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Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications. By Julie Hare.

Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell, photographed by Professor Andrew Meares.Credit: Nine

Four months after her premature departure as vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, Genevieve Bell was suspended from her ongoing role as a distinguished professor and barred from entering the campus or speaking to staff, students and members of the governing council.
On January 13, Bell was presented with a show cause notice alleging “serious misconduct” in the promotion of her close friend and colleague, Andrew Meares. Meares, a former newspaper photographer, was made a full professor in the School of Cybernetics against the advice of the university’s own promotion panel and despite having no university qualifications.
Documents seen by The Saturday Paper show Bell actively intervened in Meares’s career trajectory on multiple occasions.