2008 Annual General Meeting
About the AGM
Board at 12 Oct 2008About CHASS
2008 Annual General Meeting
5th AGM of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
4:00pm Monday, 13 October 2008
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, USYD
1 Macquarie St, Sydney
Nominations for the CHASS Board 2008-09
Summary
As sixteen nominations have been received for the nine board member positions and two nominations have been received for the position of President, there will be ballots at the Annual General Meeting next Monday.
(*) current Board member
(s) proposed by Search Committee
- Mr Gavin Artz
- Dr John Byron*s
- Professor Stuart Cunningham*s
- Professor Paul Draper
- Professor Meredith Edwards AM, FASSAs
- Professor Raelene Francess
- Prof Elizabeth Grierson
- Mr Stuart Hamilton AO*s
- Professor Ross Homel AO*s
- Dr John H Howard
- Professor Terence Lovat
- Professor Catherine Lumby
- Associate Professor Greg McCarthy
- Professor Richard Nile
- Professor Margaret Seares AOs
- Dr Astrid Wootton
Nomination for President
Mr Gavin Artz
These are interesting times for the HASS Sector. Greater emphasis on interdisciplinary research combined with the growth of concepts around social entrepreneurship are allowing for the HASS Sector to move to a more central role in culture, community and the economy. Through Gavin's work as General Manager of Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) he facilitates interdisciplinary research opportunities and builds models of working in this area. These models come from the real world experiences of working across the arts and sciences and are changing the ways HASS research and practitioners engage with other disciplines and business.
Gavin has experience in business management ranging from multi-national companies, to not-for-profit community organisations in education and the arts. His diverse background spans arts and commerce - with a BA in Politics; Double Bass and Composition Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; a Graduate Certificate in Business Management; and current studies toward an MBA. Gavin has been a Director of the ICT council for SA and is currently on the MEGA SA working group and the ANAT Board. This blend of business, technology, arts and research experience would allow him to serve the interests of the Board and members of CHASS.
Gavin's main interests lie in taking a social entrepreneurship approach to interdisciplinary research and creative practice. He believes you do not have to bend the HASS Sector to economic demands, but that the true value of the HASS Sector comes out of allowing the individuals involved to pursue their own vision while working to capture the value of that work. In this way the benefits not only accrue to culture, community and the economy, but also to individual practitioners and researchers.
Dr John Byron*s
John Byron has worked in higher education and research policy for over a decade, and as Executive Director of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2003. He has English degrees from the Universities of Sydney (PhD) and Adelaide (BA Hons), and his doctoral dissertation was on recent movies dealing with questions of memory, reality, identity and authenticity. He is Secretary of the Association for the Medical Humanities (ANZ) and serves on the program committee of the Canberra Writers' Festival. John rejoined the Board in 2007 after earlier playing a key role in the establishment of CHASS and serving as its inaugural Secretary 2004-5.
Professor Stuart Cunningham*s
Stuart Cunningham is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, based at Queensland University of Technology. This centre draws on contributions across the humanities, creative arts and social sciences to help build a more dynamic and inclusive innovation system in Australia. Stuart is known for his contributions to media, communications and cultural studies and works to promote their relevance to industry practice and government policy. He is the author or editor of several books and major reports, the latest being The Media and Communications in Australia (edited with Graeme Turner) and What Price a Creative Economy? A collection of his key essays is forthcoming in 2008. He has served as a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission, as Foundation Chair of QPIX, Queensland's Screen Development Centre, and as Treasurer of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is currently President of CHASS, and has chaired the Humanities and Creative Arts panel of the ARC's College of Experts during 2007.
Professor Paul Draper
Paul Draper is the Griffith University Foundation Chair in Digital Arts, Deputy Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and Head of Music Technology at the Conservatorium. He has a clear insight to the technological innovation agenda from the point of view of the arts and his portfolio includes leadership and strategic direction for digital arts communities across Griffith's campuses. With a 25-year track record as a professional musician and recording studio producer, Paul designed and realised the Conservatorium's technology-based learning and research environments. As an educator, he has designed, taught and convened undergraduate and research degree programs in music technology, popular music and multimedia, and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards in these areas, including a 2001 national award for excellence in research for his doctorate in education.
Paul is the Director of IMERSD (Intermedia, Music Education & Research Design), the Australian university sector's premier 5.1 surround-sound recording and post-production studio, engaging in industry projects, consultancies, work-integrated learning and postgraduate research training. Paul writes on music education, higher education and the arts with other publications including commercial music recording outputs and hybrid media works. He is a steering committee member of the annual interdisciplinary digital arts conference 'CreateWorld' now its third year, serves on the editorial board of UK Intellect's Journal of Music, Technology and Education and most recently, has served as an invited collaborator of the Expert Working Group for the HASS-NCRIS Review.
Professor Meredith Edwards AM FASSAs
Meredith Edwards is an economist with a PhD from the Australian National University. Through her career, Meredith has been a lecturer, researcher, policy analyst and administrator.
Meredith worked in the Commonwealth Public Service from 1983 until 1997 in many departments advising on some major social policy, education and labour market issues. She became Deputy Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in 1993 and held that position until 1997. She served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra from August 1997, when she also became Professor, until August 2002. She set up the National Institute for Governance in 1999 and was appointed its Director in that year, stepping down from this position in December 2004. In 2005 she became Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra. Since that time, Meredith has also been a Senior Consultant for Courage Partners.
In 2001 she published a book Social Policy, Public Policy: From Problem to Practice based on case studies she was involved in during her career in the Commonwealth Public Service. Her current major research interests are: a major ARC project on issues relating to the governance of public sector boards; the research-policy relationship and community engagement issues. Her recent and major publications can be found at www.canberra.edu.au/corpgov-aps.
Meredith was a member of the Wran Committee on Higher Education Funding (1988-1989). She was also a member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council (1988-90 and 1994-2001). She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA), and was President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand (ACT Branch) from 1994-1996. Professor Edwards chaired a review of the research program of ANZSOG in 2007. Meredith was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in 1992 for services to education and welfare.
Professor Raelene Francess
Rae Frances is Dean of Arts at Monash University. She is an historian who has published extensively on Australian history, particularly in relation to issues around gender and labour. Before taking up the position of Dean at Monash, she was Head of the School of History at the University of New South Wales, where she was also Branch President of the National Tertiary Education Union and Member of the University Council, President of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and Executive Member of the Australian Historical Association.
Professor Frances is a Board member of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities.
Professor Elizabeth Grierson
As Professor of Art and Philosophy and Head of the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Elizabeth Grierson has wide experience in the arts, social sciences and humanities. As a member of the CHASS Board she would be representing around 22,000 arts, design and social science students at RMIT; and her work on a number of boards both at RMIT and beyond ensures the activation of advocacy for the arts, social sciences and humanities nationally and internationally. She is executive member of the RMIT Design Research Institute, leading the research program Intervention through Art, and leading Art and Urbanism projects in the Global Cities Institute. External appointments include Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK, Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT, New Zealand, World Council member of InSEA International Society of Education through Art, executive board member of ACUADS Australia Council of University Art and Design Schools, and AEA Art Education Australia, and international committee member of GSA Global Studies Association UK. Frequently called upon for keynotes and presentations, Elizabeth has presented her research at UNESCO meetings on the arts in education, and actively contributes to research and advocacy for creative education through the World Alliance of Arts in Education and World Creativity Summits.
Publishing widely in the field of the creative arts and humanities, Elizabeth has particular interest in art as material and philosophical practice, philosophy of knowledge, identity, and globalization; and is also executive editor of the refereed journal ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, consulting editor of EPAT Educational Philosophy and Theory, and on the editorial board of Australian Art Education and International Journal of Education Through Art. She would like to contribute directly to debates in context of the new research environments of ERA and its implications for academic work in the creative arts and humanities, and she believes her portfolio of knowledge and professional practice provides the experience required for robust contribution to the work of CHASS.
Mr Stuart Hamilton AO*s
Stuart Hamilton is Chief Executive of Open Universities Australia, Chair of the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority and a member of the Victorian Skills Commission. He was previously CEO of the Victorian Innovation Economy Advisory Board, and Secretary to the Victorian Department of Education and Training. He was Executive Director of the AV-CC (now Universities Australia) from 1996 to 2001. Mr Hamilton has headed two Commonwealth Departments (Environment and Health). He has been a member of the Boards of the Australian Heritage Commission, the Health Insurance Commission, the International Association of Universities and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). He has degrees in English Language & Literature and Economics and continuous education in music performance. He brings an understanding of government, all sectors of education, and a background in and sympathy with each of the HASS broad constituencies. He has been a member of the CHASS Board since 2005 and is currently the Secretary of the Board.
Professor Ross Homel AO*s
Ross Homel is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Director of the University's Strategic Research Program for Social Change and Wellbeing, a virtual network of about 120 academic staff in the social and behavioural sciences. He was elected as a Board member of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) in October 2007, and is also an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academy Executive.
Ross has held senior research management positions within Griffith University since 1993 including as Director of the highly successful Australian Research Council Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance between 2004 and 2007. He was responsible for establishing a national set of research priorities to advance the wellbeing of children and young people and for setting up a new Australian Research Council research network, while undertaking a half time role with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth in 2002 and 2003. Professor Homel's accomplishments were recognised in January 2008 when he was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) "for service to education, particularly in the field of criminology, through research into the causes of crime, early intervention and prevention methods." In May 2008 he was recognised with an award from the Premier of Queensland as a 'Queensland Great', "for his contribution to Queensland's reputation for research excellence, the development of social policy and justice reform and helping Queensland's disadvantaged communities."
He is seeking re-election to the CHASS Board for three reasons: (a) on the basis of his contribution to the Board over the past 12 months, which has centered on providing a social science perspective on many of the issues debated; (b) an additional year on the Board would permit him to build on what he has learned about CHASS in the past 12 months, and in particular how to return to influencing government policy as its central task; and (c) as a member of the executive of ASSA he can provide a useful bridge between the two organisations.
Dr John H Howard
John Howard holds the position of Director of Innovation and Engagement at the University of Canberra. In that role he is responsible for building linkages and stronger relationships between the University and business, government and the community in Canberra, the Capital Region, and nationally.
During 2007-8, John held the position of Director, Research, at CHASS. In that role he authored CHASS Occasional Paper No. 4 Rigour and relevance: Extending the role of the social sciences and humanities in public policy research, and CHASS Occasional Paper No. 5 Between a hard rock & a soft space : A background paper prepared for the National Innovation Review.
John is also founder and currently non-executive director of Howard Partners, a Canberra-based public policy research and management consultancy business. In that role he directed the 2008 study of the ACT Innovation System Innovation, Creativity and Leadership which addressed the interactions between art and creative practice and science and technology in achieving innovation outcomes.
John is the principal author of numerous public policy related reports and studies in the public domain, including the 2003 Review of the CRC program and a report for the Business Council of Australian in 2007 on innovation in Australia's larger companies. Through these and many other projects led over a 20 year professional services career, John has developed excellent relationships with the Commonwealth and State governments and industry in the areas of public policy formulation, implementation and review.
John is a social scientist and is keen to contribute his skills, knowledge and experience to strengthening relationships between CHASS and government, business and the broader research community. John holds a PhD for the University of Sydney, a Master of Arts from the University of Canberra, and an Economics (Honours) degree from the University of Tasmania. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Australia and currently teaches Managing Change and Innovation in the University of Canberra MBA program.
Professor Terence Lovat
Terence Lovat is Professor of Education, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Arts) and member of the Executive Committee at The University of Newcastle. He is a former Dean of Education at Newcastle and President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE).
Terence has held several prominent positions in NSW and nationally. He is a former President of the NSW Teacher Education Council and a ministerial appointee to the Public Education Council and its former advisory body, the Ministerial Advisory Council for the Quality of Teaching. He has also served on several syllabus and examination committees for the NSW Board of Studies, including Society and Culture and Studies of Religion. Nationally, he was a ministerial foundational appointee to the Board of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and former ministerial appointee to the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy and the Reference Group of the National Review of Teaching and Teacher Education.
Terence is an experienced researcher and consultant. He has managed, individually and collaboratively, over A$1.75m of funded research, has written several scholarly texts (including one translation), over 80 refereed articles and chapters, and is a regular keynote presenter at national and international conferences, including most recently at the National Values Education Forum in 2005 and 2006.
Terence's research and consultancy around areas like Values Education and Religious Education has assured a recognition and reputation across the school sectors. He regularly receives invitations to address or advise in the public sector, as well as in the Catholic systems, and private and non-Catholic religious sectors. He is particularly involved at present in work around the issue of the impact of Muslim and non-Muslim schooling on Muslim youth. Terence is a former school teacher who taught in both public and Catholic schools.
Professor Catherine Lumby
Catharine Lumby is the Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre (JMRC) at UNSW where she works with a team of researchers seeding and prosecuting research across public, private and community sectors. She was the founding Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney.
Her first degrees are in Fine Arts and Law and she has worked as a contemporary art critic, curated exhibitions and served on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Catharine also worked for two decades as a feature and opinion writer for a range of key Australian and international print media and is an experienced public commentator on research in the HASS sector.
Catharine is the author and co-author of seven books and has been a Chief Investigator on seven ARC Grants. She has also worked extensively on applied research projects in the private and community sectors with organizations as diverse as the National Rugby League, Channel Ten and Rape Crisis NSW. She is strongly committed to communicating the value of new humanities knowledge to the public, private and community sectors and to promoting interdisciplinary collaborations that build the research capacity of the HASS sector.
Catharine served as a member of the Advertising Standards Board (1999-2008), is a member of the NSW Health Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board and is on the international editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
She believes CHASS has a pivotal role to play as an advocate for the humanities, arts and social sciences at a critical time in the history of Australian higher education.
Associate Professor Greg McCarthy
As National Vice-President of the NTEU and as a research leader at the University of Adelaide, Greg McCarthy is applying for a position on the CHASS board so as to bring a political and stakeholder perspective to the board, in the period that presents great opportunities for CHASS, especially in influencing public debate and government policy. As Vice President of the major stakeholder representing university staff, he considers that his views would complement those of the board; thereby giving CHASS's direction a shaper edge in a period where the Cutler and the Bradley reviews are shaping the tertiary sector for the long term. These two reviews with their respective stresses on productivity and contestability, present profound challenges for the Humanities and Social Science that require nuance responses from CHASS, ones that we must ensure will be listened to by the government and the Opposition.
Secondly, in terms of academic expertise, Greg brings to the position a social science background, having conducted research in political science over an extended period of time. His field of research interests are both in Australian politics and the politics of culture. His research straddles the Humanities and the Social Sciences in that it applies a social science methodology to such fields as Indigenous voting, secondary students' attitudes to national identity and public policy failure. At an institutional level, he has been Associate Dean Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, playing a central role in developing policies at the University of Adelaide to guide the shift from quantity to quality research measurements.
In recent years, Greg has been actively engaged in preparing submissions to the Commonwealth government's inquiries, lately that of Bradley and Cutler. He has a clear overview of the direction in which higher education is heading and the challenges this will bring to academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Australia. He considers that he would bring to the board a form of stakeholder experience and a social science point of view not currently represented on the board and thereby assist in guiding the direction of CHASS at a critical moment in post-secondary education.
Professor Richard Nile
Richard Nile has held academic positions at: the University of Queensland, variously as Deputy Director, Executive Director and Director of the Australian Studies Centre (1993-2000); University of London as Deputy Director of the Menzies Centre (1989-1992); and the UWA and UNSW as a lecturer (1986-1989), before arriving at Curtin in 2000 as the foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Director of the Australian Studies Centre (2000-2003) and the Australia Research Institute (2004-2008). He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts in 2006 and has held a number of visiting professorial appointments in Asia and Europe including, more recently, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen (2007) and Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin (2009).
Richard edited the Journal of Australian Studies for 11 years to 2007 before taking over ACH: the International Journal of Culture and History in Australia (both A journals published by Taylor&Francis), and has edited and produced the work of several hundred HASS scholars across approximately 1000 research publications since the 1990s. He co-founded the International Australian Studies Association and the European Australian Studies Association, and created the Australian Public Intellectual Network, which is the largest independent network of HASS scholars in Australia.
Richard has served on editorial boards across Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe and USA, and has been Chief Investigator on 10 ARC grants in addition to holding industry grants in the region of $1.2 million. He has published 16 books, 40 refereed articles/chapters, 50 feature articles, and has initiated national debates on higher education and postgraduate studies, in particular, through the Australian HES. His books have been published globally and across several translations including Chinese, Danish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish editions.
Professor Margaret Seares AOs
Margaret Seares holds the position of Pro Vice Chancellor (Community & Development), at The University of Western Australia. She holds a PhD from UWA in Music, her field of specialty being the keyboard music of the 18th century. From 1991-1995 she was Head of the School of Music, and Deputy Chair of the Academic Board at UWA.
In 1995 she accepted a two-year secondment to the position of CEO with the West Australian Department for the Arts (now the Ministry for Culture & the Arts). During this time she was a member of the boards of the Western Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of WA, the Perth Theatre Trust, Opera Australia, and of the Advisory Board of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
In 1997 Margaret was appointed as Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts. In addition to membership of the Australia Council, she was a member of the Foreign Minister's Australia International Cultural Council and a Director of the Australia Business Arts Foundation.
Since completion of her term as Chair of the Australia she has been a member of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, of the Australia-Japan Foundation, the ABC's Arts Advisory Committee (of which she was Chair), the Expert Advisory Committee for Humanities & Creative Arts for the Australian Research Council, and is now on the ARC's Advisory Council. She is also a Board member of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 she chaired the National Review of Music Education for the Federal Government, and has undertaken reviews for the West Australian, Victorian and South Australian governments on issues to do with arts and culture. In 2003 Margaret was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her work for the arts and education.
Dr Astrid Wootton
Astrid Wootton is Director of the Design Centre Tasmania. As a member of Australian Craft and Design Centres, the national peak body for craft and design, she can bring to the Board a view of design (as it relates to craft, built objects and products) that is based upon continuing national discussions of developments and new ideas and methodologies in the sector.
Astrid understands that the embedding of design and creativity within the Government's remit is a current area of interest for CHASS. She was a participant in the 'Towards a Creative Australia' stream at the recent 2020 Summit, and was involved in the discussion of this specific issue; she would be very interested to be further involved, through CHASS, in this ongoing discussion. In her role as Director of the Design Centre Tasmania (www.designcentre.com.au), she can bring a sound industry perspective to the Board. Astrid is particularly aware of, and interested in, the practicalities of delivering to the industry sector any benefits that build from embedding creativity and design in public policy.
Professor Linda Rosenmans
Expression of Interest for position of CHASS President
CHASS has now become established as a peak body for the HASS sector. As a maturing organisation it is important that we are clear about our direction and priorities and are proactive in initiating policy as well as responding to governement action.
In order to do this I would focus on:
- Getting the basics right: re-engaging with our membership and clarifying membership entitlements and roles
- Ensuring good relationships, communication and complementarities with our key stakeholders
- Working co-operatively with and respecting the roles and existing relationships of our members
- In conjunction with the membership ensuring that the Board develops a strategic plan that gives a clear direction and value base for the organisation that can be communicated externally
- Actively advocating for the unique contributions of the HASS sector with the government of the day and also with the opposition, state government, business and the non-governement sector and key organisations
- Keeping a watching brief on issues across the HASS sector that may require action by CHASS or in co-ordination with one of our member organisations
Professor Linda Rosenman: Brief biography
I am currently Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Region) at Victoria University in Melbourne. Prior to that I was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland from 1997-2006 and before that President of the UQ Academic Board and Head of School of Social Work and Social Policy. I studied and worked in the United States returning to Australia in 1987 from a position as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri.
I have served as President of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) and of the Association for Social Work and Welfare Education and have served on and chaired a large number of Boards, Commissions and advisory councils across the education and human and community services sectors. I have a long background with CHASS since its foundation and served as Vice-president until stepping down from the CHASS Board in 2007. My academic background is in Economics and Social Work and social policy.
Professor Richard Nile
Expression of Interest for position of CHASS President
Richard Nile has held academic positions at: the University of Queensland, variously as Deputy Director, Executive Director and Director of the Australian Studies Centre (1993-2000); University of London as Deputy Director of the Menzies Centre (1989-1992); and the UWA and UNSW as a lecturer (1986-1989), before arriving at Curtin in 2000 as the foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Director of the Australian Studies Centre (2000-2003) and the Australia Research Institute (2004-2008). He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts in 2006 and has held a number of visiting professorial appointments in Asia and Europe including, more recently, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen (2007) and Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin (2009).
Richard edited the Journal of Australian Studies for 11 years to 2007 before taking over ACH: the International Journal of Culture and History in Australia (both A journals published by Taylor&Francis), and has edited and produced the work of several hundred HASS scholars across approximately 1000 research publications since the 1990s. He co-founded the International Australian Studies Association and the European Australian Studies Association, and created the Australian Public Intellectual Network, which is the largest independent network of HASS scholars in Australia.
Richard has served on editorial boards across Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe and USA, and has been Chief Investigator on 10 ARC grants in addition to holding industry grants in the region of $1.2 million. He has published 16 books, 40 refereed articles/chapters, 50 feature articles, and has initiated national debates on higher education and postgraduate studies, in particular, through the Australian HES. His books have been published globally and across several translations including Chinese, Danish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish editions.
For more information, please contact
Fenja Theden-Ringl
Research and Policy Officer
Phone: (02) 6201 2559
Email: policy [at] chass.org.au
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