Anastasios Panagiotelis for Branch Committee

Associate Professor in the
Business School

Universities should be committed to the creation and dissemination of knowledge for the public good. The corporatisation of our sector has imposed pressure to turn away from these ideals. Nonetheless, the people that actually do the research and teaching and those who support them, believe in academic values as much as ever.

I am an Associate Professor in the Business School, have been an NTEU member for my entire working life, was on the Branch Committee at Monash University and am currently on the University of Sydney cases committee. The challenges faced by our sector can only be tackled by a decentralised bottom-up University where workers have power. Representing, and empowering a growing, broad membership will be my priority if elected to Branch Committee.

I believe a democratic Union engaged with its members is the only way to achieve a democratic University. The choice, often promulgated by management, between the interests of the University and the interests of its staff is a false one. We are the University. We should be respected and trusted to deliver on the vision of creating and disseminating knowledge for the public good.