Faculty deans
The University of Sydney has 16 faculties, each of which belongs to an academic division.
Each faculty is headed by a dean: a scholar and administrator who manages the faculty and represents it in University-wide decision-making. A historical list of deans is available on the Senate website.
Here is a list of the current faculty deans.
- Division of Architecture and Creative Arts
- Division of Business
- Division of Engineering and Information Technologies
- Division of Health Sciences
- Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Division of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy
- Division of Natural Sciences
Division of Architecture and Creative Arts
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
Professor John Redmond
BA CSAD MA(RCA) RCA DipID(Eng) CSAD, FRSA AADM FDIA
Appointed September 2010
Much of Professor Redmond’s work has been in industry-based research and practice, focusing on industrial design but also covering communications design and the design of environments.
Sydney College of the Arts
Professor Colin Rhodes
BA Lond MA PhD Essex
Professor Rhodes writes and lectures widely on modern art, primitivism and outsider art.
His areas of academic expertise include modern and contemporary art; outsider art; drawing; painting; sculpture; art and design in higher education; research in art and design; twentieth-century and contemporary art history and theory; modernism; expressionism; and outsider art.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Dr Karl Kramer
BME Temple MM Yale DMA MSM
Dr. Karl Kramer comes to the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music after holding the position as professor of music and director of the University of Illinois School of Music for ten years. Prior to that, he served as dean of the Purchase Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York and Dean of Music at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida.
Division of Business
The University of Sydney Business School (Business School)
Professor Geoffrey Garrett
BA ANU MA PHD Duke, FASSA
Prior to taking up his role as Dean of the Business School, Professor Garrett was founding CEO of the United States Studies Centre and Professor of Political Science at the University of Sydney. He has held academic appointments at Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Los Angeles-based Pacific Council on International Policy.
Division of Engineering and Information Technologies
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies
Professor Archie Johnston
PhD H-W, FTSE FIEAust EngExec FICE FAICD
Professor Johnston is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Engineers Australia, and the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Division of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn
BA MEd UNE PhD Sydney DipContEd UNE DipOT NSWCollOT
Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn is a leading authority internationally on family and disability.
Her areas of academic expertise include disability studies; developmental disability; children with disabilities; ageing and women with intellectual disability; volunteering and people with disabilities; family support services; parenting and support services for parents and children with special needs; school based therapy services; instrument development; qualitative research methods; community support for families with children with disabilities; and parents with intellectual disability.
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Duncan Ivison
BA McGill MSc PhD LSE
Professor Ivison's areas of academic expertise include political theory, the history of political thought and ethics.
Faculty of Education and Social Work
Professor Robert J Tierney
MEd PhD Georgia
Professor Tierney is an internationally renowned scholar working in the areas of literacy education, educational assessment, teaching and learning.
Faculty of Law (Sydney Law School)
Professor Gillian Triggs
LLM SMU PhD Melbourne
Professor Gillian Triggs is a Public International lawyer and a member of the Victorian Bar.
Her areas of academic expertise include public international law, human rights, law of the sea, territorial and maritime boundaries, WTO.
Division of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy
Faculty of Dentistry
Professor Chris Peck
MScDent Sydney PhD BrCol GradDipScMed (Pain) Sydney, GAIC
Professor Peck's areas of academic expertise include jaw function and oro-facial pain.
Faculty of Medicine (Sydney Medical School)
Professor Bruce Robinson
MD BS MSc Sydney, FRACP
Professor Robinson is an endocrinologist and is the head of the Cancer Genetics Unit at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital.
His areas of academic expertise include thyroid disease; endocrinology; and endocrine tumours.
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery (Sydney Nursing School)
Professor Jill White
BEd SCAE MEd PhD Sydney AssDipNEd Cumb, RN RM
Professor White is a registered nurse and midwife and president of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Board.
Her areas of academic expertise include curriculum development of nurses and midwives; the effects on practice of organisational reform; health policy; professional regulation (registration and accreditation); health services management; new models of care, including models of primary health care; and nursing and midwifery practice.
Faculty of Pharmacy
Professor Iqbal Ramzan
MSc PhD Sydney DipPharm CIT(NZ)
Professor Ramzan is a registered pharmacist and a Fellow of Senate.
His areas of academic expertise include pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs; herbal medicines; drug assays; drug metabolism; pharmaceutics; and anaesthesia.
Division of Natural Sciences
Faculty of Agriculture and Environment
Professor Mark Adams
BSc PhD Melbourne
Appointed 2008
Professor Adams is a passionate advocate of 'conservation through use'.
His areas of academic expertise include conservation, agriculture, natural resources, food, environment, climate change, carbon balance, ecosystems, bioremediation, soil, acidity, alinity, sodicity, nutrient improverishment, water, fire and bushfires.
Faculty of Science
Professor Trevor Hambley
BSc UWA PhD Adelaide, FRACI CChem
Professor Hambley is the elected president of the Council of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, the peak international body in this area.
He is leading the development of new methods for monitoring and modifying the distribution of anticancer drugs in solid tumours and new methods for identifying and targeting tumours.
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Professor Rosanne Taylor
BVSc DipVetClinStud PhD GradCertHighE Sydney
Professor Taylor is interested in inherited neurological disease in animals and exploring new strategies for therapy. She is a consultant to OBTL project, City University, Hong Kong, a Graduate Certificate Mentor and a VSAAC accreditation team member.
Additional new research directions include lactation biology (BMC Genomics) and veterinary higher education.