The Hon Julie Bishop MP

18 September 2007

The membership of the 13 assessment panels for the Research Quality Framework (RQF) was announced today by the Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP.

“The 156 members of the assessment panels will assess the Evidence Portfolios of Research Groups submitted by higher education providers as part of the RQF assessment process in 2008, and will award a rating for quality and impact,” Minister Bishop said.

“The assessment panels have been structured to provide a balance between research discipline coverage and likely workload for assessors.

“Each Panel comprises 12 members representing higher education providers, industry, business, government and community organisations and the international research sector.”

Chairs of each panel were announced in April 2007.

Minister Bishop said the RQF is an Australian Government initiative for a world’s best practice framework for evaluating the quality and impact of research conducted in our universities.

“We are committed to supporting a strong, vibrant and innovative research sector that will make an increasingly important contribution to Australia’s economic and social growth,” Minister Bishop said.

A full list of the RQF Assessment Panel members is attached.

Media Contacts:
Minister Bishop’s Office: Tory Vidler 0414 228 727
Dept of Education, Science & Training: Media Unit 02 6240 7300

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Peter Langridge	Professor	University of Adelaide
Andrew Cockburn	Professor	Australian National University
Stephen James Simpson	Professor and ARC Federation Fellow	University of Sydney
James B Reid	Professor and Dean, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology	University of Tasmania
Richard Christopher Andrew Thompson	Professor of Parasitology	Murdoch University
Ian William Dawes	Professor of Genetics	University of New South Wales
David J Chapman	Professor	University of California, USA
Heinz Rennenberg	Full Professor	University of Freiburg, Germany
Jennifer L Martin	Group Leader and Professor	University of Queensland
Moira Clay	Associate Director	Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia
Denis Saunders	Dr	Self employed
J Antoni Rafalski	Professor	E.I du Pont de Nemours & Co (inc), France

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Erich Weigold	Professor	La Trobe University
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop	Professor and Head of School	University of Queensland
Doug MacFarlane	Professor	Monash University
Ross Raymond Large	Professor and Director	University of Tasmania
Suzanne O’Reilly	Professor	Macquarie University
Robert Alan Vincent	Professor	University of Adelaide
Sandra C Chapman	Professor of Physics & Director of the Centre for Fusion, Space & Astrophysics	University of Warwick, UK
Peter Stang	Professor and Dean, College of Science	University of Utah, USA
Rolfe Gleiter	Emeritus Professor	Organisch - Chemisches Institut der Universitat Heidelberg
Robert Watts	Dr and Consultant	Technology Strategy and Management
Alan Lynton Jaques	Dr and Acting Chief Scientist	Geosciences Australia
Denis Lawrence Weaire	Erasmus Smith Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy	Trinity College, Dublin, School of Physics

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Max Lu	Professor	University of Queensland
Chennupati Jagadish	Professor and ARC Federation Fellow	Australian National University
Anton P J Middleberg	Professor and ARC Federation Fellow	University of Queensland
Aibing Yu	Scientia Professor, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow	University of New South Wales
Mark Randolph	Professor and ARC Federation Fellow	University of Western Australia
Yiu-Wing Mai	Professor and ARC Federation Fellow	University of Sydney
James J Coleman	Professor and Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Illinois, USA
David C Stuckey	Professor	Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering Department
Kevin Kendall	Professor of Formulation Engineering	University of Birmingham, Chemical Engineering
John Marshall Burgess	Dr	Self Employed
Donald Charles Gibson	Fellow	The Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Hung Tan Nguyen	Associate Dean, R&D	University of Technology, Sydney

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Ian Peterson	Professor	University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy
Murray Batchelor	Professor and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow	The Australian National University
Ramamohana Rao Kotagiri	Professor	The University of Melbourne
Iain Fraser Raeburn	Professor	University of Wollongong
Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan	Professor of Visual Neuroscience	Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Antonio Cantoni	Professor	The University of Western Australia
Roger Hamilton James Grimshaw	Professor of Mathematical Sciences	Loughborough University, UK
Iain M Johnstone	Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Health Research & Policy (Biostatistics)	Stanford University, USA
Qiang Yang	Professor	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Robert Ronald Bitmead	Professor	University of California, USA
Brenda L Dietrich	Director of Mathematical Sciences	IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, New York, USA
Graeme Shanks	Professor	The University of Melbourne

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair David R. Lindsay AO FTSE	Professor	Retired, formerly with the University of Western Australia
John Clive Radcliffe	Retired, Honorary Research Fellow	CSIRO
Margaret Britz	Executive Dean, Faculty of Science	Queensland University of Technology
Richard J Hobbs	Australian Professorial Fellow	Murdoch University
Leo Broof Jeffcott	Professor of Veterinary Science, Dean of Faculty of Veterinary Science	University of Sydney
Wayne Steward Meyer	Professor, and Chief Scientist of CRC for Irrigation Futures	University of Adelaide
Michael John Gidley	Professor and Director, Centre for Nutriton and Food Sciences	University of Queensland
Rex John Scaramuzzi	Marie Curie Professor	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
Hamlyn Gordon Jones	Professor of Plant Ecology	University of Dundee, College of Life Sciences, UK
Alexander David Campbell	Farmer	Self employed
Ronnie (Helen) Harding	Assistant Commissioner	New South Wales Natural Resources Commission
Robert Banks	Manager Southern Research	Meat & Livestock Association

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Brandon Wainwright	Professor	University of Queensland
Richard Harding	Professor	Monash University
Paul Norman	Head of School and Professor (Vascular Surgery)	The University of Western Australia
Peter Neils Le Souef	Professor of Paediatrics	The University of Western Australia
Kathryn M Refshauge	Professor	University of Sydney
Murray Norris	Deputy Director	Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research
Robert Williamson	Chair, National Committee for Medicine	Australian Academy of Science
Jane Elizabeth Harding	Professor of Neonatology (Personal Chair), Academic Director, Liggins Institute, Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)	University of Auckland, Liggins Institute, New Zealand
Richard Kefford	Professor of Medicine	The University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital
Graham Jon McDonald	Contracted Consultant. Formerly External Licensing Coordinator, Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia)	Self employed
John Grace	Director	iBIO Pty Ltd
Mukesh Chandra Haikerwal	General Medical Practitioner, and Previous President of the Australian Medical Association	Circle Surgery, Altona North, Victoria

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Terry Nolan	Professor	University of Melbourne
Lesley Barclay	Professor, Health Services Development	Charles Darwin University
Wendy Brown	Professor of Physical Activity	University of Queensland
James Robert Gerard Butler	Professor and Director	Australian National University
Donald Campbell	Professor	Monash University
Boyd Swinburn	Professor of Population Health	Deakin University
Ian Bernard Hickie	Executive Director & Professor of Psychiatry	University of Sydney
Alistair Jack Woodward	Professor and Head of School of Population Health	University of Auckland, New Zealand
Stuart James Hamilton Biddle	Professor of Exercise and Sport Psychology and Head of School	Loughborough University
Elizabeth Chiarella	Professor	University of Technology, Sydney
Mark Hughes Burnard Radford	CEO and MD	University of Queensland
David Roder	Group Executive	Cancer Council, South Australia

Panel Eight: Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurological, Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Paul Burnett	Professor	Charles Sturt University
Nicholas David Evans	Professor	University of Melbourne
Simon Crowe	Professor and Head of School of Psychological Science	La Trobe University
Colin MacLeod	Professor	University of Western Australia
Stephen Redman	Professor of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research	The Australian National University
Sally Andrews	Professor and Head of School of Psychology	University of Sydney
Stephen Reicher	Professor	University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK
Max Coltheart	Professor and Director of the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science	Macquarie University
Deborah Terry	Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor, and Executive Dean, Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences	University of Queensland
Lyn Littlefield	Professor and Executive Director	Australian Psychological Society
David A Hay	Professor	Curtin University of Technology
Brian Kelly	Professor and Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health	Bloomfield Hospital, Orange

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Graeme Hugo	Professor	University of Adelaide
Andrew Parkin	Professor of Political & international Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)	Flinders University
David de Vaus	Professor and Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences	La Trobe University
Peter Saunders	Scientia Professor and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow	The University of New South Wales
Katherine Gibson	Professor, Department of Human Geography	The Australian National University
Margaret Jolly	Professor	The Australian National University
Bruce Thom	Emeritus Professor	Wentworth Group
Terrel Carver	Professor of Political Theory	University of Bristol, UK
Davinder Pal Ahluwalia	Professor of Post-Colonial Studies	University of South Australia
Adam Graycar	Professor School of Criminal Justice and Dean	Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Patrick Troy	Emeritus Professor	The Australian National University
Patrick Corr	Director, Demography Section	Australian Bureau of Statistics

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Ian Palmer	Professor	University of Technology, Sydney
Alan Woodland	Professor	The University of Sydney
Thomas Mark Gabbott	Professor and Deputy Dean	Monash University
Phyllis Tharenou	Professor and Dean Research	University of South Australia
Stephen Taylor	Professor of Accounting	The University of New South Wales
Timothy Michael Devinney	Professor	The University of New South Wales
Russell Duncan Lansbury	Professor and Associate Dean	University of Sydney
Richard Butler	Professor of International Tourism	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Gael McDonald	Professor and Vice President, Research	Unitec New Zealand
John L Gattorna	Dr and Director	Gattorna Alignment
Charles Littrell	Mr, and Executive General Manager, Policy, Research and Statistics	Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Mark Dodgson	Professor and Director, Technology and Innovation Management Centre	University of Queensland

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Hilary Charlesworth	Professor	Australian National University
Fazal Rizvi	Professor in Global Studies in Education	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Peter Goodyear	Professor of Education	The University of Sydney
Janet Chan	Professor	The University of New South Wales
Barbara Fawcett	Professor and Associate Dean (Research)	The University of Sydney
Margaret Davies	Professor	Flinders University
John A C Hattie	Professor and Project Director of Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning	University of Auckland, New Zealand
Anthony Duggan	Professor and Iacobucci Chair	University of Toronto, Canada
Christopher Peter Frost	Professor and Head of Journalism	Liverpool John Moores University, UK
David Harris Solomon	Dr	Self Employed
Dahle Suggett	Dr and Deputy Secretary	Victoria Department of Education and Early Childhood
Evelyn Woodberry	Ms and University Librarian	University of New England

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Iain McCalman	Professor	Australian National University
Graeme John Davison	Professor and Director, Monash London Centre	Monash University
Anne Pauwels	Professor of Linguistics and Dean, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences	University of Western Australia
Claire Edwina Smith	Associate Professor	Flinders University
Graeme Turner	Professor and ARC Federation Fellow	University of Queensland
Thomas Douglas Campbell	Professor	Charles Sturt University
Dipesh Chakrabarty	Lawrence A Kimpton, Distinguished Service Professor	University of Chicago, USA
Victor Bailey	Charles W Battey, Distinguished Professor of Modern Britain History	University of Kansas, USA
Thomas R Metcalf	Visiting Emeritus Professor	University of Michigan
Louise Adler	CEO & Publisher	Melbourne University Publishing
Daryl Karp	CEO Senior Executive	Film Australia
Alan John Saunders	ABC Presenter	Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Name	Title/Position	Organisation
Chair Sue Rowley	Professor	University of Technology, Sydney
Huib Schippers	Professor and Director, Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre	Griffith University
Julie Holledge	Professor	Flinders University
Jennie Amanda Lawson	Professor and Head of School of Art and Design	University of Wollongong
Suzette Worden	Professor of Design	Curtin University of Technology
Martin Peter Betts	Professor and Executive Dean	Queensland University of Technology
Janis Jefferies	Professor of Visual Arts, Artistic Director, Goldsmiths Digital Studios	University of London, UK
Dennis Del Favero	Professor, Chairman of iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, and ARC QEII Fellow	University of New South Wales
Paolo Tombesi	Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research)	University of Melbourne
Michelle Ely	Team Leader Arts Investment & Public Domain	Melbourne City Council, Arts and Culture Branch
Michael Keniger	Professor and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)	Queensland University
James Hayter	Director	Oxygen Pty Ltd

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Assessment Panel Members for Research Quality Framework announced