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Professor Andrew Wells (Deputy CEO of the ARC)
Humanities and Creative Arts
Phone: +61 2 6287 6650
Fax: +61 2 6206 7260
Professor Andrew Wells joined the ARC in February 2009 in the position of Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts. Before joining the ARC, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong for five years, commencing in September 2003.
Professor Wells has a strong understanding of the ARC and the humanities and arts sector. He has held four ARC grants and has been a highly active HDR supervisor—with around 25 completions to his credit. Professor Wells has previously been an active member of the Executive of the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. In addition, he has a longstanding interest in interdisciplinary studies, substantial and longstanding management experience, and a great capacity for strategic thinking.
Professor Wells is a graduate of Monash University (BA Hons, MA) and the Australian National University (PhD). He has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in politics, history, economic history, Asian studies and Australian studies at Monash University, Melbourne University, the Australian National University and the University of Wollongong.
Professor Wells is published widely on Australian economics, and labour and intellectual history. His current research interests concern comparative studies of Australian and South East Asian labour history, most recently focusing on imperial hegemony and colonial labour—a major, multi-authored study on the commodification of colonial labour is close to completion.
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Professor Marian Simms
Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences
Fax: +61 2 6206 7260
Professor Marian Simms joined the ARC in August 2011 as Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences.
Prior to this, Professor Simms held the position of Head of the School of History, Heritage and Society at Deakin University from 2009-2011 and Chair in Australian Studies. Other appointments include Chair in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, 2002-2009
(Head 2002-2007); and Reader in Political Science ANU, 1994-2002. She is an honours graduate of the ANU in History and Political Science, with a PhD in Politics from La Trobe University.
Professor Simms has an international reputation in the fields of gender studies and political science derived from a strong publication record and a history of grants and awards. She has published 5 authored and co-authored books, 9 edited and co-edited books, and over 80 articles and chapters. She has received research grants from the ARC, the NSW Sesquicentenary Committee, the National Committee for the Centenary of Federation and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. She was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Southern California and holds a Centenary of Federation medal for her research on the 1901 Election.
She has been active in the administration and evaluation of research. From 2005-2009 she served as the inaugural convenor of the Humanities Research Cluster on Political Communication, Policy and Participation at the University of Otago. The Cluster sponsored research on political communication in British, Australian and New Zealand elections, research workshops for postgraduates, public lectures and a number of high profile visitors. From 2003-2006 she was the Chair of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on Gender, Globalization and Democratization. She was invited by the Swedish Research Council to chair the process for selecting and evaluating new centres of research excellence in 2006 and 2008. She served two terms as a member of the Social Science panel of the Performance Based Research Funding Evaluation in New Zealand (equivalent of Australia’s ERA).
Professor Simms is past President of the Australian Political Studies Association, and co-editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science.
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Professor Richard Coleman
Physical, Mathematical and Information Sciences
Phone: +61 2 6287 6685
Fax: +61 2 6206 7254
Professor Coleman joined the ARC in July 2009 as Executive Director for Physical, Mathematical and Information Sciences. Prior to this, he was the Professor of Marine Science and Director of the Centre for Marine Science at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), and also the Director of the joint CSIRO-UTAS PhD Program in Quantitative Marine Science.
Professor Coleman was a member of the ARC College of Experts on the Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences panel since 2008.
He has over 25 years experience as a researcher and academic in the Australian university sector. Professor Coleman has held positions at the Research School of Earth Sciences, the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Tasmania—where he also held a joint appointment with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.
Professor Coleman has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in the physical sciences (spatial information, earth, and marine sciences). He has a wealth of experience in graduate supervision, with some 27 completions, and has served as Acting Dean of Graduate Research at the University of Tasmania.
Professor Coleman holds a Bachelor of Surveying (Hons 1) and a PhD in Geodesy from the University of New South Wales. He has received a Fulbright postgraduate award and Queen’s Fellowship in Marine Science and has been a visiting scientist at universities and research institutions in France, Japan and the United States.
Throughout his career, Professor Coleman has been awarded more than $13 million in research funding from nationally competitive research grants over 20 years. His research comprised geodesy, physical oceanography and glaciology, with the main focus based on understanding the role of the oceans and cryosphere in the global climate system by using observations, theory and modelling.
Professor Coleman has written more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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