30th January – 3rd February
6th – 10th February
13th - 17th February
20th - 24th February
27th February - 3rd March
30th January – 3rd February
- James Angus is inaugural chair of the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics, at the Peter Doherty Institute. The centre has $250m from Canadian philanthropists Geoff and Anna Cumming (CMM September 1 2022).
- MS Australia (as in multiple sclerosis) marks its 50 anniversary with 50 awards to individuals and organisations, “recognising the outstanding, consistent and selfless service and many contributions towards the MS movement.” Institutions awarded include, ANU, Menzies IMR, Monash U, Uni Adelaide, Uni Melbourne, Uni Sydney, UWA.
- New Australian Institute of Criminology research grants go to, * Rebecca Scott Bray and Greg Martin (Uni Sydney): impact on criminal justice of coronial inquiries/recommendations on deaths in custody * Hilde Tubex, Victoria Hovane, Stella Tarrant (UWA): “use of force by Indigenous women” * Meredith Rossner, Miranda Forsyth, Janet Hope, Lorana Bartels (ANU): survivor-centred restorative justice in response to sexual violence * Mary Iliadis, Delanie Woodlock, Michael Slater, Zarina Vakhitova (Deakin U): trauma informed responses for sexual assault victims * Sarah Bennett, John Gilmour, Kristi Anderson (Uni Queensland): reducing case attrition in sexual offence investigation.
- Rob Brown becomes head of CQU’s Mackay campuses, he moves from leading CQU in WA.
- Penny Jane Burke (Uni Newcastle) becomes a UNESCO global chair, in equity, social justice and HE, leading cooperative programmes with Ghana.
- The Cancer Institute of NSW announces 2023 research grants. Career development fellowships go to: * Amelia Parker (UNSW) * Sean Porazinski (UNSW) * Han Shen (Uni Sydney) * Julia Steinberg (Uni Sydney). Early career development fellowships are for: * Ziba Gandomkar (Uni Sydney) * Arnab Ghosh (Uni Newcastle) * Nunki Hassan (Uni Sydney) * Emily Hewson (Uni Sydney) * Holly Holliday (UNSW) * Tong Li (Uni Sydney) * Noushin Nasiri (Macquarie U) * Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell (Uni Sydney) * Sirisha Tadimalla (Uni Sydney) * Guoying Wang (Macquarie U) * Mahdi Zeraati (UNSW.
- Adeeba Kamarulzaman will become CEO of Monash U Malaysia in May. Professor Kamarulzaman moves from Universiti Malaya. She is a medicine graduate from Monash U.
- At Uni Melbourne, Cathy Mason becomes manager of the medical school. It’s an internal appointment.
- Members of the Commonwealth’s new National Women’s Health Advisory Council include, Deb Loxton (Uni Newcastle), Gita Mishra (Uni Queensland), Robyn Norton (George Institute), Cathy Vaughan (Uni Melbourne), Zoe Wainer (Uni Melbourne).
- Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announces membership of the Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group. John Thwaites (Monash U) is chair and members include, Chief Scientist Cathy Foley, John Gertsakis (UTS), Romilly Madew (Engineers Australia), Larry Marshall (CSIRO), Robynne Quiggin (UTS), John Spoehr (Flinders U).
- QUT announces a brace of senior appointments, * Lisa Bradley (chair Academic Board) * Nicholas Brown (head of clinical sciences school) * Sharon Christensen (law school head) * Kathy Gleadhill (Director, Audit) * Udo Gottlieb (student ombudsman) * Kiri Pettigrew (General Counsel) *Emily Rosemond (sport director) * Bouchra Senadji (deputy chair, Academic Board) * Joanne Travaglia (head of public health, social work school) * Chelsea Watego (ED, Carumba Institute).
- ANU’s Brian Schmidt is the new Group of Eight chair. Mark Scott (Uni Sydney) is deputy.
- At Griffith U Cindy Shannon becomes DVC (Indigenous, Diversity and Inclusion). She moves up from Griffith’s PVC Indigenous.
- Sunny Yang leaves Monash U to become PVC Global Partnerships at Uni Newcastle.
6th – 10th February
- The (US) Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announces its journal article award goes to, Janet McCaw, (Uni Melbourne), Alisdair Vance (Uni Melbourne) and Uncle Herb Patten (Gunai-Kurnai, Wiradjuri, and Yorta Yorta Elder, member of the governing board of Elders/Senior People for the Elder-Governed Indigenous Cultural Practices Project within the NHMRC Million Minds research programme grant). It is for, “A ‘Holding Place’: An Indigenous Typology to Mediate Hospital Care,” Journal of Architectural Education 76, I 2022, 75-84.
- The Australian Research Council announces 94 new members of the College of Experts, HERE. They have three-year terms. The college advises on research and recommends applications for competitive grants.
- Nicole Bell (Uni Melbourne) becomes president of the Australian Institute of Physics.
- Stephanie Beaupark (Uni Wollongong) and Michelle Hobbs (Griffith U) receive 2023 Australian Academy of Science Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Awards. They are for emerging Indigenous scientists at PhD or EMCR levels.
- Deborah Brennan (UNSW) will co-lead a Productivity Commission inquiry into early childhood education and care. According to Treasurer Jim Chalmer’s announcement, she will “will work with the other members of the Commission.
- CQU announces Narelle Pearse is its inaugural COO, it’s an internal appointment. And Stephen Dobson becomes dean, School of Education and the Arts. He moves from Victoria U of Wellington.
- Tony Cook will become secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Education in April. He steps up there, from dep sec for HE, research and international.
- Callum Cowell leaves UWA’s Centre for English Language Teaching, for Uni Birmingham, to becomes director of its pathways and professional English provider.
- Deanna D’Alessandro becomes director of Uni Sydney’s Net Zero Initiative. It is an internal appointment.
- Griffith U VC Carolyn Evans has a second term, through to 2029. Her first five year appointment expires next year.
- Eda Gunaydin (Uni Wollongong) wins the Victorian Premier’s literary award for non-fiction.
- Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic U) wins the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions’ 2022 best article prize. It’s for, “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below,” in the William and Mary Quarterly.
- At Monash U, Matthew Hall becomes the business school’s Associate Dean, Graduate Research.
- Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand announces 2023 fellows, * Brett Bryan (Deakin U) * Simon Dunstall (CSIRO) * Fiona Johnson (UNSW) * David Marlow (Defence Science and Technology Group) * Lucy Marshall (Macquarie U).
- Joe Siracusa is inaugural Dean of Global Futures in Curtin U’s humanities faculty.
- Bindy Taylor is new GM of Media Centre for Education Research Australia. MCERA describes her as a, “highly experienced leader, with not-for-profit CEO experience.”
- The UK Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for ’23 goes to Andrew Blakers (ANU), Martin Green (UNSW), Aihua Wang (China Sunenergy) and Jianhua Zhao (Tera Solar Energies). The award is for their invention and development of Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) solar photovoltaic technology.
- Thomas Schneider (University of British Columbia) is the new chief executive of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, which has seven Aus members – all of the Group of Eight, excluding UWA, presumably because it fronts a wrong ocean.
13th - 17th February
- ANZIAM Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics) announce its 2023 medals. * Tuck mid-career medal: Luke Bennetts (Uni Adelaide) * Michell early career medal: Chris Lustri (Macquarie U) * ANZIAM medal: Tony Roberts (Uni Adelaide).
- Richard Franklin (James Cook U) is the new president of charity KidSafe Australia.
- Sarah Henderson (Lib, Victoria) becomes the coalition’s shadow education minister. She replaces Alan Tudge who retires from parliament. Senator Henderson moves from shadowing the communications portfolio.
- Cathy Henkel (Edith Cowan U) wins the Australian International Documentary Conference lifetime achievement for documentary film making.
- Kathryn Hore becomes associate director of Uni Melbourne’s Archives and Special Collections. She moves from Deakin U.
- The (US based) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers announces its 2023 fellows, including: *Mark Billinghurst *(Uni SA) * Jinho Choi (Deakin U) * Daoyi Dong (Australian Defence Forces Academy) * Christina Lim (Uni Melbourne) * Pierluigi Mancarella (Uni Melbourne) * Kashem Muttaqi (Uni Wollongong) * Michael Negnevitsky (Uni Tasmania) * Ying Tan (Uni Melbourne) * Pierre Verlinden (Amrock Pty Ltd (McLaren Vale SA) * Jingling Xue (UNSW) * Shui Yu (UTS) * Xiangyun Zhou (ANU).
- Craig Johnson (Uni Tasmania) receives a lifetime achievement award from the International Temperate Reef Symposium.
- At UWA, Jessica Meeuwig is appointed to the new Wen Family Chair in Conservation.
- Optica’s (“Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide”) Foundation announces its 2023 ambassadors, to advice young researchers, including, Sejeong Kim (Uni Melbourne).
- Peter Poulet becomes director of the UNSW Cities Institute. He moves from chief commissioner at the NSW Government’s Central City District Commission.
- Uni Sydney VC Mark Scott is the new chair of The Conversation Media Group.
- Krystian Seibert (Industry Fellow, Swinburne U) is appointed a Productivity Commission associate commissioner to work on its philanthropy inquiry.
- Martin Shanahan (Uni SA) wins the life-time achievement, E O G Shann award, from the Economic History Society of ANZ.
- Uni Adelaide announces the board for it (and UNSW’s) Defence Trailblazer for Concept to Sovereign Capability (one of the previous government’s Trailblazer applied research programme). Christine Zeitz (Northrop Grumman Australia) chairs and members are, * Nicholas Fisk (UNSW) * Emily Hilder (Defence Science and Technology Group) * Harry Hubbert (Greenroom Robotics) * Anton Middleberg (Uni Adelaide) * James Palmer (Silentium Defence) * Kathryn Toohey AM (retired army officer).
- uni South Australia announces two new Bradley (named for former VC Denise Bradley) Professorships, Anthony Elliott (dean, external engagement) and Sharad Kumar (cancer biology) Engineering and management consultant.
- Ross Waring becomes director of the Technology Resources and Critical Minerals Trailblazer programme at Curtin U.
20th - 24th February
- At Uni Sydney, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon becomes the inaugural occupant of the Elizabeth Todd Chair of Vocal Studies.
- Mike Ewing leaves Deakin U (where he is ED, Business and Law) to become ED Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross U.
- Mark Harris will become head of Uni Adelaide’s humanities school, in May. He will join from University of St Andrews, in Scotland.
- Benjamin Kile is the new Director of the Garvan IMR. He moves from ED at Uni Adelaide’s Faculty of Health and Medical SciencesBrendan Lyon is appointed first professor of practice at Uni Wollongong’s business and law faculty.
- MS Australia announces $3m in research grants, shared by, * Nicholas Blackburn (Uni Tasmania) * Jennifer Massey (St Vincent’s Centre, NSW) * Jennifer Rodger (UWA and Perron Institute) * Alice Saul (Uni Tasmania) * Olivia Wills (Uni Wollongong)David Peetz (recently retired from Griffith U) becomes Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work’s Carmichael Centre
- Jim Rabeau moves from CSIRO to “global quantum leader” Infleqtion, where he will manage expansion in Australia and establish a quantum computing and tech facility at Swinburne U.
- Alison Ross (now Monash U) is appointed ED, Humanities and Creative Arts at the Australian Research Council. She will join former Monash U colleague Christina Twomey who was appointed the ARC’s inaugural chief research officer, in December.
27th February - 3rd March
- The Australian Academy of Science announces $3m in research grants, shared by, * Nicholas BlackburnThe Australian Academy of Science announces winners of the J G Russell Award (to top up ARC early career grants); Kaitlin Cook (ANU), Damien Esquerré (ANU), Scarlett Howard (Monash U), Rachael Lappan (Monash U) and Giorgio Poggesi (UWA).
- Charles Sturt U chancellor Michele Allan is the new chair of the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre.
- Jaclyn Broadbent becomes Deakin U’s PVC, Sessional Academic Experience.
- Kate Groves joins the Australian Academy of Science asphilanthropy director.
- Michael Hamilton becomes PVC and Chief Executive of Charles Darwin U TAFE.
- Michael Kassiou (Uni Sydney) is announced academic lead for the NSW Organoid Innovation Centre.
- At Uni Wollongong Marc In Het Panhuis moves from chemistry and molecular bioscience to Dean of Sport, with charge of the university’s new sports strategy.
- Data management provider Informatica names Anthony Perera its Asia-Pacific data analytics champion for 2022
- Jaala Pulford becomes chair of MTP connect, the federally funded agency charged with commercialising med tech, biotech and pharmaceuticals. She is a former Vic Labor minister for innovation and medical research.
- Julie Shinners becomes University Secretary at Uni Southern Queensland, moving from director of the VC’’s office.
- At Swinburne U, Alan Duffy becomes inaugural PVC Flagship Initiatives. He moves from Director of the Space, Technology and Industry Institute, which will be co-led by Andrew Ang and Rebecca Allen.
- Tony Weiss (Uni Sydney) is chair of the expert panel of the NSW Biosciences Fund
- Lisa Whitehead (Edith Cowan U) wins the WA Nurse /Midwife of the Year Award
