THE UNIVERSITYOFQUEENSLAND ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 2010 CENTENARY In 2010, The University of Queensland (UQ) turned 100. Throughout the year, the University hosted numerous events, welcomed new students and reunited alumni members, celebrated its past achievements and looked to the future. It is the people, from all walks of life and all parts of the globe, who have shaped UQ in its fi rst 100 years. UQ has a history of contribution to the community which provides a strong foundation going into the future. 28926 HC 400 MAR11 March 18, 2011 The Honourable Cameron Dick, MP Minister for Education and Industrial Relations 30 Mary Street CONTENTS Brisbane Qld 4000 I am pleased to present the Annual Report 2010 for The University of Queensland. Vice-Chancellor’s review 1 I certify that this Annual Report complies with: 2010 snapshots 2 – the prescribed requirements of the Financial Key statistics 4 Accountability Act 2009 and the Financial and Performance Management Standard 2009; and Summary of fi nancial information 5 – the detailed requirements set out in the Annual Report Organisation 9 Guidelines for Queensland Government Agencies, June – Basis of authority 10 2010. – Lines of responsibility 11 A checklist outlining the annual reporting requirements can – Controlled entities 12 be accessed at www.uq.edu.au. Corporate governance 13 Yours sincerely – University Senate 16 – Senior Offi cers 17 Strategic direction 21 Mr John Story Review of activities 25 Chancellor – Learning 25 – Discovery 35 – Engagement 43 Management and resources 53 Glossary 62 Index 64 Our campuses, faculties and institutes 67 Teaching and research sites (map) 68 Appendices (separate volume) - A: Annual fi nancial statements - B: Staff activity overseas Produced by The Offi ce of Marketing and Communications The University of Queensland Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia Telephone (07) 3365 3367 Public availability note International +61 7 3365 3367 Facsimile (07) 3365 1488 This volume is available from Sharon Douglas at the Offi ce of Marketing and Communications (see inside back cover) or online at www.uq.edu.au/about/ International +61 7 3365 1488 annualreport Internet www.uq.edu.au Email [email protected] ISSN 1837-6592 (print) ISSN 1837-6606 (online) CRICOS Provider Number 00025B Copyright notice © The University of Queensland 2011 Editor and project manager Kate Tilley Project coordinator Nicole Sosnowski Design Felicia Gibson Photo Library coordinator Matthew Taylor COVER: The Forgan Smith Building is illuminated during the dusk spectacle Photographers Stewart Gould, Jeremy Patten at the Centenary Celebration Day. VICE- CHANCELLOR’S REVIEW After a year of celebrating the past and Institute (with a $15 million gift from an partners; be more nimble in meeting focusing on strategies for the future, we need alumnus, Graeme Wood), the Centre for students’ and employers’ shifting needs; to recognise that some of UQ’s fi rst-century Advanced Imaging (with $40 million from the conduct even more research of global success stemmed from good fortune. Australian Government), and the UQ College import; collaborate with the world’s best; I make this point not to discount the (a skill-based community training venture and continue developing leaders who countless brilliant, industrious people who based at UQ Ipswich), among others. will bear UQ’s standard as they make founded and built UQ, nor to understate the national and global progress. One of the In addition, we have commissioned the challenges they stared down, nor to wish clearest certainties is that the world’s great new School of Veterinary Science facilities farewell to good fortune. universities are defi ned by great and loyal at Gatton, and the new Pharmacy Australia alumni. Instead, I seek to highlight how different Centre of Excellence (PACE, housing the the second century will be. Rather than UQ School of Pharmacy) at Annerley; Through the luckier moments of its fi rst counting on a small number of monumental started building (as part of a consortium) century, UQ was also defi ned by men philanthropists, politicians who will fund bold the Translational Research Institute; opened and women who never studied here, yet research, or international students coveting the refurbished Health Sciences Building were passionate about the University’s an Australian education, we need to make (with signifi cant support from donor alumni); achievements and potential. Dr James O’Neil our own luck. That means diversifying treated the fi rst patients in a UQ general Mayne and Mary Emelia Mayne, Thomas sources of funding, students, and partners in practice super clinic at Ipswich (in line Charles Beirne and Charles F (“Chuck”) learning, discovery and engagement. with an Australian Government initiative); Feeney come easily to mind. and formalised the Queensland Alliance The centenary has been as important for Many others proved you do not need for Agriculture and Food Innovation (our mapping the future as for marvelling at a to be an alumnus to be an outstanding fi rst research institute based wholly on 100-year odyssey. Directions coming out of contributor to UQ. One such person was collaboration with an external entity, the 2010 have been set by the Global Change Sir James Foots, who died in July. He was Queensland Department of Employment, more than a Chancellor and long-serving Economic Development and Innovation). Senator, important as those roles are. Sir Importantly, we compiled authoritative James pioneered mutually advantageous evidence that public investments in UQ relations with industry and was a generous yield handsome returns. New, independent philanthropist. analyses show four UQ institutes (the UQ has occasionally been guilty of under- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the celebrating the greats who helped create Australian Institute for Bioengineering & and consolidate the University. That is a Nanotechnology, the Queensland Brain shortcoming that must not be repeated. Institute and the Sustainable Minerals On behalf of the contemporary UQ, I salute Institute), have returned between $2.70 and every person who helped this institution $6.50 for every additional dollar invested. graduate from being a state university in a They were built by a combination of newly-formed nation to being in the top one resources from government, The Atlantic percent of the world’s research-intensive, Philanthropies and UQ. global universities. The University has projected where we want to be in 2020, with certainty that the ambitions cannot be realised without deeper engagement. To become the institution that is envisaged, Professor Paul Greenfi eld, AO we must improve our stewardship of Vice-Chancellor THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ANNUAL REPORT 2010 1 2010 SNAPSHOTS Collectively, members enrol more than Good Universities Guide 2011, released in Our standing 700,000 students, employ more than 2010. It also received an impressive four- The University of Queensland was founded 145,000 staff and have almost 2.5 million star rating for getting a job, starting salary in 1910 as the fi rst university in Queensland alumni. Their combined budgets amount to and equity group access categories. and the fi fth in Australia. It is now known more than US$13 billion annually and they Graduate Careers Australia’s Australian internationally as a leader among Australia’s have a combined annual research grant Graduate Survey 2010 reported that, over 39 universities. income of more than US$3 billion. an extended period, the University has had During 2010, UQ celebrated its centenary. only 4.5 percent of its graduates recorded The University ranks in the nation’s top two International and as unemployed and seeking full-time or three institutions by most performance employment, compared with a national rate measures. Internationally, UQ is one of national recognition of 8.6 percent. UQ achieved a 78.9 percent only three Australian founding members of During 2010, the University continued full-time employment rate for bachelor Universitas 21, an international consortium to perform well across a range of quality degree graduates against the national full- dedicated to world’s best practice. indicators. UQ is among Australia’s top time employment fi gure of 76.2 percent. research universities and has won more national teaching awards than any other Universitas 21 Australian university. Discovery profi le UQ continued its reputation as one of Established in 1997, Universitas 21 is UQ was one of only fi ve Australian Australia’s top research-intensive universities, a network of leading research-intensive universities (and the only Queensland attracting more than $303.4 million in universities in 15 countries. It facilitates university) in the top 100 in the Times research funding for 2009, the most recent collaboration and cooperation between Higher Education’s 2010-2011 World year for which fi gures are available. member universities and creates University Rankings released in 2010. opportunities for them on a scale that would In the Good Universities Guide 2011, UQ The University ranked among the top 18 not be achievable operating independently or achieved very high rankings for research universities in the Asia-Pacifi c region and through traditional bilateral alliances. grants, research intensivity and non- 108th worldwide in the 2010 Academic government earnings for 2010. Rankings of World Universities study, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UQ was ranked 43rd in the top Global strategy 200 QS World University Rankings in 2010. The University has made signifi cant In 2010, UQ was voted the best place progress in developing a more focused and in academe to work outside the United intentional global strategy. The strategy will States. The annual poll was conducted by guide and support UQ’s achievements in the online journal The Scientist. the global arena as one of Australia’s top research-intensive institutions with a strong Learning profi le international reputation. The strategy has a focus on building UQ continued to achieve a standard of international research collaborations excellence in graduate outcomes for 2010.