Robyn Owens
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training) at the University of Western Australia
The workshop series International Dialogue on Education Berlin is a joint initiative of the British Council Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Australian Group of Eight and the Canadian Bureau for International Education in Berlin.
Through the contributions of international participants the series aims to enrich the debate on science, research and higher education policy in Germany, to place German perspectives in a global context and to learn from positive examples from other countries.
Professor Robyn Owens
Robyn Owens is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training) at the University of Western Australia , where she has direct responsibility for academic and strategic leadership in all matters relating to Higher Degree by Research Training. She also serves of the executive of the national body of Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools and has taken a pro-active role in a number of national policy areas, including the doctoral examination process and the use of modern IT systems to enhance both the management of the programs and the student experience.
Originally trained as a mathematician, Robyn has a DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford and a number of years experience working in France and the US . Prior to her current position, she was Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia . Her research in computer vision has focussed on understanding the geometric clues available from images that allow for the understanding of shape, object recognition, and eventually the semantics of the image content.
In her current role, Robyn also focuses on quality in research and research training and the ways in which quality can be assessed and measured.
