PD Sessions @ Zoom: Tales From the Other Side - A Researcher’s Perspective of “Good” Research Management - 20 Aug 2025

Researchers and Research Managers & Administrators bring together a vast range of complementary skills and experience, enabling them to achieve great feats. While researchers bring a strong command of their discipline and skills in research design and delivery, research managers and administrators provide strategy, essential compliance knowledge, and communication skills required for success across the research spectrum. This partnership is complex, rewarding, challenging… and necessary for both to thrive! 

At this session, hear from a panel of researchers of different career stages as we discuss what researchers value in research managers, what models and types of support are most beneficial, and how we can all best work together to drive research success. 

DATE: Wednesday, 20 August 2025

TIME: 12:00PM - 1:00PM AEST (Check your timezone here.)

SPEAKER(S): 

Emeritus Professor Richard Head - University of South Australia

Professor Richard Head is a Pharmacologist and Emeritus Professor in Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia; and Affiliate and Professor in the Discipline of Pharmacology, The University of Adelaide. His career has spanned research in human chronic diseases, Deputy Vice Chancellor & Vice President of Research and Innovation (UniSA), Director of the Sansom Institute for Health Research (UniSA), and numerous leadership roles at CSIRO including Director of CSIRO’s P-Health National Flagship and Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Health Sciences and Nutrition. He is a recipient of the CSIRO Medal for Lifetime Achievement, the CSIRO Business Excellence Award, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Development Award.

Dr Dani Milos - Flinders University

Dani is an accomplished HDR Education Coordinator in the Office of Graduate Research and Senior Lecturer at Flinders University. As the Higher Degree by Research Education Coordinator, she develops and delivers educational programs, processes and seminars that enhance graduate research excellence and promote a supportive research environment. Dani has led change and innovation in supervisor development policies and practices for the University to develop an integrated HDR supervisor development program. She has also developed and delivers a world class training program to support Flinders University graduate research students to successfully develop research projects and acquire research and professional skills. Her PhD research was in the area of access to justice for vulnerable groups – particularly South Sudanese refugee background communities – and taught in various Legal Studies topics throughout her time at Flinders.

Dr Louise Townsin - Torrens University

Dr Louise Townsin is Director of Research Management Services at Torrens University, where she provides strategic support for research and research training activities and develops and implements systems and processes that promote high quality research management, monitoring, and reporting. Dr Louise Townsin also undertakes research in Education and Health, and has a particular interest in intercultural communication and cultural contexts of learning, teaching and health and wellbeing. Her current research focus includes teacher professional development, stigma of mental illness, access to health services by culturally and linguistically diverse consumers, and community engagement in research. She uses qualitative methods, including participatory action research, to explore educational interventions to encourage sustainable attitudinal and behavioural change.

Dr Hilary Bowman-Smart - University of South Australia

Hilary Bowman-Smart is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Precision Health and an empirical bioethicist with a background in both genetics and philosophy. Prior to joining UniSA in 2023, she worked as a Researcher in the Ethics of Prenatal Genetics and Genomics at the University of Oxford (2021-23), comparing the implementation of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in England, France and Germany. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Melbourne in 2022, has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Augsburg, and holds honorary positions at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University. Her research, focussing on reproductive ethics, genomics, and the philosophy of medicine, involves ethical analysis informed by various types of empirical research, such as surveys, statistical analysis, and qualitative interview studies.

Dr Armando Maria Corsi - University of Adelaide

Dr. Armando Maria Corsi is the Director of the Wine Business Group and Discipline Leader of Marketing at the Adelaide Business School. Dr. Corsi specializes in the analysis of consumer and trade behaviours, particularly in relation to wine and premium foods, securing over $3 million in research income in this area. Lately, his work has focused on the mechanisms leading to the adoption of innovative and sustainable wines, foods, and beverages. Outside of his research, he teaches Wine Branding and Direct Wine Marketing to post-graduate students and industry professionals. He has authored more than 90 refereed papers, book chapters, and trade articles on wine and food marketing; and is President of the Academy of Wine Business Research.  

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