Bulletin

Issue: March 2005

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Two La Trobe University Faculty Deans – Professor Stephen Duckett from Health Sciences and Professor Roger Wales from Humanities and Social Sciences – have been elected Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia – as has historian and author, Dr David Day.

Professor Martin Chanock, Head of the School of Law, has been elected to a Smuts Visiting Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies at Cambridge University. The fellowships, for scholars in disciplines relevant to Commonwealth studies, have been held by many distinguished scholars and political leaders.

Professor Chanock, who did his doctoral studies at Cambridge, will consider how, in a world of highly diverse cultures, the repertoire of international law in areas ranging from constitutionalism and rights to property, has been shrinking dramatically – and how the capacities of states to work with these laws continues to deteriorate.

Professor of English, Richard Freadman, has been awarded the George Watson Fellowship at the University of Queensland. The award is offered to distinguished academics in English and cultural studies. Professor Freadman will give seminars and be available for consultation by academic staff and students in the area of life-writing.

Mr Adam Van Lohuizen, a Bachelor of Commerce student from La Trobe University’s School of Business, has won the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Global Achiever Award for Victoria. The award provides a short-term international work placements to help students make deci-sions about their careers.