2 December 2020 Burnie
WELCOME FROM THE CHANCELLOR As Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, I offer my warmest congratulations to you as you become our newest graduates. I am honoured to be able to share this special event with you, and your family and friends. Today marks a milestone event in your life as you take a significant step towards your future. In your time as a University of Tasmania student, you have focused your talents and energy on the goal of succeeding in your studies with the help and support of the University’s community. You have learnt to be knowledgeable within your discipline and to use your knowledge to change the world for the better. I encourage you to be proud of your achievements and to actively and positively contribute to your community. You graduate today from one of Australia’s leading universities – the fourth oldest university in the country. Since 1890 we have combined teaching and research in a powerful way, serving our State, our nation and the world. As we reflect on our many achievements in research, teaching and learning excellence we also look forward to the bright future that each of you as graduates will help to shape. We are indeed proud of our graduates and you can be assured that today you join a body of graduates that have, and will continue to have, an impact on the advancement of society. Graduation is not a final farewell to the University. We now count more than 100,000 alumni around Australia and the world of which some 12,500 live overseas. We look forward to welcoming you back as members of our global Alumni community, by continuing formal studies and by participating in the many symposia, lectures, concerts and events hosted here at the University and across the globe each year. For today, enjoy your achievement. Celebrate with your mentors, colleagues, family and friends. The University community is extremely proud of your success and we look forward to your continued involvement and support in the future. The Hon. Dr Michael Field AC Chancellor
Mission Statement The University of Tasmania continues a long tradition of excellence and commitment to free inquiry in the creation, preservation, communication and application of knowledge, and to scholarship that is global in scope, distinctive in its specialisations and that reflects our Tasmanian character. The University will provide leadership within its community, thereby contributing to the cultural, economic and social development of Tasmania.
A MESSAGE FROM THE VICE–CHANCELLOR Congratulations on reaching the milestone of your graduation. We hope that during your time at the University of Tasmania we have been able to support you to develop the skills and experiences that will enable you to make the contribution you want to make and to live the kind of life you chose. Your studies at the University of Tasmania will have created a new horizon of opportunities for your own life and career path. As a result of this phase of your education, you are also well placed to make a difference to whatever society you choose to be a part of and have a positive impact on the lives of the people around you and the community in which you live. This might be here in Tasmania, or elsewhere in the world. Through completing your studies here, you have already made a contribution to the lives of the people around you. This journey does not stop now and I encourage you to take the opportunity to cherish what it is that makes Tasmania such a unique and truly special place. I hope that your connection to Tasmania, to the island and its future remains important to you. I encourage you to take a real interest in Tasmania’s future and to continue to contribute to its evolution. In caring for the island, both its people and its places, this connection can be maintained and we can all benefit greatly from it. I hope that your association with this University will continue beyond today’s ceremony. Our alumni association is an invaluable resource for you as you embark on your career, with connections across all disciplines and with chapters across Australia and in many other countries. You have become part of an extraordinary community of graduates and we are very proud of you all. Professor Rufus Black Vice-Chancellor
A HISTORY OF GRADUATIONS The graduation ceremony is one of great antiquity. Its essential features have been the same since the 12th century when the first universities came into existence. Its necessary constituents are the Chancellor or his or her deputy, the academic staff, the graduands, and the public. When the Chancellor confers degrees, saying to the graduands: ‘By virtue of my authority as Chancellor, I admit you to the degree of …’ those words are a translation of the Latin form used in the Middle Ages. Then, the Chancellor’s authority to confer degrees came from the church. The church had a monopoly on education, partly because it was the guardian of true doctrine, and partly because clerics were almost the only people who could read and write. As a result, the only person who could license a teacher was the bishop of a diocese until, under pressure of other business, he deputised the task to his chief secretary or chancellor. As learning spread, teachers wanted a licence to teach not just in one diocese, but everywhere, and the only person who could give them that was the Pope. The Chancellor’s authority, then, came from the Pope. But at the Reformation, Henry VIII assumed for the Crown all the rights that had previously been the Pope’s in England. That is why all subsequent universities in England have been created by Royal Charter. It is for this reason also that the Chancellor does not wear ecclesiastical robes, as would have been worn in the Middle Ages, but robes similar to those of the Lord Chancellor of England. The second group participating in the ceremony is the academic staff. In the 12th century they would all have been called ‘masters’ or MAs. At that date they were paid no salaries, but hired their own lecture rooms and charged their own fees. But they also formed themselves into a guild or union, which is what universitas originally meant. As in all guilds they were insistent that they, and only they, should determine who should be of their number, and since this involved saying who should be teachers, they soon found themselves in conflict with the Chancellor. In the 13th century they won a great victory when they persuaded the Pope to decree that Chancellors were obliged to confer degrees on all those nominated by the masters. That is why the masters examine the candidates, why the Dean, acting as their spokesperson, reads out the names of those who are to receive degrees, and why the masters at this ceremony watch to see that the Chancellor or his deputy does what is required of him. Thirdly, the graduands. The word ‘degree’ comes from the Latin gradus, which means ‘a step’. When students
are admitted to a Bachelor degree they move one step up towards the mastership. When they are admitted to a masters degree they climb another step and come up on a level with the masters, who then receive them into their guild, or universitas. In the Middle Ages they would then have stayed on the dais, so that their old master could invest them with the symbols of office. But that was only part of the business. The new master had to deliver an inaugural lecture, entertain the whole guild of masters to dinner and preside over disputations for forty days continuously. For that reason, taking one’s masters degree was called ‘inception’, or the beginning of one’s career as a master. The public is the fourth participant. It has an important function because the whole point of the proceedings is that they should be seen and heard by valid witnesses. The public hears the words of the Dean and the Chancellor and sees the new graduates dressed in their respective gowns or robes. The academic gowns are derived from the everyday dress of the medieval clergy. In the Middle Ages they were not open in front, but closed like a clergyman’s cassock. It was in about 1500 that academics had the front opened up so as to display the fine clothes which they were wearing underneath. The hood was the normal medieval headwear, but it soon acquired a coloured lining. By the 17th century, if not earlier, these colours were strictly controlled so that anyone could identify from the colour of a graduate’s hood, the university and the degree. Based on Davis, R.H.C. 1991, From Alfred the Great to Stephen, Hambledon Press, London, pp. 307–309.
UNIVERSITY MACE & BLACK ROD UNIVERSITY MACE
THE BLACK ROD
Most Australian universities have adopted a ceremonial mace that symbolises, in its material and decoration, the universities ethos. Before assuming a ceremonial function, the mace was a weapon carried into battle by medieval knights and war-like bishops. Gradually the role of the mace changed to be purely one representative of authority.
In 2014, the University of Tasmania reintroduced the use of a Black Rod as a symbol of authority at ceremonial occasions.
The University of Tasmania was inaugurated in 1890 and the original object used as the symbol of authority was a simple black rod. In 1982 the university commissioned a mace. Peter Taylor, a local sculptor, designed and co-ordinated its creation and a number of Tasmanian artisans contributed to its making. The head is made of ceramic and bronze. Twelve shaped ceramic flanges or ‘vanes’ form the lower part of the head. The vanes are alternately enamelled in the university colours of red and blue. Gilding is applied to the outer edges of each of the 12 vanes and is topped by a bronze crown. Four of the 12 ceramic vanes extend through the crown and are chamfered to form a visual focus for the paws of four bronze thylacines (Tasmanian tigers) which surround the crown. At the base of the head is a large undecorated wooden knop and the tapered wooden shaft has two knops. The lower knop is coloured blue on its upper surface and red underneath. Its outer perimeter is gilded. The foot knop of turned wood is painted blue. Source: Australiana 2012, February, vol.34, no.1, p.29
The use of a Black Rod dates back to the 14th century in Britain. An Usher of the Black Rod was appointed to serve the monarch in the British House of Lords and was originally an officer of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a British order of knighthood. The Black Rod was used to discipline anyone who offended the Order. The Usher of the Black Rod leads the official party in and out of important ceremonial occasions, calls the ceremony to order and assists with maintaining order throughout. The University’s Black Rod is made from Hydrowood Blackheart Sassafras. Specialty timbers including Huon Pine, Sassafras and Myrtle as well as Eucalyptus and Blackwood have laid dormant on the bed of Lake Pieman on Tasmania’s rugged West Coast since the site was flooded in the 1970s. Now, these sustainably recovered timbers, the lost trees of Hydrowood, are available for use by furniture designers and woodworkers, as well as in high-end residential and commercial construction. The Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood, an extension of the University of Tasmania’s School of Architecture and Design, is collaborating with the State Government and Sustainable Forest Management in the Hydrowood project. The Centre’s role is to provide mainstream timber producers with confidence that the recovered logs can be economically and efficiently converted into usable products. The University black rod is designed by award-winning designer and former Program Director of Furniture Design, Simon Ancher.
University of Tasmania Mace
University of Tasmania Black Rod
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DIPLOMA OF UNIVERSITY STUDIES (ARTS)
DIPLOMA OF UNIVERSITY STUDIES (HEALTH SCIENCE)
DIPLOMA OF APPLIED HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Luke Barry Kelsey Ellen Horton
Lisa Fagan
Amelia Perales Zachary David Whitehead
DIPLOMA OF UNIVERSITY STUDIES (HEALTH)
DIPLOMA OF UNIVERSITY STUDIES (SCIENCE) Marnie Elizabeth Horton
ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN APPLIED BUSINESS Michelle Purton
Kaela Bakes Emily Elise Dick Temeka Anne Jackson Amy Alyce Moles
ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN APPLIED BUSINESS (TOURISM AND EVENTS) Crystal Northcott-Cannell
COLLEGE OF ARTS, LAW AND EDUCATION BACHELOR OF ARTS Shania May Brown Caitlyn Mariah Cox Tania Gower Peter Carey Lewis Benjamin John Mace Thomas Simpson Pheobe Jade Taylor BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (PRIMARY) Olivia May Thorne
BACHELOR OF JUSTICE STUDIES Eden Best Erika Crawford
Rebecca Anne Foster Jacinta Jayne Howard
BACHELOR OF LAWS
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN UNIVERSITY LEARNING AND TEACHING
James Gomez Jovian Messiah
Anne Lynette Heath
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK WITH HONOURS
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK
Robyn Louise Blake Justin Paul Brown Sasha Rose Fielding
Sarena Ann Nisbet MASTER OF TEACHING April Beryl Bishop
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS BACHELOR OF BUSINESS Jessica Margaret Bowers Chan Chun Yin Chan Ho Hin Chan Ho Yin Chan Hoi Yi Chan Ka Yin Chan Pang Wui Chan Yuk Ming Chang Pak Yiu Lauren Ila Charles Chau Chun Hing Chen Xinru Cheng Chun Kit Cheng Ka Po Cheung Lok Yi Chou Pak Hung Chuang Yuen Yee Nathan Daniel Cocks Ebony Lane Cullen Fan Man Yat Fung Kin Him Fung Ting Ting Danieka Anne Healey Shauna Marie Hingston Ho Tsz Yiu Ho Yong Yi Audrey Hon Ho Kwong Ip Pui Man Tessa Rose Joyce Shazia Rachelle Khan Charles Kong Kong Wing Shan Kwan Lok Yan Kwan Wai Yi
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Kwok Ying Ying Lai Chun Long Lai Siu Kwan Lam Cheuk Yin Gordon Lam Wing Hong Lau Kai Chun Lau Kin Wang Wilson Lee Chun Yuen Lee Fat Ching Jamie Lee Hoi Yan Leung Hoi Kit Leung Kai Chung Leung Shing Chung Leung Tsz Wing Leung Yiu Wa Emily Louise Lewis Li Tsz Ling Li Ying Ip Louis Li Yitao Li Yuk Lan Liu Chun Hei Lo Man Yan Jessie Taylor Long Lui Ka Ho Lung Yuk Ha Mak Ting Man Man Kai Yin Mok Kai Hong Ng Nga Nok Ng Wing Tung Shek Pik Ching Szeto Kai Fung Tang Fung Po Tang Hung Chiu Tang Suet Yi
Tham Lok Sun Tong Yuen Hei Tsang Ka Wing Tse Chun Him Tse Yi Sin Tsoi Chiu Yuen Tsui Chi Wai Tsui Hok Man Wat Hiu Fung Kyle Brodie Wescombe Wong Ching Lam Wong Ching Yin Charlotte Wong Chun Yin Wong Ho Yan Wong Hoi Ying Wong Kai Wing Edwin Wong Lam Wong Wing Yan Wong Yat Fei Wu Sipei Wu Sum Ching Yau Kam Yuen Bruce Ye Jianbin Ye Yashi Yeung Lok Yi Yeung Wing Hei Yiu Ko Yin Yu Hoi Ching Annieka Jantina de Bruyn MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Stephen Jeremy Jackson
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CARE
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE (CLINICAL REDESIGN) Michael Parker
Stephanie Crawford
Jenny Hill BACHELOR OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (LEADERSHIP) PROFESSIONAL HONOURS
GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF NURSING (CRITICAL CARE NURSING)
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN NURSING (MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSING) Helen Jenelle Evans
MASTER OF CLINICAL NURSING (PERIOPERATIVE NURSING) Stacey Marie Hyland
Nicola Jane Smith BACHELOR OF NURSING WITH PROFESSIONAL HONOURS (SPECIAL CARE OF THE NEWBORN NURSING) Mary Joyce Madla
COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Alexander Lachlan Howden
MASTER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS Pengxuan Li
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GRADUATE RESEARCH GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN RESEARCH Rena Rebecca Henderson Tina Jahnel Ibraam Emad Mikhail Banoub Mikhail DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Rena Rebecca Henderson School Humanities Thesis Title The Ties that Bind: The enduring strength of the Yeoman Ideal in North-West Tasmania 1860-2000 Supervisors Dr AG Harwood, Professor PL Mein Smith, Professor S Petrow, Professor PG Turnbull Tina Jahnel School Thesis Title Supervisors
Psychologcial Sciences Socioeconomic Status and Smoking – Exploring the behavioural determinants of health inequalities Professor SG Ferguson, Dr M Frandsen, Dr BE Schuez
Ibraam Emad Mikhail Banoub Mikhail School Natural Sciences Thesis Title New Approaches for Lab-in-a-Syringe Systems Supervisors Professor MC Breadmore, Dr RM Guijt, Dr M Tehrani Rokh DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY PRIOR PUBLICATION John Edward McPhee School Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture Thesis Title Controlled Traffic for Vegetable Production: Challenges, benefits and opportunities Supervisors Dr M Boersma, Associate Professor RB Doyle
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Graduates and diplomates who were admitted to degrees and awarded diplomas by University Council in 2020 ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN ENGINEERING (CIVIL) Matthew King BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS) (BIOMEDICAL) Jack Don McLovin BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Simon Charles Chin BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE James Patrick Cummins GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN NURSING (PAEDIATRIC NURSING)
GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF NURSING (ACUTE CARE NURSING)
Manon Duchesne
Remna Kandakkottu Kunjappan
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN RESEARCH
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (INTERNATIONAL)
Sarah Christine Fischer Merril Amos Garay Maureira Rajendra KC Shing Chung Lam Miranda Nieboer Fatemeh Rasouli Nahidul Hoque Samrat Anitra Wilson Zhendan Zhu
Yu Cheng MASTER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS Chakravarthi Kaja
Bhaveshkumar Sureshbhai Bhavsar DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Sarah Christine Fischer School Education Thesis Title Governance and Structures for the Internationalisation of Higher Education: Translating policy into practice Supervisors Dr S Fan, Dr WJ Green, Professor SI Kilpatrick Merril Amos Garay Maureira School Natural Sciences Thesis Title Las Bambas Cu-skarn, Peru: Implications of whole rock, mineral, and isotope geochemistry for ore genesis and exploration Supervisors Dr MJ Baker, Professor DR Cooke, Professor NC White, Dr L Zhang Rajendra KC School Medicine Thesis Title Exploring Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Role of Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae in COPD Supervisors Associate Professor G Karupiah, Dr RF O’Toole, Professor GR Zosky Shing Chung Lam School Natural Sciences Thesis Title Portable and Modular Liquid Chromatography for Pharmaceutical Industry Supervisors Professor PR Haddad, Professor B Paull
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Graduates and diplomates who were admitted to degrees and awarded diplomas by University Council in 2020 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY CONT. Miranda Nieboer School Humanities Thesis Title Antarctic Interiors: Practices of inhabitation through embodied interactions with the ice Supervisors Professor E Leane, Professor SY Loo, Dr F Olivier Fatemeh Rasouli School Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture Thesis Title Stomata Operation in Halophytes Supervisors Mr Z Chen, Dr TA Cuin, Associate Professor SI Shabala, Professor SN Shabala, Dr RR Wilson Nahidul Hoque Samrat School Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences Thesis Title Ice Mass Change and its Feedback on Solid Earth Dynamics in the Antarctic Peninsula Supervisors Professor MA King, Dr CS Watson Anitra Wilson School Menzies Institute for Medical Research Thesis Title Abdominal and Lumbar Muscle Size, Symmetry and Control in an Elderly Population Supervisors Professor CL Blizzard, Dr ML Callisaya, Professor J Hides, Professor TM Winzenberg Zhendan Zhu School Menzies Institute for Medical Research Thesis Title Investigating the Influence of Risk Factors on the Cellular Changes After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Supervisors Dr CA Blizzard, Dr JA Chuckowree, Professor TC Dickson, Associate Professor KM Young
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UNIVERSITY ARMS & MEDALS UNIVERSITY ARMS Prior to 1936, the University used a Common Seal that was the seal of the Tasmanian Council of Education. In 1937, the University Council arranged a competition, seeking designs for a coat of arms from University graduates. A design by Mr Egbert Holder Harry BA, BCom, a Launceston resident, was declared the winner from 47 submissions. Mr Harry’s design was a rough sketch, with a shield divided into silver and blue quarters bearing the following charges: – a red lion being the Tasmanian badge as decreed by Queen Victoria – a gold book signifying ‘the academic side of University Activity’ – a gold Southern Cross ‘representative of Australia’ – a red Olympic torch ‘representing the athletic side of University activity’ The original design also contained a crest, which was later removed. Over time, the university commissioned UK designer for the Royal Mint, Mr George Kruger Gray, to produce a beautifully painted drawing that looks much like the regal logo in use today. He kept the emblems of Mr Harry’s design, arranging them in a visually appealing, heraldically correct manner.
The blazon of a Grant of Arms is the official definition of the Arms. The blazon for the University’s shield, from the Grant of Arms is translated (from heraldic language) as follows: A white/silver shield on which is a red lion walking across facing straight ahead with right forepaw raised with blue claws and tongue, holding in its right forepaw a flaming torch in natural colours; and on the shield is also a broad red bar making up the top one-third on which is a broad central blue vertical bar with a yellow/gold border down each side, carrying the [five] brightest stars of the Southern Cross in white/silver; between two yellow/gold books closed with clasps. The University of Tasmania’s logo, used on its stationary and web sites today, is based on a standardised and stylised version of the red Lion passant from the Coat of Arms. UNIVERSITY MEDALS The University Medal is the highest academic award made to an undergraduate student. The medals are awarded to students who have a consistent record of exceptional academic achievement at all levels of a bachelor’s degree program, and qualify for a bachelor’s degree with first class honours. Up to thirteen medals can be awarded annually.
In the 1970’s the University applied to the College of Heralds for a Grant of Arms. This application was successful, and for the first time the University had Arms.
University of Tasmania Coat of Arms
University of Tasmania Medal
ACADEMIC REGALIA The University’s academic dress is based on the styles worn at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. The academic regalia consists of a scarlet or black cloth gown; a separate hood or stole; and a trencher cap (also known as mortarboards) or bonnet. Gowns and hoods of different shapes indicate the degrees of Bachelor, Master and Doctors. The colour of the hoods represents the discipline of study. Honorary Doctorate A gown of scarlet cloth faced on the opening of the sleeves and on the full length of the lapels with coloured silk representing the academic discipline. The hood is black and fully lined with coloured silk. A black velvet tudor bonnet with a gold cord and tassel.
Australian Maritime College Bachelors Degree A gown of black cloth. The hood is black and fully lined with coloured silk and bound on the tippet and cowl with gold braid. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel.
Honorary Master Degree
Associate Degrees and Diplomas
A gown of scarlet cloth faced on the opening of the sleeves and on the full length of the lapels with coloured silk representing the academic discipline. The hood is black and fully lined with coloured silk. A trencher cap with a gold cord and tassel.
A gown of black cloth. A stole of coloured silk representing the academic discipline. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel.
Professional Doctorates
Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor
A gown of black cloth faced on the opening of the sleeves and on the full length of the lapels with coloured silk representing the academic discipline. The hood is black and fully lined with coloured silk. A black velvet tudor bonnet with a gold cord and tassel.
A gown of black damask silk trimmed with gold braid, and featuring gold embriodery designs representing the lion from the University’s coat of arms and the Tasmania floral emblem, the Tasmanian Flowering Blue Gum. A black trencher cap with the cap edged with gold braid, or a black velvet Tudor bonnet, with a gold cord and tassel.
Doctor of Philosophy A gown of black cloth faced on the opening of the sleeves and on the full length of the lapels with scarlet silk. The hood is scarlet and fully lined with scarlet silk. A black velvet tudor bonnet with a scarlet cord and tassel.
CEREMONIAL REGALIA
Members of UTAS Council A gown of black cloth with gold braid running from front to back on each shoulder. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel.
Masters Degree
Members of the Australian Maritime College Board
A gown of black cloth. The hood is black and fully lined with coloured silk. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel.
A gown of black cloth with a square collar of gold silk and faced on the full length of the lapels with gold silk. A black trencher cap with the cap edged with gold braid and a black cord and tassel.
Australian Maritime College Masters Degree A gown of black cloth. The hood is fully lined with coloured silk and bound the on tippet and cowl with gold braid. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel. Bachelors Degree A gown of black cloth. The hood is black and lined with coloured silk on the tippet and cowl. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel.
Fellow A gown of black cloth with a stole of red trimmed with gold. A black trencher cap with a black cord and tassel.
ACADEMIC REGALIA FACULTY, SCHOOL OR DISCIPLINE
COLOUR
ARTS Music
Silver Grey
Performing Arts
Silver Grey
Fine/Visual Arts and Craft
Satinwood
All other Arts Awards
Dark Blue
COMMERCE All awards
Orange
LAW All awards
Crimson
EDUCATION All awards
Light Blue
HEALTH Medical Science
Purple
Medicine and Surgery
Lilac
Nursing
Blue Green
Pharmacy
Saffron
All other Health Awards
Jacaranda
SCIENCE and ENGINEERING Agricultural Science
Brown
Architecture and Town Planning
Dark Pink
Environmental Design
Dark Pink
Environmental Studies
Light Pink
Geomatics and Surveying
Green Muscat
Engineering and Technology
Green
All other Science, Engineering and Technology Awards
White
AUSTRALIAN MARITIME COLLEGE Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability
Aqua
Marine Engineering and Hydrodynamics
Purple
Maritime Operations
Royal Blue
Marine and Logistics Management
Ivory
Certificate I-IV (all disciplines)
Silver Grey
Diploma (all disciplines)
Peach
WELCOME TO YOUR UNIVERSITY ALUMNI COMMUNITY Congratulations on completing your studies successfully and graduating today. As a graduate of the University of Tasmania, you are part of a vibrant global community of more than 122,000 alumni that live and work across approximately 110 countries. Through the University you have access to a wide range of events and opportunities to extend your network.
This is your opportunity to provide feedback on your experiences at the University of Tasmania and tell us what you have been up to since leaving the University, e.g. Are you working? If so, where and in what industry? Did you go on to further study? Your survey response will be greatly appreciated.
The University also offers a number of lifelong learning, career enhancement and student mentoring opportunities. Share your graduation moments Graduation is a celebration of your success at university and we encourage you to share celebration messages and photos of your smiles, gowns, families and friends on the University’s Alumni Facebook page at facebook.com/UTASAlumni. Alumni benefits As a graduate of the University of Tasmania you have access to many exclusive services and benefits including: – discounts on further study – lifelong learning opportunities, lectures and forums – free access to the University Library – lifelong email – invitations to reunions and networking events – professional development events and webinars – career mentoring and career development – alumni news and information services – volunteering opportunities Recognise the exceptional The Alumni Awards program recognise the outstanding achievements of alumni making a significant contribution to their communities and achieving excellence in their industry. For more information go to utas.edu.au/alumni/our-alumni/awards. Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) As a University graduate, you will receive an invitation by email to complete the GOS in 4-6 months’ time. The GOS is administered by the Social Research Centre on behalf of the Department of Education and Training. Graduates from Universities across Australia participate.
KEEP IN TOUCH We encourage you to keep your contact details updated with our Alumni Relations Office so we can continue to keep you informed about all the exclusive opportunities available to you as a graduate of the University of Tasmania. To update your contact details online or for more information about your alumni community visit utas.edu.au/alumni.
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MEET SOME OF OUR ALUMNI COMMUNITY Luke McGregor BA/BEc 2007 As a comedian and actor, Luke McGregor has forged a successful career in the Australian entertainment industry over the last decade. Luke’s impressive body of comedic work includes TV roles in Hughesy, We Have a Problem, Studio A, It’s a Date, The Time of Our Lives, Legally Brown and the Logie-winning Utopia. In 2016, he was co-creator and star of the hit ABC documentary series Luke Warm Sex. Luke has performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Tasmania’s 10 Days on the Island Festival. He is the co-writer and co-star of the award-winning comedy Rosehaven which is filmed in Tasmania and follows the story of best friends and unlikely real estate agents. The show draws inspiration from his parents’ business based in Hobart. Luke won the Logie for Most Popular Actor in 2019. Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas, Bachelor of Science with Honours 2002, Graduate Diploma of Marine Science 2010, PhD 2010 Jess is a Transdisciplinary Researcher and Knowledge Broker with CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere. She was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford from 2003-2005, and is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Jess was one of Science & Technology Australia’s 30 Superstars of STEM in 2018, and one of twelve women scientists to have her portrait featured as a constellation on the ceiling of New York’s Grand Central station as part of GE’s Balance the Equation campaign. Jess is passionate about encouraging greater representation of women in science leadership, and is the co-founder of the global Women in Polar Science (WiPS) networks, as well as the Homeward Bound project which took 78 women with a background in science on a leadership journey to Antarctica in 2016. In 2019 Jess was the recipient of an Alumni Achievement Award for her work in the fields of Antarctic marine ecosystems and climate change research. Dr Mansoor Mirkazemi FRACS (Plas), B Med Sci 1993, MBBS 1995 Mansoor arrived in Tasmania in 1986 as a 17 year-old Iranian refugee, and has gone on to become a highly successful plastic surgeon and humanitarian. Currently working with Collins Plastic Surgery in Melbourne, he specialises in cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery and hand surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS), a member of the Australian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPS) and a member of the Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association and travels frequently to Indonesia and Fiji as an Interplast volunteer where he treats children with cleft lips and palates, burn injuries, hand injuries and tumours. He received the University’s prestigious Foundation Graduate Award in 2015. Ange Boxall, Bachelor of Fine Arts 1997 After graduating from University, singer-songwriter Ange Boxall made a career travelling the world for over a decade, before returning to settle in the wild windy beaches of eastern Tasmania. She is co-founder of spirits company The Splendid Gin, the Founder and Creative Director of ECHO Festival and the Programmer and Producer of Tasmania’s Festival of Voices’ FoV Coastal, and hosts regular music sessions and markets at her east coast farmhouse, Riversdale. Ange has worked with some of the best musicians in Australia and the US and performed throughout the world and Tasmania. Her 2016 country album ‘Into the Wind’ debuted at No. 11 on the ARIA charts.
ALUMNI PROFILES Professor Roger Byard AO, PSM, MBBS 1978, B Med Sci 1975 Roger is one of Australia’s most distinguished contributors to the medical profession. His achievements in the field of pathology have been recognised globally. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, Honorary Member of the College of Forensic and Legal Medicine of Sri Lanka and a Registered Expert with the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Roger is the George Richard Marks Chair of Pathology at the University of Adelaide and a Senior Specialist Forensic Pathologist at Forensic Science SA. He has a specific interest in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and has published over 500 papers in peerreviewed journals. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016 and recently returned to Tasmania to deliver the University of Tasmania’s Arthur Cobbold Memorial Lecture at Dark Mofo. Tamara Jago SC Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws 1993 Magistrate Tamara Jago was born, raised and educated in the North-West of Tasmania. After graduating from the University she specialised in criminal law in private practice. Tamara commenced a position at the Legal Aid Commission in 2000. In 2010, Tamara became the first woman in Tasmania to be made Senior Counsel – the first also to receive that title working from the Legal Aid system. It was something the Attorney General of the time called an “historic appointment”. In 2016, Tamara was appointed to the bench where she continues to serve as one of the North-West region’s senior judicial officers. In 2019 Magistrate Jago’s achievements were recognised with an Alumni Award for Excellence. Alison Watkins, BCom 1985 Originally from Tasmania’s midlands, Alison has gone on to forge a ground-breaking career in the Australian business sector over the last three decades. Alison is currently Group Managing Director of Coca Cola Amatil and Non-Executive Director for The Centre of Independent Studies. Prior to her appointment with Coca-Cola Amatil in 2014, Alison’s roles included CEO of agribusiness GrainCorp Limited, CEO of Berri Limited and Managing Director of Regional Banking at ANZ. She also spent ten years at McKinsey & Company from 1989-1999 and became a partner of the firm in 1996 before moving to ANZ as Group General Manager Strategy. Alison remains one of only a few females to have held a CEO position with an ASX200 company and was the first appointed to head a listed Australian agribusiness. Alan Teh, Bachelor of Architecture 1999 Award-winning Malaysia architect Alan Teh is the Principal Architect and Founding Director of Atelier Alan the Architect which he estabished in 2005. Alan looks back on his days at the University fondly and says the many years in Tasmania, left a lasting impression. Today Alan is taking a lead in green sustainable architecture sin Malaysia creating the first Green Building Index-rated public school in Penang. Alan was voted as one of the “Top 30 Emerging Architects of Malaysia” in 2011, showcased in a Malaysian Institute of Architects’ publication 30 Under 40. He was also featured in the Taiwan interior design magazine My Home as one of the “Top 50 Young Chinese Designers” in 2014. His company has won the Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia/ Malaysia Institute of Architects awards in 2016 and 2017.