Appointments, achievements

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is appointed chair of Australian Literature at UWA. It’s an internal appointment.

A learned reader advises the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia has named its top 25 analytics leaders including from HE, Lex Antic (ANU), Behrooz Hassani Mahmooei (Monash U), Gordon McDonald (Uni Sydney), Craig Napier (UTS) and William Yeoh (Deakin U).

George Lawson (ANU) receives the Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations from the European Consortium for Political Research. The award is for Anatomies of Revolution, “a novel account” of how they “begin, unfold and end,” (Cambridge UP).

Robyn Murphy (life sciences, La Trobe U) is named president-elect of the Australian Physiological Society.