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As
associate dean (Staff) in the Faculty of Education, Associate Professor Lawrie
Angus holds an unusual title. His position was created when the three schools
of Education at Clayton, Peninsula and Caulfield were amalgamated.
Lawrie has a long history in education. He has been a schoolteacher and administrator in his native state of South Australia, London and Geelong, where he was persuaded to do a PhD by a friend who was a professor of education at Deakin University.
After several years of "precarious contract employment" at Deakin, Lawrie joined Monash in 1986. He remembers his early years in the Education faculty, working with the Social Policy and Administrative Studies Group, as "a terrific introduction to joint teaching and research in a collegial environment". The challenge now, he says, is to retain that supportive culture in a climate of increasing funding pressures.
Lawrie cites a career highlight as working on the important Reshaping Australian Institutions project at the Australian National University with Associate Professor Terri Seddon and Professor Dick Selleck.
Lawrie has also published widely on educational management and reform, organisational culture and change, and the social context of education.
In his free time, Lawrie is involved in home renovations and family activities, including enjoying the music of son Harry, a trumpet player who aspires to be the next James Morrison.
- Lisa Pawlicka
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