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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 12. 1964.

Sabbatical Leave

Sabbatical Leave

Nine members of the University staff will shortly take their sabbatical leave. Sabbatical leave from teaching is fully-paid, lasts one year, and may be taken every seven years. It is usually spent overseas.

Associate-Professor Wellman, of the Geology Department, will attend first a Geological conference in India. From there he intends to drive to Europe via Iran. He will be paving particular attention to active faults, or faults still volcanically alive. Classics lecturer Mrs. Kalfas is also travelling in this direction, going first to Greece then Italy and finally England. Her area of research will be the art consciousness of the Roman elegiac poets. Mrs. Kalfas said that little work has been done in this field, which relates to the knowledge of ancient works of art displayed in the imagery of the poets. This is perhaps because interest in their poetry has been primarily textual rather than literary.

Sociologist Mr. John McCreary begins his leave in Greece with an International Conference of Social Work and Schools of Social Work to be held in Athens. He will then move on to London University and work in with the Social Science Department there. His aim is twofold; firstly to observe the way in which social workers are taught in various overseas countries; and secondly to attend seminars explaining recent research on problems of population movement and acculturation. Mr. McCreary added that such research is relevant to problems in some New Zealand cities; for example, movement and acculturation of the Island population in Auckland.

Other staff-members who take sabbatical leave at the end of this academic year are Dr. Robb (Social Science), Dr. Inglis (Law), Mr. Dasent (Chemistry), Mr. Lloyd Thomas (Philosophy), and Miss Huntingdon (Modern Languages).

Professor Buchanan left recently for South East Asia.