Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Senior Vice-President

Professor Peter Booth's responsibilities as Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Senior Vice-President include:

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• management of the overall academic operations of the University
• emerging fields of work, knowledge and professional practice
• University-wide strategic planning, quality assurance, performance monitoring and reporting, and independent review
• development of University planning targets
• Commonwealth funding agreement and broad academic profile management
• University resource allocation systems (with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources)
• indigenous education and support

Professor Booth's research field is the behavioural and organisational impacts of management accounting and control systems. His major areas of interest are the impact of information technology on management accounting practices, the role of accounting in collaboration in organisational networks, the development and adoption of management accounting innovations, and how decision makers form judgments under various circumstances.

Portfolio

• Faculties
• Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning
• Planning and Quality Unit
• Academic Policy and Projects

Academic policy and projects

The Office of the Senior DVC, in association with the DVC Teaching, Learning, and Equity sponsors a number of major academic projects from time to time. Recent projects include a review of course approval and accreditation policies; the development of an online system for course approval; the introduction of an annual course performance report for all award courses and a review of the experience of new academic staff to identify opportunities for improving work arrangements and developmental support.