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New Director aims to integrate UNE-community links

March 08, 2005

Anne Roczniok 0008.jpgAnne Roczniok, a nuclear physicist by training, will be generating energy of a different kind in her new role as Director of the University of New England’s Development Office.

“While reinforcing the traditional links between the University and its communities, the Development Office will be seeking to create new links to meet new challenges and opportunities,” Ms Roczniok said.

“My role as Director is to integrate the development of the diverse range of UNE’s external relationships, including relationships with alumni, community and regional bodies, industry clients, sponsors, and large Government organisations,” she explained. “In addition to this, one of my main objectives will be to integrate the Office’s fund-raising, community-liaison, consulting and commercialisation projects with the whole spectrum of related activities undertaken by the University’s various research groups and administrative units.”

“It’s going to be a profile-raising exercise for the Development Office both on- and off-campus,” she said.

Ms Roczniok came to UNE in February after 10 years at the University of NSW, where she had led teams involved in obtaining funding for research and commercialising new technologies. Since the middle of 1999 she had been Business Development Manager in Technology Commercialisation at that university’s consulting company, Unisearch Limited.

As a young graduate of the University of Melbourne, her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in nuclear physics led her first to the Melbourne laboratory of a CSIRO minerals Division, where she helped to develop nuclear devices for monitoring the quality and composition of mineral ores. Within CSIRO, she moved first to a Sydney laboratory of the same minerals Division, and then to the Division of Textile Physics at Ryde, where she was involved in the development and commercialisation of new technology for measuring the mechanical properties of fabrics. Her move to the University of NSW followed the closure of the Ryde laboratory.

She and her husband bought a 500-acre property in New England several years ago, intending to wait till the time was right before moving north from Sydney. “That was supposed to be around the end of next year,” Ms Roczniok said, “when my son Ben finishes his degree course at Macquarie University. “But when this position at UNE came up it looked so interesting, bringing together so many aspects of my expertise and experience, that the move came a year earlier than expected.”

As Australia’s oldest regional university, established by members of the New England community to meet the region’s educational needs and aspirations, UNE has a long history of support from, and involvement in, its local communities. This interaction, coordinated by the Development Office, includes the generous provision of scholarships by many organisations and individuals.


Media contact: Anne Roczniok, Director, Development Office, UNE (02) 6773 3707 or Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE (02) 6773 3049.

The photograph of Anne Roczniok displayed here is available. Please contact Jim Scanlan on (02) 6773 3049.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at March 8, 2005 09:22 AM