Charles Darwin University has welcomed the new head of business, professor Arthur “Art” Shulman, who will work to maximise the opportunities available to the new dual sector business school as it transitions to the Waterfront precinct in Darwin. In his ...

Professor Selma Alliex, a long-serving dean of the school of nursing and midwifery at the University of Notre Dame Australia, is now vice-chancellor and head of the university’s Fremantle campus. Alliex was previously the nursing adviser for professional standards at ...

The University of Sydney has appointed professor Michael Reid to chart the way forward to world pre-eminence in health and medical research. Reid will chair a steering committee charged with advancing the way the university’s health and medical research enterprise ...

Managing director of Mushroom Music Publishing, Ian James, one of Australia’s most well respected music industry identities, will take up a new role as adjunct professor in Victoria University’s college of business. Dean of the college of business, professor Colin ...

Professor Kevin Hall is set to take up the position of deputy vice-chancellor research and innovation at the University of Newcastle. Hall is an accomplished researcher in the field of civil engineering. He has had a distinguished academic career holding ...

Internationally recognised performing arts scholar Mary Luckhurst will take up a position as professor of creative practice and artistic research at the University of Melbourne in the faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music ...

Federation University Australia has appointed Dr Andrew West head of business and economics at the Gippsland Campus. West joined the Gippsland Campus in 2008 after four years at Monash University’s South African campus. Prior to this, he worked in the ...

Nanotechnology researcher and globally respected academic leader professor Max Lu has been selected as University of Queensland’s first provost. UQ president and vice-chancellor professor Peter Høj said professor Lu was selected through an internationally competitive search that attracted candidates “from ...

Innovative Research Universities has announced that professor John Dewar, vice-chancellor at La Trobe University, will chair the IRU network for 2014 and 2015.  Dewar was appointed vice-chancellor and president of La Trobe in January 2012.  Prior to that he was provost ...

Following an international search, The University of Western Australia announced that Dr Jörg Baumeister has been appointed director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre. Baumeister has been researching, practising and teaching urban design and architecture for more than 20 years ...