Professor Hilary Winchester

As Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Strategy and Planning, Professor Winchester manages a portfolio that includes Information Strategy and Technology Services, Planning and Assurance Services and the Centre for Regional Engagement.

Professor Hilary Winchester is Pro Vice Chancellor: Strategy and Planning at the University of South Australia. Her responsibilities as a member of the Senior Management Group include strategic planning, load, quality, staff equity, particularly gender equity and Indigenous staffing, and line management of major service units: Information Strategy and Technology Services, Planning and Assurance Services, and the Centre for Regional Engagement which includes the University’s Northern Adelaide Partnerships (UNAP) unit. A human geographer, Professor Winchester completed a BA (Hons) and D Phil at Oxford University. Her research focuses on key social issues such as urban poverty, population change, the geography of families and the impact of development. Hilary is an academic auditor for AUQA and has chaired and participated in a quality audits in Australia and, commencing in 2008, overseas. In 2003, Hilary was appointed as the Higher Education representative on the Training and Skills Commission in South Australia. From 2004 to 2006 Hilary was Co-Convenor of the National Colloquium of Senior University Women (now Universities Australia Executive Women) for whom she led a research project published in 2005 as, The Great Barrier Myth: an investigation of promotions policy and practice in Australian universities. She also led the development of Universities Australia Second Action Plan for Women Employed in Australian Universities 2006 – 2010. Professor Winchester is keen to promote an effective work-life balance for staff and to increase the number of women who hold leadership positions. This interest and positions she has held within the Australian Technology Network (ATN) women's executive development group (WEXDEV) have led Professor Winchester to take on research, projects and seminars specifically related to women in universities.

Responsibility for development of the University's premier community engagement unit dedicated to northern Adelaide - University of South Australia Northern Adelaide Partnerships (UNAP) - and the Centre for Regional Engagement led to Professor Winchester's involvement and continuing interest in engagement theory and organisational practice and joint presentation of papers at the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA).

To view some of Professor Winchester's recent corporate presentations, visit her Senior Management Group homepage.

• Within her academic discipline, Human Geography, Professor Winchester has taught the full range of undergraduate courses and supervised higher degree by research students.
  
  As a result of her teaching and experience as a member and chair of academic boards, Hilary has an ongoing interest in academic policy and credit transfer issues and is frequently invited to give lectures and speeches on issues relating to university staffing, academic women and quality auditing.

In August 2001, Hilary was appointed an academic auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). In 2003, she chaired the audit panel of the University of New England. Hilary was also the AVCC representative on the Australian Qualifications Framework Advisory Board (AQFAB) Working Party on the Recognition of Prior Learning.

In 2007 Professor Winchester was appointed an auditor to the Quality Assurance Council (QAC) which is part of the University Grants Committee (UGC) in Hong Kong.

Other memberships and appointments include:

Doctor of Philosophy (Oxon.), 1980, The University of Oxford, UK Thesis title: ‘Urban and Rural Perspectives on Population Mobility in France, with Particular Reference to Isère’

Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Geography) (Oxon.), 1974, The University of Oxford, UK

• Professor Winchester’s research interests are focussed on key social issues such as urban poverty, population change, the geography of families and the impact of development. Her most heavily cited work has been concerned with the processes and geography of marginalisation.
• Hilary led an AVCC sponsored research project on barriers to women's academic promotion in Australian universities that was completed in 2005. See Research Publications below.

Books and Monographs include

Winchester, H.P.M., Kong L. and Dunn, K.M. (2003) Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World. Pearsons, Harlow. 300 pp

Winchester, H.P.M. (1993) Contemporary France. Longman, Harlow. 274 pp. Reprinted 1994.

Winchester, H.P.M. and Ilbery, B.W. (1988) Agricultural Change: France and the EEC. John Murray, London. Case Studies in the Developed World. 64pp.

Winchester, H.P.M. (1977) Changing patterns of French internal migration 1891-1968, School of Geography, University of Oxford Research Papers 17, 36 pp.