This morning Richard Morecroft led a 3 hour Media Training seminar for the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University. Pertinent points included:

When being interviewed try to maintain eye contact while listening to a question (demonstrating concentration) and keep that eye contact through to when commensing the response (demonstrating directed intention)
Voice should be clear, authoritative, [...]

The Mac workshop I attended today was most informative and covered the following Mac apps:

iTunes: can also be used as a content manager for PDFs as well as audio (but not all file types).
iPhoto: Using faces and places in iPhoto users can identify people using facial recognition and Google maps to identify locations for the [...]

Alan T., a fantastic statistics lecturer from Macquarie University, kindly recommended to outstanding statistics texts to me:

“Statistical methods for psychology” by David C. Howell, and
“Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences” by James P. Stevens.

Both of these were written with such clarity and insightfulness - they are actually statistics texts I will return to again [...]

Today the presenter at a research seminar  explained the difference between research databases offered by the  Macquarie University library. Publisher databases like Informaworld, Science Direct, Sage and Informit were preferred over secondary databases due to their speed and reliability. As well, viewing results of searches in HTML rather than PDF format had the advantage of [...]