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Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Program 2010

Background

In 1993, on the recommendation of the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund Committee, Council established a Miegunyah Distinguished Fellowship Program.

Since the start of the program in 1993 eighty fellowships have been awarded. For 2009, fellowships have been awarded for visits to the following individuals and purposes.

Visiting Fellow

University

Host Dept./Faculty

Proposed Public Lecture Title

Professor Hans BELTING
Professor for Art History and Media Theory
Karlsruhe Academy for Design,Germany
School of Culture and Communication
Faculty of Arts		 Baghdad and Florence, Arab Science and Renaissance Art
Professor Barbara Maia STAFFORD William B Ogden Distinguished Service
Professor, Emerita
University of Chicago		 School of Culture and Communication
Faculty of Arts		 Our Animal Nature: Mirror Neurons and the
Performance of Other Minds
Professor Ronald J ADRIAN Ira A Fulton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Arizona State University		 Melbourne School of Engineering Extracting Order from Chaos: the Search for
Organized Structures in Turbulent Flow
Professor Pamela MATSON
(Combined visit with Vitousek)		 Dean of Earth Sciences and Goldman Professor of Environmental Sciences,
Stanford University		 School of Resource Management and
Geography
Melbourne School of Land and
Environment		 Human‐Environment Vulnerability ‐
Integrative Interdisciplinary Solutions
Professor Peter VITOUSEK
(Combined visit with Matson)		 Clifford G Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies,
Stanford University		 UniWater Australia‐China Centre for Water Resource Research
Melbourne School of Land and
Environment		 The Anthropocene ‐ The Era of Human‐Caused
Global Change
Professor Lawrence O GROSTIN Linda D and Timothy J OʹNeill Professor of Global Health; Professor of Public Health; Director of Center for Law and Public Health Melbourne School of Law Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the Worldʹs
Least Healthy People: Towards a Framework
Convention on Global Health.
Professor Leonard FELDMAN Director, Institute of Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Physics
Faculty of Science		 The Materials Revolution: Breakthroughs in
Science and Technology Fuelled by Advanced
Materials
Mr Thomas E MANN Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The W Averell Harriman Chair,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, USA		 Office of the Vice‐Chancellor After the 2008 Election: Politics and
Governance in the United States

Responsibilities of the Fellow

During their period at the University, Fellows will be required to present a substantial public lecture and several specialist lectures or a short series of seminars on a topic of general interest to the University community, to be available for consultation with staff and students and, if possible, to be engaged in research.

Fellows will be appointed under a relevant University statute and will be asked to prepare a brief report at the conclusion of their visit. In addition, the Miegunyah Fund Committee requests that a copy of the public lecture and a photograph of the Fellow be retained for its records.

Note that Melbourne University Publishing reserves the option to obtain copyright for and publish the public lecture. Should there be any objection, please advise the Office of Provost in writing when lodging the nomination.

A Public Lecture

Financial support for the presentation of the public lecture will be provided. With assistance from the Marketing and Communications Division, each public lecture will be promoted in the press and throughout the University, and will be associated with a dinner and/or reception following the presentation of the lecture.

Formal procedures have been established concerning the distribution of invitations to the lectures and, in addition to representatives from the discipline or department concerned, guests will include members of the University Council, Office of the Vice-Chancellor and Senior Executive; members of the Miegunyah Fund Committee; and other appropriate corporate and external invitees. Departments hosting a Miegunyah Fellow will be requested to provide the Protocol Office, the Office of the Provost and the Marketing and Communications Division with a contact person with whom they should liaise to coordinate the function.

Duration of the Visit

It is expected that the duration of most Fellowship proposals will be between four and eight weeks, but the Committee will look favourably on a shorter period if that is all the time that can be given by particularly eminent people.

Level of Funding

The actual value of the award will depend on the proposed length of stay, the cost of the airfare, and associated expenses. The value of each award made will be up to $20,000. (Please note that the selection committee, in its desire to support as many Fellows as possible, has the discretion to allocate awards of less than $20,000.)

Each grant must reserve $3,000 for promotion of the public lecture as well as $2,500 for a dinner and/or reception following the lecture. Beyond the reservation of the $5,500 mentioned, faculties or departments have discretion in determining how the remaining amount of the grant is utilised.

Application Procedure

Heads of Department must submit nominations through their Dean.

Please complete the attached application coversheet and budget proforma. Four sets of each nomination are required (an original and three copies).

In making nominations, Deans and/or Heads are to submit the following:

The budget must include the following information.

Fellows should be of exceptional international distinction in a field of study of interest to the University. They should reside outside Australia.

Fellows are expected to contribute to the academic, intellectual and cultural life of the University during their stay, and the proposed activities of the nominated Fellow comprise an important part of the selection criteria. Consideration also needs to be given to the title and description of the proposed public lecture to ensure its appeal is aimed at both the University and the wider community.

For advice on the latest Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) information about visa requirements and payments for prospective Miegunyah Fellows, please contact Ms Chia-Eng Chen in Human Resources on ext. 48568 or chiaeng@unimelb.edu.au. Further information can also be accessed from the Department of Immigration website.

Please note that there are a number of restrictions on payments to visitors. Payments to visitors may be in the form of a Living Away From Home Allowance or reimbursement of costs upon presentation of receipts for costs incurred. There are various payment limits in place with regard to payments to visitors. Further information can be found in the Finance Policy and Procedures Manual in Section 11.2. For assistance, please contact Mr Joseph Borg in Finance on ext. 42758 or borgj@unimelb.edu.au

Colleges:

Subject to availability, some University Colleges provide accommodation at minimal cost to Visiting Fellows (see below). This should be investigated before opting for hotel accommodation.

Selection Procedure

Selection will be undertaken by a sub-committee of the Miegunyah Fund Committee, comprising:

Miegunyah Fellows will be selected according to the following criteria:

Closing Date

Nominations for Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowships in 2010 are due by 13 May 2009.

Please send nominations to:
Office of Provost
Gatekeeper's Cottage (Building 187)
The University of Melbourne, 3010

For further assistance contact Ms Rosa Brezac, 8344 9005 or r.brezac@unimelb.edu.au

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