Emeritus Professor
Tom Cochrane

Biography

Background Professor Tom Cochrane is an adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law. He was formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support), at QUT until retiring from that position at the end of 2013. In his current role, Professor Cochrane's external duties include: Director, Australian Digital Alliance; Deputy Chair, Library Board of Queensland and Member, Board of the T J Ryan Foundation. Since 2020 he has been working on an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Discovery Project with the short title Producing, managing and owning knowledge in the 21st century university, in collaboration with researchers in Law schools at UNSW (lead), University of Sydney, UTS and University of South Australia as well as QUT. This project, together with other open access initiatives locally based at QUT, signals a long standing commitment to access to knowledge, and to research output worldwide.

He has had extensive past involvement with policy development and advice in the area of national and state research infrastructure investment, as both chair of the National eResearch Infrastructure Council over 7 years, and in several subsequent review and consulting activities. He has had long experience of educational technology and is currently involved in governance policy and advice for teaching at degree level in the games industry with the Academy of Interactive Entertainment Institute.

His research area in Queensland studies was the 1920s, a detailed examination of the events in the State surrounding its “Loans Affair”, when the State Government of E G Theodore became embroiled in a bitter dispute with the London Money Market and Pastoral Lobby.