@treleanor
Wow, so it unravels… #ANU

“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 (the rest is paywalled in the Sattuday Paper.)