Of the day
The executive of the Early and Mid-Career Researcher Forum has new members including; Emily Finch (ANSTO), Angela Laird (Macquarie U) and Rowan Trebilco (CSIRO).
Marnie Hughes Warrington (Uni SA) joins the advisory board of the Australasian Higher Education Cyber Security Services.
Of the week
The Australian Universities International Directors’ Forum elects its 2022-’24 executive; * Mike Ferguson (Uni Canberra) – chair * Brett Lovegrove (Uni Wollongong) – deputy chair and treasurer * executive: Ingrid Elliston (Uni New England), Woendi Hampton (James Cook U) , Jogvan Klein (Swinburne U).
Lucinda Black from Curtin U has a three-year early career fellowship from MS Australia to research the role of diet in the disease.
Catherine Branson has a second, two-year, term as chancellor of Uni Adelaide. She joined the university’s council in 2013, became deputy chancellor in 2017 and stepped up in mid 2020 when then chancellor Kevin Scarce resigned.
Phil Broadbridge (La Trobe U emeritus) is awarded the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics medal
The European Association of Geochemistry confers the Houtermans early-mid-career research award on Raffaella Demichelis (Curtin U).
Theresa Hay becomes associate director of the WA Government’s Defence Science Centre. She joins from the Commonwealth’s Defence Science and Technology Group.
Anthony Lawrence (Griffith U) wins the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, (named for the late Brisbane born, UK resident, poet).
Caroline McMillen has a second three-year term as SA Chief Scientist. Prior to the job she was Uni Newcastle VC.
Tracey Moroney will become head of Curtin U’s nursing school in April, replacing Phil Della, who will retire. Professor Moroney joins from Uni Wollongong.
The National Health and Medical Research Council announces the Women in Health Science Committee, through to December 2024. Frances Kay-Lambkin (Uni Newcastle) is chair, with members * Sharon Bell (ANU) * Catherine Chamberlain (Uni Melbourne) * Anne Chang (Menzies School) * Geoffrey Faulkner (Mater RI and Queensland Brain Institute) * Maria Kavallaris (Children’s Cancer Institute) * Erin McGillick Hudson Institute and Monash U) * David Rae (Uni Sydney) * Gina Ravenscroft (UWA) * Geraint Rogers ( South Australian HMRI) * Sarah Russell (Swinburne U, Peter MacCallum Centre) * Maithili Sashindranath (Monash U) * Amanda Sinclair (Melbourne Business School)
Paul Nicholls becomes ED Research Partnerships at Uni Queensland today. He has moved from a similar role at Curtin U.
Flora Salim becomes UNSW’s inaugural Cisco Chair in Digital Transport. She moves from RMIT
Southern Cross U announces senior appointments in education including, * Liz Mackinlay (Gold Coast campus) moves from Uni Queensland * Michelle Neumann (Gold Coast) joins from Griffith U * Pasi Sahlberg (Lismore campus) comes from UNSW * Susan Walker (Gold Coast campus) moves from QUT.
The Stroke Foundation announces its 2022 research grants * Jessica Campbell – Uni Queensland (aphasia) * Natalie Fini – Uni Melbourne (physical activity for survivors) * Brooke Ryan – UTS (family support for victims) * Emma Wallace – Uni Sydney (tele-rehab for swallowing difficulties) *