TEQSA’s next chief commissioner is Kerri-Lee Krause, most recently VC of Avondale U. She is now chair of the regulator’s policy overlord the Higher Education Standards Panel. She will step down from the latter and start at the former, April 7. Now acting chief commissioner Adrienne Nieuwenhuis will return to her substantive position as commissioner. Business academic Elizabeth More also joins TEQSA as a commissioner. Who gets to run ATEC if it is indeed operational by 1 July, and how will they craft their relationship with Professor Krause will be the next question on every regulator’s lips.
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Nathan Franklin is Charles Darwin U’s inaugural Associate VC-Indonesia.
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Bill Shorten was conferred as UC’s seventh Vice-Chancellor last week, formalising his dramatic career change from Cabinet Minister to HE leader.
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Unless FC missed the usual Uni Melbourne pomp and circumstance it appears Emma Johnston started work as VC last week without much carry-on – just a few carefully curated social posts (and of course the obligatory media release).
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Michael Kidd (UNSW) and colleagues have $5m from the Medical Research Future Fund for a Multidisciplinary Primary Care Research, Policy and Advocacy Consortium
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Aleta Knowles becomes an investment manager at commercialisation fund, Uniseed.
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Perhaps the National Health and Medical Research Council had already told the people it wanted to know, but announcing new committee appointments at 6.30pm last Friday seems a curious time to get the news out. Especially for the Research Committee, which also now covers the Medical Research Future Fund. Committee members are,
Anushka Patel (Chair) – UNSW * Adrian Barnett – QUT * Alex Brown – ANU * Anne Chang (Menzies School of HR) * Yee Lian Chew – Flinders U * Alistair Forrest – Harry Perkins IMR * Julia Grant – Charles Sturt U * Doug Hilton – CSIRO * Carol Hodgson – Monash U * Frances Kay-Lambkin – Hunter MRI * Debra Langridge – Western Australian Health Translation Network* Sarah Larkins (James Cook U) * James McCluskey (Uni Melbourne) * Odette Pearson – South Australian HMRI * Paul Scuffham – Griffith U * Viet Tran – Uni Tasmania * Andrew Wilks – SYNthesis BioVentures.
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Lenda Oshalem (Minderoo Foundation) becomes chair of Old Parliament House (home of the Museum of Australian Democracy). Former Labor MP Warren Snowdon joins its board.
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Peter Rossdeutscher is the new chair of statutory advisory board, Industry, Innovation and Science Australia. He moves from UWA and replaces the term limited Andrew Stevens.
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The Commonwealth’s Australia-Indonesia Institute has a new chair, Lydia Santosa. Her roles include board membership of the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies. Jemma Purdey (Monash U’s Australia Indonesia Centre also joins the Institute’s) board.
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Andrew White is the founding Blackmore Family Foundation chair of business leadership at Griffith U. He moves from the University of Oxford.
