A television professional with vast experience as a Master Control Operator, Julia Beveridge gives us an introduction to what's involved in the role including some of the technicalities of managing all of the vision and audio for the network and the communication skills that help in this line of work. Read More
Dr Kumi de Silva is Gender Equity Programs Manager at the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS in conversation about gender equity issues and sharing what motivated her vocational shift away from academic research as a scientist to this professional role. Read More
Karima Hazim shares the motivation behind her efforts to document and share Lebanese food culture and how it relates to the history of the Lebanese migrant experience in Australia. Read More
Hear about DJ Soup’s approach to sampling and music making and his contributions to the emergence of hip hop and trip hop in the Australian scene as well as his experience playing professional basketball for the Sydney Kings. Read More
Hear about DJ Soup’s early experiences experimenting with developments in audio sampling technology from a double cassette boom box to an Amega 500 and a K2000 sampler. DJ Soup also shares his early musical influences in the family and some of the first records he recalls hearing and playing. Read More
Jenine Smith shares insights from her vocation as a careers adviser, assisting high school students with understanding their skills, abilities and interests and with identifying post-school learning and vocational opportunities. Jenine is President of the Careers Advisers Association of NSW & ACT. Read More
Yirrmal joined us via a studio in Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land to discuss his music, culture, and community connections and his experience developing his song writing as a new generation artist. Read More
This is a follow up to an introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) in response to a listener suggestion that we should consider concerns and fears about the technology. Read More
Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge shares insights from her studies of papyrology including ideas about cultural receptions to new forms of knowledge communication technology in antiquity and thoughts on ethical approaches to studying Ancient History. Rachel is an associate lecturer with the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. Read More
UTS doctoral researcher Catherine Freyne was a guest on the Wide Open Air Exchange when nearing completion of a thesis titled: “The Family as Closet: Gay/Bisexual married men and their families in Sydney, 1970-2000″. Read More
Chris Farquharson shares insights from a lifelong interest in boating and most recently in his experience as a volunteer with the Sydney Heritage Fleet helping to restore and run heritage boats. Read More
Emma Bellamy shares what's involved in her crystal bed healing practice and the qualities that are ascribed to chakras in her wisdom tradition. This conversation was conducted in a spirit of agnostic curiosity and openness to learning about different world views and theologies. Read More
Natalie Clays experienced a vocational calling after quitting smoking and made a mid-career change from a high-paying corporate role to helping other people to quit smoking. Read More
Science and maths educator Selwyn Holland shares a lesson on physicist Albert Einstein and how his theories of relativity significantly changed our understanding of time and gravity. Read More
Melanie Junghans took up ocean swimming while recovering from a foot injury a few years ago and now she does charity ocean swim events with Can Too, a non-profit organisation raising money to fund early career cancer researchers. Mel swims regularly as part of an ocean swim community and enjoys the mindset of it and the variety of ocean creatures that she sees. Read More
Research by academics from Business Schools at UTS and Macquarie University found that Diversity and Inclusion programs in organisations may actually be perpetuating inequalities. Our guest Professor Alison Pullen is a Professor of Gender, Work and Organization at Macquarie University and a chief investigator in this ARC research project. Read More