ON THE MOVE
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UQ PUTS TRUST
IN GILLESPIE
The University of
Queensland Business
School has partnered
with professional
services firm KPMG
Australia to establish a new chair in
organisational trust, Professor Nicole
Gillespie. A leading international scholar
in the field, Gillespie will work to translate
trust theory into organisation-wide practice,
transforming company culture and
bolstering stakeholder confidence.
“Now, more so than ever, socially
responsible governance needs to be a
priority in the education of emerging and
future leaders,” Gillespie said.
Her position will also encompass a
new research project, which will examine
how trust is being impacted by digital
technologies such as blockchain and AI.
KELLEHER TAKES
TOP KIRBY ROLE
Exotic fruits keep arriving from overseas with
foreign names which are hard to remember
for those unfamiliar with the language of
origin. The Japanese yuzu, a craggy-skinned
lemon-like fruit the size of a billiard ball
is a recent arrival, now being farmed on a
small scale in Australia. It’s in demand for
its amazing fragrance in both gastronomic
circles as well as luxury cosmetics. This dual
identity may have contributed to confusion
over exactly what fruit it was – which
happened long ago across Asian borders,
when the name yuzu was applied in China
to the much larger and less exotic pomelo.
Likewise the Japanese satsuma, the name
for another small citrus (like a mandarin only
smaller) – is also applied in Australia to a type
of plum (aka “Japanese blood plum”). But
the outstanding historical case of shifting
fruit names is the Portuguese marmelo
“quince”, which was first encountered in
northern Europe as marmelada, a gelatinous
fruit delicacy you could cut into squares like
Turkish delight. By the eighteenth century
it steadily became the general name for
conserves made with oranges, apricots,
apples and even carrots. Since then, the field
has narrowed so that marmalade refers by
default to conserves made with oranges,
and EU regulations restrict commercial use
of the name to citrus fruits. Thank goodness
that’s settled!
Written by Emeritus Professor Pam
Peters, researcher with Macquarie
University’s Linguistics Department
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The Kirby Institute at
UNSW Sydney has a
new director, Professor
Anthony Kelleher. The
leading international
HIV researcher and clinician is tasked with
continuing the exceptional legacy left by
the institute’s inaugural director, Professor
David Cooper, who passed away last year.
“The Kirby Institute, its staff, collaborators
and the people and communities we
serve, have been the inspirational core of
my career,” Kelleher said. “I could not be
prouder than to carry forward the institute’s
innovative and life-saving research.”
Kelleher has been on the executive team
since 2005 and is head of the pathogenesis
and immunovirology program.
FRESH START FOR
CANBERRA UNI
The University
of Canberra has
appointed Professor
Geoffrey Crisp as its
new deputy vice-
chancellor (academic).
Crisp, the current pro vice-chancellor
(education) at UNSW Sydney, comes with
tremendous chops, having received the
Stephen Cole the Elder Prize (Excellence in
Teaching); the Royal Australian Chemical
Institute Stranks Medal for Chemical
Education and two Australian Learning and
Teaching Council fellowships.
Chartered by the university’s Distinctive
by Design strategy, Crisp is overseeing the
teaching and learning environment as well
as student support services.
FIRST CHAIR OF
AUTISM RESEARCH
La Trobe’s Olga
Tennison Autism
Research Centre
has launched an
Australia-first honours
scholarship for students living with autism
and named their inaugural chair of autism
research, Professor Cheryl Dissanayake.
Dissanayake, who is also the centre’s
founding director, says the scholarship
demonstrates La Trobe’s commitment to
create more valuable opportunities for the
autistic community. “At OTARC, we feel it’s
important to train the next generation of
researchers, and to specifically build autistic
research talent,” she said.
The centre, which celebrated its 10th
anniversary in 2018, was the first of its kind
in Australia. The scholarship will be awarded
to two students annually from 2020.
ADMIRABLE NELSON
AT THE HELM
The University of
Southern Queensland
has a new face on its
leadership team with
the appointment of
Professor Karen Nelson as deputy vice-
chancellor (academic).
Nelson has travelled north for the new
role, having served as pro vice-chancellor
(students) at the University of the Sunshine
Coast. She has been lauded by vice-
chancellor Professor Geraldine Mackenzie
as “an expert in student engagement and
retention”, whose astute research into
the complex nature of student success
has been “instrumental in uncovering the
factors influencing attrition and advancing
practices across the sector”.
AU REVOIR TO OUR
EDUCATION EDITOR
After more than three
years, most of them
as education editor of
Campus Review and
Education Review,
Loren Smith is moving on from APN
Educational Media.
“I’d like to thank all of our contributors
and readers for giving me a reason to write
every day,” she said.
“I’ve enjoyed all the interaction – even
the heated kind in the comments section!
“I’d also like to thank my colleagues for all
the friendship and advice over the years.”
Smith, staying in higher education, has
taken up a position at the University of
Sydney as a media adviser to its arts and
law faculties. ■