Sandra Eades starts next month at the University of Melbourne as associate dean (Indigenous) in the Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics & School of Population & Global Health.

Stephen Kirchner is director of the United States Study Centre’s trade and investment programme and Ashley Townsend is confirmed as director of its foreign policy, defence and strategy programme.

Barbara Miles is the ANU’s first VP of Advancement. She will join from the University of British Columbia in May.

Dean of built environment at UNSW Helen Lochhead is the new chair of the state government’s Sydney South Planning Panel, she has also joined the NSW Planning Assessment Commission.