Of the day
Natalie James and Robbie Robertson (both Deloitte) join Swinburne U as adjunct professors in its Centre for the New Workforce.
Mark Scott (Uni Sydney VC) will chair the Commonwealth’s Initial Teacher Education Quality Assessment Panel. Other members are yet to be appointed.
Of the week
More awards from Australia and New Zealand Applied and Industrial Mathematics. * Elliot Carr (QUT) is the outstanding new researcher * James McCaw (Uni Melbourne) is the mid-career medallist * the best student conference paper is by Adriana Zanca, (Uni Melbourne) and Michael Denes (UNSW). CMM reported last week that Phil Broadbridge (La Trobe U) is the ANZAIM medallist.
TEQSA chief commissioner Peter Coaldrake will conduct “a wide-ranging review into culture and accountability” of the Queensland public sector. Premier Palaszczuk announced his appointment Friday
Evelyne Deplazes (Uni Queensland) has up to $130 000 over two years from pharma company Gilead Sciences to research fungal infections.
Anthony Elliott (Uni SA) will lead its EU funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Its funded for four years, to research AI, Industry 4.0, creative economies and workplace transformations.
Jennifer Flegg becomes chair of the Australian Mathematical Society’s Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group.
Stephen Foley (Macquarie U) is a 2022 fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management welcomes new members of its editorial board, * Catherine Yuan Gao (Victoria U) * Clare Hourigan (Uni Queensland) * Patrick Korbel (Australian Technology Network) * Wei Liu (Uni Alberta) * Andrew Norton (ANU) * Wojtek Tomaszewski (Uni Queensland) * Natalia Veles (James Cook U)
Tim Soutphommasane becomes acting head of Uni Sydney’s Sydney Policy Lab (“bringing people together to help them change the world”). He replaces Mark Stears, moving to be inaugural head of the new policy lab at University College London, where his old boss, Michael Spence will be his new boss. Professor Soutphommasane is Uni Sydney’s director of culture strategy.
Johanne Trippas will return to RMIT, as a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow. She moves from Computing and Information Systems at Uni Melbourne.
Uni SA announces its 2021 Research Excellence awards, going to, * higher degree: Sarah McDonald (Education Futures) *ECR: Dr Renly Lim, (Clinical, Health Sciences) * MCR: Amanda Hutchinson, (Justice and Society) * senior researcher: Carol Maher, (Allied Health and Human Performance) * Media performer: Adrian Esterman, (COVID-19 coverage).
Universities Australia announces the Australian Awards for University Teaching * Teacher of the year: Katerina Teaiwa (ANU) * Career achievement: John Biggs (U Tas). Teaching awards: * Nick Brown (RMIT) * Vinod Gopalan (Griffith U) * Ambelin Kwaymulina (UWA) * Michelle Lazarus (Monash U) * Bonnie McBain (Uni Newcastle) * Katherine O’Brien (QUT) * Katerina Teaiwa (ANU) * Diana Tolmie (Griffith U)
Erica Wilson (Southern Cross U) is the new chair of Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education.