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Colin Stirling
Professor Colin J. Stirling is a Scottish biological scientist and academic. He currently lives in Adelaide, South Australia where he has held the position of Vice Chancellor of Flinders University since 2015. Career Stirling holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh and completed a PhD in genetics at the University of Glasgow. He held a NATO Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, before being appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Manchester in 1990. He held the position of Professor of Genetics at the University of Manchester from 1998 to 2011, and served in various leadership positions including Education Dean in the Faculty of Life Sciences, Associate Vice-President eLearning and Vice-President for Teaching and Learning (2008-2011). Stirling moved to Australia where he took up the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic at Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Colin Stirling At The Flinders University Investigator Lecture In Adelaide 2016
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital letter nearly always refers to a full prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
