Of the day
Mia Lindgren is leaving Swinburne U for Uni Tasmania, where she will be research strategy director in the College of Arts, Law and Education.
Pip Nicholson becomes inaugural DVC – People and Community at Uni Melbourne. She is now dean of the university’s Law School.
Susan Scott (ANU) is appointed editor-in-chief of journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. Professor Scott is a member of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery team which received the Prime Minister’s science prize in 2020.
UTS announces the 2021 Research Awards * Dayong Jin (Science) research excellence * Fang Chen, Yang Wang, Bin Liang, Zhidong Li, Jie Xu (Engineering and IT) impact * Bem Le Hunte, Susanne Pratt, Alex Baumber, Giedre Kligyte, Jacqueline Melvold, Lucy Allen, Tyler Key (TD School (that’s transdisciplinary education) research and teaching Integration * Ilaria Vanni Accarigi and Justin Seymour (Arts and Social Science/Science) joint winners, supervisors of the year * Ling Chen (Engineering and IT) research leadership * Eryk Dutkiewicz, Long Nghiem, Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran, Diep Nguyen, Tien-Vinh Nguyen, Hoang Dinh, Thuy Pham (Engineering and IT) collaboration/partnership) * Maiken Ueland (Science) early career * Lucy Buxton (Science) research management
Of the week
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics announces its Science and Innovation Awards. * Mingkai Jiang (Forest and Wood Products Australia) * Stephanie Kerr (Hort Innovation (for tree crop cultivars) * Bobbie Lewis Baida (Australian Wool Innovation) * Xiaoqing Li (Cotton RDC) * Amy Moss (Australian Egg) * Sonya Moyes (Australian Meat Processor Corp) * Samantha Sawyer (Wine Australia) * Thomas Schmidt (CSIRO Biosecurity) * Lauren Stavely (Australian Pork) * Valentin Thépot (Fisheries RDC) * Ashiwin Vadiveloo (Agrifutures Australia) * Jaco Zandberg (Grains RDC)
Amanda Dawson (Uni Newcastle) receives the inaugural Royal Australasian College of Surgeons NSW Women in Surgery Leadership award.
Verity Firth is the inaugural UTS PVC Social Justice and Inclusion. She is now ED Social Justice at the university.
Chris Hennessy becomes chief of staff to Swinburne U VC Pascale Quester.
Brett Hutchins steps up to Deputy Dean R in Monash U’s arts social sciences and humanities faculty.
Uni Adelaide announces two new professors in the School of Psychology. Elaine Fox joins from Uni Oxford, as does Kevin Dutton.
Marnie Hughes Warrington (Uni SA) is named honorary professor of history at ANU, where she is a former DVC.
Stephen Weller (Australian Catholic U) becomes chair of HES, (formerly known as Higher Ed Services).
The World Council on Gifted and Talented Children announces delegates, “the organisation’s on-the-ground representatives, in Australia. * Lesley Henderson (Flinders U) * Michelle Ronksley-Pavia (Griffith U), * Genevieve Thraves (UN) – alternate and * Geraldine Townend (UNSW)