Professor Alan Rix, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Professor Alan Rix

BA ANU, PhD ANU, GAICD

Phone: +61 (7) 3381 1002
Fax: +61 (7) 3381 1049
E-mail: a.rix@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.uq.edu.au/ipswich/
Office: Room 304, Level 3, Building No. 8
Post: Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Ipswich
Level 3, Building No. 8
Ipswich Campus
The University of Queensland
11 Salisbury Road
IPSWICH  QLD 4305

Personal assistant
Ms Raewyn Peeti
Phone: +61 (7) 3381 1002
Email: r.peeti@uq.edu.au

Areas of responsibility

• Academic and administrative leadership and general superintendence of the Ipswich and Gatton Campuses and the programs delivered there.  This includes management and oversight of the continuing development of the Campus, and its representation to the external community.
• Strategic development of academic staff, and industrial and employee relations issues as they relate to academic staff.

Biography
Professor Rix was born in Sydney in 1949, educated in Sydney and at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Professor Rix has worked at the Australian National University in Canberra, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Griffith University, and became Professor of Japanese Studies at The University of Queensland in 1985. He has published and consulted widely in his professional academic field.

He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (External Affairs) in 1994, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1997, and PVC Ipswich in 2004 (a position renamed Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 2009). He is responsible for overall management and development of the UQ Ipswich and Gatton campuses and their community relationships, and is also in charge of employee relations for the University’s academic staff.

Professor Rix is involved in a number of boards and committees in the education sector. He is Chair of the Board of the Edmund Rice Flexible Learning Centres Network, and a member of the Board of UQ College Ltd.

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