April 8 2025 | Unpacking the ‘woke’ label for universities – Carolyn Evans

Griffith University Vice-Chancellor Professor Carolyn Evans discusses the criticisms of universities as being ‘woke’ and examines what critics are specifically concerned about.

April 8 2025 | University communication – Carolyn Evans

Griffith University Vice-Chancellor Professor Carolyn Evans discusses university communication.

March 28 2025 | George Williams – Time for a new business model

We had an amazing time connecting with you all at HE Fest 24. Check out some of the highlights of our event with our very Stephen Matchett.

HE Fest will be back next bigger and better than ever!

March 25 2025 | The importance of Social Licence for Universities in Australia

We had an amazing time connecting with you all at HE Fest 24. Check out some of the highlights of our event with our very Stephen Matchett.

HE Fest will be back next bigger and better than ever!

March 21 2025 | The importance of Social Licence for Universities in Australia

Interview with Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Iain Martin on the importance of social licence for Australian Universities.

March 11 2025 | Professor Iain Martin, VC of Deakin University on TNE

The Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University, Professor Iain Martin, explains how the University came to establish its latest offshore campus in Bandung, Indonesia, in a collaboration with Lancaster University and Navitas.

September 25 2024 | HE Fest Highlights

We had an amazing time connecting with you all at HE Fest 24. Check out some of the highlights of our event with our very Stephen Matchett.

HE Fest will be back next bigger and better than ever!

April 24 2024 | Interview with Dr George Taiaroa

Future Campus Editor Tim Winkler chats with Dr George Taiaroa about The Landscape for emerging health and medical academic leaders in Australia.

April 16 2024 | Interview with Dr Diane Hu

40 years after an Australian Studies Centre was established a Beijing Foreign Studies University, China how has more centres devoted to studying Australia than anywhere else in the world, with hundreds of scholars devoting their days to analysing policy and culture here. Despite the generation of scholars and the scope of activity, very little effort had been invested in understanding how Chinese scholars viewed us, until now.

March 28 2024 | Interview with Associate Professor Mark Selkrig

Future Campus’s Tim Winkler talks to University of Melbourne’s Associate Professor Mark Selkrig who it leading Turning Points, an innovative new project led by the provides a great opportunity to explore the changes that academics make to shape their working lives.

February 7 2024 | 5 Minutes with Simon Biggs

New IRU chair and JCU Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Biggs talks with Future Campus about the role of HE lobby groups, the importance of AI and some valuable reading over Summer.

February 7 2024 | “Your university – ranked” Webinar Recording

Tim Winkler & Stephen Matchett from Future Campus and Professor Cameron Neylon from Curtin University discuss what rankings mean for Australia, and the results of individual universities.

February 7 2024 | Academic Avatar – Dr Nici Sweaney

Nici Sweaney demonstrates a new avatar from Hey Gen, created by filming herself and recording samples of her voice, then entering a script for the avatar to read. The new streaming avatars in beta testing use similarly realistic renders of image and voice, leveraging large language models to respond in real time, and computer vision to recognise and appropriately react to visual cues.

November 1 2023 | Interview with Professor Kerri Lee Krause

A new practical guide for higher education leaders offers is likely to be a valued resource for Australian university executives.

Avondale Vice-Chancellor Professor Kerri-Lee Krause has poured life lessons from leadership at multiple institutions into her new book, Learner-centred Leadership in Higher Education: A Practical Guide.

While it is grounded in theory and first-hand experience, the book is littered with case studies and reflection points and is clearly intended to be used as a practical manual – particularly for those new to the executive wing.

November 1 2023 | Australian HE Unmasked – Compelling insights into Australian HE in 2023

This is the best hour you will spend on Australian HE this year. If you lead, aspire to lead or aspire to simply hold onto your job in the sector, this seminar is for you.

Future Campus leads Australian National University’s Professor Andrew Norton, University of Melbourne’s Associate Professor Gwilym Croucher, Queensland University of Technology’s Principal Policy Adviser Dr John Byron and Social Research Centre’s Lisa Bolton into a degustation-style discovery of the key challenges and opportunities in the sector right now.

Professor Norton’s encyclopedic Mapping Australian higher education 2023 report is the benchmark for sector insights and analysis and has just been released.

October 9 2023 | 5 minutes with Daryl Fong

Daryl Fong is COO of AECC Global, based in Singapore. He talks about a range of challenges and opportunities for Australian students seeking to recruit international students from Southeast Asia.

September 27th 2023 | Expert Opinion with Professor Carolyn Evans, Griffith University Vice Chancellor & President

Griffith University Vice Chancellor, Professor Carolyn Evans speaks to Tim Winkler about the University’s decision to invest in 100 new early to mid-career academic positions over the next 12 months. Positions are available in multiple disciplines across the University’s campuses in South East Queensland.

September 27th 2023 | Bravehearts at ATEM

The ATEM conference is imminent and the association counsels courage as tertiary education emerges from the pandemic to face new challenges from the Accord. Martin Mc Carron (Uni Adelaide) tells Stephen Matchett about the issues on the Agenda.

2 August 2023 | Expert Opinion with Craig Fowler & Professor Hilary Winchester

Keep up-to-date on the latest hot topics in Higher Education with Expert Opinion podcasts.

29 June 2023 | Have I got news for you (Future Campus Webinar)

Future Campus presents Have I got news for you – a webinar featuring Campus Morning Mail founder Stephen Matchett in conversation with Uni SA Vice-Chancellor Professor David Lloyd and QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Sheil.

The hour-long conversation tells the inside story of life behind the CMM desk and what each guest has learned in a decade of making and breaking news.

Join Stephen Matchett and Tim Winkler in this short introduction video to Future Campus.