Cathy Foley is elected president of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. The former national chief scientist starts in January.
Previous governor general David Hurley becomes inaugural chancellor of the Australian University of Theology.
Kathy Reeves (Uni Southern Queensland) is academic of the year in the 2025 law awards, from trade journal, Lawyers Weekly. Daniel Ghezelbash, (UNSW) is innovator of the year and Oliver Hammond (UNSW) wins the student category.
Former Labor skills minister Brendan O’Connor joins RMIT as a professor of practice in workplace skills.
Helen Partridge starts November as Uni Wollongong DVC E. She joins from Deakin U.
Jonathan Pheasant becomes VP, Corporate Services at Flinders U. He moves from COO at Uni Canberra.
Byron Sharp (Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, Uni SA) wins the McGrath Award (pioneering marketing research) from the Australian Institute of Marketing.
The WA Government appoints a Science and Technology Council, charge with overseeing the state plan for same. Chair is WA chief scientist Sharath Sriram, and members are James Arvanitakis (Forrest Research Foundation) * Peta Ashworth (Curtin U) * Rob Hough (CSIRO) * Margaret Jones (Edith Cowan U) * Owen Nevin (WA Biodiversity Science Institute) * Sarah Pearce (Square Kilometre Array Observatory) * Nicole Roocke (Minerals Research Institute of WA) * Kadambot Siddique (Uni WA) * Mark Stickells (Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre) * Pia Turcinov (FundWA) * Fiona Wood (Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth Children’s Hospital) * Deputy DG, Industry, Science and Innovation – ex officio (Department of Energy and Economic Diversification).