QUT - Academic profiles - Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake

Biography

Professor Peter Coaldrake completed his term as Vice-Chancellor of QUT in 2017, having taken up the position in April 2003. He previously had been Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the same institution and prior to that, served for four years as Chair (CEO) of Queensland’s Public Sector Management Commission, the body established by the Goss government to overhaul Queensland’s public sector. Peter Coaldrake is a dual Fulbright Scholar, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of politics/public policy (1980 – 1981), and as a Senior Scholar in the field of higher education policy and management (2001 – 2002). Professor Coaldrake is the author or editor of a number of books and monographs, including as co-author (with Dr Lawrence Stedman) of Raising the Stakes: Gambling with the Future of Universities (UQP, April 2013), with a second edition published in 2016, Academic Work in the Twenty-First Century (DETYA, 1999), and On the Brink: Australia’s Universities Confronting Their Future (UQP, 1998). He is also the author of Working the System: Government in Queensland (UQP, 1989). Peter Coaldrake chaired the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) for two years from February 2013. In May 2011, he completed a two-year term as Chair of the Board of Universities Australia, the peak body of Australia’s universities. He returned as a member of the Board of Universities Australia from 2014 - 2017. He was Chair of the Board of the Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE) 2011 - 2015 and also of the Queensland Heritage Council 2011 - 2016. He is also a trustee of the Queensland Museum Foundation. He was appointed by the Premier of Queensland as a Smart State Ambassador in 2006, and was Chair of Queensland’s sesquicentenary celebrations in 2009. Peter Coaldrake was announced as a Queensland Great in June 2017. His diverse background and life story were highlighted in the Courier Mail QWeekend (7 March 2015). Read the article: Educating Peter (PDF document, 4.7 MB)

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Personal details

Positions

Emeritus Professor
Chancellery Division,
Office of the Vice-Chancellor & President

Qualifications

PhD (Griffith University)
BA(Hons) (James Cook Uni. of North Qld)

Professional memberships and associations

Chair, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, 2017 –
Member, Board of Directors, Universities Australia, 2014 – 2017
Chair, Australian Technology Network, 2013 – 2015
Chair of the Board, Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE), 2011 – 2015
Chair, Queensland Heritage Council, 2011 – 2016
Board Member, Australia Awards, 2011 – 2014
Chair, Screen Queensland, 2009 – 2011
Board Member, Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE), 2009 –2015
Chair of the Board, Universities Australia, 2009 – 2011
Trustee, Queensland Museum Foundation, 2009 –
Chair, Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre (QUT-based), 2009 – 2017
Deputy Chair of the Board, Universities Australia, 2008 – 2009
Executive Chair, Queensland’s Sesquicentenary Celebrations Advisory Board, 2007 – 2009
Board Member, The Foundation for Development Cooperation Ltd, 2007 – 2009
Member, Board of Directors, Universities Australia (previously Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee), 2006 – 2008
Board Member, Graduate Careers Australia, 2006 – 2007
Appointed Smart State Ambassador, 2006
Chair, Board of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2005 – 2007
Board Member, Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2003 – 2007
Board Member, IDP Education Australia Limited, 2004 – 2007
Convenor, Australian Technology Network (ATN), 2003 – 2004
Member, Board of Trustees, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, 2003 – 2006
Member, Higher Education Management Review (Hoare Committee), 1995

Experience

2003 – 2017   Vice-Chancellor, QUT

1994 – 2003    Deputy Vice-Chancellor, QUT

2001 – 2002    Fulbright Senior Scholar, The University of Arizona (October 2001-February 2002)

1990 – 1994 Chair (CEO), Public Sector Management Commission (PSMC), Queensland

1989 – 1990     Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research), Queensland University of Technology

1987 – 1989 Head, School of Management, Queensland University of Technology (also appointed Professor in 1989)

1984 – 1987 Dean, School of Administration, Griffith University

1981 – 1984     Lecturer (October 1981 – December 1983) and then Senior Lecturer (from January 1984), School of Administration, Griffith University

1980 – 1981 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Administration, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

1978 – 1980    Lecturer in Public Administration, Queensland Institute of Technology

1975 – 1977 Full-time doctoral studies, Griffith University

1974 – 1975    Assistant Research Officer and later Clerk, Commonwealth Department of Urban and Regional Development, Canberra

1970 – 1973 Four-year full-time B.A. (Honours) programme, James Cook University

Publications

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2002

Coaldrake, P. (2002). Institutional responses to changing student expectations : project overview. In Responding to student expectations (pp. 7–17). OECD.

2001

Coaldrake, P. (2001). Responding to changing student expectations. Higher Education Management, 13(2), 75–92.

2000

Cunningham, S. (2000). The Business of Borderless Education. Department of Education, Training & Youth Affairs. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9055
Coaldrake, O. (2000). Reflections on the Repositioning of the Government's Approach to Higher Education, or I'm Dreaming of a White Paper. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 9–21. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9066
Coaldrake, P. (2000). Rethinking Academic and University Work. Journal of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education, 12(3), 7–30.

1999

Stedman, L. (1999). Queensland University of Technology. In Higher Education In A Post-binary Era (pp. 69–86). Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9078
Coaldrake, P. (1999). Some Challenges Facing Higher Education. In Strategic asset management for tertiary institutions (pp. 23–26). OECD Publishing.
Coaldrake, P. & Stedman, L. R. (1999). Academic work in the twenty-first century : changing roles and policies. Dept. of Education, Training and Youth Affairs.
Coaldrake, P. (1999). The Changing Climate of Australian Higher Education : An International Perspective. Higher Education Management, 11(1), 117–134.

1998

Coaldrake, P. & Stedman, L. R. (1998). On the Brink : Australia's Universities Confronting their Future. The University of Queensland Press.
Coaldrake, P. (1998). A View of 'Learning for Life'. Higher Education Research & Development, 17(1), 127–132.

1996

Coaldrake, P. (1996). The Need for Entrepreneurial Managers. In Wanna, J., Forster, J. & Graham, P. (Eds.), Entrepreneurial management in the public sector (pp. 66–72). Macmillan Education Australia.

1992

Coaldrake, P. (1992). Public Sector Change and Reform: Taking Stock of the Challenges. In Hede, A., Prasser, S. & Neylan, M. (Eds.), Keeping them honest : democratic reform in Queensland (pp. 243–260). The University of Queensland Press.
Coaldrake, P., Davis, G. & Shand, D. (1992). Public Sector Reform in Queensland. In Nethercote, J. R., Galligan, B. & Walsh, C. (Eds.), Decision making in Queensland government (pp. 3–51). Federalism Research Centre in association with Queensland Public Sector Management Commission.
Coaldrake, P. (1992). Public Servants Serving the Public? The Drive for Regionalisation in the Queensland Public Sector. Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, (70), 102–104.

A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/p.coaldrake

Emeritus ProfessorPeter Coaldrake