 What is it about the sciences that you want to know about in terms of being a part of this exciting future? Well, you should be aware that of all the growing occupations in Australia, 75% of them require STEM, that's science, technology, engineering and maths. Surprisingly, at least to me, the top five highest paid jobs in Adelaide are in STEM industries. STEM graduates are paid well, even straight out of their degree, learning up to, in some cases, 30% more than any other field. And if you're interested in the agricultural area, when you leave, there's up to five jobs for each graduate out there. All in all, there's lots of growth projected for people with STEM knowledge. How do you get that knowledge? When you ask employees what they want, there on the screen are the top five skills that are sought. Now, take note, these are not being trained for a specific skill. These are what we call transferable skills, active learning, being able to think critically and assess, being a problem solver, knowing what a problem is and turning your hand to finding a solution. And finally, interpersonal skills. All of these are what you get out of a Bachelor of Science degree. Moreover, the top three certainly are the essence of the scientific method. So built in, in understanding the scientific method, you develop these skills intrinsically. Now, these skills are what employers want, but it's difficult for employers to teach them, so they look to the universities to be providing the so-called transferable skills. And then, of course, why study science at the University of Adelaide? There are several reasons, as shown on the infographic behind me. It's been rated to give five-star student support in sciences. It's number one in South Australia for science in the Graduate Satisfaction Surveys that are taken every year. At the heart of the university lies the academics who do research as well as teaching. Their research in all our fields in STEM subjects are rated at or above world level in a recent assessment done by the Australian Government. The University of Adelaide is ranked typically in the 100th to 150th in the world. It's the top 1% of universities in the world, and that certainly puts it number one in South Australia. The University of Adelaide is part of the prestigious group of eight universities. These are universities that include Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland. Adelaide is part of that. And along with those other GO8 universities, Adelaide is proud of its contributions to research and teaching. Well, that's enough from me. Why don't you hear it from the horse's mouth? So, I'd like to first up introduce our graduate, Dr Ben Owen. He completed a physics degree, a high performance computing degree in 2011 and went on to complete his PhD, studying Large Hadron Colliders. In 2015, and since then, he's been working at the Bureau of Meteorology, one of the most trusted institutions in Australia and one that all of us have been turning our eye towards with the recent terror that's been wiping across Australia over the last few months. Sorry, Ben, on that somber note, so if you can perk up the environment. Ben, over to you. Alright, well, first I just want to say thank you to the University of Adelaide for having me back to speak with you all tonight. Yeah, my name is Ben. I am a graduate of the University of Adelaide. I, looking back, basically started in 2007 when I began my degree and I was here for just under a decade. So, I enjoyed it a lot, enough to stick around for so long. So, I began my time at the University of Adelaide, as Greg said, doing a Bachelor of Science in High Performance Computational Physics. And this was a four-year degree, so the first three years were the undergraduate followed by an honors year. And I guess this degree was, as it sort of said, the name suggests was a degree that sort of specializes in, I guess, training you in physics and with mathematics, along with the computer science to really give you those skills to sort of, I guess, tackle really complex problems both within the physics, well, essentially the physics domain, but the reality is it's not just physics that you can consider the problems in all of the sciences, really. And I guess, looking past, well, having moved on from my degree and my time at the University, I've come to realize that it's not just sciences. It's essentially all walks of life. So, I think this degree was really powerful because it really equipped me with the skills I need to really tackle really complex problems and think critically. But, yeah, it was a fairly rigid degree in terms of what I could do. And for me, this sort of suited me really well because it was sort of, I had a really keen interest going into university for science, particularly in physics and mathematics. And this degree really sort of sated that interest. So, I was sort of exposed to a wide array of courses in both physics and mathematics, but also a bit of computer science to sort of, I suppose, broaden my horizons. And I found it a really rewarding degree. And so much so that, yeah, I went on to do my honors, which was, I guess, the final year of the degree, which was really, I guess, focusing on more advanced topics in, again, physics and math, as well as doing an honors project, which was a year-long project. And I guess, at the end of that, I sort of, well, certainly was probably the toughest year of my studies, but probably one of the most rewarding as well. So, it was, I guess, coming out of that, it really sort of brought all my time in undergraduate together in the sense that I could sort of look back and sort of look at the project that I'd done, really sort of reinforce those sort of, I guess, those skills that employees are looking for. So, it's all about that critical thinking. It's about that problem-solving. And I guess it's also about working in a team to sort of try and tackle a problem. And it's not just sort of a problem that's, you know, just, I guess, it's cutting edge research. So, you're working on problems that are not just for the sake of it. You're actually doing things that are meaningful. So, that was my undergraduate. I then went on to sort of stay at the University of Adelaide to do my PhD. So, my PhD was actually in particle and nuclear physics. And it was studying the structure of protons and neutrons, not from an experimental perspective, but more of a theoretical perspective. So, it was essentially coming up with computational and numerical approaches to solving complex problems, and essentially this complex problem being the structure of protons and neutrons. So, and I think to be honest, I think my PhD was probably the time that I enjoyed most at the University of Adelaide. I think it was during that that I really, I think in terms of the science and the work I was working on, it was really interesting and I really enjoyed what I was doing. I think I also began to sort of integrate myself more with the university community. So, I think sort of getting to see what else was going on from both the broader science community in the University of Adelaide, but also, I guess, broader across the whole university. And so, I think it was really during my PhD that I really enjoyed my time here. So, essentially, yeah, my PhD took four and a half years. At the end of that came to realize that academia wasn't for me and so I started to look further afield to sort of see what kind of jobs would interest me. I think during my time, during my PhD I did a bit of teaching and that was something that really sort of appealed to me. But I also saw an opportunity to join the Bureau of Meteorology as a graduate trainee and this also looked like quite an interesting opportunity. So, I applied towards the end of my PhD and wasn't actually successful in getting in, so that sort of pushed me to do another degree, which was a graduate diploma of meteorology, which took a year. And during that year, essentially, yeah, it was doing, as you'd expect, sort of learning to become a teacher, but I think it was also sort of developing a whole bunch of skills that, again, during my science degree, undergraduate and postgraduate degree, sort of reinforcing some of those things like communication and sort of sort of subject matter expert and really, you know, trying to teach others about what you do and why it's important. So, again, in its own right was really a useful thing to do. And then towards the end of that, I just figured I'd give the Bureau of Meteorology another go and happen to be successful the second time around. So, yeah, that was my time at the University of Adelaide. I think what drew me to, well, just thinking about my time here, why did I come here? I think coming in and sort of sitting where you are now, I was really drawn to the University of Adelaide, probably from more of an academic perspective. For me, it, well, it still is, I guess, the best university in South Australia for sciences, particularly for physics and mathematics. It's got such a strong program and I don't think any of the other universities in SA compare. So that's what drew me towards coming here. But I think looking back, I think there was a lot of things that I sort of took for granted and it wasn't really until sort of finishing up at the University of Adelaide that it really sort of dawned on me that there's many more reasons to come here other than just, you know, the academic side. So, I mean, the facilities here are outstanding. So, amazing campuses both, you know, up here at North Terrace, but there's also the White Campus in Roseworthy and these are world-class campuses. There's the world-class research that's done here. So, as Greg mentioned, is that all the research that's undertaken in the Faculty of Sciences is sort of cutting-edge and world-leading. And so, I think it's sort of working alongside and with these academics who are sort of working on cutting-edge problems is really an attractive reason to be here. And I think with that sort of comes the high-quality teaching. So, I guess, if you're a world-class institution in terms of your research, the other side of that is the subject matter experts are sort of leading in their fields and so the teaching is outstanding. And also the exceptional staff. And that's not just the teaching staff, but also the administrative staff. I think it's sort of towards the end of your, well, the undergraduate and into my PhD that I really sort of began to appreciate these people, but they are sort of instrumental in everyone's success. So, I think that's something worth pointing out. And then the last thing was the vibrant student life and campus culture. So, I think during my undergraduate, it's probably something I didn't take as much time to sort of enjoy, but ultimately I did. And I think it's part of the experience. So, I really encourage people to not just sort of look down and study the books. It's get out there and enjoy what's going on. So, I guess, a bit about what I do now. So, I'm basically a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology. And I've been there since 2016. So, the first year was really to just sort of train myself in essentially meteorology, so the weather science. I guess all of the study that I'd done academically prepared me for the subject matter, but it also, I think post that, it also prepared me for doing the job really effectively. So, I guess the primary responsibility currently is a weather forecaster. So, my job is to produce and communicate weather forecasts. The process we sort of go through doing that is analyzing huge amounts of observational and numerical weather prediction data. So, it's a lot of data analysis. And then from that is essentially synthesizing this into understanding how the atmosphere is sort of, the state it's in now and how it's going to evolve into the future. So, it's sort of that problem solving and analytic skills there. And through that, with that picture, we then sort of produce weather forecasts. So, and weather forecasts are a variety of users. So, there's the public weather forecast that you sort of get on the internet and through the meteor outlets. But it's also aviation. So, it's a huge subscriber to our forecast. As well as I guess the key one at the moment is the emergency services. So, as a weather forecaster, we're basically writing forecasts for firefighters out there on the field to really try and understand what the weather's going to do and sort of help them to really make a difference in finding those fires. So, I guess how did my degree prepare me for this job? So, I guess I sort of mentioned, yeah, academically, joining the bureau, I was well and truly equipped to sort of essentially do all the course work and really excel at doing that. But I think more importantly is, it's those soft skills that are probably the most important thing in terms of what I do in my day-to-day job. So, I guess thinking about it, the things that sort of come to mind are effective communication of technical matter. So, I guess a forecast is only as good, well, you can have the best forecast in the world, but if you can't communicate that, it's basically useless. It's sort of skills to communicate essentially all this technical information to the user. And so, I mean, through that science degree, presenting your scientific findings is a crucial element. So, that was one of the things that I found, well, one of those skills that throughout both my undergraduate, postgraduate and then into my graduate bed, that was something that sort of came out. Working seamlessly within a team and independently, so these are skills that I think just throughout any degree you sort of develop. You know, very much a team-based problem-solving sort of environment. So, it's not just about doing your own thing, it's about working with others to really try and crack problems and come out with solutions. So, that's, again, something that came out of my degree. Working to strict deadlines. So, as a forecaster, we basically only have a certain amount of time to do this analysis, come out, and then provide a forecast. And so, that's a really important thing. Essentially, I think as a scientist, you sort of train to think critically, but you're also sort of encouraged to take a leap and sort of make a judgment. So, that's something, again, through my degree, it's sort of these skills that sort of come out time and time again in what I do. Learn from my failures and then to sort of display flexible thinking against some of the things that I find really useful. And I think it's not until sort of, I guess, especially postgraduate, but also into actually doing my job with all these really important skills, and these are really important skills that have allowed me to succeed in what I do now. So, I guess, finishing up, where do I see myself going into the future with what I've done so far and where I'm at now? I think forecasting like a lot of things is going to change into the future, and that's because of technology. So, what we do now effectively technology as our weather models get better and we get more and better at doing things. So, as technology changes, we need to change the way we're doing things, and currently the Bureau is actually going through a bit of a transformation in terms of the way we do things because of this. I'd like to think, I mean, going through this process is a lot of complicated problems that we need to sort of try and solve and new ways of doing things. I think it's really, I mean, I'm thinking about all the more of a production-based role to being more of a communication-based role and really being sort of a liaison, try to provide weather information rather than provide weather forecasts. I know they sound very similar, but there is a subtle difference there and I think it's that expertise that sort of is the way that we're moving forwards and I'd like to think that everything that I've done up until now, particularly my time at university, sort of equipped me to really succeed in this future role. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Amy Norman and I am 18 years old. I graduated from Golden Grip High School in 2018 and completed my first year of uni study in 2019. During my brief talk this evening, I'll be discussing my studying experience throughout uni and my goals for the future. In my final few years of high school education, I began attending the informative open days at Flinders Adelaide SA Uni. Since young age, I'd attend specific talks regarding animal related subjects. By doing this and some additional online research, I chose to study a Bachelor of Science in Animal Behavior at Adelaide University. As part of this degree, students are required to attend classes at Adelaide Uni's Roseworthy Campus. This campus is certainly one of a kind. Not only does it provide a peaceful and resourceful place to study, a range of animals are located directly on campus, allowing students to study. This campus has multiple student run animal related clubs. These clubs are extremely educational and are a great opportunity, especially if you wish to specialise in a specific species. A few highlights during my first year of study in this degree include volunteering at the Royal Adelaide Show with Roseworthy's Pig Club, presentations by experts in the field of animal behaviour and several opportunities to study is the support services. In my experience, I have utilized peer mentoring and the faculty office. These two services assisted me in a plethora of issues regarding exams, enrolment and general subject content. However, these are only two support services out of the many that Adelaide Uni provide. Other support services include the academic drop-in centre and of course the lecturers. My life as a university student has been constantly encouraging me to better myself. However, I look forward to graduating as I am eager to start in the workforce. Once I graduate, I hope to become more involved in the volunteering community whilst working towards my ultimate career goal of becoming a zoologist. And thank you for listening. Hey, everyone. I'm Lucy. I've just completed my undergraduate degree in wildlife conservation biology. I'm from Country South in Adelaide to start my degree. And I chose this degree, unlike many people, just a couple of days before the SATAC deadline. I decided very last minute to make a dramatic change from physiotherapy to wildlife conservation. And now three years ahead, I know that this is probably the best decision that I've ever made in my life. Coming to Adelaide Uni has been the best thing for me and this is not the best anymore. It has been an incredibly well run, hands-on, interesting, engaging and enjoyable course with so many opportunities to get outside, build relationships and be involved in local conservation activities. Adelaide Uni itself has an amazing reputation, as you've heard already, and so many extracurricular opportunities and support services that made this uni the most appealing to me. Over the past three years, I've made lifelong friends with so many people, including my lecturers and demonstrating staff. And I fostered a very strong passion for the environment. But as I said, I was not always so sure of this decision. But in my process of deciding this degree, I attended talks just like this. I went to open days and it was a talk just quite a lot smaller that inspired me to do my degree. So now, just finished, I've got an amazing group of friends that support me. Throughout my degree, the best parts of it were probably the overseas study tour that I had the opportunity to do. So I went to Cambodia with a few of my lecturers and some fellow students and looked at the area and it was the most, it was probably the pinnacle of my degree. It really shifted things. And I met so many people through it. And it really just was the highlight. But there's also lots of work experience opportunities as well. So I've been on lots of field trips, a lot of camps and I feel like this really distinguished herself at Laid Uni from other unis because I've just finished my degree what I'm going to do in the workplace. So I've been out in the field and I've done environmental surveys and I've met professionals and I feel very confident at the end of just a three year degree in going into wildlife conservation and being able to implement all the things that I've learned. Throughout my time at Uni, I think I utilised quite a lot of things. Obviously I moved from the country to the city to the national colleges which made this transition quite a lot easier. But also over time built that really great support network of friends and lecturers who I'm sure I'll still be leaning on for years to come. And many of these friendships were fostered through the extra curricular activities and clubs and I supported academically especially through past sessions which are peer assisted students, peer assisted study sessions. So that's what I've done. I've done more tutorials with younger students about their courses and also academic drop-in centres. They're really great any time of the week you drop in and get help on your assignments. But probably the most out of every resource that the Adelaide Union offers were my lecturers and my demonstrators. In my degree of study, I found that all of the lecturers and demonstrators were very, very happy to come to them with questions about my degree or just about general volunteer opportunities. And they were just always really happy to help, which was great. The next step for me in this journey, I'm going to be staying at Adelaide Union because I can't get enough of it. And in just under a month I'll begin my research on the impacts of microplastic pollution in the Spencer Gulf. This is my honours year and I'm like many graduates. I'm really confident that there's going to be lots of opportunities after my honours degree purely because of the amazing network of people at the Adelaide Uni. And I know that I can probably go to one of my lecturers and find myself work experience or opportunities in NGOs and departments all through the conservation and ecology area. So I hope that was helpful. My name's Miskan. I just graduated from my undergrad in Bachelor of Science in Space Science and Astrophysics. I'm about to start my masters in FEB. Not 100% sure what my research project will be, but it will be in either modeling or something experimental. I wasn't too sure exactly what I had to do in this talk, so I thought the best thing I could do is give a bit of advice to people starting from scratch. What I would like to say is to get into my masters, my GPA was just under the cutoff to get into my masters and I thought that was the end of it and I'd have to do my honours, which again, not the end of the world, but I desperately wanted to get into my masters. And I found that talking to my lecturers, talking to any stuff, everyone working here at the university wants you to help. They will come up with 100 ways to get you to where you want to go and make sure you participate to the fullest in the university because that is the best way to succeed. You can do well in all of your courses, but if you're ever in any situation where you need the slightest amount of help, there's like 100 people at the university here to help you. Because I found a way, there's a GP and I found a way to get my lecturer to write a letter of recommendation and found a way to get into my masters despite the fact that my GPA was just under where I had to be. And I would say, again, transitioning from high school to university, it's very important to remember that it's not as, it's a lot, the structure is very free at university. You have to be very self-motivated, self-driven to succeed at university, compared to in high school where your teachers do look after you. A lecturer will not know you until you introduce yourself to them. A tutor will not know you until you introduce yourself to them. The best thing I can say is just to put yourself out there, participate, join clubs, go to all of the resources provided to you, go to the academic drop-in centers. There's so much available at this university. Just make sure you're there. Hi, guys. My name's Ella. I'm currently just about to start my third year in the Bachelor of Science Advanced Degree studying microbiology, immunology and chemistry, biochemistry, not chemistry. You'll get into that later. When I first started, or at least what attracted me to the university was the fact that since I was probably this tall, I knew that I wanted to be an immunologist. I knew I wanted to be helping people find science a great thing. But throughout my year 10 and year 11, work experience opportunities, I went and did. I actually did work experience with work observation with the Wake campus to do with their viticulture and wine making. That was three days of observation and that just cemented Adelaide for me. But I also did had experience working in an accounting firm and found an office job. No, thank you. So, without work experience and then I'll sort of tack into this a little bit later, I found that more of what I didn't want to do. But coming to Adelaide actually has helped me cement what I do want to do. So, I didn't know what I wanted to come into, whether I wanted to go into medicine, whether I wanted to do health and medical sciences, whether I wanted to come into a science, whether I wanted to go into being a practicing doctor, whether I wanted to be a scientist, maybe further on. So, this was the willen I went to a doctor's office a couple of years ago and I feel of the people where we were sitting right now inspired me and I saw myself in them which was just amazing. And after coming out of this talk I walked out and went yeah, this is the place. This is for me. So, my journey after coming out class of 13. So coming to university and especially in O week, walking into a campus that has so many students was very very daunting for me and was a very scary experience in the first couple of weeks but I found that again all of the support services that the guys have already touched on and there's not really much that I can say that they haven't said but I found that just putting yourself out there and having the confidence it takes a little while to get a hold of but having the confidence to be able to put yourself out there and say hey my name's Ella this is what I'm interested in what are you interested in like you have to make conversation with people as scary as it is and so that was that and then coming into university the first couple of weeks I found very very difficult and so the support services that I use was the counseling service and it's a completely free you can just walk in make an appointment and say hey help me or at least just someone can can you listen to what I have to say and to be able to talk and talk to someone without judgment was something that was absolutely like a game changer for me so I think so that was that as well getting into the academic side I used all of the drop-in centers I went to a few past sessions as well I wish I stayed with pass I would highly recommend going to a past session if you can and sticking with it everything else fell under I've sort of once I got my footing I was able to make my own decisions make my own choices and be comfortable and confident with those so coming and so working my way through my degree I started I actually started off planning to do a chemistry major but I found I first in first year chemistry was amazing I absolutely loved it I love Greg's lectures in first semester and I have fond memories of all of the practicals that were done but I got into second semester up second year first semester and found that it wasn't for me I felt I had hit a roadblock and I couldn't find a way to get over it and not to scare any of you but more to say that it like it happens I actually almost failed my chemistry subject and that scared me a lot I'm a big perfectionist so to have that grade come back absolutely scared me and I didn't know how to recover from that so again I went to the science services hub which would have been pointed out to you hopefully on your tours I walked in there and said hey this is what this is what's happened I don't know how to deal with this can you please help me and I live in there and have lived in there pretty much every semester since making sure that I'm at where I want to be and I'm giving myself the opportunities that I want to give myself that and because even though like coming into degrees you guys are looking online and trying to decide what you're trying to do but there's just so much information out there that you don't see it all all at once so going into talk to them actually showed me the breadth of opportunities that I could give myself so coming into that I then decided to choose a bio chemistry major instead of a chemistry major and still keeping my microbiology interest as well and have actually found myself at the moment I'm in the middle I've got three weeks left of a summer research scholarship so because research is something that I feel like I want to go into I know it's not for everyone but it's something lab work is just something there's something in it that just keeps me excited but I've been able to work in one of the labs just behind us in the molecular life sciences building with a malaria researcher there so I've been actually able to utilize all of the skills that I've had in my degree and more that I didn't even know I had and cement those in effort to help even though it's a six-week placement so it's only a very very short amount of time but that shows me and it has shown me and has cemented for me the decision that I'd made when I was this tall that I wanted to go out and help people and fortunately for me I started seeing patterns and I was able to make that decision based on the whole experience so I'm helping actually doing a little bit like research on proteins of the malaria parasite itself which is really really really cool I could go on about it for days but I won't bore you with it all but the main bit of advice that I could give you as students coming in is to make sure that you always say yes never sort of put yourself back I know it's very easy to say no because it's a new it's a new environment it's a new situation but give yourself the opportunity to explore go and join clubs and societies even if you're not sure whether it's going to interest you just go and do it you meet new people you meet new people every day and that's something that I love about uni is that I feel like I've met everyone within my degree but then someone else decides to turn up as well so absolutely love it but the main thing is would be to always say yes I think that's all that I have to say thank you all for your personal testaments and I can assure you that none of them were paid much we're moving to the point where we're going to be able to for you to ask us questions but before we do so we've heard sort of that big picture what I want to do is go through start about the process some of the nitty gritty so much of this you already know but I just want to make sure that we're all speaking the same language so up here we have a list of the degrees on offer in the Faculty of Sciences now the most general degree is the one in the bottom right hand corner that says Bachelor of Science so that that's a degree that you can do any core what you know subjects in year 11 year 12 we call courses here at University you can do any any courses with that as long as you have the prerequisites if necessary but if so if you're not sure what you want to get into what area of specialization like I've just heard some of these these personal accounts where some of them knew what they wanted to get into and some of them found their feet in first year typically that's we find what generally happens but if you think you know exactly what you want to get into then there are what we call these name degrees and they're all the other degrees that are up there so they're already built up with a particular focus in mind you can see that they're based under these subject areas agriculture food wine vet sciences by med sciences etc now as well as the Bachelor of Science you're aware that there's the Bachelor of Science advanced which again is similar is very very general but it has a higher ATAR and the what that allows is what you it allows you to do one subject each year that specifically has a research type focus and although none of the the students spoke about that I'm sure that the advanced students and you advanced in I'm sure you would say that those subjects PPR 2 PPR 3 a wonderful wonderful experiences for everyone everybody loves them now in vision you see that there are some new degrees on offer for 2020 so Bachelor of Applied Data Analytics there's also a direct entry into a Bachelor of Science honours so that's a four-year degree and we've already heard mentioned about honours so that allows you to directly be guaranteed a place in honours there's also a Bachelor of Science advanced honours version as well and also a Bachelor of Veterinary Technology so these are the new degrees so they're all science degrees it's just that some of them are built with a particular focus straight away and you're sort of guided into your your course choice but if you're unsure a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Science advanced is an excellent way to study sciences at the University of Adelaide and to help you with with that that's what we're going to be offering you the opportunity later on for these one-on-one sessions either tonight or or later on so once you're enrolled in one of these particular degrees and so what I forgot to say is when you finally graduate and you go up on the stage of Benyton Hall in your gown and everyone's wearing their finest few people wear shorts these days I've been noticing and shake the vice chancellor's hand he will give you a parchment a testamure and that degree that you've just seen on the previous slide that will be printed on on your testamure in addition what is printed on your testamure is your area of specialisation is what we call a major so this is what you see on the screen now and you can see that it spans all the different sciences there are some things called a single major which means you have one area of specialisation often you'll have two so you might have say biochemistry with chemistry that's a popular one or biochemistry in microbiology and immunology that's another popular combination or they're what we call double major so some of the disciplines like chemistry for example you can just do all of your focus particularly at your third year on one particular sub-discipline of sciences so this is what we mean by now the major and for all of these degrees with I think one exception I can't top my head you must get a major at the end in order for you to get your degree but you don't need to worry about this in first year in first year you're encouraged to be as broad as you can and see what you like and then you start to focus as you progress the second year and to third year okay so this is where we all are at the moment you've all may or may well I think you've all had an offer all the perspective of students at least the data that I've seen so be aware that you only receive one offer per round and you'll get that for the highest preference you qualify for and there are six possible responses that you can make and three three of them are similar in that you're saying that you wish to be considered for higher preferences and for many of you I'm aware that that's what you're considering tonight that you need to wondering if you should accept that offer or can you apply for something else so what you can do is change the order of your preferences so that's something that you can do and you can always leave your options open so you can accept your current offer but you could accept but wish to be considered for higher preferences and then see how you go in the subsequent rounds so your first offer just repeat doesn't need to be your final one you can rearrange your your preferences and if you want to wait for another offer your preferred degree must be a higher preference than the one you receive so you need to adjust your preferences so that it's at a higher offer and if just again to reiterate if you haven't selected wish to be considered for higher preferences you will not receive another offer now if you wait for another offer it won't negatively impact on your potential to enroll in that first offer offering you can still get this this additional offer so there's plenty of time and you see at the bottom of the screen there you see all the rounds that are opening that are open so there's one coming up in a few days time that's why today is strategically placed to be a few days before that that next round if you want to make changes I've been told and you can confirm this with with some of the advisors is that you need to change your preferences by midnight of the 8th have I got that but there's a few nods over there so obviously got that remember that correctly but you see that 10th of Jan 23rd of Jan and then every week from early February until March there's plenty of opportunity for doing this and we know that students prospective students often do change their minds many many times and that's that's fine and fine I just also say that with the Bachelor of Science your ATAR isn't the only way of getting in with the Bachelor of Science there is consideration made of the subjects that you made so what's called subject based admission where it considers your your scores in specifically the sciences and information about that is not up there how will we get information go and see one of the advisors later on okay now much of this has been focused on the prospective students but just about half of you here are the parents and guardians and we know that you've had a tough time to those cranky students wanting to study all the time you've been feeding them closing them giving them as much opportunity to study as possible and encouraging them along the way but you have questions too and tonight is an opportunity for you to ask questions as well you are also welcome into the science services hub so there's a picture of it there it's sort of behind you physically located on campus behind you and up a flight of stairs up the middle of the campus or you can talk to some people tonight there's a hotline there call that if you have any short specific questions or you can also book appointments on the website that you see there now as well as hearing from students or pass students and present students we also have a another team of academics from the other three schools of the faculty of sciences and also some of the administrative staff who work in the faculty office and I'm going to hand over to them for them to introduce themselves and talk a bit about what their areas of specialization are and for all of these people including the students you'll have an opportunity of talking with these people later on so over to you Beth thanks Greg wow it's so good to see you all here I feel like it's a really hard gig to follow these guys though they are amazing and express themselves so amazingly and I thought wow I work at a really cool place so as the slide says my name is Beth Lovies I work out at the Wake campus I am a plant physiologist by training but converted my position here at the University of Adelaide to an education specialist in 2015 so that means that I am a teaching only academic so my role is really to translate all the amazing research that happens at the university into language which I can then teach to our students working at the weight is amazing the first slide that Greg showed about food production that just says it all really our students are there to learn about how to grow food how to grow food better how to grow food smarter and another one of those fantastic statistics that Greg had up on one of those slides about jobs for our graduates our graduates I have not known of a single graduate since I started work in 2011 at the Wake campus who has not had a job before they finished their degree and usually they've got three or four that they're picking and choosing from so that's a pretty amazing position for a newly graduated student to be in by the end of their degree so I teach into the Bachelor of Ag and the Bachelor of Viticulture and Anology and also the Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Science one of the really lovely things about the Wake campus is that it is slightly smaller than North Terrace so I get to know every single one of my students mostly I can remember their name sometimes not quite but mostly I remember their name and we have a have a really close-knit community at the at the Wake campus I'll be around after you've had a chance to ask these guys some questions so if anyone's considering doing a Bachelor of Ag, Bachelor of Viticulture or Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Science I would be more than happy to chat to you out the front later on so thank you yeah my name's Dan Pete and I'm in the School of Biological Sciences I'm also a biochemist you've heard a bit about biochemists who thinks they know what a biochemist is no we've got at least one I'm not even sure what I do I think we're people who can't decide whether we're biologists or chemists so we sit somewhere in the middle as a biochemist I have a fairly standard academic position part of my role is to do research does anyone know what the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded for last year no one you're gonna have to go home and look that up it was in how cells sense oxygen in the body particularly low oxygen and how that relates to human disease that's my area of research sadly I didn't win a Nobel Prize but it really is quite a topical area of research I have a number of roles in the school one is the head of learning and teaching so in charge of learning and teaching for all of our different degrees and programs and they include the Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Conservation Biology and we've heard about that, Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and the last one is the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science and I'm actually the program coordinator of the Biomedical Science degree as well so if you've got any questions about that afterwards please feel free to come and ask me in our school we also cover a number of other majors areas like ecology which covers things like zoology and botany spatial science evolutionary biology biochemistry genetics microbiology and immunology as we've heard and our most recent or newest major a new one this year is in bioinformatics really understanding and and analyzing very large biological data sets things like for example the human genome sequences where you've got three billion base pairs of information from hundreds or thousands of individuals so it's working out how to deal with those data the other couple of ones the the new degree we've just heard a little bit about was the Bachelor of Applied Data Analytics we have two sort of specializations there as well in the school one in bioinformatics again and the second one is in environment so a range of majors and a range of different degrees so once again if you have any questions about that please come up and ask in terms of advice for students about to commence you've had some great advice once again from the students here I can't add much to that I would say a couple of things one is really try and enjoy yourself in first year there's a lot of things to experience at university make the most of those and enjoy and the second is breadth science is important you've heard about that tonight but it's not the only thing so you do have opportunity to study in other areas and other subjects as well so particularly in first year make the most of those hello everyone my name is Kapil I am from the School of Animal and Wet Sciences which is based at Roseworthy I came to Australia in 2005 I did my wet degree from India and then I did my PhD and membership exam in Australia so I'm a veterinarian by by profession my first experience after coming to Australia on very first day in India people ask you how do you do how are you doing and on very first day when I came to Australia someone said how are you going and I said I'm going by bus the reason I'm telling that to you is is as a teacher at Roseworthy we not only just teach students we also try and to communicate them in their language and which is very important as a teacher at Roseworthy campus you can look at all the information in the booklet but we teach well about to teach the fourth new course veterinary technology we teach bachelor of animal science there is Amy just talked about her experience of studying animal behavior there is bachelor's in veterinary bioscience and there is doctor of veterinary medicine we call DVM I'm very proud to say that I'm part of a wet school which is ranked in top 50 in the world now a lot of you are your 12 students and parents there are students in different categories I'm I'm I have a huge respect for for students who are very determined and know what they are going to do in their life I was not one of them I was very confused when I was in year 12 and it is okay to be confused there is nothing wrong to be confused but for choosing a science all what I'm going to say is if you would like to learn a new technology and help community help human health and help animals there is a bit of a scientist in you there's a bit of a science in you and that's where you can make a choice of selecting any science based degree if you would like to have more information about what we offer at Roseworthy so just like as bed said at Roseworthy it's much smaller compared to North Terrace we are close-knit community you will find less number of students just stuck to their mobile phones at Roseworthy we do talk to each other quite a bit we do prefer communicating face-to-face rather than through social media but that doesn't mean to say that we do not use social media we do use that as well but we do try to remember I can't remember name of every single student but we do have pictures of every single student so we one of our strength is a small-sized class at Roseworthy and because of the small-sized class we are able to work individually with students we have a number of internships we have a large number of almost all of our students who are able to find a job by the time they finish their degree so there are a lot of strengths and a lot of unique opportunities at Roseworthy campus if you have specific questions about careers in in any of the animal related area including wet science admissions and other questions I'll be around so feel free to ask questions in the best interest of time I'm gonna be very brief and hand over to Liz next but I'm happy to ask answer questions afterwards thank you Hi everyone so my name is Liz I work in the future student team so if you ever had any questions leading up to this about entry requirements or pathways into uni or how to apply you probably spoke to myself or one of my colleagues if you do have any questions about your preferences or you haven't quite got the offer that you want or you want to change things around even bridging courses I'm happy to have a chat afterwards and and I look forward to meeting you all. Hi all I'm Roy Ciceri this is my colleague Sharon Kildare we are student advisors and we're located in the site services hub over in the Darling building on ground floor basically we're the first point of contact for any student related inquiries that you may have whether it's study plan advice or enrolment advice exchange inquiries etc so our office hours are Monday to Friday from 9 to 5 so don't be afraid to come and see us or even just to pop in and say hi thank you. Okay all of these people are available to answer questions we have two mics including quite literally a throw mic so I've probably got under 10 minutes if there are any questions of a sort of a general nature and I can throw to any of any of the panel does anyone have a question don't be shy if it from the students how welcoming we are is one down here just wait a little bit get to the mic to you please. After an honours year do many students continue to study or do most enter the workforce? I think I know that fairly well so it depends on which discipline area so in some areas it could be a very high proportion so I know in physics for example a very high proportion of students once they finish their bachelor's degree will go on to honours it's also possible to go straight into what's called an M fill no honours route so that's a two-year degree and that's considered as a higher degree of research I mean other areas where there's a real pool for jobs and perhaps I'm wondering perhaps how so certainly the physical sciences I'd say it would range between about 30% to about 90% of the students would go on. I would say in my the degrees that I'm involved in Bachelor of Ag and Bachelor of Culture and Anology honours is actually quite rare we certainly have honours students and there is an honours program but most of our students are fully equipped to go into their chosen field after their standard undergraduate bachelor's degree. Dan did you want to say something about biological sciences? Yeah biological sciences would be somewhere in between so certainly a reasonable portion maybe 20 or 30% would go on and do honours and then some of those would go on to further study as well. Okay so my my answer to that question is in two parts so firstly for veterinary science there is no specific honours so vet science is a six years course so first segment is three years of vet by science and then three years of doctor of veterinary medicine which is DVM so there is no specific honours but if someone is is dedicated to be a scientist after finishing six years of vet degree our large proportion of graduates they work in practice after finishing a vet degree. I did the same but for animal behavior animal science about 20 to 30% of students prefer to do honours but that is not an absolute requirement a lot of our students particularly animal science students are able to get or secure a job without doing honours as well. Okay yeah thanks everyone. Another question sorry for being so brusque but I want to get through as many questions as possible you get a chance to speak into that phone box. Yes Ella mentioned that she found past sessions invaluable what are past sessions? So sorry I touched on that as mine as well so it's on peer assisted study sessions so it's where you have a student that's so safe it's safe I'm doing first year geology it'll be a second or a third year geology student or even an honours student someone that's already done that course and they come in into a small room and they go through questions with you so I did it especially for geology in my first year before a test I would go into a past session and we'd run through practice tests and if there was concepts I think it would be especially good for stuff like maths if there's a concept that you don't understand you have someone that's probably a little bit closer in age to you to your lecturers and it's a smaller group than a lecture theatre so it's just more of that classroom learning to build on concepts and go through stuff to make you more confident. I'll just add to that that the past leaders as we call them so the senior students who are running those sessions are really highly trained they have to have excelled in that particular course and then they have specific training to help the more junior students to understand complex problems so it's sort of it's a fairly rigorous system to get into to be a past leader and be part of the past program. All right any other questions? No one wants a box thrown at them? Oh there's one over there. Thank you. About how much of the courses are now online or delivered online and how much will be face-to-face? Okay so there's now is this true faculty guide certainly now school as a requirement that all lectures are recorded and I think that's true pretty much across the university now often quizzes now are online so you might be given either a few days or a week to do them so some of the assessment is going online. In sciences is there anyone that doesn't have exams any courses that don't I'm not aware certainly in chemistry we still have exams although it's it depends on how much it's worth for the course but it's certainly not significant anymore I mean I guess in the olden days it was 80% of but it's more like cheese final exam thinking my feet typically foot 30 40 50% it really depends on the course but there is a move for a lot of online content and the students touched on it one of the disappointing things for me as an academic is I really think I'm a good lecturer and it's very disappointing when I have a class say in the Braggs lecture theater and a fraction of the students would turn up and I would put a lot of effort into designing and trying to make an entertaining course so what was said before is take take advantage of the lectures you really do learn a lot and I think that experience that live experience where you can interact with the lecturer you do get more out of it then simply just watching a recorded lecture online but the students don't seem to be listening to me just a couple of things to add to that we do have some courses that have no exams so we do continuous assessment but the other major thing I think that separates many of the science areas from other parts of the university is practicals and those practicals are often hands-on in the laboratories above us so where a lot of the practicals take place and they are compulsory so there still is even with online material where many students don't turn up to lectures there's certainly aspects where students are still required to attend and I think they're very important aspects. Thanks Dan. I will just quickly say kind of related to you if you don't go to lectures especially in chemistry you won't get to see Greg's cool science experiments the better in person trust me but I will say just quickly that I find more value coming into lectures because everybody says yeah I'll watch them online don't worry I'll do it later you never do so it's best to be there and put yourself in that situation sit there and listen and go back online and recap everything you've made miss something during that that that time period go back and re-watch the lecture don't use unless you've got legitimate reason don't go back and just use that as your only source of lecture content you get more out of it by being there. Alright thanks Ella. Alright we have one more question. It's not really a question it's actually a bit of a statement can I just start to tell you that I'm actually a mature age student here I came back well I came back to university a lot older I'm a nurse by profession and then decided I there was always something that I wanted to do not in sciences but that's not the point my son is here doing a science degree finally got in so I just want to say to you about the things of lectures what I've learned is the most invaluable thing is that these professors that I'm doing law and politics put time into your lectures and probably the way there's nothing like coming to a lecture and being lectured to by someone who is it motivates you to actually and spurs you to actually want to be going on and then if you if you don't go trying to actually catch up and sit down and going through some people with some go through two three four hours of lectures is actually quite gruelling and I don't think you get as much out of it so I can say anything to any of these students I know you sort of think oh god another lecture I don't really have to go I can listen to online but I do say to you from someone who's a mature age student who's only been at university here for a couple years and I was in your position a couple of years ago I was overwhelmed and absolutely beside myself but the best thing that ever happened to me a lot of the lecturers the professors they're approachable but please do attend the lectures because I think you get a lot more out of it than trying to sit and then do a catch up online it just doesn't happen at the risk of sounding like a broken record you get like lecture that is as big as this but your lecturers will remember your face so if you're one of those people that comes to lectures you can bet that when you go for references at the end of your degree your lecturers and your demonstrators and your course coordinators are gonna say I remember that kid he was one of five people that showed up to my lectures for the whole three years and my course is fairly small and my lecturers know when I'm not there and I get emails about it so I definitely would recommend and of course if I didn't go to any lectures and I wouldn't have that kind of relationship with my academic staff and I wouldn't feel accountable so I just yeah it's not just the fact of catching up with lectures and that you obviously do learn a lot better from being in lectures but it's the relationships that you build from them as well which are really overlooked and if I could go back to my first year I would probably attend quite a few more lectures all right we have to draw the public Q&A session to a close now I just want to say a few more things and then we're going to have an opportunity for you to talk to come and talk to either the students Ben here any of the academics and also the advisors as well so so this is really a repeat of what we've seen this will be the last slide we'll leave it up there we are here to help the Faculty Sciences Hub located in the Faculty of Sciences office is a very welcoming place and it's filled with knowledgeable people who will bend over backwards you've heard that to help you out you can contact us online email phone or obviously tonight as well something hasn't been mentioned is scholarships there are scholarships available for students if you're interested please have a look at the the webpage that's listed up there and I remind you all that with your offers if you don't have the offer you want right now there is still plenty of opportunity to change that so I've just left