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CDU names agriculture expert VC Professor Simon Maddocks, a leading Australian agricultural scientist, will be the next vice-chancellor of Charles Darwin University. He is expected to start in March. Maddocks is now director of science partnerships at the South Australian Research and Development Institute( SARDI). He has served on the governing board of the Menzies School of Health Research for 20 years, the last nine as chairman. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology. CDU deputy vice-chancellor professor Sharon Bell, will serve as interim vice-chancellor until Maddocks’ arrival.
UWA picks Australian history chair Award-winning author and historian professor Jane Lydon has been appointed inaugural Wesfarmers Chair in Australian History at the
University of Western Australia.
Lydon is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Her research centres upon the impact that Australia’ s colonial past has on its present circumstances.
“ I’ m driven by our colonial past and especially cultural exchange between Indigenous people and settlers and how this continues to shape Australian society now,” she says.
Lydon recently won the history book category of the Queensland Literary Awards for her photographic work The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights.
Inaugural ancient history chair at UQ The University of Queensland has named Dr Alastair Blanshard the inaugural Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History. He will take up the role early this year. Blanshard earned a master of arts degree from UQ in 1996 and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999. He is an international leader in classical tradition and an editor for the Classics after Antiquity monograph series. His research interests include Greek cultural history, Greek rhetoric and law, epigraphy and ancient sexuality. Most recently a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, he previously taught at the University of Reading and Merton College, Oxford.
Alan Kohler moves into academia One of Australia’ s most experienced financial journalists will take on a new role as adjunct professor in Victoria University’ s college of business.
Alan Kohler has long had an interest in family businesses and central to his role will be touting the value of financial education.
Kohler is the founder of Eureka Report and the Business Spectator website. He has been a financial journalist since 1971. He wrote the Chanticleer column on the back page of The Australian Financial Review for four years, was appointed deputy editor then editor of the Financial Review in 1983. He returned to Chanticleer in 1988. Since 1995, he has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, first as a business and economics reporter on 7.30 and then as a presenter on the nightly news and Inside Business. consumer expert New pro VC AT griffith Professor Sarah Todd has taken up the position of pro vice-chancellor( international) at Griffith University, succeeding Chris Madden.
Todd’ s responsibilities will include the Griffith English Language Institute and the International Business Development Unit.
She joins Griffith after a distinguished career at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where she was appointed the inaugural pro vice-chancellor( international) in 2006. Prior to that she was academic dean at Otago’ s school of business.
Her research interests lie in the general area of consumer behaviour, specifically lifestyles and values research, children as consumers and sustainable consumption.
UWA Urban design Centre names director The University of Western Australia has appointed Dr Jörg Baumeister director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre.
Baumeister has been researching, practising and teaching urban design and architecture for more than 20 years in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
He has been professor of urban design and development at the German University of Technology in Oman since 2010. There he headed the team responsible for the redevelopment of Muttrah, the main tourist destination of Oman, for the ministry of Tourism and Heritage and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs.
He was founding chair of urban design and development at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.
Strictly speaking: Shipping One of the favourite pastimes of fans of a TV or book series is to imagine beloved characters as a romantic couple. For example, Harry Potter and Hermione seemed a natural pairing as they grew to maturity, only for JK Rowling to subvert this expectation. There’ s a word for this form of hypothetical matchmaking – shipping, from relationship – and it’ s no longer confined to fictional characters. If you ship two people, you want them to be together( in a ship), and that makes you a shipper. Online fan fiction gives audiences the opportunity to create storylines that can enact such wished-for unions. In these, the metaphorical potential of the word ship is further explored, in terms such as shore – a happy outcome of a ship – or anchoring, where fans ship themselves with a favourite character. There are even ship names, as in Brangelina( for the real-life couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), portmanteau words that symbolise the inevitable combination of the two people. These are not the kind of ships that just pass in the night.
Written by Adam Smith, senior research assistant at the Centre for Language Sciences, Macquarie University.
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