-179.
Accepted and forthcoming papers
Evans, M., and Sinclair, A., (2015) Navigating the
territories of Indigenous leadership: Exploring the
experiences and practices of Australian Indigenous
arts leaders, Leadership, 1 – 21.
Boyle, K. Morrison, M., Hatton-MacDonald, D., Rose,
J. and Duncan, R. (2015). Investigating Internet and
Mail Implementation of Stated-Preference Surveys
While Controlling for Differences in Sample Frames.
Environmental and Resource Economics, Published
online 5 March 2015.
Lockwood, M., Raymond, C., Oczkowski, E.,
Morrison, M. (2015). Measuring the dimensions of
adaptive capacity: a psychometric approach. Ecology
and Society. 20(1): 37.
M. Z. Parvez and M. Paul (2015), Novel approaches of
EEG signal classification using IMF bandwidth and
DCT frequency, Journal of Biomedical Engineering:
Applications, Basis and Communications. Vol 27, no.
3.
Rahman, A., and Kuddus, A. (2015). Affect of
Urbanization on Health and Nutrition, International
Journal of Statistics and Systems, 10 (2), 165-175.
Bi, R., Davidson, R.M., and Smyrnios, K.X. (accepted
and forthcoming) IT and Fast-Growth Small-to-Medium
Enterprise Performance: An Empirical Study in
Australia, Australasian Journal of Information Systems.
Dwiveldi, A. (accepted and forthcoming) Celebrity
Endorsement, Self-Brand Connection and ConsumerBased Brand Equity, Journal of Product and Brand
Management.
Harris, B. (accepted and forthcoming) ‘Third Party
Suspicion of Lack of Authority on the Part of Company
Agents – A Comparative Study and a Suggested Rule’,
8 Journal of Politics and Law 98.
Shi, Y, Hick, J., Basu, PK, Sharma, K., Bandara, Y.
and Murphy, T. (accepted and forthcoming),
‘Balancing Act: Adjustment of China's Economy to
Secure Sustainable Growth’, Singapore Economic
Review.
Snell, L., Sok, P., and Danaher, T. (accepted &
forthcoming). Achieving growth-quality of life
ambidexterity in small firms. Journal of Service Theory
and Practice.
Kuddus, A., and Rahman, A. (2015). Human right
abuse: A case study on child Labour in Bangladesh,
International Journal of Management and Humanities,
1 (8), 1- 4.
Sharma, K and Davaakhuu, O. (2015), ‘Trade
Policymaking in a Resource Rich Landlocked Country:
The WTO Review of Mongolia’ The World Economy,
online version (1 June 2015).
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Books
Conference papers
Morrissey, O., Lopez, R. and Sharma, K. Handbook of
Trade and Development (with O. Morrissey and R.
Lopez), (UK: Edwards Elgar), May 2015.
Rehman,S,. Khan, A., Zia T.,and Jafer M., (2015)
Quality of Service Based Cross Layer Routing Protocol
for VANETs, in 16th IEEE/ACIS International
Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial
Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed
Computing (SNPD 2015), Takamatsu, Japan, June 1 3.
Skoko, H., (2015) Simplified Principles of
Microeconomics, 1st edition, ISBN: 978-87-403-09935, Bookboon.com London, U.K.
Available at: http://bookboon.com/en/simplifiedprinciples-of-microeconomics-ebook
Khan A., Islam, R and Chowdhury M., (2015) A
Novel Approach to Maximize the Sum-Rate for MIMO
Broadcast Channels, in 16th IEEE/ACIS International
Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial
Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed
Computing (SNPD 2015), Takamatsu, Japan, June 1 3.
McGrath, D. (2015) Drivers of inaction for social
performance in Australian credit unions and mutual
banks, in proceedings of SIW – Meditari Accountancy
Research European Conference and Doctoral
Colloquium 2015, University of Bologna, Italy, 2 – 3
July.
Book Chapter
Parvez, M. Z., and Paul M. (2015), Prediction and
Detection of Epileptic Seizure, in Biomedical Image
Analysis and Mining Techniques for Improved Health
Outcomes , Editors: Wahiba Daraa and Nilanjan Dey,
IGI Global.
P. Podder, M. Paul, and M. Murshed (2015), Efficient
coding strategy for HEVC performance improvement
by exploiting motion features, 40th IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, 19 – 24
April.
S. Shahriyar, M. Manzur, M. Ali, and M. Paul, (2015),
Cuboid Coding of Depth Motion Vectors Using Binary
Tree Based Decomposition, Data Compression
Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 7 – 9 April.
M. Z. Parvez and and M. Paul, (2015), " Epileptic
Seizure Prediction by Extracting Relative and Fine
Changes of Signal Transitions," IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC-2015), Milano,
Italy, 25 – 29 August.
Rahman, A. and Upadhyay, S. (2015). A Bayesian
reweighting technique for small area estimation. In
Current Trends in Bayesian Methodology with
Applications, Satyanshu, et el., (eds.), The Chapman &
Hall/CRC Statistics Series in Statistical Theory and
Methods, Chapman and Hall/CRC, London, 503 - 520.
M. Ali, M. Manzur, S. Shahriyar, and M. Paul, (2015),
“Lossless Image Coding using Binary Tree
Decomposition of prediction residuals," 31st Picture
Coding Symposium, Cairns, Australia, 31 May – 3
June.
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