President and Deputy President

The President and Deputy President are elected from the members of the Board. The role of the President is a full-time appointment, while the Deputy President role is a half-time appointment.

The President acts as the executive officer of the Board, and chairs the Academic Board and most Board Committees. The President remains informed of the workings of the academic staff and other related sections of the University.  Sections 19 to 21 of the Senate Rule - Academic Board, are in relation to the President and the Deputy President. 

The Deputy President assists the President and carries out functions on behalf of the President, as determined by the Board or President.  Should the President be unable to act, the Deputy President may discharge all functions of the President.  

President

The President of the Academic Board is Professor Kaye Basford.

Kaye is Professor of Biometry and her research is at the interface between applied statistics and quantitative genetics and she has published extensively on the analysis and interpretation of multi-way data from large-scale plant breeding experiments, particularly those involving genotype by environment interaction.  Previous positions at UQ include Deputy President of the Academic Board (2009 to 2011) and Head of the UQ School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences (2001 to 10).  

Kaye is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, and the Royal Statistical Society.  She is immediate past-President of the International Biometric Society, a past-President of the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated, and will be on the Board of Trustees in the International Rice Reserach Institute in 2013 to 15. 

 

 
   

Deputy President  

The Deputy President of the Academic Board is Professor Fred D'Agostino. 

Fred D'Agostino is Professor of Humanities and was Associate Dean of Arts (Academic) from 2005 to 2011.  He is a member of the University Senate and a long-standing member of the Standing Committee of the Academic Board.  He conducted the 2007 BA Curriculum Review at the University of Melbourne and has done review work for Flinders, Tasmania, Sunshine Coast, Curtin and Monash.  He has held ARC and ALTC grants.  He edits the journal Politics, Philosophy and Economics and is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Political and Social Philosophy.  His most recent book is Naturalizing Epistemology, and his current research project is on disciplinarity. 

 

 

Academic Board Office

Address
Academic Board Office
Level 4 J.D.Story Building 
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072

Personal Assistant to the President and Deputy President
Ms Lisha Allen
lisha.allen@uq.edu.au
(07) 3365 1320

 

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