The ARCH Magazine | Issue 20 | 2017 Semester 3

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ROYAL WELCOME PITCH@PALACE COMES TO BOND

Pitch@Palace

A Piece of Pi

Research Week

Transformer

Inside the inaugural event

James Greig’s film masterpiece

Challenging the way we think

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Alumni

Pitch@Palace Inside Prince Andrew, Duke of York’s inaugural event at Bond

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Research Week Highlights from a week of inspiration and aspiration

Production

Editor: Camilla Jansen Journalists: Yasmin Bonnell, Paris Faint Ben Hall, David Simmons Design: Paris Faint

Publisher: Business News Australia. PO Box 1487, Mudgeeraba. QLD. 4213

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How Greg McPartlin built a global business inspired by mother nature

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Postcards from Bond’s Alumni Scholars

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Biama Nona: Escaping the comfort zone

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Dr Daryl McPhee’s Moreton Bay connection

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Sharkettes take out the AFL Grand Final

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A Piece of Pi Inside the masterpiece that won James Greig an Academy Award

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Larissa Rose’s journey to the top of the biofuels industry

Campus & Community

Time to Transform Bond Business School program secures foundation projects

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Women in Media conference redefines the status quo

Editorial enquiries Alumni and Development Office Bond University Gold Coast Queensland 4229, Australia Ph: +61 7 5595 4403 To join The ARCH mailing list please email: development@bond.edu.au

Contributors: Professor Tim Brailsford, Terri Fellowes, Karen Ransome, Brett Walker Photography: Corne Lategan, Luke Marsden, Annie Noon, Remco Photography.

VICE-CHANCELLOR’S MESSAGE

Engaging the community UNIVERSITIES are often the bedrock of local communities. Our students and staff are part of our institutional community and also a vital part of the wider community. Through them we provide economic benefits, and we cultivate innovation and promote development in society at all levels.

Bond has always embraced its responsibility to the community.

This has been manifest through the development of community educational programs; research outcomes that benefit society; infrastructure for use by schools, sporting clubs and community associations; sponsorship for community and sporting clubs; and access to experts to assist and advise on boards and government committees.

But perhaps above all, we have led the way in demonstrating that debates need to be evidence-based, respectful and conducted in a civilised manner.

We encourage our students to think independently, to immerse themselves in societal issues and appreciate the big picture, to engage with the local community and interact with others, and to speak up.

As the nation’s first private, non-profit and independent university, Bond has run the gauntlet of Governments of all persuasions and their varied agendas.

Despite these challenges, Bond has remained steadfast in its focus on supporting independent thinking amongst our students, and developing graduates who are capable of analysing, distilling and comprehending complex matters.

In this issue of the ARCH we feature examples of our community engagement. We also feature some of our alumni who have embraced this spirit and made a difference to their new communities, through sustainability initiatives, social work and community leadership.

We are proud of what our alumni continue to achieve and the impact they make.

The recent spike in political activism across campuses particularly in the USA raises some challenging dilemmas for university management teams across the globe. Universities have always been a lightning rod for contentious issues and vigorous debate.

At their heart, universities support the principle of free speech as a fundamental tenant. The very nature of our research agendas is based on objective inquiry and requires us to ask questions that challenge the status quo. Where would we be if Christopher Columbus had never set sail in 1492 and proved the world to be round?

These contentious issues often cut deep into the core of an institution’s autonomy and independence. Bond has stood firm over the years and succeeded in separating the rigorous pursuit of ideas distinct from political agendas, matters of faith, and paths of political correctness.

The rise of popularist politics has led to an environment where airwaves and agendas can rapidly become dominated by echo chambers that lecture us on right from wrong.

Notions of ambiguity, shades of grey, and multi-faceted perspectives can get lost in a popularist stance where black is black and white is as pure as driven snow.

As we all struggle with the rise of extremists at various levels and on various topics, we understand that any community engagement strategy is bound to enter an occasional minefield, but a clear understanding of principles and a consistent approach to each issue will assist in successfully navigating our path.

The current environment of divided causes, popularism and extremism is unlikely to quieten any time soon.

However, a strong commitment to community engagement will continue to serve us well.

Our philosophy of “students first” continues to enable Bond University to confront a challenging social agenda.

PROFESSOR TIM BRAILSFORD

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Landmark merger advances Bond Law

MODEL UN DELVING INTO DIPLOMACY

IN JULY, Bond University launched an Australian-first graduate program for legal academics called the Gold Coast Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLE).

As part of the Centre’s launch, Bond merged with the Sydney Centre for Legal Education (CLE).

The merger was a major coup for the Law Faculty, as the CLE supplied key information and research to help build the foundations of the CPLE. Bond University Executive Dean of Law, Professor Nick James, said merging with the largest facility of its kind in Australia was an opportunity to expand the pertinent work done by both institutions.

“The CLE has been a highly credible research centre for 25 years, so when we were approached about a potential merger, we saw it as an opportunity to continue, and fortify, that legacy,” he said.

“The CLE has produced instrumental research into legal education, including a study in the 1990s into the career destinations of law students.”

“It found that approximately 50 per cent of law graduates utilise their legal skills in other professions, rather than practising law – a statistic that is still widely cited today.”

“We look forward to reviewing and expanding on that research, among other projects, as we build on the work of Australia’s oldest legal education research centre and Bond University’s long-standing national and international reputation for excellence in the teaching of law.”

The CLE was Established in 1992 by the Law Foundation of New South Wales and since then has produced a number of academic publications and conducted many legal education projects.

The merger provides the team at Bond University’s Centre access to research papers, historical records and resources.

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Dr Mark Dinnen (R) with a High School student

A GROUP of 40 high school students received a taste for international diplomacy when Bond University hosted its inaugural High School Model United Nations (MUN) conference earlier in the semester.

Eleven different schools from south east Queensland took part in the one-day conference which required students to represent the position of their chosen country with respect to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and how they could create a nuclear free world.

The conference was organised by Professor of international relations Dr Mark Dinnen (Class of 2000) and featured a keynote speech from Ms Keiko Yanai, the ConsulGeneral of Japan.

The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs the Hon. Julie Bishop MP also delivered a video address, welcoming the delegation and detailing the importance of MUN conferences in building diplomatic knowledge.

Dr Dinnen said the students performed very well given the mature subject matter and tight timeframe.

“The students’ task was to represent their countries and to come up with a resolution towards a nuclear free world – I thought they did very well,” he said.

Dr Dinnen worked with the United Nations Department of Public Information to

formulate the procedures for the day to ensure the conference was as close as possible to United Nations practice.

He says the experience was an invaluable representation of real diplomacy, the likes of which students would be hard pressed to find elsewhere.

“Of course, it wasn’t an exact replica of the UN as we needed to make accommodations for the fact that we are dealing with a group of Australian high school students, but we ensured the rules, the processes and the practices in place were very closely aligned to how the UN operates,” said Dr Dinnen.

“To have that experience in simulation based learning allows students to experience international relations and diplomacy in action, which is a field they may never have considered before.”

“It’s also clear evidence of Bond’s innovative approach to learning and our willingness to reach out and provide students of all ages with opportunities that they don’t usually get to have.”

As far as the University is aware, the High School MUN competition is the first university conducted MUN high school experience in Australia.

Next year Dr Dinnen aims to include more students in the delegation, as well as inviting aspiring journalists to cover the event.

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STUDY TOUR HITS BIG FIVE IN SILICON VALLEY

Biomed students take a virtual look at the human body IN AN Australian first, Bond’s biomedical science lecturers are using the latest virtual reality technology available to enable students to experience the inside of the human body.

The apps and tutorials being taught in Bond’s ‘Virtual Reality Lab’ were created collaboratively by the University’s own Health Sciences and Medicine staff, Dr Christian Moro (Class of 2010), Dr Allan Stirling and Dr Athanasios Raikos.

Dr Stirling says the VR technology is the ideal teaching tool for a hands-on subject like anatomy.

“Anatomy by its very nature is a highly visual, three-dimensional subject which many students struggle to learn about and conceptualise from traditional two-dimensional textbooks, slides and lectures,” said Dr Stirling.

Silicon Valley Study Tour team members

A GROUP of entrepreneurial students recently embarked on the trip of a lifetime to visit California’s most iconic online giants and startups as part of the Bond Business School’s annual Silicon Valley Study tour.

Director of the Bond Business Commercialisation Centre, Dr Baden U’Ren (Class of 2000), curated and led the tour which included a visit to the headquarters of Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Salesforce.

“Highly experiential programs such as the study tour are a leading and tangible way to provide that connection to students.”

Reflecting on the trip’s biggest highlights, Dr U’Ren said it was hard to surpass the Linkedin experience.

“We arrived early and had breakfast at one of LinkedIn’s in-house cafeterias, Then LinkedIn’s Global Head of Product Marketing and a team member led us

“Modern education needs to be able to blend academic rigour with practical relevance.”

In addition to this collection of online giants, students also engaged with some of Silicon Valley’s fast growing brands including Omada Health and Nitro.

Dr U’Ren says the tour is about students identifying different aspects of the startup culture and understanding the organisational systems that promote ideation and innovation.

“Modern education needs to be able to blend academic rigour with practical relevance,” said Dr U’Ren.

through the strategy for Linkedin from a marketing perspective and where the business was heading in the near future.

It provided such a great insight to the way teams work within a big business, and it was inspiring.”

The Silicon Valley Study tour complements the learning outcomes within the Bond Commercialisation Centre, and is an addition to campus entrepreneurship initiatives and subjects including the Transformer and Business Accelerator.

The Bond team has also developed an app which takes students through a mini rolebased game, which includes some quizzes and interactive elements.

“This technology allows our students to explore anatomy in a three-dimensional sense, at their own pace, and is accessible so they can continue to interact with it outside the classroom – anytime and anyplace – on their personal mobiles, tablets and headsets,” says Dr Stirling.

Bachelor of Biomedical Science student, Ammar Zaka, says the Virtual Anatomy Lab answered lot of his questions and curiosities.

“It feels pretty incredible to be ‘inside’ the human brain, poking around, and learning things that just can’t be found in a textbook,” says Mr Zaka.

“I really respond to the combination of the hands-on experience, accompanied by the audio commentary from different experts. It gives me a much better feel for what the teacher is talking about, what’s important, and why.”

Not content with keeping their new technologies within the four walls of the University, the academics are now taking their augmented reality workshops to Year 11 and 12 students at local Gold Coast schools.

The technology has also been used in post-graduate training for trainee anaesthetists from around the Gold Coast.

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CSIRO Chairman enlightens Business Leaders TECHNOLOGY and telecom business leader David Thodey AO recently spoke at the Bond Business Leaders Forum, providing insight into how to lead a company in an increasingly volatile world.

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With more than 30 years’ experience in various high profile leadership roles, including his current role as Chairman of the CSIRO and his former position as CEO of Telstra, Mr Thodey revealed his keys to steering corporations of any type to success.

During his speech, Mr Thodey said there are four main pillars when it comes to keeping an organisation afloat in a volatile world.

“If you are running an organisation today, in the face of all this change, the first thing you need to have right at the heart is customer centricity, it is no longer optional,” said Mr Thodey.

According to Mr Thodey, the second essential pillar is to create a strong and trusting culture.

“You need to create a culture and set of values so that your employees know how to respond in every moment,” he said.

The third and fourth keys involve the concepts of leadership and innovation.

“When you see great leaders, you feel inspired… it’s not about charisma, it’s not about being the favourite, it’s about having authenticity,” said Mr Thodey.

“I think that leadership and innovation often go together… as leaders, we need to be continually pushing the boundaries in terms of what we do.”

“The great organisations, the ones who are defining the future, they move forward. I think that’s what we need to do, because I think then we always have a sense of purpose.”

Mr Thodey’s presentation wrapped up the Business Leaders Forum series for 2017 which also included presentations from Peter Beattie AC, Tony Shepherd AO and Mark Sowerby.

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Bond students in Nepal

A CHARITABLE group of Bondies journeyed to Nepal to assist rural communities surrounding Kathmandu as part of the Bond Aid Program.

Ms White said the biggest highlight from the experience was building relationships between the students and their host families.

Led by the Bond University Students’ Association (BUSA) Special Interests Director Sarah White, the group of 12 lived with Nepal families for more than two weeks while working within the community to teach at local schools and build new infrastructure.

“This is the second time we have gone back to the same community and we stayed with the same families,” said Ms White.

Ms White said one of the biggest projects on the tour involved helping a local secondary school rebuild its main assembly hall which was destroyed during the 2015 earthquakes.

“They fed us, gave us a home – we had dinner with them every night and they told us about their stories and who they are, what they did during the earthquakes and what they do for a living.”

“The highlight was definitely getting to learn a lot about Nepal culture through them.”

“The hall was completely demolished so the school and the community as a whole didn’t have anywhere to hold meetings,” said Ms White.

Despite the challenges that came with working hard in high temperatures with little rest, Ms White said the experience was an extremely enriching one.

“We went in with our pickaxes and shovels, dug up the floor and helped rebuild.”

She encourages others who are in a fortunate position to engage in charity and aid work to give back to the international community.

As an educational component of the trip, Bondies took to the local classrooms to teaching Nepal students about varied subjects including English, music and sport.

A couple of the Bond female students also taught classes on reproductive health to some of the community’s older female students.

“We at Bond in particular are very fortunate to be in the position we are, as we have an amazing education and are given all the skills and abilities to succeed in life, but unfortunately not everyone in the world is given the same opportunities,” said Ms White.

“For some, it was the first time finding out anything about their own reproductive systems, lots of the students didn’t know why people go through puberty,” said Ms White.

“I think it’s our job as people who do have the capacity to go and help others, to provide opportunities and encourage people to be the best they can in situations where it is more difficult to flourish.”

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TACTICAL RESEARCH UNIT FIRES UP FOR SAFETY IT IS little wonder that firefighting frequently tops lists as the world’s fittest and most gruelling profession.

A study by Bond’s world-first Tactical Research Unit (TRU) shows exactly why this is the case, in order to help keep firefighters healthy in the line of work.

In conjunction with the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service, the TRU found that firefighters lose an average of 1.2 kilograms in just 30 minutes of being exposed to the heavy demands and heat of structural firefighting. The study considered the impacts of heat and workload on the hydration levels of firefighters between the ages of 29 and 48 with one to 16 years’ experience.

Dr Rob Orr, Associate Professor and coleader of the TRU alongside Dr Rod Pope, said the purpose of the Unit on the whole is to improve the health and performance of front-line tactical employees. In the case of firefighters, he says the most recent study was aimed at better understanding the physiological impact on the profession to improve strategies for hydration and health maintenance.

“What we have found is that firefighters lose sweat at a rate potentially higher than a person undertaking high intensity exercise,” says Dr Orr. “The high level of fluid loss continues even after they leave the fire environment, if they are still in their turn out gear.”

Inspector Richard Gorey of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services says the study also shed light on the effects of firefighting on the muscular, skeletal, physiological and cognitive systems. According to Inspector Gorey, the results will help to identify the most effective treatment options and injury prevention strategies to implement.

“If we can better understand the effects on the body, we can tailor treatment approaches, injury prevention strategies and return to work reconditioning strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of firefighters over the long term.”

“Through this research, we are hoping to find new and improved data to base rehabilitation policies on, for firefighters involved in both structural or wild land fire events,” he says.

The TRU is a network of multi-disciplinary, international experts investigating tactical personnel across firefighting, military, law enforcement and first responder organisations.

Networking with an edge BOND Business School’s Business Links Series encompasses a variety of presentations from industry and academic experts throughout the year.

Bond University’s Dr Michael Raybould, Associate Dean of External Engagement for Bond Business School, says the initiative provides opportunities for small to medium business owners to network and gain valuable information first hand.

“It’s a great networking opportunity for local business men and women and for accountants who are advising local businesses,” said Dr Raybould.

Business Links is free to attend thanks to the support of the Gold Coast branch of CPA Australia. Dr Raybould says interest in the Business Links series is growing,

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especially among accountants and family business owners.

“The last Business Links event had close to 180 attendees, which has almost doubled over two years,” he said.

Recent event speakers have included Claire Dean (Class of 2002) and Derek Cronin (Class of 1989).

“A lot of the attendees are accountants often from small practices who are advising business leaders.” ”We also have a lot of interest from the Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce.”

The sessions typically focus on practical business insights that owners can implement on their own to add value to their enterprise.

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BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT A NATIONAL study by Bond University and the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA) discovered that video and computer games are being used for health and education, aged care and in the workplace.

The report revealed that of the 3,135 individuals surveyed, 59 per cent said video games can help manage pain and eight out of 10 people believe playing games can improve their thinking skills.

The leader of the report, Bond University Professor Dr Jeff Brand, said the study revealed Australians are playing games for more than just the traditional entertainment it provides.

“The fun continues through interactive games, but the research shows that games increasingly serve other uses,” he said.

“Australians are playing to improve their health and for positive ageing. They’re using games in the workplace and at school.”

Student experience at Bond given five-star ratings

Revelations about the assistance games provide for aged care is also significant with Australians over the age of 65 making up the largest group of new players over the past six years.

The survey also revealed 90 per cent of participants said they played to increase mental stimulation, 80 per cent said video games fight dementia and 54 per cent agree playing games can help mobility.

CEO of IGEA, Ron Curry, said Australians are beginning to recognise the assistance games provide in our everyday lives.

“The opportunities games and gamesbased technology present beyond just entertainment are immense,” he said.

“Games now play a fundamental role in how we learn and work.”

“Australians are also embracing games’ capacity to solve high value social and health problems.”

FOR the twelfth consecutive year Bond University has received five-star ratings across all six measures of student experience in the Good Universities Guide 2018.

The measures include: Overall, Teaching Quality, Learner Engagement, Learning Resources, Student Support and Skills Development as-well-as Staff Ratio and Student Retention. The impressive rating is a huge achievement for Bond and puts it ahead of all other universities in the nation for student experience.

Vice-Chancellor and President of Bond University Professor Tim Brailsford said the

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“Games now play a fundamental role in how we learn and work.”

University’s focus has been reflected in the guide.

“Our students are at the heart of everything we do, and every decision we make, so it is pleasing to see this absolute focus on providing a world-class, transformational student experience is reflected in the Good Universities Guide 2018 ratings,” Professor Brailsford said.

“I am also very proud that we deliver continually and consistently, year-on-year and across each and every field of study that Bond offers.”

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Bond welcomes award winning architect HIGHLY regarded Queensland architect and academic Professor, Michael Keniger, was appointed to Bond University’s Abedian School of Architecture in May this year.

Professor Keniger trained at the internationally esteemed Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and worked as a unit master at the institution.

The acclaimed architect says he will draw on his experience at the school to produce opportunities of the same standard for Bond students through the coordination of the Master of Architecture program.

BIG BREAK FILM STUDENT GETS

“I ultimately hope to create opportunities that are as exciting and enriching as I enjoyed while training in London,” he said.

“The Abedian School of Architecture is an extraordinary facility for students, and Bond’s low staff-to-student ratio and high calibre of academic staff, make its architecture program secondto-none.”

“I look forward to assisting with strategic matters, and to increasing the profile of the school globally.”

Professor Keniger has recently been recognised by the Australian Institute of Architecture (AIA), being awarded The National President’s prize for ‘nurturing, guiding and inspiring coming generations of architects’.

Bond University’s Executive Dean of the Faculty of Society & Design, Professor Raoul Mortley, said the Abedian School of Architecture feels lucky to have Michael Keniger at Bond.

“Professor Keniger’s recent AIA award recognises his outstanding experience, knowledge and reputation, and we feel privileged to have him join our Abedian School of Architecture,” he said.

“Professor Keniger will play an instrumental role in the ongoing growth and enhancement of the Abedian School of Architecture and will ensure our architects graduate with the inspiration and capability to shift the direction of future practice.”

Mr Ben Griggs

THE annual Bond University Film and Television Awards (BUFTA) is a short film competition that provides upcoming filmmakers in years 11 and 12 a chance to showcase their talent.

In 2013, Ben Griggs won best overall filmmaker at BUFTA, securing him a full scholarship to Study Film and TV at Bond and boosting his already successful career.

In May this year, before even graduating, 20-year-old Ben had his comedic short film ‘Nutcase’ shown at the New York Shorts International Film Festival.

“I didn’t expect Nutcase to be accepted, because the New York Shorts is such a prestigious event, so to have it screened during the festival was very exciting,” he said.

The talented filmmaker is also in the process of establishing his own production company after his experience interning at a well-respected post-production company in Brisbane.

Mr Griggs is expected to graduate from Bond University next semester and attributes much of his success to his time at Bond.

“My high school teacher entered my film in BUFTA and I’m so lucky that she did as the competition has proven to be an invaluable opportunity in opening many doors for me,” he said.

“Starting my career with a scholarship to study film and television at Bond not only helped to improve my filmmaking skills, but taught me hands-on professionalism and how the film industry truly works, so when I’ve had opportunities to work on industry productions I’ve always felt confident and well-prepared.”

Looking back at his own experience, Ben recommends year 11 and 12 students enter their own short films in BUFTA. “As a high school student, it is a fantastic chance to showcase your work on the big screen and meet other young filmmakers who share your passion,” he said.

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ROYAL WELCOME @BOND PRINCE ANDREW has been part of a judging panel at Bond University that has taken pitches from 17 of the best and brightest minds from Queensland, Northern Territory and northern New South Wales as part of a nationwide competition to find Australia’s top entrepreneur.

The Duke of York was the special guest at Bond for the inaugural Pitch@Palace Australia startup competition which this year had a focus on technology.

The Duke spent the day at Bond University talking with students and entrants about their business ideas before they pitched their ideas directly to him as part of the competition which was designed to pick the regional winners who then attended the national final in Sydney.

“Thank you a million times for participating this afternoon. I’m hoping it will make a huge difference to all of these businesses here today,” Prince Andrew said at the conclusion of the event.

“We look forward to our Pitch@Palace’s growth and expansion in Australia as time goes by. Thank you Bond, and well done everybody.”

The budding business moguls presented an array of innovative ideas and inventions

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at the Bond University event, including a Tinder-like app for airport travellers, a new banking platform, improved cold sore treatment, cyber-security technology, and an app that uses storytelling to support mental health.

Pitch@Palace is designed to support, enhance and add value to start-up and scale-up companies by providing a platform for entrepreneurs and audiences to meet, network and hear the great ideas that are being commercialised and built by the next generation of entrepreneurs.

“This event is all about connections and connectivity,” Prince Andrew said.

From the Bond event, eight regional finalists were selected to attend a national Boot Camp at Wollongong, where they were joined by a further 16 finalists from the other states who were mentored by a number of leading Australian and international business identities.

Half of these Boot Camp entrepreneurs were then selected to pitch their ideas at the Pitch@Palace Australian final, which was held at Government House in Sydney.

The creator of luxury active wear brand Faebella, Alisha Geary (Class of 2013), was eventually crowned a winner of the

inaugural Pitch@Palace Australia start-up competition by The Duke of York.

Ms Geary was one of three national winners, including fellow Gold Coast innovator, Nev Hyman of NevHouse and Ben Armstrong of HireUp in Sydney, who will be flown to London to represent Australia at the global final of Pitch@Palace in December, where they will compete against some of the world’s best and most innovative start-ups.

Ms Geary’s idea was originally inspired through her volunteer work as a guide for the Corrigan Walk Art Tour, Australia’s largest private modern Indigenous art collection, which is displayed throughout the Bond University campus, where she has recently completed a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Laws.

From this idea, Faebella was born, and through the Bond Business Accelerator, the University’s incubator program for early stage start-ups, she developed her fledgling business concept into a start-up.

Faebella’s mission is to share the rich culture and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by presenting their art on active wear, and now Ms Geary will embark on her first overseas trip and have the

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Prince Andrew, Duke of York at Bond University

opportunity to showcase her business on a global stage on 6 December at St James’ Palace in London. Ms Geary, who grew up between Cairns and the Torres Strait Islands, received the 2013 Bond University Indigenous Community Excellence Scholarship to study Business/Laws.

“I am the first person in my family to attend university, so receiving the Indigenous Scholarship to study at Bond University really changed my life,” she said.

Ms Geary said she is very excited about winning the first-ever Pitch@Palace Australia start-up competition.

“It was very unexpected, but I’m very excited about winning as it will give my business global exposure plus it will be my first trip overseas!”

Bond University Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Tim Brailsford said he was ‘extraordinarily proud’ of Ms Geary’s efforts.

“Pitch@Palace Australia will provide Alisha and her fellow entrepreneurs with a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase their talent on the world’s stage, and potentially receive global exposure and investment,” Professor Brailsford said.

Ms Geary’s fellow Gold Coast winner, Nev Hyman, is a former surfboard shaper and the creator of NevHouse, a business which turns recycled plastic and other sustainable materials into low cost homes, schools and medical clinics.

The structures are constructed in five days or less and function off the grid.

Mr Hyman says the Pitch@Palace competition was an exciting opportunity that will help his business, NevHouse, access key people in the EU, UN and the World Bank.

Ms Geary and Mr Hyman will be joined in London at the global Pitch@Palace final by Ben Armstrong, the creator of HireUp, a digital platform for people with disability to find, hire and manage support workers who fit their needs and share their interests.

“Pitch@Palace aims to support, enhance and add value to start-up and scale-up companies”

Other alumni who took part in Pitch@ Palace include Zottie Dottie, by Zoie Carroll (Class of 2008), which uses digital storytelling to destigmatise mental health, and Melbourne-based Tony Simmons (Class of 1995) who pitched Lithodomos VR, his ancient world virtual reality content for tourism, education and entertainment.

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Students Ms Zane Stromberga and Mr Harsh Shukla with Transformer Coach Dr Christian Moro

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Imagine Gold Coast: Transformer’s first industry partnership project

WORKING WITH OUR TRANSFORMERS LAUNCHED in May, Transformer uses design thinking techniques to develop creative problem solving, inter-disciplinary collaboration and evidence-based decision-making and enables individual achievers to seek out others hungry to collectively make a difference.

The program fosters determination, adaptability, and resilience and unlike accelerators or incubators, the focus is on student development. While there is scope to develop business ventures, there’s also space for students to generate social, cultural and environmental change.

SEVENTEEN Bond University students are on a mission to tell the untold stories of the Gold Coast through a global social media campaign to be launched in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games.

Imagine Gold Coast goes beyond the established image of the coastal city and aspires to unearth all the opportunities on offer, from education through to work and lifestyle.

Their project, Imagine Gold Coast, aims to enhance the Gold Coast’s reputation by looking beyond the city’s beaches and nightclubs and uncovering and celebrating the culture, diversity and opportunities that lie at the very heart of its identity.

Over the course of six months, the group will showcase the Gold Coast’s hidden gems, divided into three main themes.

Imagine Gold Coast is the first industry project within Bond’s innovative Transformer program, delivered in partnership with the Commonwealth Games Unit of Gold Coast City Council.

“Experience the Unlimited” encompasses the limitless opportunities available on the Gold Coast, from innovative business events through to ground-breaking technologies; “Explore the Undiscovered” which reveals restaurants, places and activities that the world has not yet discovered but should, and “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Achievements” which is the true core of the project.

This focuses on the every-day people who have achieved something astonishing on the Gold Coast. Each pillar of the campaign focuses on a range of people’s experiences of the Gold Coast through the five senses, “Imagine” being the sixth one.

The students hope that by telling the story of the Gold Coast through the eyes of some of its most inspiring, eccentric and unexpected residents and visitors, they will create a long-lasting legacy through human connection - a kind of magnet which draws the rest of the world to our shores.

The team behind the project is as diverse as the city it hopes to capture, including students studying Communication, Arts, Industrial Relations, Psychology, Film & TV, Journalism and Business and they hail from Madagascar, Sudan, Italy, the US, Brazil, Germany and Australia. To achieve global reach, students have selected wellestablished platforms including Instagram and Facebook for sharing original, compelling content.

The campaign is all about connections so if you have been inspired and moved by the Gold Coast, the team would love to hear from you.

Alumni and the broader community are invited to contribute content (both suggestions and submissions) to be featured on the Imagine Gold Coast social media platforms.

If you know an incredible local, have found some of the Coast’s secret spaces or have a quirky, moving or unforgettable story about your time living on or visiting the Gold Coast, please email: imaginegoldcoast@bond.edu.au

Contact transformer@bond.edu.au for more information

Transformer is a self-directed cocurricular program supported by dedicated academic coaches, industry experts and mentors, state-of-the-art facilities, and a range of workshops, events, and other resources.

Successful progression and completion of each stage involves presentation and reporting to expert panels with industry representation.

Bond is readying itself to work with its most inspiring and innovative alumni to help Transformer students as they tackle real-world problems and drive meaningful change.

Alumni can become involved in several ways, with varying levels of timecommitment: •

As a project mentor;

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Giving an expert insight presentation;

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Running a skills session;

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Being part of the end of semester expert panel;

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Partnering with Transformer to run an industry project; or

Other options for engagement please email: transformer@bond.edu.au This is your opportunity to work with the next generation of ambitious problem solvers.

Transformer is filled with motivated students from diplomas, degrees and higher-degrees across all faculties and from many nationalities coming together to tackle issues of importance to them.

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Director of Transformer Mr Daniel Abrahams

TRANSFORMING TOMORROW’S LEADERS HE HAS successfully transformed companies and disrupted industries in some of Asia’s largest markets and now Daniel Abrahams is bringing more than two decades of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership to Bond’s Transformer Program.

Growing ideas from incubation to customer take-up for companies such as Superloop, Aurizon, Energex, Suncorp and Toyota, Daniel has sold into some of the biggest names in the digital economy including Apple and Amazon.

Mr Abrahams has been appointed Director of Transformer in what he describes as a “life changing” opportunity to make a difference to the next generation of leaders who will emerge from Bond University.

Before joining Transformer, Mr Abrahams held the roles of CEO and Executive Director at dark fibre infrastructure provider Superloop and led the team through a share market listing with a price that has now more than doubled and has a market capitalisation of more than $500 million.

Arch spoke with Daniel Abrahams about his vision for Transformer.

WHY THE MOVE TO ACADEMIA? The move to academia was something I always wanted to do eventually, as advancement through education is a theme of my own life personally and a life-long passion.

I see the universities, and Bond in particular, as being the innovation heartland, and I want to truly make a contribution to the future of Australia for the benefit of the next generation.

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It’s just the sense of belief that education gives you life-changing opportunities to put your ideas and thinking into practice, to take risks and to learn by doing.

Transformer appeals to me as it enables students to take real action on their personal and unique ideas.

WHAT MINDSET WILL YOU BE BRINGING TO TRANSFORMER? My formative views are certainly to instill an entrepreneurial risk-taking culture, that drives practical actions to achieve outcomes, and I want that across the Transformer Program.

Secondly, is that every professional (from doctors, lawyers, business professionals through to architects, film makers, politicians, etc.) must know how to sell – your story, your idea, your product or service. I believe most people are afraid of selling, but generally if you can build a relationship based on trust and respect then you, in effect, become the best salesperson.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE STUDENTS? I see a growing confidence in our students working on personal and creative projects.

Students are encouraged to identify real-world problems, get their ideas and solutions focused and simple enough, and get them executed.

If the Transformers personalise their entrepreneurial journey down the path of a corporate career, they’ll have this entrepreneurial mindset and skill set that will allow them to take the pathways into the jobs of tomorrow. Have a go and

learn how to take risks - that’s really what I’d like to see, so this absolute confident entrepreneurial mindset and behaviours to back it up.

WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THE CORPORATE WORLD TODAY? I think corporate Australia is not embracing innovation with a sense of urgency, they are playing it safe.This provides a great opportunity for disruptors as the corporations of today are operating on a status quo basis. Most companies haven’t worked out that if they don’t disrupt themselves, they are going to be victims of their legacy.

I think corporate Australia needs the energy and ideas of the graduating students, more than the graduates need the corporations.

Once graduates leave with a mindset where anything is possible, they have a sustainable competitive advantage over corporations that are risk averse and focus too much on process and not on outcome.

LET’S SAY A STUDENT COMES TO YOU FOR PRACTICAL ADVICE, WHAT DO YOU TELL THEM? Always ask questions, and I think that’s such a no-brainer but you must keep challenging the status quo. The moment you stop questioning, you’re in effect leading yourself down a path of failure and complacency.

The second one is: Don’t wait until you’ve got the title of CEO to build your leadership ability, start doing it today. Transformer will empower students to take the first practical steps on their individual leadership journey.

FEATURE

Helping students learn the art of

beauty Dr Soheil Abedian

HAVING grown up with the Baha'i Faith and a father who insisted on the importance of learning, it is little wonder Dr Soheil Abedian has become such a strong advocate for universal education.

After leaving his home country of Iran at just 17 years of age, Dr Abedian completed his architecture studies - which he describes as 'the art of beauty' - in Austria before emigrating to Australia three decades ago.

He has gone on to build one of Australia's largest and most successful development companies, Sunland Group, responsible for a string of city-shaping and highly-lauded projects, including Palazzo Versace and Q1 on the Gold Coast, and Abian in Brisbane.

But, behind the scenes, Dr Abedian has also been quietly establishing what is no doubt among his proudest achievements two not-for-profit organisations, Abedian Foundation and Sunland Foundation, which have helped hundreds of young people world-wide achieve the gift of education.

A long-standing supporter of Bond University, Dr Abedian recently announced a partnership to help fund four new architecture scholarships at the University, aimed at helping the city-shapers of tomorrow create 'beautiful societies' and bringing the total number of students on his scholarship program next semester to 19.

As he celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Baha'i Faith, Dr Abedian says his resolve to give back to the community by helping as many young people as possible receive a quality education is stronger than ever.

"My father was insistent that education should be at the forefront of every family - he wanted my siblings and I to be both professionally educated as well as educated to serve humanity in the best way possible.

I am forever grateful to him for instilling those values in me," said Dr Abedian.

"I began my studies at the University of Graz in Austria in 1967. Back then, it took 10 years to complete a Master of Architecture. Once I finished my studies, I emigrated to Australia and in 1983 I launched Sunland Group. Since then, we have designed more than 30,000 homes and apartments, with many more to come."

After finding success through Sunland Group, Dr Abedian established his foundations. He contributes 100 per cent of his earnings to the not-for-profit organisations to help young people in Australia and abroad achieve an education.

"I am proud to say that the Foundations support Salvation Army (Red Shield Appeal), Muscular Dystrophy, Mayoress Charity Ball, Gold Coast Community Fund as well as other educational charities and Foundations. We are doing our best to give the gift of education to as many children as we can," he says.

Recently, Dr Abedian has partnered with Bond University to establish the new Abedian Foundation Master of Architecture scholarships. The scholarships are being awarded under two categories, with the Abedian Foundation Master of Architecture 'Scholarship' for two eligible students based on academic merit, while the Abedian Foundation Master of Architecture 'Award'

will be offered to two eligible students based on financial need.

"My family has a very long association with Bond University with my children and grandchild studying at the University. Bond has provided education for my family and now I want to give back to the institution through the gift of scholarships," he says.

"I believe the core to my business success is having an architecture background Sunland is currently working on 7,000 homes and apartments on the Gold Coast, with more than $3.5 billion worth underway or completed in the city alone.�

"I believe architecture is the art of beauty and I want to give the professionals of tomorrow the opportunity to learn and create beautiful societies through architecture."

Bond University Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Tim Brailsford, says the University's award-winning architecture school would not have been possible without the Abedian Foundation and Dr Abedian's generous contributions.

"We were so fortunate to find someone who shared our vision and who personally supported the realisation of that vision in Dr Abedian," said Professor Brailsford.

"Dr Abedian and Sunland Group have supported many students who have come through our doors by way of internships, career opportunities and networking and we will forever be appreciative of that support. The school carries the Abedian name in recognition of these outstanding contributions to Bond University."

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A PIECE OF

PI Inside the masterwork that won Bond alumnus James Greig an Academy Award

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ALUMNI HOW long do you think it would take to count each strand of hair on a tiger’s body?

While James Greig (Class of 1999) doesn’t know for certain, as one of the visual effects (VFX) coordinators for The Life of Pi – he has a better idea than most.

Mr Greig’s team at the Moving Picture Company, based in Vancouver, was given two years to create two sequences in The Life of Pi. His task was to edit every single frame to try and realistically create minute details such as the effect of a gust of wind on a tiger’s mane, or the angle and spray direction of a single breaking wave amid a violent stormy sea. Each strand of fur, water droplet and movement was created and placed by hand.

It was this sort of painstaking attention to detail in creating a career-defining masterpiece that won Mr Greig’s team the Oscar for Visual Effects in 2013.

“The Oscar was given to the studio as a whole for technical achievements,” said Mr Greig.

“Purely because The Life of Pi was so challenging, the Academy thought that was the biggest advancement in technology for many years – if not the first time in creating seamless water effects and animal realism.”

“Things like having wind react to a tiger’s fur, or an elephant slamming its leg down to create ripples on the skin, it is all real physics.”

Mr Greig was part of a team of 34 people which was awarded the Oscar, and within that team he was responsible for managing the technical animation department.

While he admitted it was a hard slog, Mr Greig said the sense of achievement was unparalleled when the film was finally released.

“The VFX supervisor on the film was Guillaume Rocheron (Batman Begins, Man of Steel), and his track record was that it had to be perfect,” said Mr Greig.

“We worked for three months straight towards the end of making the film, trying to perfect technical issues.”

Mr James Greig

“But afterwards it was a huge relief and a sense of achievement knowing that you were faced with a lot of walls, and you got over them somehow.”

The Life of Pi is the crown jewel in Mr Greig’s career which brims with high-profile VFX credits including Tron: Legacy (2010), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2012), Man of Steel (2013) and Maleficent (2014).

Mr Greig said working on various A-list films gave him the tools to manage an effective team on The Life of Pi, his biggest project.

“Working on all those previous films gave me the skills to manage a team, a small team but a very expensive and technical one with people who are the best at what they do,” he said.

Since 2014, Mr Greig has worked as a freelancer under his own brand James Greig Media.

Last year he also started a new position as a flight dispatcher for WestJet in Canada where he is also training to become a pilot.

As one of Bond’s Film and TV graduates, Mr Greig said his studies gave him a real taste of almost every aspect of the industry.

“Not everyone wants to be behind the camera, some people want to be in front of it, some want to be directors, and I went through Bond with that same kind of real world experience,” he said.

His biggest piece of advice to aspiring filmmakers is to draw as much as possible from the university experience.

“Because film is a creative industry, you just need to keep doing it. You have to put yourself out there and keep creatively engaged in the long term.”

“Purely because The Life of Pi was so challenging, the Academy thought that was the biggest advancement in technology for many years.”

Life of Pi visual effects team

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FUELLING WHEN Larissa Rose (Class of 2010) graduated from the Master of Sustainable Development and Environmental Management in 2014, there was no industry body for her to work with.

Having spent the last two years focusing her Master’s degree on the complex world of biofuels, Ms Rose left Bond for an Australia where biofuels were still being established.

Ms Rose understood the economic and environmental benefits that would be delivered to states if they had a biofuels mandate, but at the time no one was listening.

“When I wrote my research paper on biofuels I got really angry, and saw that

there were no politicians in Australia understanding fuel security,” said Ms Rose.

“I took my paper and approached the only politician I knew at the time to ask what was going on about biofuels; why was there not a dialogue happening.”

Behind the scenes, Ms Rose was working for an environmental consulting company, doing environmental assessment work with a friend from University. But her main passion was biofuels.

Between graduating and today, Ms Rose has quickly established the Queensland Renewable Fuels Association (QRFA) – one of the most important biofuel industry bodies in the country, and indeed, the world.

The QRFA regularly works alongside similar groups internationally to help drive the dialogue surrounding fuel security. The QRFA is especially concerned with ensuring the State Government in Queensland remains committed to a biofuel mandate.

Working alongside interested parties in

Queensland, including agricultural groups, Ms Rose promotes the use of renewable fuels resources – many of which are easily made from the by-products of sugar.

However, it was not smooth sailing for Ms Rose to establish the QRFA. During the Newman government years, Ms Rose worked with the KAP Party to push forward a biofuels mandate for the State of Queensland.

This spurred Ms Rose into action, where she decided to begin acting as a regular advocate for the biofuel community, driving the change that was needed.

“I went and spent some time going to far north and western Queensland with sugar cane and sorghum growers, and travelling to visit the farmers that provide the feedstocks for the Sarina and Dalby biofuel plants,” said Ms Rose.

“I started getting out media releases, pushing the local newspapers to talk about why to support biofuels and what it means for the community. I became the person to go to about biofuels in Australia.”

At the time, Ms Rose was unpaid for her work in the sector, but that would soon change. Ms Rose got in contact with Michael Bryan, Chairman of the Board of

Ms Larissa Rose

“I squeezed Bond like a sponge big time”

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UP BBI International and Chief Executive Officer of BBI Biofuels Australia, with offices in the United States, Australia and Canada. Bryan was instrumental in the push for ethanol legislation in the United States and was brought on board by Ms Rose to help push for a biofuel mandate in Australia.

“At the same time, the Palaszczuk Government was elected in Queensland and they wanted to push a biofuel mandate,” said Ms Rose.

“The Palaszczuk Government fostered and drove it. They saw a bigger picture for this industry, because it didn’t mean just making biofuels, it meant making biochemicals, and bioplastic – we could make a really big biotechnology industry like a lot of other countries have done.”

With the mandate in place, Ms Rose realised the timing was perfect to establish an industry body; the QRFA. The group, which is two years old, lobbies on behalf of the biofuel industry to ensure the mandate survives and supports the sector.

In July, Ms Rose travelled to Montreal on behalf of the QRFA to sign a partnership with a global initiative as part of the World Business Council of Sustainable Development. QRFA and below50 partnered to create ‘below50 Australia’, which will support the global and domestic objectives of transitioning to a low carbon fuel economy.

Like most Bondies, Ms Rose has given back so much of her time and energy to fostering the next generation of Australia’s leaders.

After taking on interns from Bond who Ms Rose hopes will become leaders in the biofuels sector, Ms Rose has returned to campus a number of times to present and lecture students on the biofuel economy and the legalities of the renewable fuels sector.

“I squeezed Bond like a sponge big time,” said Ms Rose.

“My role as a Bond alumni is to motivate and nurture and grow more students, and give some a little nudge, and it really helps when that comes from someone who’s out there and doing it.”

Ms Karri Coles

KARRI COLES’ CARPE DIEM KARRI COLES (Class of 2014) spent her university life seizing every opportunity that came her way.

From mooting and international youth diplomacy tours to study exchanges, internships and more, the Vynka Hohnen scholar certainly left no stone unturned when it came to completing her dual Bachelor of Law and Arts degree.

For outstanding dedication to the Beyond Bond Program, which recognises a student’s involvement in extra-curricular activities, Ms Coles was awarded the Grenby Family Beyond Bond Medal at her graduation ceremony in October.

Ms Coles won the award by a significant margin and says she is humbled by the experience.

“It is a huge honour, and for me personally it’s a recognition of how involved I was in the Bond community, and how much time I spent on campus doing things outside of class,” she said.

“It’s a tangible representation of my experience at Bond, and the fact that what the University offers is really more than just a degree. It’s a life defining experience.”

Initially from Western Australia, Ms Coles was convinced to travel for her studies after a presentation delivered at her high

school by a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship recipient and former student.

She had heard that Bond was a place where students were passionate about their studies and surroundings, and decided to take the chance.

Ms Coles graduated in October 2017 and is looking forward to assuming a graduate position at Norton Rose Fulbright early next year.

She hopes that the job will be a stepping stone to an international career in corporate law.

“I’ll be with the firm for two years finishing my graduate position, and fingers crossed I’ll be admitted as a lawyer in Western Australia,” said Ms Coles.

“Then I hope to stay with Norton Rose Fulbright for the foreseeable future. It’s an international firm, so I hope at some point I will be able to experience working overseas in Hong Kong, Singapore or London.”

“Commercial law has been the dream for quite a few years, and I am very privileged to have secured a job in that industry.”

Coming full circle, Ms Coles has now travelled back to schools in Western Australia to give the same type of presentation which convinced her to come to Bond in the first place.

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Mr Greg McPartlin

Tapping into

Mother Nature

GREG MCPARTLIN (Class of 2000) is in the business of playing mother nature. His mission is to change the way the world manages water at a fundamental level, and through Parjana he gets closer to this goal each day.

The Bond Master of Business Administration alumnus co-founded the Detroit-based company with business partner Andrew Niemczyk to solve two simple problems; what happens when there is too much water, and when there is too little.

“Our technology mediates the variances between drought and flood events, not eliminating them but simply mitigating the variances between the peaks and the flows,” said Mr McPartlin.

“We are conditioning the soil so when it rains, the earth can naturally infiltrate the water where it falls. What we’re doing is called bio-mimicry - it’s the study of mother nature, understanding how she solves problems and mimicking her solutions.”

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Parjana’s product is essentially a network of artificial tree roots which have a similar effect to a rainforest, namely retaining moisture in the earth while simultaneously running off excess water.

“We simply plant the network of artificial roots so that when the heavens open the earth can naturally infiltrate the water as mother nature intended,” said Mr McPartlin.

It’s a simple solution to a ubiquitous problem and Parjana has implemented it around the world.

In addition to its network of solutions in the United States, Parjana has around 100 projects currently running in the UK including work on major airports and schools.

There is no doubt the business has reached a burgeoning commercial market, however Mr McPartlin said its roots are also firmly planted in environmentalism.

“Our end goal is to fundamentally change the food and water supply for the modern population,” he said.

“Malaria, cholera, dysentery – these are all surface water diseases, and if you mitigate the surface water you mitigate the disease.

In the humanitarian puzzle, we are trying to make money in the first world so that we are able to deploy our technology in the developing world to address all water issues.”

Reflecting on his company’s startup process, Mr McPartlin said Bond’s teachings were instrumental in bringing his vision to life.

“I think the biggest thing that Bond taught me was being able to create a vision, to build a team around that vision and enable that team to drive towards the same goal,” he says.

“No one person has all the skills, and what Bond really taught me was how to create a team which could accomplish the goal.”

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Dr Thomas Wiegelmann

THE POWER OF THE NETWORK REAL ESTATE has been in Thomas Wiegelmann’s (Class of 2011) blood, long before he stepped on campus at Bond to undertake a PhD in Real Estate.

“My passion was triggered by my grandfather, who was a successful entrepreneur, lawyer and real estate developer in Europe and Canada,” Dr Wiegelmann said.

“He took me as a young boy to the top of the Petro-Canada skyscraper in Calgary, which he was overseeing. I have held a fascination for real estate for as long as I can remember.”

This fascination and drive for success has led Wiegelmann down a successful and fruitful career path.

Dr Wiegelmann is an experienced real estate professional having spent more than 18 years in the real estate sector across consultancy, corporate finance and investment management.

In 2009, Dr Wiegelmann together with his two partners co-founded BLUE Asset Management, a real estate investment and

asset management firm based in Munich, Germany.

The team has a strong expertise and track record in investing and managing retail and office properties in Germany, Austria and Switzerland operating under the claim ”Real Value in trusted hands”.

BLUE Asset Management is entrepreneurial and has a hands-on approach in taking care of the currently approximately USD 1.8 billion Assets under Management.

As well as completing his PhD in Real Estate in 2012 at Bond, Dr Wiegelmann has completed the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School.

Dr Wiegelmann understands the power of a strong network, and says the global network of contacts students create whilst studying at Bond was outstanding.

“Since real estate has become a truly global asset class with significant crossborder activity, it is vital for students seeking a career in the industry to not only obtain an excellent education but to also

establish global networks and to develop cross-cultural understanding”, said Dr Wiegelmann.

In his position of Honorary Adjunct Professor at Bond University, Wiegelmann was instrumental in setting up a doubledegree program in real estate between Bond and the International Real Estate Business School at the University of Regensburg under the guidance of Professor Raoul Mortley.

As an entrenched Bondie, Dr Wiegelmann has always treasured the excellent faculty at Bond and his time on campus.

Besides this and as a passionate diver, he enjoyed the Gold Coast’s proximity to excellent diving spots in Byron Bay and loved travelling to the Great Barrier Reef.

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POSTCARDS

from beyond Bond: BOND alumni have a reputation for being part of incredible movements and organisations around the world.

As our Alumni Scholars know, the end of a degree at Bond does not mean the end of a connection with the University.

In fact, the Bond University Alumni Scholarship Program assists outstanding alumni by offering financial support to undertake postgraduate study at an international institution of their choice.

Bond’s Alumni Scholars continue to do incredible things in far-off places including New York City and London, and they return home filled with knowledge and experience to help build impressive careers.

The Scholarships are made possible by the support of generous donations from alumni and the Bond community to the Ambition Fund, and in this edition we profile recent alumni scholars Mitchell Stevens, Courtney Olden and Marryum Kahloon.

MITCHELL STEVENS After completing his Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees at Bond, Mitchell Stevens (Class of 2009) went on to work as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney, focusing on tech and building new business ventures.

Now, Mr Stevens is at the London Business School (LBS) where he is completing his Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Once done, Mr Stevens will return to Boston Consulting Group to help its clients build new, disruptive businesses.

For now, he is enjoying all the opportunities LBS has to offer, including its massive sport program.

“I love getting involved in sport at LBS, and a real high was competing at the

MBA Tournament in Paris against other MBA schools and winning gold in the rugby 7s and beach volleyball,” said Mr Stevens.

During his time at LBS, Mr Stevens has had the opportunity to go on international study trips, including one to Israel where he explored the country’s successful tech start-up scene and an exchange semester at the University of California - Berkeley.

This kind of international perspective is what makes LBS so great, according to Mr Stevens.

“My course at LBS is 90 per cent international, with over 60 nationalities.

It’s such an amazing experience mixing with people from all over the world,” he said.

COURTNEY OLDEN Courtney Olden (Class of 2010) is living the Oxford University life, and so far she is loving every second of it. Ms Olden is currently studying a Bachelor of Civil Law (BLC) at Oxford, complementing the Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degrees she completed at Bond in 2014.

“It has been surreal to be taught directly by a couple of the Professors whose work I studied in my undergraduate at Bond,” said Ms Olden.

After completing her studies at Bond, Ms Olden went on to work in commercial law, and says the shift to civil law is refreshing. One major difference between Bond and Oxford is the British college system, which facilitates most of the university experience.

“The sub-committees are necessary at Oxford because it’s such a large institution. At Bond, the strong sense of community is instead fostered by the small class sizes and campus culture,” said Ms Olden.

Ms Olden hopes to use the Alumni Scholarship opportunity to explore issues in public law around human rights and discrimination.

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MARRYUM KAHLOON Marryum Kahloon’s (Class of 2014) passion for international criminal law has taken her all the way to New York City.

She is currently completing a Masters of Laws at Columbia University, which she hopes will allow her to pursue a career in traditional justice and international criminal law.

“These fields are still nascent in Australia, but are relatively well developed in the United States,” said Ms Kahloon.

Ms Olden is no stranger to the complexities of international law, having competed in the International Criminal Court Trial Competition in The Hague in 2012.

As for Ms Olden’s post-Oxford life, the Bond graduate says she will remain in the law.

“One thing is certain, I’m really looking forward to applying the knowledge I’ll gain in public law once the BLC is finished.”

Ms Olden is grateful to all of the alumni and Bond community members who contribute to the Ambition Fund, and helped make her ambition to study at Oxford a reality.

Since commencing the Masters program, Ms Kahloon has taken full advantage of her proximity to significant world leaders.

“I have attended speeches by several world leaders, high ranking UN officials and prominent human rights activists,” said Ms Kahloon.

“Sometimes there are two amazing sessions on at the same time and it is difficult to choose which you will attend!”

“I am hopeful that I will be able to obtain a fellowship with a US based organisation following graduation to gain further practical experience which I can bring back to Australia.”

Whilst at Bond, Ms Kahloon was a passionate participant in the Law School’s mooting program. She was a member of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Team and the BFSU Chinese Intellectual Property Law Moot Team.

“Both moots gave me the opportunity to strengthen my legal research and advocacy skills and these skills have been invaluable to my academic and professional progress to date,” said Ms Kahloon.

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Thank you AMBITION FUND DONORS

Thank you to all the generous donors who have supported our fundraising efforts in 2017.

This year we again supported three key growth areas for the University: Student Experience Fund, Building Fund and the Research Fund.

The generosity displayed by our alumni, staff, students and community does not go unnoticed and we would like to publicly

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thank those individuals who have financially contributed to the future success of the University.

When you make a gift, you express your commitment to Bond’s future and are helping to create and support the next generation of leaders.

We are very grateful for your support.

AMBITION FUND 2017 Chancellor’s Circle Members

Current ongoing Donors

Dr Soheil Abedian DUniv & Mrs Anne Jamieson-Abedian Mr Sahba Abedian Mr Christian Anderson Mr David Baxby & Mrs Selina Baxby Dr Annabelle Bennett AO SC & Dr David Bennett AC QC Mr Stephen Bernstein Mr John Bond & Mrs Linda Bond Professor Tim Brailsford & Mrs Kerrie Brailsford Ms Judith Brinsmead Dr Betty Byrne Henderson AM Dr Alan Chan HJ DUniv Professor Jim Corkery Dr Patrick Corrigan AM DUniv Mr Jack Cowin Mr Derek Cronin Mr Michael Dean Mr Trevor Dietz Mr Angus Douglas Professor Keitha Dunstan Mr Bob Fox Mr Sartaj Gill Dr Darryl Gregor OAM Assistant Professor Mike Grenby Dr Fay Haisley Dr Padma Harilela DUniv Dr Peter Heiner AM Mr Bob Hill Mr Mark Hohnen & Mrs Cate Hohnen Mr Victor Hoog Antink Mr Peter Ivany AM Mr Terry Jackman Mr Brian Michael Jean QC Dr Alison Kearney DUniv Mr John Le Lievre Dr Mei Pheng Lee Mr Ken MacDonald Mr Larry Malan Dr Ken McGregor DUniv Dr Kenichi Ohmae Professor Terry O’Neill & Professor Helen O’Neill Dr Manny Pohl Dr Gina Rinehart DUniv Ms Virginia Rossi Fay Emeritus Professor Margaret Seares AO Mr Basil Sellers AM Mr Robin Slipper Mr Geoff Smith Mr Brett Walker & Mrs Hoang Walker Professor David Weedon AO

Eric Abalajon Christian Anderson Alex Apostolopoulos Liam Auer Richard Brimblecombe Wu Hsi-Yen Chi Nikki Christmas Charles Crowley Berenice Etournaud Ian Hanrahan Joe Hartshorn Anna Hellevang John Inskip James John Harkiran Kaur Elise Kogler Anthony Leutenegger Ying Li

This is not a complete list of donors, as some of our generous donors have requested anonymity.

The Chancellor’s Circle proudly and publicly acknowledges those individuals who donated $5000 or more in 2017.

Current Ongoing Donors are those who have committed to ongoing donations to the University via direct debit.

Bentgurion Litha Brent Destine Lord Andrew Mackenzie Kara Mavin Damin Murdock Benjamin Naday Yoshiaki Nagata Yuko Nemoto Rebecca Pole Jacob Reichman Kin Chung Sim Rishwant Singh Emily Vale Xing Wei Abby Williams Takeshi Yagi Shosei Yamamoto

Ambition Fund Donors Philipp Abold Maryam Al-haddad Amal Albassit Cameo Ashe Violet Atkinson Dean Bader Alister Bayston Scott Beasley Stephen Bignell David Bongiorno Rishka Booran-Johnson Barry Burgan Amy Carpenter CCS Insurance Solutions Sebastian Cerdan Laurent Corgnet Kyle Costain Jonathan Crowe Stephen Crowther Candace Diamond Geena Ellis Sarah Elsey Brett Evans John Jackson Ewing Amanda Fayad Philip Follent Deborah Fox Dan Fuller Maryne Glas Philipp Gockel Laura Goetz Fabiola Gomez Wesley Griffiths Shaun Haddrill-Hornstrand Paul Haffki Haruko Hayashi Kirrilly Holmes Motoyuki Hotta Cameron Howlett Katelyn Hudson Lachlan Hughes Brad Hutchins Minoru Inoue Yumiko Izumi Arathi Kannan Lawrence Kopping Aarohi Kumar Hang Lincoln Lam Kwan Ling Lam Mikayla Lawrie Jade Lee

Anthony Leutenegger Brigid Makim Kevin Maley Roger Marquass MBA Alumni Committee Ashley McPherson Jacqui Mengler-Mohr Paul Messara Vera Messing Yukiko Mita Kenji Mori Bronwyn Morris Zempachi Muramatsu Subaru Muroi Takashi Naito Donna Naylor Jessica Norris YuChen Ou Hazel Patis Jordan Pearce Scott Pendlebury Mark Power Ling Raines Jerome Rault Sam Rees Meagan Ryan Darlene Sandhu Katharina Schick Jeremiah Scott Rachelle Seizovic Harsh Shukla Harsimran Singh Leschen Smaller Eve Smibert Lauren Smith Tracy-Lee Smith Martin Spann Elizabeth Spencer Sandra Sweeney Moriji Teratani Nathan Timbery Vinh Tran Rhonda Walker Nicole Walker Ray Weeks Lukas Wiesner Greg Wiora Matthew Youn Ella Zauner

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CHANGING OUR

WORLD VIEW

Professor Liz Isenring

Professor Paul Glasziou

FROM the deeply technological exploration of artificial intelligence, to the hands-on and human dive into the benefits of good nutrition, Bond’s 2017 Research Week had something for everyone.

“Research is the cornerstone to making new advancements and discoveries, and uncovering innovative approaches to the way we think, act, and do business,” Professor Brailsford said.

This year marked the sixth annual Research Week, with celebrations and explorations kicking off on the 16th October, running through to the 20th.

“There are many exciting projects with the potential to have a major, positive impact on society underway here at Bond University, and Research Week is the perfect opportunity to learn more about them.”

Every Faculty put on display some of the most thought-provoking and exciting demonstrations of their capabilities, showing-off the world class research conducted every day on campus. Bond University Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Tim Brailsford, said Research Week gives the University a chance to show off what is part of the Bond experience.

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Bonds University’s Director of Research, Andrew Calder, said Research Week 2017 had proven a great success on several fronts.

“Over 1,800 people attended the 17 events run across our sixth annual Research Week event,” Mr Calder said.

“Community engagement was at an all-time high this year, with more external visitors to campus for our expert lectures, panel sessions and forums than ever before - and several of our community events selling out well in advance,” he said.

One of the hallmark presentations this year centred around the often discussed concept of Artificial Intelligence.

Bond University’s Dr Sven Brodmerkel led a panel discussion exploring the implications of the creation of an artificially intelligent machine.

Posing the tough questions like whether a computer could write a pop hit, direct an Oscar winning film, and overtake humans in the creative fields, Dr Brodmerkel broke down some of the terrifying eventualities

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“Research is the cornerstone to making new advancements and discoveries” Professor Steven Stern

that Artificial Intelligence could lead to. In the same vein, Dr Michael O’Neill presented an overview of his latest research into another exciting and growing field - Big Data.

Professor Steven Stern presented on some issues in the field of Big Data, as well as the applications Big Data has in the fields of medicine and science.

On the Tuesday, Professor Liz Isenring, alongside Gold Coast dietitian Cherie Hugo and aged care chef Tibor Paller from Tibor’s Kitchen demonstrated how to make pureed meals appetising and nourishing, bringing some joy back to the life of the elderly.

Wednesday saw the Bond University Women’s Network Research Breakfast

provide career insights and inspiration from Associate Professor Linda Crane, Associate Professor Peta Stapleton and Assistant Professor Robyn Lincoln.

Sport and the issue of doping has been a hot topic over the past decade, and Bond Associate Professor Dr Lotti Tajouri has been doing some incredible research into anti-doping measures.

Dr Tajouri took attendees through his research into what future doping practices might look like and his molecular based anti-doping research.

The Centre for Professional Legal Education had a big day on Thursday, hosting a full day symposium exploring the possibility of a world without lawyers.

Led by Professor Keitha Dunstan, the symposium explored the impact of disruptive technologies on the legal profession and the positive and negative implications of legal services without human lawyers.

The week was topped off at the Research Week Gala Dinner where this year’s recipients of the 2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence were presented to: Research Excellence - Professor Tammy Hoffmann; Early Career Research Excellence - Associate Professor Robin Orr; Research Supervision - Professor Paul Glasziou.

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MORETON Bay in south-east Queensland is close to home for many Bondies, but none more so than Associate Professor Dr Daryl McPhee.

While most enjoy Moreton Bay for its reputation as a tourist destination, marine biologist Dr McPhee’s connection goes far deeper into the realms of its rich ecosystem.

Dr McPhee has released Environmental History and Ecology of Moreton Bay, published by CSIRO Publishing, putting the geological formation of the area under the microscope.

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He says the area is a melting pot of tropical and temperate species and one that is host to a number of commercial and recreational fisheries.

“This unique waterway cradles a region that is experiencing the most rapid urbanisation in Australia. It is the southernmost of dugong populations and

discernible coral reefs on the Australian east coast,” said Dr McPhee.

The publication follows the area’s environmental history since European settlement and explains its transformation over time. Dr McPhee was inspired to write the book following 30 years of fishing and undertaking marine research in Moreton Bay. “I have seen remarkable changes in Moreton Bay with my own eyes over that time – some good, some not so good,” he said.

“It is not that long ago that coral in Moreton Bay was still being dredged to support the local construction industry.”

In the book, Dr McPhee also identified the work that needs to be done in order to restore the upper catchments and subtidal oyster reefs of Moreton Bay which were severely impacted by an agricultural boom in the 1890’s.

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SPORTS SCHOLARS ANNOUNCED TWO OF Queensland’s most promising young rugby union players have been awarded the John Eales Rugby Excellence Scholarship which will provide them the opportunity to both study at Bond University and play with the Bond University Rugby Club.

Watersports duo takes out top Blues awards OLYMPIC sailing dual-medallist Mathew Belcher (Class of 2001) won the trifecta at the Bond University Blues Awards after he was crowned Sportsman of the Year for the third time, alongside this year's Sportswoman of the Year, Kayak champion Erin Blanch.

The annual Bond University Blues Awards celebrate and acknowledge the sporting achievements of student athletes and clubs, with all nominations reviewed by Bond University's sports panel.

Mr Belcher - who took home gold at the London Olympics and silver in Rio de Janeiro - capped off 2017 with his seventh win in eight years at the 470 World Championships in Greece, making him Australia's most successful Olympic-class skipper.

He said it was an honour to win the Blues Awards 'Sportsman of the Year' for the third time.

“Although it’s been another very busy year for me, competing in Europe and Japan, I’ve really enjoyed being around campus a lot more and am looking forward to graduating with a second Bond degree early next year,” Mr Belcher said.

“It’s a real privilege to receive this award.

Thank you Bond University and Bond Sport for your support and for this honour.”

He is ranked world number one by the International Sailing Federation, took out two wins at the Sailing World Cup France in April and won the Kieler Woche Regatta, the biggest sailing event in the world, in Germany in June.

The 35-year-old, who is studying a Master of Valuation and Property Development and Master of Project Management at Bond University, has also achieved top results in

his studies, with high distinctions in all eight subjects completed since he competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Erin Blanch, who kayaks for the Currumbin Creek Paddlers Club, took out first place in both the 1,000 metre and 500 metre events at the 2017 Queensland State Sprint Championships for Junior Kayaking earlier this year. She was awarded the Junior Canoeist of the Year and the People's Choice Award at the prestigious 2017 Australian Canoeing Awards, which was held on the Gold Coast on November 4.

Ms Blanch was also crowned champion at the National Canoe Marathon Championships in the 19km under-18 event, held at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in March.

The 18-year-old, who is studying a Bachelor of Psychological Science at Bond University, said being recognised at the Blues Awards had topped off an incredible first year of study.

"My first year of university has been a busy one juggling study and a series of national and international events, and the support of the Bond Sport team, my lecturers and tutors, has made the whole process run smoothly," Ms Blanch said.

"I'm incredibly grateful for this award and look forward to making many more memories during my time at Bond."

Ashleigh Keefe was named Elite Sports Scholar, Women’s AFL coach David Ashkar was named Coach of the Year while his team won Team of the Year, the men’s soccer team won Champion Club of the Year, while they also won Best Sporting Moment for the Metro League Grand Final win. Chloe Jessup was recognised for Outstanding Service to Sport.

Lachlan Connors was a stand-out performer for the Queensland Schoolboys number two team which finished runner up at the 2017 Australian Schools Championship, while Max Dowd was a key player for Queensland number one team which finished third at the tournament.

Mr Connors, from St Patrick’s College in Brisbane, is a number eight and was chosen in the Australian Schoolboys team which played against Fiji and New Zealand and he also won the 2017 Ian MacMillan Memorial Trophy for Queensland Schoolboy Player of the Year. He will study a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science.

Fullback Max Dowd, who captained The Southport School to its first premiership in eight years, was selected in the Australian Barbarians team after the Australian Schools Championship and he also played against Fiji and New Zealand. He will study a Bachelor of Architectural Studies.

Bond University joined forces with the former Wallabies Captain, John Eales AM, to create this prestigious sporting scholarship which provides an opportunity for outstanding young rugby union stars to be mentored both on and off the field.

They will network with elite athletes, coaches and top-level teams from a range of sports. Lachlan Connors and Max Dowd will also benefit from regular one-on-one mentoring sessions with John Eales.

The ADCO Sports Excellence Scholarship has also been awarded and this recognises an athlete who demonstrates outstanding achievement in their chosen sport and is a strong leader in the community.

The recipient of the 2018 ADCO Sport Excellence Scholarship is equestrian athlete Daisy Fielding, who is attending All Saints Anglican School.

Ms Fielding took up equestrian in 2014 and in that short period of time she has become State Medium Interschool Dressage Champion, qualified for the 2017 National Dressage Championships both open and interschool and also became a member of Queensland Young Rider Squad.

Ms Fielding will study a Bachelor of Sports Management in 2018.

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SEVENS SQUAD TAKES HOME SILVER

Bond University Women’s Rugby 7’s inaugural side take silver in the Aon University Sevens Series

BOND University claimed second place overall in the Women’s Aon University Sevens Series after hosting the final round of the prestigious eight-team tournament on the Gold Coast.

The Aon Sevens Series is an officially sanctioned Australian Rugby Union (ARU) event and is the main pathway into the national team, and Bond went into the final round in second place overall following the earlier events in Launceston, Sydney and Brisbane.

The home side had Macquarie University, University of Adelaide and Griffith University in their pool group and Bond University took out the bronze medal on what was billed as “Super Saturday” with more than 2,000 spectators on hand to watch the women’s team in action along with the men’s National Rugby Championship (NRC) showdown between Queensland Country and Melbourne Rising and the final of the National Under 16 Rugby Championships.

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Millie Boyle and Emily Bass gaining valuable game time over the five weeks of the tournament.

Each team in the Aon Sevens Series was allocated two players from the national Sevens team and Bond University secured the services of two of the world’s best as their guest players, in Charlotte Caslick and Brooke Walker.

Bond University’s Sevens Head Coach Ben Gollings said the team benefitted enormously from the experience and professionalism of the star duo.

“Playing alongside Aussie legends Charlotte Caslick and Brooke Walker and going up against the rest of the Australian team has been an incredible learning opportunity for our new sevens players,” Mr Gollings said.

“For them to have exposure to that level of rugby, has made them stronger and given them a real taste of what’s it like to play at an elite level.”

“Charlotte is widely regarded as one of the best women’s players in the world and Brooke is also an incredibly high calibre player.”

Scrum-half Charlotte Caslick is already a dual international having represented her

country at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival and 2013 Rugby Sevens World Cup as well as playing for Touch Football Australia at both age-grade and open levels.

The 21-year-old scored seven tries throughout the competition in Rio, including one in the Gold Medal match against trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand.

Brooke Walker, who originally hails from Auckland but now lives in Brisbane, won her first Women’s Sevens World Series cap in Atlanta in March 2015 just a month after her Australian citizenship was granted.

Ms Walker was part of the Australian squad that won the Australian Youth Festival in Sydney in January 2013. She was also named as a travelling reserve for the Rio Olympics in August 2016.

Executive Director of Sport, Garry Nucifora, said it was a proud moment for Bond University to host the final tournament of the series on the Gold Coast.

“Bond University is heavily invested in, and supportive of, the inaugural Aon Sevens Series, and has done a lot of work in recent years to develop women’s rugby from a grassroots, community level through to an elite level,” he said.

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IN THEIR very first Grand Final appearance, the Bullsharks men’s soccer team won the championship trophy in the Football Gold Coast mid-week Metro League competition. This followed their first ever minor premiership trophy.

The Bullsharks played a hard-fought match against rivals, Palm Beach Currumbin, to claim a 1-0 victory in the dying minutes of the Grand Final, cheered on by a strong home ground crowd at Bond University.

Their Grand Final victory has been six years in the making, with two players – James Fitchett and Azhar Toodayan – having been with the team since their Metro League debut back in 2012.

“The Grand Final was a culmination of the team’s amazing efforts right throughout the season,” said Sean Johnson, who took on the role of Head Coach this year based on his experience playing for Radford University in the USA’s Division 1 collegiate soccer competition.

“There isn’t anything these boys haven’t been able to overcome – injuries, exam finals, internships, classes, assignments, homework … you name it.”

“They played with heart and fought together as a team to bring home Bond’s first ever soccer championship trophy.”

The Bond team reflects the game’s global appeal with five international players – two from Brazil, one from Japan, one from Singapore and one from Denmark.

It is also “Bond to the core”, with all but one team member being either a current student or an alumnus.

“One of the most gratifying aspects of this season for me has been seeing the fantastic friendships that have been forged,” said Mr Johnson.

“Soccer is a universal language that breaks down barriers and creates strong ties, particularly for our English language students, many of whom say that their involvement in the soccer team has been one of the highlights of their time at Bond.”

They played with heart and fought together as a team to bring home Bond’s first ever soccer championship trophy

The Bond Soccer club capped off the Season winning two major awards at Bond’s Annual Blues Sports Awards - Best Sporting moment for the Grand final win and Champion Club.

Bond Soccer club celebrating first ever Metro league Premiership / Grand final double.

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SHARKETTES WIN

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Team Vice Captain Ms Jenna Fulton leads the team into pre game frenzy

AFTER just three years in competition, the Bond University Women’s AFL team has taken out its first Grand Final, defeating Yeronga South Brisbane on their home turf 50-29.

Team captain, Grand Final Best on Ground, and Bond Business student, Kate Reynolds said the team really had to challenge themselves to bring home the 2017 QWFA Division 1 Premiership cup.

quarter, but our girls banded together and never let go. We just never gave up.”

“The team wrote their own story, and it finished with a happily ever after,” he said.

Coach David Ashkar said the growth of the team throughout this past season had been phenomenal.

As for the future, Mr Ashkar said the story was far from over.

“The massive increase in personal growth the team has gone through to get the result they did is what I’m most proud of,” he said.

“It’s quite surreal to think that just two months before the Grand Final we were in sixth position. No one really expected us to be there,” Ms Reynolds said.

“Contrary to what the score might indicate, it was not an easy match, and the team had to fight really hard for that win – but win they did.”

“As we had to work so hard to win every game from that point in the season onwards, I feel we really earned the right to take on, and take out, the premiership.”

“They won on every area of the ground – on taps, clearances and contested ball.”

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To top it off the team received recognition for their fantastic season at the recent Bond University Blues Sport Awards winning the Team of the Year award, while coach David Ashkar took out Coach of the Year.

“They started out strongly and aggressively, then followed through later with quality defence, which is what we needed to do to win the game.”

Whether you are an experienced player or enthusiastic amateur - anyone keen to join or find out more about the club should contact AFL Club Coordinator, Sam Schiphorst via email at sschipho@bond.edu. au or on 07 5595 5841.

BOND University has reclaimed its crown as the Doug Ellis Per Capita Champion at the recent 2017 Australian University Games, held on the Gold Coast, following a brilliant performance from its 200-strong team.

results – Bond was recognized as the best Swimming University in the country by winning the Overall Swimming Champion, whilst also taking out Women’s Swimming and women’s netball (division two).

The Doug Ellis Per Capita Trophy, which goes to the university winning the most pennants per student numbers, was awarded to Bond after finishing a staggering 300+ points ahead of secondplaced QUT (Queensland University Technology) , and SCU (Southern Cross University) who finished third.

Bond swimmers won a total of 33 medals over the three days of competition, with Jenna Strauch breaking an AUG record in the 200 metre breaststroke, and Amy Forrester and Laura Taylor selected in the AUG Green & Gold merit team for their outstanding efforts over the competition.

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“We’re just half way on a journey. In order to get where we want to be, we need to play, and win, as an elite team. That’s the next chapter in the Sharkette’s story.”

Seven other Bond athletes were also named in the Green & Gold merit team: Clara Dahlenburg (handball), Paloma Oliveira

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Riewoldt Family AFL Excellence Scholarship winners revealed TWO of Australia’s most promising young AFL players have been awarded Bond University’s inaugural Riewoldt Family AFL Excellence Scholarships commencing in January 2018.

As captain of the Queensland Women’s Under 18 team, Arianna Clarke was recently drafted by the Brisbane Lions in the AFLW and is regarded as one of the best female prospects in the country.

Arianna Clarke from Robina State High School in south east Queensland and Edward Delany from Xavier College in Melbourne were offered the scholarships which will enhance their footballing careers whilst also providing them a first-class educational experience at Bond University.

Mr Delany has been a standout player for Xavier College in the prestigious APS competition in Melbourne which is considered one of the great nurseries for AFL players.

Bond University is offering the scholarships in partnership with the Riewoldt Family, which are named after Nick Riewoldt, a legend at the St Kilda Football Club playing more than 300 games.

His father Joe Riewoldt and their family has a strong connection with the Gold Coast where Nick spent most of his formative years playing junior footy.

“As an elite AFL player, I appreciate the importance of quality education. I congratulate Bond University on its vision,” Nick Riewoldt said.

“I’ll take a keen personal interest in the scholarship and I intend to be available to assist with the awardees. I look forward to spending some time with the successful individuals.”

The scholarships further strengthen Bond University’s ties with AFL and follow on from a range of new partnerships which were sealed earlier this year.

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(futsal), Melinda Sun (badminton), Ally Evans (women’s touch), Hiu Fung Tang (handball), Madison Eggert (squash) and Courtney Gilfillan (athletics and cycling).

Bond Sport Club Coordinator (athletics and cycling) Rebecca Herbert congratulated the athletes on their standout performance and their sporting attitude.

“The Bullsharks are very proud to be returning the Doug Ellis trophy to its rightful home here at Bond in 2017.”

“For a university the size of ours to have 16 top-ten finishes across team and individual sports, and bring home national pennants

Bond University agreed to help develop the women’s game in Queensland and northern New South Wales by partnering with the

in highly-competitive, flagship sports like swimming is an awesome achievement.

Congratulations to every student, coach and team manager involved in the 2017 Australian University Games - Team Bond did exceptionally well and certainly did the University proud,” she said.

Australian University Sport CEO Don Knapp said he was pleased by the level of sportsmanship and high-quality athleticism displayed by the student-athletes.

“A key aim of Australian University Sport is to enable student-athletes to participate in competitive sport at regional, national and international levels through a dual

Mr Edward Delany (in black) playing for the Greater Western Victoria Rebels against the Dandenong Stingrays

AFL Queensland Youth Girls Championships and Youth Girls Talent Academy.

Held each October, the Youth Girls Championships involves Under 17 representative sides from across Queensland and the Northern Rivers as they compete for state title honours over three divisions.

The AFL Queensland Youth Girls Talent Academy provides an elite training and development program for Queensland’s most promising female players.

Bond University is also the official naming rights sponsor of the Queensland Women’s Australian Football League (QWAFL).

The Bond University logo is included on venue signage, player’s apparel and the competition balls.

education and sport pathway,” Mr Knapp said.

Over 9,000 student athletes participated in 32 sports in the 2017 Australian University Games at venues across the Gold Coast, including on the Bond University campus where the Handball and Rugby Sevens events were held.

The Australian University Games are the largest university sporting event in Australia, and are renowned for providing a friendly but competitive environment for Australian university athletes.

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WHERE PSYCHOLOGY MEETS EDUCATION MIKAYLA Hudson’s biggest passion is learning the science behind what makes people tick.

The Bachelor of Psychological Science graduate has always been interested in the workings of the human mind, and as an Aboriginal Secondary Education Transition Officer (ASETO) she gets to put her theory into practice each day.

Yarning up creates lasting connections

After graduating from Bond, Ms Hudson returned to her home town of Port Augusta in South Australia to work in the ASETO support role with Indigenous students at a local high school.

Her day-to-day work involves spending time with students during lessons and liaising with families and other school stakeholders regarding their progress.

“I often spend lessons in class with Aboriginal students, tutoring them, and other times I’ll be in the education office taking calls from families,” said Ms Hudson.

“It’s basically about working with students and their families to help give them the best education possible.”

Ms Hudson says attendance is one of the biggest issues she often faces which requires the kind of sensitivity and empathy learned throughout her studies.

“A big issue we deal with is attendance,” said Ms Hudson.

“It is a public school and we have a large percentage of Aboriginal kids here, so a big thing for us is just making sure that we can get these kids to school.”

“We do everything we can from the school’s perspective to ensure these kids get here, sometimes we may need to do home visits.”

While it can sometimes be a difficult role, Ms Hudson said watching the kids succeed is undoubtedly worth the challenge.

“Being so young myself it’s easy to relate to these kids – for a few of the students, that would have been me three years ago,” she said.

“But being able to see them go through and finish their schooling is definitely the best part of the job.”

(R) Suncorp Executive Manager of Talent Ms Tanya Johnson

A GROUP of corporate and educational leaders recently visited the Torres Strait Islands as part of Bond University’s Yarning Up trip, an annual initiative focused on strengthening bonds with remote Indigenous communities.

The five-day visit included two days on Mer (Murray) Island where the delegates spent time with the children of Tagai State College, visited a local home to help prepare food for a community dinner and toured the island which included a visit to pay respects at Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s grave.

Early next year Ms Hudson will leave her current role and return to Bond to undertake a Masters degree in Occupational Therapy.

The experience continued on Thursday Island with visits to the local school and hospital, as well as a showcase for island entrepreneurs and a dinner with community, health and education stakeholders.

Ms Hudson is grateful that the University opened her up to a career path in Indigenous education, one which she is interested in exploring further in her career.

Suncorp Executive Manager of Talent and Yarning Up participant Tanya Johnson said the experience has built connections that will assist Suncorp

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in creating employment opportunities based on the needs of Indigenous communities.

“The people of Mer and Thursday Islands opened their schools, their homes and, most especially, their hearts to us,” said Ms Johnson.

“Yarning Up gave us the opportunity to spend time in the community and talk one-on-one with people to learn firsthand what it is like to live in a remote community.”

In addition to Suncorp, the Yarning Up group included representatives from McCullough Robertson, Blue Sky Alternative Investments, ISS Facility Services, the Anglican Schools Commission, Principal of Ballarat Clarendon College David Shepherd, Sydney barrister Fiona Sinclair, and Bond University’s Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Professor Helen Chenery.

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MONTHS of hard work and sleepless nights were all part of the prep for students Daniel Hamilton and Jordan Kilcoyne prior to competing in the 3rd annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander moot.

“The finals were attended by a number of justices from the Supreme Court of Appeal here in Queensland, so it was a great engagement for us with the courts and other law firms,” he said.

Mr Hamilton and Mr Kilcoyne competed in the commercial moot which focused on a fictitious contract and torts dispute between an Aboriginal woman and her business partners.

Mr Hamilton believes supporting Indigenous education programs such as the moot is essential to closing the gap and providing equal opportunities to students.

The duo won the prize for best written submissions, as well as finishing as runnersup in the overall competition.

Mr Hamilton, a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar and Bachelor of International Relations and Law student, said the competition was an unmatched experience which was well supported by the local legal community.

“Being able to have an Indigenous mooting competition, especially one that is so well supported by Queensland firms and courts, really shows a strong commitment to reconciliation,” he said.

“It puts into action upskilling Indigenous law students and allows them to have equal opportunities into the future.”

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Multi-award winning musician Dan Sultan took to the stage in a special guest Q&A as well as a powerhouse performance of his greatest hits.

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BIAMA NONA was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait and grew up on the Sunshine Coast before finishing high school in Sydney.

She received an Indigenous Scholarship to Bond to study a Bachelor of Business, majoring in marketing and minoring in management.

Travelling to new cities, meeting new people and living in new communities were a daily constant for Ms Nona throughout her studies, and she believes this is a reality that Indigenous students from remote communities often face.

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and you will learn from the experience one way or another.”

“All of the extra support and guidance definitely went a long way. Everyone needs to make the most of their experiences, and people like Narelle Urquhart and Jason Murray from Bond’s Nyombil Centre are there for that purpose,” said Ms Nona.

Ms Nona backed that mantra up when she recently moved back to Sydney to secure a graduate position with Nakama, a global recruitment firm specialising in technology, media and small-medium enterprise.

“I think all students just need to say ‘yes’ to every opportunity, because you have to escape your comfort zone in order to grow

“Everyone knows there is a gap,” said Ms Nona.

“I think all students just need to say ‘yes’ to every opportunity”

Lots of Indigenous students come from rural areas, places where their family and friends are a long way away, and it can be quite daunting to study away from your home,” said Ms Nona.

“The load can be very stressful and for students living away from home it might be more difficult.”

In her first year at Bond, Ms Nona cohosted the Indigenous Gala. She admits the experience would have been out of her comfort zone if it weren’t for the ongoing

Ms Nona is thankful that her education provided the transferrable skills to succeed in a job where she is constantly learning and developing.

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Women in Media

REDEFINING THE STATUS QUO

L-R: ABC journalist Ms Leonie Mellor, CEO of Screen Queensland Ms Tracey Vieira, Marngrook Footy Show Presenter Ms Leila Gurruwiwi, News360 Executive Editor Ms Kathy Lipari and 60 Minutes Producer Ms Michelle Tapper

THE FIRST national Women in Media (WiM) Queensland Conference was held on October 27 and 28, 2017 at Bond University and The Star Gold Coast.

The networking initiative trended nationally on Twitter with panel discussions and Q&A sessions for a sell-out audience of 250 delegates, focusing largely on topics like superannuation for periods of parental leave, better reporting breakdowns on staff make-up, pay rates and management structure by gender.

The Women in Media Queensland committee is made up of a group of females from across the media sector who volunteer their time to close the equity and opportunity gap for women in the media industry.

The committee includes a diverse group of women across the media industry: Kay McGrath, Kathy McLeish, Laura Chalmers, Tanya Chillcott, Danielle Cronin, Sharon

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Marshall, Leonie Mellor, Diane O’Reilly, Cathie Schnitzerling, Catherine Webber and Peta Wolff. Many Bond University Alumni played a part in the conference with journalist and previous editor of the Gold Coast Bulletin Catherine Webber on the organising committee, 60 Minutes producer Michelle Tapper as a speaker and delegates and journalists Alice Gorman, Ann WasonMoore and Dee Nott.

A panel branded ‘Wonder Women’, made up of some of the most successful women in media kicked off the WiM conference revealing how they made it to the top and the struggles they faced to get there.

The speakers included: Editor of the Weekend Australian Magazine Christine Middap, Presenter at Channel 10 News in Sydney Sandra Sully, Broadcast Executive Anita Jacoby, Associate Publisher Homes – NewLifeMedia Claire Bradley and Presenter at ABC News Brisbane Karina Carvalho.

The ‘Wonder Women’ all agreed that the initiative to promote equity in the media industry is not a rivalry between genders but rather an initiative that will ultimately help everyone.

“It is not about playing the gender card, diversity is the most critical thing. It is not a them and us situation,” Ms Middap said.

The WiM conference also held a controversial panel of male speakers, consisting of CEO of Foxtel Peter Tonagh, CEO of SBS Michael Ebeid and Joe Hildebrand of Studio 10 and news.com.au.

All three men are advocates for women’s progression in the media industry and shared their ideas on how to break down the barriers for women in the workplace, agreeing that doing so will benefit both men and women.

During the panel, ‘Future Proofing Your Career’, Presenter on ABC’s News Breakfast

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BONDIES ON BOARD WITH MAGICAL NEW ABC SERIES TALENTED Bond film students have secured the job of a lifetime working under internationally renowned producer Jonathan M. Shiff on a new ABC kid’s program.

Bond students Jamie Carter, Elizabeth Cullen and Julian Cullen, are part of Mr Shiff’s new program The Bureau of Magical Things; an ABC children’s television project following the adventures of Kyra, a regular teenage girl who acquires magical powers when caught in a clash between an elf and a fairy.

L-R: Ms Kay McGrath and Ms Catherine Webber

Queensland producer, Mr Shiff, is best known for his global smash hit H20 Just Add Water and its spin off Mako Mermaids.

The first series of The Bureau of Magical Things involves a tonne of fresh Queensland faces from the Gold Coast and Brisbane and was shot in the company’s purpose-built studio at Arundel.

The cast is led by Brisbane actress Kimie Tsukakoshi as Kyra, and Bond Film & Television student Jamie Cater.

They are joined by Elizabeth Cullen and Julian Cullen, brother and sister off screen, and now playing elf brother and sister on screen. The siblings grew up in Cairns before moving to the Gold Coast to study film at Bond.

Virginia Trioli, Business Journalist at Fairfax Nassim Khadem and Sageco career transition specialist Alison Monroe stressed the importance of women taking responsibility for their career and constantly seeking out new opportunities.

The young cast will be joined by experienced actors Nicholas Bell (Mission Impossible II, Wanted), Christopher Sommers (The Water Diviner), Steve Nation (Neighbours), and Melanie Zanetti (The Leisure Class, Tracks).

Dr Michael Sergi, Director of Film & Television at Bond, says he is looking forward to seeing Jamie, Elizabeth and Julian grace the small screen.

“Bond has a proud history of turning out talented creatives into Australia’s film and television industry, so it is no surprise to see Jamie, Elizabeth and Julian gaining success so early in their careers,” said Dr Sergi.

“The whole Film & Television cohort are excited for them, and can not wait to see the final product in 2018.”

Mr Shiff’s productions have screened in over 170 countries worldwide, showcasing the Queensland lifestyle and picturesque locations to the world.

Head of Production at Screen Australia, Sally Caplan, said The Bureau of Magical Things is sure to be another hit for Mr Shiff.

“We are extremely pleased to see a new live-action kids’ series from one of Australia’s finest producers of children’s television,” said Ms Caplan.

“The Bureau Of Magical Things is sure to continue the incredible success of Jonathan Shiff’s previous series, once again captivating audiences around the world.”

Jamie, Julian and Elizabeth will follow in the footsteps of the megastars who first found success in Shiff’s productions including Liam Hemsworth and Margot Robbie, both seen on The Elephant Princess.

The ABC show will film from July to December this year, and is set to inject more than $8.5 million into the state economy.

“Do not wait for someone to come and knock on your door,” Ms Monroe said.

“I moved on when I started to become too comfortable and scared myself,” Ms Trioli said.

The event was generously sponsored by Bond University, The Star Gold Coast, Seven West Media, Flight Centre, Queensland Government Office for Women, Sageco, Media Super, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Nine, News Corp, Simplicite and SLF Lawyers.

The Bureau of Magical Things cast

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2017 | SEMESTER 3

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LIVE AT BOND LIVE at Bond always promises to be a brilliant day for the Bond and greater Gold Coast community. With a free live show, great food, and delightful company, what’s not to love?

The Live at Bond 2017 finale concert displayed two incredible emerging local talents. Multiple Gold Coast Music Awards winner, the hypnotising Ella Fence,

serenaded the crowd and wowed them with her impressive pipes. Fence is a musical theatre chanteuse, starring in lead roles with La Boite Theatre Company.

northern Queensland where he had been playing with Busby Marou supporting the Elton John concert.

Following Fence was William Bloom, a finalist in the 2016 Queensland Music Awards, who flew into the Gold Coast after a song writing hiatus in Mackay. We were lucky to tear Andersen away from his trip to

The Live at Bond concert series is a free, all ages program of community concerts held at Bond’s ADCO Amphitheatre. To find out what’s planned for 2018, head to the Live at Bond Facebook page.

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5 1. Electrik Lemonade 2. Ms Ella Fence 3. DJ Nova (Mr Ben Mason) 4. L-R: Mr William Bloom, Mr James Gatling, Mr Christian Patey, Ms Ella Fence, Mr Trevor Jackson & Ms Sharon Solyma 5. Electrik Lemonade vocalist Mr Ashley Dean, AKA Muffins

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS JANUARY 2018 15th

MAY 17-20 HOMECOMING CELEBRATIONS

181 Semester Begins

FEBRUARY 2018 17th

181 Graduation

APRIL 2018 4th -15th

15th Study Break (Commonwealth Games)

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181 Semester Ends

MAY 2018 14th

182 Semester Begins

17th -20th

Homecoming Celebrations

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Alumni Awards Dinner

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Alumni Leaders Forum Bond Family & Friends Festival

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AFL Home Game Bond Benefit Dinner

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Blues on Broadbeach

JUL 28 OPEN DAY

JUNE 2018 16th

182 Graduation

JULY 2018 28th

Open Day

AUGUST 2018 18th

182 Semester Ends

For more information about upcoming events visit www.bond.edu.au/events You can also contact the Alumni and Development Office on +61 7 5595 1093

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BOND2018 SAVE THE DATE 17 - 20 MAY Join us with your family at our annual Homecoming celebration.

Reconnect with fellow Bondies at the Alumni Awards Gala, Family and Friends Festival, Bond Benefit Dinner and more!

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