Of the day
Catherine Clark will become CEO of State Library of WA in March. She is now university librarian at Curtin U.
Fiona Coulson starts next month at Charles Darwin U as PVC Education Strategy moving from CQU. She replaces Robert Fitzgerald who left in January.
Uni Melbourne announces Dan Hill is the new head of its School of Design. He moves from the Swedish government’s innovation agency.
Baker HDI names its own Dianna Magliano a five-year gender equity fellow. Professor Magliano studies global trends in diabetes.
Kerry-Anne Rye (UNSW) wins the (NSW) minister’s award for cardiovascular research. Melody Ding (Uni Sydney) and Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina (UNSW are named “rising stars”.
Of the week
The planning board for the proposed Charles Darwin U- Menzies Health Research school of medicine is * Donna Ah Chee (Central Australia Aboriginal Congress – co-chair * John Boffa (NT Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation) * Marco Briceno (Rural Generalist Pathway Coordination Unit) * Kiarna Brown (Menzies School of Health Research) * Alan Cass (Menzies School of Health Research) * Jeremy Chin (Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals) * Bart Currie (Menzies School of Health Research) * Mick Gooda (Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education) * Sam Goodwin (Alice Springs Hospital) * Jo Norton (NT Government) * Len Notaras (National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre) – chair * John Paterson (Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT – co-chair * Di Stephens (Charles Darwin U Menzies School of Medicine) * Dominic Upton (Charles Darwin U).
Sandra Eades has returned to Uni Melbourne to be Associate Dean, Indigenous in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and hold the Rowden White chair. She moved from Curtin U where she was Dean of Medicine.
Sonia Fullerton becomes Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Emma Johnston will become DVC R at the University of Sydney, in July. She will from UNSW where she is science dean.
Christopher Klopper will join the Australian College of Applied Professions as dean, next month. He moves from Griffith U pathway provider Griffith College. Both colleges are Navitas organisations.
RMIT announces new, confirmed and continuing directors of Enabling Capability Platforms (apparently they “connect researchers from across disciplines”). They include, Matt Duckham (Information and Systems), Lisa Given (Social Change), Gary Rosengarten (Advanced Manufacturing and Fabrication) and Naomi Stead (Design), are new. Anne-Laure Mention (Global Business Innovation), Magdalena Plebanski (Biomedical) continue and Lauren Rickards (Urban Futures) is confirmed.