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Lesley Johnson

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SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson AM FAICD FAHA

Professor Lesley Johnson is a distinguished research leader and university executive:  

  • Emeritus Professor of Griffith University and of the University of Technology, Sydney

  • President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2012-2014

  •  Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Griffith University March 2004-July 2009

  • Pro Vice Chancellor Research UTS 1995-2004

She has served on a wide range of Australian Research Council committees since the early 1990s, including as a member of  selection advisory committees for ARC Laureates and Centres of Excellence programs, and most recently, the Engagement and Impact Steering Committee. She chaired the then AVCC Pro/Deputy-Vice Chancellor’s Committee in 2004. She chaired the then AVCC Pro/Deputy-Vice Chancellor’s Committee in 2004.

She was awarded the status of Emeritus Professor by UTS in 2004, and Professor Emeritus by Griffith University in 2011. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2010 for her contribution to Australian Higher Education.

Lesley retired from full time paid work in 2009 in order to have time to return to her own research as well as to spend more time with family and friends. Since retiring from full-time work she has undertaken consultancies and short-term contract work with the University of New South Wales, University of Technology, Sydney, Charles Darwin University, RMIT, the Queensland State Government and the State Library of New South Wales. In 2011 she was a Jubilieum Visiting Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She was the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2012-2014 and 'Immediate Past President' continuing as a member of the Council from 2015 to 2017. She is now working on a research project about the history of the institutions of the humanities in Australia from 1945 to the present, focusing on universities, libraries and learned academies. The project is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant.

Specialties and interests: research strategy advice, research policy, research development, mentoring academic staff, research library policy and strategy, the humanities past and present.