Ms Kim Davidson

Biography/ Background

Kim Davidson is the Director, Academic Quality Assurance. She has extensive experience of the tertiary sector, specifically in the areas of quality assurance, strategic planning, performance measurement and analysis, compliance, policy development (institutional and national) and learning material development. In the course of her career she has held academic and professional positions at seven universities in Australia, the UK and South Africa.

Kim initially joined the University of Adelaide in 2002. She spent a year at the University of South Australia as Deputy Director, Research and Innovation Services after which she returned to the University and her current position, in January 2009. As Director, Academic Quality Assurance, Kim provides high level executive and management support to the PVC(L&Q) and is also responsible for the Quality and Reviews unit, which facilitates and contributes to a systematic and structured approach to quality assurance processes at the University of Adelaide.

As a Course Assessment Panel member for the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (SA Government), she has also contributed to the registration and accreditation processes of HEPs in South Australia.

Qualifications

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Adelaide;

Master of Education (Computer-based Instruction), University of Pretoria, South Africa;

Master of Science (Physics), University of Pretoria, South Africa;

Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Physics), University of Pretoria, South Africa;

Bachelor of Science (Majors in Physics and Mathematics), University of Pretoria, South Africa

Publications

K Davidson, S Jeisman: "Establishing and Implementing a Survey Framework" refereed paper presented at Australian Quality Forum 2010: Higher Education, Gold Coast, Australia

J B Malherbe, K P Weimer, E Friedland & L J Bredell: "The effect of silicon ion beam mixing on the barrier height of Sb/n-Si Schottky contacts." Appl. Surf. Sci. 70/71 (1993) 442 - 446.

J B Malherbe, K P Weimer, E Friedland & L J Bredell: "The activation energy of electrical conduction of ion beam mixed Sb/n-Si Schottky contacts." Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B80/81 (1993) 670 - 673.

K P Weimer, J B Malherbe, L J Bredell & E Friedland: "The influence of ion bombardment on the I-V characteristics of Sb/Si Schottky contacts." S. Afr. J. Phys. 16 (1993) 46 - 49.

B Malherbe, K P Weimer, E Friedland, L J Bredell & M Fletcher: "Silicon ion bombardment of Sb/Si contacts." Surf. Interface Anal. 19 (1992) 341 - 346.

W. S. Verwoerd, K. Weimer: "Atomic cluster study of chemisorption and epitaxial diamond films on an Si(100) substrate", Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 47, Issues 1-3, (1991) 578-584

W. S. Verwoerd , K. Weimer : Comparison of semiempirical calculations for silicon compounds", Journal of Computational Chemistry, Volume 12 Issue 4, (1990) 417 - 420.

 J B Malherbe, K P Weimer, L J Bredell, E Friedland & G Myburg: "Ion beam mixing of Sb Schottky contacts on n-Si." Mat. Res. Soc Symp. Proc. 157 (1990) 221 226.

Professional Associations

Association for Tertiary Education Management Inc (ATEM Inc)

Professional Interests

Higher Education Policy; Quality Assurance and Governance; Strategic Planning; Research Management

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012