^ your post provides a good justification for OP's anger. OP deserves justice and fairness. Your toxic and corrupted department should be disclosed to everybody who might be interested.
Sydney University Finance toxic and corrupt
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Unfortunately there are only 2 decent people in their finance department. One is an arrogant baldy and the other is a hard-working European. The rest of the department belongs at pure teaching schools. Yet, the department as a whole is arrogant because the uni enjoys a good reputation Australia.
Nah - knock that count down to 1. The arrogant baldy was refused promotion to Level D despite 3 A* and two top 3 Finance, as well as winning the best teacher of the year award for the whole business school. The reason? Not enough 'Service'. A couple of candidates who did get promoted to Ass Prof had a grand total of 3 Economics Letters. Yep - 7,500 words of published research. I guess they knew how to provide a quality of 'service' to the Dean that the baldy simply wasnt able to.
I had not realized that. From a research standpoint, he clearly deserves promotion at any school in Australia. At conferences his attitude comes across quite poorly - I would not want him as a colleague. If he acts that way Sydney I suspect that this had more to do with it than the "service". You can not officially deny promotion because someone acts poorly. You can ding them for service though. This is unfortunate because his research is actually quite good.
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What happened to Jamie Alcock at Sydney? GP? Doug Foster? Have they all left?
The following have left in recent years: Jamie Alcock, GP, Doug Foster, David Johnstone, Maurice Peat, Sean Foley, Andrew Ainsworth, Byoung Kyu Min, Paul Martin, Steve Satchell, Andriy Shkilko, Henk Berkman, many of the long standing casuals and the department executive officer of almost 10 years. A majority of these departures had little acknowledgement or thanks from management for their contributions to the place. Often not even a courtesy email informing the department of their departure.
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What happened to Jamie Alcock at Sydney? GP? Doug Foster? Have they all left?
The following have left in recent years: Jamie Alcock, GP, Doug Foster, David Johnstone, Maurice Peat, Sean Foley, Andrew Ainsworth, Byoung Kyu Min, Paul Martin, Steve Satchell, Andriy Shkilko, Henk Berkman, many of the long standing casuals and the department executive officer of almost 10 years. A majority of these departures had little acknowledgement or thanks from management for their contributions to the place. Often not even a courtesy email informing the department of their departure.
But their research records are not good.
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The Dean at Sydney University made a part time post doc (SA) who works in a low tier position at a low tier pension fund and a failed academic accountant (SVDL) joint Head of Department (HoD) of the Finance department 3 years ago. SA has never coordinated a course or presented at a conference. Both have weak research output. Multiple complaints of a toxic bullying culture under their ‘leadership’ have been ignored. SA and the Dean appear to be good friends. To legitimize SAs initial appointment as HoD, the Dean appointed SA to the spurious part time position of "Practitioner in Residence", the advertisement for the position never made public and he was the only applicant.
Sydney Uni are now advertising for a "Professor of Practice", because SA now wants to be a full time Prof. (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/en-au/listing/265538/professor-of-practice-in-finance/). No need to have ever supervised a PhD student, but you must work in industry but be a head of department, which narrows down to about 1 person in Oz that can apply.
Anyone thinking of joining save yourself the pain, practically everyone is looking to leave, the abuse of power is rife and the culture toxic. They are trying to drastically increase teaching load. There used to be a policy that staff do three deliveries. They scratched that policy and introduced a new one where the HoD allocates teaching at their full discretion – in theory you could be placed across 10 courses for a few hours tutoring on each. -
What happened to Jamie Alcock at Sydney? GP? Doug Foster? Have they all left?
The following have left in recent years: Jamie Alcock, GP, Doug Foster, David Johnstone, Maurice Peat, Sean Foley, Andrew Ainsworth, Byoung Kyu Min, Paul Martin, Steve Satchell, Andriy Shkilko, Henk Berkman, many of the long standing casuals and the department executive officer of almost 10 years. A majority of these departures had little acknowledgement or thanks from management for their contributions to the place. Often not even a courtesy email informing the department of their departure.
Were these people pushed out? Retired? JA and DF are too young to retire, surely? SF went to Macquarie. Andriy went to Canada. Googling, I see nothing for JA, DF and some of the others?
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Why has Australian finance academia become so bad?
The dean at UTS has been convicted of fraud.
DM at UTS is completely corrupt. He steals juniors publications and has presided over the finance group while every research active faculty member except one has left. On top of that, UTS has lost two high profile court cases.
Everyone at USyd Finance who has published well has left / been retired / been fired. PB and SR at UniMelb have left?
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Can OP sue Sydney University for unfair treatment? People would have sued in the US. But in Asia, is it possible to sue the University?
Possible. Even the lawyers could have asked to solve internally first. In US, students can also sue faculty for unfair grading.