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Annual Report 2020 Advancing Melbourne Annual Report 2020 2020 MESSAGE from the CHANCELLOR annual report 2020 advancing melbourne annual report 2020 2020 MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR The Hon Gayle Tierney MP Minister for Training and Skills and Minister for Higher Education Level 1, 2 Treasury Place East Melbourne Vic 3002 31 March 2021 Dear Minister I am pleased to submit the Annual Report of the Importantly, it also maintained its leadership position University of Melbourne for the year ending in Australian higher education with strong performances 31 December 2020. in both the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The Annual Report is prepared in accordance with the requirements of the financial reporting directions under During 2020, after taking account of the impact of the Financial Management Act 1994. The University of COVID-19, University Council was also pleased to Melbourne Council endorsed this Annual Report at its re-endorse the new strategy for the University, meeting on 17 March 2021. Advancing Melbourne, which had been approved by Council during 2019, and offers a strong sense Council’s purpose is to exercise broad oversight of the of direction for the University in the years ahead. University’s operations, whose day-to-day work is the responsibility of the Vice-Chancellor and the University’s As Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, I submit staff members. Council’s membership is diverse, and its this Annual Report to you for your information and individual members are mindful of their public duty to presentation to Parliament. serve the University and the broader society to which Yours sincerely the University belongs. As you may conclude from the information contained in this Annual Report, in 2020 the University responded strongly to the public health emergency and other challenges of the year. Allan J Myers AC QC Chancellor 2 annual report 2020 MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR 31 March 2021 Yet perhaps the most significant achievement of all for the University was in remaining true to its The role of a great university was never more plain core mission as an eminent global research and to see than in 2020. As people and communities teaching university, while rapidly adapting to the worldwide were affected by the onset of COVID-19, radically changed circumstances imposed by public the University of Melbourne’s community of researchers, health restrictions and by COVID-19 itself. teaching academics, students, professional staff and many collaborators in the wider community made In May 2020 our new strategy, Advancing Melbourne, was great contributions to local, state, national, and global adopted. It embraces five important themes to guide the needs in a time of extended public health emergency. institution on its next decade’s journey; these themes are ‘Place’, ‘Discovery’, ‘Education’, ‘Community’ and ‘Global’. This Annual Report recaps many specific achievements by the University, both in response to the COVID-19 These are perhaps more relevant and necessary pandemic, and to other pressing global challenges. than ever as we start to imagine our University These achievements ranged across the disciplines, in a post-pandemic world. from notable work in the biological and physical sciences I look forward to leading the University in pursuit (for example the Doherty Institute) to the social sciences of this strategy’s ambitious goals in years to come. and humanities (for example the Melbourne Institute). Yours sincerely A most striking feature of this institution’s overall response was the extraordinary combination of adaptability, innovation and resilience shown by staff members and students alike in all faculties and schools. Professor Duncan Maskell Vice-Chancellor annual report 2020 annual report 2020 3 CONTENTS Part 1: Overview and introduction Message from the Chancellor 2 Message from the Vice-Chancellor 3 At a glance 5 Locations 6 Our history 7 Part 2: Key strategic achievements and milestones An extraordinary year 8 Introduction to Advancing Melbourne 11 Awards and achievements 14 Place 16 Community 26 Education 46 Discovery 58 Global 74 Sustainability 84 Organisational and student statistics 92 Part 3: Governance and compliance University governance 94 Compliance 109 Part 4: Financials Financial statements overview 123 Five-year financial summary 126 Financial report index 129 Financial statements 130 Disclosure index 191 Glossary 194 Index 197 Front cover Walking beneath the arches of the Old Quad on Parkville campus, this University of Melbourne student symbolises the optimism we share as we face a new and different world. The background pattern featured throughout this annual report echoes the University’s Advancing Melbourne strategy that uses lines to create visual connections to the past, to the present, and to the future. Image: Peter Casamento Please note: many of the images featured in this annual report were taken prior to pandemic restrictions. AT A GLANCE #1 52,151 42,296 in Australia in the students total award THE1 Global Rankings (EFTSL)2 completions #31 430,000 $657M in the world in the research THE1 Global Rankings living alumni income4 #35 6000+ participants in 9189 in the world in the student/alumni staff5 ARWU3 Rankings mentor programs 155 student 41% international nationalities 52% undergraduate students 48% graduate 1. Times Higher Education 2. Equivalent full-time administered student load (EFTSL) 3. Academic Ranking of World Universities 4. Estimated from 2020 results, confirmation from Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) due June 2021 5. Total staff full-time equivalent (FTE) including continuing, fixed-term and casual staff at a glance 5 LOCATIONS 1. PARKVILLE 4. HAWTHORN 7. CRESWICK 2. SOUTHBANK 5. FISHERMANS BEND 8. SHEPPARTON 3. BURNLEY 6. WERRIBEE 9. DOOKIE 9 8 7 1 4 5 2 3 6 The University of Melbourne acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which our campuses are situated: • Wurundjeri people and Boon Wurrung people (Parkville, Southbank, Werribee and Burnley campuses) • Yorta Yorta People (Shepparton and Dookie campuses) • Dja Dja Wurrung people (Creswick campus). 6 annual report 2020 OUR HISTORY LAYING A FOUNDATION HELPING THE DEAF TO HEAR 1853 FOR EXCELLENCE 1982 Professor Graeme Clark led a pioneering The University of Melbourne was constituted research team in the University of Melbourne’s by the newly formed Parliament of Victoria Department of Otolaryngology to engineer the in 1853 and its foundation stone laid in 1854. world’s first bionic ear, an invention that has The University has been synonymous with since provided the gift of hearing to more Melbourne’s intellectual growth and global than 180,000 people worldwide. reputation ever since. INTRODUCING AN INNOVATIVE WELCOMING WOMEN 2008 NEW CURRICULUM 1880 TO AN ALL-MALE BASTION In 2008 the introduction of a new Melbourne In 1880 the University of Melbourne admitted curriculum marked another historic women for the first time. Australia’s first female transformation of the University, delivering graduate, Julia ‘Bella’ Guerin, graduated with broad undergraduate programs followed by a Bachelor of Arts in 1883. The country’s first professional qualifications offered at masters registered female medical students graduated level, smaller class sizes, team-based learning from the University of Melbourne in 1891. and an enhanced university experience. FIRST UNIVERSITY COMMITTED TO RECONCILIATION 1904 APPEAL CONDUCTED 2010 With its first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Lady Janet Clarke, for whom Janet Clarke Hall in 2010, the University of Melbourne made residential college is named, was appointed an official commitment to using its teaching president of the University’s first fund-raising and learning, research, and engagement campaign. The project succeeded in drawing expertise and resources to make a sustainable £13,326 in seven months to support research contribution to improved health, education projects. and living standards for Indigenous Australians. The RAP recognises the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples FIRST PHD OFFERED BY and knowledge in support of this aim. 1948 AN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY The University of Melbourne became the first AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR Australian university to offer a PhD, conferring 2020 the first two in 1948 to Erica Wolff in Arts, and In an extraordinary year, starting with destructive RH Myers in Science. The development of the bushfires raging across the country and followed PhD reflected the increasing importance placed by the devastating global COVID-19 pandemic, on research. the University community came together to plan and act with immediacy, decisiveness and empathy. Guided by the aspirations of the new Advancing Melbourne strategy, the University maintained the highest standards of teaching, research and professionalism. annual report 2020 our history 7 AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR 2020 was a year like no other. After devastating Australian bushfires, the entire world faced a pandemic that affected individuals, communities and institutions in almost every country. Standing firm in the face of the global pandemic, the University re-evaluated its purpose and focus in line with the new strategy, Advancing Melbourne. Working with partners and within its communities, the University addressed the challenges of COVID-19, quickly readjusting its processes and mobilising to support students and staff. Throughout the pandemic the health, safety and wellbeing Early introduction of travel restrictions meant that some of the entire
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