Professor Sharon Bell
Senior Program Developer and Honorary Fellow of the LH Martin Institute, Professor Sharon Bell’s entire academic career has been in senior leadership positions. Having completed a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sydney and worked as an ethnographic filmmaker she entered the tertiary education sector as Head of the Full time Programme and Head of Studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (1990–1994). From there she went on to what she regards as her most formative leadership roles as Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts (1994–2001) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2001–2003) at the University of Wollongong, where she is an Emeritus Professor.
Sharon assumed the role of Pro-Vice Chancellor (Equity and Community Partnerships) at Griffith University in 2003 where she was also responsible, as Provost, for the University’s Logan Campus. She became Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canberra in 2006.
As a senior academic leader Professor Bell has considerable experience in academic change management and leadership particularly through her role as Workshop Facilitator of the Women’s Leadership Development Program, University of Newcastle (2005–2008), as a member of the National Steering Committee for the Carrick ‘Academic Leadership Capabilities in Australian Higher Education’ project (2006–2007, and currently as Chair of the National Steering Committee for the ALTC Online Leadership Learning System). Sharon was also Co-convenor of the AVCC Senior Women’s Colloquium, Universities Australia Executive Women (2005-2008). Her international leadership experience includes major change projects in Sri Lanka (World Bank 1999 and UGC 2000) and as a facilitator AusAid Australia – South Africa HE Senior Staff Workshops (2005).
Selected Publications
Bell, S. (2009). Women in Science and Technology in Australia: Maximising Productivity, Diversity and Innovation, FASTS, Canberra.
Bell, S. (2009).' The Academic Mode of Production', in Dean, R. and Smith, H. Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Bell, S. (2009). 'The Distance of a Shout', in Brun, C. and Jazeel, T. Spatializing Politics: culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
Bell, S. & Bentley, R (2006). 'Women in Research', in Change in Climate? Prospects for gender equity in universities, Chesterman, C. (ed) Proceedings of the Australian Technology Network Women's Executive Development (ATN -WEXDEV) 2006 Research Conference, Adelaide.
Bell, S. (2000). 'Reinventing Chatwin’s "The Songlines" for the Screen: Scholarly or Creative Process?' Our Cultural Heritage, Bigelow J.(ed) Occasional Paper 20, Papers from the 1997 Symposium of The Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra.