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Professor Richard Higgott
Vice Chancellor
FRSA, AcSS
As Vice Chancellor of Murdoch University, Professor Richard Higgott has overall responsibility for the University's strategic development and operations.
Prior to joining Murdoch, Professor Higgott was Professor of International Political Economy and Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick. He has also held professorial appointments at the Australian National University and the University of Manchester. Early in his career he had positions at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia.
His funded visiting professorships include the Diplomatische Akademie Marie Therese (Vienna), the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (Singapore), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin), the Hungarian Institute for Advanced Study (Collegium Budapest). In 2003 he was the first holder of 'la Chaire Asie' at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
He has been National Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs; President of the Australasian Political Science Association; Vice-President of the International Studies Association (USA); Council Member and Principal Policy Adviser to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (UK). Recent board appointments include the Academic Council of the United Nations System, the Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation and the UK Department for International Development's Committee on Economic and Social Research. He is a member of international supervisory boards of university research institutes in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.
Professor Higgott's extensive consultancy and policy work includes the Japanese External Trade Organisation (JETRO), UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Global Development Network (World Bank), Deutsche Stiftung fur Entwicklung, British Telecom, Siemens and Shell. From 1986-93 he was a member of the Australian Minister for Trade's Negotiation Advisory Group (TNAG).
He is author or editor of 20 books, research monographs and edited volumes and more than 120 articles and chapters in many leading journals. He has been editor of The Pacific Review since 1995 and is a member of 10 other international editorial boards.
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Professor Andrew Taggart
Pro Vice Chancellor of Faculty of Arts, Education & Creative Media and Rockingham Campus
Professor Andrew Taggart is currently Professor and Faculty Dean Arts and Education at Murdoch University. He leads and manages a Faculty that includes the School of Education and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. His current leadership responsibilities focus on performance enhancement of academic staff, industry and community engagement and international research collaborations.
The Faculty is growing and currently has a team of over 150 academic and professional staff, enrols over 2,300 full time equivalent undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Faculty has an active research program under the umbrella of the Institute for Sustainable Societies, Education and Politics, and centred on the Asia Research Centre, Community and Social Research Centre and the Centre for Leadership Change and Development. In 2009 colleagues in the Faculty won two Australian Professorial Fellows, two of twenty in the country, and two postgraduate student awards in the inaugural Prime Minister’s Australia-Asia Endeavour Awards.
Prior to moving to Murdoch in 2008 Professor Andrew Taggart was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Regional Professional Studies at Edith Cowan University from 2006-2008. His extensive experience at Edith Cowan University (1991-2005) included Acting Head School of Education, Head of School Arts and Humanities Education, Associate Professor in the School of Education, Program Director Research and Higher Degrees and Director Sport and Physical Activity Research Centre (SPARC).
From 1987-1990 Professor Taggart was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Curtin University of Technology in the School of Education and from 1983-1987 Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Professor Taggart's most recent research focussed on collaborating with teachers to better understand their work and how curriculum innovation and change can be nurtured and sustained. His research has focussed on teacher renewal through curriculum development and how to better understand how adolescents engage/disengage in physical education and sport. His earlier research in early childhood outdoor play settings has led to significant developments at the state level. Through a conceptualisation of fundamental movement skills within a framework of children’s play the teaching of junior primary physical education has been reconstructed as evidenced by recent EDWA/DET publications (Play Stations Manual, EDWA, 1997; Fundamental movement skills teacher resource, 2000) and associated professional development with teachers.
Professor Taggart's research and professional involvement in the Health and Physical Education Learning Area over the past decade enabled SPARC in the School of Education at ECU to be seen as one of the leading research institutions in this field in Australia. His invitation to write the Draft of the National Curriculum Statement and Profile (1994), began his long standing involvement in the HPE field at a national level.
Specific research, at the upper primary and secondary level, incorporating the sport education curriculum model (with Ken Alexander), has significantly impacted on WA state education initiatives. Recent projects in WA, Student Outcome Statements (Committee member), Monitoring of Standards in Education (Consultant Reviewer) and the WA Curriculum Framework (Writer) are all key documents shaping the Health and Physical Education learning area in WA and Australia. Professor Taggart's high level involvement is evidence of the role he has played in Australian and West Australian Physical and Health Education during the nineties.
In addition Professor Taggart's work has been recognised in a variety of forums including: Invited Keynote speaker Joint AARE and NZARE Annual Conference, 1993; Appointed Visiting Professor, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, The Ohio State University, 1995; Invited presentations ACHPER (WA) Annual Conferences (for Primary and Secondary Teachers of PE), 1997, 2003; Invited Keynote Speaker, Be Active School Community Conference, Perth, 1998; Invited Keynote Speaker, Developing student-centred pedagogies through international collaboration Korea, 2003: Visiting Professor Kyungpook National University, Experiences from teachers and researchers, Korea; Teacher education: Attracting, engaging and sustaining beginning teachers, Korea, 2004; Invited Speaker, Strategic actions/considerations to increase levels of physical activity. Australian National Physical Activity Conference, Perth 2005; Visiting Professor and Keynote Speaker, Connecting with young people: Physical education’s contribution to school and community well-being, Adenerin Orgunsanya College of Education, Lagos, Nigeria
Recent work in the area of Sport Education has provided for the design and development of innovative curriculum materials based on ongoing action research by teachers. This research and development work has resulted in extensive dissemination of curriculum materials and professional development activities in all Australian states and territories and in Korea, Nigeria, Ghana, Singapore and England.
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Pro Vice Chancellor Faculty of Law, Business & IT
Professor Gabriël A Moens
JD (Leuven), LLM (Northwestern), PhD (Sydney), GCEd (Qld), MBA (Murd), FCIArb
Professor Gabriël A Moens holds the position of Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty Law, Business and Information Technology. Professor Moens joined Murdoch University in September 2005 as Dean of the School of Law, a position he held for five years.
Professor Moens is an award-winning teacher of law and noted author, with an extensive publications record. He teaches and researches in various areas of law and also in dispute resolution for business.
Professor Moens has taught at a number of universities internationally, including The University of Queensland, Brigham Young University, Loyola University in New Orleans, University of Gent, Belgium and The University of Notre Dame Australia. He is a Membre Titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Paris, and a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Professor Moens also maintains close linkages with the WA and national legal and business communities, serving as a Fellow and Deputy Secretary-General of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), and as a Director of the College of Law Western Australia.
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Associate Professor Chris Smyth
Dean of the School of Media Communication & Culture
Associate Professor Chris Smyth is Dean of the School of Media Communication & Culture at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. He lectures in journalism, media law and ethics.
Associate Professor Smyth started his career in journalism as a cadet reporter for Perth’s afternoon Daily News in 1982 after completing a Psychology Degree at The University of Western Australia. He has worked in newspapers in Australia and the UK. For 10 years Associate Professor Smyth was the State Secretary of the Australian Journalists Association (now MEAA).
His research interests include media law, journalists’ rights and labour history.
He is the Chair of the National Ethics Panel of the MEAA and has co-authored a text book on Journalism Ethics .
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Professor Malcolm Tull
Dean of the Murdoch Business School
Professor Malcolm Tull is presently the Dean of the Murdoch Business School. He has extensive experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate units in economic theory, economic policy, and economic history, and a wide background in administration at Murdoch University, having performed a key role in the early development of the Murdoch Business School.
He has a strong international record of publications in the disciplines of maritime economics and economic history. He was joint editor of the prestigious International Journal of Maritime History from 2000-2008, the author of A Community Enterprise: the History of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 (1997), a Senior Editor for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History (2007), and co-editor of Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008). A Fellow of Murdoch University’s Centre for Asian Studies since 1999, Malcolm was appointed Principal Investigator for the Asian History of Marine Animal Populations Project in 2006, initiating his own investigation into Indonesian shark fishing as part of this multi-national project.
In 2008 Malcolm was elected Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association. He is currently President of the Economic Society of Australia Inc., Western Australian Branch. Malcolm continues to teach and to supervise honours and postgraduate students at the Murdoch Business School.
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