Academic Board Executive
Professor Eilis Magner
Chair
Contact:
Telephone: 02 6773 2072
Email: Chair of Board
Qualifications: BA(Ott), BEd(Tor), LLB(ANU) LLM(NSW), SJD(Tor), Barrister
Eilis is Chair of the Academic Board. She is serving a two year term which commenced on February 5 2007. In this role she is a member of Council, a member of the Vice Chancellor's Committee and of the Higher Degree Research Committee. She also chairs the Study Leave Committee. She served as UNE Ombudsman from 1998-2004 and as UNE Senior Ombudsman from 2004-2007. Her first name is Irish in origin and is pronounced to rhyme with the nationality (Eye-lish). She, however, is Canadian by birth. Eilis came to this country as a high school teacher in 1971.
Eilis is the Foundation Professor of Law, appointed in 1996. Her special interests are Corporation Law, Evidence and Women and Law. She teaches Civil Procedure and Evidence, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Trade Practices Law.
Eilis is the author of Joske’s Law and Procedure of Meetings in Australia (9th ed, 2001). Before her appointment to The University of New England, Eilis was a member of the Faculty of Law at Sydney University.
Professor Ray Cooksey
Deputy Chair
Contact:
Telephone: 02 6773 2563
Email: rcooksey@une.edu.au
Qualifications: MSc, PhD (ColoState)
As Deputy Chair, Ray is a member of the Research, Higher Degree Research and Standing Committee of Academic Board. He is an experienced member of the Board Executive, having served as Chair from 2000-2004. He holds a PhD in Psychology and works primarily in the organisational behaviour and managerial decision making areas. He has held positions in three of the four Faculties at UNE over the past 20 years: Education, Arts (Psychology) and now EBL - a diverse set of experiences that informs both his teaching and research.
Teaching
His specific teaching areas include managerial thinking and decision making, organisational behaviour, quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Research
His research is focused mainly in the areas of decision making and cognition, chaos and complexity theory organisational and behavioural systems theory, cause mapping and multivariate statistics. However, Ray has also worked on more diverse research projects such as multivariate analyses of criminal psychological profiling data and analysing teacher judgments when making student assessments. He has consulted with several Australian and US-based industries and government departments in areas such as ergonomics, performance measurement, survey design and analysis, and change management. Ray has published two books (an international book with Academic Press entitled Judgment Analysis: Theory Methods and Applications and a locally-published book entitled Statistics for Behavioural and Social Research: A Descriptive Handbook ), 9 book chapters and over 40 articles in national and international refereed journals.
Affiliations
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM; former President 2003), US Academy of Management (AOM), International Federation of Scholarly Academics of Management (IFSAM), System Dynamics Society, The Brunswik Society, Society for Judgement and Decision Making and Decision Sciences Institute.
Professor David Cottle
Deputy Chair
Contact:
Telephone: 02 6773 2178
Email: Prof David Cottle
Qualifications: B Sc (hons 1) UNSW, PhD (UNE)
David has served on the Academic Board as Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) from 2004-2008. He has also served as the Academic Staff member on UNE Council.
Affiliations
Associate Dean - Teaching and Learning Centre, Faculty of the Sciences
Areas of Teaching
- Sheep Production - WOOL 412
David has been working in tertiary teaching at CSU, Lincoln University in New Zealand and UNSW. He was the Education Program Leader in the Sheep CRC from 2003-2007. He currently oversees academic affairs in the Faculty.
Research interests
- Wool production
- Modelling sheep production