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1 - I'm back, after three days at the ANZIBA conference in Newcastle, and a few more days in Sydney... photos to come over the next week or so. Some good news - my doctoral proposal was 'highly commended' (in the top 3) in the Research Students' Consortium - following up from my win last year at the same conference in Wellington, and runner-up position at AIB in Indianapolis.