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International tourism expert Dr Thomas Bauer has become the first adjunct professor in sustainable tourism at CQUniversity. Bauer recently completed a 12-year posting as assistant professor in the school of hotel and tourism management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has ...

Curtin University has appointed Professor Adrian North as its head of the school of psychology and speech pathology. North comes from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where he was deputy head of the school of life sciences, and director of psychology education ...

Professor Ian Cooke  has been appointed chief executive of the CRC for Mental Health.  Cooke has a track record of initiative and achievement in research, teaching, management, entrepreneurship and organisational leadership. His recent positions were concurrent appointments as CEO of Foursight ...

Tammi Jonas has been appointed as a senior risk analyst by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency. Jonas was president of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations in 2010 and last year was CAPA’s research and policy adviser.  

Curtin University has appointed the former director of the Australian Sustainable Development Institute, Charlie Thorn, as director research and development. Thorn has more than 30 years experience in research management, commercialisation and technology transfer in the agriculture, fisheries and university ...

Former Western Australian Premier  Dr Geoff Gallop  is one of several people whose contributions to society will be recognised at The University of Western Australia during its autumn series of graduations for 3,471 students.  Gallop, who will be awarded Honorary Degree ...

Stories from Campus Review’s coverage of the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference in Canberra, March 7 to 9, 2012. Click on headline to view full story.

In anticipation of the biggest expansion of higher education in the nation’s history, Universities Australia’s (UA) fourth annual conference was dominated by discussion about the new demand-driven system.  The impact of the reform on universities and students cannot yet be ...

Feedback to Campus Review suggests that universities have policies and procedures in place to manage workplace disputes but they are not able to resolve such disputes and as a result, there is discontent across faculties and divisions. My research suggests ...

Europe is investing heavily in research, innovation and design, with the express purpose of attracting the best scientists in the world to its shores, the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference heard in Canberra. Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science ...