Professor Sarah Todd has taken up the position of pro vice-chancellor (international) at Griffith University, succeeding Chris Madden. She joins Griffith after a distinguished career at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where she was appointed the university’s inaugural ...

Alan Kohler, one of Australia’s most experienced financial journalists, will take on a new role as adjunct professor in Victoria University’s College of Business. Kohler has had a long interest in family businesses and central to his role at VU ...

The University of Queensland has named Dr Alastair Blanshard the inaugural Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History. He will take up the role early next year. Blanshard, who earned a master of arts degree from UQ in 1996 ...

An Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Lydon’s research centres upon Australia’s colonial past and its impact on the present. “I’m driven by our colonial past and especially cultural exchange between Indigenous people and settlers and how this continues to shape ...

Professor Simon Maddocks, a leading Australian agricultural scientist, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Charles Darwin University (CDU). He is expected to take up the position in March, following the resignation of professor Barney Glover. Maddocks is now director of science ...

Professor Clive Schofield, from the University of Wollongong’s Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, an authority in international maritime boundaries, has been appointed to the International Advisory Board on the Law of the Seas. The worldwide body has ...

An experienced voice in US-Asia relations has been appointed CEO of the Perth USAsia Centre at the University of Western Australia. Malcolm Binks, chairman of the board of directors of the Perth USAsia Centre, recently announced Gordon Flake as the ...

Craig Dukes has been appointed director of the Ngunnawal Centre, the University of Canberra’s support service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Dukes is the inaugural CEO of Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA), an organisation that represents Aboriginal and ...

The University of Western Sydney has announced the appointment of professor Michele Simons as dean of the school of education. Simons joins UWS from the University of South Australia, where she has been dean and head of the school of ...

An experimental psychologist who has worked as an academic for more than 20 years is now head of the school of social sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Professor Doug Mahar recently joined USC after 18 years at ...