Fellow of Senate

Dr Roslyn Bohringer

BSc PhD MEdAdmin UNSW
Fellow of Senate, 2006 -

Dr Roslyn Bohringer has been a Fellow of Senate elected by and from the academic staff of the University of Sydney since 1 December 2005. She was re-elected for a two year term commencing on 1 June 2007 and concluding on 31 May 2009.

Dr Bohringer is currently a member of the Senate/Student Associations Liaison Committee, and was a former member of the Senate's Finance and Infrastructure Committee and the Senate/SRC Liaison Committee.

Ros is a comparative and human anatomist who is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Biomedical Science, School of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine (Cumberland). Her research specialty is monotreme neurobiology. She has taught medical, science and health science students across all sub-disciplines of anatomy since 1972.

Before joining the University Ros had been the Head, Division of Anatomy at the Cumberland College of Health Sciences for some years. On joining The University of Sydney, she has been a member of Academic Board and a member of the Board’s Policy Advisory Committee. She has also served on selection and promotion committees and until recently was the Deputy Head, School of Biomedical Sciences.

In the 1980s Ros completed a Master of Educational Administration, most subjects for which were undertaken in the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). Responding to the industrial changes within the sector and using this training along with her organisational experience, she became heavily involved in enterprise bargaining as a member of the successful National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Core Bargaining Team in the first two rounds of bargaining. Formerly a member of both unions (FAUSA and FCA) from which the NTEU was formed, she has been an elected union official at all levels of the NTEU, including a term representing NSW on the first National Executive and three terms as NSW Division President. Her work with the union has also included membership of the National Research and Education Policy Committees. She was recently appointed as a member of the national NTEU Training, Education and Development Advisory Board.