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The following listing contains information on UNSW services. If you would like to advertise a service here email news@unsw with details.
Media and Communications Office
The UNSW Media and Communications Office is responsible for the management of internal and external communications for the University.
Staffed by a team of highly experienced journalists, the Office handles all media liaison for UNSW. As well as responding to media queries, including requests for expert comment, the Office identifies and promotes newsworthy research and other achievements, across all faculties of the University, through mainstream and specialist media. It also provides media advice and training to senior executives, deans, heads of school and individual academics.
The Office maintains a database of close to 2000 academics who can provide expert comment on a range of issues.
The Office is responsible for corporate publications, including news content on the UNSW homepage and the University's flagship publication, Uniken.
news@unsw is also produced by the Office.
Contact: Ph 9385 2864, fax 9385 2837, email media@unsw.edu.au, G20A, The Chancellery, Kensington campus.
Medical Illustration Unit
Professional scientific poster printing and laminating is just one service offered by the Medical Illustration Unit (MIU) at the Prince of Wales Hospital, which has 43 years of technical photography and graphic design experience.
MIU's website contains PowerPoint poster templates which may be personalised and emailed to the Unit for printing. The Unit's standard seven-working day service fee is $104 ($80 for Faculty of Medicine) via UNSW internal funds transfer. As well as the fully-laminated 0.84m x 1.19m (A0) final print, an A3 draft from the poster printer is provided for proofreading, plus assistance with any unusual problems.
Contact:
Ph 9382 2800, http://miu.med.unsw.edu.au
miunsw@unsw.edu.au
Edmund Blacket Building, Prince of Wales Hospital
The Stationery Reuse Centre
The Stationery Reuse Centre has free second-hand office supplies for staff. Located in QUAD1001A, Quadrangle Building Level 1, Mid-Campus, UNSW. The Centre is open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
The Centre has a large range of ring-bound folders, internal envelopes (all sizes), hanging folders, in-trays, flip calendars, one-sided paper and box files. The Centre also stocks cassette tapes, videos, storage trays and other odds and ends.
As the Centre is not always staffed, visitors are asked to note details such as their department’s name, and quantity and type of items taken on a paper register located near the entrance.
If you have stationery supplies that your office no longer needs, please box them up and address to The Stationary Reuse Centre, B13 and post through the internal mail.
Contact: The Student Environment Collective at Arc, ph 9385 7700. |
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The Thoughtful Foods Co-operative
The Thoughtful Foods Co-operative, run by student volunteers, provides low-cost, minimally packaged organic food for the UNSW community.
The Co-op can deliver fresh organic fruit, vegetables and staples weekly to your office. Prices vary depending on the size of your delivery and whether or not you are a member of the Co-op.
The Co-op is open from 10am to 6pm Monday to Thursday and 10am to 4pm on Fridays, depending upon volunteer availability. It is located on the Unigym side of the Roundhouse, made visible by colourful flags outside the shop.
Contact: mob 0422 854 184, email thoughtfulfoodsunsw@yahoo.com.au or visit the website http://www.thoughtfulfoods.unsw.edu.au
The U Committee
The U Committee is a group of friends of the University which raises funds to support a wide range of programs that otherwise might not be funded. Since its establishment in 1963, the U Committee has raised more than $2million for the University.
Book Fair
The next Book Fair will be held from Thursday, 28 April to Sunday, 1 May 2005. Hours of operation will be from 10am to 7pm on Thursday to Saturday, and from 10am to 2pm on Sunday.
Preparations for the Book Fair take place in the Book Room, which is now located in Building R9 on the Randwick Campus. The Book Room is open every Monday from 8:30am to 3:30pm. Book donations can be delivered on Mondays and can also be left outside the Book Room on other days.
Grants
Applications for funding from the U Committee will close on 1 July 2005. For a copy of our funding guidelines, please call the President, Pat Howard, at the Book Room on ph 9385 0210. Copies of the funding guidelines will be emailed or posted to interested applicants.
Newcomers
The U Committee also organises the Newcomers’ Coffee Morning in International House on Tuesdays from 10:30am to noon from March to December.
Visiting lecturers and postgraduate students and their partners and partners of new staff members are encouraged to attend. Children are welcome and fluency in English is not essential.
For further information please ring Anda Black on 9663 2116 or Alison Dain on 9597 3843.
Contact:
Ph 9385 0210
UNSW Press
The University of New South Wales Press has a reputation for producing thinking books for thinking people - books that create debate and tackle social and intellectual issues.
Established in 1962, the company is owned by UNSW and operates independently under its board and professional management.
Authors and UNSW Press
UNSW Press is acknowledged as one of Australia's leading publishers in the fields of Australian studies and natural history, but its list also includes a wide range of titles in other scholarly and general subject areas. Prospective authors should read our Guide for Authors.
Sales
UNSW Press is the only Australian university press with its own dedicated sales force, warehouse and distribution. University and Reference Publishers' Services (UNIREPS) is the marketing, sales and distribution division of UNSW Press and acts as an agency for many other Australian and international publishers and groups. We have also been in retail for over 35 years, most recently with the University of New South Wales Bookshop, serving a community of 30,000 students and 5,000 staff.
UNSW Press books are found all over the world. A list of international representatives and distributors of UNSW Press books can be found here.
A complete catalogue of UNSW Press titles is available online at http://www.unswpress.com.au
Contact:
Ph 9664 0900, fax 9664 5420, http://www.unswpress.com.au/
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