The 2012 Tertiary Education Management Conference was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 16 – 19 September 2012.
Download the Presentations and Abstracts from the 2012 TEM Conference below.
Concurrent Session A
Monday 17 September
1100 – 1150
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| 1. | A Comparative Study of the Methods & Purpose of Professional Development Activities Undertaken by Professional Staff in Tertiary Institutions
Barbara May |
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| 2. | Room Assessments – Tools for Strategic Asset Management!
Sam Ragusa |
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| 3. | Student Success: Delivering Through Partnership
Joanne Scarbrough, Elizabeth Bishara |
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| 4. | How do we Assess the Impact Sessional Staff Have on the Student Experience?
Sarah Wood, Susan Mate |
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| 5. | Learning to Lead: Mind Games for Middle Managers
Sheryl Morgan |
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| 6 | Furniture Reuse Sustainability and Cost Effectiveness
Paula Sorbello |
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| 7. | Transforming the Library into an Iconic Student Center at Waikato
Tony Dicks |
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| 8. | From Public to Private – The Shifting Sands of Higher Education
Judy Szekeres |
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Concurrent Session B
Monday 17 September 2012
1155 – 1245
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| 1. | Peter Karmel Travel Award
Constituent Management from First Enquiry to Alumni a Comparative Study of Best Practice Across a Range of American Universities & Insititutions Jennifer Ritson |
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| 2. | Maurie Pawsey Recipient
Managing Crisis and Beyond – An International Perspective Mark Dorian |
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| 3. | The University of Adelaide Hub Central a Visionary Approach to Student Centered Learning
Kendra Backstrom, Mariano De Duonni |
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| 4. | Floods, Faculties and Successfully Surfing the Waves of Change
Jo Allbutt, Martin McCarron |
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| 5. | The Right Blend of Administrative Management
Cathy Comber |
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| 6. | Building Sustainable Outcomes into Projects of all Sizes – a Simple Approach
Hilary Bekmann |
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| 7. | A New Student Experience for Gen Z and Beyond – RMIT University’s New Swanston Academic Building Project
Carey Lyon, Darren McKee |
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| 8. | Transforming Automotive Skills Training
Stephen Turner, Mark Freeman, John Nicholas |
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Concurrent Session C
Monday 17 September 2012
1345 – 1435
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| 1. | The Academic Support Systems Project (ASSP): A Case Study
Lorraine Rhind |
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| 2. | TEFMA International Strategic Partners
Derry Caleb |
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| 3. | The First Year Experience: A UWS College Perspective
Eva Ing, Susan Channells |
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| 4. | From Administrivia to Engagement: Lessons in Participative Management and Employee Productivity at the ARC Centre for Excellence for Climate System Science
Simone Purdon, Stephen Gray |
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| 5. | Building Information Modeling (BIM) and its Role in Facilities Management
Simon Moyes |
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| 6. | The light at the End of the Tunnel of Change: A Blend of Opportunities for a Transformed Future
Sharon Carlton, Joanne Austin |
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| 7. | Published and Be Dammed
Ian Dobson |
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| 8. | Delivering the Right Blend for Practice-Based Research
Champa De |
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Concurrent Session D
Monday 17 September 2012
1440 – 1530
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| 1. | Leading Professionals in Australasian Tertiary Education
Linda McKellar |
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| 2. | Transforming the Way that Contracts are managed to create sustainable outcomes
Ross Mitchell |
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| 3. | Centralised Faculty Student Services: is it Possible to Offer an Enhanced Student Experience and Maintain Connection with Faculty Stakeholders? The Sequel!
David Donnelly |
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| 4. | Academics Never Retire: An Opportunity for Innovation and Transformation
Giles Pickford |
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| 5. | Does the Campus Matter?
Chris Alcock, John Holm, Peter Joyce |
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| 6. | The Ingkarni Wardli Building, The First 6 Star Green Star Education V1 Project
Shane Esmore |
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| 7. | Published and Be Dammed continued
Ian Dobson |
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| 8. | Are QR Codes Useful to Increase Response Rates for Online Surveys?
Romain Mirosa |
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Concurrent Session E
Tuesday 18 September 2012
1100 – 1150
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| 1. | Looking for Magic!
Susan Hudson, Tanya Rubin |
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| 2. | Innovation and Transformation in Asset Performance Assessment Ensuring the Right Blend of Asset Management Strategies
Johann McDuling |
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| 3. | Culture Change to Support a Positive Student Experience
Ruth Pring, Natalie Downing |
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| 4. | University Management: A Strategic Orphan?
Maree Conway |
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| 5. | The Right Blend? A Shared Services Model at Monash, Reflecting on our First Year
Joel Chibert, Connie Mogg |
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| 6. | Campus as Sustainability Research Classroom
Su Wild-River |
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| 7. | Next-Generation Learning Environments
Sue Wittenoom |
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| 8. | Creating a New Teaching Space: Team Based Learning Lab
Himendra Ratnayake |
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Concurrent Session F
Tuesday 18 September 2012
1155 – 1245
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| 1. | Salad Days for an Academic Library
Margaret Ruwoldt |
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| 2. | Designing the Vision: The Role of the Design Competition in the Delivery of University Buildings
Andrew Hutson |
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| 3. | Investigating the Impact of a Three-Way Collaborative Support Model on the Student Experience at the University of the Sunshine Coast
Johanna Einfalt |
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| 4. | University Staff: Do we Have the Right Blend?
Ian Dobson |
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| 5. | Strategic Readiness in the Higher Education Sector
Lionel Newman, John Viljoen |
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| 6. | Hong Kong Academy: Integrating Sustainability into a High Performance School
Tai Hollingsbee |
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| 7. | Innovation and Tranformation in the Adaptive Re-Use of University Facilities
Geoff Street |
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| 8. | Virtual Incredible Science Day at The University of Auckland
Linda Thompson, Rebekah Holmes |
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Concurrent Session G
Tuesday 18 September 2012
1345 – 1435
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| 1. | UK HE in Transition in a Changing World: An Institutional Perspective on Transformations at the University of Huddersfield in Interesting Times
Nigel Phillips |
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| 2. | Managing Challenges to Successfully Deliver the 6 Star Tyree Energy Technologies Building at The University of New South Wales
Gregory Hanna |
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| 3. | When Information from the Coal Face Falls on Deaf Ears
Tracey Hanson, Lyndal McCulloch |
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| 4. | Strategy in an Uncertain Future
Nick Bruse, Tony Inglis |
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| 5. | The Risks and Rewards of University Building Adaptation
Claire Moritz, Stewart Mann |
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| 6. | Education Futures: University Grads Don’t Make the Grade
Georgia Singleton, Kenn Fisher |
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| 7. | Establishing and Fostering Communities of Practice
Sally Newton |
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| 8. | “How Energy Efficient is our Campus?”
Paul Compton |
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Concurrent Session H
Tuesday 18 September 2012
1440 – 1530
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| 1. | Transforming Your New Team – Challenges and Rewards
David Bruce |
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| 2. | Best Practice Funding Provisions for the Maintenance and Renewal of University Assets (Building & Infrastructure) – A Review of the Study Undertaken for TEFMA, 2011
Richard Kerr |
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| 3. | The Right Student Experience: Is the Grass Greener? Support for the Student Experience in Ontario, Canada
Kathryn Blyth, Don Reid |
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| 4. | Years in the Making: The Introduction of New Staff Appraisal
Lucienne Tessens, Rod Dewsbury |
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| 5. | Timetable Modeling: The Innovative Space Planning Tool – Addressing the Need to Balance Benefits and Risks
John Pryzibilla, Tom Sankey |
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| 6. | Developing Energy Targets for Education Laboratories
Tim Dean |
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| 7. | What Can Research into Leadership in Student Support and Development Services in Australian Universities Tell Us About Leading Professional Teams?
John Swinton, Joanna Peters |
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| 8. | Institutional Performance Indicators in a Two Speed Economy
Phillip Bell |
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Concurrent Session I
Wednesday 19 September 2012
1030 – 1120
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| 1. | Innovative Approaches, Systems and Resources for University Policy Review
Brigid Freeman |
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| 2. | Supporting Education Through Effective Life Cycle Management
Donald McDonald, Peter Lockett |
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| 3. | It’s The Culture, Stupid! Up in the Clouds with Technology
John Swinton, Janine Walker |
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| 4. | Faculty Manager Survey 2012
Tony Heywood |
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| 5. | Collaboration + Support = M2 Project
Christina Coleiro and Members of the M2 Project Team |
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| 6 | Current Research Facility Projects in WA and the NT
James Edwards |
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| 7. | A Conference Especially for Professional Staff! Who Would Have Thought!
Kim Nemetz, Tanya Rubin |
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| 8. | Collaborative Approaches to Developing International Education
Giles Brooker |
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Concurrent Session J
Wednesday 19 September 2012
1125 – 1215
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| 1. | The Right Blend: At the Interface of Innovation and Transformation in Higher Education
Jane Fernandez |
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| 2. | High Performance Buildings in a Non-linear World
Nick Bamford, Shu-Hsin Soong |
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| 3. | Learning Opportunities A Partnership, Connecting Learning with Projects
Gary Rasmussen |
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| 4. | Engaging Employees Through Innovative Learning Strategies
Lorraine Denny, Deb Tetley |
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| 5. | Beyond the Oracle: Divining and Describing the Contributions of Professional Staff to Student Outcomes
Carroll Graham |
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| 6 | A Centre for Future Learning
Robert Lustri, Brian Phillips |
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| 7. | The Right Blend: Creating a Successful Leadership Development Program for Heads of School
Tony Brown |
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| 8. | Integrating Cleaning and Waste Management Services = Innovation @ ECU
John Hayes |
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Concurrent Session K
Wednesday 19 September
1345 – 1435
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| 1. | Are We There Yet? A Journey of Organisational Change
Kathryn Lowry, Simon Behenna |
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| 2. | Innovative Sports Precinct Master Planning
Brett Lavale |
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| 3. | Navigating Design Change in the Academic Workplace
Jo Dane, Sarah Ball |
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| 4. | More Than the Sum of its Parts: Bringing Together the Diversities of an Educational Working Environment
Sophie Hayman, Therese Walkinshaw, David Sinfield |
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| 5. | The Innovation Model: How to Advance a Good Idea
Carol Harding |
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| 6 | Global Change Institute Innovative Thinking to Transform the Role of Buildings
Mark Roehrs |
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| 7. | The Condition Assessment: More than just Making a List
Peter Lennon |
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| 8. | Residential Assets: The Problem we Had to Have
Stephen Butt |
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