University of Sydney appoints interim head of school and dean

Professor Donald McNeill has been appointed interim head of college and dean on the Sydney College of Structure, Design and Planning – taking up from Robyn Dowling.

Dowling stepped down in 2024, after greater than 5 years within the position.

Provost and deputy vice-chancellor Professor Annamarie Jagose stated McNeill’s appointment was the results of an inner expression-of-interest course of. “Donald was appointed based mostly on his breadth and depth of management expertise throughout the varsity, together with as affiliate dean analysis and appearing head of college and dean, in addition to his profitable working relationships and depth of understanding of the broader institutional context,” Jagose stated.

“Donald additionally has important educational expertise as professor of Urbanism and his analysis pursuits span human geography and concrete research. Donald will stay within the position for the subsequent 12 months or till the substantive place of head of college and dean of Sydney College of Structure, Design and Planning is stuffed.”

McNeill’s analysis is focused on the intersection between human geography, financial sociology, spatial planning, and concrete design and structure, with a specific curiosity within the political and cultural economic system of globalisation and cities. His printed works embody: International Cities and City Principle (Sage, 2016), The worldwide architect: corporations, fame and concrete type (Routledge, 2008), New Europe: imagined areas (Arnold, 2004), and City change and the European left: tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999).

A global seek for the subsequent head of college and dean of the Sydney College of Structure, Design and Planning is now underway.