UNCONFIRMED MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON OCTOBER 24 2024 AT 12.30PM IN THE UNIVERSITY CLUB OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Download a copy of the minutes.
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The University of Western Australia’s Academic Board celebrated the appointment of 15 Emeriti Professors at its annual event last week. This title honours professors, who are retiring after a significant period of distinguished and meritorious service at the University. We congratulate the following UWA ASA members on this honour! Emerita Professor Robyn Carroll (Law School).
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To those who never knew Alan Robson the number and depth of feeling in the tributes made within and outside the University might seem a surprise, but he was a Vice-Chancellor and before that a Deputy Vice-Chancellor like no other. His legacies to the University are too numerous to recount but they include the creation
Dear UWA ASA members, I trust you are all surviving the end of semester, and looking forward to marking season… But before that comes to pass, we wanted to take a moment to reach out to you and check in. The last five years have been, in many respects, an absolute ordeal. In a short
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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON OCTOBER 12 2023 AT 12.30PM IN THE ACORN ROOM, ABOVE THE GUILD SHOPS, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Download a copy of the minutes.
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The Philippa Maddern Awards Presentation ceremony was held on Thursday 14 September 2024 at The University Club of Western Australia. This biennial event is an important occasion in the Academic Staff Association calendar as the awards recognise the positive influences that academics have on students, the university and the wider community, through their outstanding leadership
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Dear UWAASA Members & Colleagues, Well, one semester down (not counting deferred and supplementary exams) and about to begin the next. Time flies! In this newsletter, I provide a heads-up on the upcoming Philippa Maddern Award event, touch on parking (of course), on administrative creep into the academic’s workload, and on the appointment of a
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The Philippa Maddern Award 2023 has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and will now be held either late 2023 or in 2024.
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We certainly can’t claim that newsletters from UWA ASA are frequent, but we hope that they are at least worth reading when they arrive. This newsletter was hard to write, and went through a few drafts. As the ‘voice of academics’ at UWA we want to voice hope and optimism, not least because — as
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On 14th October, our association held its Annual General Meeting. The meeting was particularly well attended, which is perhaps not surprising, given the rapid turnover of material for discussion in recent months. Indeed, the speed of events has been such that our capacity to keep pace through the circulation of newsletters to our members has
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