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AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE WORKSHOP 2008

Enhancing the quality of the experience of postdocs and early career researchers
The Shine Dome, Canberra, 14–15 February 2008

Mentoring and Skills Acquisition: personal insights and an ARC perspective
by Professor Margaret Sheil

Margaret Sheil has a PhD in chemistry from the University of New South Wales and has held positions as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University and the University of Utah, USA. She joined the University of Wollongong as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in 1990, and quickly rose to become Professor of Chemistry in 2000 (a first for a female academic in Australia), and Dean of Science in 2001. She has served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research) at UOW, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Margaret was a member of the Research Quality Framework Reference Committee in 2007, and Chair of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee DVCR/PVCR Group in 2006. She was a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Expert Advisory Committee on Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences from 2001–02, and the ARC Quality and Scrutiny Committee in 2006. Margaret was a director of the CRC for Smart Internet Technology, Spatial Voice Corporation, Smart Services CRC and director and Chair of Enikos Pty Ltd. She is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry and Australian representative to the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation and was an editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry for 2006 –2007.