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15 unusual facts about University of South Australia


Aleks Danko

He was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and the Hawthorn Institute of Education.

Arianna Dagnino

She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and World Literature from the University of South Australia, in Adelaide.

More specifically, the relationship between creative writing, transculturalism/transculturality and transcultural fiction (Mikhail Epstein, Wolfgang Welsch) is the field of research in which she has been involved with her PhD program at the University of South Australia (UniSA).

ARQuake

Created in the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia, ARQuake provides a first-person shooter that allows the user to run around in the real world whilst playing a game in the computer generated world.

Bernard Whimpress

He has taught courses in sports, American and world history at Flinders University; and Aboriginal history and sports journalism at the University of South Australia.

Darren Siwes

He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons), (1996) and a Graduate Diploma of Education (1997) at the University of South Australia.

David Cappo

While completing a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work at the South Australian Institute of Technology (now University of South Australia), Cappo worked as a community welfare officer in the areas of child protection, family support and juvenile offending.

Denise Irene Bradley

Professor Bradley has wide experience in higher education administration, including work with various Australian Universities and service as Vice-Chancellor with the University of South Australia.

Elizabeth Ferrars

She traveled with her husband when his academic career required, for example to Adelaide where he was a visiting professor at the University of South Australia, and on holidays specially to Madeira, which they loved.

John Hepworth

For five years he was a lecturer in politics at the Northern Territory University before becoming co-ordinator of international studies at the University of South Australia.

Joseph Dellapenna

He is a regular visiting lecturer at the University of Macau and holds a three-year appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of South Australia.

Kevin V. Mulcahy

In addition to serving as a reviewer for Tenure and promotion decisions at several American universities, he assists the School of Management at the University of South Australia, Adelaide in reviewing Doctoral Dissertations and fulfilling the role of foreign reviewer.

Milton Moon

In 2006 he was conferred an honorary doctorate (DUniv) from the University of South Australia.

Monica Oliphant

Monica Oliphant was President of the International Solar Energy Society from 2008 to 2009 and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of South Australia.

Trish White

Prior to her election into politics, White gained degrees in Engineering and Arts, from the University of Queensland and the University of South Australia, after which she worked as an engineering project manager in the transport and communications industries, and with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.


Georgina McGuinness

An Adelaide native, born 29 August 1966, Georgina studied at Seymour College and at the Magill campus of the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now a part of the University of South Australia).

Michael Cuthill

Previously, Cuthill was a lecturer at the School of Environmental and Recreation Management at the University of South Australia, a Research Officer at the Great Barrier Reef Cooperative Research Centre at James Cook University, and a technical services manager at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.