Adjunct Professor
Bronwyn Harch
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
Office of the PVC, Entrepreneurship
Biography
Professor Bronwyn Harch (FTSE, GAICD, AStat) is an Adjunct Professor at QUT.Professor Bronwyn Harch has significant research and higher education leadership experience and is passionate about innovation that makes our communities more resilient. Bronwyn is an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Entrepreneurship and is part of the QUT/Queensland Government team delivering the Queensland Connects regional entrepreneurship acceleration program.
Bronwyn as The University of Queensland Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President (Research & Innovation 2018 to 2022) was responsible for enhancing the University’s performance and reputation in research, commercialisation and innovation, research training, and research and innovation collaboration with external stakeholders, nationally and internationally. She led the bid for the recently successful Federal Government’s Trailblazers Commercialisation Program for the Food and Beverage Accelerator.
Bronwyn has led digital transformation projects in the agrifood sector. She developed engagement and commercialisation strategies with governments and industry. She also worked for 18 years as a researcher and research strategist at CSIRO. Bronwyn’s own research has focused on the statistical design of landscape-scale sampling protocols and monitoring programs, as well as the statistical modelling of complex systems, particularly agrienvironmental systems.
Bronwyn's Board experience includes current membership of Queensland’s Innovation Advisory Council, the Cooperative Research Centres Advisory Committee, AgResearch NZ’s Science Advisory Panel and CSIRO’s Oceans and Atmosphere Advisory Board.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
Office of the PVC, Entrepreneurship
Keywords
computational informatics (sensing, modelling, decision making), agri-environmental informatics (measure, model, evaluate), applied mathematics and statistics, spatio-temporal design and modelling, collaborative (action) learning, impact evaluation
Discipline
Statistics, Agriculture, Land and Farm Management, Environmental Science and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- 2017 - Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (FQA)
- 2014 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
- 2013 – 2015: President, The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) – an association of the International Statistical Institute
- 2008 – present: Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
- 2007 – present: Graduate Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
- 2000 – 2015: Board Member of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
- 1998 – present: Accredited Member of the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (AStat)
Experience
Professor Bronwyn Harch has worked across the sectors of agriculture, environment, health, manufacturing and energy bringing the "unreasonable effectiveness" of digital technologies and mathematical sciences to make a real difference to industry, society and the environment. The focus on Bronwyn’s research facilitation efforts aims to ensure innovations in 'smarter information use' contribute to
- enhancing productivity whilst achieving this on a sustainable basis
- creating competitive, value added products & services for global markets
- fostering collaboration & connection for addressing global challenges
Selected publications
- Raican S, Wang Y, Harch B, (2013) Water quality indices from unbalanced spatio-temporal monitoring designs. In Y Wang, Water quality: Indicators, human impact and environmental health, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 1-30.
- Sheldon F, Peterson E, Boone E, Sippel S, Bunn S, Harch B, (2012) Identifying the spatial scale of land use that most strongly influences overall river ecosystem health score, Ecological Applications, 22 (8), pp. 2188-2203.
- Peterson E, Sheldon F, Darnell R, Bunn S, Harch B, (2011) A comparison of spatially explicit landscape representation methods and their relationship to stream condition, Freshwater Biology, 56 (3), pp. 590-610.
- Brien C, Harch B, Correll R, Bailey R, (2011) Multiphase experiments with at least one later laboratory phase. I. orthogonal designs, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 16 (3), pp. 422-450.
- Steward A, Marshall J, Sheldon F, Harch B, Choy S, Bunn S, Tockner K, (2011) Terrestrial invertebrates of dry river beds are not simply subsets of riparian assemblages, Aquatic Sciences, 73 (4), pp. 551-566.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Bronwyn, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership - Science Advisory Panel
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Healthy Waterways Partnership - Scientific Expert Panel
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - Science Advisory Panel - Monitoring Program Review
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) - Mid Term Review Panel
- Type
- Editor/Contributor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Andersen, A., J. Beringer, J., M. Bull, M. Byrne, H. Cleugh, R. Christensen, K. French, B. Harch, A. Hoffmann, A. Lowe, T. Moltmann, A. Nicotra, S. Phinn, G, Wardle, M. Westoby. 2014. Foundations for the future: A long-term plan for Australian ecosystem science. Austral Ecology (to appear)
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- NCRIS Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) - Board Member
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Advisory board Qld Qld Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) Agricultural Robotics Program
- Type
- Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Bronwyn Harch has had an outstanding career in CSIRO where, after joining initially asa postdoctoral research statistician, she is now heads its Computational Informaticsfunction. She works in partnership with the organisation¿s National Research Flagshipprogram to address key national challenges across the information and decision-makingvalue chain for government, industry and the innovation sectors.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- 2010 - ICT Outstanding Achievement Award Women in Technology Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2008
- Details
- The El-Shaarawi Young Environmetrician Award, The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
Research projects
- Title
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights (ACEMS)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- CE140100049
- Start year
- 2014
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