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An information management expert has been appointed as UWA’s new librarian and director (information management). Dr Mary Davies replaces John Arfield, who retired earlier this year after 14 years. Davies is currently the deputy chief information officer and director of ...

Professor Ken Hawkins has been appointed DVC (international) of Central Queensland University. Hawkins is currently CEO of CMS (C Management Services), the wholly owned subsidiary of CQUniversity which manages international education services at the university’s Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Gold ...

Doron Ben-Meir has been appointed inaugural CEO of Commercialisation Australia. He is the founder and CEO of Prescient Venture Capital, and has also held positions as principal, private equity and venture capital at Jagen; general manager, IT&T Investments at Escor; ...

Professor Wayne McKenna has been appointed to the new role of DVC (academic and research) at UWS. McKenna will lead the new Division of Academic and Research, which integrates academic development, teaching, research, engagement, the library and human resources. For ...

AUQA has appointed Dr Michael Tomlinson as an audit director. Tomlinson completed his PhD at Cambridge University, and was then manager of PhD Studies at the University of Melbourne. Subsequently, at Swinburne University, he was university secretary. After a period ...

Nobel Prize-winner Dr Richard Conant will join QUT to research farmland carbon storage. Conant, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice-President Al Gore and other International Panel on Climate Change scientists, will join QUT’s Institute of ...

Three women have been appointed to top executive positions at the University of New England. They are: Professor Annabelle Duncan (pictured) as DVC (research); Kim Cull as chief governance and planning officer; and Professor Jennie Shaw as PVC and dean ...

Curtin University has appointed a new PVC for its Sarawak campus. Professor Ian Kerr, currently deputy PVC for Curtin Business School (CBS), will take over the position from May. Kerr has worked for Curtin for more than 30 years. Prior ...

Deakin University’s next vice-chancellor will be Professor Jane den Hollander, who succeeds current VC Professor Sally Walker. Den Hollander is currently DVC (academic) at Curtin University and is currently a board member of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Born ...

Nationalistic ideologies played out in mass market movies leave Simon Haines wondering about fiction and reality. Confucius versus Avatar: is there a US-China values story of some kind here? What’s it got to do with Condi Rice? You probably saw ...