University of Tasmania
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The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania
, Australia
. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia. UTAS is a sandstone university and is a member of the international Association of Commonwealth Universities
.
UTAS offers various undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of disciplines. UTAS has also been consistently ranked in the top 10 universities in Australia for research and has links with 20 specialist research institutes, cooperative research centres and faculty based research centres; all of which are regarded as nationally and internationally competitive leaders. UTAS has a student population of nearly 26,800, including over 6,000 international students (on and offshore) and 1000 PhD students.
. Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris
, who had long advocated the establishment of the University, became its first warden of the senate. The first degrees to graduates admitted ad eundem gradum
and diplomas were awarded in June 1890. Three lecturers began teaching a handful of students in 1893. Parliamentarians branding it an unnecessary luxury made the university's early existence precarious. The institution's encouragement of female students fuelled criticism. James Backhouse Walker, a local lawyer and briefly Vice-Chancellor, mounted a courageous defence. By the First World War there were over one hundred students and several Tasmanian graduates were influential in law and politics.
According to Chancellor Sir John Morris, from 1918 until 1939 the institution still 'limped along'. Distinguished staff had already appeared, such as historian William Jethro Brown, physicists and mathematicians Alexander McAulay and his son Alexander Leicester McAulay, classicist RL Dunbabin, and philosopher and polymath Edmund Morris Miller. Housed in the former Hobart High School, facilities were totally outgrown, but the state government was slow to fund a new campus on the old Sandy Bay
rifle range.
, recently established on nearby Mount Nelson, which raised numbers to 5000.
In the early 1990s, the 'Dawkins Revolution' and the unified national system ensured amalgamation with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology at Launceston. The University of Tasmania was reorganised in 1991 when it merged with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, which became the Newnham Campus. A new centre at Burnie was opened in 1995, which later became the Cradle Coast Campus. Though the University of Tasmania retained its old name, like other contemporary institutions, a new era dominated by market forces rather than generous public funding.
The University of Tasmania and Tasmania Polytechnic and Skills Institute are the only remaining institutions of higher education in Tasmania. The Australian Maritime College
(AMC) integrated with the university in 2008.
and has the majestic Mount Wellington
as its backdrop.
The northern campus is in the suburb of Newnham, looking down to the River Tamar
, about 10 minutes from the centre of Tasmania’s second largest city, Launceston
.The Australian Maritime College
is based on the Newnham campus.
Established in 1995, the vibrant Cradle Coast campus in Burnie caters for academics and students in the State’s north-west. It underwent significant expansion in 2008. Also in Burnie is the University’s state-of the-art Rural Clinical School .
There are a number of satellite campuses including the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
and the Tasmanian School of Arts in the Centre for the Arts in the heart of Hobart’s cultural precinct. Also in downtown Hobart is the Medical Sciences Precinct, part of a new education and research complex that encompasses the School of Medicine and the Menzies Research Institute
.
UTAS established a presence in Sydney in 2006 and is now delivering nursing and paramedic courses from the Darlinghurst and Rozelle campuses.
The Academy of the Arts and the School of Architecture & Design are housed in the Inveresk Arts Precinct, an award-winning, 17-hectare inner city site comprising arts studios, galleries, performance spaces, a museum and specialist workshops.
The university also has a 334 hectare property located 20 km from the Sandy Bay campus. The University Farm is set in the cropping and grape growing area of Cambridge located in the Coal River valley, serving the teaching and research needs of the School of Agricultural Science.
UTAS currently holds the secretariat role of the International Antarctic Institute established in 2006 in partnership with 19 institutions in 12 countries.
A partnership between UTAS and the Cradle Coast Authority established the Institute for Regional Development at the Cradle Coast campus in 2005.
(ARWU), issued by Jiao Tong University
. Also, in the newly published Excellence in Research for Australia
, the University was ranked 14 in Australia for its research quality.
Internationally, the University is ranked 320 based on the QS World University Rankings
2010.
Research produced by the Melbourne Institute in 2006, ranked Australian universities across seven main discipline areas: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science. Based on data collected, the university ranked amongst the best in several of its discipline including Arts & Humanities, Law, Medicine, and Science but fared poorly in Business & Economics, Education and Engineering.
• Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath
• Centre for Law and Genetics
• Tasmania Law Reform Institute
• Centre for Aboriginal Education
• Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies
• Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute
• Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies
• Centre for Marine Science
• Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC
• Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science
• Australian Innovation Research Centre
• Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits -
• Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research
• Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence
The trend towards globalisation has largely defeated the isolation traditionally associated with an antipodean location. UTAS now plays a major role in helping Tasmania meet the challenge of internationalisation, maintaining a vision set on international rather than regional horizons. At UTAS there are staff and students from more than 70 countries.
The University values the presence of its international students and is proud of the services it is able to offer them. Special academic and English-language support is available, along with extensive social assistance, including help in finding accommodation and information about Australian society.
Formal links with other universities outside Australia bear witness to the University of Tasmania’s international standard and reputation. The University now has a large number of links and associations in Asia, as well as North America, the UK and Europe.
(TUU) in Hobart and the Student Association (SA) in Launceston
. Due to the abolition of compulsory student unionism
in 2007, the SA and the TUU amalgamated into one Statewide Organisation representing all UTAS students.
The President of the TUU is elected to represent all UTAS students on all campuses, and both Hobart and Launceston have their own Vice-President and Student Representative Councils. Both the TUU State President and TUU State Postgraduate sit on University Council, which is the governing body of the University of Tasmania.
The TUU is responsible for the overseeing of all the university’s many sports clubs and societies. Some of these include faculty-based societies, such as the Law Students, Medical Students and Engineering Students societies; societies related to various interests, such as PLoT (Produces Lots of Theatre), The Anime Society; and various sporting clubs, including white water rafting, soccer, hockey, Touch Football, Australian Rules football, Rugby Union
.
, Australian Football, Cricket
, Softball
, Basketball
, Table Tennis
, Tennis
and Soccer.
Tasmania alumni include Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
; Peter Underwood, Governor of Tasmania; Philip Lewis Griffiths
, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; Scott Brennan
, Gold Medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing; Bill Mollison
, "Father of Permaculture
;" William Noel Benson
, geologist; Hon Justice Peter Heerey
, Federal Court Judge
; Chief Justice Ewan Crawford
, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania; Hannah Yeoh
, member of the Selangor
State Legislative Assembly;; Dr.Halimah Ali, member of the Selangor Executive council and Selangor State Legislative assembly; Dato' Effendi Norwawi, former Minister of Agriculture Malaysia; Imam Sabri Samson, Grand Imam for Hobart Islamic Centre; Othman Hj Omar, General Manager for Selangor State Development Corporation; Charles Philip Haddon-Cave
, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
; Richard Flanagan
, author and film director; Stephen Gumley
, CEO
of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
; Neal Blewett
, Australian politician; Simon Hollingsworth
, Australian athlete; Constantine Koukias
, Australia
n composer. and Prithviraj Sukumaran
, South India
n Actor, Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed
, SAARC Secretary-General.
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia. UTAS is a sandstone university and is a member of the international Association of Commonwealth Universities
Association of Commonwealth Universities
The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents over 480 universities from Commonwealth countries.- History :In 1912, the University of London took the initiative to assemble 53 representatives of universities in London to hold a Congress of Universities of the Empire...
.
UTAS offers various undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of disciplines. UTAS has also been consistently ranked in the top 10 universities in Australia for research and has links with 20 specialist research institutes, cooperative research centres and faculty based research centres; all of which are regarded as nationally and internationally competitive leaders. UTAS has a student population of nearly 26,800, including over 6,000 international students (on and offshore) and 1000 PhD students.
Founding
The University of Tasmania was established in 1890, after the abolition of overseas scholarships provided funds. The first campus location was the Queens Domain in HobartHobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
. Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris
Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris
Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris was an educationalist in England and Tasmania.-Family:Harris was born on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, the eldest son of Captain Charles Poulett Harris of the 60th Rifles Regiment, who was stationed there...
, who had long advocated the establishment of the University, became its first warden of the senate. The first degrees to graduates admitted ad eundem gradum
Ad eundem degree
An ad eundem degree is a courtesy degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another. The recipient of the ad eundem degree is often a faculty member at the institution where he or she is receiving the honor....
and diplomas were awarded in June 1890. Three lecturers began teaching a handful of students in 1893. Parliamentarians branding it an unnecessary luxury made the university's early existence precarious. The institution's encouragement of female students fuelled criticism. James Backhouse Walker, a local lawyer and briefly Vice-Chancellor, mounted a courageous defence. By the First World War there were over one hundred students and several Tasmanian graduates were influential in law and politics.
According to Chancellor Sir John Morris, from 1918 until 1939 the institution still 'limped along'. Distinguished staff had already appeared, such as historian William Jethro Brown, physicists and mathematicians Alexander McAulay and his son Alexander Leicester McAulay, classicist RL Dunbabin, and philosopher and polymath Edmund Morris Miller. Housed in the former Hobart High School, facilities were totally outgrown, but the state government was slow to fund a new campus on the old Sandy Bay
Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district.The suburb is home to many large homes, and adjoins the waterfront Salamanca area and Battery Point. The suburb is known as one of the city's prestigious areas...
rifle range.
World War II
During the Second World War, while the Optical Munitions Annexe assisted the war effort, local graduates, replacing soldier academics, taught a handful of students. New post-war staff, many with overseas experience, pressed for removal to adequate facilities at Sandy Bay. Chancellor Sir John Morris, also Chief Justice, though a dynamic reformer, antagonised academics by his authoritarianism. Vice-Chancellor Torliev Hytten, an eminent economist, saw contention peak while the move to Sandy Bay was delayed. In a passionate open letter to the premier, Philosophy Professor Sydney Orr goaded the government into establishing the 1955 Royal Commission into the University. The Commission report demanded extensive reform of both University and governing council. Staff were delighted, while lay administrators fumed.The Orr Case
In early 1956 Orr was summarily dismissed, mainly for his alleged though denied seduction of a student. A ten-year battle involved academics in Australia and overseas. Orr lost an unfair dismissal action in the Tasmanian Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia. The Tasmanian chair of Philosophy was boycotted. In 1966 Orr received some financial compensation from the University, which also established a cast-iron tenure system. The latter disappeared with the federal reorganisation of higher education in the late 1980s.The 1960s
In the early 1960s UTAS at last transferred to a bright new campus at Sandy Bay. It profited from increasing federal finance following the 1957 Murray Report. Medical and Agricultural Schools were established and the sciences obtained adequate laboratories. Physics achieved world recognition in radio astronomy, while other departments attracted good scholars and graduates were celebrated in many fields. Student facilities improved remarkably.Merger and the 'new' University
In 1981 UTAS incorporated the College of Advanced EducationCollege of Advanced Education
The College of Advanced Education was a class of Australian tertiary education institution that existed from 1967 until the early 1990s. They ranked below universities, but above Colleges of Technical and Further Education which offer trade qualification...
, recently established on nearby Mount Nelson, which raised numbers to 5000.
In the early 1990s, the 'Dawkins Revolution' and the unified national system ensured amalgamation with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology at Launceston. The University of Tasmania was reorganised in 1991 when it merged with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, which became the Newnham Campus. A new centre at Burnie was opened in 1995, which later became the Cradle Coast Campus. Though the University of Tasmania retained its old name, like other contemporary institutions, a new era dominated by market forces rather than generous public funding.
The University of Tasmania and Tasmania Polytechnic and Skills Institute are the only remaining institutions of higher education in Tasmania. The Australian Maritime College
Australian Maritime College
The Australian Maritime College is a tertiary education institution based in Launceston, Tasmania and is an institute of the University of Tasmania. AMC is Australia's national centre for maritime education, training and research...
(AMC) integrated with the university in 2008.
Campuses
UTAS has three main campuses. The southern campus encompasses a 100-hectare site in Sandy Bay, about 10 minutes from the Hobart CBD. The Sandy Bay campus overlooks the estuary of the River DerwentDerwent River (Tasmania)
The Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. It was named after the River Derwent, Cumbria by British Commodore John Hayes who explored it in 1793. The name is Brythonic Celtic for "valley thick with oaks"....
and has the majestic Mount Wellington
Mount Wellington (Tasmania)
Mount Wellington is a mountain on whose foothills is built much of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is often referred to simply as 'the Mountain' by the residents of Hobart, and it rises to AHD over the city....
as its backdrop.
The northern campus is in the suburb of Newnham, looking down to the River Tamar
Tamar River (Tasmania)
The Tamar River is a 70 kilometre estuarine in northern Tasmania formed by the merging of the North Esk River and South Esk Rivers at Launceston to its mouth at Low Head, north of the second largest settlement George Town and into the Bass Strait...
, about 10 minutes from the centre of Tasmania’s second largest city, Launceston
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...
.The Australian Maritime College
Australian Maritime College
The Australian Maritime College is a tertiary education institution based in Launceston, Tasmania and is an institute of the University of Tasmania. AMC is Australia's national centre for maritime education, training and research...
is based on the Newnham campus.
Established in 1995, the vibrant Cradle Coast campus in Burnie caters for academics and students in the State’s north-west. It underwent significant expansion in 2008. Also in Burnie is the University’s state-of the-art Rural Clinical School .
There are a number of satellite campuses including the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
The Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music forms part of the faculty of Arts at the University of Tasmania. It is a music training institution with courses and specializations in classical and contemporary music, music education, technology and composition....
and the Tasmanian School of Arts in the Centre for the Arts in the heart of Hobart’s cultural precinct. Also in downtown Hobart is the Medical Sciences Precinct, part of a new education and research complex that encompasses the School of Medicine and the Menzies Research Institute
Menzies Research Institute
The Menzies Research Institute Tasmania is a research institute of the University of Tasmania based in Hobart...
.
UTAS established a presence in Sydney in 2006 and is now delivering nursing and paramedic courses from the Darlinghurst and Rozelle campuses.
The Academy of the Arts and the School of Architecture & Design are housed in the Inveresk Arts Precinct, an award-winning, 17-hectare inner city site comprising arts studios, galleries, performance spaces, a museum and specialist workshops.
- Sandy Bay - the Sandy Bay campus is set on 100 hectares of land in the suburb of Sandy BaySandy Bay, TasmaniaSandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district.The suburb is home to many large homes, and adjoins the waterfront Salamanca area and Battery Point. The suburb is known as one of the city's prestigious areas...
– a short distance from the centre of HobartHobartHobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
. Much of the upper campus is in natural bushland. Closer to the city centre are the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, the Clinical School (and more recently the medical sciences building) and the Tasmanian School of Art. About 10,000 students are enrolled at the Sandy Bay campus. N.B. The Conservatorium of Music campus is no longer a public building. Access to the premises by the public will not be easily accessible, nor will it be by students or staff. - Newnham - the Newnham campus is set on 50 hectares at NewnhamNewnham, TasmaniaNewnham is a suburb of Launceston. Newnham is located on the East Tamar Highway, on the eastern side of the Tamar River.Both the University of Tasmania and the Australian Maritime College have a campus in Newnham. Mowbray Indoor Sport n Skate is also located in this area.-References:...
overlooking the Tamar RiverTamar River (Tasmania)The Tamar River is a 70 kilometre estuarine in northern Tasmania formed by the merging of the North Esk River and South Esk Rivers at Launceston to its mouth at Low Head, north of the second largest settlement George Town and into the Bass Strait...
, ten minutes from the centre of LauncestonLaunceston, TasmaniaLaunceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...
. Students studying Visual and Performing Arts and Architecture are located at the Inveresk campus. Over 5000 students are enrolled at both campuses. - Cradle Coast - the Cradle Coast campus is located in the city of BurnieBurnie, Tasmania- Sport :Australian rules football is popular in Burnie. The city's team is the Burnie Dockers Football Club in the Tasmanian State League.Rugby union is also played in Burnie. The local club is the Burnie Rugby Union Club. They are the current Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide Division Two Premiers...
. This campus was established in 1995 as the North-West Study Centre.
The university also has a 334 hectare property located 20 km from the Sandy Bay campus. The University Farm is set in the cropping and grape growing area of Cambridge located in the Coal River valley, serving the teaching and research needs of the School of Agricultural Science.
Libraries
The University of Tasmania library system comprises eight libraries:- Morris Miller (Sandy Bay)
- Law (Sandy Bay)
- Science (Sandy Bay)
- Art (Central Hobart)
- Music (Central Hobart)
- Clinical (Central Hobart)
- Launceston Campus (Launceston)
- Cradle Coast Campus (Burnie)
Organization
UTAS is organised into six faculties: arts, business, education, health science, law, and science, engineering & technology. In addition to these faculties, UTAS has six theme areas through which multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations in research and research training, learning and teaching, and community engagement are fostered. The theme areas are: Antarctic and Marine Science; Community, Place and Change; Environment; Frontier Technologies; Population and Health; and Sustainable Primary Production.UTAS currently holds the secretariat role of the International Antarctic Institute established in 2006 in partnership with 19 institutions in 12 countries.
A partnership between UTAS and the Cradle Coast Authority established the Institute for Regional Development at the Cradle Coast campus in 2005.
Rankings
The University is a research intensive university. It has consistently been ranked amongst the best in Australia for its research performance. Separately, the University is Domestically, ranked within the 14-17th bracket in Australia. based on the 2010 Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesAcademic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually...
(ARWU), issued by Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University or SJTU), sometimes referred to as Shanghai Jiaotong University , is a top public research university located in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is known as one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China...
. Also, in the newly published Excellence in Research for Australia
Excellence in Research for Australia
Excellence in Research for Australia is a research management initiative of the Australian Rudd Government being developed by the Australian Research Council .It replaces the Research Quality Framework that was developed by the Howard Government....
, the University was ranked 14 in Australia for its research quality.
| Publications | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Research Block Funding | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 |
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| 11-14 | 12-16 | 12-17 | 10-14 | 10-13 | 14-17 | 10-13 | ||||
| Melbourne Institute | ||||||||||
| 11 | 11 | 11 | 14 | |||||||
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| 14 |
Internationally, the University is ranked 320 based on the QS World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
2010.
| Publications | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE-QS World University Rankings(2004–2009) QS World University Ranking (2010-onwards) |
161 | 166 | 232 | 264 | 291 | 326 | 320 | |
| Academic Ranking of World Universities Academic Ranking of World Universities The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually... |
302-403 | 401-500 | 401-500 | 403-510 | 303-401 | 303-401 | 401-500 | 301-400 |
Research produced by the Melbourne Institute in 2006, ranked Australian universities across seven main discipline areas: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science. Based on data collected, the university ranked amongst the best in several of its discipline including Arts & Humanities, Law, Medicine, and Science but fared poorly in Business & Economics, Education and Engineering.
| Discipline | National Academic Ranking. | National Survey Ranking. |
|---|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | 12 | 12 |
| Business & Economics | 27 | 20 |
| Education | 24 | 17 |
| Engineering | 21 | 15 |
| Law | 12 | 12 |
| Medicine | 12 | 11 |
| Science | 9 | 11 |
- National Academic Ranking is based on the research output and teaching quality of institution.
- National Survey Ranking is based on Australian and overseas academics, scholars & professionals perception of institution.
Research
The university's priority research themes include- Antarctic and Marine
- Community, Place and Change
- Sustainable Primary Production
- Population and Health
- Environment
- Frontier Technologies
Research Institutions
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesInstitute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesThe Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies is a teaching and research organisation located in Hobart. The Institute was established by the University of Tasmania Council. The aim of the esbalishment of the institute was to bring together the many strands of marine and Antarctic research...
- Menzies Research InstituteMenzies Research InstituteThe Menzies Research Institute Tasmania is a research institute of the University of Tasmania based in Hobart...
• Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath
• Centre for Law and Genetics
• Tasmania Law Reform Institute
• Centre for Aboriginal Education
• Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies
• Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute
• Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies
• Centre for Marine Science
• Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC
• Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science
• Australian Innovation Research Centre
• Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits -
• Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research
Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research
The Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research is a research institute in Tasmania dedicated to research and development of sustainable agricultural industries. Founded in 1996, it is a collaborative effort of the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks,...
• Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence
International focus
UTAS is truly an international university working out of Tasmania. While it maintains a strongly Tasmanian identity, its programs and research are genuinely international in vision and standards.The trend towards globalisation has largely defeated the isolation traditionally associated with an antipodean location. UTAS now plays a major role in helping Tasmania meet the challenge of internationalisation, maintaining a vision set on international rather than regional horizons. At UTAS there are staff and students from more than 70 countries.
The University values the presence of its international students and is proud of the services it is able to offer them. Special academic and English-language support is available, along with extensive social assistance, including help in finding accommodation and information about Australian society.
Formal links with other universities outside Australia bear witness to the University of Tasmania’s international standard and reputation. The University now has a large number of links and associations in Asia, as well as North America, the UK and Europe.
Student Unionism
Until 2008, there were two separate student unions the Tasmania University UnionTasmania University Union
The Tasmania University Union Inc is the students' union that represents tertiary students attending the University of Tasmania. Until 2007, it repreesented students only at the southern campus but with the cessation of the Student Association due to Voluntary Student Unionism it now encompasses...
(TUU) in Hobart and the Student Association (SA) in Launceston
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...
. Due to the abolition of compulsory student unionism
Voluntary student unionism
Voluntary student unionism is a policy, notable in Australia, under which membership of – and payment of membership fees to – university student organisations is voluntary....
in 2007, the SA and the TUU amalgamated into one Statewide Organisation representing all UTAS students.
The President of the TUU is elected to represent all UTAS students on all campuses, and both Hobart and Launceston have their own Vice-President and Student Representative Councils. Both the TUU State President and TUU State Postgraduate sit on University Council, which is the governing body of the University of Tasmania.
The TUU is responsible for the overseeing of all the university’s many sports clubs and societies. Some of these include faculty-based societies, such as the Law Students, Medical Students and Engineering Students societies; societies related to various interests, such as PLoT (Produces Lots of Theatre), The Anime Society; and various sporting clubs, including white water rafting, soccer, hockey, Touch Football, Australian Rules football, Rugby Union
University of Tasmania Rugby Union Club
University of Tasmania Rugby Union Club is a Rugby Union club in Tasmania. Established in 1933, the club is a member of the Tasmanian Rugby Union, affiliated with the Australian Rugby Union and plays in the Tasmanian Statewide League...
.
Residential Colleges
The university maintains a strong residential college system. A key aspect of campus life, the residential colleges are equipped with modern facilities and host several events during the semesters. The colleges also maintain their respective student clubs, key in the passing of traditions from one cohort to the next. The southern colleges annually compete in a series of sporting events including RugbyRugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, Australian Football, Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, Softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Table Tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
, Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
and Soccer.
| residential College | Est. | Location | Students | Mascot | Colours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christ College | 1846 | Sandy Bay Sandy Bay, Tasmania Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district.The suburb is home to many large homes, and adjoins the waterfront Salamanca area and Battery Point. The suburb is known as one of the city's prestigious areas... |
160 | Black Pigs | Black Black Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light... Gold Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and an atomic number of 79. Gold is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Chemically, gold is a... Blue Blue Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal... |
| Jane Franklin Hall Jane Franklin Hall Jane Franklin Hall in South Hobart, Tasmania, is a non-denominational residential college of the University of Tasmania. Familiarly referred to as ‘Jane’, it was founded by the Tasmanian Council of Churches in 1950 as a residential college for women before becoming co-educational in 1973... |
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| St. John Fisher College St. John Fisher College (University of Tasmania) St John Fisher College at the University of Tasmania was established in 1963 and built by the Catholic Church and its community. The college was named after 16th century scholar St John Fisher and provides accommodation for around 100 students. It is located in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia, on... |
1963 | Sandy Bay Sandy Bay, Tasmania Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district.The suburb is home to many large homes, and adjoins the waterfront Salamanca area and Battery Point. The suburb is known as one of the city's prestigious areas... |
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| University Apartments | 2004 | Sandy Bay Sandy Bay, Tasmania Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district.The suburb is home to many large homes, and adjoins the waterfront Salamanca area and Battery Point. The suburb is known as one of the city's prestigious areas... |
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| Hytten Hall (closed in 1980) | 1959 | Sandy Bay Sandy Bay, Tasmania Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district.The suburb is home to many large homes, and adjoins the waterfront Salamanca area and Battery Point. The suburb is known as one of the city's prestigious areas... |
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| Leprena Hall | 1985 | Newnham Newnham, Tasmania Newnham is a suburb of Launceston. Newnham is located on the East Tamar Highway, on the eastern side of the Tamar River.Both the University of Tasmania and the Australian Maritime College have a campus in Newnham. Mowbray Indoor Sport n Skate is also located in this area.-References:... |
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| Kerslake Hall Kerslake Hall Kerslake Hall is a residential college for full time students of the University of Tasmania and Australian Maritime College. It is situated on the university's Newnham campus, Launceston, Australia... |
1970 | Newnham Newnham, Tasmania Newnham is a suburb of Launceston. Newnham is located on the East Tamar Highway, on the eastern side of the Tamar River.Both the University of Tasmania and the Australian Maritime College have a campus in Newnham. Mowbray Indoor Sport n Skate is also located in this area.-References:... |
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| Endeavour Hall | 1979 | Beauty Point Beauty Point, Tasmania Beauty Point is a town by the Tamar River, in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 45km north of Launceston, on the West Tamar Highway and at the 2006 census, had a population of 1,116. It is part of the Municipality of West Tamar Council.... |
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Tasmania Scholarships
The Tasmania Scholarships program supports the University’s commitment to offer students equal learning opportunity. It assists talented students, both locally, nationally and internationally. Industry contributions now make up the backbone of the Tasmania Scholarships program. The development and growth of this initiative into one of the most successful sponsored programs in the country is exceptional by any standard. Around 10 per cent of all domestic students at UTAS receive some sort of scholarship or financial assistance.Alumni
There are around 50,000 graduates who are now scattered all over the globe.Tasmania alumni include Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark...
; Peter Underwood, Governor of Tasmania; Philip Lewis Griffiths
Philip Lewis Griffiths
Philip Lewis Griffiths KC was an Australian jurist.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, he studied for a Master of Arts degree at the Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. He then wrote for The Mercury in both Hobart and Launceston, before studying law at the University of Tasmania...
, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; Scott Brennan
Scott Brennan (rower)
Scott Brennan is an Australian rower.Brennan took up rowing in 1995 whilst at St Virgil's College in Hobart, where he eventually became captain of the school in 1998...
, Gold Medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing; Bill Mollison
Bill Mollison
Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher and naturalist. He is considered to be the 'father of permaculture', an integrated system of design, co-developed with David Holmgren, that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology, but also...
, "Father of Permaculture
Permaculture
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that is modeled on the relationships found in nature. It is based on the ecology of how things interrelate rather than on the strictly biological concerns that form the foundation of modern agriculture...
;" William Noel Benson
William Noel Benson
William Noel Benson FRS FRGS was a research geologist and academic. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporarily at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney as a demonstrator...
, geologist; Hon Justice Peter Heerey
Peter Heerey
Peter Cadden Heerey was an Australian Federal Court Judge of the Federal Court of Australia between 1990 and 2009.Heerey attended university in Tasmania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws...
, Federal Court Judge
Federal Court of Australia
The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law , along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are heard at first instance by single Judges...
; Chief Justice Ewan Crawford
Ewan Crawford
Ewan Charles Crawford is an Australian judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.Crawford was born in Launceston to parents Sir George and Lady Crawford. He went to Launceston Church Grammar School....
, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania; Hannah Yeoh
Hannah Yeoh
Hannah Yeoh Tseow Suan is a member of the Selangor State Assembly from the Democratic Action Party . Yeoh, a former lawyer and event manager, won the N31 Subang Jaya state seat against Ong Chong Swen from MCA, a Barisan Nasional component party in the Malaysian general election, 2008...
, member of the Selangor
Selangor
Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...
State Legislative Assembly;; Dr.Halimah Ali, member of the Selangor Executive council and Selangor State Legislative assembly; Dato' Effendi Norwawi, former Minister of Agriculture Malaysia; Imam Sabri Samson, Grand Imam for Hobart Islamic Centre; Othman Hj Omar, General Manager for Selangor State Development Corporation; Charles Philip Haddon-Cave
Charles Philip Haddon-Cave
Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave , KBE, CMG was Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1981. During the period when he was in charge of the economic policy of the Hong Kong government, he adopted "positive non-interventionism" as its chief principle...
, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
; Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is a novelist from Tasmania, Australia.-Early life:Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three...
, author and film director; Stephen Gumley
Stephen Gumley
Stephen John Gumley, AO was the first Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation, serving in the role from February 2004 to July 2011.-Education:...
, CEO
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
Defence Materiel Organisation
The Defence Materiel Organisation is the Australian Government agency responsible for the acquisition, through-life support and disposal of equipment for the Australian Defence Force...
; Neal Blewett
Neal Blewett
Neal Blewett, AC , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Bonython, South Australia from 1977 to 1994.-Education and academic career:...
, Australian politician; Simon Hollingsworth
Simon Hollingsworth
Simon Hollingsworth competed both nationally and internationally for Australia in the 400 metres hurdles. He participated in both the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, as well as the Commonwealth Games and World Athletics Championships....
, Australian athlete; Constantine Koukias
Constantine Koukias
Constantine Koukias is a Greek-Australian composer and flautist.He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, based in Hobart, Tasmania. He is well known for his innovative work in contemporary opera and other forms...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n composer. and Prithviraj Sukumaran
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Prithviraj Sukumaran credited mononymously as Prithviraj, is an Indian film actor and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema....
, South India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n Actor, Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed
Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed
Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed is a Maldivian diplomat, and serves as the tenth secretary-general of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation . She is the first woman to hold this post since the organization's inception in 1985...
, SAARC Secretary-General.
See also
- Mount Pleasant Radio ObservatoryMount Pleasant Radio ObservatoryThe Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory is a radio astronomy based observatory owned and operated by University of Tasmania, located 20 km east of Hobart. It is home to three radio astronomy antennas and the Grote Reber Museum.- Equipment :...
- Tom SamekTom SamekTom Samek is a Czech artist living and working in Australia. He is a painter, stage designer and printmaker.-Life and work:...
creator of two murals in the Department of Engineering - Tasmanian Conservatorium of MusicTasmanian Conservatorium of MusicThe Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music forms part of the faculty of Arts at the University of Tasmania. It is a music training institution with courses and specializations in classical and contemporary music, music education, technology and composition....