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Emeritus Professor Alan Rix

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  • Bio/Profile
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  • BA (ANU), First Class Honours in Political Science (1972)
    PhD (ANU) in Political Science (1977)
    Other Qualifications
    Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
    Foreign Language Qualifications: Japanese
    Recent and current board positions
    Director, UQ College Limited, 2011-2019
    Chair Board St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace
    Chair, Board UQ Art Museum 2009-17
    Board member, Edmund Rice Education Australia, 2017-2022
    Director, Ipswich Art Gallery Foundation Ltd, 2020 – present (and before that, member of the board of the Ipswich Art Gallery Foundation from 2012)
    Current research role
    Honorary Research Fellow, Queensland Museum Geosciences, 2017-present
    Selected publications
    Rix, Alan (2011). Japan's foreign aid challenge: policy reform and aid leadership. 2nd ed. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
    Rix, Alan (1999). The Australia-Japan Political Alignment: 1952 to the Present. London & New York: Routledge.
    Rix, Alan (1986). Coming to terms: the politics of Australia's trade with Japan 1945-57. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
    Rix, A. 2021. The Triassic insects of Denmark Hill, Ipswich, Southeast Queensland: the creation, use and dispersal of a collection. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 62: 217-242. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.62.2021.2020-11
    Rix, A. 2022. Coal, Bees and Fossils: The History and Significance of the Redbank Plains Formation Fossil Sites, South East Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 131: 131-144. https://doi.org/10.53060/prsq.2022-11
    Personal interests
    Visual arts, natural history, geosciences
    Academic history
    Japanese Ministry of Education Research Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo; Visiting Research Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo;
    Senior Research Officer, Japan Secretariat, Department of Foreign Affairs, Canberra (1979-81)
    Senior Lecturer, School of Modern Asian Studies; Director, Centre for the Study of Australia-Japan Relations, Griffith University
    Professor, Department of Japanese and Chinese Studies, UQ and Co-Director, Key Centre for Asian Languages and Studies (UQ and Griffith U.);
    Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland (1997-2004)
    Pro-Vice-Chancellor (UQ, Ipswich)
    Pro Vice-Chancellor [“deputy provost’] (UQ, 2009-17) (incl UQ Art Museum, Ipswich, Gatton, Pinjarra Hills; academic relations