Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Dr Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and director of the User Experience Group within the Intel Digital Home Group

Genevieve Bell joined Intel in 1998 as a researcher in Corporate Technology Group's People and Practices Research team - Intel's first social science oriented research team. She helped drive the company's first non-U.S. field studies to inform business group strategy and products and conducted groundbreaking work in urban Asia in the early 2000s. Bell currently leads an R&D team of social scientists, interaction designers and human factors engineers to drive consumer-centric product innovation in Intel's consumer electronics business. In this role she is responsible for setting research directions, conducting comparative qualitative and quantitative research globally, leading new product strategy and definition, and championing consumer-centric innovation and thinking across the company.

Genevieve Kelly, NTEU

Genevieve Kelly is the NSW division State Secretary for the NTEU, and a member of the research team that produced the recent report on escalating academic work volume at UWS, entitled Overload.

Professor Simon Marginson, University of Melbourne

Professor Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Simon completed his PhD in the Faculty of Education at The University of Melbourne in 1996 and was awarded the University’s Chancellor’s Prize for the outstanding thesis in the social sciences, arts and humanities that year. After spending 15 years as a policy research officer for four different education unions including three at national level, he worked at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor/Reader (1993-1998), before transferring to the Monash University Faculty of Education in 1998. At Monash he was appointed to a Personal Professorial Chair in Education in 2000 and was director of the Monash Centre for Research in International Education (1999-2006). He became a Fellow of the Australian College of Education (FACE) in 1994 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia (FASSA) in 2000. In 2002 he was awarded a five year Australian Professorial Fellowship for 2003-2007, funded by the Australian government on the recommendation of the Australian Research Council (ARC). In October 2007 he was invested as an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders (FACEL).

Professor Margaret Sheil, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Council

With a PhD in Chemistry, Professor Sheil was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong before joining the ARC as CEO in 2007. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, a member of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Committee, and PMSEIC, The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. She was Chair of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee Deputy/Pro Vice-Chancellors' (Research) Group in 2006 and a member of the RQF reference committee in 2007.

Professor Graeme Turner, Convenor, ARC Cultural Research Network

Professor Turner is an ARC Federation Fellow, Professor of Cultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. He is one of the key figures in the development of cultural and media studies in Australia and has an outstanding international reputation in the field. His work is used in many disciplines—cultural and media studies, communications, history, literary studies, and film and television studies—and it has been translated into eight languages. Graeme's research interests over the years have been largely in Australian media and popular culture—with large ARC funded projects on television current affairs, talkback radio, and the local celebrity industry—but his Federation Fellow project is a major international study of post-broadcast television and the building of communities.