Research Higher Degrees Committee

Terms of reference

Membership 2022

Position on committee	Name
Chair	Professor Wendy Wright (term ends 31/12/2022)
Deputy Chair	Associate Professor Andrew Barton (one-year term ends 31/12/2022)
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 Partnerships)	Associate Professor Andrew Barton
Interim HDR Coordinator	Dr Grant Palmer
Interim HDR Coordinator	Associate Professor Robyn Brandenburg
Interim HDR Coordinator	Associate Professor Madhu Chetty
Interim HDR Coordinator	Dr Louisa Lam
Interim HDR Coordinator	Carole Wilson
Elected members
One Federation University Australia HDR student	Olutope Arinola Akinnibosun (term ends 31/12/2023)
Two Research Centre Directors	vacant
One Research Advisor	vacant
Co-opted members
Director, Research Innovation and Enterprise	Amy Hunter
Team Leader, Higher Degrees by Research	Rebekah Bailey
Graduate Program Coordinator	Dr Robert Watson

2022 meetings

Meeting	Date	Time	Location	Agenda paper deadline (4.00 pm)	Agenda (members only)	Minutes
1/22	Thursday 10 March	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Thursday 24 February	RHDC 1/22 Agenda and Papers (2.9mb)	RHDC 1/22 Minutes (230kb)
CM 1/22	March	-	via circular	-	RHDC CM 1/22 Agenda and Papers (64kb)	-
2/22	Thursday 12 May	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Thursday 28 April	RHDC 2/22 Agenda and Papers (2.1mb)	RHDC 2/22 Minutes (244kb)
3/22	Thursday 14 July	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Thursday 30 June
4/22	Thursday 15 September	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Thursday 1 September
5/22	Thursday 10 November	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Thursday 27 October

Past meetings

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)	RHDC3/21 - Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf153kb) RHDC3/21 - Actions (pdf117kb) CR1/21 - Minutes (pdf 116kb)
August	Thu 19	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Fri 6 August	RHDC4/21 - Agenda and Papers (pdf 2mb)	RHDC4/21 - Minutes - (pdf155kb) RHDC4/21 - Actions (pdf117kb)
October meeting 5/21 is cancelled.	Thu 14	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Fri 1 Oct	Cancelled	-
November	Thu 18	10.30am-12.30pm	Teams	Fri 5 Nov	RHDC6/21 Agenda and Papers (pdf, 1.8MB)	RHDC6/21 - Minutes Unconfirmed pdf 148kb)
Circulatory meeting - December	Thu 23	-	via circular	-	RHDC CM 2/21 - Agenda (pdf, 107kb)	RHDC CM2/21 - Minutes (pdf, 104kb)

Contact

Executive Officer
Dr Daria Soldatenko, Academic Secretariat, Governance and Strategy
Phone: +61 3 5327 6173
Email: d.soldatenko@federation.edu.au

Past meetings

2020 meetings

Month	Minutes
February	RHDC1/20 - Minutes (215kb).
May	RHDC2/20 - Minutes (pdf 152kb)
June	Cancelled
August	RHDC4/20 - Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf 194kb)
October	RHDC5-20 - Minutes (pdf 196kb)
November	RHDC6-20 - Minutes - Unconfirmed (pdf 193kb)

2019 meetings

Month	Minutes
February	RHDC1/19 (pdf 90kb)
April	RHDC2/19 (pdf 58kb)
June	RHDC3/19 (pdf 294kb)
August	RHDC4/19 (pdf 60kb)
October	RHDC5/19 (pdf 80kb)
November	RHDC6/19 (pdf 63kb)

2018 meetings

Month	Minutes
February	Meeting not held
March	RHDC2/18 (pdf 59kb)
April	RHDC3/18 (pdf 54kb)
May	RHDC4/18 (pdf 143kb)
August	RHDC5/18 (pdf 57kb)
October	RHDC6/18 (pdf 85kb)
November	RHDC7/18 (pdf 61kb)

2017 meetings

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)