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2026 elections

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 24 August 2026 and 25 September 2026. 

The term of office for staff is 2 years, from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Jiao Jiao Li —
Academic staff from Faculty of Health Aaron Coutts —
Academic staff from Faculty of Law — 1
Academic staff from Faculty of Science Charlene Lobo —
Professoriate and associate professoriate (levels D or E)

David Goldbaum

Sebastian Oberst

Ian Menz

Anthony Dooley 

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Academic staff (levels A, B or C)

Bettina Frankham

Hanchen Wang

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Deputy dean, associate deans or head of school (or equivalent) — 1

Academic staff from Faculty of Design and Society (special election)

Results of the 2026 Academic Board special election for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer.

The term of office is from 16 July 2026 to 31 December 2027. 

Position Declared elected Vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Design and Society Michael Fabinyi —

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 24 August 2026 and 25 September 2026.

The term of office for students is one year, from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2027.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student from UTS Business School — 1
Student from Faculty of Design and Society Camila Perez Marin —
Student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Sam Dryden —
Student from Faculty of Health — 1
Student from Faculty of Law Natalie Hasanat —
Student from Faculty of Science Allegra Riskalla —
Student from TD School Francesca Harrison  —
Indigenous student — 1
Postgraduate research student — 1

2025 elections

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 21 August 2025 and 25 September 2025.

The term of office for staff is 2 years, from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from UTS Business School Helen Spiropoulos —
Academic staff from Faculty of Design and Society Lawrence Wallen —
Academic staff from TD School — 1
Professoriate and associate professoriate (levels D or E)

Anna Clark

Isabella Alexandar

Behzad Fatahi

Paul Burke

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Academic staff (levels A, B or C)

Mario Fiorini

Kaye Chan

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Deputy dean, associate deans or head of school (or equivalent) Jua Cilliers —

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 21 August 2025 and 23 September 2025.

The term of office for students is one year, from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student from UTS Business School Melissa Dib —
Student from Faculty of Design and Society Rand Margahi —
Student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Obaid Moolimani —
Student from Faculty of Health Reemika Basnet —
Student from Faculty of Law Amelia Grace Wilson-Williams —
Student from Faculty of Science Divvya Balasubramanian —
Student from TD School Francesca Harrison —
Indigenous student — 1
Postgraduate research student — 1

Student representative from Faculty in Design and Society (special election)

The term of office is date of declaration to 31 December 2025.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student representative from Faculty in Design and Society Obiora Okonkwo —

2024 elections

Chair and Deputy Chair

Results of the Chair and Deputy Chair of Academic Board election has been declared on 21 November 2024.

The term of office is from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Chair Lynn Sinclair —
Deputy Chair Sara Denize —

Academic staff (levels D and E) (special election)

The term of office is date of declaration to 31 December 2025.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff (levels D and E) — 1

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 22 August 2024 and 25 September 2024.

The term of office for staff is 2 years, from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology — 1
Academic staff from Faculty of Health — 1
Academic staff from Faculty of Law — 1
Academic staff from Faculty of Science Anthony Dooley —
Professoriate and associate professoriate (levels D or E)

James Goodman

Joshua Lee

Vinay Patel

1
Academic staff (levels A, B or C)

Bettina Frankham

Leila Naeni

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Deputy dean, associate deans or head of school (or equivalent) — 1

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 22 August 2024 and 24 September 2024.

The term of office for students is one year, from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences — 1
Student from UTS Business School Bhargav Choudhari —
Student from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building — 1
Student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Januka Suraweera —
Student from Faculty of Health — 1
Student from Faculty of Law Nikolai Shchekochikhin —
Student from Faculty of Science Serah Nwoke —
Student from TD School — 1
Indigenous student — 1
Postgraduate research student — 1

2023 elections

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 23 August 2023 and 29 September 2023.

The term of office for staff is 2 years, from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2025.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Philip Birch —
Academic staff from UTS Business School Paul Burke —
Academic staff from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Josh Pienaar —
Academic staff from TD School Giedre Kligyte —
Professoriate and associate professoriate (levels D or E)

James Brown

Gerhard Hambusch

Behzad Fatahi

Sara Lal

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Academic staff (levels A, B or C)

Maryam Naghsh Nejad

Baki Kocablli

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Deputy dean, associate deans or head of school (or equivalent) — 1

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 23 August 2023 and 26 September 2023.

The term of office for students is one year, from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Lucas Tan —
Student from UTS Business School — 1
Student from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building — 1
Student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Mila Fisher —
Student from Faculty of Health — 1
Student from Faculty of Law Sabrine Yassine —
Student from Faculty of Science Shreegowri Aradhya —
Student from TD School — 1
Indigenous student — 1
Postgraduate research student — 1

2022 elections

Chair

Results of the Chair of Academic Board election has been declared on 22 November 2022.

The term of office for Chair is from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Chair Anthony Dooley —

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 24 August 2022 and 28 September 2022.

The term of office for staff is two years, from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Sam Ferguson —
Academic staff from Faculty of Health Cristina Caperchione —
Academic staff from Faculty of Law Stuart Lowe —
Academic staff from Faculty of Science Anthony Dooley —
Professoriate and associate professoriate (levels D and E)

Helen Spiropoulos

Saba Bebawi

Thea Brejzek

1
Academic staff (levels A, B, C)

Elizabeth Humphrys

Bill Soderstrom

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Deputy dean/associate deans/head of school (or equivalent) — 1

Academic staff (levels D and E)

Results of the academic staff (levels D and E) (special election) election has been declared on 19 July 2022.

The term of office is from 19 July 2022 to 31 December 2023.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff (levels D and E) Jane Maguire —

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 24 August 2022 and 27 September 2022.

The term of office for students is one year, from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Michelle Lee —
Student from UTS Business School — 1
Student from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building — 1
Student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology — 1
Student from Faculty of Health Christina Lee —
Student from Faculty of Law Sabrine Yassine —
Student from Faculty of Science Nour Al Hammouri —
Student from TD School — 1
Indigenous student — 1
Postgraduate research student — 1

2021 elections

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 14 October 2021. Results for academic staff (levels D and E) election was declared on 12 November 2021.

The term of office for staff is two years, from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023. The term of office for the academic staff from Faculty of Science (special election) is from 22 November 2021 to 31 December 2022.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Ilaria Vanni Accarigi —
Academic staff from UTS Business School Christina Nikitopoulos —
Academic staff from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Tim Schork —
Academic staff from Faculty of Science (special election) Bernadette Saunders —
Academic staff from TD School — 1
Professoriate and associate professoriate (level D and E)

James Brown

Kathleen Baird

Behzad Fatahi

Beata Bajorek

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Academic staff (levels A, B, C)

Jesse Adams Stein

Diep Nguyen

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Deputy dean/associate deans/head of school (or equivalent) — 1

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 21 September 2021. Results for the student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology was declared on 18 October 2021.

The term of office for students is one year, from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Student from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Melodie Grafton —
Student from UTS Business School Chriselyn —
Student from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Samuel Otton —
Student from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Jemma Swaak —
Student from Faculty of Health Christina Lee —
Student from Faculty of Law Kurt Cheng —
Student from Faculty of Science Nour Al Hammouri —
Student from TD School Mariana Zafeirakopoulos —
Indigenous student Ricky Kirby —
Postgraduate research student — 1

Chair

Results of the Chair of Academic Board elections have been declared on 9 March 2021.

The term of office for Chair is from 9 March 2021 to 31 December 2022.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Chair Anthony Dooley —

Academic staff (levels D and E)

Results of the academic staff (levels D and E) elections have been declared on 25 May 2021.

The term of office is from 25 May 2021 to 31 December 2022.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff (levels D and E) Christina Ho —

2020 elections

Deputy Chair

Results of the Deputy Chair election was declared on 2 December 2020.

The term of office for Deputy Chair is for two years, from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Deputy Chair Lynn Synclair —

Staff elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for staff have been declared by the Returning Officer on 7 October 2020.

The term of office for staff is for two years, from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology David McGloin —
Academic staff from Faculty of Health Lisa Pont —
Academic staff from Faculty of Law Ramona Vijeyarasa —
Academic staff from Faculty of Science Jamie Cleverly —
Academic staff from the professoriate and associate professoriate (levels D and E)

Maryanne Dever

Julie Robert

Harald Scheule

Xiangjing Sean He

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Academic staff (levels A, B, C)

Rosalie Goldsmith

Vitali Alexeev

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Deputy dean/associate deans/head of school (or equivalent) — 1

Student elections

Results of the Academic Board elections for students have been declared by the Returning Officer on 7 October 2020.

The term of office for staff is for one year, from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Students from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences — 1
Students from UTS Business School Jessica Pierce —
Students from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building — 1
Students from Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Aiswaryalakshmi Rajeev —
Students from Faculty of Health — 1
Students from Faculty of Law Kurt Cheng —
Students from Faculty of Science Charlotte McHenry —
Postgraduate research student — 1

2019 elections

Staff elections

The term of office for staff is for two years, from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021.

Position Declared elected Remaining vacancies
Academic staff from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences — 1
Academic staff from UTS Business School Christina Nikitopoulos —
Academic staff from Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Alexandra Crosby —
Academic staff from Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation — 1
Professoriate and associate professoriate (level D and E)

Natalie Lloyd

Jochen Schweitzer

Matthew Arnold

Thomas Clarke

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Academic staff (levels A, B, C)

Jenna Price

Daniel Demant

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Deputy dean/associate deans/head of school (or equivalent) — 1