Swinburne Leadership Institute | General | Friday May 24, 2013 | By Samuel WILSON

Elections are generally the time when we ask ourselves questions about the quality of our civilisation: who we are, whom we ought or would like to be, and how to bridge the discrepancy, if any, between the two. These questions often concern the shared...

Swinburne Leadership Institute | General | Thursday May 23, 2013 | By Samuel WILSON

Whatever the virtues of past approaches to leadership, many are maladapted to solving our most complex problems. A reason for this is that most of our ideas about leaders and followers are not grounded in a key scientific insight; namely, that we are...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Wednesday May 22, 2013 | By Jane O'Donnell

ABS Stats for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, official Australian Statistics at your finger tips! Key Indicators Making better decisions is easy with access to key economic indicators, updated instantly when new data becomes available.  ...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Wednesday May 22, 2013 | By Helen Wolff

If you missed the Faculty of Business and Enterprise DataBlitz session catch up now via Swinburne Commons or Swinburne on iTunes U . April's topic was 'Business Education' and presentations included: Improving the effectiveness of intersectoral...

Vice-Chancellor's News | General | Monday May 20, 2013 | By Lea Kivivali

Colleagues, I am delighted that in this year's QS World University rankings, Swinburne was ranked in the top 200 in the world for Communication and Media Studies, Computer Science and Information Technology, Psycholo...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Monday May 20, 2013 | By Kim HODGMAN

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Social Aspects of 3D Printing | General | Friday May 17, 2013 | By Angela Daly

Welcome to this new Swinburne blog, which will support the activities of the research project into the impact that 3D printing will have (and is already having) on society. 3D printing is an increasingly accessible technology with potentially important...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Friday May 17, 2013 | By Rebecca Parker

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has become the first member of the United Nations to adopt an open access policy for its publications. UNESCO will now aim make its publications available to millions of people...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Thursday May 16, 2013 | By Jane O'Donnell

    Joseph E. Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He is an American economist, author and academic at Columbia University. One of his books, Globalization and Its Discontents , was a New York Times bestseller. ...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Tuesday May 14, 2013 | By Helen Wolff

For students wanting some practice in the lead up to this semester's exams, the library offers copies of past exam papers dating back to 2001. Exam papers are available for higher education students in subjects such as accounting, engineering and...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Monday May 13, 2013 | By Kim HODGMAN

  Max Miedinger designed the now ubiquitous sans serif typeface Helvetica with Eduard Hoffman in 1957. The style emerged from the International Typographic Style movement that emphasised a clean, readable objective look. Originally called Neue...

Swinburne Leadership Institute | General | Saturday May 11, 2013 | By Samuel WILSON

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Swinburne Library Blog | General | Thursday May 09, 2013 | By Helen Wolff

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day , so there's no better time to learn how to caption a video or prepare a transcript.  In future it may be a legislative requirement to provide a text equivalent for all video and audio hosted on Swinburne web...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Tuesday May 07, 2013 | By Jane O'Donnell

According to Crikey's Glenn Dyer "As debut programs go, Financial Review Sunday, Nine's new TV program in partnership with The Australian Financial Review, wasn't bad."   This might sound like faint praise, but the show could be...

Swinburne Leadership Institute | General | Monday May 06, 2013 | By Samuel WILSON

Theories of leadership have proliferated in recent years. Particularly numerous are so-called "post-heroic" leadership theories, which include authentic leadership, transformational leadership and servant leadership, to name but three.  By...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Monday May 06, 2013 | By Kim HODGMAN

  Ettore Sottsass was one of Italy's best known and admired architects and designers. He said that design should be 'sensual and exciting.' His designs certainly were. Sottsass worked for Italian firm Olivetti. He created many innovative...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Friday May 03, 2013 | By Kim HODGMAN

  The Hollywood costume exhibition opened last week at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Federation Square. The exhibition features more than 100 costumes from numerous films including Elizabeth and Batman to ...

Swinburne Leadership Institute | General | Wednesday May 01, 2013 | By Helena Liu

The inaugural International Leadership Association Oceania conference began with a Maori waka tour. We intimately experienced the four seasons over five hours, enduring both scorching heat and icy rain as the waka coiled their way around Waitemata Harbour....

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Wednesday May 01, 2013 | By Helen Wolff

Did you know that the Library has a large selection of online videos available for educational use including many Australian and international films? Following is a just sample of some of our recently acquired online titles: Rosemary's baby Cape...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Wednesday May 01, 2013 | By Helen Wolff

Videos of the March 2013 graduations held at the Melbourne Convention Centre are now available online via Swinburne Commons , iTunes U and YouTube . The free online graduation videos replace the previous option of buying a DVD and provide a more...

Vice-Chancellor's News | General | Tuesday April 30, 2013 | By Lea Kivivali

Last week I had the privilege of attending the official opening of the KIOSC Trade Training Centre at Wantirna. Housed in a state-of-the-art building, which recently won an award for the Best New Entire Educational Facility in Victoria, KIOSC offers...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Tuesday April 30, 2013 | By Kim HODGMAN

  Husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames designed some of the most influential furniture of the late 20th century, including this 1956 lounge chair . Working in different day jobs, the pair started experimenting with plywood in their LA...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Wednesday April 24, 2013 | By Helen Wolff

Given that ANZAC day is almost upon us, we thought we'd share Miss Drake's recipe for Soldiers' Pound Cake.  Miss Lucy Drake taught domestic science at Swinburne from 1913 up until to her death in 1923. During her years at Swinburne, she trained a...

Swinburne Library Blog | General | Tuesday April 23, 2013 | By Jane O'Donnell

  OECD Economic Outlook historical issues   Since 1967, the OECD Economic Outlook has been providing coverage of economic developments in the OECD area and beyond. Historical issues from No. 1 in 1967 through the issues...