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Rex J. Lipman Fellows Program

2015 Public Lecture Series

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Introduction 2

Mr Simon Murray 3

The Program 4

Dr Rex J Lipman AO ED 5

Dr Mathew White 6

Fellows

Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann 7

Dr Liz Gulliford 8

Dr Blaire Morgan 9

Matthew Cowdrey OAM 10

Dr Yong Zhao 11

Seb Henbest (FRR ’97) 12

Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla 13

Dr Peter Binks 14

Dr Mario Alvarez-Jimenez 15

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young 16

Professor Alan Cooper 17

Tom Harley (DAC ’95) 18

Former Rex J Lipman Fellows 19

Contents

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Rex J Lipman Fellows ProgramPublic Lecture Series 2015

St Peter’s College is uncompromising in its

commitment to advance and contribute to

educational debate. The Rex J Lipman Fellows

Program builds on this tradition.

Established in 2011, St Peter’s College has

welcomed 25 Fellows to the School. The Rex J

Lipman Fellows Program enabled leaders and

scholars of international distinction to come to

St Peter’s College and contribute to our School’s

academic, intellectual and cultural life.

During their time at St Peter’s College, the

Lipman Fellows will:

• Present a substantial public lecture

• Present small seminars on a topic of interest

to boys and staff

• Be available for consultation with staff and

students of the School

Fellows are recommended to the Headmaster

and selection is made according to their:

• International standing and pre-eminence

• Value of the proposed Fellows

• Appeal of the public lecture to the School

and the wider community

We have welcomed many prominent

Australians as well as international visitors

including:

• Professor Patrick McGorry AO

• Dr Rob Moodie AM

• Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE

We look forward to welcoming you to as many

of these events as possible.

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I am delighted to launch the 2015 Rex J

Lipman Fellows Program. This year’s program

promises to be one of the most exciting created.

Since 2011 over 8,000 members of the South

Australian public have visited St Peter’s College

to hear our Fellows deliver the public lectures.

Headed by Dr Mathew White, Director of

Wellbeing & Positive Education, the program

continues to bring some of the world’s leaders

and commentators on contemporary issues

including psychology, service, neuroscience and

wellbeing to St Peter’s College.

The Rex J Lipman Fellows Program is one of the

most ambitious, publically spirited education

programs created in the School’s 168-year

history. Our objective is to give boys at the

School the opportunity to meet, discuss, debate

and engage with leaders in a diversity of fields.

This program captures the spirit of our School’s

vision and mission: to be a world-class school

where all boys flourish.

Throughout the following pages you will find an

outline of the program, an introduction to the

program’s benefactor Dr Rex J Lipman AO ED

as well as the program’s patrons and Fellows.

From the outset we have wanted to share

the Fellows program with the broader South

Australian community. I would like to extend a

personal invitation to you, your family and friends

to attend as many public lectures as possible.

Mr Simon MurrayHeadmaster, St Peter’s College

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Program

Wednesday, 25 February 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, The University of Adelaide

TBC - March 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Dr Liz Gulliford Research Fellow, Jubilee Centre for Character & Virtues, The University of Birmingham

TBC - March 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Dr Blaire Morgan Research Fellow, Jubilee Centre for Character & Virtues, The University of Birmingham

Thursday, 23 April 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Matthew Cowdrey OAM Champion Paralympic Swimmer, Uncle Tobys, Speedo & Swimming Australia Ambassador

Tuesday, 5 May 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Dr Yong Zhao Director, Institute for Global and Online Education, University of Oregon

Wednesday, 27 May 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Seb Henbest (FRR ’97) Head of Europe, Middle East & Africa, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Thursday, 18 June 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Director, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, University of New South Wales

Wednesday, 29 July 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Dr Peter Binks Director, Wade Institute for Entrepreneurship, Ormond College, The University of Melbourne

Wednesday, 5 August 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Dr Mario Alvarez-Jimenez CR Roper Fellow, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne

Tuesday, 18 August 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Director, Arrowsmith School and Arrowsmith Program

Wednesday, 16 September 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Professor Alan Cooper Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide

Wednesday, 21 October 7:00pm Memorial Hall

Tom Harley (DAC’95) General Manager – Football, Sydney Swans, Dual premiership winning Captain – Geelong Football Club

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The benefactor of the Fellows program, Dr Rex

J Lipman AO ED, attended St Peter’s College

from 1933-1937 and was in Short House.

He joined the Citizen Military Forces after

completing his education at Saints and was a

junior clerk at Goldsborough Mort. He studied

commerce at night at the University of Adelaide.

He enlisted in the army at the outbreak of WWII

and, early in the war, served with distinction

as a Commando behind the Japanese lines in

Timor and, later, as a staff officer in the famous

9th Division where he was Mentioned in

Despatches (1945).

After WWII, as a Lt Colonel, he was the first

Commanding Officer of the Adelaide University

Regiment. It was during this time that he

successfully studied dental surgery and built a

large practice in Adelaide. In 1947, he married

Eve Fisher, who, as an ‘other ranks’ army nurse,

nursed him in hospital, in 1942. They have a

truly wonderful family – five children, fifteen

grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

In the 1960s, he was involved with banking

and finance and was CEO of Adelaide’s most

successful Merchant Bank. In the 1970s he set

up Angas Travel and brought the Swiss Hotel

Association and the Cordon Bleu of Paris to

Australia. Towards the end of the 1990s,

Dr Lipman’s son, Gerald, took over as CEO of the

International College of Hotel Management that

Dr Lipman had started in 1992. It is now one

of the leading international hotel management

schools in the Western world and has enrolled

students from ninety different countries.

Dr Lipman was made a Member of the Order

of Australia in 1989 for his contribution to

the banking and thoroughbred horse racing

industries, and, in 2008, for his services to

education, tourism and the hotel industries, he

was made an Officer of that Order.

In the 1990s, the French Government

acknowledged his services to France, by making

him a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and an

Officier in the Ordre National du Mérite. In July

2014, in the Bastille Day Honour’s List, he was

promoted to the rank of Officier de La Légion

d’Honneur – an extremely rare honour for an

Australian.

In 2014, Dr Lipman accepted the Headmaster’s

invitation to become the 25th Fellow. Dr Lipman

decided this would be his final public lecture,

on the same stage where it all started for as a

student at the School. Dr Lipman lectured on

the topic of neuroscience and his collaboration

with one of the world’s leaders in the field,

Professor Michael Merzenich.

Dr Rex J Lipman AO EDPublic Lecture Series 2015

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Dr Mathew White has headed the Rex J Lipman

Fellows program since its creation in 2011.

Mathew is Director of Wellbeing & Positive

Education at St Peter’s College, Adelaide, where

he serves on the School’s Senior Leadership Team.

He is a Senior Fellow in the Melbourne’s

Graduate School of Education at The University

of Melbourne, Affiliate in the Wellbeing

Institute at Cambridge University, and an

Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Adelaide.

Mathew has advised corporate, non-profit,

independent, universities, government,

Lutheran and Catholic education systems on

the applications of positive psychology. Mathew

was the St Peter’s College representative for

Dr Seligman’s role as Adelaide’s Thinkers in

Residence – Department of the Premier and

Cabinet. He has lectured on wellbeing and

organisational change at the University of

Melbourne, Oriel College - Oxford University,

University of Pennsylvania, and to the South

Australian Governor’s Leadership Foundation

South Australian Government’s Executive

Services Leadership Program developed by the

Office of Public Sector Renewal.

Mathew was one of thirty leaders in education

invited to participate in a Positive Education

Summit and Round Table on Wellbeing at

No. 10 Downing Street in 2013. Mathew is a

member of the Academic Advisory Board -

Positive Psychology Centre at The University

of Melbourne, Academic Advisory Committee

- Wellbeing & Resilience Centre in South

Australian Health and Medical Research

Institute (SAHMRI), Academic Committee -

St Mark’s College, Adelaide’s largest residential

university college and The Reach Foundation’s

Impact Committee.

Dr Mathew WhiteDirector of Wellbeing & Positive Education, St Peter’s College

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In 2012 Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann and

the Parnkalla Aboriginal community of Eyre

Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, launched

a reclamation of the Parnkalla language, a

language not spoken for over half a century

based on 170-year-old documents.

Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann is Chair of

Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the

University of Adelaide and Australian Research

Council Discovery Fellow. Professor Zuckermann

applies insights from the Hebrew revival to the

revitalisation of Aboriginal languages in Australia.

He is currently establishing ‘Revivalistics’, a

new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry, and

has launched, with the Barngarla Aboriginal

communities of Port Lincoln, Whyalla and

Port Augusta, the reclamation of the Barngarla

language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.

Professor Zuckermann graduated DPhil from

St Hugh’s College at Oxford University in 2000

and received a titular PhD from the University

of Cambridge in 2003. He also holds a MA from

Tel Aviv University summa cum laude. He is also

Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China

Normal University, Oriental Scholar at Shanghai

International Studies University, and Visiting

Professorial Scientist at the Department of

Molecular Genetics of the Weizmann Institute

of Science.

Professor Zuckermann is President of

AustraLex and elected member of AIATSIS

and the Foundation for Endangered Languages.

He was an Australian Research Council (ARC)

Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011 and Gulbenkian

Research Fellow at Churchill College,

Cambridge in 2000-2004. He has taught inter

alia at the University of Queensland, University

of Cambridge and National University of

Singapore, and has been a Research Fellow

at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and

Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio,

Italy; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Research

Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT), Institute

for Advanced Study, La Trobe University;

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,

University of Texas at Austin; and Kokuritsu

Kokugo Kenkyūjo, National Institute for

Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo. He

is Internationalisation Adviser at Shanghai Jiao

Tong University.

Professor Ghil’ad ZuckermannChair of Linguistics & Endangered Languages, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide

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Dr Liz Gulliford has an interdisciplinary

background. She gained a Theology degree from

Trinity College, Oxford University, and also has

a BSc in Psychology. She previously worked for

the Psychology and Religion Research Group

at the University of Cambridge, where she

published work on forgiveness and other virtues,

co-editing Forgiveness in Context: Theology and

Psychology in Creative Dialogue, with Fraser

Watts, in 2004. Dr Liz Gulliford studied for her

doctoral thesis, an interdisciplinary evaluation of

positive psychological approaches to strengths

and virtues, at Queens’ College, Cambridge

University, and was awarded her doctorate in

October 2011. She has worked as a Research

Fellow for the ‘Attitude for Gratitude’ project

at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues

in the School of Education, University of

Birmingham since September 2012.

Dr Liz GullifordResearch Fellow, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, School of Education, University of Birmingham

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Dr Blaire Morgan is a Research Fellow within

the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues

at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is

currently working on a project entitled ‘An

Attitude for Gratitude’. This project is examining

how gratitude is understood and valued in

British society. In particular, it is exploring the

ways in which gratitude is conceptualised

by capturing ‘gratitude profiles’ and what

kinds of people are grateful through a newly

created multi-component gratitude measure.

Importantly, this research should highlight the

ways in which we might promote the principle

of gratitude within society and increase people’s

awareness of the value of gratitude.

Dr Morgan’s background is in Psychology and

her PhD in particular has been within the area

of Psycholinguistics. She has investigated the

coordination of speech production and speech

comprehension and has taken a cognitive

perspective to examine dialogue.

Dr Blaire MorganResearch Fellow, School of Education, University of Birmingham

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Matthew Cowdrey returned home from the

2012 Paralympics in London as Australia’s

greatest ever Paralympian. Matthew won a

medal in every event in London – five gold,

two silver and one bronze – to go with his

eight medals from Beijing 2008. This included

breaking his own world record in the 50m

freestyle. Born with a congenital amputation

to his lower left arm, Cowdrey has shown

immense strength and courage to succeed

and reach incredible heights in the world of

swimming. He started swimming at the age

of five and was determined to be not just as

good, but better than most able-bodied persons.

Having set his goals for success, he quickly

stamped his mark on his S9 classification,

breaking his first Australian open record at age

11 and world record at age 13.

Matthew was awarded a Medal of the Order of

Australia for Service to Sport as a Gold Medallist

at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. It

was at the Paralympics in Beijing 2008 that

Matthew truly arrived as a dominant force on

the world stage, with a staggering haul of five

world records, five gold medals and three silver

medals. Matthew followed this up the following

year at the World Championships in Brazil

with seven world records, seven gold medals

and two silver medals, which demonstrated the

true versatility of this athlete, drawing many

comparisons to Michael Phelps of America.

Matthew currently trains in his hometown of

Adelaide where he also studies law full time at

Adelaide University. Matthew is a confident and

articulate speaker, lending his time to charities

and motivating workplaces and kids with his

‘can do’ attitude.

Matthew Cowdrey OAMChampion Paralympic Swimmer, Uncle Tobys Speedo & Swimming Australia Ambassador

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Dr Yong Zhao has designed schools that

cultivate global competence, developed

computer games for language learning, and

founded research and development institutions

to explore innovative education models. An

internationally known scholar and author, his

works focus on the implications of globalisation

and technology on education.

Dr Yong Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan

Province. He received his BA in English

Language Education from Sichuan Institute of

Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China in 1986.

After teaching English in China for six years, he

came to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in

1992. He then began his graduate studies at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in

1993. He received his AM in Education in 1994

and PhD in 1996. He joined the faculty at MSU

in 1996 after working as the Language Center

Coordinator at Willamette University and a

language specialist at Hamilton College.

He has published over 100 articles and 20

books, including Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad

Dragon: Why China has the Best (and Worst)

Education System in the World, Catching Up or

Leading the Way: American Education in the

Age of Globalization and World Class Learners:

Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students.

He is a recipient of the Early Career Award from

the American Educational Research Association

and was named one of the 2012 ten most

influential people in educational technology by

the ‘Tech & Learn Magazine’. He is an elected

Fellow of the International Academy for

Education. His latest book World Class Learners

has won several awards including the Society

of Professors of Education Book Award (2013),

Association of Education Publishers’ (AEP)

Judges’ Award and Distinguished Achievement

Award in Education Leadership (2013).

He currently serves as the Presidential Chair and

Director of the Institute for Global and Online

Education in the College of Education, University

of Oregon, where he is also a Professor in the

Department of Educational Measurement,

Policy, and Leadership. Until December, 2010,

Yong Zhao was University Distinguished

Professor at the College of Education, Michigan

State University, where he also served as the

founding director of the Center for Teaching and

Technology, executive director of the Confucius

Institute, as well as the US-China Center for

Research on Educational Excellence.

Dr Yong ZhaoDirector, Institute for Global and Online Education, University of Oregon

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

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Seb Henbest is Head of Europe, Middle East

& Africa at Bloomberg New Energy Finance

(BNEF), a global research firm specialising in

the decarbonisation and transformation of the

world’s energy systems.

From 2009 to 2012 Seb Henbest was Head of

Research and Manager of BNEF in Australia,

establishing the firm’s Sydney offices. During

this time he wrote extensively on clean

energy, carbon market economics and climate

politics, and gave evidence before the House of

Representatives Economics Committee on the

price dynamics of linking Australia’s Carbon

Price Mechanism to the European Union

Emissions Trading Scheme. He is quoted widely

in print media, and has appeared as an expert

commentator on ABC’s Lateline, ABC’s The Drum,

Sky News, Radio National, and Bloomberg TV.

Before joining Bloomberg New Energy Finance,

Seb Henbest worked with research consultancy

FreshMinds, activist investment firm Hanover

Investors Management and taught maths

and physics at the Centre for Dynamical

Meteorology and Oceanography at Monash

University. He currently serves on the Board of

the Gulf-region Clean Energy Business Council,

based in Dubai.

Seb Henbest has degrees in physics and

atmospheric science from the University of

Adelaide and Monash University. He also

studied at Cambridge University where he

read International Relations, and won a full

Blue for hockey.

At the University of Adelaide he was Vice

President of the Student’s Association, a

University Union Board member for five years

and represented the student body on the

Academic Board and University Council where

he chaired the Student Affairs Committee.

Seb Henbest matriculated at St Peter’s College

in 1997. An all-rounder, Seb represented the

School in tennis and hockey and was involved in

debating and drama. He was Vice Captain of the

School, Captain of Farr House, Caterer Scholar

and was awarded the School’s highest award -

Keys. He currently lives in London with his wife

and one year old daughter.

Seb Henbest (FRR ’97)Head of Europe, Middle East & Africa, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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Named one of Australia’s Laureate Fellows in

2014, Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla’s

research interests include sustainability of

materials and processes with emphasis on

environmental benefits.

Professor Sahajwalla is an international award-

winning engineer who has widely presented on

her research and experiences throughout the

world and has published in excess of 200 papers

in journals and conference proceedings.

As the Director of the SMaRT Centre

(Sustainable Materials Research & Technology)

and Associate Dean (Strategic Industry

Relations) Faculty of Science, UNSW, Professor

Sahajwalla provides leadership in research

programs on sustainable materials, with strong

emphasis on the science urgently needed to

enhance sustainability.

She is an Australian Research Council (ARC)

Laureate Fellow (2014). In 2013, Professor

Sahajwalla won AIST Howe Memorial Lecture

Award. In 2012 she was named Overall

Winner of the Australian Innovation Challenge

Awards for tackling real world problems

with imaginative solutions that offer positive

environmental and community benefits.

She was awarded the 2012 Banksia Award,

the GE Eco Innovation Award for Individual

Excellence, and the 2012 CRC Australian

Collaborative Innovation Award. She also won

the National Nokia Business Innovation Award

and the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award from

the Indian Government in 2011. In 2005 she

received the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research.

Professor Sahajwalla’s has a MASc, Metals and

Materials Engineering, University of British

Columbia, Canada; and PhD, Materials Science

and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA.

Scientia Professor Veena SahajwallaAustralian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Director: Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, University of New South Wales

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Dr Peter Binks took up his role as Director of the

Wade Institute in November 2014. The Wade

Institute is Australia’s newest leadership vehicle,

conducting a Masters of Entrepreneurship

offered by Ormond College through the

University of Melbourne. Through 2015, Peter

will lead a team at Ormond College and the

University in developing the new Masters,

constructing an innovative building for the

Institute, and recruiting faculty and students.

For the previous 5 years, he was CEO at the

General Sir John Monash Foundation, which

awards postgraduate international scholarships

each year to outstanding Australians. Peter led

the Foundation through a significant turnaround:

doubling the number of Scholarships; building

the Endowment fund to over $20 million; and

establishing the Scholarships as one of the pre-

eminent postgraduate awards in Australia.

Peter was the 1983 Rhodes Scholar for Tasmania,

and completed a D.Phil. in Theoretical Physics

at Oxford University, in his research topic

modelling the orbits of stars in normal galaxies.

After returning from Oxford, Peter worked

with McKinsey & Company, BHP Pty Ltd, and

Telstra Mobile. From 2003 to 2009, Peter was

the startup CEO of Nanotechnology Victoria,

responsible for managing a budget of close to

A$30 million, delivering investment, research,

policy and educational outcomes for Victoria

based on nanotechnology.

Dr Peter Binks Director, Wade Institute for Entrepreneurship, Ormond College, The University of Melbourne

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Dr Alvarez-Jimenez has pioneered the use of

social media-based interventions and positive

psychology to promote long-term recovery in

youth mental health.

Dr Mario Alvarez-Jimenez completed his

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University

Hospital Marques de Valdecilla (Spain) in 2004;

this was followed by a Masters in Research

Methodology, Design and Statistics at the

University Autonomous of Barcelona, and a PhD

in at the University of Cantabria in 2009 (Spain).

Dr Alvarez-Jimenez is the Head of Online

Interventions & Innovation Research at Orygen,

Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental

Health. His current research focuses on long-

term recovery in early psychosis and youth

depression through innovative technologies,

cross-disciplinary research and new models of

positive psychotherapy.

In 2013, he was awarded the Young

Investigator Award for Excellence in Research

by the Australasian Schizophrenia Conference

(ASC). In 2012, Dr Alvarez-Jimenez was granted

the CR Roper Fellowship a highly competitive

3-year fellowship in the field of bio-medical

and health research awarded by the Faculty

of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at

the University of Melbourne. In addition, he

was awarded the International Early Psychosis

Association (IEPA) Young Investigator Award

in 2012.

His work includes over 70 articles published

in internationally leading journals. He has

obtained 13 competitive grants (eight as lead

investigator) since 2010 totaling over $8.5

million in research funding.

Dr Mario Alvarez-Jimenez CR Roper Fellow, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne

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Barbara Arrowsmith Young is the Founder

and Director of the Arrowsmith Program, and

author of The Woman Who Changed Her Brain.

Diagnosed in grade one as having a mental

block, which today would have been identified

as multiple learning disabilities, she read and

wrote everything backwards, had trouble

processing concepts in language, continuously

got lost and was physically uncoordinated.

Barbara eventually learned to read and write

from left to right and claims to have masked

a number of the symptoms of her learning

disabilities through heroic effort; however she

continued throughout her educational career to

have difficulty with specific aspects of learning.

Founded by Barbara Arrowsmith Young in

1978, the Arrowsmith Program helps students

with learning disabilities by using the research

in neuroplasticity theories, which suggest the

brain is dynamic, and constantly rewiring itself.

It is also founded on Ms Arrowsmith Young’s

personal experience in living with learning

disabilities. The Arrowsmith Program is

founded on two lines of research, one of which

established that different areas of the brain

working together are responsible for complex

mental activities, such as reading or writing, and

that a weakness in one area can affect a number

of different learning processes.

The other line of research investigated the

principle of neuroplasticity, which is the

ability of the brain to physically change in

response to stimulus and activity, to develop

new neuronal/synaptic interconnections and

thereby develop and adapt new functions and

roles believed to be the physical mechanism of

learning. Neuroplasticity refers to structural and

functional changes in the brain that are brought

about by training and experience.

The genesis of the Arrowsmith Program of

cognitive exercises lies in Barbara Arrowsmith

Young’s journey of discovery and innovation to

overcome her own severe learning disabilities,

a description of which appears in the article,

‘Building a Better Brain’ or in Chapter 2 of

the book, The Brain That Changes Itself by

Dr Norman Doidge.

Barbara Arrowsmith Young holds both a BASc

in Child Studies from the University of Guelph,

and a Master’s Degree in School Psychology

from the University of Toronto (Ontario

Institute for Studies in Education). After her

undergraduate studies were completed Barbara

worked as the Head Teacher in the lab

pre-school at the University of Guelph for two

years where she began to observe learning

differences in pre-school children.

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Director Arrowsmith School and Program

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Awarded one of the country’s prestigious

Australian Research Council Laureate

Fellowships in 2014 and Future Fellowship

in 2010, Professor Cooper specialises in using

ancient DNA to record and study evolutionary

processes in real time, especially those

associated with environmental change.

His work ranges over timescales of hundreds of

years old (e.g. museum specimens) to material

well beyond the ca. 60 kyr range of carbon-

dating, such as permafrost-preserved bones of

mammals and sediment dating to >300 kyr.

His research is characterised by multi-

disciplinary approaches involving the

combination of information from areas such as

geology, archaeology, anthropology, and even

forensics to provide novel views of evolution,

population genetics and palaeoecology.

Professor Alan Cooper moved from Oxford

University (where he was the Director of the

Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre)

to Adelaide in 2005 on an Australian Research

Council Federation Fellowship to establish

the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA

(ACAD). This international standard research

facility was formally opened by Premier,

Mike Rann in August 2006 and provides the

specialist equipment and ultra-sterile working

environment required for the study of minute

traces of preserved genetic material.

ACAD has been designed to provide a centre

for evolutionary research in the Southern

Hemisphere, particularly the impacts and timing

of environmental change (e.g. climate, humans)

on animals, plants and microbes by measuring

the genetic records preserved in bones, teeth,

leaves and seeds, faeces, and other remains from

caves, museums and even sediment cores from

lakes, rivers and marine sites.

Professor Alan CooperAustralian Research Council Laureate Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

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Geelong Cats’ dual-flag winning skipper Tom

Harley retired in 2009 leaving behind one of the

best captaincy records in AFL history. Harley’s

leadership skills were consistently praised

during his time and he established himself as

one of the most respected leaders in AFL.

On retirement, Harley joined the Seven

Network as a commentator filling the much-

coveted seat on Friday Night Football and

making regular appearances during games and

on talk show AFL Game Day.

Also in 2010, Harley took up a year-long role

as Project Consultant to the Greater Western

Sydney Football Club while working with the

AIS/AFL Academy as an Assistant Coach and

Mentor. In September 2010, Harley released,

through Penguin Books Australia, Standing

Tall – a book on confidence, teamwork and

leadership that he penned himself.

In 2011, Harley was appointed Planning &

Operations Manager of the AFL NSW/ACT and

Coach of the NSW/ACT Under 16 team and

AIS/AFL Academy Mentor.

In June 2011, Harley was promoted to General

Manager – AFL NSW/ACT; the most senior

AFL appointed role in NSW/ACT. As General

Manager, he was responsible for all AFL

activity in NSW and the ACT outside of the

Sydney Swans and GWS GIANTS. Harley

resigned from his position in December 2013

to focus his energies on his young family, media

commitments and a Masters of Commerce

postgraduate degree from Sydney University.

Harley was awarded “Best Special Comments

Analyst – TV” at the 2014 Australian Football

Media Association awards and at the conclusion

of the 2014 AFL Premiership season, Harley

decided to return to full-time work and

relinquish his role at Channel 7. In November

2014, Harley was appointed General Manager –

Football at the Sydney Swans.

Tom Harley matriculated from St Peter’s College

in 1995. An all-rounder, Tom was School

Prefect, Captain of Da Costa House and Vice

Captain of the First XVIII. He was awarded the

Opie Medal for the Best on Ground during the

Intercollegiate Football match against Prince

Alfred College. He also represented the School

in cricket and athletics and was a member of

the Mooting Society.

Tom Harley (DAC ’95)General Manager – Football, Sydney Swans, Dual premiership winning Captain – Geelong Football Club

Wednesday, October 21 2015

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Former Rex J Lipman FellowsWe have been honoured to welcome some outstanding scholars to our Fellows program since 2011.

Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE British scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords

Professor Tanya Monro Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at the University of South Australia (UniSA)

Anthony Roediger Boston Consulting Group Partner and Managing Director

Professor Patrick McGorry AO Executive Director of Orygen Youth Health, Director of headspace and Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Rufus Black Master of Ormond College, Principal Fellow - Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Deputy Chancellor of Victoria University

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg Leading child and adolescent psychologist and Managing Director of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre

Professor Felicia Huppert Director - Cambridge University’s Well-being Institute

The Very Rev’d Dr Andrew McGowan Dean & President, Berkeley Divinity School - McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies, Yale Divinity School

Professor Toni Noble Australian Catholic University

Professor Rob Moodie AM Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

Professor Lea Waters Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology - Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne

Professor Michael Bernard Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne

Professor Peter Singer AC Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

Associate Professor Jane Burns Founder and CEO of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre

The Very Rev’d Dr Andreas Loewe Anglican Dean of Melbourne

Professor James Haire AC Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Professor of Theology of Charles Sturt University and Director of the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre

Professor Kent Anderson Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), University of Adelaide

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Professor James Arthur Head of the School of Education, Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham

Brigader General Rhonda Cornum (rtd)

Professor Emeritus Michael Merzenich Professor Emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco

Dr Paul Willis Director, RiAus

Professor Glyn Davis AC Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Melbourne

Professor Barbara Pocock AM Director of the Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia

Professor Julio Licinio Deputy Director for Translational Medicine and Head, Mind and Brain Theme - South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and Strategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University

Dr Rex J Lipman AO ED

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