ATN Conference 2015 The Reform of Australian Higher Education: A case of Policy or Perish? Thursday, 5 February 2015 Hosted by RMIT University RMIT University Storey Hall Auditorium, Building 16, level 5 336 – 342 Swanston Street, Melbourne Program 8.30am – 9.00amRegistration 9.00am – 9.30am ATN video Welcome to Country Conference Open and Introduction to ATN Executive Director Professor Peter Coaldrake AO ATN Chair 9.30am – 10.00am Political Perspective on HERRA Reforms Dennis Atkins National Affairs Editor, The Courier-Mail 10.00am – 10.30am What next for Australian HE? Context and Comparison (UK) Chris Millward Director of Policy The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) 2014 in review and objectives for the year ahead Renee Hindmarsh ATN Executive Director 10.30am – 11.00am Morning Tea 11.00am – 11.40am Policy or Perish? VC panel discussion on HE Policy Directions Chair: Paul Noonan Deputy Director Engagement, RMIT Participants: Professor David Lloyd, UniSA Professor Peter Coaldrake, QUT Professor Attila Brungs, UTS Professor Deborah Terry, Curtin Mr Martin Bean CBE, RMIT 11.40am – 12.40pm Revolutionising the Student Experience: Who is responding to whom? Chair: Andrew Trounson, Higher Education Journalist, The Australian Scene setter: Trends in student enrolment Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Case Study/overview from Industry: Peter Stevens, SA State Manager, Hewlett Packard Panel discussion: Dr Laura-Anne Bull, PVC Student Engagement and Equity, UniSA Virya Prun, RMIT student Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy) Professor Shirley Alexander, DVC (Education & Students) UTS Judie Kay, President ACEN, Assistant Director Careers and Employability, RMIT Program 12.40pm – 1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm – 2.00pm HE access and participation on the National agenda Chair: Professor Peter Lee Vice Chancellor of Southern Cross University, Chair RUN Panel: Mary Kelly, Equity Director, QUT Professor Owen Hughes, Dean of Students, RMIT Kristy Meiselbach, Bachelor of Bio Medical Science, RMIT student 2.00pm – 3.00pm Research policy: Responding to the BCRR Chair: Chris Millward Director of Policy, HEFCE UK Panel: Professor Glenn Wightwick, DVC Research UTS Professor Graeme Wright, DVC Research Curtin Professor Calum Drummond, DVC Research RMIT Dr Matt Brown, Director IDTC Monika Buljan, Statistician and PhD student ATN IDTC 3.00pm – 4.00pm ATN Working Group Chair Reports: 2014-15 Research (DVC Research UniSA, Tanya Monro) Academic (QUT Provost, Carol Dickenson) International (DVC International UniSA, Nigel Relph) IDTC Board (IDTC Director, Matt Brown) ARIA Board (ATN ED, Renee Hindmarsh) 4.00pm – 4.30pm Afternoon Tea 4.30pm – 5.10pm Standing out in a competitive crowd: International differentiation Chair: Hon. Phil Honeywood National Executive Director, IEAA Panel: Professor Andrew MacIntyre, DVC International, RMIT Professor Bill Purcell, DVC International, UTS Thomson Ch’ng, National President, Council of International Students Aust. 5.10pm – 5.15pm Handover of the ATN Chair and Closing Remarks Professor David Lloyd Incoming Chair, ATN Vice-Chancellor and President, University of South Australia 5.30pm Transfer provided to The National Gallery of Victoria dinner event, hosted by RMIT University Professor Peter Coaldrake AO Professor David Lloyd Professor Attila Brungs ATN Chair, ViceChancellor and CEO of Queensland University of Technology Vice Chancellor and President, the University of South Australia, Incoming ATN Chair BSc(Hons) (UNSW), DPhil (Oxon), ViceChancellor and President, University of Technology Sydney Professor Peter Coaldrake is ViceChancellor and CEO of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), a position he took up in April 2003. He previously had been Deputy ViceChancellor in the same institution, and prior to that served for four years as Chair (CEO) of Queensland’s Public Sector Management Commission, the body established by the Goss government to overhaul Queensland’s public sector. Speakers Peter Coaldrake is a dual Fulbright Scholar, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of politics/ public policy (1980 – 1981), and as a Senior Scholar in the field of higher education policy and management (2001 – 2002). Professor Coaldrake is the author or editor of a number of books and monographs, including as coauthor (with Dr Lawrence Stedman) of Raising the Stakes: Gambling with the Future of Universities (UQP, April 2013), Academic Work in the Twenty-First Century (DETYA, 1999), and On the Brink: Australia’s Universities Confronting Their Future (UQP, 1998). He is also the author of Working the System: Government in Queensland (UQP, 1989). Peter Coaldrake became Chair of the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) in February 2013. In May 2011, he completed a two-year term as Chair of the Board of Universities Australia, the peak body of Australia’s universities. He returned as a member of the Board of Universities Australia in May 2014. In January 2011, he became Chair of the Board of the Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE) and has been Chair of the Queensland Heritage Council since 2010; also, he was appointed by the Premier of Queensland as a Smart State Ambassador in 2006, and was Chair of Queensland’s sesquicentenary celebrations in 2009. He is also a trustee of the Queensland Museum Foundation. David Lloyd is the Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia. A Dublin-born and educated biochemist who specialises in computeraided drug design, Professor Lloyd joined the university at the beginning of 2013, re-focusing it as a university of enterprise and shaping its activities to better meet the challenges of the 21st century. Globally connected and engaged in helping solve the problems of industry and the professions, the university is now building partnerships that will ensure it remains at the cutting-edge of creativity and new knowledge. In May 2014 Professor Lloyd was appointed to the South Australia Economic Development Board (EDB) to establish the networks between education, research and industry that will transition the South Australian economy into one of innovation and growth. Before joining the University of South Australia, Professor Lloyd was Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation at Trinity College Dublin, one of Europe’s oldest and most prominent universities. He had also been Dean and Vice President of Research at Trinity and was concurrently the inaugural Chair of the Irish Research Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Organic Chemistry from Dublin City University, and was also a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Lloyd has published extensively in related fields in high impact international journals while generating significant grant income. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Brungs was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of UTS in July 2014; he has been a researcher in both industry and academia, with interests in the area of heterogeneous catalysis. Prior to his appointment as Deputy ViceChancellor (Research) at UTS in September 2009, Professor Brungs was General Manager, Science Investment, Strategy and Performance at CSIRO. His role incorporated the determination of broad research direction and resource allocation, performance monitoring of CSIRO research programs including its flagship programs, and the development and implementation of organisational strategy. Before joining CSIRO in 2002 Professor Brungs was a senior manager at McKinsey and Co, managing teams in North America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. He has also been on the board of a number of entities including not-forprofit organisations such as Greening Australia NSW. Professor Brungs is a Rhodes Scholar, with a Doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry from Oxford University, and recipient of the University Medal in Industrial Chemistry from UNSW. Mr Martin Bean CBE Professor Gill Palmer Renee Hindmarsh Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University Vice-Chancellor and President, RMIT University Acting ViceChancellor and President of RMIT University Executive Director of the Australian Technology Network (ATN) Professor Deborah Terry has been Curtin University’s ViceChancellor since February 2014 and is current President of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and previous Chair of the Australian Council of Learned Academies. She is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology, previous Chair of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts in the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences, and previous chair of the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre. Martin Bean was appointed as Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University in February 2015, having previously held the positions of Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, the UK’s largest academic institution and a global leader in the provision of flexible learning, General Manager of Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Products Group and various executive leadership roles at Novell and other companies integrating technology and learning systems. In 2012 Martin launched Futurelearn, the UK’s first at-scale provider of Massive Open Online Courses, and in 2014 he was named one of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors. Professor Palmer’s previous positions include: Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Vice-President at RMIT and Dean of Australia’s largest university faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. Renee is an experienced communicator with extensive experience in leadership, policy and media roles across State and Federal Governments. She has advised a number of Ministers, within the Finance, Attorney-General, Health and PrimeMinister and Cabinet portfolios. Professor Terry completed her PhD in Social Psychology at the Australian National University. She had a distinguished career at the University of Queensland, initially as an internationally recognised scholar, before progressing through a number of senior leadership roles including Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Acting ViceChancellor at the University of Queensland. Her primary research interests are in the areas of attitudes, social influence, persuasion, group processes, and intergroup relations and she also has applied research interests in organisational and health psychology. Educated in the UK, Professor Gill Palmer gained her BSocSc in Economics, Politics and Sociology at Birmingham University, an MSc in Industrial Administration at London School of Economics and her PhD in Industrial Relations and Policy from Cass Business School in London. She has experience in education, government and private sector management and has gained research grants and published in her field of organisational sociology and employment relations. In her previous role as Director of Barton Deakin Government Relations, Renee has assisted businesses, universities and other higher education providers with their government relations engagement and strategy. Renee has a strong personal interest in the higher education sector, currently completing her PhD in foreign investment in China at Monash University. She was a sessional lecturer and tutor in politics while she was completing her studies. Dennis Atkins National Affairs Editor, The CourierMail Dennis is a journalist with 40 years experience in Adelaide, London, Canberra and Brisbane, is the national affairs editor with The CourierMail newspaper in Queensland where he comments on and analyses federal politics and international relations. He has written the popular Party Games column, regularly writes editorials for the newspaper and was editor of the opinion pages. Dennis is also a regular panelist on the ABC’s premier politics television program Insiders, a frequent commentator on ABC radio and appears weekly on the SKY News PM Agenda program. Speakers Professor Deborah Terry Mr Chris Millward Director (Policy), HEFCE Speakers Chris oversees the Research, Education and Knowledge Exchange directorate, working with David Sweeney and the heads of each of the policy areas. In doing so, he is responsible for harnessing HEFCE’s expertise on research, education and knowledge exchange to inform its funding to universities and colleges, and its advice to Government. Chris particularly leads on education and skills, including postgraduate policy and funding. Before becoming Director in 2014, Chris served for five years as Associate Director, leading HEFCE’s relationships with universities and colleges in the North of England, and for two years as Regional Consultant for the East of England. Chris joined HEFCE from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, where as Head of Research Programmes he was closely involved in its transition to full Research Council status in 2005. Chris began his career in the Graduate School at the University of Warwick, then moved to work on international relations at the University of Edinburgh, and on research strategy and funding at the University of Durham. Paul Noonan Deputy Director of Marketing, RMIT University Paul is Deputy Director of Marketing at RMIT University. Marketing is focused on brand experience, driving recruitment and articulating the RMIT value proposition through paid, owned and earned channels. From YouTube to the Australian Financial Review, compelling learning, teaching and research stories are central in positioning RMIT as a ‘global, urban and connected’ university of technology and design. His career started at State Trustees Limited, led to a head role at Andrews Marketing Group, followed by the Office of the Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Paul served on the board of Australian Jesuit Communications and is currently on the council of Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma in Applied Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. Andrew Trounson Higher Education Journalist, The Australian Andrew has been a journalist for almost 20 years, first as a business and finance reporter with Dow Jones, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, in London, Sydney, and Melbourne. In 2003 he joined The Australian in Melbourne as Melbourne Business Editor covering the mining and manufacturing industries. He joined the newspaper’s Higher Education Supplement in 2008 and has twice won the Universities Australia and National Press Club media award for coverage of equity and access issues. Andrew Norton Peter Stevens Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute State Manager for Hewlett Packard in South Australia and the Industry Leader for Commercial Segments Andrew has held this position since 2011. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Peter is an experienced senior executive with over 20 years’ experience in the Information Technology Industry. With Dr David Kemp, he was the governmentappointed coreviewer of the demand driven system. The Review of the Demand Driven System Final Report was released in April 2014. Andrew is the author of many other articles, reports and other publications on higher education issues. These include a widely-used reference report on higher education trends and policies, Mapping Australian higher education. Based in Adelaide, Peter is currently the Industry Leader, Commercial Segments, for Hewlett-Packard and is responsible for the delivery of HP’s IT services portfolio to a range of leading client organisations across Australia. In addition Peter also holds the role of State Manager for Hewlett Packard in South Australia. Prior to Peter’s current role he has held a number of senior executive positions within Hewlett-Packard and EDS with regional and global responsibilities spanning IT service delivery, operations, sales, business and organisational strategy and change management. Dr Laura-Anne Bull Professor Shirley Alexander Pro Vice Chancellor: Student Engagement & Equity, University of South Australia Dr Laura-Anne Bull earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1998 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dr Bull worked as a process engineer for Zeneca Agrochemicals (now Syngenta) including a role as lead process engineer responsible for the commissioning of new plants, before returning to university teaching in 2001. In 2008 she became acting Head of Registry and in 2010 Head of Student Experience at Strathclyde. The role was responsible for developing and delivering a broad strategy to improve student experience from both an administrative and experiential perspective. Moving to Australia she commenced with the Australian National University as Deputy Registrar – Student Services in 2011 before becoming Registrar – Student Life. In September 2014, Dr Bull moved to Adelaide to take up the new position of Pro Vice Chancellor: Student Engagement and Equity at the University of South Australia. Shirley Alexander is Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Technology, Sydney where she is currently Deputy ViceChancellor & Vice President (Education & Students). Her portfolio responsibilities include the quality of courses and teaching, student services, and the student experience. The University of Technology Sydney has been engaged in a major $1 billion campus redevelopment project. Shirley is leading a system of projects to ensure these developments support the future of learning. This involves driving significant innovation in learning and teaching including curriculum design, the use of technology in learning, and the development of learning and teaching spaces to support these changes. She is also leading a major project on learning analytics. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (the Powerhouse Museum), and has recently been appointed to the panel of experts in higher education for the Office for Learning and Teaching. Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy), RMIT student Currently, I am in my final semester at RMIT studying the Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy). I am also working as a Peer Assistant at the Student Services office which has been very rewarding as I enjoy helping students discover the opportunities and support available to them on campus. I’m looking forward to seeing what the future holds and hope to build a challenging and exciting career in the business field. Speakers As a lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering at Strathclyde she was fully engaged not only in teaching but in student pastoral support, PhD supervision, study advisor, and a range of academic operational groups from undergraduate recruitment to faculty school liaison. Deputy ViceChancellor & Vice President (Education & Students), University of Technology Sydney Virya Prun Speakers Judie Kay Peter Lee Mary Kelly President ACEN, Assistant Director Careers and Employability, RMIT University Vice Chancellor of Southern Cross University, Chair RUN Equity Director, Queensland University of Technology Peter Lee is currently the Vice Chancellor of Southern Cross University. Previously he held senior positions at the University of South Australia, Curtin University of Technology and Murdoch University. Author of 4 books and over 270 papers, he also has an active consultancy practice in the application of process control methods. He was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to Australian society in 2003. Peter was educated in Melbourne and has degrees from RMIT and Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Engineers Australia and of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, London. Mary manages the Equity Services Department which covers both staff and student social justice issues. She joined QUT in 1997 after 20 years in the education industry (mainly schooling) in both professional and industrial roles. Within her portfolio at QUT she has given special emphasis to issues around student poverty, gender equity, anti-racism and reconciliation, and disability. As the responsible officer for the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) she coordinates both the outreach and support elements, and chairs the statewide Consortium collaboration which works noncompetitively to stimulate interest in tertiary study amongst lowincome and Indigenous people. Mary takes a keen interest in equityrelated public policy, and works with others to influence its development and implementation. Judie has over 15 years’ experience in the strategic implementation of University wide WIL policy, systems and projects across three Universities. Currently, Judie leads ACEN’s involvement in the WIL Statement of Intent and is working with Universities Australia and the key industry Bodies to develop a national WIL action Plan. Judie has been involved in a range of Australian national WIL projects including Project Lead for the National WIL Portal, a team member for the Leading WIL project and a member the office for the Chief Scientist Industry Working Group. International projects have included development and implementation of a range of innovative international student WIL exchange and mentoring programs and developing and implementing Career and WIL resources for RMIT students across multiple RMIT campuses globally. Judie is active internationally advocating for WIL, facilitating collaboration between national associations globally and is a board member of WACE, representing Australia. Judie is currently involved in an EU funded project to establish a European Network of Cooperative and Work Integrated Higher Education Judie frequently writes and is invited to present on WIL nationally and internationally. Professor Owen Hughes Dean of Students, RMIT University Professor Hughes was appointed Dean of Students at RMIT University in Melbourne in November 2011. Immediately prior to that, he was Deputy Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. He has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and PhD from the University of Western Australia. He was appointed to Monash University in 1985 as a lecturer and became Professor in the Department of Management in 1994. Following four years as Head of that department, in 2003 he was seconded to assist the setting up the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and was the inaugural course director of the ANZSOG Executive Masters. In 2004, he returned to Monash to become Director of the Graduate School of Business and later became Deputy Dean. As Dean of Students at RMIT he is responsible for a wide range of functions involving the student experience, including: student wellbeing and Counselling; Career Development and Employment, the Study and Learning Centre, Equity and Diversity, Link Sports and Arts and the Ngarara Willim Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Other books include: Business, Government and Globalization (2008) with Deirdre O’Neill; Australian Politics (Melbourne, Macmillan, 1998), two editions of Australian Politics: Realities in Conflict (with Hugh Emy) and the co-edited works Whitlam Revisited (1993) and Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (1991). Professor Hughes is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Public Administration at Renmin University, Beijing, the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics in Kunming and the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu. Professor Glenn Wightwick Professor Graeme Wright Bachelor of Bio Medical Science, RMIT student Deputy ViceChancellor and VicePresident (Research), University of Technology, Sydney Deputy ViceChancellor, Research & Development at Curtin University I am an aspiring biomedical science student currently completing an internship at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research. I am a proud Indigenous woman from the Gundijimara tribe in Warnambool. I have a strong passion for Indigenous youth work such as mentoring and encouraging young adults to enter tertiary education. I grew up in a small country town called Tooborac and attended Assumption College in Kilmore. I am in the third year of my degree and hope to enter a Medical degree next year. I enjoy health, fitness and makeup artistry in my personal time. As Deputy ViceChancellor and VicePresident (Research), Professor Wightwick has responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of the University’s research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation. Key responsibilities include: The development and implementation of a research strategy which fulfils the UTS vision to be a world leading University of Technology. In particular oversee UTS’s strategic research investments, research performance and ensuring excellence through skill building and support of research and academic staff. Further promotion of research collaboration with industry and government and building strong linkages in the research and innovation sector nationally and internationally. Continued enhancement of the quality of UTS postgraduate research education and the building of a vibrant research community. Prior to his appointment at UTS in August 2014, Professor Wightwick was Director, IBM Research — Australia and IBM Australia Chief Technologist. He brings global experience from his role at IBM, having led teams in the US and China, worked on IBM’s global technical strategy and established a world-leading research laboratory here in Australia. Professor Wightwick is recognised as a leader in developing Australia’s ICT industrial R&D base and a significant contributor to innovation across the nation. He has a distinguished research track record, not only in terms of publications, but also in patents and commercialisation. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Professor Wightwick has also served on the ARC College of Experts and has led national bodies and committees such as the NSW Digital Economy Industry Taskforce. Professor Wright is Deputy ViceChancellor, Research & Development at Curtin University, responsible for all research, research training, and commercialisation and knowledge transfer activities. Professor Wright obtained his undergraduate degree from Curtin University and Master by Research degree from Murdoch University in Perth. He returned to Curtin to complete his PhD. Since 2004 Professor Wright has held senior roles at Curtin University including Executive Dean, Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Training and now Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Development. He has extensive knowledge and experience in education and research, and engagement with higher education policy at strategic level. Professor Wright has extensive experience on Boards and Committees of research centres and CRCs, liaison with industry and negotiation of funding agreements, and broad research knowledge in spatial information sciences. He is currently a nonexecutive Director of the CRC for Spatial Information. Speakers Professor Hughes has published widely in management, public management, public policy and Australian politics and has published more than forty articles and book chapters. His book Public Management and Administration is now in its fourth edition (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2012). It has been used in many countries as a text and has more than 1300 citations. Two earlier editions were translated into Chinese by Renmin University Press in Beijing and are required reading in the more than 80 Chinese universities teaching the Master of Public Administration. The latest edition (2012) has versions in preparation in Chinese, Japanese and Turkish. Kristy Meiselbach Calum Drummond Dr Matthew Brown Deputy ViceChancellor Research and Innovation and Vice President, RMIT University Director of the ATN Industry Doctoral Training Centre in Mathematics and Statistics (IDTC) Professor Drummond is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and a Vice President at RMIT University, playing a leadership role in the development of discovery and practice-based research and in building and enhancing capability in research and innovation across the University. The IDTC runs a PhD program for students aspiring to a research career using mathematics and statistics with/ in industry. Each student is matched with an industry partner to work on a real R&D problem and also receives technical and transferable skills training to prepare them for the industry workforce Speakers He is also an active research professor and has published over 200 papers and patents in the area of advanced materials, including biomedical and energy storage applications. Professor Drummond joined RMIT University in 2014 from CSIRO where he was Group Executive for Manufacturing, Materials and Minerals. Earlier he was seconded from CSIRO to be the inaugural Vice President Research at CAP-XX, an Intel portfolio company that developed supercapacitors for consumer electronic products. Matt has a wide range of experience in research practice and policy analysis in the higher education sector. Most recently he was Senior Policy Analyst – Research, for the ATN working on a range of issues including industry and international engagement, research impact assessment methods, university rankings system, research funding models and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA). Matt’s research experience in Mathematics followed a PhD at the University of Adelaide and saw him working as a researcher in Australia and Europe, specialising in geometry and combinatorics. Monika Buljan Tanya Monro Statistician and PhD student ATN Industry Doctoral Training Centre in Mathematics and Statistics (IDTC) Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research and Innovation University of South Australia Monika Buljan is completing an industry-based statistics PhD at RMIT through the ATN Industry Doctoral Training Centre (IDTC). She is also the Victoria Branch Young Statistician Representative of the Statistical Society of Australia. Professor Tanya Monro, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation and an ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at the University of South Australia Since 2009, she has been the sole statistician at her industry partner, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). Monika is responsible for the quality assurance and analysis of clinical exams in the RACGP Education Department. Most GP trainees in Australia are assessed by the RACGP before they enter unsupervised clinical practice. GP trainee figures are expected to double over the next 2-3 years. Monika’s PhD project aims to meet assessment demand and maintain Australian GP standards with the application of Item Response Theory (IRT). Tanya was the inaugural Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) from 2008 to 2014 and was also the inaugural Director for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at the University of Adelaide. Tanya is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and the Australian Institute of Physics. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council (CSC), the AAS National Committee for Physics, South Australian Economic Development Board, where she chairs the Science, Innovation and Commercialisation subcommittee and a member of South Australia’s Riverbank Authority. She is a member of the SA Premier’s Science & Industry Council, and is Chair of the Council of the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF). Tanya is also an inaugural Bragg Fellow of the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus). In 2014 Tanya was awarded the Beattie Steel Medal of the Australian Optical Society and in 2012 the Australian Academy of Sciences’ Pawsey Medal. In 2011 Tanya was named South Australia’s “Australian of the Year” and the Scopus Young Researcher of the Year. In 2010 she became South Australian Scientist of the Year and Telstra Business Women of the Year (in the Community & Government category). In 2008 she won the Prime Minister’s Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year. Tanya obtained her PhD in physics in 1998 from The University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal for the best Physics PhD in Australia. In 2000, she received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in the UK. She came to the University of Adelaide in 2005 as inaugural Chair of Photonics. She has published over 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and raised over $140M for research. Professor Carol Dickenson Mr Nigel Relph Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President: International and Advancement, University of South Australia Before joining the University of South Australia, Nigel was Director of Corporate Affairs at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously he held senior management positions at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham, where he was Director of International Affairs. He spent a period in Malaysia as academic director of a private education group. On his return to the UK he was appointed as a senior consultant to the British Council, advising on the then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s international education initiatives. Nigel began his career as a cultural historian holding academic positions at the University of Liverpool and at the University of Lancaster and then spent a period setting up and then running a media company before resuming his career in education. He has been a Director and Trustee of a number of educational and arts organisations and is currently a member of the Boards of Education Adelaide and of Education Australia. Professor Carol Dickenson is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Queensland University of Technology. QUT’s six faculties, its research institutes and the Caboolture Campus report to the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the Portfolio includes responsibility for academic staffing, enterprise bargaining and QUT’s Reconciliation activities. Professor Dickenson is Chair of University Academic Board. Prior to her appointment as Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dickenson served as QUT’s Registrar for ten years and possesses a unique set of skills honed during extensive experience across academic, consulting, government, HR, and executive management roles. Professor Dickenson is an elected member of the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association’s (AHEIA) executive committee, and a member of the Universities Australia Standing Group on the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). She has been a director on the QTAC board and chaired its audit and risk committee. Professor Dickenson’s PhD research formed the foundational framework for staff development for the Senior Executive Service of the Queensland Public Sector Management Commission in the early 1990s. Her work and the competency levels identified have been used in many settings. Similarly, Professor Dickenson’s secondment to establish a senior management development program for QUT led to the development of the Queensland Leadership Profile 360-degree feedback instrument that is a market leader used by 38 university and other knowledge organisations in Australia and overseas. Professor Dickenson, as QUT HR Director, developed and led the first Certified Agreement for senior staff at QUT which was also a first for the higher education sector and was adopted by a number of other universities. The development of a separate certified agreement for senior staff was designed to enhance the senior management development program and the executive management capability of senior staff, and the performance culture. Performance pay was also introduced. Key policy development at QUT which Professor Dickenson has led includes: Performance Planning and Review for academic, professional and senior staff; outside work policy for academic and professional staff; student appeals and grievance resolution; promotion for academic staff policy. Professor Dickenson is currently leading a project aimed at ensuring QUT’s academic workforce is well prepared and positioned for the future. Speakers Nigel commenced as Deputy Vice Chancellor: International and Advancement in February 2013 having previously been Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President: International and Development since October 2010. He is responsible for international strategy; international marketing; the University’s partnerships and institutional alliances locally, nationally and internationally; community and cultural engagement; alumni relations and philanthropic fundraising; and for The Samstag Museum of Art. Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology Hon. Phil Honeywood Chief Executive Officer International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Phil is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). He was a Member of the Victorian State Parliament, Australia, for 18 years (1988– 2006). During this period Phil served as the Victorian Minister for Tertiary Education, Training and Multicultural Affairs. He was also Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2002–2006. Speakers Since retiring from full-time politics in 2006, Phil was Marketing Director and CEO at Stott’s Business College and Cambridge International College in Melbourne. Phil also served two terms on the Governing Council of Swinburne University of Technology. With experience in senior management positions, in both the Australian public and private sectors, Phil brings a unique background and perspective to international education. Phil has an Honours degree from the Australian National University in Political Science and Japanese. Professor Andrew MacIntyre Professor William Purcell Deputy ViceChancellor International and Vice-President of RMIT University Deputy Vice Chancellor (International and Advancement), University of Technology, Sydney Prior to joining RMIT, he was Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, where he also served as Dean of the College and Director of the Research School of Asia & the Pacific and before that founding Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy (2002-2009). Earlier in his career, he was also Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Professor MacIntyre is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and has published widely on Southeast Asian politics, international relations in the Asia-Pacific region and, more recently, enhancing universities. He was the founder of the Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership, and serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. He is the recipient of the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for contributions to the promotion of relations between Japan and Australia (2006) and also a recipient of the Presidential Friends of Indonesia award (2010). Among board roles, Professor MacIntyre currently sits on the boards of directors of the AustralianAmerican Leadership Dialogue and the Asia Foundation - Australia. He is also currently Deputy Chair of the Australian Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (AusPECC). He has served as a consultant to government institutions and companies in Australia, the United States and China, as well as international agencies such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN Secretariat. Professor William Purcell is Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President International and Advancement at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) which he joined in 2009. Professor Purcell has responsibility for international partnerships, internationalisation strategy, international student recruitment, alumni, fundraising, corporate engagement, the UTS Shopfront, and the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS. He is also the chairman of UTS Global Pty Ltd; UTS Beijing Ltd; and Sydney Educational Broadcasting Ltd at UTS. He also sits on the board of UTS Insearch, UTS’ pathway college and a number of other company boards. Professor Purcell is also the Asia-Pacific Vice Chair of CASE (Centre for Support and Advancement of Education) based in Washington DC. Prior to his current role at UTS his previous academic positions were as Deputy Vice Chancellor International and before that Dean of Business at The University of Newcastle; Head of the School of International Business; Head of the School of Asian Business and Language Studies; and Director of the Australian Centre for International Business at University of New South Wales; and Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Professor Purcell has also worked in the private sector as a management consultant and investment banker. He has also been a consultant to both government and business across the Asia Pacific Professor Purcell holds a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales and also graduated from the University of Kyoto in Japanese Studies. He has published more than 150 articles and books across the field of international Business, specialising in international joint venturing; investment mode and location choice, human resource management transfer and foreign direct investment. Professor Purcell is a fluent speaker of Japanese and Korean. Thomson Ch’ng National President, Council of International Students Australia (CISA) Tong Sheng Ch’ng, or better known as Thomson, is a Malaysian student pursuing Master of Science (Project Management) at Curtin University Sydney. In October 2013, Thomson was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s International Student of the Year Award for the Higher Educated Category. As a former National Secretary and the incumbent National President for the Council of International Students Australia (CISA), the national peak student representative body for international students in Australia, Thomson believes in promoting the interest and needs of international students in Australia through building a stronger relationship and communication channel with various stakeholders including government bodies, industry bodies, including peak bodies and most importantly, the student bodies. Thomson is also a winner of the MASCA Testimonial Australia Gold Award 2011. He is also the founder of My Study, My Career, a forum that connects and informs students about workplace and employment related issues through Q & A interactive panel discussion between students and experts. Notes Notes
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