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How are we travelling now Semester 1 is over?

Now semester 1 is over. We had hoped we would be back on campuses with our students, and some were, in part. But is any university, or its staff group, any more certain of what will happen next semester than they were before this one started, in any state in Australia?

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Professor Lynn Bosetti

Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at University of British Columbia, Professor Lynn Bosetti gives insights into how Australian leaders in universities encounter academic workforces using incivility as behaviour to resist change and attempts at strategic direction.

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Professor John Dewar

Chair of our peak body Universities Australia and Vice Chancellor of La Trobe John Dewar assess how we are doing as a sector and interpret the gauntlet thrown at us by Minister Tudge in his recent speech. John gives a rich picture of the complexity of the commercialisation and campus return issues. He outlines how moves to differentiate on function and by discipline will continue to provide an opportunity for place-based strategies and major forays into the very competitive global online markets. But his message to the sector, in one of his first public statements as UA Chair, is to pay tribute to the culture change and skills development that has taken place sector-wide whilst recognising how much further there is still to travel.

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Professor Margaret Sheil

Vice Chancellor of QUT Professor Margaret Sheil joins the HEDx team to outline where QUT is up to in refreshing its blueprint strategy. As the university with the most well known brand position in Australia, promoting that in a post-COVID era is a priority for Margaret.

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Professor Marcia Devlin

Expert in education, equity and leadership, and author of Beating the Odds, Professor Marcia Devlin joins Martin and Karl to discuss her new book on sexism in Australian universities in the week it is launched. Marcia outlines the inequity as well as the financial, cultural and performance disadvantages that arise from a lack of diversity in leadership teams and how this can be changed by women, men and all leaders following different strategies.

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Dr David Kellerman

Leading learning technology innovator and Senior Lecturer in Engineering at UNSW in Sydney, Dr David Kellermann joins Martin and Karl to share his thoughts on the journey he believes all universities must take towards a new hybrid learning model of teaching.

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Matt Kuperholz

PwC’s Chief Data Scientist, Matt Kuperholz talks with Karl about the evolution of the industry and the role of data in shaping the future of higher education

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