Swinburne University of Technology alumnus and financial services industry figure Graham Goldsmith has been formally installed as the university’s new chancellor. Goldsmith said that as chancellor he hoped “to make at least a modest contribution to this university and to ...

Songwriter and founding member of the rock group INXS, Andrew Farriss, is set to join Australian National University this year as a visiting fellow at ANU’s School of Music. The university stated that, as its H.C. Coombs Fellow, Farriss would ...

Internationally recognised biomedical engineering and sleep-disorder expert professor Philip de Chazal has been appointed ResMed chair in biomedical engineering at the University of Sydney. The university stated that de Chazal would lead its research and educational activities in biomedical engineering, ...

The University of Tasmania has praised the appointment of professor Kate Warner as the first female governor of Tasmania. Warner was the university’s first female law faculty professor and its first female law faculty dean. Her colleagues estimate she’s had ...

The University of New England has announced local grazier and businessman James Harris as its chancellor. As well as operating a large grazing operation in the region, Harris has been a UNE council member since 1994. His family has long ...

A husband and wife duo of lawyers have each gained appointments at Charles Darwin University. Originally from Adelaide, Joe and Juliette McIntyre will join CDU School of Law from Thompson Rivers University in Canada. Prior to their stint at Thompson Rivers ...

Professor John Fitzgerald, a leading expert on China, Australia and the geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region, has been elected president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Fitzgerald was China representative of the Ford Foundation in Beijing from 2008–12, until ...

Janet Dalby has been appointed to the new position of chief academic officer at VET provider Evocca College. Evocca stated that Dalby brought more than 20 years of experience in the education sector, having commenced her career in 1992 at Brighton ...

Professor Allen Rodrigo has been announced as the new director of the Research School of Biology RSB at ANU’s College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Along with his present role as professor of biology at Duke University in the US, Rodrigo ...

University of Western Sydney deputy vice-chancellor (education) professor Kerri-Lee Krause has been named Victoria University’s new provost. Prior to her present role – which she will vacate in mid-January – Krause has been pro vice-chancellor education at UWS and held ...