Title
Director, Student Employability
Company
University of Queensland Student Employability Centre
Bio
Dr Dino Willox is the Director of Student Employability at The University of Queensland and is responsible for developing, steering, and coordinating the University’s strategic direction, policy, framework, and services that assist UQ students to become game-changing graduates. Working in partnership with industry, students, and staff, Dino’s work spans professional, academic, and extracurricular spaces, taking a multidimensional strategic approach to embedding employability. As a part of this role, Dino manages the Student Employability Centre, which helps students to identify and engage with activities and experiences that enhance their studies and develop their employability.

Dino is a non-executive Board Member and Company Secretary of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN), which is the peak body for practitioners and researchers involved in Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in Australia. Dino is also Chair of the Employability Group and a member of the Student Experience and Global Mobility Groups for U21, a global network of research-intensive universities. U21 is committed to fostering global citizenship and institutional innovation through research-inspired teaching and learning, student mobility, connecting students and staff, and wider advocacy for internationalisation.

Prior to moving to Australia, they were the Faculty Manager of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, and formerly the Head of Student Records at Cardiff University. They hold degrees in Philosophy, Sexual Politics, and Critical and Cultural Theory, and have been involved in research projects exploring experiential learning, phenomenology, and employability.

In a former life, Dino was an international field hockey umpire and represented Wales, Great Britain, and Australia at tournaments worldwide including European Championships, World League Finals, Olympic Qualifiers, and two Commonwealth Games - umpiring the final at the 2014 Games in Glasgow. Dino’s pronouns are they, them, and their.