New job at Melbourne, professor level,
This is to run our new human-environment/sustainability _research_
institute established by Prof Ruth Fincher. No teaching expected, as I
understand it.
We also have an Office of Environmental programs, concerned with
postgrad teaching, which I run,
and a Department of Resource Management and Geography with about 10
staff.
DIRECTOR, MELBOURNE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY INSTITUTE
The University of Melbourne seeks a Foundation Director (Professor
level) to lead the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI), a new
cross-disciplinary research institute. The MSSI is one of a suite of
research institutes to be established at the University of Melbourne and
will carry major responsibility for forming connections between social
and bio-physical research approaches to sustainability and
socio-environmental change. The Director will report to the DVC
(Research), and will also form a strong liaison with the Dean of the
Melbourne School of Land and Environment within whose School the
Institute is located administratively. Within this intellectual and
administrative context the Director will work actively both to showcase
the University's considerable capacity in sustainability research of
diverse kinds, and to facilitate innovative trans-disciplinary research
with sustainability objectives between researchers of the University's
many departments and faculties. This is a 5-year professorial position.
For PD and selection criteria please visit The University of Melbourne
employment website.
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=495625&lCategoryID=&lW
orkTypeID=1087&lLocationID=5047&sJobNo=sustainability+director&sKeywords
=sustainability+director&lPayScaleID=&stp=AW&sLanguage=en
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Closing date for applications: 23 Nov 2008 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard
Time
Dr. Simon Batterbury, Director, Graduate Environmental Program
Office for Environmental Programs, Building 143 (Nat. Philosophy)
University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC Australia.
+61 (0)3 8344 5073/3314 Fax: +61 (0)3 8344 5650
http://www.environment.unimelb.edu.au
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Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne
School of Land and Environment,
University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC Australia
(rm L2.33, 221 Bouverie St) +61 (0)3 8344 9319 Fax +61 (0)3 9349 4218
simonpjb@ unimelb.edu.au http://www.simonbatterbury.net
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