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Issue: September 2004

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New Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)

La Trobe University has appointed Professor Brian Stoddart as its new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) to replace Professor Fred Smith, who is retiring later this year.

Professor Stoddart is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) at Victoria University, and was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and International) at the University of New England where he had oversight of the introduction of the new federal research initiatives. He is also the current chair of the Pro and Deputy Vice-Chancellors' (International) Committee for the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC). He has held several research positions overseas, and has an international network of research-related agencies.

Professor Stoddart took his first two degrees in modern history at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, then a PhD in the modern history of India at the University of Western Australia. He has been a pioneer in the study of Australian sports culture, a well known media commentator and is an internationally acknowledged authority in sports history and sociology.

His best known works include Saturday Afternoon Fever: Sport in the Australian Culture, and several works on the cultural history of Caribbean cricket. Among his recent activities, he delivered the tenth Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture at the University of the West Indies where his predecessors included Prime Ministers Michael Manley and John Major.

Professor Stoddart will commence his duties at on 1 November 2004.

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