The University of Notre Dame at Fremantle has appointed Gervase Chaney, dean of medicine. He moves from the new Perth Children’s Hospital, where he was executive director for commissioning.
Claire Bowers, senior marketing comms manager at Monash U, is moving to La Trobe University.
Historian Alison Bashford returns to Australia as a professor at UNSW. She moves from Cambridge University. The historian of imperialism and the environment was at Harvard U and the University of Sydney from 2009 to 2014.
QUT emeritus professor Nathan Efron is the International Society for Contact Lens Research’s Reuben Medalist for 2017
The University of Western Australia has created the world’s first chair in human lactology. Professor Valérie Verhasselt, now at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in France takes up the chair.
Reserve Bank board member Kathryn Fagg has won UNSW Engineering’s Ada Lovelace Medal, awarded to a woman engineer for her contribution to the profession. The Faculty’s two other awards for women engineers have gone to NSW state surveyor-general Narelle Underwood (B Eng UNSW) and Monash U biotechnology engineer Cordelia Selomulya.
Carmelle Peisah is elected to the board of the International Psychogeriatrics Association. Professor Peisah is a conjoint professor at UNSW and a clinical associate professor at the University of Sydney.
Human Resources director Nick Rogers is leaving James Cook University. According to JCU he “has resigned for private family reasons and will return to the UK to be with his family.“
Elaine McFadzean is the new GM at the University of Sydney business school.
David Reeve is confirmed as Chief Innovation Office at Macquarie University, after acting in the position for six months.
Music producer and engineer Mark Opitz has joined ANU’s music school as a visiting fellow where he will work with staff and students in the ANU‘s new “world-class high-end recording facility.
UWA announces Owen Davies is its new chief marketing officer. Mr Davies joins after a decade at Crowns Resorts, most recently at Crown Perth, celebrated for its casino.