Research at UNE
Professor Ray Cooksey
PVC Research
PVC Research
Welcome from the
Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
The Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) provides strategic leadership for all aspects of the University’s research activities and oversight of the University’s Research Management Plan. The portfolio responsibility of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) includes a broad range of research support services for staff and postgraduate higher degree research students. The portfolio also includes responsibility for relationships with Cooperative Research Centres, various UNE Research Centres and Institutes and for intellectual property and commercialisation matters.
Prof. Cooksey is acting in the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) until the position is permanently filled.
Research News:
Scholarly tribute to ‘the last biwa singer’
In a recently-published study, Hugh de Ferranti has interpreted the history and documented the demise of a centuries-old tradition of oral performance in Japan.
Vine draws leading botanist to New England
Professor William (Ned) Friedman flew all the way to Armidale, NSW, from Boulder in the United States for two days of fieldwork in pursuit of a species of plant unique to north-eastern NSW.
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