The measure of success
Associate Professor David Bruce was recently presented with the prestigious JB & JW Calder Award 2023 at the Annual General Meeting for the Surveyors Board SA. Associate Professor Bruce was awarded in recognition of the most outstanding contribution to the surveying profession. Flinders University recently launched a new surveying course to help build the future South Australia. You can read more about the course here.
South Adelaide take the U18s flag
Congratulations to the South Adelaide Football Club for winning the 2023 SANFL Under 18 premiership. As a long-serving partner and major sponsor of the Panthers, Flinders has a strong connection to the club. Many Flinders students, including AFL draft prospect Jack Delean, are current students at Flinders. The coaching staff also has some Flinders representation, including alumni Christiaan Meyer as the Under 18 Strength and Conditioning Coach and Associate Professor Sam Elliott, who is Jack’s lecturer by day and his line coach by night.
Exploration of history wins recognition
Congratulations to Associate Professor Danielle Clode and Dr Christele Maizonniaux, whose documentary, Science and Exploration: French voyages of discovery to Australia, has been selected as the Runner-up Feature Film for the 7th Annual International Maritime Film Festival in Maine, US.
The film will be screened at the in-person festival on Saturday 30 September, and will also be available in the festival’s on-demand selection of films available through Vimeo.
Science and Exploration has previously screened in Australia as part of National Science Week with SA History Trust and SA Maritime Museum, in the Scinema film festival 2020 and nationally on SBS TV for Bastille Day 2021. It has also won awards in the Indo-French International Film Festival 2022 (best debut filmmaker of a short film, best documentary short film) and the Docs without Borders Film Festival 2022 (outstanding excellence).
The French language version of the documentary has been toured in Mauritius and had its French premiere in Toulouse. The film is freely available for non-commercial educational use, and has been used in French, Mauritian and Australian schools and museums. More information about the film (including trailers) is available here.