DVCRI

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)
The University of Western Australia

 
Professor Doug McEachern
BA (Hons) Adelaide, MA Adelaide, PhD Leeds, FASSA

Professor Doug McEachern, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), has responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of the University's research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.

Prior to his appointment with UWA, Professor McEachern was the Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council (ARC) from February 2001 to October 2003. He is the immediate past chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences discipline panel of the Australian Research Council, and member of the ARC’s Research Training and Careers Committee.

Professor McEachern was Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Adelaide. He is also a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Adelaide, and has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Research School of Social Sciences.

Professor McEachern is author of the influential text Business Mates: the Power and Politics of the Hawke Era, now a standard text in many politics courses in Australian universities, and joint author of the internationally acclaimed Environmental Politics.