Emeritus Professor
Paul Burnett

Biography

Professor Paul C. Burnett is a QUT Emeritus Professor. He retired in 2016 as Dean of Research and Research Training. He rejoined QUT in May 2009 from Charles Sturt University where he was Deputy-Vice-Chancellor (Research) for eight years. During that time he was responsible for the strategic direction, policy formulation, planning activities, and the effective management of research, research training, commercialisation, intellectual property and outside professional activity. He was the Presiding Officer of the University’s Research Management Committee, the Board of Graduate Studies, and the Intellectual Property and Outside Professional Activities Committee and served on the University’s Senior Executive, University Budget Committee, Academic Senate, Vice-Chancellor’s Forum, University Course Planning Committee, and Promotions Committee. He served on the Executive of the National DVC/PVC (Research) Group, served as an AUQA Auditor for four years and chaired the audit of Notre Dame University and in 2007 was nominated by the Federal Minister to Chair the RQF Assessment Panel for Psychology and Psychiatry. Prior to his term as DVC(R), he was Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst for 2 years. Prior to his CSU appointments, he spent a decade at QUT where he was Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Research Methods, and Director of the Centre for Cognitive Processes in Learning within the School of Learning and Development. He served on the QUT Governing Council from 1996 to 1998. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in a variety of academic and professional forums and has been associated with more than a million dollars for research grants.