Liz Burd will join Griffith U in February as DVC E. She will move from PVC Learning and Teaching at Uni Newcastle.

Lesley Head (Uni Melbourne) is elected president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

In January Patrick Keyzer becomes dean of law at Australian Catholic University. He moves from La Trobe U.

Mark Hutchinson Uni Adelaide) is named Science and Technology Australia’s president-elect, to take over next November. Other new members of STA’s executive are, Jas Chambers (Bureau of Meteorology as secretary, Sharath Sriram (RMIT) and Chloe Taylor (Western Sydney U).