Geoff Scott
Geoff Scott is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Sustainability at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), Australia. From 2004-12 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality) and then Executive Director of Sustainability at UWS. He has been co-chair of the Sustainable Futures Leadership Academy and helped establish RCE-Greater Western Sydney. Geoff is author, with Canada's Michael Fullan, of the widely used book Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education. He has recently completed an international project on Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education with Daniella Tilbury, Leith Sharp and Liz Deane and a project with Kerri-Lee Krause and senior colleagues from 11 Australian universities on Inter-university moderation and the assurance of higher education subject and program achievement standards. In 2008 he led the Australian Learning and Teaching Council study of Learning Leaders in Times of Change with colleagues from the Australian Council for Educational Research. In 2010 he led the national survey of sustainability in the curriculum of Australia’s universities. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Australian Council for Educational Research, a Fellow of the Australian College of Education, a member of TEQSA’s register of Experts, a higher education auditor in many countries and an adviser to a wide range of higher education institutions within and beyond Australia. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Australian Higher Education Quality Award.