Staff Elections 2014: University Academic Board
Engineering Non Professorial – Candidate Statements and photos
These will appear in the electronic voting system in a random order determined by the
Returning Officer
SEHER ATA
Dr Seher Ata is a graduate of the Department of Mining Engineering,
University of Hacettepe, Turkey. She undertook her postgraduate
study in Chemical Engineering Department at the Newcastle
University, Australia, where a fundamental study on froth phase of
flotation was carried out. She graduated with the degree of PhD in
Chemical Engineering in 2002.
Dr Ata is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Mining Engineering
where she is responsible for the development of mineral processing
research and teaching. She designs and delivers courses at
undergraduate and post graduate levels. Prior to joining UNSW, she
was research academic at the Centre for Multiphase Processes, the
Newcastle University.
RICHARD BUCKLAND
I have been teaching at UNSW for 17 years, have served actively for
5 years on the Academic Board and for two years on the UNSW
Committee on Education and am known as a passionate teacher
who encourages students to achieve at the highest level and to seek to
go on and make a difference in society. I believe that this is
an essential part of what universities are about. I have had the good
fortune to have had this recognised in number of UNSW and national
teaching awards, including a Carrick citation for "inspirational teaching
in computer science that rekindles students' childhood love of
learning and communicates the joy of creative and rigorous
thinking". Recently I was the Australasian Association of Engineering
Educators educator of the year. I hope this would enable me to make
a useful contribution to the Academic Board.
PENNY MARTENS
I am Dr Penny Martens and I would like to represent the nonprofessorial Engineering Electorate. I am a Senior Lecturer in the
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering (GSBmE), and have been
part of the school since Aug 2003. I received my PhD in Chemical
Engineering at the University of Colorado in the US in 2002. I am
passionate about education and our students and would like to be
more actively involved in the management of this university.
I have served on Academic Board, and the Higher Degree Research
Committee, for the last two years. I am keen to continue my
involvement and continue to implement positive changes, and provide
a voice to the non-prof engineering community.
Within my school, I am on the Education committee and chair the WHS
committee. Within the Faculty of Engineering, I am on the
International Committee, and chair the UG thesis working group.
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IAIN SKINNER
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