Véronique Ambrosini (Monash U.) is appointed a Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management.

Margaret Gardner becomes interim chair of the Group of Eight.

Emma Hardy from consultants PwC takes up a six-month secondment as La Trobe U HR director. She replaces long-serving Fiona Reed who left Friday.

Sumit Lodhia (Uni SA) is re-elected to the board of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. Nicola Beatson is elected to the AFAANZ board.

Nancy Pachana (Uni Queensland) wins the (US) Clinical Society of Geropsychology’s Lawton Award for a distinguished contribution

Peter Phillips becomes deputy chancellor of James Cook U. He has been a member of the university’s council since 2009. Mr Phillips is a Cairns banker.

After a pilot programme at QUT, staff there become Associate Fellows (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy. The pilot was for staff to, “transform their practice and make Indigenous perspectives a key feature of the course learning.” Awards go to, Fiona Naumann, Louisa Coglan, Deanna Grant-Smith, Dominique Greer, Robyn Mayes, Ruari Elkington, Jenna Gillett-Swan, Melinda Laundon, Grace O’Brien and Lauren Woodlands.

Jennie Shaw is interim DVCA at Uni Adelaide, replacing Pascale Quester who is leaving to become Swinburne U VC. He takes over from Mike Brooks who is acting VC.

David Sibbritt is the inaugural head of UTS’s School of Public Health. It’s an internal appointment.

John Williams is acting provost at Uni Adelaide. He takes over from Mike Brooks who is acting VC.

Nicola Yelland (Uni Melbourne) receives the distinguished career contribution award from the American Educational Research Association.