Jennifer Peasley is La Trobe University’s new librarian. Currently deputy librarian at Macquarie University, her impressive achievements there include the delivery of a new state-of-the-art library building using automated storage and retrieval systems, as well as the development of the ...

Phil Davison has joined the University of the Sunshine Coast as its new student ombudsman. Davison has almost 20 years of experience in dispute resolution. He has worked as a complaints manager for the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission and the ...

In what is a new role for Deakin University, it has appointed Ron Fairchild as its vice-president (advancement). The position gives Fairchild the responsibility for fund-raising, alumni development, events management, government, media and internal relations and community engagement across Deakin’s ...

Best known as the inaugural presenter of the ABC’s 7:30 Report, Jane Singleton has joined Charles Darwin University’s external relations unit as head of Foundation and Alumni. Singleton has worked in strategic communications and as a public advocate. Her campaign ...

The University of Queensland’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies has welcomed Professor Gay Hawkins as its new director. Hawkins was previously deputy director and professorial research fellow in the centre for two years. She has published widely on cultural ...

With more than 20 years' experience at Swinburne University of Technology, Professor Michael Gilding will take up his new role as executive dean of the Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Gilding is currently deputy dean (research) in the Faculty of ...

Professor Andrew Parfitt has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at the University of Newcastle. Parfitt is currently pro vice-chancellor and vice-president of the Faculty of IT, Engineering and the Environment at the University of South Australia, a position he has ...

The former South Australian Supreme Court chief justice, John Doyle QC, will return to his alma mater, the University of Adelaide as an adjunct professor in the Law School. Doyle graduated from the university in 1966 and was the 1967 ...

The University of Notre Dame has appointed Professor Douglas Hodgson as dean of the school of law at the university’s Fremantle campus. Hodgson did a Bachelor of Laws at York University before completing a Master of Laws at the University ...

Notre Dame has also appointed Professor Shelda Debowski as the new deputy vice-chancellor of the university and head of the Fremantle campus. Debowski has an extensive background in West Australian higher education. Her most recent role has been at the ...