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Olympic Experts available at the University of Melbourne

Media Release, Tuesday 22 July 2008

A number of University of Melbourne experts are available for comment in the lead up to, and during, the 2008 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad), to be held in Beijing, China from August 8 to August 24.

The suggested experts are listed below, along with a brief biographical note on their area of expertise. More experts can be found using the University of Melbourne’s free ‘Find an Expert’ search service, accessible from the link on the University’s main webpage, www.unimelb.edu.au.

The University is also proud to congratulate the University’s 11 Olympians who will be taking part in the Beijing games. A full list of our athletes is available here (uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_5300.html) and contact details can be provided on request.

Dr Hao Wu (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning)
Tel: 8344 8764 E: haow@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Wu has conducted research on emerging property markets and international property development, especially in the Chinese context. His PhD and Masters theses were associated with urban redevelopment, property economics and their impact on inner-city built form and property markets e.g. the emergence of CBDs and the development of Olympics precincts. He has published in Australian property journal, conferences, and contributes column articles to China Real Estate Business – a weekly newspaper published in China for property developers and investors.

Other Architecture, Building and Planning Experts with related expertise include:
Associate Professor Jianfei Zhu (Modern architecture in China): Tel: 8344 0752 / E: jianfz@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Qinghua Guo (Associate Professor in Asian Architecture and Planning): Tel: 8344 0062 / E: qinghua@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Sun Sheng Han (Urban Planning): Tel: 8344 7055 / E: sshan@unimelb.edu.au

Mr Hayden Opie (Faculty of Law)
Tel: 8344 6197 E: h.opie@unimelb.edu.au
Hayden Opie is the Director of Studies of the Melbourne Sports Law Program. He pursues research and teaching interests in all areas of sports law and is recognised internationally for his work in the field. In recent years he has been researching and writing on anti-discrimination law in sport, labour market regulation and medico-legal issues such as injury liability and anti-doping rules. He established and developed the Melbourne Sports Law Program, and also initiated the founding of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Inc. Most recently he gave the keynote address at SportAccord/LawAccord in Beijing, China in April 2007.

Associate Professor Sean Cooney (Faculty of Law)
Tel: 8344 8109 E: s.cooney@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Cooney is the Associate Director (Taiwan) of the Melbourne Law Schools’ Asian Law Centre. Fluent in five languages, his research interests are international and comparative labour law, with a focus on Asia, and Chinese law. He is currently working on new approaches to improving international working standards, including an ARC-funded project on regulatory reform in China to deal with the problem of wage arrears.

Dr Peter Brukner (School of Physiotherapy – Honorary Fellow)
E: p.brukner@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Brukner, who holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Melbourne, is well known as one of Australia’s leading sports medicine experts, Athletics Australia selector and former manager and doctor to Australia’s Olympic athletics team. He can be heard weekly as part of the ABC’s flagship AFL program “Grandstand” as the team’s boundary rider/medical expert, while he also comments on AFL-related injury issues in The Age.

Other School of Physiotherapy contacts include:
Dr Kay Crossley: Tel: 8344 4171 / E: k.crossley@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Paul McCrory: Tel: 8344 3373 / E: p.mccrory@unimelb.edu.au

Dr Tim Marjoribanks (Sociology Program, Faculty of Arts)
Tel: 8344 7942 E tkmarj@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Marjorbanks is a lecturer in the Sociology program at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are in sport and media law, and sociological issues in sport including the construction of race, gender and nation in media coverage of sport, sporting cultures, and

Dr Adrian Walsh (Philosophy)
Tel: 8344 5125 / Mob: 0400 001 443 / E adrianjw@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Walsh is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at The University of Melbourne. He is the author of Ethics, Money and Sport: This Sporting Mammon, and is interested in the interaction of ethics and commerce, especially in relation to sport and medicine.

Dr June Senyard (School of Historical Studies)
Tel: 8344 4658 / E: j.senyard@ unimelb.edu.au
Dr Senyard is an historian who written and researched Australian sporting culture, and is also interested in sports specatorship.

Associate Professor Anne McLaren (Asia Institute)
Tel: 8344 5149 E: mclaae@unimelb.edu.au
Anne McLaren researches significant areas in Chinese popular culture from the late imperial to the contemporary period, with a focus on the interaction between performance arts, popular fiction and print culture. She has also published on cultural factors in Chinese cyberspace.

Professor Mark Hargreaves (Physiology)
Tel: 8344 8007 / E: m.hargreaves@unimelb.edu.au
An expert in exercise physiology and metabolism, Professor Hargreaves oversees a research group with a major focus on the regulation of skeletal muscle carbohydrate metabolism during exercise, with implications for health and human performance. He is a member of a number of leading physiological societies including the American College of Sports Medicine, Sports Medicine Australia and the Australian Association of Exercise and Sports Science.

Associate Professor John Fitzgerald (Population Health)
Tel: 8344 9146 / M: 0417 391982 / E: jlfitz@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Fitzgerald is an expert in drug use, in particular the cultural aspects of the use of illegal drugs and alcohol and their impact on society. He is also the Chief Investigator for the Needle and Syringe Program Research (NSP), looking into the most effective way to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood borne viruses.

Professor Peter McIntyre (Pharmacology)
Tel: 8344 5745 / E: pmcj@unimelb.edu.au
The Head of Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne, Professor McIntyre has 16 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry working on drug discovery for chronic pain therapies. He has published 13 papers in a number of top ranked journals in the past five years. He is happy to talk on general pharmacology related incidents.