Title Acting Vice-Chancellor and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) Company The University of Newcastle Bio Professor Kevin Hall is currently the Acting Vice-Chancellor and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Newcastle. He was previously the Vice-President for Research and External Partnerships at the University of Guelph in Ontario and has held senior academic leadership positions at Queen's University Canada including founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Water and the Environment, and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada University Research Fellow. Professor Hall carries out trans-disciplinary research across a number of major themes including water quality modelling, development of environmental monitoring and pathogen detection systems, syndromic surveillance, and water and health in marginalized communities.