HCSNet and the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) Taskforce on Mobility and Accessing Information Infrastructures (MAII)(http://www.eii.edu.au/taskforce0607/maii ) are holding a joint workshop on Interactive and Ubiquitous Information Access to be held at NICTA, the Australian Technology Park, Sydney on 16 and 17 May 2008. This workshop is designed to bring together researchers in designing systems, methodologies, infrastructure, and interactive interfaces for information access in mobile and/or ubiquitous environments. HCSNet will fund travel for a number of Australia participants from outside the Sydney area. Invited speakers: Mike Twidale; Diane Kelly; Kenton O'Hara. For more information, please go to http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2008/iuiaworkshop . To register interest, please email lawrence.cavedon@rmit.edu.au as soon as possible.

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has up to 30 scholarships available for 2008 and 2009 at A$50,000 per annum tax free, combining exciting research with opportunities for international travel.

We are seeking graduates with qualifications in one or more of Accounting, Information Technology and Computational Linguistics to contribute towards our research in the areas of market design and market behaviour, surveillance and compliance, data mining, language technology, visualisation, and the analysis of accounting and audit data relevant to security markets. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged. Successful candidates will have a 1st class honours degree in one of the disciplines above, or a Masters degree with a major research component, an exceptional academic record, strong written and verbal communications skills, and an ability to work in a team environment. Three rounds for application are planned for 2008; the first round closes on 15 May 2008. International students are eligible to apply for scholarships. More information can be found at http://www.cmcrc.com/scholarships/PhD_sch/index.html

HCSNet has over 1000 student and researcher participants from institutions across Australia and from collaborating laboratories overseas. To increase awareness of who is doing what in human communication science, every week we spotlight one of our members in this newsletter, as you can see above. We select members to spotlight each week from as wide a variety of disciplines and institutions as possible.

If you haven't already been invited into the spotlight, you will be at some point. Please make sure to keep your details updated in your profile on the HCSNet website. You can edit your details using the 'my account' option after logging in http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/login. If you haven't already done so, add a photo of yourself and approximately 150 words about your research interests framed in a way that can be used in the spotlight section of the newsletter. You may like to include a current research project and/or citation details of two recent publications.