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Professor Jill Hooks is 2011 Lecturer of the Year

Professor Jill Hooks is the 2011 ASA Lecturer of the Year. The School of Accountancy lecturer is the seventh winner and first female lecturer to win the popular award that was conferred at a lunch-time ceremony in the Atrium Round Room.

“I’m lucky because my teaching interest – financial accounting – is also my research interest so my research provides insights and stories for my teaching,” Professor Hooks says. “I like to tell stories about accounting – often court cases of creative accounting. This enables me to bring in discussion of business ethics in terms of accounting practice.”

The annual award, organised by the Association's Advocacy Coordinator, Penny Lyall may unfortunately be the last due to restructuring due to Voluntary Student Membership, a point not lost on many of the recipients, all of whom received a valuable boost in morale and a reminder that all their hard efforts are respected and appreciated by their students.

As well as certificates for each nominee, cups were awarded to those with the most votes from each college. Other college awards went to Eric Thompson (College of Creative Arts); Dr Sally Clendon (College of Education); Dr Graeme McRae (College of Humanities and Social Sciences), Dr Gabi Schmidt-Adam and Dr Frederick Lam (College of Sciences), Claire Goode and Penny Raine (Centre for Professional and Continuing Education), and Pete France and Trudy Lile (NZ School of Music).

Dr Clendon and Dr Grant Duncan also received special mention as having recorded high scores through the Extramural Societies' online Review It.

Campus Transport Survey Results

Massey University staff and students were asked to fill in an on-line survey recently about how they travel to and from university. This is the first step to finding solutions to transport challenges faced here by the Albany campus community.

There was a great response with 785 students and 172 staff telling us about their transport issues. The results have been analysed and further focus groups will be held early December to explore transport themes and possible solutions in more detail.

The results indicate an improvement in travel mode choices since the 2006 travel survey with 7% fewer students coming to university alone in their car, and 5% fewer staff driving alone to work.

The target for the current Travel Plan is a further 5% of car drivers to travel by more sustainable options like bus, car pooling, walking or cycling.