Career Moves
May 2003
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Lois Bryson, former TASA President, Journal Editor, and long time TASA member, on being awarded a Centenary Medal for contributions to Australian society and government in 2001, the 100th anniversary of Federation. Click here for further details.
February 2003
Philip Smith and Tim Phillips are the recipients of the prestigious TASA Prize for the Best Paper in the Journal of Sociology, for their paper: ‘Popular understandings of "unAustralian": an investigation of the un-national’, Journal of Sociology, 37, 4, December, 2001, 323-339. The Prize is awarded to the paper judged by the panel to be the best published in the previous two years of the Journal of Sociology.
January 2003
University of New England
- Peter Corrigan has been promoted to Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning)
University of Tasmania
- Rob White has been promoted to Professor.
University of South Australia
- Suzanne Franzway has been promoted to Associate Professor.
August 2002
Central Queensland University
- Gayle Jennings has been promoted to Associate Professor.
July 2002
ANU
- Dr Larry Saha has retired, although he is back on contract, lecturing in social psychology.
- Dr Owen Dent has resigned to take up a research position at Concorde Hospital in Sydney.
- Dr Jack Barbalet has resigned to take up the Chair in sociology at Leicester.
University of Queensland
- Professor Geoff Lawrence has taken up the positions of Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social Science.
- Dr Lynda Herbert-Cheshire has accepted a three year postdoctoral fellowship, continuing her research on community development in rural and regional Australia.
- Dr Phil Smith has taken up a position in the Department of Sociology at Yale University.
Flinders University
- Professor Robert Holton is on leave and has taken up the Professorship of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin
- Dr Xiaowei Zang and Dr Laura Brewer have resigned to take up overseas appointments
- Dr Jason Pudsey has been appointed as a Lecturer B
- Visitors to the Department have included: Professor Garth Massey (University of Wymoing);
- Dr Bernard Strattman (Germany); Dr Hiroyuki Shimizu (Japan).
- Sharyn Roach Anleu has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Sociology.
National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health
- Professor Tony McMichael has taken the position of Director of the Centre, He replaces the founding Director, Bob Douglas, who has recently retired.
- Visitors have included Professor Hilary Graham, Lancaster University; Professor
- Steve Kuntz from the University of Rochester; and Professor Philip James, Chairman of the International Obesity Task Force of the World Health Organization.
RMIT
- Dr Kim Humphrey has arrived from the Northern Territory to take up a Senior Lectureship.
- Professor Belinda Probert is currently acting Dean and Associate Professor Bruce Wilson is Head of School.
- Associate Professor Chris Chamberlain has moved from Monash to the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute located within RMIT.
- Associate Professor John Martin has been appointed Associate Professor of the Centre for Regional and Rural Development in Hamilton, Western Victoria.
University of Sydney
- Professor Bettina Cass is returning from having been Dean for five years and taking a year's study leave at Georgetown University in the US.
- Associate Professor Joanne Finkelstein is going on study leave in 2nd Semester. She was promoted to Associate Professor at the end of last year.
- Dr Sue Goodwin has been appointed as a Lecturer B.
- Dr Craig Browne has been appointed to a one-year contract.
University of Tasmania
- Kristin Natalier has been appointed to a Lecturer A.
- Dr Keith Jacobs has been appointed as a Housing Research Fellow.
- Dr Brett Hutchins has been appointed as a Lecturer A.
- From 2003 Associate Professor Gary Easthope will transfer to a 0.5 position, working in the first half of each year.
- Visitors have included Professor Marienne Lien from the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
University of Melbourne
- Johanna Wyn has been promoted to Professor in Education, and the Chair has been awarded in recognition of her work in youth studies.
QUT
- Professor Sandra Harding (Dean, Faculty of Business) has recently been appointed as the Chairperson of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council; as well as being: Member, HIH Assessment Review Panel; President, Australian Business Deans Council; Member, Queensland Small Business Advisory Council; and Non-Executive Director, Brisbane Transport Board.
University of Newcastle
- Dr John Germov has been elected to the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
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