FLINDERS UNIVERSITY DEAN (PEOPLE & RESOURCES) COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES FLINDERS FAST FACTS PEOPLE INTRODUCTION Flinders University enjoys a well-justified reputation for excellence in teaching and research. 1966 2017 ALUMNI 619 A world top 2 per cent university, we also have a long-standing commitment to enhancing 2,486 STAFF OVER 100,000 RESEARCH-ACTIVE educational opportunities for all and a proud record of community engagement. 27,000 STUDENTS IN 117 COUNTRIES STAFF Our strategic plan, Making a Difference – The 2025 Agenda, details our vision to become internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates. 4,711 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FROM MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES Following recent substantial investment in infrastructure and technology, Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian RANKINGS & RESEARCH university, and amongst the top 1% in the world. The role of Dean (People and Resources) in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of research rated is a senior leadership position at the University reporting to the College Vice-President and 2016 AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY Executive Dean. We are seeking a proven performer for this strategically important position. 90% world class or above ERA rankings 2015 TEACHER OF THE YEAR* The successful candidate will be an outstanding academic experienced in the development and management of academic staff and resources to deliver the strategic vision of the ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR University and the College. A forward thinking, dynamic and energetic individual with the ability to collaborate across a complex organisation, they will also inspire and nurture a high KAREN BURKE DA SILVA performance culture. * Australian Government Department of Education I invite you to take this journey and am confident that you will find Flinders University an and Training inspiring and vibrant place in which to work. INTERNATIONAL OVER 100 10 OFFSHORE PROGRAMS PARTNER INSTITUTIONS ACROSS RATED NO. 1 IN AUSTRALIA FOR OVERALL INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SUPPORT 33 International Student Barometer 2016 COUNTRIES INNOVATION & ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP WITH FOX $120M INNOVATION CENTRE 232 START-UPS CREATED SCHOOL OF BUSINESS US TOP AT TONSLEY FOR COMPUTER AND 2,218 INDIVIDUALS Professor Vanessa Lemm TEN BUSINESS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING TRAINED BY FLINDERS’ Vice-President and Executive Dean ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MATHEMATICS NEW VENTURE INSTITUTE College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences NVI: BEST UNIVERSITY INCUBATOR IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC *Flinders' New Venture Institute named 'Top Challenger' in Asia-Pacific in 2017/18 UBI World Benchmark Study OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AND CORE VALUES: Making a Difference – The 2025 Agenda sets out an ambitious vision for Flinders to become an Australian top ten university, and amongst the top 1% in the world. FOUNDED ON FOUR PILLARS PEOPLE ENGAGEMENT AND CULTURE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND IMPACT OUR VISION OUR MISSION OUR VALUES AND ETHOS To be internationally Changing lives and changing • Student Centred recognised as a world leader the world. • Integrity in research, an innovator in • Courage contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most • Innovation enterprising graduates. • Excellence “EXPERIMENT and experiment bravely” - Professor Peter Karmel, founding Vice-Chancellor 2025.FLINDERS.EDU.AU 6 7 ABOUT FLINDERS OUR CAMPUS A COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION Flinders University is a globally focused, Flinders University’s main campus is at Flinders University was opened by Her Majesty In 2015, the University’s vision for a science and locally engaged institution where a focus Bedford Park in Adelaide’s inner south. Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, on 25 technology hub at Tonsley was realised when on our people and culture, engagement With a lake at its centre and spread across March 1966, as the Bedford Park campus of the the $120 million School of Computer Science, and impact drives world-class education 165 hectares, its beautiful natural bushland University of Adelaide. Engineering and Mathematics opened its doors. and research. setting features thousands of trees and an Just 18 days earlier, however, the South Australian The site is also home to the Flinders New Venture array of wildlife, while the elevated site Institute, the Medical Device Research Institute and Ranked among the top 2 per cent of the Parliament had passed legislation to create an offers panoramic views of the city the Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, world’s universities, Flinders offers our independent institution. The state’s second university and coast. all of which are generating alliances and business students the opportunity to learn at a officially came into being on 1 July 1966. opportunities with other education providers and university recognised for an innovative Our natural assets are complemented The Kaurna people are the traditional owners of the national and global companies. approach to visionary research and education. by an impressive new Student Hub and land on which Flinders was established. Its namesake Our research is contributing to discoveries Plaza development at the very heart of the is the British navigator Matthew Flinders, who Flinders’ commitment to student-centred growth in biomedical and clinical sciences, culture campus. The environmentally responsible explored and surveyed the South Australian coast in continued in 2016 with the unveiling of a $63 million and society, health and human behaviour, building boasts the very latest in learning 1802. The University’s coat of arms includes an image Student Hub and Plaza at the heart of the Bedford molecular science and technology, and water technologies, an array of study places, and of Flinders’ ship HMS Investigator and an extract Park campus. Drawing on the latest research into and the environment. vibrant social spaces. Outdoor features from his book A Voyage to Terra Australis. best educational practice, the Hub’s intelligent include a rooftop terrace, a 2000 seat design encourages collaborative learning and social With 90 per cent of this research rated In 1966 The University began with four schools, 90 amphitheatre and superscreen for outdoor interaction. world-class or above by the Australian staff and just over 400 students. Professor Peter cinema. On campus accommodation is Government’s Excellence in Research for Karmel was the inaugural Vice-Chancellor and Sir In 2017 Flinders implement a simplified six College available for 560 students. Australia, our students know they are exposed Mark Mitchell the first Chancellor. model to encourage interdisciplinary research and to internationally renowned academic Beyond our main campus Flinders boasts teaching. Within a decade a significant decision was made to expertise while enjoying a challenging and a specialist Computer Science, Engineering build the Flinders Medical Centre on land adjacent Looking forward, Flinders is set to benefit from an inspiring student experience. and Mathematics facility at nearby Tonsley, to the campus and locate the University’s Medical extension of the Tonsley rail line to the Bedford and our business-oriented presence on Ours is an innovative, creative and School within – the first such integration in Australia. Park campus which will link the Flinders health and Victoria Square in the CBD. Our considerable collaborative institution that works with education precincts to the Tonsley campus and the footprint includes external teaching In 1990 the University experienced a growth spurt government and industry partners to solve city when construction is complete in early 2019. facilities in regional South Australia, south- with the addition of three new buildings – Law and real-world problems. Commerce, Engineering, and Information Science Flinders has some 27,000 students enrolled and Technology. in more than 150 undergraduate and The following year Flinders merged with the adjacent almost 300 postgraduate courses, as well as Sturt campus of the former South Australian College higher degree research supervision across of Advanced Education, and in 1992 a four-faculty, 14 all disciplines. Nearly 5,000 International school structure was adopted. students from almost 100 countries make During the 1990s, Flinders expanded into the up 13 per cent of our on-campus population; Northern Territory. In the 2000s, our footprint 1,500 are enrolled in our numerous offshore extended into rural South Australia and south-west programs. Victoria. Flinders is committed to equity and In 2002, the Australian Science and Mathematics provides a range of special access schemes School was established at the foot of the Bedford to encourage and support all students. Park campus, the first school in Australia to be fully Our focus on contemporary teaching is integrated with a university. reflected in the many Flinders courses that provide students with best-practice New School of Education and Health Sciences technologies and teaching methods to suit buildings were completed in 2010, the same year as their fields, lifestyles and study preferences. a state-of-the-art Science Innovation Learning Centre Virtual and digital technologies support was opened as a dedicated first-year teaching facility face-to-face teaching and enable students for science and engineering students. to study when and how they prefer, whether they are