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EVOCCA NAMES ACADEMIC CHIEF
Janet Dalby has been appointed to the new position of chief academic officer at VET provider Evocca College.
Evocca stated that Dalby brought more than 20 years of experience in the education sector, having commenced her career in 1992 at Brighton and Hove College in the UK.
Previously, Dalby was managing director at New Zealand-based vocational education provider, Quantum Education Group, where she rose to the position of chief executive.
Dalby will be responsible for the development of academic excellence at Evocca, whilst also monitoring government legislation and ensuring academic best practice across the organisation.
ACADEMY OF HUMANITIES ADDS CHINA EXPERT
Professor John Fitzgerald, a leading expert on China, Australia and the geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region, has been elected president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Fitzgerald was China representative of the Ford Foundation in Beijing from 2008 – 12, until his current appointment as Truby and Florence Williams Chair in Social Investment and Philanthropy, and Director of the Asia- Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy, at Swinburne University.
Of his election, Fitzgerald said:“ Australians love reading about our history and archaeology. We enjoy poetry and music and we are keen to learn about other peoples and countries. Preserving and sharing these skills and pleasures is what the humanities are all about.
MARRIED PAIR JOIN CDU LAW FACULTY
A husband and wife duo of lawyers have each gained appointments at Charles
Darwin University.
Originally from Adelaide, Joe and Juliette McIntyre will join CDU School of Law from Thompson Rivers University in Canada.
Prior to their stint at Thompson Rivers the pair had worked together at Cambridge University but will now base themselves in the NT, which Joe McIntyre said places them closer to the rest of the world than in other Australian states.
“ Within four hours on a plane you can be in the heart of Asia, which provides opportunities to collaborate on an international level,” he said.
UNE NAMES NEW CHANCELLOR
The University of New England has announced local grazier and businessman James Harris as its chancellor.
As well as operating a large grazing operation in the region, Harris has been a UNE council member since 1994. His family has long ties to the university – the land on which UNE was established was originally donated by his great-grandfather.
“ My involvement with UNE spans two decades and in that time I have seen the university grow and prosper. The university is an integral part of the fabric of the New England [ region ] and plays an important role in providing education to people in regional areas,” Harris said.
“ I am proud to be part of the UNE community and I am passionate about ensuring this university remains competitive and innovative.”
TASMANIA’ S NEW GOVERNOR IS UTAS PROF
The University of Tasmania has praised the appointment of professor Kate Warner as the first female governor of Tasmania. Warner was the university’ s first female law faculty professor and its first female law faculty dean. Her colleagues estimate she’ s had a hand in teaching more than half the state’ s serving legal practitioners.
In a statement, UTAS confirmed that she would continue to maintain her association whilst also taking on her new responsibilities.
“ It is fitting that one of the highest offices in the state falls to someone who has devoted their career to the acquisition of knowledge, education and research,” UTAS VC professor Peter Rathjen said.
SYDNEY UNI NAMES BIOMED RESEARCH CHIEF
Internationally recognised biomedical engineering and sleep-disorder expert professor Philip de Chazal has been appointed ResMed chair in biomedical engineering at the University of Sydney.
The university stated that de Chazal would lead its research and educational activities in biomedical engineering, working across the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies and the newly established Charles Perkins Centre.
“ Sleep-disordered breathing … has broad implications in other chronic conditions, such as hypertension and cardiac arrest,” de Chazal said.“ My work at the University of Sydney will focus on the application and development of systems and technologies to improve early recognition, diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing.”
STRICTLY SPEAKING
GOTHIC VALUES
The word Gothic( in Latin“ gothicus”) would have struck terror into the hearts of 5th-century Romans, with its dark connotations of barbarians pouring out of Germanic wilderness to destroy their civilisation. Centuries later, Gothic seems to have shaken off its terrifying connotations, so that it could be applied to the new style of church building with awe-inspiring architecture that replaced the rounded Roman style of the first millennium. But the dark associations of Gothic surface again centuries later in the Gothic novel, conventionally set in a sinister castle or a Gothic wilderness, like the bleak, eerie landscape of Wuthering Heights( 1847). A writer for the Melbourne Punch( 1852) found“ the very landscape of Australia was gothic”( 1852); and Marcus Clarke made the most of it as backdrop to The term of his natural life( 1874), describing the savagery of convict life.“ Tasmanian Gothic” lives on as visual art in David Walsh’ s Museum of Old and New Art, with its themes of sex and death. The funereal black of Gothic clothing becomes a fashion statement at the online store tragic. beautiful. com, when accompanied by a matching handbag. Still, in Goth music you can expect“ dark, dim or haunting tunes” with“ spooky or morbid lyrics”, according to a Gothic appreciation website. Gothtronic music then offers a darkly romantic human voice mashed with grisly electronic sounds, for the ultimate Gothic experience.
Written by emeritus professor Pam Peters, researcher with Macquarie University’ s Centre for Language Sciences.
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