Getting federal funding for medical research is becoming harder. Aileen Macalintal reports. Medical research, no matter how promising it is, can go nowhere without sufficient funds. As the agency responsible for government funding of research, the Australian Research Council (ARC) ...

Professor Sandra Harding, vice-chancellor and president of James Cook University, will take over as Universities Australia’s next chair, after University of Melbourne’s professor Glyn Davis. “Not only has professor Harding exhibited exceptional leadership qualities and knowledge of the sector, her ...

The former CEO of the Australia China Business Council (ACBC), Laurie Pearcey, has taken up the inaugural role of director of China strategy and development at the University of NSW. Pearcey will hold a joint position as director of the ...

The Australian National University has appointed leading financial and economic expert Professor Jennifer Corbett as pro vice-chancellor (research and research training). Acting vice-chancellor Professor Margaret Harding said Corbett's expertise has been sought by some of the world's foremost economic institutions, ...

Professor Craig Simmons, director of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training at Flinders University has been appointed to the university's inaugural Schultz Chair in the Environment. The position, the first endowed chair at Flinders, was made possible through ...

Professor David Abramson has been appointed director of the University of Queensland's new research computing centre. Abramson has held a number of leadership roles in education and research over the past 30 years, having been a program leader at CSIRO; ...

RMIT University has appointed two scholars from The Netherlands and England as its first professors of design. Professor Gerda Gemser (above) from Delft University is professor of design, business, and Professor Sarah Pink from Loughborough University is professor of design, ...

Dr Stephen Weller is joining the Australian Catholic University as chief operating officer and deputy vice-chancellor (administration). Weller joins ACU from James Cook University where he is deputy vice-chancellor (university services) and head of the Cairns campus. He has been ...

Jonathan Churchill has been appointed as director of Information Technology & Resources at James Cook University. Currently associate director, technology, at the University of Adelaide, Churchill will take up the JCU position on January 21. Churchill has a BSc (Hons) ...

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, ...