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CDU’ s new law head
Professor Ned
Aughterson is the new head of the recently developed School of Law at Charles Darwin University. As the foundation dean of Law at the Northern Territory University from 1990 to 1996, he was responsible for setting up the NT’ s first law faculty. He has a PhD from the University of Queensland and 30 years of experience as a scholar, academic and lawyer. As a practising lawyer, he believes building relationships locally as well as internationally is vital not only to enhance student learning, but also to further build the reputation of CDU’ s School of Law. Before spending five years at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, where he was founding head of the Department of Law and Business, he was with the Darwin Bar. His research interests include international criminal law and alternative dispute resolution. He has also appeared as counsel in trial and appellate courts, in both criminal and civil matters, across Australia.
A head for business
Armed with 17 years of experience in industry and 14 years as an academic, Professor Mike Clements has been appointed as the new head of the University of Sunshine Coast School of Business. Clements was a professor of industry engaged learning at Swinburne University. He also became director of industry partnerships at the University of Wollongong. Prior to this, he was a senior manager in a private industry’ s supply chain manufacturing, operations management and logistics. In his 30s, he joined academia after doing a postgraduate degree and his doctorate. He has taught in many countries including Singapore, Dubai, and Scotland. He received teaching and learning awards as well as a prestigious Australian Learning and Teaching Council( ALTC) citation in
2008. At USC he will continue his project, an Australian Research Council joint research grant with an electronics company based on integrating technology into supply chains.
On the world stage
Thea Brejzek is the newly appointed professor in Interior and Spatial Design at the University of Technology. Brejzek regularly teaches at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. Previously, she was a professor at Zurich University of the Arts( ZHdK) in Switzerland and co-director of the practice-informed PhD program in collaboration between Zurich and the University of Vienna. At the 2011 Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space( PQ), she was the founding curator for theory. In 2013, she became a visiting professor at UCL London Bartlett School of Architecture and was invited to talk at Brunel, Wimbledon and UNSW. Brejzek is a peer reviewer for the research component of World Stage Design 2013 at Cardiff, while supervising PhD candidates from architecture, curating, visual arts and scenography at Vienna. Brejzek has a PhD in theatre studies and is experienced in opera stage directing.
Directing the action
Curator Charlotte Day has been appointed as the new director of the Monash University Museum of Art. Coming from the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art( ACCA) as associate curator, Day has vast experience across the contemporary art sector in Australia. She was the director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography and assistant director of Gertrude Contemporary. She has curated significant exhibitions including Ricky Swallow’ s Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2005, the 2008 Tarra Warra Biennial, and the 2010 Adelaide Biennial. She was also ACCA’ s curator for NEW09 and NEW13. At Monash, she has curated the project of professor Callum Morton, the University’ s head of fine arts, for the 2007 Venice Biennale. Day is a double graduate of Monash with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in material culture and museum studies.
Physics and wine
University of South Australia deputy vicechancellor Professor Isak Pretorius has been appointed as Macquarie University’ s next deputy vice-chancellor of research. Since 1975, Pretorius has served Macquarie when he was appointed to his initial academic position in the university. He was a physics professor from 1984 and dean of the division of information and communication services from 1977 to 2002. In 2003, he was Macquarie’ s deputy vice-chancellor of research. Pretorius is internationally recognised as a pioneer in molecular microbiology and biotechnology. In 2003, he was the director of research at the Australian Wine Research Institute( AWRI), where he became managing director and CEO the following year. He has won research grants($ 90 million) and awards, and filed six patents. Over the past three decades, he has supervised and cosupervised 33 PhD students and 56 MSc students. He takes on his new position in July.
USC Gympie appointed local
The University of the Sunshine Coast’ s new Gympie learning hub has appointed Angeline
Medland( formerly Bailey-Henderson) as administration officer. Medland will provide support and assistance with the marketing and promotion of the site.“ I am a Gympie local, born and bred, so it is really rewarding to see tertiary education opportunities become more available in the region,” she said.“ I feel incredibly lucky to take on a position where I can assist in the development and expansion of such an important service.” She was pleased to find a role which fulfilled her passion for education so close to home. Previously she held positions with BoysTown, Queensland Water and Infrastructure, and Brisbane’ s South Bank Institute of TAFE. Around 50 students are currently studying one or more courses at USC Gympie, Wide Bay Institute of TAFE( WBIT) campus. n
strictlyspeaking Self-imaging
The word self-image is usually understood as someone’ s mental construction of themself, which may or may not correspond with their looks and social behaviour. Compare the newly-coined selfie, which is definitely a physical image of oneself, taken by oneself on a smart phone camera, and expected to attract positive evaluations to oneself from social media“ friends”. Whether it enlarges the number of“ friends” is not to be taken for granted, since the selfie is seen by some as a symptom of lacking friends who could take your photo for you. There’ s the tell-tale arm caught on the side of the image which connects with the self actually pictured. It could also get you into trouble, now that Google’ s image-matching algorithms can match up photos of a well-groomed person with that dishevelled character after a wild party. Yet the temptation to circulate images of themselves is too much for the so-called selfie king or selfie queen – those who need to preside in the virtual world of self-imaging. There it’ s the rule of the selfie, by the selfie, for the selfie, until the cloud that supports it all disappears into thin air … like the image of the handsome Greek Narcissus on the surface of the pond.
Written by emeritus professor Pam Peters, researcher with Macquarie University’ s Centre for Language Sciences.
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