Macquarie University: a Workplace Like No Other
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A world-class career HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING PAGE 1 Macquarie University: A workplace like no other Dear colleague Thank you your interest in this position. The Faculty of Arts makes a strong contribution to the University and represents just over 27 per cent of the student body. It is a strong research performer. In the 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia research evaluation round, 100 per cent of Macquarie’s research activity was rated as performing at world standard or higher. We now have ambitions to score at least one top ranking five in the 2018 round. The faculty continues to attract students across the curriculum, including a major cohort of Open Universities Australia students, taught and research postgraduates, and a high number of higher degree research students. As a faculty, we have the opportunity to do something that is rare among research-intensive universities and faculties, and that is to excel in research while taking the student experience, especially the learning experience, very seriously. To achieve this, the faculty has invested heavily in developing high-quality digital platforms for the delivery of selected units, and we are committed to developing the resources to enable this process to be rolled out to many more units in future years. The faculty currently contributes about 7 per cent of the University’s international students and this is an area in which we are looking to expand. The faculty has a friendly and collegial culture. It is a managed organisation where personal and professional courtesy to colleagues is an expectation placed on everyone. That is not to say that there is unanimity about everything, but rather that disagreement is not an occasion for personal animosity. As the Executive Dean, I set great store by that as I believe the working environment should be one in which people feel comfortable to express their views and ideas. Under the leadership of our Vice-Chancellor, we are committed to defining this University as one that is led by its values and by a commitment to excellence in the delivery of the core academic activities. We are committed to being a university of service to all our members – past and present – and to the wider community. This is a highly attractive mission for this faculty. And we are now looking for an outstanding individual who will not only bring to us a record of academic excellence, but who will also join us in realising our ambitions and in establishing our University as a distinctive and admired presence in the Australian and global higher education landscape. Professor Martina Möllering Faculty of Arts, Executive Dean Macquarie University PAGE 2 Contents Macquarie University at a glance* Our heritage 3 FACULTIES A university of service and engagement 4 ARTS | BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS | HUMAN SCIENCES | MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES | SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Our University: Nurtured to break free 5 University organisation structure 6 Where will you work? 7 Who are we looking for? 9 What will you do? 10 ASSETS What will you be responsible for? 10 Degrees Enrolments $2656 million Selection criteria 11 awarded 38,747 How can you apply? 12 10,773 REVENUE million $899.2 Undergraduate 6383 Domestic 27,370 ALUMNI Postgraduate 4390 International 11,377 more than 156,000 from over 140 countries Students Staff (FTE) 39,335 2978 Full-time 27,070 Professional staff 1521 *2014 Annual Report Part-time 12,265 Academic staff 1457 PAGE 3 Our heritage OUR JUBILEE CELEBRATION IN 2014: WE TURNED 50 The celebration of Macquarie’s Jubilee called for reflection upon the past. At 50 years of age, Macquarie University is still a young institution, yet one that 1960s 1990s has already left a distinctive mark. 1964 Macquarie University is established taking 1992 The Sculpture Park, which will become In 1964, the pioneers who created this University challenged the educational the name of Major-General Lachlan the largest of its kind on an Australian establishment of the time, and it is this ethos that has been passed down Macquarie, the fifth Governor of New campus, opens. through the generations at Macquarie University: challenge the status quo, South Wales who served in this role from 1997 Macquarie University helps develop be audacious, bold and daring. This University has made the most of its 1810 to 1821. wireless technology in partnership with powerful impact by being a training ground for fully engaged world citizens 1967 Professor Peter Mason delivers the the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and community leaders. first lecture, ‘Structure and Properties and Industrial Research Organisation). As the University reflected with great pride on the achievement of its first of Matter’. 1999 The Darug Sculptural Project is 50 years, it is appropriate to drive that pride into the future. So, as part of a 1968 Macquarie University Mothers’ Society installed to recognise the area’s comprehensive, university-wide project, Macquarie reintroduced the (MUMS) is established, offering childcare Indigenous heritage. Macquarie Lighthouse as the symbol of the University. for students’ families. 2000s to today Macquarie University circa 1969 Macquarie University in the future 1970s (artist’s impression) 2010 Macquarie University Hospital, 1973 Nineteen-year-old Ian Pollard is appointed Australia’s first and only private, not- Macquarie’s first Rhodes Scholar. for-profit teaching hospital on a 1976 Gumnut Cottage childcare centre is built. university campus, opens. 1978 Associate Professor Dick Makinson from 2010 Sydney’s only campus-based arboretum the School of Physics develops a calculator is established at Macquarie University. for people with vision impairment. 2012 The current Vice-Chancellor, Professor S Bruce Dowton, is appointed. 2013 QS Top 50 Under 50 ranks Macquarie 1980s University the number one modern 1981 The first edition of the Macquarie university in Australia. Dictionary is published. 2014 Macquarie University celebrates its 1986 Professor Dianne Yerbury AO becomes the 50-year jubilee. first female Vice-Chancellor of an Australian university. 1987 Construction begins on the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. PAGE 4 A university of service and engagement Home to some of the world’s brightest minds, Macquarie University collaborates internationally to lead Australia in a range of disciplines BRAVE NEW THINKING INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED FACILITIES TO HELP YOU FLOURISH Since 1964, Macquarie Macquarie is renowned for breaking down The QS Star system – which rates More than $1 billion has recently been University has been involved disciplinary boundaries and producing universities around the world for teaching, invested in Macquarie’s facilities and graduates who are highly skilled and ready employability, research, internationalisation, infrastructure, ensuring students and staff in some intriguing projects. to adapt to the changing workplace. As the facilities, innovation, access and specialist have access to the best resources available. To cover them all would be training ground for new generations, we subjects – rated Macquarie at 5 stars across Uniquely, 20 companies are located on impossible, but here are just a equip graduates through a unique all categories. campus and more than 100 more are located few of the more recent ones. curriculum including the PACE (Professional DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE in the nearby business and technology park and Community Engagement) program, (Australia’s largest). This enables 2007 Helped fit stilts to desert ants in With more than 38,000 students from more which allows students to take their learning collaboration and partnerships between the the ‘ant odometer’ project to than 110 countries and almost 3000 outside the classroom and apply their skills University and industry. discover how ants navigate. in real-life situations. academic and professional staff members, Macquarie University caters to people from Examples of recent capital program 2013 Assisted in the discovery of the BREAKING NEW GROUND IN all walks of life. The University is committed developments include: curious cosmic choreography of RESEARCH dwarf galaxies around the to social inclusion and equal opportunity in • Australian Hearing Hub Macquarie exemplifies research excellence in both education and employment, aiming to Andromeda Galaxy. • Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences the sciences, social sciences and professional provide an environment where anyone 2013 Discovered strange curtains of disciplines. Indeed, 85 per cent of our with a spirit of enthusiasm and exploration • Cochlear Ltd global headquarters slime in underground caves of research is rated world standard or higher by can have a fair go – regardless of • KIT-Macquarie Brain Research the Nullarbor Plain. the Australian Government, and three their background. Laboratory 2013 Revealed messages hidden science disciplines earned the maximum five Macquarie offers several programs to in ancient clay tablets by rating in the most recent ERA (Excellence in • Macquarie University Hospital support students and staff in all aspects of combining our expertise in Research for Australia) evaluation. • Macquarie University Library their lives, including physical fitness, history with cutting-edge Additionally, Macquarie is the host emotional wellbeing and sustainability. • Macquarie University Sport and medical imaging technology. institution of, or has a node in, six Australian The Equity and Diversity Unit implements Aquatic Centre. 2014 Named to lead the Yeast 2.0 Research Council