Executive staff

Professor Michelle Lincoln

B App Sci (Speech Path), PhD, FSPA, PFHEA

DVCA Suite, Building 1, Room C87
+61 2 6201 3706
dvc@canberra.edu.au

Professor Michelle Lincoln was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra for five years prior to taking on the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic position in October 2023. As Executive Dean, she engaged in all aspects of the leadership of the Faculty including promoting the role and impact of health and sport professionals on the lives of clients, patients and communities. She also focused on the preparation of the future allied health workforce.

Professor Lincoln’s research has been funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council and the NSW Government. She has published more than a hundred and fifty peer reviewed journal papers as well as books and book chapters. Most recently her work has developed evidence for innovative allied health service delivery models in rural areas as well as strategies for retaining allied health professionals.

Professor Lincoln has co-led the implementation of the UC Sport Strategy, a whole-of-university strategy designed to harness the power of sport for social justice, equality, inclusion and wellbeing by focusing our efforts on women in sport and sport integrity. The Sport Strategy aims to position UC as a leading university for sport in Australia and internationally.

Professor Lincoln was formerly the Deputy Dean, Associate Dean Learning and Teaching and the Head of Discipline of Speech Pathology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney. She was the inaugural chair of the Asia Pacific Education Collaboration in Speech Pathology. Michelle has over 20 years of experience in facilitating student learning both in the classroom and on clinical placement. She takes a scholarly approach to learning and teaching and this has resulted in three cross institutional learning and teaching projects funded by the Office of Learning and Teaching and University and National teaching awards. Her research in education is focused on competency based assessment in clinical settings, clinical education models, ethical development and interprofessional learning.

Further to her role at the University, Professor Lincoln is the Board Chair of the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences, a member of the ACT Health Systems Council, member of the Allied Health Leadership Alliance and the Health Professions Education Standing Group of Universities Australia. In addition, she is a mentor for Franklin Women and the Minerva Foundation.

She is a Fellow of Speech Pathology Australia, a Principle Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Jonathan Pheasant

Building 1, Room D139
+61 2 6201 5045
coo@canberra.edu.au

Jonathan Pheasant is the Chief Operating Officer, Vice-President Operations at the University of Canberra (UC). Jonathan has responsibility for the University’s core business services including Finance, Campus and Commercial Operations, Campus Development, People and Diversity (Human Resources), and Marketing.

Jonathan has worked in the higher education sector for the past 15 years having held senior professional staff roles at the ANU, UNSW Sydney and the University of Adelaide.

Jonathan joined UC in June 2023 from the ANU where he was the Director, Shared Services, responsible for the delivery of university-wide HR, finance, travel and facility-related services.  From 2016 – 2021, Jonathan was the Faculty Executive Director, UNSW Health and Medicine. In UNSW Sydney’s largest faculty with multiple campus locations, hospital-based clinical schools and five rural clinical schools, Jonathan was responsible for the strategic and financial planning and operational management of all services supporting research and teaching.

Prior to joining the higher education sector, Jonathan held senior strategic planning and service delivery roles in a number of telecommunications and events organisations.  Jonathan also served as an Officer in the Royal Australian Navy from 1993 – 1999.