Ian Anderson becomes PVC R at Western Sydney U. He steps up from inaugural director of WSU’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment.
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Robert Argent becomes the Bureau of Meteorology’s Chief Scientist. It is an internal appointment.
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Katrina Beer is inaugural Associate DVC Indigenous at Federation U. She moves up from managing the university’s Aboriginal Education Centre.
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Timothy Carey leaves Curtin U to become founding director of CQU’s Centre for Health Equity in Regional and Remote Communities.
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Shyamal Chowdhury leaves Uni Sydney to take the ANU chair of South East Asian Economics.
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Andrew Hope is new ED of the arts and education faculty at Charles Sturt U. He moves from head of Deakin U’s HASS school.
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Linda O’Brien, (Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory) is a founding member of the external advisory board of company, Digital Science, (“serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem”)
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Jeannette Lechner-Scott (Uni Newcastle) receives MS Australia’s research award.
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The WA Government announces members of its AI Advisory Board, including Alex Jenkins (Curtin U) and Wei Liu (UWA).
