Advisory Board
A committed and active Advisory Board has helped to shape the structure and strategic directions of the Barbara Hardy Centre. The board meets quarterly to review progress and advise on Centre activities. Members of the Board are listed below.
Alan Branch
Alan Branch is a partner at
Donaldson Walsh, where he heads the firm’s franchising division. In
addition to his role as President of the SA Chapter of the Franchise
Council of Australia he is also member of the FCA Ethics Committee.
Alan commenced his franchise practice in 1981 and is widely
recognised as one of Australia’s leading franchise lawyers. He has
developed his reputation based on the success of franchise systems
and actively promotes the success of franchising Australia-wide.
Alan is involved in a wide range of commercial advice both in the
public and the private sector. With over 25 years experience in
franchising and business advice in Australia, Asia, Europe and the
USA, Alan’s advice to clients focuses on achieving commercial
results that lead to sustainable benefits in the long term. He has
wide experience establishing franchises in service, food, retail,
manufacturing, internet, security, training and real estate
industries. Alan is a regular on the speaking circuit for the FCA
both in Australia and overseas, including the first International
India Summit for Franchising which was held in New Delhi, India
2007. Associate Professor John Boland is Dean of Research in the
Division of Information Technology,
Engineering and the Environment at UniA. His research focus lies in combining
mathematical, statistical and time series techniques, particulary in the
area of environmental modelling and modelling systems under uncertainty.
This manifests itself in projects as wide ranging as quantifying the
relationships between seagrass and commercial important fish species,
modelling the impact of grazing in the rangelands, assessing the use of
native plants in the stablisation of rail tracks, and optimal control of
solar powered racing cars. He has published extensively in many areas of
environmental modelling, is Associate Editor for three international
journals, Renewable Energy, Open Journal of Environmental Engineering and
Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics, and is a
reviewer for a number of international journals. Associate Professor Boland was co-leader of the research team that
calculated the Ecological Footprint of South Australia, under contract from
the State government. He has coordinated subsequent projects for the Land
Management Corporation in SA for the Lochiel Park Green Village and the
Adelaide City Council focussing on optimisation and sensitivity analysis
with the goal of identifying the key areas to focus on to reduce the
footprint. The Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council (ESIPC) of South
Australia, a State government research body, have called on Assoc Prof
Boland's expertise for several projects. A PhD student, under his guidance,
constructed a stochastic electricity demand model to enable the ESIPC to
make decisions under uncertainty for electricity grid operation. This model
is also now used for forecasting electricity demand in South Australia to
help manage the grid. They also contracted him to study the output
variability of windfarms in South Australia so they could better advise the
State government on future development of windfarms. At a national level, he coordinated a project to develop the algorithms
for quality assurance in construction of climate data sets for the
Australian Climatic Database, used principally for house energy ratings
software. This project was funded by the (then) Australian Greenhouse
Office. Professor Barry Brook, the Sir
Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at
Adelaide University, is an
international research leader in global ecology and conservation
biology. He has published two authored books and over 100 scientific
papers on various aspects of human impacts on the natural
environment and biodiversity, including climate change,
deforestation and overexploitation of populations. In 2006, he was
awarded both the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal for
distinguished research in biology and the Edgeworth David Medal by
the Royal Society of New South Wales, and in 2007, the H.G.
Andrewartha Medal by the Royal Society of South Australia and was
listed by Cosmos as one of Australia's top 10 young scientists. In
March 2007 took up an appointment as the Foundation Sir Hubert
Wilkins Chair of Climate Change and Director of the Research
Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of
Adelaide. The principal motivation for his research is to identify
ways and means of reducing extinctions and mitigating the worst
ravages of global change. Professor Chris Daniels is Professor of Urban Ecology in
the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of
South Australia. He is head research within the School, head of of the discipline of Geospatial and
Environmental Management, and is Director of the Barbara Hardy
Centre. Chris was educated at the University of Adelaide and the
University of New England. Chris has held academic positions at the
University of California and Flinders University before moving to
the University of Adelaide and now UniSA. He is married with 2
children and lives in Belair. Chris has always had an abiding
interest in reptiles, particularly lizards, and is a passionate
communicator to the general community, about science and the
environment. Chris has a regular session on 891 ABC Radio. He won
the premiers science award for communication and education in 2007.
He recently edited the book, Adelaide Nature of a City: Ecology, which
won the Whitley Award, and is in the process of putting together
similar publications on water and natural hazards in Adelaide. Mr Mark Goldsmith is State Manager (Financial Markets) at
BankSA. He was born and educated in Adelaide,
South Australia. In the 70’s he worked in mining and commercially in
wholesale/retailing ancillary automotive products. In the 80’s Mark
started a precious metals Bullion business that progressed to a
Commodity Futures brokerage based in Adelaide. He entered Merchant
banking with Standard Chartered Australia and later relocated to
their Institutional Banking Treasury in Sydney. Mark has remained in
the banking industry since that time, and in the early 90’s returned
to Adelaide, firstly with State Bank in Private banking returning to
Treasury with the reformed BankSA. He then became Head of Financial
Markets SA for Commonwealth Bank, a position he held for 10 years.
In 2003 he accepted employment with BankSA, now a division of St
George Bank, being appointed State Manager Financial Markets. He is
currently a director of K&A Engineering, Howard Vineyard and The
Sporting Car Club of SA (NFP). He is an Accredited Dealer with AFMA,
a Fellow of The Finance & Treasury Association and was on that Board
for two years. He is married to Trish with two children. Professor Caroline McMillen is Deputy
Vice Chancellor and Vice President:
Research and Innovation at UniSA
(commenced 2005). Professor McMillen graduated with a BA (Hons) and
Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University before completing her
medical degree at the University of Cambridge. She moved to
Australia to take up a Lectureship at Monash University, and was
appointed as Chair of Physiology at the University of Adelaide in
1992. Professor McMillen has an international reputation as a
biomedical researcher for her work which focuses on the early
origins of adult health. She is the Deputy Director of the ARC/NHMRC
National Network and is the only Australian Commission Chair of the
International Union of Physiological Societies. She served for
extended periods as Chair of either the ARC Biological Sciences
Panel or the NHMRC Fetal, Neonatal and Respiratory Physiology Grant
Review Panel, as a member of the NHMRC Enabling Grants Committee,
and on the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme
Expert Sub Committee on Promoting and Maintaining Good Health. Caroline is currently a Director of the
Playford Memorial Trust Inc, a Board member of the Centre for
Innovation and the CRC for Railway Engineering and Technologies, and
a member of the Science Advisory Panel of the Australian Science
Media Centre. Caroline is also Co-Chair of the Steering Committee
for Healthy Development Adelaide and a member of the Steering
Committee for BioInnovation SA’s Adelaide Integrated Biosciences
Laboratories. Caroline is active in her role as the Champion
of Women in Science, Engineering and Technology – an appointment
made under the Bragg Initiative run by the Department of Further
Education Employment Science and Technology’s Science and Innovation
Directorate. In October of 2006 Caroline was presented with a Woman
of Achievement Award by the South Australian Chapter of Zonta
International, a global service organization of executives in
business and the professions who pool their expertise to advance the
status of women through action and advocacy. Dr Frances Mowling is a Principal Consultant in Climate Change at the
Department of Primary Industries and
Resources of South Australia (PIRSA). She is an aeolian
geomorphologist and landscape ecologist, and has been an
environmental consultant for thirty years, practicing in five States
of Australia and overseas. Frances has worked on a diverse range of
projects primarily in the capacity of private consultant,
interspersed with employment on specific projects by the South
Australian Government, Cambodian Government, Aboriginal community
organisations in WA, SA and Tasmania, and University of Tasmania. The projects have encompassed baseline studies, EIS and EMP, land
management, land rehabilitation, sustainable agriculture, ecological
character descriptions (ECD) for two Ramsar sites applying a
hydrogeomorphic approach to determine the processes functioning in
wetland systems, and extensive surveys of Tasmania’s coastline to establish
the temporal and spatial characteristics of the Quaternary soft sediments
subject to sea level rise and storm surges in response to global warming.
These projects have applied the principles of landscape ecology,
geomorphology and climatology. Frances has worked with multidisciplinary
teams and as a solo consultant, taking leadership roles in projects or
responsibility for significant aspects of major projects. Professor Andrew Parfitt commenced as
Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President of the
Division of
Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment (ITEE) on 6 August
2007. Previously, he was the Director of UniSA's Institute of
Telecommunications Research (ITR) (2004 - 2007), one of Australia's
foremost ICT research organisations. In addition to his
responsibilities as Director of ITR, Andrew has contributed widely
to UniSA. He has been an active member of Research Policy Committee
and Academic Board, and chairs two of our important research
committees: the Cooperative Research Centres Engagement Group and
the e-Research Implementation Group. In 2006 he concurrently acted
as Head of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering and
led the strategic planning that resulted in the formation of the new
Defence and Systems Institute and a closer cooperation between our
electrical and electronic engineering related disciplines. Andrew
has been a major contributor to the ATN Universities' push to
establish and maintain impact on the Research Quality Framework (RQF)
agenda, firstly as the chair of the ATN Impact Working Group and
later as a member of the DEST RQF Development Advisory Group's
Impact Working Group. Andrew has had an outstanding career as a
specialist in antenna and radio systems and more recently in areas
relating to space science and technology. A graduate in engineering
from the University of Adelaide, he began his professional career
with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation before
returning to study under a DSTO cadetship. He has a PhD in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Adelaide University and
was an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering there, before
joining CSIRO’s Telecommunications and Industrial Physics division
in Sydney. Within the CSIRO he led the Space and Satellite
Communication Systems team from 2001. During this time he was
responsible for fundamental and applied research in areas ranging
from radar and communications to satellite systems and radio
astronomy technologies. In 2003 Andrew took on the leadership of the
Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS), the
national research group responsible for launching FedSat,
Australia’s first satellite in 30 years. He has held adjunct
academic positions at UniSA, the University of Adelaide, Sydney
University and Macquarie University. In a professional capacity he
is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers and has been Chair of both its South Australia and New
South Wales Sections. He is a member of the Australian Academy of
Science National Committee for Space Science and Deputy Chair of the
National Committee for Radio Science, and is a Fellow of Engineers
Australia. Mr Marc Shannon is the Manager of UniSA Northern Adelaide
Partnerships (UNAP). A UniSA marketing graduate, Marc returns to the
University after five years as Business Development Manager of
research at James Cook University in North Queensland. As manager of
UNAP, Marc is responsible for the implementation of UniSA’s strategy
to create community-university partnerships that can promote social
inclusion through education, training, research and consultancy
programs. The program is primarily focused around the cities of
Salisbury and Playford but also extends its activities into Gawler
and Port Adelaide/Enfield. My main role at UNAP is to strengthen and
coordinate activity and to develop new innovative projects that will
make a meaningful difference to the education, health, wellbeing and
workforce participation of people in the north. UNAP's role is to
facilitate partnerships in the north and is the first point of
contact for University staff and external organisations wishing to
collaborate. Mr Dick Thomson obtained an Honours
Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in
1964. He subsequently studied Operations Research and Business
Studies at Imperial College, London, leading to a Master of Science
degree from that university. He is a Fellow of the Australian
Institute of Company Directors. He has held a number of public
company directorships and has been a director and chairman of
government business enterprises. Initially Dick joined CSR Ltd and was involved
in engineering and commercial aspects of raw sugar milling,
petrochemicals and oil and gas production and development.
Subsequently, Dick established a number of private companies
including Australian Energy Advisors Pty Ltd which provided
consultant services and advice to the oil and gas industry. In 1999
Dick acquired Beasley Industries, South Australian based
manufacturer of solar hot water systems and recently sold the
business to Rinnai Corporation. He retains his interest as a
consulting engineer and company director. Mr Kelvin Trimper is Director, Education & Community
Development, Delfin Lend Lease. The primary responsibility of this
role involves ensuring the approaches adopted by the company in its
development of Projects Australia-wide have a strong (if not
non-negotiable) sustainability factor. This is especially so in the
areas of education planning and community development. In
facilitating these activities, Kelvin works nationally with State
and Local Governments, Business Leaders and Education Providers.
Kelvin joined Delfin Limited in 1987 after spending twelve years in
Education Facilities Development and Education Administration with
the Education Department of South Australia. Kelvin was
instrumental in establishing Delfin's leadership in the provision of
education services in Delfin's communities. He played a key role as
Project Director in the winning and establishment of the mixed-use
Mawson Lake (formerly MFP) project in Adelaide. Kelvin is a past
President and a Fellow of the Urban Development Institute of
Australia (South Australia Division), past Deputy Chairman of the
Board of the Botanic Gardens of South Australia, a City of Salisbury
“Living Legend”, a passionate rose grower and wine consumer and is
married with two children.
John Boland
Barry Brook
Chris Daniels
Mark Goldsmith (Deputy Chair)
Caroline McMillen
Frances Mowling
Andrew Parfitt
Marc Shannon
Dick Thomson (Chair)
Kelvin Trimper
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