Graduation - past ceremonies

Thursday, 3 April 2008 at 11am

Costa Hall, Waterfront Campus, Deakin University, Geelong.

Faculty of Arts and Education (Education Courses) Faculty of Science and Technology (Geelong, Waterfront Campus Courses)

Stage Party

The Deputy Chancellor Mr James Nicol presided assisted by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Sally Walker.

The MC was the Vice-President and Council Secretary Ms Lin Martin.

The Mace-bearer was Mr Dale Warren.

The Faculty Representative was Mr Darren Taylor.

Presenters were:
Interim Head of School, Faculty of Arts and Education, Associate Professor Susie Groves.
Interim Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Professor Chris Gray.
Chair of Academic Board, Professor Philomena Leung.

The Student Response was delivered by Dr Michael Wylie.

Doctoral Degree Recipients

Dr Pauline Carter- Thesis Title: "Factors Affecting the Engagement of Experienced Teachers in Schools."

Summary
This thesis explores the careers and professional lives of experienced classroom teachers with commitment to student-centred education, identifying factors that influenced their careers and engagement with their work. Critical incidents in the teachers professional lives are discussed in relation to theories of motivation and the nature of Professional Learning Communities.

Dr Lewis Hughes - Thesis Title: "Applying outcomes of lifelong learning to organisational achievement."

Summary
Development of a framework for making the most of what a person knows and can do to aid organisational achievement. The ethnographic study drew upon activity theory, giving insight into the 'achievement strengthening' relationship between valuing the diverse outcomes of lifelong learning and team culture and responding, leaderfully, to impacting motivations.

Dr Barry Lee - Thesis Title: "Implementation of ICTs in Primary Music Education in Hong Kong."

Summary
This study investigated present situation about the implementation of IT policy in relation to music education. Current status of ICT integration in music curriculum in primary schools in Hong Kong has been assessed to provide references and recommendations for enhancing the state of integration, and for subsequent and sustainable development.

Dr Simon Livingstone - Thesis Title: "Adopting Business Practices at Deakin University: Impact on Academic Staff."

Summary
This thesis examined the adoption of business practices at Deakin University and their impact on academic staff. The investigation used interpretative, qualitative research to investigate what academic staff believe to be the effect of business practice adoption on their teaching, research and service/administration roles.

Dr Jill Loughlin - Thesis Title: "Narratives of jazz education subjectivity and philosophy in New Zealand."

Summary
This critical life history narrative explores the musical lives of two jazz educators and how experience and self-perceptions have shaped their teaching philosophies. The research highlights how the subjects enact their stories within/through/around/against pre-defined contexts and proposes that further discussions about the wider issues in jazz education are required.

Dr Kevin Ryland - Thesis Title: "Reconceptualising the Australian Doctorate Experience: Work, Creativity and Part-time Study."

Summary
This PhD showed that part-time doctoral candidates have complex interrelationships between activities inside and outside of their studies. It is argued that these interrelationships are critical as work becomes more focused on the creation of ideas and doctorates become more focused on the world of work.

Dr Craig Toussaint - Thesis Title: "Development of Benchmarks for Determining Infrastructure Needs for the Aged."

Summary
This project developed benchmarks and benchmarking procedures to indicate the current and future infrastructure requirements of the aged in regional centres. The benchmarks correlate the infrastructure requirements of the aged with demographic trends.

Significantly also, the research modelled aged infrastructure requirements within the broader context of the sustainability of cities.
Dr Michael Wylie - Thesis Title: "What is International about International Education? An Australian Case Study."

Summary
International education is meeting the needs of students in a variety of educational contexts. The thesis examines the influence international education has on schools and concludes that there is the possibility for a better understanding of globalisation and, in doing so, the potential to improve our global civil society.

Dr George Zillante - Thesis Title: "The Future of Building Surveying in Australia."

Summary
Building surveying is fragmenting into specialist areas that will in time displace the profession and contribute to its demise. For the profession to survive it must change and embrace these new areas as part of the building surveying family. The research identified 18 ingredients of successful professional bodies that the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors can use to position the organisation to accommodate these new areas and assist it to prosper and grow into an effective professional body.

Alfred Deakin Medal Recipient

Ms Nanette Ashkanasy - Bachelor of Education (Primary) with Distinction.

These Medals are awarded annually to candidates with a record of outstanding scholarship as well as service to the community and the University.
The awards are named in honour of Alfred Deakin after whom this University is named and were an initiative introduced by the University to commemorate the life of Alfred Deakin.

Occasional Address

The Occasional Address (ilecture recording - requires broadband) was delivered by Dr Alan Saunders, ABC Presenter.

Dr Alan Saunders was born and educated in London. He studied philosophy at the University of Leicester, where he was also president of the students' union, and further studied logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics. He came to Australia in 1981 to pursue research in the History of Ideas unit at the Australian National University and was subsequently awarded a PhD.
Dr Saunders has been a Frances Yates Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute of the University of London.

Having joined the science unit of ABC Radio National in 1987, Alan Saunders founded
The Food Program, which was broadcast weekly until 1991 and then from 1992 to 1997. During 1991 he was co-presenter of Screen, a weekly programme about film and television. He is now presenter of By Design- a weekly programme about architecture, design, and food - and of The Philosopher's Zone.
Dr Saunders has written about food and other topics for various publications and is the author of
A is for Apple (Random House). His first novel, Alanna, was published by Penguin in 2002.
In 1992 Dr Saunders was awarded the Pascall Prize for critical writing and broadcasting.
In 2006, he received a Special Media Award from the Australasian Association for Philosophy.