Professor of computer science, Ian Reid, will join the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies within the school of computer science at the University of Adelaide. Reid has come from the University of Oxford where he led the Active Vision Laboratory, ...

Business management and marketing academic, Graham Young, who has an extensive business development background in the information technology industry is set to lead the University of the Sunshine Coast’s new $5.5 million Gympie Learning Hub. Young has been at the ...

A leading expert in indigenous archaeology has been appointed as the inaugural Kimberley Foundation Ian Potter chair in Rock Art at the University of Western Australia. Professor Peter Veth, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the ...

International structural engineering expert Professor Frieder Seible has been appointed as dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. Seible makes the move to Monash from the University of California. “Professor Seible brings to Monash an impressive record of ...

The Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, has been appointed as the inaugural chair of the advisory board of Curtin University’s Law School. The Legal Practice Board of WA approved the four-year Bachelor of Laws degree proposal in September. ...

Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith has been appointed executive director (research operations) at the University of Tasmania. Clyde-Smith has worked in research strategy, management and other roles at the University of Queensland and the UK universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Sheffield. She ...

Catherine O’Sullivan has been appointed to Bond University’s newly created role of pro vice-chancellor pathways and partnerships, to expand the university’s engagement with community and industry groups across Australia. O’Sullivan brings to the role 30 years’ experience in senior management ...

Monash University has appointed renowned researcher and legal consultant Professor Bryan Horrigan as the new dean of the faculty of law. Horrigan currently holds the Louis Waller chair of law within the faculty and is also the associate dean (research). ...

Professor Anthony Elliot has started work as the new director of the University of South Australia’s Hawke Research Institute, where he will provide leadership for an enhanced program of publically engaged social science, both in Australia and globally. A world-renowned ...

Professor Tom Marwick has been welcomed by the University of Tasmania as the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania’s new director. Marwick has an outstanding record in both medical research and research leadership in Australia and internationally, and has a strong interest ...