The University of Canberra has appointed the vice-chancellor and president of the University of New England, Professor Ingrid Moses as its next chancellor. Moses was the deputy vice-chancellor and pro vice-chancellor (academic) at the University of Canberra from May 1993 to June 1997. She is currently president of the International Association of University Presidents and is a director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency. Moses is to retire as vice-chancellor of UNE in January when she will move to Canberra and take up the new role when current chancellor Wendy McCarthy retires.

Medical dean to chair of perinatal council

Professor Judy Searle has been appointed chair of the Queensland Maternal and Perinatal Quality Council. The council's role is to advise the chief health officer and Minister of Health on matters related to the quality of health care delivery in maternal and perinatal care in Queensland. It hopes to build on its previous role in monitoring adverse outcomes by greater examination of indicators of quality in maternal and perinatal services. Searle's three-year appointment will strengthen the links between academia and health care delivery and assist Queensland Health in the development of services that address significant changing trends in maternal and perinatal health care.

New head for health, design and science division at UC

Professor Sue Thomas been appointed as pro vice-chancellor for the Health, Design and Science Division at the University of Canberra. Thomas joins UC from Flinders University where she was most recently the concurrent head of the School of Biological Sciences and deputy head of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She has also previously been associate head (international) for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Thomas originally completed her PhD in microbiology from La Trobe University and her research interests are in bacterial genetics and molecular biology. The Health, Design and Science Division incorporates all of the health-related disciplines, architecture, applied science, psychology, sports studies, graphic design and applied ecology. "I am passionate about representing all of the areas within the division, and I am also a great believer in the creation of links beyond traditional areas," Thomas said.

ANU appoints new PVC

The Australian National University has appointed a pro vice-chancellor (university community) to cultivate a strong sense of community and campus life for all staff and students. Professor Penny Oakes will take up the new position which will absorb her current role as dean of students. Aspects of the new position will include managing on-campus accommodation and building more effective links between resident students, non-resident students and academic staff. Oakes has been dean of students since January. She was head of the School of Psychology for four years to 2002 and has been a member of academic staff in the School of Psychology since her appointment to ANU in 1991.

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Professor Elizabeth Deane has accepted a second five-year term in the position of dean of the Division of Environmental and Life Sciences at Macquarie University. Deane came to Macquarie in 2000 from the University of Western Sydney where she was head of the school of science. Since coming to Macquarie Deane has led her division through a period of significant change including establishing cross-divisional structures to support teaching, research, outreach and administration; developing partnerships with TAFE and members of the Innovative Research Universities Australia group and other universities to encourage student mobility; and developing the teaching program through professional doctorates, research masters programs, internationally-oriented programs, the cross-disciplinary bachelor of health and master of biotechnology and related double degrees.

New CEO for Education Adelaide

A former political lobbyist and journalist has been appointed as Education Adelaide's new chief executive officer. Denise Von Wald has been acting in the role since March and was on secondment from her role as general manager of marketing at the South Australian Tourism Commission. Education Adelaide chair Paula Nagel said Von Wald's appointment heralded a new era of assertively promoting the education opportunities in Adelaide and SA to key overseas markets. "Denise is among the state's most successful and experienced destination marketers and has an infectious energy which is motivating the rest of the team," Nagel said. Education Adelaide promotes Adelaide and South Australia to overseas students. The former ABC journalist is also is a director of the Adelaide Convention Centre Board, a member of the Wine Tourism Advisory Board and is on the board of governors of St Peters Collegiate Girls' School.

Muir appointed to Melbourne University

Wayne Muir has been appointed as co-ordinator, Indigenous Employment and Career Development at Melbourne University. Muir, who is a member of Yorta Yorta, Wautharong and Barkinji groups, has been involved in indigenous education, community development and employment for over 20 years. Most recently he was manager of the Aboriginal Education Centre at the University of Ballarat and senior advisor to Wur-cum Barra Indigenous Employment Strategy for the Victorian State Services Authority. Muir is currently chair of Ballarat Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, the Derriwah Aboriginal Community Justice Panel and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Justice Panel. He is also a member of the Australian Council for Educational Research Indigenous Standing Committee.

Chinese archaeologist becomes professor

A leading scholar from China who has helped bridge the gap between Chinese and Western archaeology since the mid 1980s has been appointed professor of archaeology at La Trobe University. Dr Li Liu, a PhD graduate in anthropology from Harvard University went to La Trobe as a lecturer in 1996, having taught previously at Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University in the US. Liu has recently published The Chinese Neolithic (Cambridge University Press), a book which analyses progress from the Neolithic era to the rise of states.

Professor Denise Kirkpatrick has been appointed as pro-vice-chancellor (learning and teaching) at La Trobe University. Kirkpatrick was formerly professorial director of learning and teaching at Monash University. Kirkpatrick's leadership in this arena has been recognised nationally through her appointment as chair of the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE), the national group representing leaders of teaching and e-learning in Australia. She is also a member of the advisory committee to DEST associated with the development of the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. She will commence duties early in August.

New head of CDU School for Education

Charles Darwin University has announced the appointment of a new head of School of Education. Professor David Lynch, foundation co-ordinator of the Central Queensland University's Noosa campus, will take up his appointment in late September. Lynch worked in the Queensland State school system for more than 13 years, starting as a primary school teacher and culminating as principal of a large urban primary school. He also spent three years in a strategic planning role as a manager for a Queensland company. He joined Central Queensland University in 2001 and was later promoted to sub dean in the Faculty of Education and Creative Arts.

Marshall promoted to professor

Stephen Marshall has been promoted to professor and executive director of Macquarie University's Centre for Professional Development (CPD) and Institute for Higher Education Research and Development (IHERD). Marshall has been a senior lecturer in CPD since 1997 and director of the Centre since 1999. He has taught in the postgraduate programs in higher education leadership and higher education teaching at Macquarie since 1998 and has overseen the establishment of award programs to support professional development at the university.

Kyrios to research chair in psychology

Professor Michael Kyrios has been appointed to the research chair in psychology in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. Kyrios is a clinical psychologist with particular expertise in obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders, such as compulsive buying and hoarding, the psychological aspects of chronic medical conditions, the management of depression and related disorders in primary care, and the use of cognitive-behavioural therapies. Through his previous position at the University of Melbourne, he has been involved as chief investigator and collaborator on grants funded by NHMRC, ARC, Melbourne Research Grant Scheme, Beyondblue, and the USA National Institute of Mental Health. He is currently national chair of the Australian Psychological Society's College of Clinical Psychologists.

Assistant director of Notre Dame Sydney appointed

The University of Notre Dame Australia has appointed Fleur Edwards as assistant director of its Sydney campus, due to open next year. Edwards has a background in marketing and management working in Australia and overseas. She also has five years experience at Notre Dame's Fremantle campus where she held the positions of recruitment and marketing officer, domestic and international marketing and admissions manager. Her responsibilities at the Sydney campus will include marketing and student recruitment, community relations, management of student administration, student services and the international activities of the campus.

New director of AMSI

Professor Philip Broadbridge, currently professor and head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware, is to take up the position of director of AMSI in August. Prior to Delaware, Broadbridge was professor of applied mathematics and director of the institute for mathematical modelling and computational systems at the University of Wollongong. Announcing the appointment Dr Jim Lewis chair of the AMSI board, said Broadbridge's work in applied mathematics has a involved a wide range of areas from mathematical physics through material science to mathematical finance and tumour cell dynamics."

Islam professor of law at Macquarie

Professor M Rafiqul Islam has been promoted to professor of law at Macquarie University. Islam started his academic career as a law teacher in 1975 and served Rajshahi University and University of Papua New Guinea as law teacher and head of the law department prior to joining Macquarie's Law School in 1991, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and professor in late 2004.

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A Melbourne researcher working on a new therapeutic treatment for coronary heart disease and stroke is the winner of this year's prestigious Amgen Medical Research Award. Associate Professor Shaun Jackson, of the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases at Monash University, has lead a team in the discovery and development of a new class of anti-clotting drugs. The new anti-thrombotic compounds have been patented worldwide. With an estimated 48,700 coronary heart disease events and around 45,000 stroke events in Australia each year and direct costs close to $3 billion, Jackson's research highlights the enormous potential for the treatment and reduced financial burden of the disease.

Title conferred on Frankham

The title of emeritus professor has been conferred on Professor Richard Frankham by the Macquarie University council. Frankham retired from a personal chair in biology within the Division of Environmental and Life Sciences in 2002. A respected genetist, Franhkam has made significant contributions to quantitative, evolutionary and conservation genetics since obtaining his PhD at the University of Sydney in 1968. His early career was devoted to quantitative genetics and animal breeding, population size and mutations. In recent years, his focus moved to conservation genetics, a field he has revolutionised through his pioneering studies using his vast experience of the Drosophila system. Recognition of his international standing was reinforced last year when he was appointed visiting professor of conservation biology at Harvard.

New chair of the Group of Eight

Professor Glyn Davis vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, will be the next chair of the Group of Eight universities. He will succeed Professor Ian Chubb, vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, at the next meeting of the Go8 board of directors in September. Davis became vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne in January, having previously served as vice-chancellor of Griffith University and as Queensland's most senior public servant. He is chair of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), headquartered at the University of Melbourne, and a director of Australia 21, the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Sesquicentenary Committee for Queensland.

Horigan appointed assistant dean of research in law

Professor Bryan Horrigan has joined Macquarie University's Division of Law as the new assistant dean of research. Formerly director of the Divisional Research Institute for the Division of Business, Law and Information Sciences at the University of Canberra, Horrigan's research interests span select areas of business and governmental law and policy. A Rhodes Scholar, he completed his doctorate in law at Oxford, and has worked in full-time legal practice for a national law firm as well as in academic positions at the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Canberra.

Vice-chancellor to continue at USC

Professor Paul Thomas has been reappointed as vice-chancellor of the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) for a further five years. Thomas has been with USC since its inception, first as president of the planning committee and then as inaugural vice-chancellor from January 1996. He will now lead USC into its 10-year celebrations in 2006.

New appointment to Griffith's School of Human Services

Dr Jayne Clapton has been appointed head of Griffith University's School of Human Services. An academic staff member in the school since January 2000, Clapton has convened disability studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has an international reputation for her research which explores the relationship between disability and ethics, particularly with consideration of the impact of biotechnology. The school, based at Griffith's Logan campus south of Brisbane, is currently experiencing considerable growth. In 2006 it will introduce a four-year bachelor of social work program to complement its suite of interdisciplinary degree programs in welfare and family studies, disability studies, rehabilitation counselling and studies in ageing. Clapton replaces Associate Professor Nick Buys who finished a five-year term as head of school to take up study leave.

Australia's leading brain research centre, the Howard Florey Institute, recently appointed its 1000th employee, Dr Eleni Giannakis, since it set up shop in 1963 as the Howard Florey Laboratories. Giannakis, one of the institute's 195 staff members, will be working alongside Professor Mike McKinley, who started in 1969 and laboratory manager, Ruston Barlow, who commenced in 1972. Five years ago, the Florey made a strategic decision to focus on brain disorder research. Since then the student cohort of honours, masters and postgraduate students, has grown from 22 to 85. The Florey's research areas cover a variety of brain and mind disorders including Parkinson's disease, stroke, motor neuron disease, addiction, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and dementia.

Swinburne's new engineering appointments

Professor John Wilson has been appointed professor of civil engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. Wilson is presently deputy head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has an international reputation in earthquake engineering, an extensive publication record and has had continuous ARC funding since 1993. Professor John Beynon has been appointed the dean of the faculty of engineering and industrial sciences. He is presently professor of metallurgy and holder of the POSCO-endowed chair at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is also foundation director of the Institute for Microstructural and Mechanical Process Engineering and former head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield University. Beynon is expected to commence his appointment in September, upon the retirement of Professor Tom Spurling.

NT's Plummer to retire

Chief executive of Northern Territory's Department of Employment, Education and Training Peter Plummer will retire on 29 June. Employment, Education and Training Minister Syd Stirling said his expertise and experience would be missed. Plummer has held a range of senior executive positions in the Northern Territory public service, and in his role as head of NT's DEET, oversaw the merge of the employment and training division and WorkSafe with the education department. "As the head of Employment, Education and Training, he also oversaw a stronger focus on indigenous education, as well as making the department a leader in education research and data analysis," Stirling said. There has been no announcement on Plummer's successor.

Former Curtin pro chancellor awarded honorary doctorate

Curtin University of Technology's WA School of Mines (WASM) has awarded former pro chancellor Dick Tastula an honorary doctorate of technology. Tastula graduated in mining engineering from WASM before renewing his links to the university by joining the WASM board in 1984. He was appointed chair of the Kalgoorlie Campus Council in 1994 and became an ex-officio member of the university council through that role. Tastula was elected pro chancellor in 2001 before taking on the role of acting chancellor the following year.