Three UniSA students have won the unijam student idea competition. Kirrlie Rowe, Kevin Rogers and Sarah Forrest, all based at our Mawson Lakes campus, had the most popular student ideas during unijam and have each won a Coles Myer gift card.
Friday 16:00 - Wow – two big days of jamming and we have come to the sweet, sweet end of it. But it was pizza, not jam donuts that kicked off the jam with pizza parties held on all UniSA campuses in a kind of food for thoughts exchange. At the start of the jam we had more than 4600 people...
13:50 Friday - The Hon Christopher Pyne MP Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science has jumped into UniJam this lunchtime with some interesting comments regarding the National Innovation and Science Agenda, opportunities for greater commercialisation of research in South Australia, and the...
11:45 Friday - Congratulations jammers! We had almost 600 new registrations today. You’ve been jamming for more than 25 hours and the conversations have been exciting, insightful, sometimes controversial and useful.
06:00 Friday - As the sun peeks up over the Adelaide Hills, the team at UniJam have packaged up a digestible snack of the best bits of conversation since midnight. While many of the 4,500+ registrants were in bed, dreaming of enterprise and innovation, we’ve heard from international alumni, local...
22:35 Thursday - The night is getting older, the air conditioning is slowing and the evening sandwiches have curled into cardboard. But still we’re jamming, open to the ideas of our staff, our students, our alumni and our friends and we’ll be here all night long and all day tomorrow because we want...
20:00 Thursday - So far nearly 4,500 people from 50 countries have registered to be part of unijam and the ideas are coming thick and fast.
19:15 Thursday - It’s been a hot topic for a while now, and we know that the Magill campus is here to stay, so what does it mean to have a ‘Magill Education Precinct’?
18:00 Thursday - A solar powered campus, a central staff club, extending Women’s Development Programmes and napping pods are among the ideas on posts that have received the biggest thumbs up, generating the largest number of “likes” since the jam began, on our dashboard.
17:30 Thursday - How can we stimulate interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at school and university?
16:20 Thursday - The key of unijam is to foster conversation so we can shape the University of Enterprise and co-create our plan for the future but gosh, people say some nice things about us!
15:30 Thursday - Engaging with our students and communities: It’s a hot topic kickstarting 135 conversations this afternoon in UniJam with Jam Host and Pro Vice Chancellor: Student Engagement and Equity, Dr Laura-Anne Bull explaining what key messages are emerging.
13:00 Thursday - Just three hours in and the unijam is firing! With over 500 posts per hour and 1,500 concurrent users, the jam continues to spread.
The jam is spreading fast! The two hours of unijam have been busy ones, with more than 4000 people registered and participation from 50 countries around the world, from Albania to Peru, Uganda to Vanuatu.
Following its highly successful world first community consultation, Unijam, held in 2013, the University of South Australia is again using state-of-the- art IBM technology to bring experts and the entire University community together to co-create its plan for the future.
To make sure that unijammers across all of UniSA’s campuses have the energy to burn the midnight oil, we’ve set up jam hubs and are holding pizza parties at each campus where you can grab a slice of pizza, have a cold drink and try some other tasty jammy treats.