VU academic promotions announced
The promotions include staff across the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT, College of Sport, Health and Engineering, Institute for Health and Sport, Mitchell Institute, Centre of Policy Studies, and the First Year College.
“Congratulations to our colleagues on their outstanding achievement. It’s important we recognise and celebrate these wins,”
Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Higher Education, Professor John Germov, said.
In addition to the overall lift in applications, there was also an increase in applications from women with 60 per cent of Level B and C positions and 67 per cent for Level D and E positions. Success rate was also high for these applications at 92 per cent and 86 per cent respectively.
Dr Mary Woessner, now a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Health and Sport, was one of those promoted.
“As with all milestones, the iceberg effect is real, and while I acknowledge the promotion is of course recognising individual achievements, the truth is that I would never be where I am now, doing what I love with people I'm continually inspired by, without so many incredible humans lifting me and my work up,”
Dr Woessner said.
The 2023 appointments followed a rigorous assessment by promotions panels, consistent with the Higher Education Academic Promotions Policy and Procedure. This included personal interviews with all applicants for promotion to Levels D and E and the participation of expert independent assessors in the process.
“Our sincere thanks go to everyone who applied for a promotion as well as to the members of the promotions panels who worked so hard to produce this excellent result,”
Professsor Germov added.
Academic Level B
College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT
College of Sport, Health and Engineering
- Ms Amy Lawton
- Mr Ian Neville
- Ms Sarah Bates
First Year College
Institute for Health and Sport
Academic Level C
College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT
- Dr Melissah Thomas
- Dr Christina Tao
- Dr Nilufa Khanom
- Ms Ruth Liston
- Dr Wenjie Ye
- Dr Assefa Teshome
- Ms Sarah Jobson
College of Sport, Health and Engineering
- Dr Mengbi Li
- Dr Melissa Chan
- Dr Melissa Kirkovski
- Dr Kara Dadswell
- Dr Mary Woessner
- Mr Nima Izadyar
- Dr Alice Sweeting
- Mr Matthew Cox
First Year College
- Dr Samuel Howe
- Mr Nicholas Tripodi
- Dr Lannie O'Keefe
- Dr Gayathri Rajaraman
- Dr Steven O'Bryan
- Dr Bichok Kot
- Ms Andrea Szendroe
- Mr Sunam Pradhan
Institute for Health and Sport
- Dr Elliott Flowers
- Dr Jade Haycraft
Mitchell Institute
Academic Level D
College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT
- Associate Professor Ligia Pelosi
- Associate Professor Khandakar Ahmed
- Associate Professor Karen Charman
- Associate Professor Catherine Lou
College of Sport, Health and Engineering
- Associate Professor Ehsan Yaghoubi
- Associate Professor Malindu Sandanayake
- Associate Professor Helen McCarthy
Academic Level E
Centre of Policy Studies
College of Sport, Health and Engineering
Institute for Health and Sport
The promotions took effect on 1 January 2024. The 2024 round of promotions will open in June.
