Bill Childs

Lecturer

LLB (UNSW), GradCertHEd (UTS), Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia.

Academic Profile

Bill Childs joined the Faculty as a full-time lecturer in 2000, having taught part-time since 1993.  He had previously employed as in-house counsel for Prime Television; as a Director of Broadcast Policy, Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations; and as a consultant in the IP & IT practice group of Minter Ellison.

Bill teaches Communications Law and Intellectual Property Law, in the Faculty's undergraduate and postgraduate programs.  His extensive broadcasting industry experience brings an intensively practical approach to the teaching and learning of law. This has particular relevance to graduates' future employment, or practice.

Current Research Activities

A joint research project 2003- 2006 with colleagues from UTS Faculty of Engineering and from Bournemouth University's Faculties of Law and Engineering.  Funding was provided by the UK Centre for Legal Education and the UK Engineering Teaching and Learning Network.  As part of that project, a conference was staged in 2005 in London for Engineering and Science curriculum designers.

Recent Publications & Conference Papers

“Engineering Enterprise through IP Education: What is needed? “, 4th ASEE/AAEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, paper 149, Sydney, 2005.

“Engineering Enterprise through Intellectual Property Education: pedagogic approaches”, WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, Vol 4, Issue 2, pp. 359-367.

“Preparing Engineers and Scientists for the 21st century: A case for imbedding an Inherent Awareness of Intellectual Property in Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curricula”, ALTA Conference, Melbourne, 2006.

“Integrating a key but not core topic into the engineering curriculum”, 9th International Conference on Engineering Education, Puerto Rico, 2006.