Dr Geoff Scott is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Sustainability at Western Sydney University, Australia. From 2004-

12 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality) and Executive Director of Sustainability at UWS. During this time he led a range of successful external quality audits and established the UN endorsed RCE-GWS.

 

He is a widely published author of reports and articles on change leadership, sustainability, professional capability, what distinguishes successful early career graduates in a wide range of professions, assuring achievement standards and quality assurance in higher education. HIs book Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education with Canada’s Michael Fullan (2009) received the US Colleges’ Bellwether Award.

 

He is a former director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, a Fellow of the Australian College of Education, a member of TEQSA’s Panel of Experts and a higher education auditor, board member and consultant in many countries. From

2014-16 he was a National Senior Teaching Fellow with Australia’s Office for Learning and Teaching. This Fellowship focused on how best to develop highly capable, work ready plus graduates and resulted in a website (http://flipcurric.edu.au/) that currently has 11,800 Higher Education users around the world.

 

In 2007, he was the Recipient of the Australian Higher Education Quality Award.