Nicole Bell (Uni Melbourne) becomes president of the Australian Institute of Physics.

CQU announces Narelle Pearse is its inaugural COO, it’s an internal appointment. And Stephen Dobson becomes dean, School of Education and the Arts. He moves from Victoria U of Wellington.

Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic U) wins the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions’ 2022 best article prize. It’s for, “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below,” in the William and Mary Quarterly.

 Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand announces 2023 fellows, * Brett Bryan (Deakin U) * Simon Dunstall (CSIRO) * Fiona Johnson (UNSW) * David Marlow (Defence Science and Technology Group) * Lucy Marshall (Macquarie U)

Joe Siracusa is inaugural Dean of Global Futures in Curtin U’s humanities faculty.