Professor Philippa Pattison
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education)
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Professor Philippa (Pip) Pattison was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Sydney in June 2014.
As DVC (Education), Pip is responsible for the University’s strategy and vision for teaching and learning and students’ educational experience. She oversees institution-wide development of better support for student learning, including the University’s approach to curriculum renewal, new thinking in pedagogy, learning and teaching analytics, e-learning and quality assurance for learning and teaching.
Research interests
Pip is a quantitative psychologist by background, whose primary focus of research is the development and application of mathematical and statistical models for social networks and network processes. Her work has broad application and has most recently focussed on the transmission of infectious diseases and the recovery of communities following the 2009 Victorian bushfires.
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Studies of critical dynamics in large-scale epidemics in Australia | Nathan HARDING |
Awards and honours
- Simmel Award, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2002
- Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1995
- Early Career Award, Australian Psychological Society, 1988University of Melbourne Special Thesis Award, 1983
Selected grants
2016
- Large-scale computational modelling of epidemics in Australia; Prokopenko M, Pattison P, Gambhir M, Lizier J, Piraveenan M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2012
- Networks, neighbourhoods and newborns: defining household and local area influences on social connectedness, to understand pathways to health; Nolan T, Bentley R, Mouat M, McCaw J, McVernon J, Pattison P, Warr D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Research Grant.
- Recent developments in exponential random graph (p) models for social networks; Robins G, Snijders T, Hancock M, Wang P, Pattison P; International Network for Social Network Analysis/i2 Citation Award.
- New models and analyses for social networks and criminological careers; Francis B, Aitkin M, Pattison P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Research Grant.
2011
- A sector-wide model for assuring final year subject and program achievement standards through inter-university moderation; Krause K, Scott G, Campbell S, Carroll M, Nulty D, Pattison P, Probert B, Sachs J, Deane L, Towers S; Australian Learning and Teaching Council/Priority Projects Program FPRx3223 SCHx5655.
- An introduction to exponential random graph (p) models for social networks; Pattison P, Lusher D, Kalish Y, Robins G; International Network for Social Network Analysis/i2 Citation Award.
2009
- Network dynamics and field evolution: hubs, clusters and interorganisational ties in biotechnology; Gilding M, Pattison P, Lomi A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Research Grant.
- Mapping sexual and social networks of men who have sex with both men and women in Laos and Vietnam, countries with concentrated HIV epidemics; Hellard M, Sihavong A, Khout D, Toole M, Pattison P; Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Federal)/Australian Development Research Awards.
- The structure and dynamics of social contact for human disease transmission models; Pattison P, Robins G, Hellard M, McBryde E; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Research Grant.
- Multilevel network modelling group; Pattison P, Snijders T, Wasserman S, Wittek R, Contractor N, Robins G, Tranmer M, Koskinen J, Lazega E, Lomi A; Leverhulme Trust/International Network grant.
- Detailed design for a study of the major social processes that drive behavioural adaptation; Robins G, Pattison P, Lusher D; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation/CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship.
Selected publications
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