Adjunct professor Tim McCormack has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to take up the prestigious position of Charles H. Stockton Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. McCormack begins his one-year appointment ...

Professor Martina Möllering has been appointed as the executive dean of Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts. Macquarie University professor Bruce Dowton said he was delighted with the appointment. “Her many leadership roles at the university throughout her career, and her ...

Award-winning producer Richard Fabb has been appointed as the new creative director of Griffith Film School’s commercial student enterprise LiveLab. “To come into the film school with no academic background and be part of the industry yet within the university ...

University of Western Sydney vice-chancellor professor Barney Glover will take over from current Universities Australia chair Sandra Harding on May 19. Harding said Glover has “demonstrated a deep knowledge and executive leadership role in research and a passionate commitment to ...

Professor Boyen Huang is the new head of the School of Dentistry and Health Sciences at Charles Sturt University. Huang joins CSU from James Cook University, where he held the position of dentistry director of international affairs and associate professor of ...

In an extended interview education editor Antonia Maiolo spoke to Dan Ratner, branding expert and managing director of uberbrand about how universities must think about better telling their story to stand out. Ratner who has worked with higher education institutions ...

Federation University Australia has announced the reappointment of its chancellor Dr Paul Hemming to a second three-year term. Hemming was appointed chancellor of University Ballarat in 2012. When Ballarat joined with the Gippsland campus of Monash University last year to ...

Practising lawyer and University of Tasmania alumnus Leanne Topfer has been appointed to the university’s governing council. Topfer, who previously served on the UTAS North-West Advisory Board between 2005 and 2012, graduated from the university’s bachelor of laws course in ...

The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education has appointed Robert Somerville as its new director. A Martu Aboriginal man from the Gascoyne Murchison region of Western Australia, Somerville spent four years at Edith Cowan University’s Kurongkurl Katitjin Centre for Indigenous ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast has welcomed aboard Canadian biologist Dr Russell Wyeth, who will work with local researchers for the next six months. Wyeth arrives from St Francis Xavier University. He hopes to work with a team led by USC researcher Dr Scott ...