Christina Slade
Professor Christina M. Slade was born in Adelaide (29 June 1953) and grew up in South Australia. Educated at the Australian National University, she achieved a Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy (1982). Slade is married to a former Australian ambassador and has two children.
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Biography
At the start of 2012, Slade was appointed to her current position as Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University. As Chief Executive, she is responsible for the University’s strategic plan, financial management, academic quality and the external profile.[1]
One of her first projects was the major re-development of Newton Park campus (investment of £40 million), providing world-class facilities for students. She is also driving forward a strong international agenda. She herself has linked studies in New York, Montreal, Brussels, Beirut, Oxford, Nairobi, Islamabad, Canberra and Adelaide.
Professor Christina Slade brings a wealth of experience from her previous role as Dean of the Schools of Arts and of Social Sciences and Shadow Deputy Vice-Chancellor at City University London (2009–12). She has been Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University (2003-9) and Professor of Media Theory at the University of Utrechtin which capacity she led a €1.25 million seven nation EU funded project entitled ‘Media and Citizenship: transnational television cultures reshaping political identities in the EU.’[1] At the University of Canberra (2001-3), Slade was Head of School for Creative Communication and developed a suite of modularised online Masters in New Media.
Trained as a philosopher of logic and language, her research has focused on issues of the media since 1990. Her monograph, ‘The Real Thing: doing philosophy with media’ (2002) examines the role of reason in the media, while ‘From Migrant to Citizen: testing language, testing culture’, (2010) jointly edited with Martina Möllering, looks at linguistic, legal and philosophical aspects of citizenship testing. Slade has received a total of $5 million in external grants.
Following her Doctorate, further qualifications include; Top Management Programme 19 (2009–10), Diploma French (1989), Diploma of Teaching English as a Second Language (1975), Certified Teacher Trainer (1988) and Diploma of Education (1986).
Slade is a member of several National and International Committees including; Universities United Kingdom,[2] Association of Commonwealth Universities,[3] Institute of Directors, Royal Society of Arts and the European Association of International Education. She was also Chair of the Philosophy of Communication Division for the International Communication Association (2004-7).[4] Involved in community organisations, Slade is an Honorary Life Patron for the Society of Philosophy for the Young ACT.
Awards and nominations
- Fondación Carolina award from Spanish Government (2005)
- Rector’s Award, Universidad Ibero Americana (1998)
- Harkness Fellowship, New York University (1996-7)
- Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Somerville College, Oxford (1976-7)
- National Undergraduate Scholarship, Australian National University (1972–74)
Australian directorships during 2000 - 2008
- Member, Council for Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS)
- Member of Board, Australian Services Round table: services industry lobby group
- Chair of Board, Macquarie Ancient History Museum
- Chair of Board, Australian Centre for Numismatics
- Chair of Board, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
- Member of Board, Centre for Middle East Studies
- Deputy Chair of Board, Innovative Research University European Union Centre
- Director, Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies
Bibliography
Monographs, Joint and Edited Books[5]
- eds. Slade, C & Möllering, M. (2010) From Migrant to Citizen: testing language, testing culture, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
- Slade, C (2008) A Tale of Two Women Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield.
- Slade, C. (2002) The Real Thing: Doing Philosophy with the Media. Boston: Peter Lang.
- Lewis, G. & Slade, C. (2000) Critical Communication. Second edition, Sydney: Prentice Hall.
- Lewis, G. and Slade, C. (1994) Critical Communication. Sydney: Prentice Hall.
- Slade, C. ed. (1993) Media Images of Australia/Asia: Cross Cultural Reflections. Proceedings of Conference held at the University of Canberra, November 1992. Canberra: CCIR.
- Slade, C. (1986) ‘Falsification and the Theory of Meaning’, Logic Series, vol. 26:
- Slade, C. ed. (1983) A Traveller’s Guide to Pakistan. Islamabad: Asian Study Group.
- Slade, C. (1982) ‘Anti-realism: the manifestation of semantic knowledge’. Ph.D. thesis, ANU.
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