An Unreliable Narrator At Large
With over fourteen years of experience at eight different institutions across the globe within the higher education sector, I thrive in university environments. I believe in the immense value universities have in shaping a better future for our community and the world. The excitement and challenges of working within a leading-edge industry for research and education inspires me. Underpinned by this conviction, I am motivated to drive the pursuit of success and excellence in universities through strategic and informed decision-making. My previous roles involved (1) facilitating strategic governance and decision-making in multiple tertiary institutions, (2) shaping the educational landscape in universities through promoting cross-faculty collaboration to tackle today’s real-world problems, and (3) working on the cusp of the translation of research into industry and action, supporting the development and deployment of energy technologies to transition to a clean and sustainable future.
I am based in Sydney, Australia. I love to travel and have been fortunate to have been around the world and even lived in England for 1.5 years. When I am not travelling, I look to experience new worlds via video games, books and television.
I know where my towel is! Most of the time…
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams writes
“…a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., . Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have ‘lost’. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breath of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in ‘Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a food who really knows where his towel is.‘ (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
Don’t Panic!