The university has appointed Elizabeth Nield to the newly created position of director, development. Nield will be responsible for leading a team of development managers to secure philanthropic support through alumni, business, industry and community groups for research priorities, capital ...

Internationally renowned strategic management leader Professor Peter McKiernan has been appointed as dean of the Murdoch Business School, at Murdoch University. Previously, McKiernan held the chair of management at St Andrews University in Scotland for 19 years. He holds fellowships ...

With more than 20 years of experience in the vocational education and training and university sectors, Dennis Tonkin is the newly appointed head of VET programs at Charles Darwin University. Tonkin has held a number of senior roles in teaching ...

Rosalind Dixon has joined the University of NSW law school as one of the youngest law professors to accept this type of role at the university. Prior to taking up her new role, Dixon served as an assistant professor at ...

Bond University has announced the appointment of Professor Nicholas Saunders to the position of deputy vice-chancellor. Saunders was previously the vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle for eight years. Prior to this he held several senior academic roles including dean ...

Professor Anne Wallace has been appointed as the head of school of law and justice at Edith Cowan University. Wallace joins ECU from the University of Canberra where she held the position of associate dean (education) in the Faculty of ...

Professor Jane Long will become the new deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at La Trobe University. Long is currently pro vice-chancellor (education) and Winthrop Professor of History at the University of Western Australia, where her responsibilities include teaching and learning planning and ...

Internationally recognised educator, researcher and anatomist, Professor Darrell Evans will join Monash University in January as the new pro vice-chancellor (teaching and learning). Evans trained as an anatomist and developmental biologist, gaining his PhD at Aberdeen University, Scotland, before working ...

Colin Beckett, general manager Greater Gorgon Area, Chevron Australia, has been appointed as the new chancellor of Curtin University, commencing in January. Beckett has spent the past 12 years with Chevron in Perth and has held his current position of ...

La Trobe has also announced Natalie MacDonald will be taking up the role of vice-president (administration) at the university. MacDonald is currently director-general of the Queensland government’s Department of Housing and Public Works – a service provider to all other ...