Speakers
Rob Greenwood
PhD
Director, The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development
Memorial University of Newfoundland
robg@mun.ca
Rob is the founding director of The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, which was launched on October 1st, 2004. The Harris Centre's mandate is to coordinate and facilitate Memorial University's educational, research and outreach activities in the areas of regional policy and development. He is cross-appointed with Memorial's Faculty of Business Administration.
Rob has operated his own consulting business and has served as a Director and Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy in Economic Development departments in Newfoundland and Labrador and in Saskatchewan. He was Vice President, Corporate Development, Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan, and was founding Director of the Sustainable Communities Initiative, a partnership of the University of Regina, the City of Regina, and the National Research Council of Canada.
In Saskatchewan, he led the development of the provincial economic strategy. In Newfoundland and Labrador, he was Director of Research and Principal Author of the 1995 Report of the Newfoundland Task Force on Community Economic Development, entitled Community Matters: The New Regional Economic Development. He then led the process to establish Regional Economic Development Boards in 20 Economic Zones, based upon the recommendations of the Task Force. Rob also led the development and co-authored A Strategy for Small-Scale Manufacturing in Newfoundland and Labrador, which was launched in 1999.
Rob holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick, England, which he attended as a Commonwealth Scholar and an Institute of Social and Economic Research Doctoral Fellow. He was Newfoundland's representative on the International Advisory Board of the North Atlantic Islands Program and co-edited Competing Strategies of Socio-Economic Development for Small Islands, published in 1998. He has taught, consulted, published and presented extensively on community economic and regional development, strategic economic planning, sectoral and cluster development and knowledge mobilization. He is Past-President of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, Chair of the National Rural Research Network and past-Chair of the North Atlantic Forum.
Rob is married to Jackie and has two children Kate and Luke.
Professor
Ian Goulter
Vice-Chancellor and President
Charles Sturt University
Professor Ian Goulter is currently Vice-Chancellor and President at Charles
Sturt University, a position he has held since 2001. Prior to taking up the
position at Charles Sturt University he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Higher
Education) at Swinburne University of Technology (1997-2001), Pro-Vice
Chancellor (Academic) at Central Queensland University (1993-1997) and Dean
of the James Goldston Faculty of Engineering and Building (1992) and Head of
the Department of Civil Engineering (1991) at the University College of
Central Queensland. Before coming to Australia in 1990 he worked for 11
years at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
He received his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) with First Class Honours
from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1974. After working as
an Engineer in Government agencies and private companies he went on a
Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign
where he was awarded a Master of Science in 1977 and a PhD in 1979.
Professor Goulter is President Emeritus of the World Association for Co
operative Education (WACE), an international organisation committed to the
international promotion of World Integrated Learning in all its forms.
Professor Goulter was also the AVCC lead Vice-Chancellor for International,
a position he held from 2002-2003, and Convenor of the New South Wales
Vice-Chancellors' Committee from 2007-2008.
Professor Goulter is a Civil Engineer by profession. Following the award of
his Bachelor of Engineering (1st class honours) from the University of
Canterbury in New Zealand in 1974, he studied in the United States on a
Fulbright Scholarship, receiving his Master of Science and PhD degrees from
the University of Illinois in 1977 and 1979 respectively.
His professional expertise includes working as a professional engineer in
New Zealand, 11 years teaching and doing research at the University of
Manitoba, Canada, consulting and teaching in Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia
and Spain and senior administrative positions at Central Queensland
University and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
His area of expertise is water resources systems analysis. He has published
over 70 reference journal articles and 80 conference papers in areas varying
from reservoir operations to reliability of water supply systems. He has
received a number of awards for both his teaching and research.
He is a citizen of New Zealand, Canada and Australia.
Professor
Paul Johnson
Vice-Chancellor and President
La Trobe University
Professor Paul Johnson received his doctorate from Oxford University in
1982, while working as a Research Fellow at Nuffield College. In 1984 he
joined the London School of Economics (LSE) as a lecturer in Social History.
He became Professor of Economic History and Head of the Department at the
LSE in 1999 before becoming the LSE's Deputy Director in 2004.
His research has focused on two distinct areas: the economic and social development of Britain since 1850, and the economic impact of population ageing. He has published 10 authored or edited books and more than 60 articles and chapters, and has been recipient of research grants valued at more than $4 million. He has been expert adviser on pension reform and the economics of demographic change to the World Bank, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, the British Government and the House of Lords.
Professor Johnson has served on a number of professional councils, learned
societies and professional bodies in the UK including the ESRC Research
Grants Board, the Council of the Economic History Society, and the Governing
Board of the Pensions Policy Institute. He was elected to a Fellowship of
the Royal Historical Society in 1978, and to the Academy of Social Sciences
in 2001.
In his role as Deputy Director at the LSE Professor Johnson was responsible
for academic and strategic planning; resource allocation; human resource
policy; estates development and management and fundraising. He was a member
and chair of a number of key committees including the Academic Planning and
Resources Committee and the LSE Council.
Professor Johnson assumed the Vice-Chancellorship of La Trobe University in
April 2007.
Professor
Hilary Winchester
Pro Vice Chancellor: Strategy and Planning
University of South Australia
Professor Hilary Winchester is Pro Vice Chancellor: Strategy and Planning at
the University of South Australia. Her responsibilities as a member of the
Senior Management Group include strategic planning, load, quality, staff
equity, particularly gender equity and Indigenous staffing. Professor
Winchester has line management responsibility for major service units:
Information Strategy and Technology Services, Planning and Assurance
Services, and the Centre for Regional Engagement which includes the
University’s Northern Adelaide Partnerships (UNAP) unit.
A human geographer, Professor Winchester completed a BA (Hons) and D Phil at Oxford University. Her research focuses on key social issues such as urban disadvantage, population change, the geography of families and the impact of urban development. This has translated into playing a leading role in university engagement in northern Adelaide and regional South Australia. Hilary led the organisation of the Northern Community Summit held on 1 August 2008, a highly successful event with broad representation of the community and Government, which reinvigorated interest in building social inclusion and productivity in northern Adelaide through partnerships to raise aspirations and educational achievement.
Professor Winchester is an academic auditor for AUQA and has chaired (Curtin University 2008) and participated in quality audits in Australia and overseas as well as trial audits for Australian universities. Appointed an auditor to the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Council, in 2009 she chaired the audit of Hong Kong Baptist University.
In 2003, Hilary was appointed as the Higher Education representative on the Training and Skills Commission in South Australia.
From 2004 to 2006 Hilary was Co-Convenor of the National Colloquium of Senior University Women (now Universities Australia Executive Women) for whom she led a research project published in 2005 as, The Great Barrier Myth: an investigation of promotions policy and practice in Australian universities. She also led the development of the Universities Australia Second Action Plan for Women Employed in Australian Universities 2006 - 2010.
Hilary is a keen member of the ATN WEXDEV (Women's Executive Development) Management Group and frequently gives presentations to university women on issues relating to their careers.
In 2006, Hilary was appointed to the Priority Projects Standing Committee at the Australian Learning & Teaching Institute.
AUCEA National Conference, 8-10 July 2009 Whyalla South Australia, proudly acknowledges the following sponsors:
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