2004 Melbourne projects
| Paula Black |
From Orientation to Graduation. An examination of Asian International Student expectations within a TAFE environment. |
| Shane Byrne |
Exporting to Asia. "Success stories". |
| Kim Cruickshank |
Australia Shouts (or Chinese Whispers) |
| Peter Hanami |
Japanese student success stories in Victorian schools. |
| Yvonne Foo |
Whole of Government China Strategy. |
| Rowan Gould, and Mona Elsawi |
Islam 101. |
| Tori Graham |
Profiling the wine market in China. |
| Paul Kennedy | The Asialink Leadership Program. |
| Jessamine Lumley and Katrina Morgan | Insolvency & secured interests in Indonesia: a comparison of the position of foreign and local creditors. |
| Ross McNeill | International Police Officers program. |
| Viviene Phuong Nyuyen | Supporting newly arrived migrants from Vietnam. To ease the transition from Vietnam to Australia. |
| Fiona Nixon | Aardvark Asia, Volume One - Singapore. |
| Sianna Panagiotopoulos | Australian-Asian Research Management Network. |
| Tom Parker | Leadership Tour to China. |
| Chee Keong Poh Lim | Celebrating diversity - The PricewaterhouseCoopers experience. |
| Alan Quinton | MFB Western Zone Engaging with the Vietnamese Community. |
| Alex Rickarby | "Understanding Asia". |
| Jonathan Smith | The experience of caring for a mentally ill child among an Indo-Chinese community in Victoria. |
| Mark Spivakovsky | Globalisation of Funds Management - Opportunities in the Asia Region. |
| Erica Wood | How can Australia better understand and engage in the Asia-Pacific region to promote improvements in blood safety? |
Paula Black
Project: From Orientation to Graduation. An examination of Asian International Student expectations within a TAFE environment.
This project will study Asian international students expectations of the Australian TAFE education experience and make recommendations for improvement.
It will explore whether students from different cultural origins experience the same level of satisfaction or whether there is a marked difference depending on culture/country of origin.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Paula Black
Kangan Batman Institute of TAFE.
Shane Byrne
Project: Exporting to Asia. "Success stories".
This project will run a series of seminars throughout regional Victoria to highlight opportunities available to export agricultural products and services to Asia.
Guest speakers will be invited to talk to audiences of agribusiness professionals about the success that they have had in doing trade with Asia.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Shane Byrne
Farmer and Department of Primary Industries.
Kim Cruickshank
Project: Australia Shouts (or Chinese Whispers).
Local and international students will be provided with a facilitated cross-cultural set of exercises around the theme of Australian Rules Football, including rules, customs, rituals etc. The exercise will involve approximately 8-12 students from Uni High and the same number from Trinity College Foundation Studies.* The project will involve preparation, attendance at a football match and a debrief session.
*Trinity College Foundation Studies provides post-secondary, pre-tertiary education to students from over 40 different countries, the largest group of countries being from the Asian region.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Kim Cruickshank
Trinity College
Peter Hanami
Project: Japanese student success stories in Victorian schools.
This project will compile a booklet of success stories from Japanese students who have studied at University, TAFE, Private TAFE and high schools in Victoria. Each of the four stories will describe in detail background, goals, achievements and future plans of students and how study in Victoria has helped.
The schools will be profiled to provide insight into how these schools have been leaders in managing Japanese student.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Peter Hanami
Understand Japan
Yvonne Foo
Project: Whole of Government China Strategy.
Currently information about Victorian government China focused activities is not widely disseminated across government Departments.
This project will seek to develop cohesion across government by mapping current China-Victoria trade and investment activities across the whole of government and exchanging this information across government departments
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Yvonne Foo
Invest Victoria
Rowan Gould and Mona Elsawi
Project: Islam 101.
Design and implement a one or two day seminar incorporating a mosque visit designed to improve awareness of Islam and Muslims and possible issues that may arise in the context of working or living with Muslims in Australia as well as abroad.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Rowan Gould
Islamic Council of Victoria.
Mona Elsawi
islamic Supreme Council of NSW.
Tori Graham
Project: Profiling the wine market in China.
This project will outline for the marketing team and executive management at Beringer Blass what needs to occur if wine is to be sold in China. This will be achieved through a combination of desk research, interviews and tastings and will result in the development of a brand that is acceptable to the Chinese market.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Tori Graham
Fosters Group Ltd.
Paul Kennedy
Project: The Asialink Leadership Program (a promotional video)
This project will produce a broadcast quality video about Asialink’s Leadership program. Content will include fly-on-the-wall documentary overlay of the Asialink Leadership course week in Canberra and interviews with participants, speakers and Asialink organisers. It may also include follow-up events, including the end of year graduation ceremony.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Paul Kennedy
Network Ten.
Jessamine Lumley & Katrina Morgan
Project: Insolvency & secured interests in Indonesia: a comparison of the position of foreign and local creditors.
This project will produce three products:
- A paper on the insolvency and security regime in Indonesia, comparing the positions of foreign and local creditors. The paper will also compare and contrast the cultural factors that influence the way corporate and personal debts are managed in both Indonesia and Australia.
- A presentation to Deacons Financial Services summarising the key points in the paper.
- A brochure for use by clients.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Jessamine Lumley
Deacons.
Ross McNeill
Project: International Police Officers program.
This staged project will first develop a feasibility study to explore the potential of building on an existing International Police Executive Officers Course to deliver to colleagues in the Asia Pacific region.
This will involve building links with colleagues in the region to determine their needs and the most appropriate ways for Australia to meet those needs.
A proposal will be written to Victorian Police Executive to further develop the program into ways suggested by the training feasibility study.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Ross McNeill
Victoria Police.
Vivienne Phuong Nguyen
Project: Supporting newly arrived migrants from Vietnam.
This project will adapt micro-finance principles to provide a legal and relatively simple way for newly arrived migrants from Vietnam to become economically self sufficient within a relatively short timeframe.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Vivienne Phuong Nguyen
Vietnamese Community of Victoria.
Fiona Nixon
Project: Aardvark Asia, Volume One - Singapore.
Aardvark is an RMIT-published guide to contemporary Melbourne Architecture, now in its fourth edition.
With the assistance of students from RMIT’s Architectural History Research Seminar, the project will research and produce a complementary edition focussing on the architecture of Singapore since independence in 1965.
Initial investigations show that such a guide does not currently exist. The School of Architecture and RMIT Press support the publication of the guidebook, initially in an on-line format.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Fiona Nixon
Minifie Nixon Pty Ltd.
Dr Sianna Panagiotopoulos
Project: Australian-Asian Research Management Network.
This project will identify key stakeholders in Malaysia and Singapore interested in collaborating to establish a Network. Key stakeholders from Malaysia and Singapore will be invited to participate at he Annual Australian Research Managers Conference in Fremantle (September 2004).
This project will identify potential funding options which may provide support for establishment of Network and potential roll-out to other countries in Asia (eg. Carnegie Foundation, IDRC).
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Dr Sianna Panagiotopoulos
The University of Melbourne.
Tom Parker
Project: Leadership Tour to China.
This project will organise a 2- 3 week study tour to China visiting Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, as well as rural China through Yunnan. for Asialink Leadership Program , Fellows, Alumni and Asialink Members.
The study tour will involve pre and post departure briefings and will provide access in-country to local and Australian leadership across professions and in both urban and rural China.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Tom Parker
City of Melbourne.
Chee Kheong Poh Lim
Project: Celebrating diversity - The PricewaterhouseCoopers experience.
An increasing number of organisations in Australia now boast staff from a diverse mix of Asian backgrounds. The wealth of knowledge, fresh perspectives, unique experiences and extensive networks of these individuals can and should be tapped into as Australian companies jumped into the fast-growing markets in the Asian region with both feet.
The PwC experience will be studied through interviews of partners, staff and possibly clients from 5 separate engagements to showcase best practice.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Chee Kheong Poh Lim
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Alan Quinton
Project: MFB Western Zone Engaging with the Vietnamese Community.
This project has many facets. A Multicultural Liaison Officer position will be established to not only promote community safety within the community but also to develop cultural awareness and understanding amongst fire service staff.
Relationships will be developed with Vietnamese community leaders to assist in promoting a career in the fire service. The project will work with Vietnamese community leaders in promoting community safety and fire-fighting as a career through festivals, fetes and Open Days.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Alan Quinton
Metropolitan Fire Brigade.
Alex Rickarby
Project: "Understanding Asia" .
Presentation of an annual three part seminar series on:
- "Growth areas in Asia for Australian business." (The seminar will deal with the geography and demography of Asia, growth areas and industries in Asia and challenges facing Australian business in Asia).
- "Understanding the cultural divide." (The seminar will inform its audience about the cultural differences between Australia and Asia in the way they do business and it will provide some handy hints to break down the divide).
- "Islam and terrorism, the misconceptions". (The seminar will highlight the truth about terrorism as a global threat and why Islam and Islamic fundamentalism is not to blame)
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Alex Rickarby
Middletons Lawyers
Jonathan Smith
Project: The experience of caring for a mentally ill child among an Indo-Chinese community in Victoria.
Digital story telling is a multimedia format that uses still and moving images, together with music, text and sound effects to convey a person’s story. It is usually brief, unsophisticated (seemingly) and carries the storyteller’s voice and images from their personal archive. It has been used effectively with a variety of communities including Alzheimer sufferers and people with heart disease. It can be a quasi therapeutic activity, creating a public and personal archive and is a powerful communicator to people outside of the target group.
Using the above approach this project will capture stories of Indo- Chinese carers and their mentally ill children.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Jonathan Smith
St Vincent Hospital.
Mark Spivakovsky
Project: Globalisation of Funds Management – Opportunities in the Asia Region.
This project will research within the Asian region, strategies of top fund management companies, government and other organisations and report key findings from research to employer and other interested organisations.
It is anticipated that key findings will be reported in trade publications, newspapers – and will gain exposure for Portfolio Partners and Asialink.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Mark Spivakovsky
Portfolio Partners.
Dr Erica Wood
Project: How can Australia better understand and engage in the Asia-Pacific region to promote improvements in blood safety?
- This project will:
Identify key questions and develop structured questionnaire for interviews with ARCBS CEO & Board members, National Blood Authority, IRFC, members of regional blood services. - Analyse published reports from WHO, IFRC, Australian and other sources.
Incorporate elements from own reports and experience in Australia and the region, including future plans. - Summarise and present prioritised list of ideas/proposals for further exploration and development.
- Develop a package of ideas for discussion by ARCBS management and Board, and a package of proposals for further development by ARCBS, ARCS, Aust. Govt, national blood services and other agencies in the region.
For more information regarding this project please contact:
Dr Erica Wood
Australian Red Cross Blood Service.