Professor Christy Collis
HERDSA President

Christy Collis is Provost of two Institutes of Higher Education: Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors and Endeavour College of Natural Health. Both are owned by UP Education. Before working with UP Christy spent over 30 years in the Australian public higher education subsector. Christy was a longstanding member of the HERDSA QLD branch executive and is the current President of HERDSA.

Past Presidents

Kogi Naidoo
2021 to 2025

Denise Chalmers
2019 to 2021

Allan Goody
July 2013 to July 2019

Shelda Debowski
University of Western Australia
July 2011 to June 2013

Geoffrey Crisp
University of Adelaide
July 2009 to June 2011

Shelda Debowski
University of Western Australia
July 2005 to June 2009

John Dearn
University of Canberra
July 2003 to June 2005

Angela Brew
University of Sydney
July 1999 to June 2003

Owen Hicks
University of Western Australia
July 1997 to June 1999

Peggy Nightingale
University of New South Wales
July 1994 to June 1997

Philip Candy
Queensland University of Technology
1993 to 1994

John Jones
University of Auckland
1991-1992

David Boud
University of New South Wales
1988 to 1990

John Bowden
University of Melbourne
1986-1987

Ernest Roe
University of Queensland
1983-1985

Jacqueline Lublin
New South Wales Institute of Technology
1981-1982

John Powell
University of New South Wales
1978-1980

Robert Ross
Griffith Institute for Higher Education
1976-1977

Barbara Falk
University of Melbourne
1975-1976

Fred Katz
University of New South Wales
1972-1975