Of the day
Rose Hiscock is Uni Melbourne’s inaugural director of museums and collections. She is now director of the university’s science gallery.
Kerri Lee Krause will become DVC Student Life at the University of Melbourne in December. She moves from La Trobe, which she joined as DVC A in mid 2017. Prior to that she was DVC and provost at Victoria U, which she joined from Western Sydney U in 2014.
Uni SA VC David Lloyd is named chair of the Committee for Adelaide.
Lisa A Williams is the UNSW science faculty’s first foundation dean for equity, diversity and inclusion.
Of the week
The comrades called and Andrew Dempster responded, joining Labor leader Anthony Albanese as head of policy. He joins the Opposition from KPMG.
Karen Andrews is QUT science and engineering alumnus of the year. Ms Andrews is an engineer and is minister for industry, science and technology. Ticks all the boxes.
Bill Ashraf joins Australian Catholic U as a professor and associate dean, learning, teaching and governance in the arts and education faculty. He will be based at the North Sydney campus. He moves from Macquarie U.
Leanne Kemp’s term as Queensland’s Chief Entrepreneur is extended to August 2020.
Three academics are short-listed for the Women’s Agenda web-hub’s emerging public sector female leader award. Abeer Alsadoon is an IT research scientist at Charles Sturt U. Also from CSU, Faye McMillan researches Indigenous Health. Amy Thunig is an associate lecturer at Macquarie U with a PhD on Indigenous women academics.
Newell Johnson, from Menzies Health Institute Queensland, at Griffith U, receives a one-off honour from the University of Peradinyar, in Sri Lanka, for 50 years of joint research projects, publications and supervising PhDs, all in dentistry.
Marcia Devlin (Victoria U) and Lesley Parker (former Curtin U DVC) join the advisory board of the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education. Erin Watson-Lynnwill chair for a second three-year term. The centre is based at Curtin U.
Karen Clark-Burg is appointed dean of nursing and midwifery at the Fremantle campus of University of Notre Dame Australia. She moves from acting dean.
John Angus (CSIRO and Charles Sturt U) wins the C M Donald medal from the Australian Society of Agronomy. Peter Sale (La Trobe U) is the society’s 2019 fellow. Kenton Porker(South Australian Research and Development Institute) is young agronomist of the year
Sarah Collins (UWA) wins “Australia’s most prestigious award for the study of music,” the McCredie Musicological Award. Dr Collins is based at the UWA Conservatorium of Music.
The 2020 Forest Fellowships are announced They are for early career researchers at any WA University. Jessica Buck is the first Indigenous Australian fellow, she will research treating brain tumours in children at UWA and the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre. David Gozzard will work on data transmission in space exploration at UWA. Peter Kraus is funded for work at Curtin U, for work including emerging power technologies to combat climate change.
Nathan Towney joins the University of Newcastle as PVC Indigenous. Mr Towney joins from being principal of Newcastle High School.
Myles Young wins BUPA’s 2019 emerging health researcher award. Dr Young has a post doc at the University of Newcastle, where he works on weight-loss and physical activity programmes for men’s health.