Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President
(Education)
PhD Macq, MEd UC, BA ANU
Contact Information
Phone: 02 6201 5064
Fax: 02 6201 5119
Email: Carole.Kayrooz@canberra.edu.au
Postal Address: University of Canberra ACT 2601
Personal Assistant: Mrs Judy Bell
Phone: 02 6201 5064
Fax: 02 6201 5119
Email: Judy.Bell@canberra.edu.au
Professor Carole Kayrooz holds a research doctorate in psychology and has qualifications in philosophy and education. Professor Kayrooz returned to the University from her position as the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Science at Charles Darwin University. She has also been convenor of the Academic Leadership Program at the Australian National University.
Professor Kayrooz has presented internationally as a Visiting Scholar at Cornell and Michigan State Universities and has offered professional development on postgraduate supervision to staff at the University of the South Pacific. She has facilitated a collaborative curriculum development project in environmental science across four universities in Australia and Indonesia.
Professor Kayrooz is represented in the Who’s Who of Australia in 2007 and Who’s Who of Australian Women in 2006 and was Chair of the NT Board of Studies advising the Minister of Education, Employment and Training. She has played an important role in five international consultancies in the last eight years involving AUSAID and UNESCO projects, mostly in Indonesia and Vietnam. In Shanghai, she was the first Western academic since the Cultural Revolution to be invited to present to Chinese senior academics at the Shanghai Educational Association.
In the last six years, Professor Kayrooz has published three books and several international papers. In 2005, she published with Allen and Unwin, Research in Organisations and Communities: Tales from the Real World (with C.Trevitt) and, in 2007, with Elsevier, Autonomy in Social Science Research: The view from UK and Australian universities (with G. Akerlind and M.Tight). On the basis of this latter book, she was a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University and was invited by UNESCO to Paris in 2006 to present at their Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy.
Professor Kayrooz initiated the Inaugural Indigenous Postgraduate Research Scholarship with the St Vincent de Paul Society at the University of Canberra. In the past five years, she has received two Harmony Day awards for promoting positive relations between staff and students at all levels. She has also sponsored indigenous female academics from the Yolgnu homelands in their leadership development.
