Of the day

 Joy Damousi (Uni Melbourne) and Philip Dwyer (Uni Newcastle) win the Association of American Publishers award for humanities reference and text books. They are the general editors of the Cambridge World History of Violence (CUP, four vols).

Of the week

Freya Campbell is acting chief comms officer at UNSW, replacing Darren Goodsir who left end January.

Russell Goulbourne (Dean of Arts, Uni Melbourne) joins the board of Melbourne University Publishing.

Jennifer Hunt moves from ANU to the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie U.

Nalini Joshi (Uni Sydney) wins the Australian and NZ Industrial and Applied Mathematics medal. Lewis Mitchell (Uni Adelaide) wins ANZIAM’s J Michell medal for a new researcher and Mike Plank (Uni Canterbury) wins the mid-career E O Tuck medal.

Michael Keppell, joins International College of Management, Sydney as DVC Learning and Teaching. He moves from Taylor’s University in Malaysia.

Lindsay Robinson joins UNSW as Chief Development Officer. She moves from Uni Sydney.

Peter Varghese (Uni Queensland chancellor) is the new advisory council chair of Uni Melbourne’s Asia Link.

Jessica White moves to Uni SA to lecture in creative writing. She was previously at Uni Queensland.

 Sallie Yea is La Trobe U’s Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow for 2021. She will use the fellowship to research human trafficking and slavery in the world seafood industry.