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La Trobe appoints CMO
La Trobe University has appointed Matthew Lee as its chief marketing officer. Lee, previously head of marketing for Mercer Asia Pacific, took on the position last April. He has extensive senior marketing experience in consulting and professional services, government and the higher education sector. He said he is keen to build on the university’ s heritage of community engagement in its next stage of development, and he enjoys the process of shaping and using ideas to inform the wider public, while delivering commercial outcomes. Lee’ s previous roles include general manager of marketing with PMP Ltd, national marketing manager at Philips Fox( now DLA Piper), and manager of corporate programs within RMIT University’ s commercial arm, Technisearch Limited.
Edith Cowan appointments
Edith Cowan University has offered professor John Finlay-Jones a new five-year term as deputy vicechancellor for research, with the advancement component of his previous portfolio passed to vice-president( corporate services) Scott Henderson. ECU also announced the appointment of professor Beth Armstrong as head of the School for Psychology and Social Science. Coming from Macquarie University, Armstrong joined the University in 2009 as foundation chair in speech pathology. Here she established one of the first speech pathology courses in Australia.
Tzannes makes dean
Leading architect, professor Alec Tzannes has accepted the offer of a second five-year term as dean of the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. Tzannes’ next term is to start in November. Tzannes, one of Australia’ s most distinguished architects, is the founder of the Sydney architectural practice Tzannes Associates. During his 33-year career, he has won numerous national and state awards, is a former national president of the Australian Institute of Architects( AIA), and has worked closely with industry, government and academia. He is also an honorary fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Building and a Life Fellow of the AIA.
Martin a fellow of AERA
Professor Andrew Martin from the University of Sydney was officially inducted as a fellow of the American Educational Research Association( AERA) at the association’ s annual meeting in San Francisco. Martin joins a total of 23 fellows for the 2013 program. He is also just one of the two scholars elected from universities outside of the United States. The AERA Fellows program honours education academics for scholarship that significantly enhances educational research. Fellows are nominated by their peers for selection. Martin’ s recent research touches a wide range of topics including resilience in young people, the impact of arts participation on youth outcomes, disengagement in mathematics, the effects of boarding school, and young people’ s adaptability in changing circumstances.
Ballarat offers Klein Smith chair
The University of Ballarat has welcomed professor Britt Klein as the Emeritus Professor Robert HT Smith Personal Chair in Clinical Psychology. From 2003 to 2007 she was senior research fellow and director of research at Monash University’ s eTherapy research, education and training unit, department of general practice. From 2007 to 2012, she held positions as associate professor, professor and director of the eTherapy research unit and the national eTherapy centre of the faculty of life and social sciences at Swinburne University. She has also been a professor at the Centre for Mental Health Research in ANU and clinic director for Macquarie University’ s MindSpot Clinic, where she will continue as a core project member. Klein completed a doctor of clinical psychology in the School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities at the UB.
Ballarat makes McIntosh adjunct professor
The University of Ballarat has awarded Andrew McIntosh an honorary appointment of adjunct professor at the Centre for Healthy and Safe Sport( CHASS).“ Adjunct professor Andrew McIntosh is one of Australia’ s leading Impact Injury Biomechanics with a strong and long history in research into head injury, and the use of helmets in sport,” said professor Caroline Finch, head of the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention.“ His skills will complement those of other CHASS team members very well,” she said.“ In this role, Andrew will be keen to collaborate and to provide his expertise to future and current projects.” McIntosh is currently working with Peta White and Caroline Finch on a project to review the role of helmets and associated regulation around them in combat sports.
strictlyspeaking
The recent death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has given rise to a spate of articles about the Iron Lady’ s legacy. This famous nickname was first given to her by the Soviet army magazine Red Star in 1976. While Thatcher herself adopted it as a compliment about the strength of her leadership, it was clearly not meant as one – the writer was accusing her of trying to revive the cold war. The implicit parallel with the name chosen by a former Soviet leader, Stalin( literally“ man of steel”), was also less than flattering. Several women in power have been given the title Iron Lady since, including Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, and Julia Gillard – who will be hoping that the sobriquet doesn’ t mean she will share Thatcher’ s fate of being ousted by her own party. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright even got upgraded when she became known as Titanium Lady. However, it is still Thatcher who is most irrevocably connected to the name, as the 2011 film based on her life demonstrated. Soon after her demise, a piece of graffiti appeared on a wall in Belfast:“ Iron Lady? Rust in Peace”. Written by Adam Smith, senior research assistant at the Centre for Language Sciences, Macquarie University.
Iron Lady
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