{"id":16328,"date":"2021-07-13T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:24:48","slug":"in-touch-with-charlie-lees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2021\/07\/13\/in-touch-with-charlie-lees\/","title":{"rendered":"In touch with &#8230; Charlie Lees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Before academic life \u2013 and a recent sweep of international media coverage commenting on various Northern Hemisphere elections &#8211; Professor Charlie Lees was a successful musician in the UK, and he admits that becoming the first member of his family to attend university was a \u201ctraumatic life event\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What journey brought you to this point in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was a professional musician for the first 10 years of my adult life, living in London and then West Berlin. I reluctantly went to university at 28 but have never looked back. I have studied or worked at- one \u2018post-1992\u2019 UK university with a large proportion of students and staff from racially diverse and\/or under-represented backgrounds (Thames Valley University); four \u20181960s expansion\u2019 universities in the UK (Essex, Warwick, Sussex, Bath) and one in Australia (Flinders); and three traditional \u2018red-brick\u2019 Russell Group universities (Birmingham, Leicester, Sheffield). Through this journey, I\u2019ve worked with many fantastic colleagues and I think that diversity of experience in different universities has helped broaden my outlook over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does your current work focus on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Dean (People and Resources) in the College of Business, Government and Law, I oversee the development, management and performance of academic staff, and support the Vice-President and Executive Dean in the strategic leadership and planning for the College. I contribute to cross-University governance as a member of University Senate and Vice-Chair of the University Infrastructure Committee, as well as one or two other committees. I also represent the University externally as a member of the Board of Management of the Don Dunstan Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you describe a challenge in your life and how you dealt with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaving the music industry in my late twenties was a traumatic life event. I had never wanted to do anything else except music and had a reasonably successful career, which was a lot of fun along the way. I was the first in my immediate family to go to university, but it involved a loss of identity and income, and I had a difficult couple of years. In retrospect, it transformed my life and I\u2019m grateful to have found a second career that I genuinely love. My experience has left me with a strong sense of the transformative potential of education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does a normal day look like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I oversee academic operations, including staff supervision, industrial relations, Workplace Health and Safety, infrastructure investment, budgetary oversight, and so on. This means I spend a lot of time talking to people and learning from them. I also try to keep up my research at the weekends and in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you like to relax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our family loves to go for yum cha at the weekend &#8211; Star House is the kids\u2019 favourite place to go. I also like to cook and have become a barbecue tragic since moving to Australia &#8211; we have three barbies and I have my eye on an offset smoker for Christmas! I swim every day and try to keep up my 10,000 steps a day. I\u2019m a season ticket holder at Adelaide United and try to see the mighty Norwood Redlegs play in the SANFL when I can. I still like to play and program music when I get the chance and do the odd thing with the UK industrial dance music outfit Salford Electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before academic life \u2013 and a recent sweep of international media coverage commenting on various Northern Hemisphere elections &#8211; Professor Charlie Lees was a successful musician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":16329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8146],"tags":[29498],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-business-government-and-law","tag-professor-charlie-lees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In touch with ... 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