Research Higher Degrees Committee

Terms of reference

Position on committee	Name
Chair	Professor Wendy Wright (term ends 31/12/2022)
Deputy Chair	Professor David Piedrafita (one-year term ends 31/12/2021)
Ex officio members
Chair, Academic Board	Associate Professor Elisa Zentveld (term ends 31/12/2022)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)	Professor Chris Hutchison
Dean, Graduate Research School	Professor Wendy Wright
Associate Dean (Research Training)
Associate Deans (Research)
School of Arts	Associate Professor Jeremy Smith
School of Education	Associate Professor Robyn Brandenburg
School of Science, Psychology and Sport	Professor David Piedrafita
School of Health	Associate Professor Aziz Rahman
School of Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences	Professor Manzur Murshed
Federation Business School	Associate Professor Abdel Halabi
Elected members
One Federation University Australia HDR student	Sayani Dey (term ends 31/12/2021)
Co-opted members
Director, Research Innovation and Enterprise	Ms Amy Hunter
Team Leader, Higher Degrees by Research	Ms Rebekah Bailey
Graduate Program Coordinator	Dr Robert Watson
HDR Coordinators (co-opted members)
School of Arts	Dr Simon Cooper
School of Education	Dr Sharon McDonough
School of Science, Psychology and Sport	Dr Grant Palmer
School of Health	Dr Louisa Lam
School of Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences	Associate Professor Madhu Chetty
Federation Business School	Dr Rachel Taylor

2021 meetings

Month	Date	Time	Location	Agenda paper deadline (4.00 pm)	Agenda (members only)	Minutes
February	Thu 11	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Fri 29 Jan	RHDC1/21 Agenda and Papers (1.4mb)	RHDC1/21 Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf 230kb) RHDC1/21 Actions (pdf 196kb)
April	Thu 29	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Fri 16 April	RHDC2/21 Agenda and Papers (pdf 3mb)	RHDC2/21 Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf 204kb) RHDC2/21 Actions (pdf 190kb)
June	Thu 17	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Fri 4 June	RHDC3/21 Agenda and Papers (pdf 3.9mb)
August	Thu 19	10.30am-12.30pm	to be confirmed	Fri 6 August
October	Thu 14	10.30am-12.30pm	to be confirmed	Fri 1 Oct
November	Thu 18	10.30am-12.30pm	to be confirmed	Fri 5 Nov

Executive Officer
Emily Hearnshaw, Research Services
Phone: +61 3 5327 6173
Email: e.hearnshaw@federation.edu.au

Past meetings

2020 meetings

Month	Date	Time	Location	Agenda paper deadline (4.00 pm)	Agenda (members only)	Minutes
February	Thu 13	10.30am-12.30pm	Council Room, Mt Helen and videoconference Room 2W263 Gippsland and 901_245 Berwick	Wed 5 Feb	RHDC1/20 - Agenda and Papers (6Mb)	RHDC1/20 - Minutes (215kb)
May	Thu 21	10.30am-12.30pm	Microsoft Teams	Fri 8 May	RHDC2/20 - Agenda and Papers (pdf 4.3mb)	RHDC2/20 - Minutes (pdf 152kb)
June	Thu 11	10.30am-12.30pm	Not held
August	Thu 13	10.30am-12.30pm	Microsoft Teams	Fri 31 Jul	RHDC4/20 - Agenda and Papers (pdf 2.3mb)	RHDC4/20 - Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf 194kb)
October	Thu 15	10.30am-12.30pm	Council Room, Mt Helen and videoconference Room 2W263 Gippsland and 901_245 Berwick	Fri 2 Oct	RHDC5/20 - Agenda and Papers (pdf 3mb)	RHDC5-20 - Minutes (pdf 196kb)
November	Thu 19	10.30am-12.30pm	Council Room, Mt Helen and videoconference Room 2W263 Gippsland and 901_245 Berwick	Fri 6 Nov	RHDC6/20 - Agenda and Papers (pdf 1.5mb)	RHDC6-20 - Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf 193kb)

Month	Minutes
February	RHDC 1-17 (pdf, 125KB)
March	RHDC 2-17 (pdf, 108KB)
April(Reserve)	Meeting not held
June	RHDC 4-17 (pdf 56KB)
August	RHDC 5-17 (pdf 82KB) RHDC 5-17 Actions (pdf 49KB)
September	RHDC 6-17 (pdf 72KB) RHDC 6-17 Actions (pdf 46KB)
November
November (Reserve)	RHDC 8-17 (pdf 83kb) RTP Stipend Scholarship Allocations (pdf 105kb)