 So I'm Head of Physical Sciences. My school is Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science. It's one of the two schools on North Terrace. We also have biological sciences here. And then we have agriculture, food, and wine at the weight, and animal and vet sciences at Roseworthy. You're sitting in the Braggs. This is one of our sort of newer lecture theaters and one of our newer science buildings. And so our first year practicals in physics and in biological sciences are taught upstairs in this building. And it's a building we're quite proud of. What we want to do this evening is we want to give you kind of an overview of what we are. We want to welcome you to sciences. So most of the students here have applied to do stuff with us. I'll tell you a bit more about us, and then we'll have a Q&A with some current students, some current staff including myself, and then we'll have a discussion out in the foyer where you can ask individual questions. So the idea is to try to answer all the questions that you have about what it might be like to study sciences at Adelaide. And this is a really, really exciting time to be studying science. There's so much going on in the state. So you know that South Australia is positioning itself as the defense state. So we've got the submarine build, but it goes beyond technology. There's a lot of science around that. There's also a lot of money across the nation going into defense, and a lot of that is going into South Australia. So that's a really, really big push. There's going to be a lot of jobs in defense in South Australia. There's also a lot of other really cool stuff going on, and involves science and also involves technology. So for example, there's a proposal to build a solar thermal energy center in Port Augusta. And the idea here is basically that you harness the power of the sun, that you heat up material to a very, very hot temperature, and then you can use that to get 24-hour a day electricity. So it's about creating solar energy, or harnessing the solar energy, but then storing it and then reusing it at the same time. Another big push in South Australia is around food technology. And one of the big things is around sundrop farms, again around Port Augusta, where they're doing completely sustainable agriculture, where they're solar energy to desalinate water to then do indoor harvesting, or growing and then harvesting of crops in the first instance, tomatoes. And there's also a lot going on in the northern suburbs, and that will be building in terms of food technology. So again, big picture things happening in South Australia. But more globally, STEM and particularly science are the skills that people need in order to get ahead in the world, and in our very, very rapidly changing world. So the skills that you learn by doing science involve active learning, critical thinking, and problem solving. And this is what employers want, and it doesn't have to be in terms of solving science problems. So everybody wants somebody you can think. And particularly in the age of automation, when robots are taking over more and more. And I don't know if you saw that Amazon now in the UK has had its first test delivery, where somebody ordered online and a drone delivered the book to them. So automation is taking over a lot of mundane tasks, but the tasks that are going to have the jobs of the future are ones that involve thinking. And that's what employers want. The other thing is that there have been studies that said about 75% of the fastest growing occupations require STEM skills. So again, it's that ability to think, it's that ability to work out problems. And it's also the soft skills, the ability to work and play well with others. And, you know, we're very proud of the fact that about 90% of science graduates, this is nation, nationally, are employed. And most of them attribute their STEM skills to that. And we have to be a little bit careful when we talk about employability, because sometimes it's not the first job, but it's the second job and the third job and fourth job. Because the first job, if you're kind of a typical student, and I was one of them, you know, you kind of go through university and all you're thinking about is getting done. Then you get done and go, oh, what do I do next? So you get a job at coals or willies or something like that. And then you get your act together and you go out and you actively look for a job. We're trying to improve on that. And we started a number of initiatives in the faculty right now, where we're doing careers fairs for students in sciences, where we're bringing employers in, and we're having panel discussions with them and meeting great about what employers are looking for. And from next year we're trying to embed employability in basically the mentoring program that students will be talking about, but from year one. So that we're really actively trying to help students think about how they articulate the skills that they're developing as students into what employers want. And that's really, really important. So there's a lot of opportunity in terms of employability. There's also a lot in terms of things that aren't issues at the moment but will be, because the world is changing so rapidly with so many challenges that the young people in this room are going to have to deal with. Climate change is a huge one. And we're seeing it all the time. I'm an American originally, as you can tell from my accent. Right now the U.S. is getting creamed with storms and they're attributing those really bad winter storms to warming of the Arctic. Here we're seeing warming of temperatures globally. We're seeing challenges to biodiversity. So these are areas in Australia where biodiversity is being threatened as a result of climate change. Here in Adelaide rising sea levels and the effect on beach erosion, for example. So I think most people here have seen the effect of the winter storms this year on our beaches. And solving those issues is difficult and it involves a lot of understanding of science. And those types of things are going to become more and more important. And so for example, I don't know if people have seen the articles in the ABC news and other news recently about melting in Antarctica. And so the thought is now that there's a warm current that's actually causing melting of part of the Antarctic glacier and the ice sheet. And that melting then will contribute to sea level rise in a very large way. This map on the top left is what 1.1 meter sea level rise would do to northern Adelaide. I'm a bit parochial because I live just about there. But this is Port Adelaide and those are areas that would be underwater in 1.1 meter of sea level rise. So there's a lot of stuff around this in terms of understanding what might happen and also in terms of adaptation and mitigation. And these are really science issues. So there's a whole range of future careers that don't exist at the moment but will exist around adaptation to climate change. And that's just one of the many things that don't exist now but will. So there's this whole idea of disruptive technologies of things that actually change the way we think and the way we work. And so the great example, and if I can do this without dropping the mic, is that we all have one of these in our pocket. And so it changes so much, not only that you can phone somebody straight away or you can check your email straight away, but that you have access to so much data and that so much data is being collected about you. And that's one example, the growth of big data, the growth of 3D printing, climate change of course, all these things are so quickly changing the world that you live in and that we will live in. And so to navigate that world and to be gainfully employed in that world, you've got to be able to think and you've got to be able to adapt. And we're in a world right now where things are changing so quickly and people are changing jobs, that this is a comment from the chief scientist earlier this year, making the distinction between job ready and job capable graduates. Because job ready means that you go out and you say, well, cool, I know how to do X, right? The question that he raises to the point he makes is that those people may not be adaptable. In other words, you can do X, wonderful. But what happens when X doesn't exist anymore? Whereas the job capable graduates are the people who can adapt, who can think, who can solve problems. And those are the skills that you will develop as a science student at Adelaide. And this is the bit I was trying to say about mobility. Right now people are changing jobs all the time. It's going to happen more and more. So the great thing about studying science at the University of Adelaide is that the science that you'll study will be underpinned by fantastic research. What that means is that you're being exposed to absolutely cutting edge stuff and it's being taught to you by people who are doing groundbreaking science. Some examples of this, most of you have heard about the discovery of gravitational waves just earlier this year. The University of Adelaide contributed to that. And so we built a detection system, this isn't it, but we built a detection system in the physics building just up the hill. And that was installed at LIGO and was part of that detection system. So fundamental advance in science. We're also doing fundamental research in terms of understanding and trying to prevent diseases. So this example is cataracts and it turns out that cataracts are caused by a protein and that one of our guys in chemistry is developing a molecule that can bind to that protein and it stops it from creating cataracts in your eye. So he's gotten a hundred ground now to develop that research and it'll go from there. So it could be longer term something that will be a routine eye drop for people like us. We're doing cutting edge science in veterinary science and animal science. This is an example of an ovo. So an egg of a mouse and trying to understand diseases in the intestinal tract. This is stuff from weight, from agriculture feed and wine where there's a cutting edge plant accelerator. This is really important for climate change so you can see if we grow plants under a particular condition, what happens if we now make it hotter for example, do we have to water it differently, do we fertilize it differently, how do we adapt. And this is another example, this is actually again from chemistry where this is a plant that naturally takes up metals into the plant structure. You can use it for remediation of old mine sites and then you can actually mine the plant itself for minerals, for metals. So again, cutting edge science. And the way that Adelaide works is that we have what's called small group discovery. So you don't spend all your time sitting in a big lecture theater like this but you actually spend time in small groups solving problems and working with really good academics who do really good research. So you learn as a result of that. The other thing is that we have a lot of opportunities for study abroad and this is from geology, this is an example of a recent study tour in Oman just finished about three weeks ago and I hope our health and safety officers in here to look at that picture, but everybody came back alive and in good health and had a fantastic time. So they spent 10 days out there, it was an intensive course and from everything I've heard it was tremendous. So there's lots of opportunities to get overseas and to either experience completely new environments or to interact with different people. And it's such a global world that that's so important. And for people who don't want to do it, you don't have to, you're not forced to but you have the opportunity. Just to give you an idea of where our graduates go, this is a snapshot just from one year and you can see that people have dispersed all over the world. A lot in Australia but also elsewhere in Europe and Asia and in North America. Just a couple of examples of some of these. Sarah and Peter both did physics and they basically both ended up working in finance. So Sarah is a trading officer in an energy company and Peter is working more or less for a venture capitalist company. So coming out of physics, very, very quantitative. These are people who have done a range of things from chemistry with Jody to food science with Tammy and I think environmental science with Ella. Again, all gainfully employed in different parts of Australia. Tammy out of food science is working for Deloitte and probably makes more money than anybody in this room. Certainly more than I do. And finally, I'll finish with a couple of comments. So these are two of our students who both did chemistry. Patrick is working as an environmental scientist as you can see and it goes back to the skills thing that STEM is about more and science is about more than just a linear path but it's about getting the skill set. So studying at the University of Adelaide helped me develop good problem solving and critical thinking skills that enabled me to gain employment in a difficult market and it is a difficult market, face it. And then Sophie is actually working for skincare manufacturer and able to apply the problem solving technical report writing and data handling skills. So again, it's about skills. So I want to thank you for your attention on that. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn you over to Kira Lee who will talk about the support that we give to students in sciences at Adelaide and then we'll move over to a Q&A with a bunch of students and staff that didn't introduce before but are sitting there and we'll come back to them. Thank you. Hi, so as Sandy said, my name is Kira Lee and I work in the student experience team in the Faculty of Sciences office. So I'm more of an administrative role and as part of that, I suppose my role is to help support your transition to university and study within sciences and support you through your program of study here with us. So there's lots of different services at the university as a whole provides to all students studying at the university. We have a global learning office. So as Sandy was mentioning, you can include in your program a global learning experience, whether that be a study tour during the summer or winter period or whether that's a semester or four-year study. You can certainly include that. We have the maths learning centre, writing centre. So if you're having difficulties with maths problems, you can just pop in there at any time and get assistance, same with the writing centre. If you're writing reports and having difficulties there, there's lots of ongoing support while you're here at university-wide. Within the Faculty of Sciences, we have our Faculty of Sciences office. That's where I'm located. I may have spoken to some of you already. So you can pop in at any time and come and ask us questions about sort of admission into programs, different programs that we have, different courses and requirements. We also have academic drop-in centres. So if you're in say first-year chemistry, you're having some difficulties understanding some content, you can go to those drop-in centres outside of class time and sit with an academic and get some help there as well. Our past sessions are similar to the academic drop-in centres, but they're run by students. So we say second or third year students. So they can help you work through those problems as well. So we have those in the majority of our first-year disciplines. So you do get that extra support outside of your class time. You also have your first-year directors with each of the disciplines. So they're also a good point of contact if you're needing just some extra resources to help with certain content. And we have also our program and course advisors. So you'll have an academic allocated to your program who will support you through your full program. And with the individual courses, you'll have academics as well. We've commencing students in your first semester. We have our mentoring program. So this is a course that you're enrolling to. There's no fees, there's no assessment, there's no deadlines. It's basically just fun. So come along, meet all of your other first-year students, network with them, and it's just a whole lot of fun. So I definitely recommend doing it. It's a good networking thing and it's just relaxing as well. You will receive some phone calls probably or some touch-based type contact from 6C to Adelaide. So they'll basically just want a touch-based if you make sure that everything's going okay. This is also an opportunity for you to ask any questions if you're not sure of something. Just sometimes a phone ringing and you think, oh, yep, I need to ask that question. So they're there as well for support. With our next step program, that's to help you with the transition from your first year going into second year. So at the end of your first year, you'll be able to sit down with an academic and get one-on-one advice around what you're wanting to do with your courses and the progression of your program going into second year. So that's a really important program that we do and yes, students really benefit from that. So with our first-year experience program, we have a whole page on our Faculty of Sciences website. And you'll find all the information about those drop-in centres, the past sessions. All of that information is contained there. And I'll hand over to Sandy again. So now we get to the interesting part, which is a chance to ask students and then later staff about what it's really like here. So we have a number of students here and I'll ask them to get up one at a time and introduce themselves. Let's start. So my name's Jackson and I'm just about to go into my honours year in marine biology. And yeah, if I had to describe uni on my first day, I thought it was pretty overwhelming, but thankfully here there's a lot of support to help you kind of ease into it. And yeah, Adelaide's a great place for all of that. I'm Lisa Jensen and I've finished my degree and I'll be doing honours next year in geology. And I remember my first day. I found it very overwhelming. But during my stay here, I've had actually a lot of help and I've been able to actually give help back to other students as well. So if you've got any questions about peer mentoring or past sessions, you can also help out in answering those. Hi guys, I'm Carolyn Mitchell. I'm currently in the third year animal science project. So I don't know anyone who's interested in animal veterinary sciences. But we're based out at Roseworthy, having a great time playing around with lots of live animals. First year, yeah, it's pretty hectic. Especially your first day, you kind of don't know where you're going. And if you're based like I am in the country, it's pretty scary rocking up to North Terrace for your first time. But don't be afraid, like there's a lot of us that are in the same boat as you guys. A lot of people that have never been to Adelaide before until they get accepted here. And we're always happy to help out. You just have to, you know, get up the guts to actually ask for help, which is the hardest thing sometimes. Hi everyone. So my name is Paige Yin, or you can call me Sabrina. Firstly, welcome everyone here to Welcome to Sciences. I know you've got your results and you're like, yeah, I'm going to university. But what's next? So that's the exact same question I had when I first came to Adelaide Uni. I'm currently doing a degree in advanced science, going to major in genetics and biochemistry. So if any of you are interested, come and speak to me afterwards. I'll be happy to answer your questions. But of course you'll get that daunting and excited feeling when you first step into university. But hey, all of us are here. So don't worry and make your first step. So we have a chance for questions from the audience. Okay, I've got a question. What was the scariest thing about coming to the University of Adelaide? What was the scariest thing about coming to the University of Adelaide? Well, if it's from the first year, I think it's because I know no one here when I first came. So I'm like, well, I have to start all over again in a completely new environment doing something that I know I'll definitely like that is sciences. But I was kind of worried that if I would get the support I need, if I could speak to somebody, if I came across any problems, or if I'm struggling. So that was the problem that I had in mind. But, well, I'm in third year now. So all went well. Like I said before, being a country student and suddenly rocking up in Adelaide and going from, you know, 200 people if you're lucky to all of a sudden a quite a few thousands and not knowing where any of your classes are, where any of the events are, was certainly pretty scary. But like everything, you just got to kind of like plow through and keep going. So it's not so bad really. The scariest thing is the fact that I felt overwhelmed because I was a matured student and that I was with a lot of young people who had been fresh out of school and nothing wrong with that. I'm quite happy to mix with other people but I did find it difficult. But as I got along, I've actually got many friends who are younger and who are of similar age to myself and it's been a great experience. But I just had to just continue turning up and, you know, going to classes and talking to people because they wouldn't talk to me. So I had to make that step. So yeah, that was my experience. I actually found the content really difficult at first because I had a bit of a break between high school in England and coming to uni here. So when I first started, I had a clue what I was doing and it was actually only until I spoke to my tutors and course coordinator that I decided to turn around. I got through and now I'm doing it so something went right. Any questions? Questions from the gentleman there? Just a question on the day when they enroll next year. I know there's an enormous amount of stuff on the website and the page for the sciences there is probably a lot more content in it but actually on the day when they rock up, is there like a list of events or a list of things that they go through over the next few days when they first get here? Is it somewhere on the web? Is it something they get in the mail that they can attend all the, you know, sign up events and things like that? Yes. So after students receive their offers we will be sending out information on enrolment advice session so that's an opportunity for students to come in and have one-on-one advice with academics and then they get assistance with enrolling as well. There's also the O-week guide that's come out as well and that's available on the website now too. With the details for enrolment advice session that will be on the website probably in the first week of January. Do you want to add something? The help of enrolling I remember when I enrolled again I didn't know how to do it and it can be quite daunting to have to enrol in all your classes but they do have enrolment buddies and events to help you and I'd highly recommend going to those because those guys go above and beyond to help you practically show you how to do it all and it's really useful. And a lot of students think that if they do it themselves at home rather than coming into the sessions that they'll get into all the times they want or if they wait and come in that they might miss out it's not the case come in and let us help you because we've got staff there that will get you enrolled on that day so definitely come along. Hello. I'm going to be enrolling as a mature student as well and I'm going to be studying part-time because I need to keep working as well part-time. Who's the best person to actually advise me on the best topics to take in each year? Is that on the enrolment day and get to do that kind of thing? Yes, so you'd be able to sit down with an academic or with one of us and we can work out a study plan for you so that you're enrolling to the correct courses to give you that pathway through so you're enrolling into your prerequisites each year to get you through your program certainly and students are welcome to come in to the Faculty of Sciences office at any time book an appointment and we can sit down one-on-one and work out study plans with them as well at any time coming at the end of each year before you enrol for the following year we're happy to do advice the whole way through your program. Can I just answer? I actually did get help and advice from the Faculty of Science when I was when I first enrolled and it was brilliant because I had no idea, had no clue so they were all very helpful and every year I've actually sort of gone to also ask for their help and just to get my time table in and then I was actually doing the right subject so that I could basically graduate at the end of my degree so it was very helpful. Hello, I'm just asking in regards to like how flexible the uni programs are with people getting jobs if they study a certain thing and then they have a job that comes in later on or something and they might need to work during the day and then change their lessons to a nine. Is that a flexible thing that occurs? So do you mean like flexibility around timetables? Yeah so with the lectures most of those are fairly set they are mostly recorded though we do encourage students to come in to those lectures so if you're not going to be able to make a lecture definitely speak to the course coordinators with the tutorials workshops, practicals they're pretty flexible as far as where they are throughout the week and they're not in the first couple of years your courses it won't just be one sort of set time they're sort of flexible so you can sort of pick and choose which ones you go to. Yeah. This is for the geology one what kind of assignments are we searching you guys to and for the assertions of work trips on work by Gigan what do you do mainly? Sorry what was it again? Field trips. Field trips in geology. Well in second year you go well actually in first year you do go to like Halakove or we did Victor Harbour and there are only like day trips so you get to experience some day trips and in second year we did Petschy Ritchie so that'll be a week trip so you get instructions there are always people there who are helping you and then in tectonics we did I did Kangaroo Island and that was like a four day field trip and then if you enrol in third year for the field geoscience you have well I had two weeks in Alice Springs but I think this year they actually had a week in Arcarola so they might change when you come to that particular time so is that alright? Also on what kind of research are people working on? What kind of research? Well a whole little research in regards to geology projects so it could be geophysics or it could be igneous and metamorphic sort of so I'll add to that if I can since I'm head of that school and I'm a geophysicist so the research interests in earth science there's a lot of stuff in hard rock geology there's a lot of work on what's called under cover which is basically trying to understand the mineral resources of Australia that aren't visible from the surface and that's done mainly through geochemistry and through geophysics magnetotolerics is a big thing in the geophysics space I'm personally an earthquake scientist and I supervise honor students but I don't do a lot of undergraduate teaching I just supervise research projects so there's a variety of stuff and then there's some soft rock geology as well as marine and that type of stuff I think I believe for geology there's a program under mineral science and also there's a program for geology under bachelor's science as well so my first question is what is the difference between both and the second one is if it is under bachelor's of science because so many pathway there from geology chemistry we see so when you start to select the option it is from the beginning of the program or from where so the differences between the bachelor's science, mineral geoscience and then doing a bachelor's science with a geology major is that what you're sort of asking so there are some core courses in the mineral geoscience program but they're restricted to that program so there's that unique content there with the bachelor's science it is a flexible program so you can sort of pick and choose lots of different pathways so you may want to major in geology but then you may also say I want to major in ecology as well so you have that flexibility with partnering two different disciplines if you wanted to I suppose that's sort of where the differences are with the mineral geoscience it's a lot more structured on your core courses and it's actually focused into that geology area I'll hand it over just to make a general point on that so we have what are called named degrees so a bachelor's science and mineral geoscience would be an example bachelor's science and marine biology would be another and so those have sort of specific routes that people take and they're designed for people who pretty much think this is what I want to do a lot of people going into university don't have a clue and I'm the great example of that I went to university thinking I was going to major in journalism and I ended up as a geophysicist you know so we don't know and the nice thing about the general BSC and the BSC advanced is that you don't have to know what kind of science you want to do you know you're interested in science you go you take a bit of this and a bit of that and then you decide oh I kind of like that and God that's awful and you choose a pathway and you end up choosing a major so there's a lot more flexibility in the BSC and the BSC advanced so either approach works it just depends on people's interest and how well they know what it is that they want to do at this age Hi this is for everyone how did you know which science that you went to like when did you start to know which science that you wanted to do well with my school they really encouraged us to go to university and they literally just showed us a list of degrees and I went down and I saw marine biology and I thought yeah definitely and that one just stuck for me so I didn't even really think about it too much I went straight into it but like what you were saying when you were learning about Bachelor of Science I think if you don't know exactly what you want to do then Bachelor of Science is so flexible and I had friends who were with me in the same courses the entire degree and they were doing a Bachelor of Science and I was just doing the name degree so it really is very flexible The reason why I picked the Bachelor of Science and majored in geology I found that it was again flexibility and interest in in doing research and I wanted to do research in geology so I thought well I've got to do something and so that's why I chose it Yeah kind of for me because I came back after completing my first degree I had a break and worked for six, seven years and then decided to come back again for me it was a huge toss up between whether or not going down the name degree or just the plain Bachelor of Science In the end I chose the name degree mainly because again I wanted to get into research and my research pathway was to do with animals in some capacity and I liked the ability of both the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Science Animal Science that gave me the ability to combine both chemistry, physics and biology together in the one degree and actually get more of a broader overview of life systems to enable me to actually become a better researcher rather than just say focusing only on one particular area so the Animal Science degree here at the University is probably one of the best in Australia for that reason because we do a bit of chemistry the option of doing some physics and you do have a broad range of areas that you can actually dabble in so to speak to come up with a degree that actually suits the areas of interest to you so that if you're looking to go in to say Honours Master's or PhD you actually got some base skills that you can automatically take to the next level without actually having to do say additional courses or additional summer school to go into the next area Well for my case it's a bit special because I came in to University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Science degree and it was after my first semester I decided to switch into Abund Science so to give you an insight of what I did during first year I didn't start off by knowing that oh yes, genetics and biochemistry are nothing else I tried so many different courses when I was in first year including psychology, statistics, ecology chemistry and of course biology itself and that was when I actually give myself a chance to experience what science is and it's so many fields and that's when I found my passion in genetics and biochemistry so and I also find that I'm actually really interested in research but I wanted more than what just a degree could offer me by going to lectures with tutorials I desperately want more and which is why I actually switched into Abund Sciences because you get the chance to learn from top researchers in our uni understanding what their research is about and you'll get a chance to learn how to actually develop critical thinking problem solving skills and to work alongside top researchers it is a really fascinating experience and which is why I decided to switch to Abund Sciences after speaking to the advisors from the faculty of sciences and I think so far it's a really wonderful journey Sorry, we just wanted to know about when the offers actually come out to everybody. Is there a date that you know right now? Sorry, I'll put you on the spot. There we go. So some students may have already got some offers so students who have applied using the ATAR though yet first run offers come out January 17th. So are they all through the mail or are they emailed? I'm not sure if they send those out and I think it's by email that they do it. I'm not sure if they also do a hard copy. So that's the first round. The second round is what date? I'd have to look, but it's normally they do them sort of twice a week on a rolling basis. It just depends on demand. What about guarantees and entry? So if you believe you've got a guarantee and entry what does that really mean? Does that mean you're going to get that offer because you're guaranteed you don't have to accept it? So if you have received an offer for your first preference is that what you mean? How it's automatically accepted? If you've got the high enough ATAR to get in directly. Sorry? If your ATAR is high enough obviously to get into the degree you've got a guaranteed entry. Pretty much. As long as you've met the prerequisites and the ATAR is high enough I mean the cut-offs with ATAR will fluctuate year to year. So until that first round comes out that's the round that's based on the ATAR that will be when we find out what the ATAR cut-off is. And that ATAR is not known yet? So you can look at previous years which is available on the website under degree finder. It should show the last I think three years they have on there. It gives you a bit of a rough guide but it can fluctuate a little bit year to year though. Could you look at what it roughly is? Every single program is different. Yeah. What I'm thinking of doing is is doing a double major and I'm interested the problem is that I've got two equally burning passions that belong in two separate named degrees. The first one is Purple Nectarot Wallabies conservation biology and I'm also interested in guinea pigs which falls under animal science. So do I really have to make a choice? Can I do a double major in both of those? Is there some way that I can incorporate both of my passions? Okay so as far as animal science is concerned in animal science we do have kind of because we're focusing on domestic species we actually do a fair bit on wildlife species as well so there is an opportunity for you to actually engage with a wildlife species that is of importance to you. In terms of majoring in animal science doesn't really have we don't actually have majors per se because we're designed to facilitate basically a research based pathway as opposed to the veterinary sciences which obviously go into the doctor of veterinary was it doctor of veterinary masters or something like that which is slightly different so there's opportunity for you to kind of study more broader aspects of it through animal science if that makes sense where wildlife and conservation from what I understand is more about the environmental systems that they're based in so where we deal directly more with the animals and their physiology the wildlife conservation I believe really more with the environments but the timetable clashes would be immense unfortunately to do both degrees. Thank you. Thanks. I'm going to broaden this and introduce some of our members of staff now who will also be available to talk up the stairs in a minute. Maybe Phil forward first because he's in biological sciences and might want to say something about wildlife conservation biology. I think you did a great job. Hi everyone my name is Phil Cassie and I'm a lecturer in school of biological sciences. I'm an ecologist and I study conservation biology, wildlife trade and biosecurity planning. I also have the great privilege of being the program coordinator for the BSC Advanced which is a vocational research pathway for young researchers who as we've heard is a very exciting experience. So I'm not from around these parts I'm a New Zealander a Kiwi by descent but also I've worked in Europe the UK and North America and I'm very proud to now call and sitting here and thinking about what Sandy was saying and listening to the research and scientific opportunities a lot of it gels very strongly with me and it's a great place to be studying science so I'm happy to take any questions or you can keep asking the students questions they probably know more than me anyway I'm going to take the biotechnology program so my question is that well our classes involve a lot of physics and mathematics sorry because I'm not really familiar with because this is the first year I came Australia so I'm not very familiar with the education system in Australia so I want to ask do I need to prepare I mean like recite some terms about physics and mathematics because I am going to take the biotechnology programs next year so with the biotechnology program physics isn't a core course and maths isn't you could choose those courses as electives but you don't have to do those courses Good evening my name is Chris Ford I'm the Deputy Head of School for Learning and Teaching at the Wake Campus so I represent the School of Agriculture Food and Wine we have four degrees at the Wake Campus the Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Science Bachelor of Agriculture and Anology and the Bachelor of Applied Biology as you can tell perhaps by my accent I too am not from here I've been in Australia I worked out for 26 years so it's always very exciting to be standing here meeting new students for the first time and thinking back to when I was a student in the UK having completely stuffed up my equivalent rate time and knocked out to my first choice university and gone to something called a Polytechnic which was a little bit off the radar but I have to say it was absolutely brilliant the thing I remember from that most of all was just going and meeting all sorts of new people and taking every opportunity that was thrown my way wonderful time and I wish I could do it again I'm happy to take any questions Hi Hello I'm looking at doing the Bachelor of Science Advanced but I also have a passion for chemistry psychology I was wondering if it would be possible to pick up some psychology units along the way and how I would go about doing that So broadening is strongly encouraged within the university and particularly within the sciences from my own personal perspective I'm extremely interdisciplinary in the way that I conduct my research and teaching and I think it's incredibly important that you think as broadly as you can as soon as you get here the greatest advances come from interdisciplinary research there's a lot of lip service which is paid to interdisciplinary research and it's not always rewarded in the same quantum but the greatest advances tend to come from knowledge in other disciplines and absolutely there's a lot of opportunity for those broadening electives so no problem at all and strongly encouraged Hi With our Wildlife Conservation Biology is that intended as a research pathway degree so all of the named degrees are designed around specific research interests or pathways and certainly the Wildlife Conservation Degree is no exception the the job market is fierce for all of us and so there's no evidence around it but as we see the huge extinction crisis that we're headed for the brightest naval mines that we have in Wildlife Conservation the better there's fantastic opportunities during the third year capstone components which is the final year research parts of that degree for interrelationships with the Department of Environment and relationships which are being bridged allow for great vocational opportunities so absolutely Thank you Hello my name is Rachel Norris and I'm here representing the Roseworthy Campus tonight I'm the Program Coordinator for the Veterinary Biosites Program and as Carolyn's also told you we run a Bachelor of Animal Science Program at Roseworthy as well so yes if you are interested in animals and have a research interest the Bachelor of Animal Science Program is a very good program for you to do if you're more interested in the health preventative medicine and well-being of animals then the veterinary degree will be more suited for you the veterinary degree is actually running two programs which are interlinked you can't do one without the other there's the undergraduate program which is where you will enroll into it and then extending on from that is another three year postgraduate degree which is the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine so it's six years it's a very full on course you cannot do it part-time and so requires a huge commitment if that's where you're intending to go so I'm an Adelaide girl I did my undergraduate degree at Adelaide I did my high degree at Adelaide I now work at Adelaide I like to think that my movement was 43 kilometres north to Roseworthy so I'm happy to explain anything about Roseworthy and how you get there and all the rest of it in the break I have a question I'm interested in doing veterinary science but I'm not sure if I'll get in because it's pretty competitive I've been told you can do veterinary science is it very difficult to do that that's absolutely correct you can do first year veterinary science if you select your subjects correctly and the key one is to select physics and there is an opportunity at the end of the year because the two degrees are the same then you do a common first year program four days of your first year program in the veterinary science and animal science degrees here at North Terrace and one day is the Roseworthy day where you come and do specific animal handling and animal behaviour ethics and welfare courses out at Roseworthy so there is an opportunity if you don't get the ATAR or you're not selected through the interview in this year to enrol in the Bachelor of Animal Science you then either then try again you can use your GPA if your marks are nice and robust but you'd have to go through that same particular interview system that we have which is the questionnaire selection for interview and then the academic qualifications the movement from first year into second year there are limited places so that makes it even more competitive for that pathway entry now but it's being done Question regarding Bachelor of Medical and Health Science Bachelor of Medical and Health Science Question regarding Bachelor of Health and Medical Science I want to be the efficient so I'm planning to do Master in Dietetics as well I want to know if the course of Bachelor of Health and Medical Science helps me I can do this course the Bachelor of Health and Medical Science Can you stand further up to the master Okay I'll tell you what let's try to talk about that upstairs that's a different faculty from us so it's not our area of expertise but we'll in particular we'll try to help with your question but let's defer that one to upstairs in a minute are there any other questions for this group as a group or do you want to start talking to people individually I've noticed on the website there are a lot of options for double degrees with the Bachelor of Science are there any possible study plans for double degrees with the Bachelor of Science Advanced There's opportunities for double degrees they're a little more constrained because of the core courses that are taken at each year through the BSc Advanced and in your final year you have to choose a first major because that makes up your capstone for your third year research component of that major but that doesn't mean that you can't there are a lot of students graduating you come through who have the requirements for a double major during the BSc Advanced but you've only done your research component in the advanced degree through a single subject and who should I go and see regarding developing a study plan for a double degree with the advanced program who are we looking at here everyone seems to be you're welcome to talk to me in the break and Curly as well either of us can help you out and take up the Enrollment Advice Sessions don't feel that you need to solve or answer all your questions with us tonight the Enrollment Advice Sessions is a fantastic opportunity for you to engage with staff in those disciplines I'll just reinforce that that the Enrollment Advice Sessions are very, very worthwhile so are there any other questions for the group or shall we... one more down here and then we'll break and we'll chat with people in the foyer Oh hi talking about the study plans how do the group units allow for a semester so per semester it's 12 units for most programs some will allow you to overload to 15 units but I wouldn't recommend doing that in your first semester so 12 units is a 100% study load full time okay thank you everybody and thanks very much to our students and staff for standing up here and trying to answer questions so we've got some light refreshments and we'll all be around to try to answer your questions so thanks again and we'll chat with you upstairs