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SYDNEY UNI PICKS BUSINESS SCHOOL DEAN The University of Sydney announced that professor Greg Whitwell has been appointed the new dean of its Business School.
Whitwell is senior deputy dean of the Australian School of Business at UNSW, where he is also a professor of marketing.
He has served as deputy dean and director( Graduate School of Business and Economics) in the faculty of business and economics at the University of Melbourne, and chair, Academic Senate, U21 Global. He gained a bachelor of economics degree at Monash University and earned a PhD at the University of Melbourne.
For his work in economic history, Whitwell was awarded the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Medal.
NOTRE DAME BRINGS ABOARD DEAN OF MEDICINE The University of Notre Dame Australia has welcomed professor Shirley Bowen as the new dean of the School of
Medicine on the Fremantle Campus.
Selected after a wide-ranging recruitment process, Bowen’ s extensive career includes experience across a broad range of health areas, including public health, community and ambulatory care, as well as the acute hospital system.
Bowen was most recently the director of medical services at St John of God Murdoch Hospital and has held other senior roles, including executive director of Fremantle Hospital; acting area CEO of the North Metropolitan Area Health Service; and chief medical officer of the ACT. She is also an infectious diseases physician.
DEFENSE EX-MINISTER NEW WINTHROP PROF AT UWA One-time foreign affairs and defence minister Stephen Smith has returned to scholarship at The University of Western Australia, as Winthrop professor of international law.
Smith was awarded a bachelor of jurisprudence in 1976 and a bachelor of laws degree at UWA in 1977. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of WA in the same year. Smith was admitted as a barrister of the Bar of England and Wales( Middle Temple) in 1980, and was awarded a master of laws degree in international law from London School of Economics in 1982.
He is a member of the board of the Perth USAsia Centre and of the advisory board of the Perth legal firm Lavan Legal.
KATHERINE REGION DIRECTOR FOR CDU A former executive officer for the Purnululu World Heritage Area( Bungle Bungles) in northern Western Australia is Charles Darwin University’ s new director for the Katherine Region.
Ash Beechey also will serve as the head of the school of primary industries. He has extensive experience in strategic industry, government and community relations.
He came to the Northern Territory in 2006 to work on fire management and crocodile trapping at Nitmiluk National Park. He has undertaken high-level projects and infrastructure management with the department of education. He has also worked on regional land care and management projects with government, Indigenous and community / industry in Victoria, the Northern Territory and WA.
UNISA INTRODUCES PVC FOR STUDENT EQUITY The University of South Australia has appointed Dr Laura- Anne Bull to the newly created position of pro vice-chancellor student engagement and equity, a role designed to underpin a student-centred approach to education. Bull joins UniSA from the Australian National University. She earned a PhD in chemical engineering in 1998 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She worked as a process engineer for Zeneca Agrochemicals( now Syngenta) before returning to university teaching in 2001.
In 2008, she became acting head of registry at Strathclyde and, in 2010, head of student experience.
Moving to Australia, she commenced with ANU as deputy registrar, student services in 2011.
DUAL ROLE FOR CDU RESEARCH CHIEF Two of the Northern Territory’ s top research teams will be brought a little closer as program director Brendon Douglas takes up a new dual role with Charles Darwin University. Douglas has been appointed head of research for both the university’ s Office of Research and Innovation and the Menzies School of Health Research.
He brings extensive international aid experience and more than 15 years’ experience in consulting, executive and project management for academic, private and community institutions.
Douglas is a qualified lawyer and holds postgraduate management qualifications from the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
STRICTLY SPEAKING
LiTERALLy
It’ s commonly accepted that words change their meanings, but some evolutions cause greater strife than others. Purists insist that literally should be used only to distinguish the concrete from the figurative. There was predictable outrage when it was discovered last year that the Oxford English Dictionary had added a definition that covered hyperbolic uses such as,‘ I literally died when I found out’. The conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph classified this use as erroneous, despite the fact that the OED described it as“ one of the most common”. It isn’ t a new development either. The earliest recorded instance was found in 1769 and wellregarded authors such as Mark Twain are included in the list of citations. It’ s hard to argue that this use of literally obscures meaning, as the disjunct between the literal and the figurative is obvious in statements like,‘ That player’ s literally on fire!’ The word can be used to show the interplay between the physical and the metaphorical, as in a recent news story in the Darwin
Sun that described a school student as“ touched by the moment – literally”. The student was emotionally touched by touching( shaking hands with) Prince William. Perhaps Paul Keating would have been better advised to touch the queen less literally on a previous royal visit.
Written by Adam Smith, senior research assistant at the Centre for Language Sciences, Macquarie University.
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