Achievements of the working week

 The Australian New Zealand Student Services Association has appointed a new executive; Christie White (USQ), president, Jordi Austin (UniSydney) immediate past president, VP Aus Mark Young (La Trobe U), VP NZ Karen Davis (Victoria Uni of Wellington), treasurer, Dorinda Harvey-Bravo (Griffith U) and secretary, Andrea Strachan (UoQ).

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The University of Canberra VC’s excellence awards are announced:

Educator of the year: Disa Smee (sport and exercise science)

Early career educator: Catherine Galvin (clinical biomechanics)

Early career researcher: Richard Keegan (sport and exercise psychology)

Research excellence: John Dryzek (governance and political analysis)

Diversity: Peter O’Brien (Collaborative Indigenous Research Initiative)

Innovation and creativity: Daniel Murphy (digital content publisher)

Professional individual: Shubhra Roy (research services)

Professional team:  Creativity and Social Change team in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research

 

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Hung Nguyen will start in February as PVC of Swinburne U’s faculty of science, engineering and technology. He joins from UTS.

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Monash University has announced the vice chancellor’s education and research awards.

Early Career Researchers:

Humanities and Social Sciences: Jennifer Windt (Arts), Selby Coxon (Art Design and Architecture).

Science and Technology: Eric Chow (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)

Research enterprise: Monash Centre for Additive Manufacturing

Research Impact: Graham Currie, Dr Alexa Delbosc

Research impact and enterprise: Monash University Accident Research Centre

Postgraduate supervision: Tony Patti (Science)

Citations for outstanding contributions to student learning: Adam Clulow (Arts), Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway, Thu-Ha (Hannah) Nguyen (Monash Business School), Erica Sloan (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Early career citation winner: Nick Parkin (Arts)

Teaching excellence award: James Roffee (Arts), Alistair Thomson (Arts), Dana Wong (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)

Priority area: Simone Gibson (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences0

Honours supervision: Peter Howard (Arts)

Programs that enhance learning: Postgraduate Industry Experience Program, Information Technology, Gail Bourne, Chris Gonsalvez, Livia Mammarella, Peter O’Donnell, Harnam Thandi and Yiwei Zhong.

Excellence in postgraduate coursework teaching: Charanjit Kaur (Monash Business School)

Monash honour roll: John McNeill (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)

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The Flinders University Vice-Chancellor Awards for Excellence in Teaching are out: Howard Fallowfield, Kirstin Ross and Harriet Whiley from the College of Science and Engineering win for Zombie Apocalypse, a course in environmental health which teaches students food and water safety, and how to test for poisonous gas (such a problem at Bedford Park).

Other winners, which do not involve taking The Walking Dead seriously are:

Amanda Müller, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Up The Hill Project: Fiona Rillotta, Lorraine Lindsay, Jenny Widdop, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Global Workplace Teaching Team: Susanne Schech, Maryanne Kelton, Verity Kingsmill, David Willis, Colleges of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences/ Business, Government and Law

Lisa Bennett and Erin Sebo, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences